puerto rico schools has dropped by more than forty percent as families continue to leave those left behind often don't have the means to follow suit but ultimately it's now puerto rico's poor communities that are paying the price for this island's staggering debt egypt is now china's third biggest trading partner in africa more than ten thousand chinese are living in cairo i wanted to see the permits in september one thousand nine hundred five i came with my friends to egypt many started a small traders but are now successful in business jane and i began to do business in two thousand and three or two thousand and four at a time it was small but then it began to expand in al-jazeera well meets the growing chinese community in egypt egypt made in china at this time. u.s. president all trump has been a las vegas meeting police and paramedics who were first on

a scene of sunday's massacre. and are in china watching out jazeera still to come. later spain's catalonia region calls for mediation to help resolve the standoff but the government says if you want to talks you must respect the law. aid agencies appeal for four hundred thirty four million dollars to save the lives of range of muslims fleeing massacres in the unmarked. why why we will never home we excuse me. and the british prime minister that has to unite a divided party overshadowed by sore throat a crime even the slogan behind. the u.s. president donald trump has been las vegas meeting the survivors of the worst mass

shooting in modern american history. also met medical staff and first responders praising them for their bravery following sunday's attack at least fifty eight people were killed and more than five hundred injured when gunmen stephen paddick open a file from his hotel room onto a music festival tom says the u.s. stands united in grief america is truly a nation in mourning i visited the hospital earlier today where many victims are still recovering from their wounds and we ask god to ease their suffering and just speed their healing we pray for the recovery of the injured and those injured officers who so bravely threw themselves into danger when duty called. that's going to have to hide your caster who's in vegas how did president trump visit to go. lauren so other than offering

craze for those first responders and civilians who jumped into action and condolences for families who lost loved ones and for the wounded president trouble also went on to it's called the gunman a sick person without offering any evidence of his mental health he did not answer a question about whether this mass shooting was indicative of a gun problem in the united states trumps saying that discussion would be for another day but in general reaction to the shooting has fallen again and down partisan lines with democrats saying is this an enemy the last straw the mass shooting that will cause some movement in congress to tighten gun control laws and in this case while most republicans has said this is still not the time for that discussion there have been a few who have said perhaps a hearing about the accessibility of kids that this gunman is is is believed to

have used to modify his weapons to turn them in said surely into machine guns and which is currently illegal in the united states and i wonder what's the latest on the investigation. right so they have discovered that the use of these bomb stocks were inside the hotel room that's the kit that modifies a semiautomatic weapon into automatic this is two days now since the shooting the crime scene behind me is still being home with evidence with many unanswered questions. the one person who may have information on the reclusive gunman's motive arrived in the united states on tuesday night f.b.i. agents escorted steven paddocks girlfriend mary lou danley through los angeles airport when she landed from the philippines police say she was overseas during sunday's shooting but will be questioned about the cache of weapons found in paddocks hotel room and inside the two homes the couple shared currently forty

seven firearms have been recovered. these firms recovered from three different locations those locations consisted of the hotel room as well as verdi and was skeet nevada. they were purchased in nevada utah california and texas the gunmen purchased rifles shotguns and pistols. police have released body camera video of the shootings for the mandalay bay hotel as twenty thousand concert goers ran and hid from the barrage of bullets coming from above a police officer struggle to locate the source of the gunfire they fired off and on for somewhere between nine and eleven minutes police say paddick holed up inside a hotel suite on the thirty second floor installed a camera in the doors peephole into more of the hallway to monitor the approach of police

a hotel security guard was shot in the legacy near panic suite swat officers broke in hours later to find if he committed suicide we had patrol officers actually working in the other event that the mandalay bay. who heard the shooting and they took it upon themselves to form up into a team into the still stairwell begin ascending the floors and also evacuated hotel guests paddocks family history is also emerging his father benjamin patrick was at one time on the f.b.i.'s most wanted list for bank robbery and theft. but stephen paddick himself had no criminal record and no known affiliations with any religious or political groups his brother says that while he was a rather close he didn't have a propensity toward violence all of which just adds to the mystery of why so meticulously planned this attack more and why he desired to kill so many how to thank you very much indeed.

