do you know they don't belong and. that everyone has the right. everyone has the right to say. this is t w news coming to you live from berlin america grieved the terrible loss of life in las vegas vigils calls for prayer and calls for gun control for the worst mass shooting in recent u.s. history left fifty nine people dead they were gunned down at a country music festival we'll get the latest from las vegas also coming up

catalonia calls for international mediation in its bid for independence from spain as pressure mounts on madrid to resolve the spiraling crisis today catalans are set to strike in protest of police violence during sunday's referendum. and going to the most recognizable voices in wrong sings its last song head of the heartbreakers and the traveling wilburys dog after a heart attack at the age of sixty six. zero zero. hello i'm terry martin thanks for joining us. gunned down while enjoying their favorite music the fifty nine dead and injured in the hundreds injured in the

horrific attack on a country music festival in las vegas the man who murdered them opened fire from inside the high rise mandalay bay hotel spraying hundreds of bullets into the crowd of concert goers on the other side of los vegas trip then he took his own life the shooting has renewed the debate over gun control in the u.s. in las vegas locals and survivors are rallying together in shock a normally colorful and vibrant city grieving and stunned mourners gather on the iconic less vegas strip where the attack happened to comfort each other. there's line up to donate blood for do when did in hospital. thanks it was the moment when music turned to gunfire the crowd had been enjoying a country music festival suddenly they were running for their lives. as tony broke

out the shooter continued his rampage. 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. city area so that the 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 it passed we listened to the shooting list and we listened and eventually just stopped. 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 at concert goers below. police later found him dead in his room they believe the sixty

four year old retired accountant was acting alone. the u.s. presidents condemned the attack. 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. the massacre has seen democrats renew their demands for tougher gun laws it's become a kind of sick complicity and i hope that in the coming days we can come together republicans and democrats to start talking about at the very least some baby steps to show the people of las vegas to show the people of orlando to show my constituents my friends in sandy hook silence is no longer an option.

the incident on sunday night is now the west must shooting in modern u.s. history. let's go to our u.s. correspondent causton phenomenon who's standing by for us in las vegas cost and understand you've been speaking to witnesses and survivors of the shooting how are they dealing with what has happened. well it's tough obviously even for those who escaped without physical harm but there is of course that most of us can't even imagine how that feels being at a concert listening to music and suddenly there's chaos this terror people falling down blood everywhere just talked some short while ago to a woman from texas who was at a concert and she described how she and her husband was writes to cover under some

chairs and some areas of the festival grounds and suddenly from that hotel the shooting started from the upper floors of the hotel and they were trying to cover and then they decided to try to run away and they did but on the way also they. came across people who were injured that woman described how a hospital triage to a system man who had a bleeding wound in his chest and voice broke when she talked about that so i guess this will take some time for people to really come to grips with what happened to them it's absolutely shocking cost and also the numbers more than fifty killed hundreds injured this attack appears to have been meticulously planned doesn't it. absolutely and the police retrieved twenty three guns from that hotel room so

there was definitely some planning some effort involved the police also said that apparently the shooter had smuggled the guns into the hotel in a total of ten suitcases over time you had been renting out that room for several days waiting for the right moment from his perspective and so he basically really planned this there were another nineteen guns ammunition explosives found in his home here last vegas but why he did it we don't know the police apparently also doesn't know the man and shot sheriff lombardo said on monday that he cannot get into the mind of a psychopath and the police to the knowledge least seems to have no clue why this happened this man apparently was relatively wealthy it was not only an accountant it was also from a businessman he liked to gamble here in las vegas had a lot of money apparently according to his brother who spoke to the media and why he snapped at some point why he did this we don't know

and that was the deadliest cost and phenomenon there talking to us a little earlier from las vegas now back here in europe catalonia is due for more disruption as workers there strike in protest at police violence that's after heavy handed tactics marred sunday's referendum on independence catalan leaders say ninety percent of voters backed a split from spain critics say the poll was flawed because opponents stayed away now catalonia is asking for international mediation as tensions run high in the region let's see what people in the streets of barcelona are saying. but i mean we know that to me this was a turning point because i've always been cut the line but i never had strong feelings about independence until now. i've been more civic minded. but after yesterday my way for thinking really changed. you know coming back to my son or

