the way the twenty seventeen nobel prizes. you will follow in the footsteps of the greatest minds of our time. and me about prizes twenty seventeen. this week on d w news. this is the w. news live from berlin the death toll rises in the worst mass shooting in u.s. history. a gunman opens fire as a last vegas concert killing at least fifty eight people and injuring more than five hundred police say the suspect a sixty four year old nevada man is amongst the dead also on the program the next

steps in brains catalonia crisis the catalan regional government calls for international mediation and it's bad for independence from spain that's a day after they say ninety percent of cattle on voters back secession in a referendum that was disrupted by police and dismissed by madrid. and the rhythms that roll our lives three u.s. researchers share the nobel prize in medicine for their work in explaining how we took. i'm still gail welcome to the program. the government has killed at least fifty eight people and injured more than five hundred in the u.s. city of las vegas police have confirmed that the suspect a sixty four year old white man from the vodka is also dead the shooting happened on the famed las vegas strip the attacker had checked into the mandalay bay hotel

and casino and began firing on an outdoor concert from the thirty second floor police have not ruled out connections between the attack and international terrorism. the moments when music tends into gunfire. and people begin to run for their lives. as hysteria breaks out in the concert venue the shorts continue. some say the gunfire lasted for five minutes others say even longer. and i witnessed his spoke to d.w. describe the hora. the artist was up on stage playing obviously and heard sounded like firecrackers the first the artists kept singing firecrackers that coming in that is just stopped and then people started panicking i mean it was just

a pandemic i mean people got down cops the reality of the people who were there ackles his sentiments. we refused to believe it was a shooting until it just kept going and going and then chased. off the stage and then everybody started firing and we started firing we had to have a gate to get out. i've never seen anything like that we kept shooting and shooting and shooting and we thought it was on the other side we just thought it was maybe play machine guns but it definitely wasn't fire guns. and it sounded like at least thirty rounds or more. police rushed to the scene of the attack at the mandalay bay hotel and casino where the perpetrator had checked in as a guest from the thirty second floor he began shooting indiscriminately at concert

goer outside. an hour later police confirmed his death. was for him as his history and background we haven't completed that part of that 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 a long and tedious investigation now we're bringing in all the resources of the f.b.i. to assist us in this investigation. authorities have named a sixty four year old local white man. and believe he was acting alone this incident has been the worst mosque shooting in modern u.s. history and the death toll is expected to rise. following the shares in president a trump has addressed the nation amongst his comments he praised first responders for what he called that miraculous work his thoughts on the killer unequivocal my

fellow americans we are joined together today in sadness shock. and grief. last night a gunman opened fire on a large crowd at a country music concert in las vegas nevada he brutally murdered more than fifty people and wounded hundreds more it was an act of pure evil let's get more from t w so us correspondent covering the two more who joins us from washington to welcome took us through the rest of mr trump's speech what he said and what he left out while we just heard it he offered his condolences i refer to it as an act of pure evil he will be visiting us vegas and when say he also ordered the u.s.

flags to be flown at half mast these are terrible results of the it's a mass occur so far over five hundred injured and fifty eight people have been killed and there is no evidence for any true marty of people. so far the massacre in last vegas the music concert has no known link to overseas terrorism or terrorist groups that is what an official of the f.b.i. just set some minutes ago the police also say they believe susan paddock sixty four years old acted alone as a solo act or a so-called lone wolf type actor security person i have lived at all restrictions on access to mandalay bay and other resorts and all the guests may return again to the roots of these are the latest news and tell us about the reaction from washington. while politicians from

all parties offer condolences hillary clinton treated in a more political way saying that people should stand apt to the n.r.a. the national rifle association and powerful gun lobby here in washington the truth is that nevada feel has some of the most relaxed gun laws in the country nevada law does not require firearms owners to have a license or reduce or their weapons or limits their number of firearms and individual poses i don't buy tickets all the weapons and machine guns are also legal in the state as long as they are a disservice and are processed in a variance to federal law open carry is also illegal without a permit so no i don't even allow this gun buyers to avoid background checks as well as eighteen all other states what is known as the victims well as i told you not anymore forty now the number is fifty five people who have

