the meeting between the a man and gadhafi occurred in one thousand nine hundred seventy five. according to a such as son it was not amicable. shake. between nine hundred seventy six and nine hundred seventy seven intensified his efforts to end the lebanese war. many lebanese admired his courage and charisma but the found it difficult to mediate in a country so divided. in march nine hundred seventy eight israel invaded south lebanon under the pretext of crushing the p.l.o. . the united nations issued resolution four to five calling on israel

to withdraw immediately. israel flout to be un resolution and set up what it called a security zone in south lebanon. toward the arab world to plead the case for south lebanon. then all jury in president who are a boom in dnd recommended the amount of the libyan leader. agreed. contacted. the libyan leader invited us to visit him in tripoli. his seine has followed the case of the disappearance of a man and his two companions. more

than. me in the. remembers her brother's determination to visit libya despite warnings about gadhafi is unpredictability. but only. yeah i mean i'm young so horny i'm a little. lonesome and they had their food i don't know. the second of outsiders two companions who went missing with him was a journalist bus but dean. is eldest son recalls the last moments before his father's departure. from and she.

painted us. that would us me. to him without us me. the libyan embassy in beirut arranged three tickets on the middle east airlines flight from the. us. from beirut to tripoli via benghazi. on the eve of his departure spent the night at his sister's. for. a look at our door. and there we. are at this by the. more you would. put. me to my.

cell phone. my. cell phone all the while and. on the twenty fifth of all this nine hundred seventy eight. and his two companions lead the route for libya. at eight pm the n.e.a. flights landed at tripoli international airport. a southerner and his two companions that disembarked from the plane no one was there to meet them. at the terminal building they were eventually met by. head of the libyan foreign communication bureau. al jazeera interviewed who had a protocol employee at the libyan foreign communication bureau who remembers the arrival of the man and his two companions.

will. see. if. we. do learn the new sea was libya's intelligence chief and would become one of gadhafi his closest confidants over the years. when tripoli fell to rebel fighters in two thousand and eleven as the new seize office was ransacked many classified documents were lost or destroyed amid the chaos of the downfall of gadhafi regime any hope of discovering

a paper trail in our investigation into the disappearance of mosul souther and his companions was made more difficult. i mean you stuck a ballistic about. ten feet on the chimney but at the feet of the stuff by them and could be the. libyan officials left the airport with their lebanese guests. saddam and his two companions were driven to the i shot the hotel in tripoli where they would stay. this is where the shot the hotel one stood. all the remains a rusty signpost and scattered concrete ruins.

and. in two thousand and seven the hotel was demolished another element in the story of assad there in libya that has disappeared. the ashanti hotel had been among the classiest in tripoli as a place hosting foreign visitors it was heavily monitored by the libyan intelligence service visit to libya coincided with the anniversary celebrations of the september first revolution in one nine hundred sixty nine when gadhafi had seized power. government employee who some milat had been assigned to the man and his two companions during their visit. to the front office of the. little kind of healthy should now let me have the. only and. the only and i b. has. that is in the back of stuff out.

and i'll stop there are no sort of. caught up in what i said marked up well let me stop there. so too and i will in my muscles so that all of the c.r.t. . it. was. be a machine had one of. the foreign communication bureau who's close to the hotel once again who some notice the souther received. some of the stock will in. a moment to be walking from one american model much the long. hall of the clock the shuttle. but look of philo. how to be the one he.

and charlotte. malcolm. now that i will not. fail. spent five days waiting for an appointment with. the libyan government restricted the free movement of the amount and his companions . and they will provided no means of communication with the outside world. in lebanon in mom's family began to worry. me on. harmless. guys your. with stuff i only be.

highly paid that. can kill myself or it really does. to your million. must. go on. and. on the twenty ninth of august nine hundred seventy eight jordanian journalists joe harry arrived at the hotel to cover the anniversary of libya's revolution he remembers meeting the mom who did not seem to him at ease. to live the our form or so there is. a hole in the new year so.

that we will know who those who are and if you jimi. husseini offers a reason why the imaam may have seemed anxious to be. perhaps the interim felt the phone call was to bring news of the meeting he was waiting for . for the third time the meeting was postponed. the patience of the him was wearing thin. but. what can.

be. more it. is other than the. american being. i didn't have a lot. more this. company was part of the official lebanese delegation in libya to attend the anniversary celebrations and which meant gadhafi. because if. so what how it is. if you. care.

about. the. whole. me and. so. on august thirty first jordanian journalist joe henry met in the hotel lobby. we had be with. schools.

for your book. for. this to. work. with us. and the who were there. where you were. and. who. are you. you know their interests. their wanted to go to paris where his wife was in hospital this meant missing celebrations for the anniversary of gadhafi september first revolution. i would let fear away at. a lot of lead.

to get. your ideas. from the shot. from book. store with a couple shots of needs a skinnier than the. teen. says. because if you want. the brief conversation between. diem and dean suggests our souther was heading to meet gadhafi that day. after checking out the journalist i'll show her in the lobby. she was the last person to see them leave

the hotel. there were just what year olds who were just. a shift from. the. book work at the work of. bees or sold the meal comes a little early so you know if you have work of his so you are aware. of the look to. your. say. to some of us and get the picture.

