And im fully back to this is the news hour live from our headquarters in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes the doctors the nurses all of the people who are screwing up the. Job thats indescribable hailing First Responders as heroes President Donald Trump mates billies paramedics and firefighters who are on the scene after sundays mass shooting in las vegas meanwhile Senior Republicans say they want to investigate devices that turned guns into rapid fire weapons in the wake of the massacre also this hour kasra naders call for mediation over their push for independence from spain madrid says theres nothing to talk about and an outbreak of the highly contagious spray causes panic in madagascar. Thank you for joining as the u. S. President has commended the efforts of medical staff. And Police Following sundays night mass shooting in las vegas fifty eight people were killed and more than five hundred injured in the massacre the deadliest in modern u. S. History but during his trip to Las Vegas Donald trump again avoided the subject of gun control laws rob reynolds reports from last august. President donald trump said he went to las vegas to pay his respects and honor doctors Nurses Police officers and civilian heroes who saved lives. His first stop was at a hospital where he visited privately for about an hour with gunshot victims and family members i just met some of the most amazing people we had we met patients that were absolutely terrible the wounded and the doctors the nurses and all of the people of the hospital have done. A good job thats indescribable las vegas is a city trump knows well his name adorns one of the highrise Casino Hotels on the famous strip but on this day he saw a different vegas a city traumatized and grieving at a sidewalk memorial hundreds of candles notes and toys gave physical shape to the citys sorrow the psychological wounds inflicted on the Community Run deep says resident Shanta Gibson everyone is feeling and whether you are a person that just likes to go out and enjoy a events which a family or is really disturbing trying to showered praise on Las Vegas Police and firefighters as one eyewitness recounted this week while everyone else was crouching Police Officers were standing up as targets just trying to direct people and tell them where to go the traditional role of consoler in chief does not seem to come naturally to President Trump and some have criticized the tone of his remarks and behavior on recent trips to hurricane ravaged areas of texas florida and earlier this week in puerto rico this time there were no jarring notes our souls are stricken with grief for every american who lost a husband or a wife a mother or a father son or daughter we know that your sorrow feels endless. We stand together to help you carry your pain back at the memorial Shonda Gibson was unimpressed by trumps visit i dont feel his sincerity at all the only reason i feel as if hes come in is a status quo you have to give the president youre going to look stupid if you dont step up and come down trumps stay in las vegas lasted several hours but the citys pain will last much longer rob reynolds aljazeera Las Vegas Stephen paddle exgirlfriend says she had no idea he was planning sundays shooting mariano danny has returned from the philippines where she says center to see her family shes been questioned by the f. B. I. Issued a statement through her lawyer describing patrick as a kind caring and quiet man a little more than two weeks ago. Steven told me he found a cheap ticket for me to the philippines and that he wanted me to take a trip home. To see my family. Like all filipinos abroad. I was excited to go home and see family and friends. While there he wired me money which he said was free to buy a house for me and my family. I was grateful. But honestly i was worried that first. The unexpected trip home and then the money was a way of breaking up with me. It never occurred to me in any way whatsoever that he was planning violence against anyone. Well mary no dannys sister says she had no prior knowledge of the shooting and was sent away on purpose. It. Was said no way. She was no. So you will be. There for your work. Somehow. So the. Interactions and thats. I thank you for wearing my sisters life live not to and to gallagher in Las Vegas Andy there was another press conference a short while ago from las vegas authorities whats the latest what did they have to say. Well some interesting developments we just found out in that press conference that stephen partic actually stayed in another hotel days before sunday night when there was another Music Festival going on we dont know whether that was because he was planning an attack on that particular festival but decided to postpone it we also know now that there were over were thousands of rounds in a hotel room sixteen hundred rounds in the car that was searched along with explosives but i think its the meticulous nature of how this attack was preplanned that is really becoming clear lets listen to some of what the las vegas sheriff has to say. What we know is Steven Patrick is a man who spent decades acquiring weapons and ammo and lived in a secret life much of which would never be fully understood he meticulously planned on the worst domestic attack in United States history. And andy as expected the massacre has reignited the debate over gun laws in the u. S. And in particular in this case over the type of weapons and accessories that are available to people. You know what were talking about here is something called a bump stock basically that replaces the traditional stock on a rifle