what we are we're friendly unbelievable. new some new york from home starting october fifteenth on d w. this is the w. news live from berlin america grieves the terrible loss of life in las vegas vigils calls for prayer and calls for gun control after the worst mass shooting in recent u.s. history it is left fifty nine people dead they were gunned down at a country music festival. also coming up a day of disruption in catalonia as separatists strike march and block outs to

protest police violence during sunday's independence referendum that says catalan leaders call on international mediators to resolve their worsening dispute with madrid. a little boy says in rome saying that the last time the head of the heartbreakers and traveling wilburys dies or heart attack at the age of sixty six. oh. i'm so he's almost gonna thank you for joining us gunned down while enjoying their favorite music fifty nine people are dead and hundreds in. in a 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 spring hundreds of bullets into the crowd of concert goers on the other side of the last vegas strip then he took his own life but shooting has renewed the debate over gun control in the u.s. and las vegas locals and survivors are rallying together to comfort each other. the grief and horror of a city in shock a quiet candlelight vigil replacing the customer a neon glitz of the last vegas strip tales of heroic bravery emerging from the worst mass shooting in modern u.s. history. whether they were dead or alive as many because of possible. maybe to introspect were just trying to repeat the wants to you when you have been cleared of anybody who's alive. stayed with the police department for their structure some comfort in coming together for young people caught up in the tragedy. to get

down on my teammates my side and this year do we express the gratitude that you feel for people being was interesting was taking me to these to be able to come together for people. like this is the killer sixty four year old stephen paddick a wealthy high stakes gambler he often got free rooms and meals from las vegas casinos in return for his big spending at patrick's home in the nevada town of miskito police recovered nineteen guns in addition to the twenty three found at the las vegas hotel where the fatal shots were fired but well you're concerned as anybody would be and we were that somebody close to home would. do something like that but. today this seems to be happening all over the place and so you just don't know who your neighbor is they certainly never expected to see you had any

kind of event like this happen in our small community where everybody is just friendly loving police say it's still too early to speculate on patrick's motive i know that you are all very eager to find out exactly what his motive was or what was going through his head or what he was doing up to two weeks ago i promise you the sheriff will provide. that information when we have confirmed it it doesn't make sense for us to put out information that is not accurate and isn't timely and reliable. with the investigation into the massacre in las vegas still in its early stages the debate on gun control which has divided america for decades can only intensify. well let's talk more about the debate with peter squires he's a professor of criminology and public policy at the university of brighton and an expert on gun legislation and is flying to las vegas on the way to a conference on gun control in the u.s. this is why i thank you for joining us you know

a gun control laws in nevada they are among the most permissive in the country is this more of a state issue as opposed to a federal one. i think it's a central issue that there is there is a huge issue about different states as there are regulations generally the west and the south. relaxed gun. policies that obviously it's arabs are trafficked across state lines and. the deeds to be some federal grip on this open albatros it with these attempts to fill some of the gaps in the it's to chip background check system that you get already at the straits policy change is now the u.k. where you are tightened its gun legislation after two major massacres in the one nine hundred ninety s. one were sixteen children were gunned down in the scottish town of dunblane why do you think that there hasn't been this turning point in the u.s.

. i think it goes back to the american constitution the culture the idea that america has has a right to go puts through the second amendment but brought up today that's that's to do with the powerful four billion strong national rifle association which is a very tight grip on the republican party in particular that along side got it district attorney garnet district marketing and i think that the whole hollywood cowboy culture has crew created a particular kind of bites that grips a particular demographic of the american masculinity and they are worried that if they give up their guns the is the last this will to the urgency they will be at risk you mentioned some republican lawmakers are being influenced by those