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in march nine hundred seventy eight lebanon was invaded by israel. souther charismatic leader of lebanon's shia muslim sect sought regional assistance . on august the twenty fifth nine hundred seventy eight southern traveled to libya to meet muammar gaddafi. six days later on august thirty first an official motorcade left tripoli as i shot a hotel carrying assad and two colleagues shaikh mohammed and journalist a bus by dr dean. the three men were never seen again. question soon began to be asked about what had happened to them and whether they had actually made the

libyan leader or not. several days after their disappearance libyan government official who some milat who had been assigned to be ma'am and his companions was visited by an agent from libyan intelligence agent was keen to assure milat that a meeting between the a mammon gadhafi had never occurred or were you know a man of humanity. how the shafts. of. attack if. you're from any other cuts. are step. in suffered. far learn a lot more carbon a lot of them are not a fair job and you have a shock was in the model. of the.

hospital. but the economy in. the last known sighting of the a man and his two companions was them a leaving the hotel in tripoli on august thirty first one nine hundred seventy eight witnesses who saw them leave claim they were being taken to meet get happy in his private tent. it's difficult to track down anyone who was present at any such meeting but reports the filtered out that there was indeed a meeting between the m.m. and the colonel and that the meeting did not go well.

former libyan military advisor mohammad was tripoli's prosecutor at the time of the amount of the visit he heard several reports of the meeting and the topics discussed. feel he had. what he. had committed. knew what he had it. for. how. had it. was a member of libya's revolutionary council in one nine hundred sixty nine he

confirms the story of a heated exchange over religion where suddenly. all of the. female. lawyer husseini confirms the truth is hard to ascertain without conclusive evidence . that the. how long. it talian journalist stefan yellin miti has followed the case of us

others disappearance she does not believe there was murdered on a point of religious dispute from comment day. why has an italian journalist been following the case of a lebanese a man who disappeared in libya. the answer there is an italian connection to the story three tickets were booked in the name of. and his two companions alitalia flight eight eighty one heading from tripoli to rome. the libyan authorities requested urgent entrance visas for us and yacoob from the italian embassy in tripoli their french visas issued in beirut were cancelled.

there is evidence that passports of assad her and his companions were altered. even in the thirty first nine hundred seventy eight a southerner and his two companions were driven to the departure terminal of tripoli airport. exit stamps found later in the passports were dated on that day. but did they actually leave libya. what is known is that three men carrying their passports and bearing their names did board the flight to rome. shortly before midnight the alitalia plane landed in rome airport. men carrying the passports of a man who saw our souther and shaikh mohammed yaku had entry visas stamped.

he. a transit to use it was issued for the man carrying the passport of. his passport has to this day never been recovered. the three men left the airport after midnight. the libyan embassy in rome it is believed that the three men spent the night here. the next morning september the first nine hundred seventy eight two men checked in at the holiday inn hotel in rome. one was bearded and dressed in a religious robe the other was in civilian clothes the two men checked in for two rooms and paid in cash for a one week stay at the hotel. ten minutes later the two men were seen leaving the hotel both dressed in civilian clothes and carrying luggage.

ten days after the disappearance of the m.m. italian police discovered the luggage and passports of other. crew in the hotel in rome. but. something i something i thought. if it can make either. the food or not. the italian authorities interrogated crew and passengers of the alitalia flight as

well as staff at the airport and the hotel after a nine month investigation in may nine hundred seventy nine the italian authorities concluded that in southern and his two companions had not entered italy the libyan regime continued to insist that a southerner and his two companions had left tripoli for libyan assertions were unconvincing is especially as gadhafi kept changing his story. how well it. they have had. a lot of this if you wanted to mean anything with. this about whether. the feeling that one talk a. little more the ball more than even the many. others

given what i think of it. we have to be really sure what. they're going to why we are there we're going to really need them what he would never let me leave you. we had the under thirty you were the only enemy of the general mood. and those of. the lebanese government and the families of those missing remain suspicious of gadaffi his declarations they held the libyan leader responsible for the abductions . there were also questions around a possible italian role in the strange affair. and our start up it should be only date anti cause the level of the sport he said.

