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a disputed independence referendum on sunday also coming up. mishaps as british prime minister to resign made attempts to rally support at her conservative party's annual conference but several interruptions darrelle her speech will her reaction like that. and u.s. president donald trump arrives in las vegas in the wake of the most deadly nashua ting and modern u.s. history investigators hoping the shooter's girlfriend could shed light on a possible motive. thanks very much for your company. spain is headed for a major showdown in catalonia as leader refusing to back track play. just to
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declare independence in a matter of days no matter the consequences all this senior officials rally behind spain's central government in madrid coming to its defense while european commission vice president. said catalonia ignored the rule of law by holding sunday's on authorised independence referendum lawmakers and many ordinary people in catalonia meanwhile say they feel abandoned by the e.u. . the european flags and signs calling on the you for help are a common sight among the crowds of protesters in catalonia many here are asking why isn't europe stepping in. we feel abandoned by the you would they should have intervened because of the police violence on sunday so i don't know. today if the european parliament ensconced book lawmakers from catalonia are asking the same question. being
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a clear breach of fundamental rights and european values in catalonia the use of by a land against peaceful vote goes against basic values against the libyan child of fundamental rights so this is not an end the spanish matter catalonia president pushed him on has repeatedly asked for europe's help overseas regions future brussels is in a bind. but the commission cannot force the spanish government into dialogue this is of course. entirely up to the government of madrid which is by a provision in the treaty. safeguarded from intervention from you commission and so there as the commission has already stated it will not enter into domestic affairs in strasbourg a commission vice president plans to months reaffirmed his support for madrid if
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the law does not give you what you want you can oppose a law you can work to change the law but you cannot ignore the law. meanwhile catalonia as leader has vowed to declare independence within days you might shed its caution if the situation continues to deteriorate but for the moment it is in a bind hoping a compromise will emerge and earlier i spoke to didn't use max hoffman who was at the e.u. parliament to strasburg i asked him how concerned the e.u. is that this crisis could embolden separatist movements in other countries to unilaterally declare their independence. as far as we can gather they're concerned for a whole range of issues about this conflict of course having this is part of the european union very important part and as you said there might be a ripple effect because for example the flamers parts of belgium or scotland in the
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u.k. all of those had some independence tendencies in the past and of catalonia did some things the sec's successful by unilaterally declaring their independence and getting away with it that could be a problem for the european union but the sharpest sword that the e.u. has in this case is not necessarily mediating but repeating over and over again and they've done that here in strasburg today that whoever leaves you member state in this case it would be spain would no longer be part of the european union and it's a very lengthy and complicated process to get back into the european union so that is that is a stark contrast to what catalonian leaders are saying they all insist that they would remain part of the e.u. but that is most likely not be the case. when reporting from strasburg thank you to the united kingdom now where prime minister teresa mayes bit to reassert her
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thora suffered quite a blow after what some are calling a calamitous speech. to address to conservative party members of the party's annual conference was intended to drum up and susie asked him for her agenda but the british prime minister's efforts were overshadowed by a series of mishaps including a heckler who handed prime minister made a document usually given to people when they leave their jobs take a look at that moment and it's the conservative party that has a vision of an open global self-confident britain. why our opponents for with a foreign policy of neutrality and prepare for a run on the ground. some people say we've spent too much time talking about jeremy corbin's past. was. this you know you know your group things only got more awkward as the stage began
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collapsing behind the prime minister that was shared around the globe and it said something about this passion once more watch the letter and. and it said something about but the prime minister may get her message through despite the unfortunate optics. centers her assessment from london to reason may would have really liked to regain the upper hand at this party conference to show her strength as a leader she had some interesting ideas regarding social policy i think they went very well with the party audience about energy caps about more social housing challenging really jeremy corbyn the labor leader who's been very successful of late but then it went all horribly wrong she was struggling with a very bad coughing fit and could hardly finish her speech the audience was trying to carry her along they really felt pity with her but i think overall in her
