Hello im Barbara Sarah this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes as police keep searching for a motive for the last Vegas Shooting praise for the heroes who saved thousands of lives plus now i hate to tell you puerto rico but youve grown up but youre a little out of where President Trump jokes about the cost of the clear up on a visit to puerto rico almost two weeks after Hurricane Maria. Pro independence kaffir lands bring the region to a standstill in a protest the Police Violence during sundays referendum. The kurdish leader and former iraqi president Jalal Talabani dies days after his people voted for independence. Time joining us roscoe with a tennis turnaround for the world number one its really for rappler if he survives the scare in his first match since winning the u. S. Open details coming up later in school. The f. B. I. Is investigating the history of the sixty four year old former accountant who carried out the worst mass shooting in modern u. S. History now theyre still trying to work out why Stephen Paddick opened fire from a hotel room all to a Country Music festival in less they guess at least fifty nine people were killed and more than five hundred others injured rob reynolds has the latest now from las vegas. Night stoned and grieving people in las vegas gathered to pray for the victims of sunday nights murderous rampage candlelight vigils were held at city hall and at places of worship we should learn something new and im just going to spend time together and just knowing one of the former President Donald Trump is due to visit las vegas on wednesday with a message of consolation he declined to labeled a mass shooting as domestic terrorism and said it wasnt time to talk about stricter gun laws. Trump also declared without citing any evidence that the killer sixty four year old Stephen Paddick was mentally unbalanced thank you thank you thank you thank you thank. You by all accounts haddock meticulously planned his deadly killing spree police found twenty three rifles in his hotel room and nineteen more at his home north of las vegas but investigators are still stumped as to his motive i cant get into the mind of a psychopath and many people here are turning their thoughts away from the killer and his motives in towards those who stepped forward as the bullets rained down they praised doctors and nurses whose hard work saved many lives and they praised heroes like Jonathan Smith a thirty year old who saved dozens of people by leading them out of harms way but then was shot in the neck doctors say hell likely carry the bullet in his body for the rest of his life it will take this city a long time to recover but people are ready to begin that process with some far less. What we can do as a city lets join together and Work Together to for the good amid all the shock and pain death and heartbreak people here are finding strength in each other rob reynolds las vegas lets go live now to heidi castro in less fagan heidi whats the latest from police from the investigation or do we know about the killer. Barbara what we do know is whats stumping Police Officers because steven batek had no criminal record he also had no political or religious affiliations that investigators are aware of and according to paddocks brother he showed no signs of violence leading up to this massacre so really police are stumped at the moment trying to figure out what was the motive behind the shooting what we do know is that patrick was sixty four you worked as an accountant and according to his family he was quite wealthy and enjoying a retirement of traveling with his girlfriend and his hobby was gambling he often did that here in las vegas we know he was holed up inside the Mandalay Bay Hotel since last thursday and according to police he smuggled. Weapons several other times of voice text should think about ten of these bags inside his hotel room when they burst open that door on sunday night that that point is when. Killed himself but as far as what led him to that Moment Police are at this moment still without a lead heidi i guess one of the things that makes this even more shocking if possible is that. Vegas in general is usually associated with people having fun with concerts with gambling from the people that youre talking to and the shock im assuming that they feel any talk about gun reform in the you know now that the initial shock at least has subsided is that become part of the bait there is will. It have to deal with that absolutely or rather las vegas is absolutely the entertainment capital of the state of nevada as a state has quite lax gun and weve heard another round of rhetoric coming from the local politicians just. Level and at the federal level saying at what point are those gun laws going to be reformed but theres been skepticism about might even happen because as weve seen a for multiple rounds of Mass Shootings in the United States theres always talk afterwards and since in the past there has been little action and in fact that led to to Congress People boycotting a moment of silence to attribute into the to the victims of the shooting because they said they believe that attending these moments of silence is now pointless that theyre just an excuse for inaction barbara how does your caster live for us in vegas heidi thank you. Well its not a position to be envied but the u. S. Leads the world in mass shooting attacks the Las Vegas Attack was the two hundred and seventy third mass shooting in this year in the u. S. The find by the f. B. I. Is an incident in which four or more