moves in the us to ban devices that turn guns into rapid fire weapons in the wake of the las vegas.

live from doha also coming up an outbreak of the plague causes panic in madagascar as health officials plead for calm. leaders call for mediation over their push for independence from spain madrid says there's nothing to talk about. and britain's prime minister tries to rally the party faithful but very little goes according to plan. people in las vegas throughout the united states are still trying to make sense of the deadliest mass shooting in the country's modern history police have described the las vegas gunman as a disturbed and dangerous man who spent decades acquiring firearms but investigators still have no answers as to why stephen killed fifty eight people and injured hundreds more at a concert on sunday to reports from las vegas police say if anyone had knowledge

of the gunman's motive the woman he lived with would but after returning from the philippines tuesday mary lou danbury had little to say to explain her partner's behavior she released a statement through her attorney. i knew steven. as a kind caring quiet man. i loved him. and hoped for my future together with him. he never said anything to me or took any action that i was aware of that i understood it anyway to be a warning that something horrible like this was going to happen. speaking on australian t.v. and with their faces hidden danley sisters said paddock center away two weeks ago to visit family overseas. that's a go and it. was said no way. so was

no way. she will be. there for this. danny's attorney says she is cooperating with the investigation police say they found a total of forty seven firearms inside the two homes the couple shared and inside the hotel room on the thirty second floor of the mandalay bay resort from which paddock rained down terror what we know is stephen paddick is a man who spent decades acquiring weapons and ammo and lived in a secret life much of which would never be fully understood. he meticulously planned on the worst domestic attack in united states history. body cameras worn by police officers captured the chaos and confusion as twenty thousand concert goers ran and hid from the barrage of bullets go go go go go.

and nother chilling detail police say patrick may have considered attacking and nother music concert prior to sunday night's massacre a week earlier paddock rented a high rise condo overlooking the life is beautiful music festival and its fifty thousand attendees with what intention yet another question that remains unanswered how did you castro al-jazeera las vegas what some republicans are considering backing a push by congressional democrats to ban devices known as bump stocks that used to make guns fire more rapidly twelve of the twenty three guns found in the las vegas gunman's room had bumped stocks attached to them gallica reports from las vegas. on sunday night the sound of rapid gunfire from stephen products hotel room was unmistakable police say the sixty four year old used a device known as a bump stock to vie more rounds and inflict unthinkable tragedy. the device which is legal replaces the standard stock of

a rifle for in the weapon to slide back and forth enabling automatic fire now that most sensitive issues gun control is once again being talked about democratic senator dianne feinstein tried to introduce a ban on assault rifles four years ago but that failed. in the wake of the las vegas shooting she's proposing new laws that would ban modifications of already deadly weapons when is the right time we hear that every time something happens when is the right time and i think this is the right time and you know since i've been here there's just been incident after incident i thought it would end with columbine you know i thought it would end with sandy. doesn't and during his visit to las vegas president trump made it clear he's not ready to discuss gun control but some republicans may be on board yeah i would certainly look at that and i'm not an expert on bought stocks but all things that make

america safer and don't infringe on the second amendment so you think now is the time to have this policy debate yeah i think so i think would be good time to have a hearing many republicans say the legislation is premature and inappropriate so soon after such a tragedy the powerful national rifle association donates millions to republican politicians and past mass shootings have done little to change attitudes democrats remain passionate about change how minimal much doubt how many mothers and fathers brothers so. how is that and tell me what tell me and tell us what is your name and how minimal did. congress so far only a few republican lawmakers say they're open to talking about banning stocks and other devices for this legislation to have any chance of succeeding that number

will need to increase if this country's history teaches us anything it's that even when children are killed as they were in sandy hook five years ago nothing changes here in las vegas bump stocks and no longer available gun shops sold out on the gallic al-jazeera las vegas nevada but david byrne is the former president of the group students for concealed carry that's a firearms advocacy group he says a gun ban wouldn't have prevented the mass killing it's just unrealistic to think that we could go door to door and prevent firearms or really confiscate the firearms which everyone says we don't want to do we have an illicit drug trade in this country and drugs are enormously illegal and there's that penalties available so again i wish that a law could fix this i don't think that an armed citizen could fix this that tends to be that the you know my side of the aisle says well maybe if someone a good guy with a gun could have stopped this you know he would have been there that's not something that i think would apply in this case and what i wish i could hear from the other side is also saying we're not sure that laws would have fixed this either