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performance she did not appear strong and stable but instead she came across as battered and bruised. richard mosse reporting there u.s. president donald trump has arrived in las vegas three days after mass shooting at an open air concert that killed fifty nine people and injured more than five hundred. touching down in the nevada desert just moments ago he's due to meet with survivors of the attack and first responders it was the deadliest mass shooting in modern u.s. history. while investigators have been trying to establish a motive for the attack which they say was prepared extensively and meticulously the view from the thirty second floor of the mandalay bay hotel where the gunman opened fire on to a crowd of concert goers below. he smashed two windows in his suis to take game as his victim's. body count it shows the police scrambling to locate the shooter and
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get people to safety they say the bullets rained down for between nine and eleven minutes. the killer sixty four year old steven paddock a millionaire real estate investor and high stakes gambler investigators are still puzzling over his most of what they believe he meticulously planned the attack they say he even set up cameras outside his hotel room possibly to see if police were approaching this individual was premeditated obviously premeditated the fact that he had the type of weaponry and amount of weaponry in that room it was pre-planned
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extensively. investigators find twenty three guns in the room along with so-called bomb stock devices thoris he say they could have been used to modify his semiautomatic guns allowing them to shoes rapidly and continuously they found other stashes of guns and paddocks homes in the nevada tens of reno mesquite federal agents are hoping his girlfriend can shed some light on his motives she's being questioned after returning to the u.s. from the philippines. well as a message us try to find more clues so we can take you now to las vegas where carson phenomena is covering events a carsten the president trungpa is expected to spend about four hours in las vegas what is on his i ten to mary there. are two main stops first of all he ever visits one of the big hospitals here in las
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vegas to meet with doctors nurses and of course the victims people who were injured in that mass shooting and after that he will meet first responders and other people who displayed acts of heroism here when this happened we've heard from many survivors we've talked to that first of all the police and the other first responders really did what they could to prevent more loss of life and also many ordinary people displayed great courage even when they were threatening their own lives and kirsten talk to us a little bit about the mood in the city what are people expecting from the president's visit. well that depends on whom you talk to those who support the president's hope that he will find the right words to unite the country to console the victims and their families those who oppose the
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president's they told us they don't expect much from him just words and what they want from him is action especially on gun control because there are so many people dying here of gun wounds every year in the united states ten times as many as in any other industrialized country in the world while to that point to the carson a president trump or ahead of his visit to las vegas has said that to now is not the time for a debate on gun control do many share his you. well there are many who do share his view clearly the people who upholds the rights to bear arms and the powerful gun lobby the national rifle association they form an important part in the base that supports donald trump and the republicans them any other though many others though who don't see it that way obviously they want stricter gun control especially with regard to semiautomatic
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and automatic guns military style rifles and they think that it's time again and it's a shame that the republicans always say this is not the time to do anything then they call for more investigation and after that they say well there's nearly nothing we can do about this and people say this is clearly not enough all right carson phenomena reporting from las vegas thank you. all right you want to bring up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. france's lower house of parliament has approved a new antiterrorism law and makes permanent several controversial measures in place under a nearly two year old state of emergency authorities will be allowed to confine suspects suspected as sympathizers for to their neighborhoods and carry out more on the spot identity checks all without the prior approval of a judge. three researchers have won this year's nobel prize in chemistry for
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developing a way to create detailed images of organic molecules such as proteins while the nobel committee set the method to serve the warrant because the technology had taken bio chemistry into a brand new era. a thousand year old lantern festival is lighting up the sky the night skies of mining city in eastern china the show features almost eight hundred giant lanterns that marks the coming of mid autumn as well as china's national day it can be dated back to between six hundred and nine hundred eighty. it was sixty years ago today that the world woke to the news that russia had placed a satellite in orbit around new york it marked the beginning of space exploration and the start of the space race between russia and the us sputnik which means
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a fellow traveler in russian blasted off into space with giant antenna but its job was to send messages back to earth by a radio signals the satellite orbiting the earth ninety times a day before burning up twenty days twenty two days later. all right you're watching the news here is what's still ahead the european union is cracking down on multinational companies that aren't paying their taxes apple and amazon may have to pony up millions of euros all of that and other business headlines coming up with monica. are on the rise and you know i am thinking of the old story to highlight different shades of nationalism and to find out why that makes should be to you.
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