people are short on its almost one a day this year is no one normally according to the gun violence archive with the number of Mass Shootings up from two hundred seventy four in two thousand and fourteen to three hundred thirty three in two thousand and fifteen and three hundred and eighty three last year now the most detailed International Comparison found that between one thousand nine hundred ninety six and two thousand and twelve thirty one percent of public Mass Shootings and thats not including gang or family related incidents were in the u. S. The nearest countries after that were the philippines with six percent and russia with five percent the study also noted that the top five countries for gun ownership per head thats the us yemen switzerland finland and serbia all figured in the top fifteen countries from Mass Shootings well John Rosenthal is a gun owner and chairman of the Nonprofit Organization stop handgun violence and he joins us live now from gloucester. Massachusetts sir thank you so much for joining us here on the aljazeera i hope you were able to hear some of the stats that i gave there it makes for some pretty sobering reading now you are yourself a gun owner so just explain to us what you and your organization advocate. Sure i am a gun owner i speech you to have shotguns and i do believe that in america we have a right to keep and bear arms like a Second Amendment or the constitution says but i do not think that the founders ever intended the Second Amendment to extend to criminals dangerously mentally ill people and even al qaeda has bolo who come to the United States to buy guns without i. D. Or a background check or detection because they can so i set out in massachusetts a state of about six and a half Million People to create a model for the nation to say to the nation its possible to reduce injuries and deaths from guns without banning them so in massachusetts we did laws on a bipartisan basis that require gun owners to lock their guns and have safety treatment Safety Training gun dealers operate out of bonafide stores separate from backpacks and car trunks gun manufacturers have to put safety features on their guns Law Enforcement has to enforce the laws and we ban military style weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines like that was used in Las Vegas Sandy hooks San Bernadino orlando i mean the list goes on and on and on and behold over the last twenty years weve reduced gun deaths in massachusetts by sixty percent and that the lowest gun death rate the nation so we are a model for america and to stop mash routings which happened just about every day like you reported you need to ban military style weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines the common denominator in every match to every day everything that youve said you know at the risk of losing my objectivity sounds incredibly reasonable but the reality is that across the United States people just or a majority of people dont seem to agree with that and if we didnt have change after sandy hook and the killing of children and president obama that was pro changes to the gun laws i mean realistically what are the chances of getting some you know us why the changes the gun laws now. Very little chance like he said we have a president in the white house who i think maybe considered mentally ill and psychopathic but nonetheless he got thirty Million Dollars from the n. R. A. And gun lobby and now you have republicans in both houses of congress the senate and the house who literally this week were planning to vote to deregulate silencers to make it easier for people to get away with murder without being hurt so look truth is stranger than fiction and i know you all and in the rest of the world you know are shaking your head i happen to live in america where when i go hunting or anyone goes hunting we have to get a hunting license and when we hunt deer. Were relegated to five rounds in our rifle or duck three rounds in order to protect the deer and the population but when paddick or you name the mass shooter of the day wants to hunt and kill Humans Congress says and trump says you should be able to do it with one hundred round magazine with i dont id or a background check. And thats why we have an epidemic of gun violence in this country every single day not only is there a mass shooting or for more people ninety more americans die i mean this is true this is stranger than fiction over the last forty years in america more americans have died from gun violence in this got three then all u. S. Servicemen and women killed in all foreign wars combined in there is no background check to make sure that people who buy guns are not dangerously mentally ill criminals or Even International terrorists it really is a food for thought that john rawls and from the stop gun Violence Organization sir thank you so much for sharing your views with us thank you for having. Us president face touring areas of puerto rico hate to buy her a can maria and victims of the storm his First Official visit comes thirteen days after the u. S. Island para tree was devastated some officials in puerto rico including the mayor of the capital side won that strongly criticize the federal relief efforts during a briefing alongside the islands governor the fended the federal response. Now i hate to tell you puerto rico but youve thrown our budget a little out of whack because we spent a lot of money on puerto rico and thats fine we saved a lot of lives if you look at the. Every death is a horror but if you look at a real catastrophe like