again how do you stop a millionaire who's intent on murdering people and even if he didn't have the guns the man was a certified pilot he could have used his plane and flew into the crowd clearly this was a demented individual and he wanted it to concent to carnage i have yet to hear of a law that would have prevented this man from doing what he did and i'm i'm willing to listen to possibilities but james a porter is a journalist at the daily beast he says it's unlikely the las vegas massacre bring about any change to u.s. gun laws. dating back to after the virginia tech shootings you know we saw that some states did women. magazine capacities so in new york city for instance you can have i believe it's a magazine over ten rounds you know after. that was really the only change after virginia tech after the newtown shooting you know congressional lawmakers turned down

a bill that would expand background checks for gun purchases and even after the orlando shooting had. lawmakers again. turned down a bill that would prevent. people terrorists that are on the terrorist watch list from purchasing firearms so it seems like every after every single massive shooting that we have there is really no action from congress so in this case with this one particular case with the bump stocks it does seem like there is bipartisan support which may or may not you know pass both the house and the senate three u.s. special forces soldiers have been killed and two others injured in an attack in is jav a joint patrol of u.s. and as you know in troops was ambushed near the border with mali don easterbrook has more from washington d.c. . well the pentagon at this point is not releasing a lot of details about this attack what we do know from other media reports is that

three u.s. commandos were killed two others were wounded this attack happened in southwest new cher near the mali border what we understand is that in this particular area there is a heavy presence of insurgents in that area some from al qaida some from the islamic state in greater at this point though we don't know if one of those groups was responsible for this attack now the u.s. has military throughout western africa we know that several troops are have been in it is air they have been assisting in counterterrorism efforts in reconnaissance and in training they were on a routine patrol when this occurred and as we understand president trump has been alerted and has been briefed on what has happened we are expecting more information about this attack tomorrow from the pentagon madagascar's trying to contain an outbreak of the highly contagious plane at least thirty people have died in the

past two months and almost two hundred suspected cases have been reported the government's banned public gatherings in the capital in an attempt to stop the disease from spreading some of binge of eight reports. these are the culprits partly responsible for the plague spreading in madagascar infected rats spread the bubonic plague while the pneumonic plague is carried from person to person more than one hundred sixty people have been infected when they say blue bonnet plague the blue bow actually stands for the swelling in the various love notes but as soon as it spread from the lungs i could cough and those droplets could infect you that's alarming because it's human to human transmission rather than animal to human. on average two to six hundred people are infected annually in feet outbreaks of the plague in madagascar is ruled. areas but this time it spread to populated parts the government has now banned public meetings in the capital and then and

every vote there must first we by a must because we have heard of the disease that is spread through breathing so just to be on the safe side has never no i don't shake people's hands and i don't care say i don't know the precautions you take are not to talk to people and always wear a mask. the disease killed an estimated two hundred million people in the fourteenth century health experts are advising caution but they said there is no need for panic the plague is treatable with antibiotics and the world health organization says there is no risk that the disease can spread internationally with police. i would like to remind you here and it is important that the plague exists in many countries and the latest epidemics in some countries including kenya and madagascar zambia algeria and the d.r. see it's not only madagascar and this is important because what we hear in the city is that the plague is if madagascar is the end of the world we would just like to

say that it is a disease like any other but we are lucky that this disease has a cure and this treatment is available and it is free. many schools are closed and they are being sprayed to kill fleas campaigns are also under way to remove trash in cities and officials are setting right traps the health ministry says it's taking steps to keep infections from spreading of a disease which was believed to have already been wiped out some of the job i was there the leader of spain's catalonia region says he wants mediators to help us solve a standoff with the country's central government the prime minister says for that to happen council and his government must respect the law call panel report ambassador. the head of the catalan government colors posed the monitors used a televised address to criticize the spanish government's handling of the political crisis he also said that he firmly disagreed with king philippe's address to the nation the previous day in that address the king accused the capital already of

disloyalty and suggested they were almost on the verge of rebellion posed him on tuesday measured tone to say that the solution to the problems of catalonia is attempt to break away from the rest of spain was a political matter not a police matter he has once again suggested talks and mediation in this crisis the spanish government was very quick however to come out and say that the only way that they would consider such talks was if catalonia abandoned its attempts to session that is something that will be deaf very difficult for the catalan government both because of the referendum results but also because if the man tries to back away from this proposed declaration of independence which could come as soon as next monday then effectively he could risk losing a process session majority in the catalan parliament meanwhile pro independence

parties in catalonia are preparing to debate the region's secession from spain millions of catalans hope an independent country would remain in the e.u. sitting between france and spain but would things really go as smoothly as they hope largely 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 oh the singalong here is to a protest tune dating to the franco dictatorship when council 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. detroit they say democracy is pure and beautiful you think spain is a proper democracy oh no. it's not when they are. believing that they have the power to. defeat us.

