Indescribable painting First Responders as heroes president needs Police Paramedics and firefighters who are on the scene after sundays mass shooting in las vegas. Down jordan this is out is there are live from doha also coming up Senior Republicans say they want to investigate devices to turn guns into rapid fire weapons in the wake of the massive. Outbreak of the plague causes panic in madagascar as Health Officials call for calm and catherine and leaders called for mediation of their push for independence from spain madrid says theres nothing to talk about. The u. S. President has commanded the efforts of medical staff and Police Following sunday night smash hooting 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 las vegas. 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 we met patients that were absolutely terrible the wounded and the doctors the nurses and all of the people of the hospital have done. Their job thats indescribable las vegas is a city trump knows well his name adorns one of the high rise 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 sorow the psychological wounds inflicted on the Community Run deep says resident Shanta Gibson everyone is feeling is whether you are a person that just likes to go out and enjoy a events which a family or else is really disturbing trump 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 and lists. We stand together to help you carry your pain back at the memorial Shanta Gibson was unimpressed by trumps visit i dont feel his sincerity at all the only reason i feel as if hes coming 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 you know stephen paddocks girlfriend says she had no idea he was planning sundays shooting there in the donnelly has returned from the philippines where she says products sent to see her family shes been questioned by the f. B. I. And issued a statement through her lawyer describing panic as a kind caring and quiet. Well to gallagher is live for us in las vegas and the authorities there have given another press conference a short time ago what more did they have to say. Well down not central question of the motive behind Stephen Products attack remains on no not maybe something people here in las vegas will have to wait a long time to find out we do know that he stayed at a Previous Hotel when there was another Music Festival on here before the one on sunday night the reasons behind that are still unknown but police also say this is a man that spent decades collecting weapons and meticulously planned this attack lets hear 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 you know i think history. The other thing the big question here is about the weapons and how they were modified this is brought up talk once again on that often a painful subject in this country of gun control but democratic lawmakers are now launching legislation to ban things like bomb stocks which made the weapon go from semiautomatic to automatic lets 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 via 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 here just been incident after incident i thought it would end with combine you know i thought it would end with sandy. Doesnt and. 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 i would certainly look at the 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 minimal much stuff. How many mothers and fathers sisters and brothers son. Has been and why tell me what tell me and tell us what is the number how minimal did this letter take to wake up the congress. Now as things stand only a few republican lawmakers have agreed to even discuss banning things like bump stocks that number will need to go up considerably if this more is to get any chance of passing but its worth remembering that five years ago when a gunman walked into a school in sandy hook and killed children nothing changed meanwhile here in las vegas but stocks are no longer available the gun shops sold out all right i think in Las Vegas Andy thank you what David Barnett is the former president of the Group Students for concealed carry thats a firearms Advocacy Group peace as a gun ban wouldnt have prevented the killings is just unrealistic to think that we could go door to door and prevent firearms are really confiscated firearms which everyone says we dont want to do we have an illicit drug trade in this country and drugs are enormously illegal and theres vast penalties available so again i wish that a law could fix this i dont think that an armed citizen could have fixed this that tends to be that the you know my side of the aisle says well maybe of someone a good guy with a gun could have stopped this you know he wouldve been there thats not something that i think would apply in this case and what i wish i could hear from the other side is also saying were not sure that laws would have fixed this either again how do you stop a millionaire whos intent on murdering people and even if you didnt have the guns that the man was a certified fidelity he could have used that plane and flew into the crowd clearly this was a demented individual and he wanted it to conason to carnage i have yet to hear of a law that would have prevented this man from doing what he did and im im willing to listen to possibilities. Three u. S. Special forces soldiers have been killed and two others injured in an attack in a jet a joint patrol of us and share in troops but ambush near the border with mali Don Estabrook is in washington d. C. For us well the pentagon at this point is not releasing a lot of details about this attack what we do know from other media reports is that three u. S. Commandos were killed two others were wounded this attack happened in southwest new cher near the mali border what we understand is that there in this particular area theres a heavy presence of insurgents in that area some from al qaida some from the Islamic State in greater so horror at this point though we dont know if one of those groups was responsible for this attack now the u. S. Has military throughout western africa we know that several troops are have been in share they have been assisting in counterterrorism efforts in reconnaissance and in training they were on a routine patrol when this occurred and as we understand President Trump has been alerted and has been briefed on what has happened we are expecting more information about this attack tomorrow from the pentagon now madagascars trying to contain the outbreak of the highly contagious plane at least thirty people have died in the past two months and almost two hundred suspected cases have been reported the governments banned public gatherings