leaders spain is catalonia region says he wants mediators to help resolve the standoff with the central government but spain says for that to happen the region must respect the no one sunday more than two million customers voted for secession from spain in a band referendum. i would miss a but up we're not closer than we've ever been to achieving a historic desire on sunday we succeeded in holding a referendum and despite the oppression of a police yesterday we set an example of a general strike and there are days to come we will show the best face of our country and this institution applying the results of a referendum but in the meantime we must keep our confidence and not rise to any provocation or any attempts at violence we do not want that here in our home or anywhere else we must remain strong and dignified and we will be a country able to make our dream a reality. the vice president of the european parliament to search the spanish

government and cattle thirty's to open dialogue to defuse the situation and avoid further confrontation violence does not solve anything in politics it is never an answer never a solution and it can never be used as a weapon or instruments europe knows this better than anywhere else none of us want to see violence in our society. however. it is of course juicy for any government to uphold the rule of law and this sometimes does require the put portion it use of force millions of catalans hope an independent country would remain in the european union sitting between france and spain but things really go smoothly as they believe towards the reports from barcelona. the wisdom of the crowd is difficult to resist particularly when the atmosphere is as relaxed and happy as it has been in barcelona. the singalong here is to

a protest chuen dating to the franco dictatorship when castle and traditions were systematically repressed that every teenager knows the words speaks volumes about the historical enmity toward madrid so secession beckons can catalonia go it alone why not give it a try they say democracy is pure and beautiful they think spain is a proper democracy. now and it's not when they are. believing that they have the power to shut us out and defeat us from government beyond their money and. our money and they're not there and. you know they're spending the money that they are shopping for to take things not hard for anyone. to leave spain camp here has all the momentum they think historically this is their time in the sun the idealized version of events is often presented to you here is

over catalonia unchained free from the tyranny of madrid's an independent sovereign republic able to make its own way and sit happily among the european community of nations will things would things really be so simple. of course another european country voted for historic change recently to the u.k. to leave the european union but the essence of the argument was similar we want to be free from the control of others. it was convincing enough to win the arguments but now the u.k. is riven with disagreements and the e.u. is blocking its key demands. say when he was pro independence council and m.p.'s how they can possibly stay in the european union when spain would veto its you get on to slightly less inspiring than the mood of the crowd what happens if alone you get stuck outside the european union as long as i was i would not like your defroster to happen. i could not have preferred literally out of the photo to benefit you feel yourself if you did not realize that for example you know the way

our bridges they are the road up out of well up in your new position others to get exactly like your ex accompany you know the government it could be the like like like iceland was before they say well we're not saying that we have not said we're going to our real thing those guys have economic governance when you were not all that difficult comparable questions the u.k. never asked itself borders trade agreements the rights of cattle lands in spain and spaniards in catalonia nobody's bothering to ask about any of its but if they do jump off the cliff to independence they will have the european union to deal with it could be incredibly messy gloriously al-jazeera in barcelona. another unusual day for the administration with the u.s. extra state making an unannounced statement to tell people he's not quitting came after an n.b.c. report said rex tillerson public insulted president trump in

a meeting our state department correspondent patty callahan is the story. for in a surprise statement from a secretary of state who doesn't make money let me tell you what i've learned about this president whom i did not know before taking this office he loves this country he puts americans and america first. he's smart he was trying to refute this story in which n.b.c. news claims tillerson publicly called the president a moron after a national security meeting he repeatedly didn't deny that he said that but his spokeswoman later did he did not say that tillerson did refute the other allegation made in the report that he was going to quit tennis and tried to quit but was talked out of it by allies there's never been a consideration in my mind really sure at the appointment of the president and i'm here for as long as the president feels like to be useful to achieving his objectives secretary chiller sen would have good reason to be frustrated he has

been contradicted by his boss often and very publicly on issues such as the g.c.c. crisis and north korea foreign policy experts say it is hurting his credibility and american foreign policy if he's perceived to be embattled if he's perceived to be weak then. the officials that he's talking to that he's trying to persuade will not put as much credibility into what he says and he will be much less effective but the report apparently hasn't changed the president's view of tillerson young very honored by his guy who is fake news who is a totally phony thank you very much is made up made up by n.b.c. thank you thank you total confidence and the one thing we know for sure this is a president that cannot stand even perceived slights his secretary of state coming out quickly to say he didn't insult him making sure he doesn't join an already unprecedented and long list of people who the president has told your fired