and it enables someone with a weapon to fire automatically and we know weve all heard the gunshot sounds from sunday night and how terrifying that was but at the moment democratic lawmakers are trying to push through a change to stop people from being able to buy those gun stocks and of modifiers as well take a look. On sunday night the sound of rapid gunfire from Stephen Products hotel room was unmistakable police say the sixty four year old used a device known as a bump stock to fire more rounds and inflict unthinkable tragedy. The device which is legal replaces the standard stock of a rifle for in the weapon to slide back and forth enabling automatic fire now that most sensitive issues gun control is once again being talked about democratic senator Dianne Feinstein tried to introduce a ban on assault rifles four years ago but that failed in the wake of the Las Vegas Shooting shes proposing new laws that would ban modifications of already Deadly Weapons when is the right time we hear that every time something happens when is the right time and i think this is the right time and since ive been here theres just been incident after incident i thought it would end with combine you know i thought it would end with same. Doesnt end. During his visit to last vegas President Trump made it clear hes not ready to discuss gun control but some republicans may be on board yeah i would certainly look at that and im not an expert on bombs dogs but all things that make america safer and dont infringe on the Second Amendment so you think now is the time to have this policy debate yeah i think so i think would be a good time to have a hearing many republicans say the legislation is premature and inappropriate so soon after such a tragedy the powerful National Rifle association donates millions to republican politicians and past Mass Shootings have done little to change attitudes democrats remain passionate about change how much to our. Mothers and fathers brothers sam. Has. Jammie what tell me and tell us what is demanded how minimal. Well it takes to wake up this congress. Ill sing a stand only a handful of republican lawmakers say theyre even prepared to discuss bans on things like bomb stocks now for this legislation to have any chance of succeeding that number will need to greatly increase but think about this five years ago a gunman walked into a school and killed a five year old children and nothing changed its not likely to change now as were here in las vegas will bump stocks are no longer for sale theyve completely sold out in gun shops across the city and the gallagher in las vegas thank you very much for that andy and other world news three u. S. Special operations soldiers have been killed and two others injured in an attack in the share a joint patrol of u. S. Bush near the border with mali lets go to Diane Estabrook was in washington d. C. For us and what more we learning about this attack. We dont know a whole lot we just had a call into the pentagon and theyre releasing very few details at this point and we can tell you what you said that we think what we are understanding is that three u. S. Commandos were killed two others were injured in addition to five soldiers from niger they were on patrol in southwest niger near the border of mali this is an area that has a heavy presence of insurgents some from al qaeda some from another group known as the Islamic State in greater so now that you want us has had a presence military presence there out west africa it has been in niger for a while and its been helping in counterterrorism efforts in reconnaissance in training at this point the pentagon is again releasing very few details so we dont know who attacked these gentleman these soldiers but we do know that president is aware of the attack and were expecting to get more details probably tomorrow from the pentagon diane thank you very much for that. Madagascar is trying to contain an outbreak of the highly contagious plague at least thirty people have died in the past two months and almost two hundred suspected cases have been reported the government has banned public gatherings in the capital in an attempt to stop the disease from spreading ossama bin javid reports. These are the culprits partly responsible for the plague spreading in madagascar infected right spread the bubonic plague while the pneumonic plague is carried from person to person more than one hundred sixty people have been infected when they say blue bonnet plague the blue bow actually stands for the swelling in the various love notes but it soon as it spread from the lungs i could cough and those droplets could infect you thats alarming because its human to human transmission rather than animal to human. On average two to six hundred people are infected annually in feet outbreaks of the plague. It is rule areas but this time it spread to populated parts the government has now banned Public Meetings in the capital and then and i reveal that they must first we biomass because we have heard of the disease that is spread through breathing so just to be on the safe side has never no i dont shake peoples hands and i dont care so i dont know the precautions you take are not to talk to people and always wear a mask. The disease killed an estimated two hundred Million People in the fourteenth Century Health experts are advising caution but they say there is no need for panic the plague is treatable with antibiotics and the World Health Organization says there is no risk that the disease can spread internationally with lisi example i would like to remind you here and it is important that the plague exists in