katrina and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died and you look at what happened here with really a storm that was just totally overpowering nobodys ever seen anything like this and what is your what is your death count as of this moment seven. Sixteen people certified sixteen people versus in the thousands well donald trump there share britain see is in san juan for us says she i guess when you know president s go to areas that have been struck by national not Natural Disaster like in puerto ricos case they go to lend support and emotional i guess support what reaction has there been to in puerto rico to President Trumps words. Well you know much of this island in this territory rather doesnt have electricity ninety five percent are without connection to the electrical grid so frankly not many people may have seen Donald Trumps comments we can only. Get for ourselves putting ourselves in the position empathize perhaps with what people here who already feel that all treated as real citizens of the United States they already feel theyre treated as second class citizens you do have to wonder whether the president troubled say such a thing in texas or florida i hate to say this to you but you put it we sort a lot of money on you and by the way what about a real disaster like katrina it is kind of flabbergasted usually when politicians go as you say they come to give their commiserations their support but also to find out what the reality is on the ground and from those comments and from the other comments made its pretty clear his mind is already made up this has been a. Cessna went round the table and congratulated everyone on the First Responders members of his cabinet and so on hes made up his mind he is though meeting some of those affected by the rear and hes had these exchange pleasantries also people whether theyre this is bad as theyve seen they have said yes this is as bad as weve seen and hes promised help but clearly dont mind is made up yeah pretty flabbergasting problems right now so hed made up his mind about what the reality was on the ground but nearly two weeks after. What is the reality on the ground. Well were back to those Key Statistics which are ninety five percent without a tricity fifty five percent without Running Water weve got loads of other indicators as far as telecommunications and supermarkets natives of suggest progress is being made oh theyre just forty percent of customers have now had their telecommunications restored we have very patry telecommunications ourselves thats going on and off the real fear there is about areas where the officials havent reached particularly the central part of the asylum of puerto rico the mountainous areas although as we hear from Community Relief groups that many areas simply havent had any federal federal help what so what so its interesting also that the man. Who you were talking about a moment ago who has been very critical about the Administration Response she did meet donald trump at the white house made a great great deal out of having been invited to meet donald trump although them this morning she was quoted as saying that she only learned about that from twitter that she was on the tarmac when donald trump arrived and we understand she said to him as they shook hands this isnt about politics and were not quite sure of his response in the pool the what by this Pool Reporter that he just turned away others are saying well maybe it would be you know that maybe people are reading a bit too much into that she was the last person on the line of people to shake hands with maybe she didnt even really have a clue who she was actually but we were trying to figure out what his response to that was but clearly the people here dont agree with Donald Trumps assessment apparently made before he even arrived in puerto rico but everything is going to be well. Thank you. Well coming up in this news hour the dangerous case of donald trump twenty seven psychiatrists and Mental Health experts assess the u. S. President in a new book also coming up why ranger muslims are skeptical about a deal thats supposed to see them return to me aboard plus. Theyre young theyre fun and they have millions of followers online im sort of tired not be telling you wife. Seems like regular thing. Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets across catalonia to demonstrate against Police Violence during sundays referendum protesters surrounded the hotel money which was housing some of the national Police Officers around nine hundred people were injured on sunday when Spanish Police tried to prevent the voting in the controversial poll results show that voters overwhelmingly back in the past. Lawrence lee is in a barcelona and standing by for us so lawrence any sign of a breakthrough in the stalemate you. Know none of the moments its the end of a boisterous day frankly here but do you get the sense very much that this is so all the people who are seen by the tens of thousands throughout today i feel that momentum is on their side they got the tiles up they feel i think thats the states the spanish states efforts to crush the referendum on sunday have fails and that they have anything they have come back stronger as a result of the Police Violence i dont think any of them are going to be particularly interested or moved by what the king of spain has to say in the next forty minutes or so when he addresses the nation he doesnt have any power to change things ive no doubt hell call for. Spanish unity the indivisibility of the spanish state and. Things li