beyond. our money and they're not returning. you know and they're spending the money they are shopping for to make things not hard for anyone. to leave spain campaign has all the momentum they think historically this is that time in the sun the idealized version of events is often presented to you here is catalonia. 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 but 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 to. say when he was pro independence council and m.p.'s how

they can possibly stay in the european union when spain would veto it so you get to slightly less inspiring than the mood of the crowd. i would be if. i could live. with. that. no way. to get exactly like you. like. what i think. 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 is bothering to ask about any of it 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. coming on al-jazeera including find out what u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson had to say on claims that he called donald trump a moron. internet giant amazon gets none the welcome shopping basket will tell you what it was late in the program or not. hello again we've got a lot of rain with this around the middle east at the moment and has been working its way from turkey all the way across toward down marty and that's really how things are going to stay over the next day or so as well for some of us in iran we've seen an awful lot of rain over one hundred millimeters in places and that has been causing quite a few problems so this system again then as we head through the day on thursday to

the north of that certainly is cooler now so are marty no higher than around ten or eleven degrees as we head through the next couple of days and of course around the mountains we are likely to see a fair amount of snow but further to the south and here in doha the winds are likely to be feeding in from the sea over the next few days so that means things will get a little bit more humid and because it's becoming more humid the temperatures will be dropping as well so probably a maximum of friday just around thirty seven degrees time to was the southern parts of africa and things are looking a little bit more lively weather wise here you can see this weather system here that's in the east working its way across durban and that's giving some of us some very heavy downpours could see a few showers around joburg as well and then that system gradually pushes its way little bit further northeast winds there as we head through friday so still for some of us it could be one or two hours still to come for the western part so brightening up here after cape town ninety. the with.

with. documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. welcome back a quick recap our top stories here now to the las vegas. says she had no idea that

he was going to kill anyone. not return from the philippines. for a couple of weeks statements were neuer describing him as a kind caring man. three u.s. special forces soldiers have been killed and two others injured in an attack in a joint patrol of u.s. troops near the border with mali. spain's catalonia region says he wants media just to help resolve the standoff with the central government madrid says for that to happen the region must respect the. people in thailand are saying a final farewell to their late king a year after he died thursday marks the final day their will to pray in front of king polls his coffin inside the grand palace reports from bangkok. in sweltering conditions the long wait goes on it's been this way for a year as people lined up to enter the grand palace in bangkok to pray before the

urn or coffin of the late king tut's a weird time on has been waiting in line for eleven hours and. i'm here to pay my respects to the king this is my first time here i'm glad to have made it it's an honor to be here and to be able to be this close to him the government says more than eleven million people have come here since king jr day died in october last year but numbers have swelled since an announcement from the palace that public access is coming to an end the funeral will provide some closure for thais who have been mourning the passing of the king but the result has some uncertainty king probably pawn reigned for seventy years having ascended the throne at the age of just eighteen so until he died he was the only king most thais have ever lived under. his son king what you are long gone ascended the throne at the age of sixty four so won't have the luxury of time to build the legacy that his father did he's already the king but will be formally crowned in february he takes over at

a difficult time thailand is still under military rule after a coup in two thousand and fourteen that many suggest was staged to ensure a smooth transition the army has crackdown on dissent and freedom of speech with particular focus on those who are alleged to have criticised or defamed the monarchy the government says the country will be returned to democracy late next year but they could be further delays for the people here that's an issue for another day. their sole focus now is on saying farewell to the late king. when i'm in front of the king al feel grateful for all the things he did for us and all that he worked for waiting in line for eight hours is nothing compared to what he did all his life for us preparations are being finalized for the funeral which will be held on october the twenty sixth wayne hay al jazeera bangkok us secretary of state rex tillerson has denied ever considering quitting his role as the