many countries and the latest epidemics in some countries including but kenya madagascar zambia algeria and the d. R. See its not only madagascar and this is important because what we hear in the city is that the plague is if madagascar is the end of the world we would just like to say that it is a disease like any other but we are lucky that this disease has a cure and this treatment is available and it is free. Many schools are closed and they are being sprayed to kill fleas campaigns are also underway to remove trash in cities and officials are setting right traps the Health Ministry says its taking steps to keep infections from spreading of a disease which was believed to have already been wiped out some of the job i was there. Plenty more ahead on the news hour including this small device which could revolutionize the way cant detect it plus. Im done with wine are important brands where the United NationsStabilization Force is pulling out of haiti but after thirty years here. And a world cup without messi it could happen as argentina fight to get to russia. The details in sports. Spains catalonia region says he wants mediators to help resolve a standoff with the Central Government but the Central Government in madrid says for that to happen the region must respect the law on sunday more than two million cattle voted for secession from a session from spain in a referendum that was back. When are closer than weve ever been to achieving a historic desire on sunday we succeeded in holding a referendum despite the oppression of the Police Yesterday we set an example of a general strike and then days to come we will show the best face of our country and this institution applying the results of the referendum in the meantime we must keep our confidence and not rise to any provocation or any attempts at violence we do not want that here and. We must remain strong and dignified and we will be a country able to make our dream a reality. His call now with more from barcelona. The head of the Catalan Government colors posed to monta used a televised address to criticize the Spanish Governments handling of the political crisis he also said that he firmly disagreed with King Philippes address to the nation the previous day in that address the king accused the catalan of already observed disloyalty and suggested they were almost on the verge of rebellion whose demand used a measured tone to say that the solution to the problems of catalonia is attempt to break away from the rest of spain was a political matter not a Police Matter he has once again suggested talks and mediation in this crisis the Spanish Government was very quick however to come out and say that the only way that they would consider such talks was if catalonia abandoned its attempts to session that is something that will be deaf very difficult for the Catalan Government both because of the referendum results but also because if the man tries to back away from this proposed declaration of independence which could come as soon as next monday then effectively he could risk losing a process session majority in the catalan parliament. Meanwhile the Vice President of the European Parliament has the Spanish Government and catalan authorities to avoid further confrontation. Violence does not solve anything in politics it is never an answer never a solution and it can never be used as a weapon or Instruments Europe knows this better than anywhere else none of us want to see violence in our society. However it is of course the jew chief or any government to uphold the rule of law and this sometimes does require the portion that use of force. At least fifty people have been killed in a. T. M. Others injured by an airstrike in syria as there is or province its not clear who carried on the strikes in the town of. This amateur video reportedly shows a nearby town of maya dean being bombed u. S. And russian backed forces are separately trying to retake the region from i saw fighters now russia says its investigating and i saw a video which apparently shows two of its soldiers captured by the armed group in dairies or syria the Russian ForeignMinistry Says its working to establish details about the man its Defense Ministry has previously denied any of its soldiers have been captured russia is supporting syrias government in its fight against eisel in their sore iraqi forces reportedly advance into the heart of the iso held city of how we are in iraq military leaders say a group of Troops Police and a shia force are now in the city center i saw has lost control of several cities in iraq this year including its former stronghold of mosul. Turkeys president is vowing to take what he calls decisive steps to stop kurdish leaders from declaring an independent state from iraq. President has. Been to discuss kurdish secession efforts under simmons has more from a sample. President rouhani and erdogan on opposing sides over syria but together in their reaction to the kurdish referendum next door in iraq both turkey and iran have kurdish minority populations both president s believe any independence move in iraq could cause unrest in their countries and even more instability in the region theres agreement for more cooperation between ms along with sharing more intelligence and deep terror operations both men had stern faces as they promised action but they werent specifying what might happen. As far as we concerned iraq is one single country syria is one single country and we do not accept the geographical border changes in any way whatsoever we do not wish to exert this pressure but the wrong decisions made by some of the heads of the