your kid we don't have to talk about yes well no but about human rights about what happened yesterday yeah i know i think that europe does something if you thought this. was the god was god he was god. and then you're talking about independence day ok and that's a mistake made by usually one on one a few i don't think a country own nation that claims to be a state could move forward without a deal with europe and all the western world something specific. that. it's to say. if you don't. look at. what i think is really on forgivable is that there are these police actions but they do not allow a people to express itself and live in freedom in zero seven we don't look at this precise say no we didn't do that at the end of this. see if

that meant that if the government thought the referendum was unlawful it could have acted without violence everything could have happened peacefully and they could have said we don't recognize the result of. the the un joining us from barcelona as d.w. correspondent funny high funny unions and other groups there have called for a general strike in catalonia today what's the purpose of that strike and how is it supposed to help matters. well the official purpose area is to keep up the pressure on the government in madrid and make sure that the message comes across that the people who support independence here in catalonia want to take this all the way through with they really want independence they really want a separation from the rest of the country but also the other of people who will probably take to the streets today to condemn violence altogether all those images

that the f. seen playing out there on sunday when the police cracked down on the referendum or on the people who participated in that referendum that is deemed illegal and invalid so it's a mixture of both both officially to condemn violence but at the same time to keep the pressure up so where will the standoff go from here we know about the strike today or couple of authorities likely to declare independence on the basis of sunday's referendum. that's a really good question terry it really is a standoff and really everybody is waiting both moderate the capital city of spain as well as barcelona the capital city of catalonia the region what's next now a different run down small could be for example that really the the regional problem in catalonia is calling out or declaring independence now when that happens what madrid could do is basically. use article one hundred fifty five of the

constitution which would mean in danger of the unity of spain they could strip catalonia all together all of their autonomy if that happens probably more violence is going to rot but as you hear already if you don't really know what's going to happen in the next hour or so what we know what we do know at this point of course is police is bracing for more protests and definitely that not only that x. few hours but the next few days are going to be full of tensions as so far there's no medication in sight bonnie thank you very much steve nobody is funny far char there on the streets of barcelona. well as catalonians continue to mull over their independence bed the united kingdom is in the middle of negotiations to leave the e.u. the e.u. is braggs it negotiator michelle obama says not enough progress has been made in talks with britain to unlock the next phase of negotiations the e.u. says the talks have so far failed to resolve issues such as citizens' rights and

the u.k.'s financial obligations to the block european parliament is due to vote on a resolution today. d.w. correspondent is standing by at the european parliament in straws book with that vote is taking place today hello tell us how important is that today and what does it mean for the negotiations. the european parliament at the end will have to say yea or nay on a potential deal so what it says in this resolution is very important because if they give an indication that they're not on board the whole thing does not fly and that's exactly what they're doing today they will most likely recommend to the european council to not enter the second phase of the negotiations and the second phase that's what the u.k. wants to talk about a future relationship a trade deal between the european union and the u.k. tell us why the negotiations proving so difficult what are the key sticking points

at this point. from the e.u. perspective so you twenty seven without the u.k. at the moment it seems like the u.k. still has not made clear what the actual goal is where they want to go and there has not been as we heard from the chief negotiator on the sufficient progress on the three issues that need to be clarified from the e.u. perspective first before going into that second phase those three things are the braggs it bills how much money does the u.k. have to pay from its obligations in order to leave the border between northern ireland and ireland a very sticky issue and then the issue that's closest to the heart of the problem in terence here the rights of e.u. citizens after briggs is living in the u.k. well when we look at british prime minister teresa mayes government we see that the brits themselves are conflicted on how to deal with what influence is that having on the negotiations with the. monthly the boss or the head of the

