welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is mike embley. our top stories: las vegas police release body camera video showing their efforts to locate the gunman who claimed 59 lives and left over 500 people in hospital. police say the man behind the mass shooting in las vegas elaborately planned his attack, moving in weapons and planting cameras around his hotel room. the leader of catalonia has told the bbc the region will declare independence from spain within days. and president trump visits puerto rico 13 days after hurricane maria. we report from the capital, san juan. hello.

police have given more details on the last half—hour of the deadliest shooting in american history. we have learned more about how stephen paddock carried out america's worst mass shooting of modern times. las vegas police say the gunman set up cameras in and outside his hotel room, brought more than 20 guns to the scene, may have modified rifles to increase their capacity to fire quickly, and had stored more weapons at other locations. automatic gunfire. go that way. go

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shut. go back! get back! get back! m cca llu m 47 shut. go back! get back! get back! mccallum 47 firearms have been recovered. they were taken from locations like the hotel room and nevada. they were purchased in nevada, utah, california, and texas. he purchased rifles and pistols. at this time, none of the guns recovered appeared to be home—made. the firearms and technology division provides determinations on the stocks and their legality. the classification depends on whether they alter it to fire fully automatic. those stocks simulate

automatic. those stocks simulate automatic fire, but do not alter them to fire them automatically, making them legal under the law. it is still being determined which firearms were used during the shooting. they have all been traced. we are still awaiting results of some found. our correspondent, gary o'donoghue, is in las vegas. pa rt part of the point of this release is to counter the criticism of the police that they were slow to get to the shooter. 72 minutes after the first shot. they have been a bit sensitive about this. i don't know if there have been that many agitations about this, but they are sensitive to something. what they said to us today, confirming earlier on, the first call was at eight

minutes past ten. the shooting carried on between nine and 11 minutes. they say it was done by about 19 minutes past ten. now, at some point in the next hour, forgive me, at some point in that 12 minute period, a security guard from the hotel, perhaps with other offices, tried to gain entry to his room. —— officers. they were rebuffed through the door as he had set up cameras to see them coming. the door effectively looked down the corridor. one of the cameras he had was in the spy hall you get normally in hotel doors. they found this room quickly. then the firing stopped at 20 past ten. the police will not

confirm the time, but the swat team went in and found him dead. now, what they are saying, in that period, if it is an hour, there was no other firing. they did not necessarily know he was dead. going in any sooner would not have changed very much. that seems to be the chronology at the moment. but keeps changing. the one thing i have had to clarify, and this is a pr mistake on their behalf, it is now clear 58 people died, and the 59th is paddock himself, the shooter. we have to be clear that it includes the man who perpetrated this awful crime as

well. just to recap, 47 firearms we re well. just to recap, 47 firearms were recovered at three separate locations. it is confirmed, obvious to many from the grim sound effects, that some of those weapons were modified to make them in effect automatic weapons. but no indication of what the motive may have been so far. yeah. they were talking about these stop devices. it is confusing. making it fully automatic is an illegal alteration. clearly, these devices, while legal, do something to enhance their operation and capacity. otherwise, why would you bother? they are being analysed by the fbi. we have been told he had high—capacity the fbi. we have been told he had high—ca pacity magazines as the fbi. we have been told he had high—capacity magazines as well in the room with him. the motive is still a mystery. i get the impression, certainly from this latest intervention from the police, they are being tightlipped about the girlfriend, the girlfriend who are supposedly en route back from the

philippines to nevada. they described her earlier on as a person of interest. they continued to say paddock was the man responsible and she was not involved. they will clearly wa nt she was not involved. they will clearly want to talk to her as she probably has something to say of use. she was his girlfriend. they lived together in this house. they will be hoping she noticed something, i am sure. her involvement will be key, and what she knows will be key, and they are continuing to be pressed on whether this 100 thousand dollars was transferred by paddock to the philippines. they are not confirming it happened, not denying it. some of that they have said it is an absolute red herring, don't go down that way. but they are clearly not ready to say anything publicly about it. that ties in with reports from officials he did high—stakes gambling in the week before the

attack. and the president is going to arrive, of course. yes. he is en route tomorrow our time to visit nevada, vegas. he will meet with victims and first responders of the city. we will see what he has to say. he will be pressed, i am sure, if there is an opportunity, on whether or not he feels there should bea whether or not he feels there should be a change to the gun laws, which will raise its head in the days after this incident. it always does when things like this happen. very little changes, usually, but it still happens. he will be expected tomorrow with intense security for that visit as he comes from puerto rico where he has made something of a stir today. thank you very much for that. we're keeping the bbc news website up to date with all the latest developments in las vegas.

just head to bbc.com/news or download the bbc news app. there are pages dedicated to the stories of the survivors and the politics of gun law in the us. president trump has been on a visit to puerto rico to see for himself the devastation caused by hurricane maria. it's taken mr trump thirteen days to visit the island, the same amount of time it took president bush to visit new orleans after hurricane katrina. while meeting officials, the president made reference to katrina, saying maria wasjust as bad in terms of the damage, but not in terms of the death toll. 13 days after hurricane maria tore into puerto rico, donald trump sweeped in. he was greeted by officials, some of whom criticised the time it took the us to take the disaster seriously. he might not have pleased people with his opening remarks on the island. i hate to tell you, puerto rico, but you've thrown our budget a little out of whack. we spent a lot of money on puerto rico and we've saved a lot of lives.