political hane al-jazeera washington. still to come when i was there a turkish court finds dozens of former soldiers guilty of trying to kill president and two on an attempted coup. and how this new intel device could be a major breakthrough in detecting cancer. hello there it certainly is turning cooler now for some of us in australia this weather system is bringing from far off fresh air ahead of it it certainly was hot adelaide got up to around thirty degrees on wednesday but as we head through into thursday i'll mark from a will only be seventeen that cooler weather will spread a little bit further towards the east there as we head into friday so melbourne's maximum will only be fitting the still going to be a fair amount of cloud around in adelaide though even as we head into friday and

that's actually stretching up into parts of western australia a lot of heavy downpours here and the next system is also waiting in the wings just working its way into the southwestern corner later on during the day over towards new zealand and the temperatures are also dropping for us here see the cloud here will drifting its way northward that's bringing in the cooler air so in christchurch we'll only get to around twelve degrees or thursday on friday we slightly modify their wish this time a bit up to around fifty you can see what's happening though on friday the next weather systems working its way towards us and that's going to make things roll the wet in the western parts of the south island as we head through the day for the north and the rain to start with is over parts of china but it's edging is what used to it's a friday looks very very wet in japan. as china's rapid economic development spills over into other asian nations. people in

power investigates the consequences for neighboring laos. poverty stricken and hungry for foreign investment can this communist republic reconcile the needs of its people with the demands of the creations benefactor. laos on the borders of empire at this time on al-jazeera. the mind of the top stories here on ars era president donald trump has been the last vegas media survivors and first responders from sunday's mass shooting which killed at least fifty eight people and injured more than five hundred in while the

girlfriend of the gunman stephen paddick a said she had no warning of the attack calling him a caring and quiet man. a native spain's catalonia region says he wants mediators to help resolve a standoff with a central government but spain says for that to happen the region must respect the law. and yes i've just ate breakfast innocent has denied reports he was talked out of quitting three months ago and the tensions with trump. aid organizations are appealing for four hundred thirty four million dollars to save the lives of range of muslims feeling violence in northern me in march humanitarian workers are struggling to deal with a surge in your rivals more than eight hundred thousand ranger refugees are sheltering in bangladesh half a million of them have arrived in just the last five weeks when half of them children twenty four thousand pregnant women need maternity care and five hundred

thousand people need food human rights watch says man was a military massacred dozens of ranger on august the twenty seventh two days after an attack by ranger fight has sparked an army crackdown the un increasingly believes that crimes against humanity are being committed it says it's received reports of women and children and victim to killings rape and forced displacement ramadan june reports from a camp in cox is bizarre. to give you some idea of the scale of this crisis this encampment that we're in right now this didn't exist in cox's bazaar which is on the border of bangladesh and myanmar more than a month ago now there are at least twenty thousand people here that's according to aid workers we've spoken with as well as some of the army officials that are just beyond that wall there distributing much needed aid to these regions are refugees now even though aid is being distributed throughout the day fact of the matter is

you talk to some of the new residents of this encampment they tell you how much more is needed i met just a short while ago with a young mother she has a nine month old baby girl her baby's head was burned in the past couple of weeks when her village in me and more was torched she's concerned that if her baby doesn't get the medical aid that it needs that she will die and at this point in this camp they don't have the kind of medical supplies for babies that the baby would need in order to be treated correctly the scale of this even in front of your eyes is almost unfathomable it's very hard to comprehend and it seems as though there is absolutely no end in sight for the time being. according to convicted forty two soldiers in a major trial linked to the failed coup in twenty sixteen they were accused of trying to assassinate president. forty received life sentences now of course who has the latest. verdict have been delivered against some of these