e.p. peace of the european peoples parties those of the conservative party who has the majority here in the european parliament put it very you know precisely he said who are we supposed to talk to in the government he even addressed the reason may the prime minister of the u.k. directly say please fire marcus johnson your foreign minister because he's always interfering so there is a feeling here that this is a. mass of politicians in the u.k. everybody says something different and they don't really know who they're talking to when they're sitting opposite at the negotiation table and that of course is a huge problem when you're trying to negotiate a big deal as big as the braggs it deal that we're talking about a big deal indeed what's the next step then maxine this breaks that process the talk is clicking where the thing. is taking where things go from here. clock in so you're absolutely right so the next step is probably going to be that the summit with the leaders of the european union will decide to postpone the answering that

second phase of the negotiations that we talked about and then the clock is ticking and there probably won't be a way around extending that period in some way or another max thank you so much when they're talking to us from strasburg. you're watching d.w. news still to come one of rock n roll's most successful recording artists dies from a heart attack but tom petty's music lives on discuss his enduring legacy. that. u.s. car maker general motors is showing off its vision of the future in motor city god has more than sir terry and this future it says is going to be all electric with zero emissions zero crashes and zero congestion g.m. is given a sneak peek of its plans in detroit in the next year and a half it's releasing two electric cars based on its existing chevy volt those will

be followed by another twenty electric or hydrogen fuel cell followed cars by the end of twenty twenty three it's an ambitious roadmap for g.m. whose most profitable models at the moment are gasoline powered s.u.v.s well for many people who are actually hoping to get their hands on an electric car much sooner than that there could be a bit of a waits because there's a problem at tesla nearly half a million customers have preordered new tesla models three but now the company says it's built only two hundred sixty of them in the second quarter far short of the one thousand five hundred it had forecast tesla says it's trying to fix production bottlenecks but it says sales of his existing cars are up and expects to sell around one hundred thousand of its s n x models this year that's more than last year now india is one of the few places in the world but typewriters are still in use in many businesses but the ribbon may finally be running out earlier this year

colleges in the financial capital moment by announced they will be phasing out manual typewriters in courses but many people remain fiercely passionate about their typewriters india correspondent sonia funny car sent us this report from the capital dili. the sound of a long forgotten outside a local court in delhi street typists still earn a living from a machine that's obsolete in most parts of the world. has been working at this exact spot. punching out affidavits contracts rent agreements and other legal documents on a second hand machine. she makes about five to six dollars a day just enough to make ends meet. manual typewriters a really heavy they can get damaged we don't have to worry about electricity radius

we don't need a printer or cables all we need is a machine and a table that's it. typing is the only work ever trained for and she's not giving it up any time soon. it's my only source of income i continue typing very end. but the end has a right for this iconic machine and typing has also become a dying skill as india pushes to modernize and digitize its economy there ever fewer takers for the antiquated technology. as a result shops like roger on the decline his family has been selling typewriters since the one nine hundred thirty s. in delhi faced with stiff competition from computers has been forced to reinvent his business restoring antique typewriters like these quite some time i was reading

the. end of the grid. but most of the. dealing in vibrators backed up somehow he demeaned because i'm a patient and that is making some business. has embraced new technology in order to preserve the old and he routinely checks out websites to get information about the battle at this price gracious here's how you open it his refurbished portable typewriters sell for one hundred fifty dollars panta also has a place in a collection of over one hundred ray machines some more than eighty years old and. the typewriter pipe in the hands of skilled pre-payment. giving the machines a much needed to know perhaps a can make a shell. or as an expert in a museum. as if from a backstage area in the port day it's on the german calendar important indeed one

could argue the most important day in post-war german history it is a national holiday in germany day as governor celebrates the end of its cold war division but this year the day of german unity follows hard on the heels of a general election which revealed the differences that continue to split the east and west of the country support for far right parties in eastern germany has highlighted the dissolution there in stark contrast to the euphoria twenty eight years ago when the berlin wall fell. so where is germany today twenty seven years after reunification our chief political correspondent a crane has been reflecting on that question she joins us now from the city of minds where the syria's main celebrations are taking place tomorrow this year being together we are germany hello melinda. tell us how together is germany twenty seven years after unification. well germany

