we are we are not suppose for what we are we're trembling on believing. you send me a phenomenon starting october fifteenth on d w. this is d w news a live from berlin the death toll rises and the worst mass shooting in recent u.s. history. it was an act of pure evil. president trump condemning the gunman after at least fifty eight people were killed and over five

hundred injured at a los vegas music festival many are still fighting for their lives 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 cattle and authorities say that ninety percent of voters back secession in a referendum that was just dropped by police and dismissed by madrid. and the rhythms that rule our lives three u.s. researchers share the nobel prize in medicine for their work in explaining how one tech. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program a gunmen in the u.s. city of love lost 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 a 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 terrorist networks. 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 for we had to have a gate 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 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 that's it 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 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. and earlier i spoke with brenton when guard who was at that country music concert in las vegas this was his fourth year there and he never had any

trouble until last night he described his experience yeah we when we had the gunshots it sounded like as it runs like said it by works or something like that so we didn't react to the first round second round by then we were looking around and it was someone i could see getting c.p.r. it was lying flat. and i could see just no daylight the stage so that was when i looked at my wife and my friends and just sort of worked out what we were going to do they were crouched down so they ended up opening up a area underneath the that city area for the ip and we basically ran under there and it down i was lying on my wife. making sure everything was ok just so. many and then. once it popped on a pos we listened to the shooting listen we listened and eventually just stopped

and that's when we photos pretty safe to come out so i crawled out on today's looking around to see if we come out we were able to come out there was a security guy there and sort of pushing everyone to run just go as fast as you can get out get out so i went back got a friend's wheel came out and we ran to the exit but we had to run across the whole field where the the shooting and take them places and i just you know did everyone just don't look don't look as it was there was bodies being carried on makeshift stretchers which was then seen whatever they could find it was a lot of bodies lot of blood lot of bad stuff and i just said keep running so we ran to the exit and they were police hidden behind columns there as they were still tucked away so as to get his impression that something could still happen at any time so we just kept running and got as far as we could away from the house side and heading down the strip and someone came running out from another scene a same as not to shoot somewhere else which turned out to be false but i was saying this i want to be ok you know keep moving so we just kept going any way we could to

siphon starting a lot. yeah it was just surreal. amazing but with all our friends. and breton i mean we can just imagine how how harrowing that must have been for you the scenes that you were describing there for you to have lived through that and we know that this is this is not the first time that you have been to this festival we mentioned this is the fourth year in a row presumably of the last time that your experiences were far more joyful than this particular one when you look around at this area perhaps you can explain to us a little bit more do you know why this attacker might have chosen this specific target. it was a is it i mean fortunately it's a great chance of that sort of thing to happen that the thirty second floor is a great you down on. the area on and off stage it was on the strip so the concert not myself and you can go up in the room and look down and it's

a great view of the whole rainer and you know it's just you get a great there's a lot of view of the whole thing so unfortunately when there's bad people in the world like season take an opportunity to do what they do it's unfortunately a good spot for a bad thing to happen which is terrible brenton what are you going to do now i mean we know that so many people there have been through this experience as you have i think more than than twenty thousand people were actually at this concert have you been offered any any sort of counseling or have the authorities been in touch with you. no nothing like that yet. and i was just taken the day my wife and i and left friends are basically bad now slave miners we came on this ng and it was hard the kids. were just going to die just watching t.v. and just just counting our lucky stars just that we had i had of us that got out no

problem there was another lady under the area that we were in and we took her in we bought on with us until she could find her friends and get back to them a boyfriend drives from california that nine picked up later on the morning. just which. i don't. i mean i was at an event of another convention tomorrow and next weekend i mean it she doesn't want to go and she's really against big groups now we've got season tickets to the hockey the gold not somewhere sitting on the fence with that now two are just. things of chinese when you look at big venues with a long you know it's different absolutely i think a lot of us will be thinking along similar lines in the future we thank you very much for for joining us after experiencing something so traumatic in the past day just for for giving us a little bit of perspective on what it is that you went through and when a guard. you know we mentioned that you've attended this concert many times in the past and we thank you very much for telling us

a little bit more about it. 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 voters from casting ballots regional leaders say that ninety percent of voted for independence but critics say that the result is not representative because opponents refuse to participate madrid has dismissed the referendum as a legal and invalid. supporters of catalan independence square out in force through monday 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. others think that in this you know but the 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 biota on the streets people had mixed views on independence but were united in their condemnation of sunday's violence and the spanish government that. if the government thought it was unlawful it could have been without violence everything could have happened peacefully and they could have said we don't recognize the result. it's like going back in time what people on the street are saying is that franco as time has returned but maybe it never left. your good and we don't have to talk about yes or no but about human rights about what happened yesterday i hope europe does something. better get out of.

the european union has indeed expressed concern european council president donald tusk tweeted that he had spoken to spanish prime minister mariano rajoy and appealed to him to avoid escalation. roy later met with spanish opposition leaders for emergency talks. as spain faces its biggest constitutional crisis in decades there are fears of prolonged instability and unrest. the catalan 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 more than seventeen with dozens more people wounded in clashes broke out on sunday between protesters and security

forces in the country's in the speaking regions. english speaking activists are calling for independence from the french speaking majority. a russian court has sentenced the opposition leader alexina vali to twenty years in jail for organizing illegal public meetings he was arrested on friday after his rally in the city of or in bourke in a volley intends to run for president against vladimir putin in next year's election to the palestinian authority prime minister rami hama has led a delegation of fatah officials to the gaza strip for reconciliation talks with rival group hamas last week a mosque distended it's an administration in gaza which it has ruled since two thousand and seven negotiations between the two sides are expected to move to cairo next week. why do we feel alert during the day and sleeping at night well apparently it is down to your body's inner clock your start kadian rhythms and it turns out that circadian rhythms 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 they are american scientists jeffrey hall michael rose basher and michael young who will share the award the nobel committee said that they helped discover how disrupting your sleep for them can have a major impact on your behavior and body function so why is their work so important we have this report from d.w. . science reporter. 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 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 recognize the dangers of disrupting our inner clock. your up to date. kelly thanks for watching. radio current thrillers.