suspects accused of being a part of the summation team targeting the turkish president on the night of the failed coup attempt in july two thousand and sixteen the conviction of their cessna's team as they were dropped is one of the most important following the failed coup because they're all well known president tired on himself is the plaintive and frontalot girl and the us space turkish businessman is accused of organizing the failed coup. only it is hard to get to make this team was sent to kill the president it was clear what these suspects were accused of and some of them were caught on red handed it's good that these kind of trials are finished as soon as possible but of course according to the law. the essence case is just one of the hundreds and loss' following the failed coup more than fifty thousand troops are in jail awaiting court proceedings many are accused of being

members of the given this moment which the government says orchestrated the attempted overthrow they come from all sections of society including four hundred eighty one military officers and civilians on trial in ankara they're charged with murder attempted murder and tribes and prosecutors say they organized a coup from a military base just outside the capital. in istanbul thirty journalists a newspaper executives are charged with being members of what prosecutors ascribed as an armed terrorist organization. tens of thousands of teachers and public sector workers have been sacked in a government crackdown and thousands of current and former government workers are under arrest almost all of those. some of those people who were sacked will remain ploy after they appealed to the courts that prisons are almost full some courthouses are too small for the high numbers of the fence critics and who won

rights organizations blame turkey's leaders of using the coup attempt as an excuse to silence the media and their opponents but despite the trials arrest and sackings many turks continue to support the government they say they are still angry about the two hundred fifty lives lost during the failed coup attempt the namco saw al-jazeera. meanwhile turkey's president is vowing to take decisive steps to stop kurdish leaders declaring an independent state from iraq he met the iranian president hassan rouhani in tehran to discuss kurdish secession efforts under simmons has more from istanbul. presidents rouhani and urged on opposing sides over syria but together in their reaction to the kurdish referendum next door in iraq both turkey and iran have kurdish minority populations both presidents believe any independence move in iraq could cause unrest in their countries and

even more instability in the region there's agreement for more cooperation between their own is along with sharing more intelligence on and our operations both men had stern faces as they promised action that they weren't specifying what might happen. as far as we concerned iraq is one single country syria is one single country and we do not accept the geographical border changes in any way whatsoever we do not wish to exert this pressure but the wrong decisions made by some of the heads of the kurdish regional government need to be compensated for it would have. we correspond with the iraqi central government as far as we're concerned this referendum is illegitimate we have already taken certain steps but from this moment onward more decisive steps will be taken. turkey's army is in the third week of military exercises next to the only border crossing point into

northern iraq a small number of iraqi troops joined in last week and they're still there iran has deployed tanks on its border and is also in gauged in joint exercises with iraq this is all intended to increase the pressure on the iraqi kurdish leadership the two presidents may have been short on detail in any further action they plan but that could be tactical they insist that iran turkey and the central government in iraq will act in unison. there appears to be a determination to cut off the iraqi kurdish leadership unless it renounces the real. the result is this isolation issue this content you know in political terms in economic terms and also in military terms are those are two straw that if we feel our south threatened but apart from that then ankara can. be on the same room in the same room sit on the same table and. think

about military options together but most military observers believe cross border interventions by turkey all right are unlikely but if more economic sanctions are imposed such as shutting off the kurdish well pipeline that runs through turkey it won't just the kurds and simmons' al-jazeera. at least fifty people have been killed and eighty others injured by an airstrike in syria's pterosaur prominence it's not clear who carried out the strikes in the town of. this out of video reportedly shows the nearby town of mayor dean being bombed u.s. and russian backed forces a separate trying to retake the region from myself fighters. russia says it's investigating an arsenal video which purportedly shows two of its soldiers captured by the armed group interest or its defense ministry has previously denied that any of its soldiers have been captured iraqi forces have reportedly advanced into the

heart of the arsenal held city of who we are military leaders say a group made up of iraqi army troops police and a sheer military force and now in the city center eisel has lost control of a string of cities this year including its former stronghold of mosul in july. a draft u.n. report has added saudi arabia to a blacklist for the killing and maiming of children in yemen a confidential draft obtained by the reuters news agency attributes nearly seven hundred child casualties to the saudi led military coalition in twenty sixteen along with dozens of attacks on schools and hospitals it also says the coalition has put measures in place to improve child protection. britain's prime minister to resign may has been trying to raise morale at her conservative party's annual conference it was an attempt to move beyond the party's infighting breaks it and their poor performance at the election in june but the speech didn't go to plan as

our u.k. correspondent barnaby phillips reports she came to manchester hoping to reestablish her or thora to her final day speech was memorable but not as she would have intended an apology for jude's election campaign in which the conservatives lost their majority it went down well i hold my hands are for that i take responsibility i lead to the campaign and i am sorry from there it was downhill a prankster if they did security and handed the prime minister a document implying she should be fired he was bundled out but how did he manage to get here in the first place is to strange then given the prime minister lost her voice. it got worse the public sector working together we have bounced back we've created record numbers of jobs.