sentiments some of them are actually pushing to loosen restrictions on gun ownership with further legislation could we really see that happen i think we've seen it happen we saw it happen up there obama the idea that people would take firearms it to national parks the idea that abbreviated this campuses that it hit the to be gun free zones would be considered to be restored to allow students to carry guns on this campus is texas so that and the other real pressure is it a number of states people to be allowed to to carry their guns openly about solty states licensed other citizens to carry concealed weapon selves let's take that up or of a number of hardline. rational as what the right to be able to carry their guns openly in public to go to go shopping when there are so all over the shoulder. all

right peter squarish a professor of criminology and public policy at the university of brighton thank you very much for joining us on the program now to some other stories making news around the world german president. has warned of new walls as the country celebrates twenty seven years since the fall of the berlin wall he was referring to a rise in rightwing sentiment that's on the far right a.s.d. and to the german parliament last month time i was speaking at a state ceremony in the city of mines to mark german reunification. the european parliament is voting on a resolution today that would put brakes on plans to unlock the next round of bragg's negotiations the e.u. says the talks have so far failed to resolve key issues like citizens rights and the u.k.'s financial obligations to the block. man maher has told the un refugee agency its top priority is to bring back the hinge of muslims who have fled to

neighboring bangladesh the two countries have agreed to set up a working group to repatriate more than half a million were hinges that escaped an army crackdown in northern rockies state and facebook says around ten million people in the u.s. could have been exposed to political ads from russia in the weeks leading up to last year's presidential election on monday the company turned over three thousand russia linked ads to the u.s. senate amid ongoing government probes into alleged russian interference in the election. spain's interior minister has accused the catalan government of inciting rebellion is the latest escalation between madrid and catalonia as leaders who brought separatist tensions to a head with their attempted referendum on sunday pro independence groups and trade unions called for a strike in catalonia today as well as protests at the police violence which overshadowed the weekend's ballot. parts of barcelona

at a standstill today. others meanwhile pulsating to the rhythms of separatism. the demonstrations angry at times. and then defiantly still. these barcelona firemen holding up their arms in silent protest at sunday's police violence. support for the strike wasn't universal but enthusiasm for independence appears to be spreading. feel like a service independence we have a different culture we have a different language and i support it but i'm not sure what will happen because it's it's a scary situation we don't know what the spanish government is capable of and we well you've seen october the first how that went. with public transport in

barcelona providing only a limited service there were mixed reactions from people trying to get to work. on the one side it's a hassle to get to work in the middle of a strike. is suffering this because of few have decided to behave in an improper way. on the other hand i understand the circumstances surrounding the strike. it's those circumstances that are fanning political passions and fostering calls for outside intervention. but there is fine if a char is in barcelona for us she sent us this report from the protests. as it goes to. thousands of people took to the free syrian barcelona family home although different related organizations from the court different separatists are

going to say since i moved to the. general strike. that. shops are no problem but there has had. no mother people especially at the chance if my. this should be more democracy and catalonia to be there to be independent completely regardless of the fact that the central government in madrid this is an invalid and illegal referendum because it's not valid they called city spanish constitution the stand off continues between mother and barcelona. and funny but her reporting there from barcelona now it is a nobel prize week in the royal swedish academy of sciences and stockholm has announced the two thousand and seventeen physics laureates the royal swedish the kind of sciences has decided to award the two thousand and seventeen nobel prize in

physics with one have to write in their weiss and the other half jointly to bury c barish and keep us for all of them members of the virgo collaboration and the academy citation runs for decisive contributions to the like o. detector and savation of gravitation. now the three researchers were granted the prize for their pioneering efforts that finally made the detection of gravitational waves a reality back in two thousand and fifteen. our minder now of our top story at this hour las vegas is mourning the fifty nine make victims of a mass shooting yesterday that's after a gunman opened fire on a concert on the city's famous strip before killing himself it is the deadliest mass shooting in modern u.s. history. u.s. musician and songwriter tom petty has died after suffering

a heart attack in california he was rushed to the hospital after being found unconscious at his malibu home the sixty six year old was 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. and eighty's. well monica jones will have the business headlines in a minute but first let's listen to one of tom petty's best known hits i won't back down. at the. at the. because. at that.

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