every death is a horror, but if you look at a real catastrophe like katrina, and you look at the tremendous, hundreds and hundreds of people that died, and you look at what happened with really a storm that was just totally overpowering, nobody has ever seen everything like this. what is your death count? 16. 16 people versus in the thousands. he did go out to meet some of those affected by the hurricane. they told us they were sceptical about the visit. there are people who lost everything. i know that the united states is going through a lot with las vegas and everything, but we are as well. i am not infatuated with the idea, he is not really interested in helping us. over recent days, we have seen the kind of devastation that hurricane maria brought. thousands lost their homes, most of the three and a half million people here are still

without electricity. donald trump may have drawn attention to puerto rico's plight, but many feel they have been treated like second class citizens. they don't feel that the government took this disaster as seriously as they should have from the beginning, particularly as people are still suffering. we should add that in the last hour, a spokesman for puerto rico said the death toll has more than doubled now to 34. we can speak to a community health centre on the north—east coast of puerto rico. thank you for giving us your time. i know things

are difficult. describe how things are difficult. describe how things are at the moment. thank you for having us. i am speaking from my house. i have no electricity so i am using my daughter's room and a flashlight to try to speak to you right now. the president was handing out torches today. as he was doing so, he said he won't be needing these any more. but 90% of people still have no power. that is the number we still have no power. that is the numberwe are still have no power. that is the number we are working with. 90% of the island is without electricity. there is no water. communication is mostly there is no water. communication is m ostly d own there is no water. communication is mostly down outside of the capital city. we still have families who have not been able to find parents oi’ have not been able to find parents or children. we do have a very

serious situation for puerto rico. did you feel he was up to speed with the problems and the central government can really help? well, the president made a very brief visit to puerto rico. i don't really think he can grasp the magnitude of what has happened here with a four hour visit where he did not go out of his small area. i think it was a bit disrespectful, the way he treated our government and the whole situation. so i don't really have... i don't really have anything else to say about the president. we are managing the situation locally. day by day, night by night, with everything you are lacking at the

moment, how are you managing? we are resilient people. the hurricane season is a yearly thing for people who live in the caribbean, so we deal with hurricane is. we werejust caribbean, so we deal with hurricane is. we were just not used to dealing with those of category five and we had two category five hurricanes within two weeks. so that something difficult to have preparation. but we are managing on solidarity. we've had a lot of solidarity from puerto rico and is and latinos in the us —— puerto ricans. we are helping each other and that's the way we have been surviving. thank you so much

for talking to us and all of the very best. thank you. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: will catalonia break away from spain? the region's leader says independence could be declared in a matter of days. in all russia's turmoil, it has never come to this. president yeltsin said the day would decide the nation's destiny. the nightmare that so many people have feared for so long is playing out its final act here. russians are killing russians in front of a grandstand audience. it was his humility which produced affection from catholics throughout the world. but his departure is a tragedy for the catholic church. israel's right—winger ariel sharon visited the religious compound and that started the trouble. he wants israel alone to have sovereignty over the holy sites, an idea that's unthinkable to palestinians. after 45 years of division,

germany is one. in berlin, a million germans celebrate the rebirth of europe's biggest and richest nation. this is bbc news. the latest headlines: police release body camera video showing the moments officers reach the scene of sunday's deadly mass shooting in las vegas that claimed 59 lives and injured over 500 people. in spain, the president of catalonia has told the bbc that a declaration of independence will come within days, following the referendum on sunday.

but the legal status of that vote has been dismissed again, this time by king felipe of spain, who said in a rare televised address that the catalan leadership had behaved irresponsibly. from barcelona, here's our special correspondent fergal keane. there was an energy today that felt as if it could shape history. a shared anger bringing hundreds of thousands onto the streets. why have you come here? i came here because of the repression of the state and against the violence. are you here for independence? n ot exa ctly. but others were. out with the occupying forces, they chant. since i was a child i was a separatist and i still am, this man says. his friend tells me, we are different to spain in ourculture, our way of acting and being, many things. "the roads will always

be ours", shouts this man. across catalonia, highways were blocked. firemen who guarded polling stations have become local heroes. this demonstration has drawn people from across the political spectrum. the question now is whether or not it prompts them into further confrontation with madrid. tonight, as the demonstrations continued, a highly unusual intervention. faced with the threat of a broken country, king felipe went on television, taking a tough line against the separatists. "we are living in serious times for democracy", he said, condemning what he called the illegal actions of catalonia's leaders and not once mentioning the violence used by police against voters at the weekend. but in a bbc interview tonight, the catalan president was defiant they would go ahead with the declaration of independence. translation: we will probably do

