thanks for returning our web special feeling to the refugee journey of life in germany and the prospects for those returning home. join the discussion on g.w. dot com and on facebook. prospects for returning. to w make your mark. this is d w news live from berlin a deadly shooting on the las vegas strip. a gunman opens fire at a concert killing at least fifteen people and injuring more than four hundred

police say they have shot dead the suspect a sixty four year old man from nevada. and we'll get the latest from spain after a chaotic day in catalonia plunge the country into crisis the catalan regional government is meeting to consider what steps it can take towards independence that's after ninety percent of voters back to separating from spain in a referendum disrupted by police and dismissed by madrid. i'm serious almost kind of good to have you with us a gunman has killed at least fifty people and injured four hundred more in the u.s. city of las vegas police have confirmed that the suspect a sixty four year old white man from nevada was shot dead the incident took place on the city's famed a strip now the it's. hacker had it checked in as

a guest at the mandalay bay hotel and casino and out from the thirty second floor he began firing on an outdoor concert authorities say they have also located a female person of interest she was seen accompanying the suspect before the attack and las vegas sheriff joe in bartow spoke a little bit earlier today let's listen in. for his as his history and background we haven't completed that part of the investigation yet but we located numerous firearms within the room that he occupied and that's like i stated earlier it's going to be of long and tedious investigation now we're bringing in all the resources of the f.b.i. to assist us in this investigation in particular to their victim witness advocates and their c.s.i. folks to help us process the scene and ensure that we are getting all the evidence that we can possibly a. las vegas sheriff joe lombardo speaking earlier there are authorities i

have named the shooter a sixty four year old stephen paddick he is thought to have killed at least fifty people making it the worst mass shooting in u.s. history let's take a look now at what happened. the moment when music tends into a nominee noises. and people begin to run for their lives. as hysteria breaks out in the concert venue gunshots continue. some say it lasted for five minutes some say even move an eyewitness who spoke to described the whole raw. the artists up on stage playing obviously and we heard sounded like firecrackers first the artists kept singing firecrackers that come in that is just stuff. and then people started panicking i mean it was just damage i

mean people got down cops reality. the shooting took place at an open air country music festival and yet the mandalay bay hotel and casino located on less vegas famous trip police offices confronted a suspect on the thirty second floor of the resorts hotel where he was shot that. we are comfortable that the primary aggressor in this event is has expired or passed away and he is no longer a threat there has been multiple multiple phone calls and accusations or conjecture coming through social media that there is multiple shooters and other result resorts that has been proven to be false authorities have named local men safe in pasok as and have located a vehicle belonging to the suspect. and let's go right to los vegas where peter dawson is standing by he's a reporter for cave v.v.

you fox five news there he joins us on the line peter i thank you for joining us what's happening there right now of bring us up to date. well right now the strip was shut down several casinos were shut down and evacuated guests had to go down the street to basically a large town square type of shopping village now the guest at the concert there concert goers well it was sheer panic as you can imagine when the shots rang out some people didn't know what was happening you know the las vegas strip it's very noisy it's very bright so when they realized that they were in danger they went running a few people had to go across the way to a private airport they were told to shelter in place in a private hangar some of them did some of it didn't but as soon as we're got out the thomas i'm mad at the u.n. the camp of the about a mile down the road that's where they're at everybody to go to and at one point thousands of people i saw go into the thompson mack and metro our police department

out here was asking anybody if they witnessed anything to fill out a statement if they just needed water blankets or just a place to sleep to go into a different area of the thomas i'm at one point sources inside said about five hundred people were sleeping now as about forty five minutes ago some of the strip casinos started to open back up again so they've been shuttling people from the thomas the mack about a mile up the street to the las vegas strip and i would say there's about two to three hundred people still in the thomas a mass you know kind of. resting grabbing a drink of water and getting some food waiting for the mandalay bay to open there is no time limit i want to stress that there is a lot of the state here for as long as they want a lot of people as you can tell very shaken up about this whole thing maybe don't want to go back to the wants vegas trip right now some flights were delayed and canceled but the airport i believe is that two full operation right now we're just trying to come to grips with what happened here just a few hours ago peter a terrifying situation there a few hours ago on the ground any information from authorities on the victims more

than fifty people killed and the injured more than four hundred. right now that's the latest that we have jeralyn barter just update the media and i believe that was where the updated numbers are right now so they're kind of updating the media about every forty five minutes to an hour and sadly just four or five hours ago it was tuesday and now we have fifty plus and then it was twenty four injured and now we're up to four hundred so every update my father brings us it just gets worse and worse and peter we mentioned that the police had named the shooter as a sixty four year old local man any indication about what his motive possibly could have been oh absolutely i could i would i could speculate on that metro does a really good job of updating everybody assumes they know something but right now i think they're just being tight lipped about everything if they do know something or if they don't know something but i'm sure we'll know more about that man coming up