in the capital in an attempt to stop the disease from spreading. Well since it wiped out half of europes population in the middle ages the plague has become a rare disease but it does still exist in some parts of the world between twenty ten and twenty fifteen it killed five hundred eighty four people globally in africa four countries still regularly report cases madagascar is the most seriously affected country in the world in the americas outbreaks occur in peru and theres even been some cases in rural areas in the United States the plague originated in asia there would still affects parts of china kurdistan and russia well World Health Organization officials are calling for calm but also warned be outbreak needs to be taken seriously. I would like to remind you that the plague exists in many countries including botswana kenya madagascar zambia algeria and the democratic republic of congo its not only madagascar is important because what weve been hearing is that the situation in madagascar is like the end of the world we would just like to say that it is a disease like any other but we are lucky that there is a cure and this treatment is free. The leader of spain is catalonia region says he wants mediators to help resolve the standoff with the Central Government but spain says for that to happen the region must respect the law call pennell reports 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 disloyalty and suggested they were almost on the verge of rebellion pushed him on tuesday measured. 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 is once again suggested talks in 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 death 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 a lot more still to come here in aljazeera including find out what u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson had to say on claims he called donald trump a moron. And internet giant amazon gets an unwelcome item in a shopping basket tell you what it was later in the bulletin more of the state. Hello again weve got some fairly heavy rain over parts of north america at the moment you can see quite clearly on the satellite picture is this area of cloud here the stretches all the way up into the eastern part of canada thats having a sim fairly heavy rain at the moment and its not really moving anywhere in a great hurry so chicago having rather a wet day on thursday and that rain sticking around as we head into friday just pushing a little bit further towards the northeast so well see some of that weather work its way into toronto now ahead of that system where you can see the airs all being fed up from the south so its actually quite humid and quite warm for many of us here washington d. C. On friday still getting to around twenty seven degrees for the west largely fine and dry here but still hot in l. A. Thirty three a bit further towards the south and theres plenty of cloud here as there have been over the past few days and were now seeing a few more weather features develop there particularly just to the southern parts of mexico this is now a storm more and its working its way away towards the west fortunately but behind it there still are a few more areas which were watching very closely that could be developing into something a little bit more sinister i mean further towards the south and here weve got one system that is just easing now over the next one is brewing and thats going to give us heavy rain for friday. The ingredient that bring smiles its number one in. Cardiovascular give. Me the hardest part is. We think of. Is the same if we throw sugar and. This is a. Techno this time on. Welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here on aljazeera u. S. President donald trump has praised medical staff and Police Following sunday nights mass shooting in las vegas fifty eight people were killed and more than five hundred injured democrats and some Top Republicans are now calling for a debate on banning devices used to make guns fire like automatic weapons. Three u. S. Special forces soldiers have been killed and two others injured in an attack in the joint patrol of us on the jury and troops are ambushed near the border with mali. Madagascar is trying to contain an outbreak of the plague at least thirty people have died in the past two months while the latest outbreak has spread to urban centers the World Health Organization is calling for calm. Now u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson has denied ever considering quitting his role as the countrys top diplomat he was forced to make the denial after n. B. C. Reporter the tennis and publicly insulted President Trump in a Meeting State Department correspondent particle hain has that story. Already a surprise statement from a secretary of state who doesnt make many. Let me tell you what ive learned about this president whom i did not know before taking this office he loves this country he puts americans and america first. Hes smart he was trying to refute this story in which n. B. C. News claims tillerson publically called the president a moron after a National Security meeting he repeatedly didnt deny that he said that but his spokeswoman later did he did not say that tillerson did refute the other allegation made in the report that he was going to quit tennis and tried to quit but was talked out of it by allies theres never been a consideration in my mind i serve at the appointment of the president and im here for as long as the president feels like to be useful to achieving his objectives secretary tillerson would have good reason to be frustrated hes been contradicted by his boss often and very publicly on issues such as the g. C. C. Crisis and north Korea Foreign policy experts say it is hurting his credibility and american Foreign Policy if hes perceived to be in battle if hes perceived to be weak then. The officials that hes talking to that hes trying to persuade will not put as much credibility into what he says and he will be much less effective but the report apparently hasnt changed the president s view of tillerson young very honored by his guy who is fake news who is a totally phony thank you very much is made up made up by n. B. C. Major jeff thank you thank you total confidence and the one thing we know for sure this is a president that cannot stand even perceived slights his secretary of state coming out quickly to say he didnt insult him making sure he doesnt join an already unprecedented and long list of people who the president has told your fired how to call him al jazeera washington. Lets get more now on our top story this weeks mass shooting in las vegas a