been killed there and the hospitals and family members are called to to to find them to go to to last vegas also one of the latest news is that they're looking for people to also blast to two people in the hospitals telling that you more in washington thank you. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world police in france say the attacker who fatally stabbed two women as a train station must say on sunday was known to authorities as a petty criminal the suspected jihad is to several identities and was shot dead by a french soldier. palestinian authority prime minister rami home dalla was has led a delegation of fatter officials to the gaza strip for reconciliation talks with a rival group hamas last week i must disbanded its administration encounter a gaza which it has ruled since two thousand and seven negotiations between the two

sides expected to move to cairo next week. but here's where the two women accused of murdering the strange half brother of north korea's leader kim jong un have pleaded not guilty the opening day of their trial saw them charged with attacking kim jong nam with a deadly nerve agent to kuala lumpur airport the women say they thought they were taking part in a prank for a reality t.v. show. i caught alone is regional government is meeting to discuss steps towards independence after a reported ninety percent of voters back breaking away from spain in sunday's referendum where the vote was disrupted by police and has been dismissed by madrid . supporters of cattle and separatism were out 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 say yes my watch i'm now recommending is mediation element yes you are and that mediation requires the presence of a third party. other than this you know but you see 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 and the limitation of our liberty and also to create a climate of less tension for such a process of mediation that. sunday's violence was splashed across the morning papers as people caught up with events that could change the makeup of their 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. that. just. 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. spanish police used heavy handed tactics on sunday to disrupt a vote the country supremes court has ruled unconstitutional central government in madrid has come under fire for its use of police force cattle an authority saying over eight hundred people were injured there now setting up a special commission to investigate claims of abuse. let's go out of our european view from data correspondent barbara vessels in brussels to welcome the european parliament to scald

a special catalonia crisis debate why is it involving itself in spain's domestic politics. because of course after the pictures we saw yesterday from barcelona many members of parliament feel that their vote there was too much violence that there was an overreaction by the government in madrid probably the totally wrong reaction and of course we have some left wing left wing parliamentarians who say this was really against democracy and human rights we just heard from the president of the european council that's the governments in europe. that he talked to monday i know how hard it is spanish prime minister and obviously voiced his concerns and he said that he shared the constitutional concerns are far higher about the legality of the referendum however he hoped that there would be no further escalation and no further violence and very similar things we heard earlier from the european

commission here in brussels there a friend of mine was and remains illegal however let's listen to what spokesman margaret just sheena's had to say to the violence we call on all relevant players to know move very swiftly from confrontation to dialogue. violence can never be only instrument in politics so beyond talking barbara votes or what can be a you do. nothing simply because as opposed to popular opinion the european union is not this supra national organization that can sort of interfere in the in the sort of inner affairs of its member states it simply doesn't have that power it can offer itself as a mediator and it has behind the scenes obviously tried to mediate during the last weeks to no avail and there was some hand-wringing here in brussels about the

course of marianna or why because many people thought that he played into the hands of the independent independence movement however it can do much more than say we are concerned we are worried this is not going a good way and you should sort of take a different course barbara hazel in brussels thank you. and the violence in the yesterday's referendums also got investors spooked monica jones girls certainly those with business interests in spain fail in spanish stocks are down spain's borrowing costs ob that as investors try to gauge the political consequences from sunday's independence vote in catalonia madrid says the vote was illegal but after the brutal crackdown by spanish police support for the government in madrid is crumbling and worries about spain's economy are rising. on the madrid stock exchange share prices continue to slide more than one hundred