this when we have the votes in from abroad, at the end of this week or thereabouts, so we will act at the end of the week, at the beginning of next week. what is remembered is that police from outside catalonia were unleashed against them. it's created anger and a sense of bewilderment, felt on both sides of the independence debate here. translation: i am not in favour of independence. i am not a separatist. the attitude of the spanish government has left us all surprised in catalonia. we don't understand what is strategy of rajoy‘s government was when he sets thousands of police against defenceless people. spain and catalonia,

a relationship relentlessly troubled by the past. the new ruler of spain rides into the city of his conquest. after the victory of the dictator franco, catalan identity was suppressed. this mass grave remembers those killed here by his regime. some were catalan nationalists, others leftists and republicans. in a time of growing uncertainty, the wounds of the spanish civil war act as a warning. translation: this wound is still influential, in the sense that people are very conscious when proclaiming, demonstrating, protesting and asking for independence. there can only be dialogue and dialogue and peace. there is anger on both sides. look into the faces of these men. national police hemmed into their hotel. viva espana! let us act, they shout. from this...

..to this. a vast gulf. fergal keane reporting from barcelona. let's round up some more news. the malaysian government pathologist says the nerve agent used to kill kim jong—un‘s estranged half brother has been confirmed. the women from indonesia and vietnam pleaded not guilty. the english city of oxford which has strong ties to the effect —— the leader of myanmar, aung san suu kyi, has voted to remove from her the honour of freedom of the city, because of her government's treatment of rohingya muslims. oxford made the award to the nobel laureate twenty years ago. half—a—million rohingyas have fled myanmar since late august. the internet company yahoo says all of its three billion user accounts were hit by hacking in 2013, three times higher

than the original estimate. this makes it one of the largest ever thefts of personal data in a cyber attack. yahoo said the stolen information did not include passwords or bank account information. the nobel prize for physics has been awarded to three us scientists for their detection of gravitational waves. the minuscule ripples in space and time caused by the collision of black holes. they were predicted by albert einstein a century ago but had, until recently, escaped detection. now if you're an adrenaline junkie, there is a new challenge for you. just a 45 minute drive from the kenyan capital, nairobi, is east africa's longest zip—tour. locals and tourists visit the place to experience the thrill of whizzing above the trees. this forest forms part of the mountain range, near mae ruby city. it is now home to the longest zip tourin it is now home to the longest zip tour in east africa. —— nairobi city. it offers something different for kenyans who come in their

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wednesday's weather gets off to a fine start for some of us, but things will have changed by wednesday night. wet and windy again. a chilly start, particularly in rural spots, and there will be an area of rainfall, having moved south of scotland overnight and stretching through parts of northern ireland. it's this weather front here, but it's this low pressure moving along across central swathes of the uk on wednesday night, turning things wetter and windier. along with this weather fronts searching through scotland and northern ireland, showers heavy and thundery in the far north of scotland and northern isles, some very gusty winds to begin the day. though both fronts will ease as we go through the day. across a large part of england and wales, getting off to a chilly but fine start. a lot of sunshine around. there will be a few showers running into parts of north—west england, with increasing cloud here. increasing cloud in northern ireland as well, some outbreaks of rain particular to the north. and the stretching through parts

of south—west scotland and galloway. for much of northern scotland, some sunshine. very windy in the far north and northern isles to begin with. 50—60 miles per hour gusts. but the heavy showers gradually ease during the day. elsewhere, rain starting to pick up. cloud increases and wet in northern ireland in the afternoon. south—west scotland, northern england, some outbreaks into northern parts of wales as well. temperatures generally in the mid to low teens. low pressure bringing rain across many parts of the uk on wednesday night. looking very wet into lancashire, for example. we need to watch that. in the southern flanks, some gales developing. we could see gusts of 50—60 miles per hour. so the chance of disruption as thursday begins. thursday very windy. rain soon clearing away from southern england. a few showers into northern scotland and the irish sea coast, maybe parts of north—west england the north midlands as well. many places dry with sunny spells. temperatures again around the mid—low teens. a windy day. on friday, high pressure building. things starting to quieten down a bit. lighter winds, variable cloud, sunny spells, many places dry. it doesn't last long, though. into the weekend,

another area of low pressure. not quite as strong, but still some rain—bearing weather fronts pushing across the uk. so expect a lot of cloud on saturday and some outbreaks of rain spreading south and east as the day goes on. breezier, again, and temperatures around 13—16 degrees. as that eases away on sunday, still some sunny spells around. one or two showers, but it is a quieter weather picture on sunday. this is bbc news. the headlines: police have released body camera footage of the moments officers arrive at the scene of sunday's deadly mass shooting in las vegas. detectives told reporters the suspect had elaborately planned the attack and fired on and off for between nine to 11 minutes from his hotel room. the president of catalonia's devolved government, carles puigdemont, has told the bbc that his region will declare independence from spain within days.

he warned that if the spanish government intervened and took control of catalonia, or arrested him, it could be "the definitive mistake. " and the white house says president trump will ask congress to release $29 billion in disaster aid to pay for the aftermath of the recent hurricanes. mr trump visited puerto rico on tuesday, and was criticised afterjoking the devastation from hurricane marcia had thrown the us budget "out of whack." now on bbc news.