to her credit she carried on insisting that whilst breck's it is inevitable britain remains a global power we will meet our commitments to international security with the finest forces and intelligence anywhere on the planet. we will build an outward looking britain that cooperates with other nations to tackle the great challenges of our time like mass migration modern slavery and climate change it ended with letters falling off the wall behind her and sympathy from her husband. the prime minister is trying to convince many doubters both within her party and the country as a whole that she has what it takes she struggled at times in this speech that she's trying to show she has a policy agenda that she's not just an interim leader who will soon disappear

afterwards ministers who are quick to defend the prime minister. around the world your party's united behind the prime minister. simply be united behind the prime minister she did a brilliant speech then and really on lifting you could really feel the future from the you know it was difficult in terms but you know we showed her supporters will say the speech show to reason may at her best human side her resilience. will say it was the perfect metaphor for a prime minister for whom so much has gone wrong phillips al-jazeera. the european union has ordered amazon to pay around two hundred ninety five million dollars in back taxes despite selling goods from warehouses across europe for almost a decade and isn't channeled the sales through luxemburg the e.u. says it had a special deal that meant it paid less tax than other companies that use also to hear action against ireland to make it claim back more than fifteen billion dollars

owed by apple. scientists in the united states say they've made a major breakthrough in detecting cancer with a new handheld device the mass spec pensively presses against a patient's skin and within seconds it gives a diagnosis of whether cancer is present works by pressing a droplets of water against the skin which lifts a sample of metabolites or tissue sample can be instantly tested with ninety six percent accuracy it's dramatically quicker than existing testing methods. what we have now it can take anywhere between thirty minutes of two weeks. and with a massive fan we can get information in about ten seconds. pretty morphew any time on our web site the address for that is al-jazeera dot com.

and one of the top stories in our zero u.s. president donald trump has been in las vegas meeting with survivors of the worst mass shooting in modern american history at least fifty eight people were killed and more than five hundred injured when a gunman stephen paddick opened fire from his hotel room or to a music festival speaking to an attorney paddocks girlfriend has said she had no warning of the attack and called him a caring and quiet man trump says the u.s. stand united in grief america is truly a nation in mourning. i visited the hospital earlier today where many victims are still recovering from their wounds and we ask god to ease their suffering and just speed their healing we pray for the recovery of the injured and those injured officers who so bravely threw themselves into danger when duty called us extra state rex tillerson has denied media reports that he was

considering quitting three months ago to us and made an unscheduled appears to refute stories that vice president mike pence and other senior officials had to persuade him to stay on in july. the leader of spain's catalonia region said he wants mediators to help resolve a standoff with the central government but the spanish prime minister mariano hoyer says catalan officials need to respect the law before any mediation is accepted on sunday more than two million catalans voted for secession from spain a ban referendum. a court in turkey has convicted forty two soldiers in a major trial linked to the failed coup attempt in twenty sixteen forty seven people including many minutes the officers were accused of trying to assassinate president richard tired at a one aid organizations are appealing for four hundred thirty four million dollars to save the lives of revenge of muslims fleeing violence in northern in march as

they struggle to deal with the surging new arrivals in neighboring bangladesh more than eight hundred thousand range refugees are sheltering there half a million of them have arrived in just the last five weeks there's the top stories of people in power is next more news for you off to that place watching by fire. it's not just phones contributing to sound phones bumper profits if we look at the u.s. economy the moment it does seem to be in pretty good shape up until around two thousand and five greek debt levels were basically stable we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. one of the world's few remaining calm in the states now us is also one of asia's poorest countries heavily reliant on foreign investment especially from adjacent.