points shed since the market opened a fall of more than one percent many traders fear that uncertainty about the fate of catalonia will lead to further falls in this climate investors buying spanish government bonds may want higher interest the country near has to pay almost one point seven percent interest on ten year bonds the highest in many months the common european currency also fell slightly if the euro's fallen below one point one eight u.s. dollars losing nearly a cent and get out of the we've just overcome the euro crisis also calls for independence or certainly not going over well with the e.u. has a big task ahead of it it will have to mediate but it's clear there were ninety percent of the people want freedom that cannot simply be ignored. if catalonia gained independence spain would lose its industrial heartland the region accounts for a fifth of the country's economic power see it cars are produced here the region is

also important in the chemical and pharmaceutical sectors without catalonia spain would slip to fifteenth place in the world ranking of the strongest economic countries that would put it behind mexico so let's get the market perspective on this story now what he joins me from the frankfurt stock exchange only how big a story is this referendum on the controversy around it for investors. it's the biggest story of the day of this beginning week but at the same time it has left a relatively few marks here in the markets the euro is down we just saw that the spanish stocks are down the bonds are down but there's no sell off there's no sell off anywhere so nobody is really assuming that this is going to become a big crisis and one of course sees from what a strong position the spanish economy is coming from three point two percent growth last year forecast two and

a half percent here so people i think are just assuming that there's a lot of potential to weather a storm at the moment at least and we just heard what impact an independent catalonia would have on the economy there. what impact does it have on the eurozone along the wish. and equally important effect because pain was once a problem child of the euro zone and now it's booming it's recovering the still high unemployment but one has said spain no longer a problem if it becomes a problem again then it refocuses everyone's focus is back on the problematical structures here in the euro zone possibly contagion to other countries possibly the bond market coming under pressure the euro being put in question you don't really want to think about a crisis like this developing much larger and spilling over into the spain as whole as a whole and the eurozone as

a whole all right thank you so much for that. britain's monarchy allan's collapsed on the monday after falling victim to intense competition for flights and a week of pound but it authorities are now scrambling to bring help thousands of travelers scattered around holiday destinations ranging from turkey to spain and sweden flights will be provided at no additional cost to passengers monarch is the first european airline making a financial crash landing this year. it was a familiar sight at british airports for fifty years but that changed overnight the demise of monarch airlines was announced in an early morning online message from britain's civil aviation north already passengers were left without a flight home most of them stranded at destinations in the mediterranean the government is vowing to bring them home in what it calls the country's biggest ever peacetime repatriation we expect the vast vast majority of one hundred ten thousand

. passengers who are currently on holiday with monarch to come back to within the next two weeks that's that's exactly what is expected. britain's fifth biggest airline had struggled with losses but had hoped to turn things around with orders for boeing's latest seven three seven planes and a cost cutting program bankruptcy rumors swirled last year but then monarch was able to draw a new line of credit but now that's gone and so is the airline with a decision really was a result of continued losses loss has been sustained for quite some time forecast to continue mainly as a result of depress prices in the market overcapacity in the short haul market is meant pace have been depressed for some time in britain's transport minister says other airlines have plans to quickly hire monarch staff but that's little consolation for the three hundred thousand people who held tickets to fly on monarch they won't be going anywhere. if you're afraid of heights look away

now a redevelopment project in helsinki has come up with a novel way to promote itself the ready been center has offered hundreds of people who want a prize draw an opportunity to take a sauna bath dangling high over the construction site the sauna was lifted to a height of one hundred and twenty meters the same height as the one that will be built into the residential tower it off was extraordinary views of finland's capital and to test space with three people. well it's that time of year again when the nobel committee awards outstanding contributions to science and medicine and phil i think you know some of the windows i guess i did well other than personally and the bad news of course is i didn't get one but guess what they were talking about security and rhythms why do we feel awake during the day and sleeping at night apparently it's down to your body's in a clock your so alien rhythms but it turns out they are crucial to our well being