country's top diplomat he was forced to make the denial after n.b.c. reported the tennis and publicly insulted president trump in a meeting state department correspondent particle hain as the story for him 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 publically 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 i serve 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 in battled if he's perceived to be weak then. if 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 coming to his fake news it was a totally phony story thank you very much was made up made up by n.b.c. they just made it up thank you all 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. al-jazeera washington a face fifty people have been killed and eighty others injured by an asteroid in syria is down as a province it's not clear who carried out the strikes in the town of al sabah this amateur video apparently shows the nearby town of maya dean being bombed u.s. and russian forces a separately trying to retake the region from myself items. russia says it's investigating and i saw a video which apparently shows two of its soldiers captured by the armed group and there was or the russian foreign ministry says it's working to establish details about the men its defense ministry has previously denied any of its soldiers have been captured russia is supporting syria's government and its fight against eisel in there was on the internet retail giant amazon has been ordered to pay almost three hundred million dollars in back taxes to the european union amazon

sold goods from warehouses across europe for almost a decade and channeled the sales through luxembourg the e.u. says it had a special deal it meant to pay less tax than other companies the european union is also taking action against ireland to make it claim back around fifteen billion dollars from apple today's decision to order luxembourg to recover and pay tax from. angry for ireland to the e.u. for failing to recover on pay tax from apple. i hope that. both this is seen as message that companies must pay their fair share of taxes as the huge my durex of companies do. britain's prime minister tories i'm a has been trying to raise my ra all of her conservative party's annual conference it was an attempt to move beyond the party's infighting of

a briggs it on the poor performance at the election in june but the speech didn't go according to plan as bobby phillips now reports she came to manchester hoping to reestablish or thorazine her final day speech was memorable but not as she would have intended. an apology for june's election campaign in which the conservatives lost their majority went down well i hold my hands up for that i take responsibility i lead to the campaign and i am sorry from there it was downhill a prankster evaded 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. and 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 bracks it is inevitable britain remains a global power and we will meet our commitments to international security with the finest forces and intelligence services 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. and. it ended with letters falling off the wall behind her and sympathy from her husband. the prime minister is trying to convince me. and the country as a whole that she has what it takes she struggled at times in this speech but she's trying to show. that she's not just an interim leader who will soon disappear

afterwards ministers were quick to defend the prime minister. around the world your party is united behind the prime minister. and the prime minister brilliance. but. supporters will say the speech. best. how resilient. was the perfect metaphor for prime minister so much has gone wrong. al-jazeera. the top stories on al-jazeera the pardon of the las vegas gunman stephen paddick says she had no idea that he was going to kill anyone. who has now returned from

the philippines where she says patrick sent her to visit her family for a couple of weeks she issued a statement through her lawyer describing a kind caring and quiet. three u.s. special forces soldiers have been killed and two others injured in an attack in the share a joint patrol of u.s. troops was ambushed near the border with mali. madagascar is trying to contain an outbreak of the plague at least thirty people have died in the past two months while the latest outbreak has spread to. the world health organization is also calling for calm the leader of spain's catalonia region says he wants mediators to help resolve a standoff with the central government of its efforts to gain independence but spain says for that to happen the region must respect the law u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has denied ever considering quitting his role as

the country's top diplomat he was forced to make the denial after one u.s. news agency reported to listen publicly insulted president trump in a meeting and that he was going to quit there's never been a consideration in my mind. at the appointment of the president and i'm here for as long as the president feels lucky to be useful to achieving his objectives saudi arabia's king solomon as arrived in moscow for a five day trip the first ever visit by a saudi monarch to russia king solomon will hold talks with russian president vladimir putin the war in syria will be top of the agenda along with bilateral investments and stabilizing oil markets. president has met his iranian counterpart in teheran for talks on kurdish session that's turkey's vowing to take decisive steps to stop kurdish leaders from declaring an independent state from iraq both men oppose the move believing this could cause unrest in their own countries and a court in turkey has convicted forty two people including soldiers in

a major trial linked to the failed coup in twenty sixteen they were accused of trying to assassinate president russian typewriter when most of those convicted were given life sentences but those were the headlines the news continues here. after witness states have done so much in life and. ever since i was a little boy in india my dream was to make body wood films so five years ago i decided i was finally going to do it one man's quest to realize a lifelong ambition the story i choose the laws of my own village and its transformation going behind the lens has gone from saying brings his personal story to life. al-jazeera correspondent my own private bollywood at this time.