outstanding shopping and dining offers and drawing our services. be our guest trunk food courts managed by from. this is d. w. news a live from berlin and the death toll rises in the worst mass shooting in recent u.s. history a gunman opens fire at a los vegas concert killing at least fifty eight people and injuring more than five hundred then turning the gun on himself following the slaughter president trying to

address the nation in shock. also coming up the next steps in spain's catalonia crisis the would be breakaway region calls for international mediation and its bid for independence from spain that's a day after catalan authorities say that ninety percent of voters back to the session in a referendum that was disrupted by police and dismissed by madrid. i'm sorry kelly thank you very much for joining us a gunman in the u.s. city of las vegas has killed at least fifty eight people and injured more than five hundred police have confirmed that the suspect a sixty four year old white man from nevada is also dead in an apparent suicide 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 rolled out connections to international terrorism . this was the moment when music turned to gunfire. moments before it was just another vegas evening the crowd had been enjoying a country music festival. now they were running for their lives. as hysteria broke out the shooter continued his rampage. people at the scene described the horror they witnessed. we refused to believe it was the shooting until they just kept going and going and then. the stage and then everybody started firing and we started.

to get out. it was crazy 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 our fire guns. and they sounded like at least thirty rounds or more donald trump offered his quote warmest condolences to the victims and their families 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. 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 goers outside an hour later police confirmed his death. we located numerous firearms within the room that he occupied and like i stated earlier is 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 authorities say they believe the attacker a sixty four year old local white man was acting alone. the incident is now the worst mass shooting in modern u.s. history. for more now we are joined from fort worth texas by a security expert broadwater taken thanks so much for joining us this evening you know in the wake of incidents like this the questions always arise why did this happen and what can be done to prevent further incidents like this as

a former law enforcement official yourself what do you think. well i think it's perhaps bad news and i'm going to take it as a lot of these particular instances you're trying to hedge against the likelihood that certain things will happen and it has to be it can't be because it can be an intrusion all and in this particular case i think the only thing that law enforcement could have done there more would have been more substantive and reasonable were to have snipers on groups and active swat teams there are position i know they have great security there ned law enforcement personnel everywhere. and it's a bit of flash and arms on my part of the exodus but they're out on the ground in earlier to take care and they had to cheer on confrontation but it's pretty much impossible to even return fire from the ground to the thirty second floor otel room and they're just present a whole new set of circumstances so it's primarily

a matter of educating each patron or at least the staff that are working there to understand what consumer culture is and how important i am such a thing and avoid and i mean everything else and this is just a new scale form of security law enforcement have made it ok so that's how you believe that security and law enforcement should react in the meantime how do you think the politician should react because we've heard president trump spokeswoman woman saying that now is not the time to renew a debate over gun control when you hear such things and when you know that nevada for example that it has some of the loose gun control laws in the nation what do you think. well i think it's going to be difficult i mean every time something like this happens it does reignite that argument and it's going to reunite whether or not it isn't an upset it's that are not but the fact is that. the way that politics than never to get into

a corner and if you want to get any differently that's new and you have to deal with one of the laws are in understanding and democratic society we're allowing some of the wrists. and some of the consequences whether it be. due to the fact that the guns were permitted in the first place or not remains to be seen steps taken broadwater security expert joining us from texas this evening thank you very much for sharing your insight. let's turn to some other news now because catalonia has regional government is calling for international mediation on its bid for independence from spain this after a disputed referendum on sunday was marred by violence as police tried to prevent a voters from casting ballots regional leaders say that ninety percent voted for independence critics say that the result is not representative because opponents refused to participate madrid has dismissed the referendum as

a legal and invalid. supporters of catalan separatism right in force again today providing a powerful backdrop to the demands of their regional leader. but despite the meat 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. others think that in this you're not going to 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 sunday's violence was splashed across the morning papers as people caught up with events that could change the makeup of the country some catalans were outraged by police tactics while others expressed

reservations about leaving spain your. home 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. syrian army law. as pro independence protests continue international concern has been mounting european council president donald tusk tweeted that he had spoken to spanish prime minister mariano rajoy and appealed to him to avoid escalation. roy layton met with spain's main opposition leader to emergency talks as spain faces its biggest

constitutional crisis in decades there are fears of prolonged instability and unrest. the council on parliament is expected to vote later this week on whether to make a declaration of independence unless talks resolve the crisis it could be set to deepen even further. let's get a quick check now of some other stories making news around the world the death toll in separatist violence in cameroon has risen to at least seventeen with dozens more people whom dead clashes broke out on sunday between protesters and security forces in the country's english speaking regions english speaking activists are calling for independence from the french speaking majority. police in nairobi have used tear gas to disperse protesters who were calling for the dismantling of kenya's election board opposition supporters blame the board for the botched election in august president who blames the supreme court which avoided the votes results

citing of regularity observers fear that the current tensions could boil over into ethnic violence. to the russian court has sentenced the opposition leader alexina all these to twenty years in jail for organizing a legal public meetings he was arrested on friday after his rally in the city of foreign burg of only intends to run for president against vladimir putin in next year's election. at least sixteen people have been killed in a triple bombing at a police station in the syrian capital damascus a car bomb exploded and two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside of the building the country's interior minister said that another attacker got inside before being shot by police during mass chaos has seen relatively little violence in syria's five year civil war. well why do we feel awake during the day and sleepy at night apparently it's down to your body's inner clock or your circadian rhythm and it turns out that our circadian rhythms are crucial to our well being so much

so that the men who discovered the importance of the body's natural rhythms have been awarded the nobel prize for medicine they are american scientists jeffrey hall and michael rose bash and michael young who will share the award now the nobel committee said that they helped discover how disrupting their sleep for them can have a major impact on your behavior and body function speaking in new york when our michael young described his shock when he found out that he won i really had trouble even getting my shoes on this morning. you know i'd go and i'd pick ups the shoes and then i'd realize and you b'soxun and i didn't realize that he'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 and congratulations to them tomorrow is germany's national reunification holiday it is also

a landmark day for opera lovers berlin's rococo era opera house stopped went to dinner linden reopens its doors after a seven year round of ation the process was controversial and marked by cost overruns totalling hundreds of millions of euros but experiencing fine acoustics and interior most agree that the effort was well worth it. this 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 so barenboim that secondary to the all important acoustic. song i was amazed because it all sounded

so wonderful and for my ears really the acoustics are ideal acoustics of your. own 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 is. it's a fantastic theatre with we've already had rehearsals and the acoustics are vastly improved and if. this starts up i was commissioned by no other than frederick the great. it's holes 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. lindon op holding a centuries old tradition for excellence in music. you're up to date now on d w news i'm sarah kelly in berlin thank you very much for tuning in we will see you again at the top of the hour with another news update. germany is a strong country. that we have achieved so much we can do this and if something him to resign we must overcome it. going where it's on.