so much so that the man who discovered the importance of the body's natural rhythms have been awarded the nobel prize for medicine there are american scientists jeffrey hole of michael ross bash michael go one share it with the bell committee said they helped discover how disrupting your sleep rhythm and have a major impact on your behavior and body functions speaking in new york michael young described to show what he found out he'd won. i really had trouble even getting my shoes on this morning just. you know i'd go and i'd pick ups of the shoes and then i'd realize i need this socks and i didn't realize i'd put my pants on first. but. you know you get here and see all this and i guess you realize it must be true ok let's talk about this with our science correspondent williams welcome derek first thing this work is decades old so why they just getting the award now well it's

actually not really surprising the nobel prizes are there for the science prizes are there for to show it to honor work that was done that has really altered and changed sort of the whole geography and topography of a scientific field and that's exactly what this kind of work has done there's been of course a lot of newer sexier science that's been done since the one nine hundred seventy s. in the one nine hundred eighty s. but this is really this kind of research provided the foundations and the fundamentals that that later science was based on and so that's why they decided to take you to these research doesn't have to be just nobel prizes they don't have to be this year's stuff it's just someone looks and said you know what that was really really important because without that we could have done this that's generally actually the cause tell us then about the kadian rhythms explain to us what the scientists did well i can't do it briefly but we did put together a little piece that i think will wrap it up for you. in the modern world our lives are dictated by clocks today's megacities are open twenty four

seventh's but there's a problem our bodies don't want to play along everyone has an inner clock that regulates critical functions including behavior hormone levels sleep and metabolism . we ignore our inner clock at our peril it can affect our moods memory and even increase our risk of contracting a range of diseases. but how does this in our clock actually work. that was a question answered by geoffrey hall michael ross bosh and michael young back in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's working with fruit flies they isolated the genes and process is that drive those insects in our clocks and it soon became clear that those mechanisms work the same way in humans the prize winning research laid the foundations for the modern discipline of chronobiology the science of biological rhythms thanks to them

we're now able to recognise the dangers of disrupting our inner clock. so why is that so important. well it's important we as medicine has discovered that violating the inner clock is actually really can be really really bad for you those of us journalist for example who work and doing shift work it raises your blood pressure it changes your metabolism it actually can cause you to have cardiovascular disease it's a it can be a very very dangerous thing to pursue if you do it for too long and so it's a source of possible disease and infection and that's why. nobel said that his his prizes were to be given for for work that conferred the greatest amount of good to mankind that this kind of fundamental work is done that it's possibly saved millions of lives williams thank you so much. tomorrow is germany's the national reunification holiday it's also a landmark day for opera lovers but the berlin rococo era opera house the start so

on today linton reopens its doors after a seven year renovation process was controversial and marked by cost overruns totally hundreds of millions of euros but experiencing the fine acoustics and sumptuous interior much to great the effort was well worth it. starts to den linden first opened its doors two hundred seventy five years ago it's already gone through several overhauls and now it's about to reopen again the race for the all important last minute touches is on. artistic director daniel barenboim has been waiting seven years for this moment for a long time even in the world of opera the barenboim that's secondary to the all important acoustic. well i was amazed because it all sounded so wonderful and for my ears really the acoustics are ideal.

for a. long time clarinetist in the house mathias calander puts the acoustics to the test . i'm amazed at how big the room is now. how generous the space since. it's a fantastic theatre we've already had rehearsals and the acoustics are vastly improved and. the start up was commissioned by no other than frederick the great. it's halls have been graced by the likes of felix mendelssohn by fall of the wagner and since nine hundred ninety two the contemporary great daniel barenboim. the reconstruction has had problems it's the longest and most expensive overhaul in the operas history and it's still not complete for barenboim it's the big picture that counts. we want to continue to be an institution that makes an important

contribution. not only for berlin not only for germany but also for europe. aap holding a centuries old tradition for excellence in music. is time to have a reminder of our top story at this hour a gunman has opened fire on a country music festival in las vegas killing at least fifty eight people awarding more than five hundred sixty four year old suspect is amongst the dad speaking to the nation for them to trump has called the attack an act of pure. today's off the top of the hour in the meantime of course there's always the website that's called of the.

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