in the next few hours repeated often a reporter for k v v u fox five news in las vegas peter thank you so much. thank you. and it is a developing story on the ground there in las vegas we will bring you the latest updates as they come in to us turning now to some other news and spain is facing a constitutional crisis after a day of chaos in catalonia the regional government there is meeting to discuss taking steps towards independence that's after ninety percent of voters back to breaking away from spain in a referendum but that vote was disrupted by police and dismissed by madrid leaving catalonia and the rest of spain wider apart than ever before. supporters of catalan separatism were in force again today providing a powerful backdrop for the demands of their regional leader. but despite the mood of defiance in barcelona he opened the door to deescalation.

a woman can show you. what i know recommending is mediation. and that mediation requires the presence of a third party. i think that in this you know but that party needs to be international for this to be an effective process this is important to restore the institutional normality which has been disturbed by disproportionate decisions from spain central government. it's also important to end police violence in the limitation of our liberty and also to create a climate of less tension for such a process of mediation that. some days violence was splashed across the morning papers as people caught up with events that could change the makeup of the country some cattle lands are outraged by police tactics others expressing reservations about leaving spain. i'm of the opinion that this referendum wasn't managed the way

it should have been there may have been other ways so that we all would be happier with the results part of us catalans i believe and not happy with the result of the referendum. yesterday was terrible people like me i'm seventy years old i experienced a dictatorship under franco and this is the same. there see i don't mean laws. spanish police used heavy handed tactics on sunday to disrupt a vote the country's supremes court has ruled unconstitutional central government in madrid has come under fire for its use of police force cattle an authority say over eight hundred people were injured there now setting up a special commission to investigate claims of abuse. and let's go right to barcelona where journalist stephen bergen is standing by for us hi stephen the catalan president we saw in our report he gave a statement just

a little while ago saying he does not plan and split with spain but is calling for a new understanding what does that mean that he plans to go ahead with this independence. over there's no doubt that he plans to but i think to surprise quite a few people that he has pulled back from the brink and hasn't just simply declared independence on the basis of yesterday's poll. but he i mean he's a dyed in the wool independent at least and there's no doubt that he's not going to change his mind but he is he's calling for mediation he'd like this to be i think from the european union but it's very disappointed that the european union's brotherhood bland reaction to what's happened and he says be you can't look away. and they have to they have to come to terms with this. but he doesn't want any traumatic bird because the fact is all the ninety percent of people who voted

yesterday voted in favor. it is a well known fact that they represent roughly fifty percent of the population but fifty percent of the population more independents and the other half don't and i think you know he and others realize that pushing this through against the will of people who frankly didn't vote was a book because they know it wasn't a legally binding referendum that isn't going to work so time for mediation to begin but this requires a very different attitude from the spanish government which behaved actually just walked straight into a truck by being using force yesterday which simply reinforced people's sense that they don't want to belong to spring and stephen after those that force that you mentioned yesterday we saw these dramatic scenes of violence you know how are people there been reacting today in barcelona what is the atmosphere like. there is at the moment there's a very large demonstration going on there was

a ten minute everything stopped for ten minutes in protest but now there's various marches going on and tomorrow there's a general strike is called just a day. ok stephen as you said you know this is a very difficult situation and neither side here really backing down what options does the government in madrid really have right now. it has the option to recognize the reality that this is not going to go and that by simply using force or in fact telling. us as reported yesterday saying there wasn't a referendum. isn't going to work and if they haven't got the political will or intelligence to mediate this they will have to find someone who does because it's not about to go very far as stephen as you've been speaking we've been looking at some live pictures there from barcelona stephen reporting from barcelona for us

journalists even bergen thank you very much for that insight. let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world soldiers in cameroon have killed at least eight people during clashes in the country's english speaking regions angle phone activists have been staging protests to call for independence from the rest of the country they say they are discriminated against by the french speaking majority the palestinian prime minister rami home dollah is on a rare visit to the gaza strip the trip as part of a major reconciliation effort to end a rift between rival palestinian factions fatah and hamas which rules the territory a mosque has now disbanded its administration to make way for a unity government. the two women accused of murdering a strange the half brother of north korean leader kim jong un have pleaded not guilty on day one of their trial the pair are charged with attacking kim jong nam with a deadly nerve agent at kuala lumpur airport they say they thought they were taking

part in a prank for a reality t.v. show and three american scientists have been announced joint winners of this year's nobel prize for medicine the trio were recognized for their discoveries on molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm or put simply our biological clock. you're watching news still to come british authorities are scrambling to bring home thousands of travelers around the mediterranean they were stranded when monarch airlines operation today. that story and more with monica coming right up in business.