has made enormous strides economically unemployment in most parts of the east is almost as low as in the west and the centers of eastern german cities tend to look as tidy and prosperous as this western city of minds but there are still big economic caps productivity in the east is twenty percent lower than in the west g.d.p. twenty seven percent lower and perhaps the biggest barriers though are invisible ones a survey this week by the bills newspaper showed that sixty two percent of west germans but fully three quarters of eastern germans say there is still something like a berlin wall in people's minds deep deep divisions and as you said those divisions were very much in evidence during the recent national election ten days ago when in some parts of the east the far right alternative for germany party the a.f.d. came in with the largest share of the vote twenty seven percent in saxony compared

to thirteen percent nationally overall and that absolutely reflects frustration with the mainstream political elite and a sense on the part of many many east germans that they have somehow never really caught up that their lives remain precarious after twenty seven years of ongoing structural change that has seen the young move away that is seen large stretches of rural east germany depopulated i think many people have a sense that they simply can't trust the future well into where you are in lines where the celebrations are taking place today the entire german leadership the tire leadership german government are gathered there are going to see lots of speeches are they going to address this lingering east west of allah. absolutely they are we just seen them go into the three d. cathedral behind me a. service is being held there the minister president of rhineland palatinate

palatinate who is the host of this celebration said the election result absolutely is a wake up call it shows that the eastern germans have had to struggle much more with unification than most people in the west ok and she said that germans need to find a new way to talk to one another and i think we will certainly see them do that here today well into thank you so much to be a political correspondent and a crane there in months. us musician and songwriter told petit has died after suffering a heart attack in california that he was rushed to hospital after being found unconscious at his malibu home the sixty six year old is best known as the lead singer of the rock band tom petty in the heartbreakers which recorded a number of hits in the one nine hundred seventy s. .

we'll talk more about petty and his band i'm joined now in the studio by marc españa from our arts and culture desk i'm mark. tell us what made tom petty such a standout rock musician well he was really master of the power chord and was able to punctuate it with pithy and memorable lyrics but he also had something of a gift for being able to pan almost perfect pulp rock songs with very memorable hooks and telling melody lines songs like don't come around him no more american girl and of course i went back down a very big hit for him and i think we have a clip of that to show you.

this. very distinctive so indeed tom petty was highly admired as a songwriter where did he get his ideas from what were his sources of inspiration well it varied i mean he said in a couple of interviews he found songwriting quite a magical process didn't really know where it came from would play on his guitar and didn't like to analyze it too closely he said if you do that the magic disappears and he did really call it a magical process but he took an. rationed in a song like germany which he did with rove with bob dylan he took inspiration from newspaper headlines and t.v. show that were coming out almost random date in which he scribbled down to them to their it. managed to tap into the zeitgeist and pop culture and you know he worked with a lot of other great musicians along the way he was quite a collaborator wasn't he was i mean i mentioned bob dylan earlier and shop i view as would have seen george harrison in the clip earlier on backing vocals he formed a band with george harrison and jeff lynne from e.l.o.

and roy orbison the traveling wilburys which was quite a celebrated act they never toured live but they worked it very very well as in sales he also wrote songs with a song with dave stewart from the arithmetics don't come around here no more which is a very telling lyrical melodic song very very catchy so he was very happy to work with all sorts of musicians from diverse worlds and a. tragic loss there earlier at sixty six he still had some some time when one would have hoped how do you think he will be remembered what is most important legacy i think he'll be remembered really for this quite distinctive style of paul rock that was able to sort of sum up almost like a soundtrack to american youth but global youth to i mean it's the very universal appealing melodic songwriting style that he had mark thank you so much mark a spinner from arts and culture desk. that's all your news for now i'll be back at

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