much. of the story would be. all the pertinent to the security. mess this incident. for. a year after the disappearance of. other and his two companions the libyan regime machine. details of its preliminary investigation to italian authorities. italy contested the libyan account saying its conclusions were flawed to counter these charges the libyan regime produced employees who testified to the departure of the a man and his two companions from libya. al jazeera met former immigration officer abdurahman go away lawyer who was working in tripoli airport on the night the man and his two companions disappeared. we

went with abdirahman go to his former workplace at the immigration office. it was here in december nine hundred seventy nine that he is then boss called omar kuwait or had ordered him to bear false witness who would your laid. off and get out of. the american. what. and then the big. yes out of her we. feel your. limits a matter they condemn. for goodwill of a diplomat the best of luck to her there was never that. one has said and i'm

only alice or her does that to be in the. middle. another libyan immigration officer who worked at the airport was also compelled by libyan security agents to testify that he had seen him. and his two companions leave tripoli. and. but with it because i really really believe. that i'm the. only. want to share this. it's very. different. with the

other good ones. that i had in my. shop with what appeared. on january the first one nine hundred eighty abdurahman was summoned by libyan intelligence to confirm his testimony. but. it really sort of put off. the year was. while he. would be headed there was indeed the. one week later the two immigration officers and the top who meet with each summoned for further questioning by the libyan judiciary. criticism i took.

with me to the battle could. you could. but control of. this is. what was going on at that. what is it i mean when you have. had the vision due. to weather shifted around. there there was muscle support. but there wasn't but what about a month or so that there was. a whether there was that the level i had. in two thousand and five duffy asked italian prime minister silvio berlusconi to

reopen the investigation into the case of. course in rome he subsequently reported that there was no new evidence but the report hinted a father and his two companions might have disappeared in italy. italian lawyer has followed the case of the him and his disappearance he is skeptical of the reports from the court ordered by berlusconi.

but. after the fall of gadhafi regime in two thousand and eleven a number of his former aides spoke out about what had happened to. other abdulrahman shall go former libyan foreign minister claimed the man and his companions had been killed by palestinian militant abu nidal who had been close to gadhafi. another top aide of the libyan leader ahmed ramadan claims during a t.v. interview following his arrest that gadhafi is communication secretary. was linked to the disappearance. former government minder who is skeptical of ramadan claims.

however and fee. then they are not. only among their mom of the shut the sons of gadhafi secretary. have denied the accusations against their father they produced his death certificate stating he died on march the seventh one thousand nine hundred seventy eight in a plane crash five months before. visited libya. major abdul muna m l who also heard stories about the fate of the other has. separate. you. never.

there are numerous different and sometimes contradictory stories about the fate of him some other and his two companions the uncertainty is compounded by the fact that no bodies have ever been discovered. in beirut the lebanese judiciary and the families of those missing have never been convinced by reports from libya. who had. had a. better way. than in the early. early. besides stories of their

murder there have also been reports of the him and his two companions being held at one time or another in secret prisons in libya. a former prison guard. was arrested after gadhafi his downfall he was himself in prison and. sources from inside the prison were most odious held told al-jazeera of what he revealed under interrogation. by sewed claimed he had guarded. between one thousand nine hundred ninety two and nine hundred ninety five in a secret prison in tripoli. we were not granted permission to meet and interview must so rude. the former prison. in north tripoli holds another story. al-jazeera visited the place with witness. and former prisoner. who says he was imprisoned here in two

thousand and one and he remembers seeing on the wall of his cell the words. that time may have raised the words. to say. how. i know that as. our each year lebanon's shia community marks the day of the disappearance. shortly after gadhafi was killed lebanon sent an investigation team to tripoli which visited

a number of jails and detention centers in several cities. was. the team pave the way for a high level lebanese diplomatic mission to meet libya's new leaders the delegation included the son of. the lebanese and libyan government agreed to make renewed efforts to investigate the secret prisons and to question former members of the libyan regime.

who is. in. many state secrets may have gone to the grave with colonel muammar gadhafi. the disappearance and presumed murder of a saga and his two companions still raises questions to this day. sutter often spoke of the need for truth and justice for those without a voice. his words ring truer than ever not least to resolve the case of his own strange disappearance.

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palestinian authority to have shifted to the jordan valley on al-jazeera. from the waves of the sounds. to the contours of the east. the weather's looking fine and dry across a good parts of south america this area clad here just moving through very are easing away from sao paolo bits and pieces of cloud right on that for a time but it will ease out into the south atlantic of the next couple days to twenty two celsius therefore ria twenty celsius and c and that's not cheap at eighteen degrees for want to sarah's house about say for santiago high have around

twenty five degrees a few showers continuing into the northwest of south america more the same as we go on through monday if anything they will intensify some of it you can see slot a dry there towards the eastern side of brazil by this stage twenty four decisions a warming up a nineteen therefore want to say areas was see it get to the dry weather across the camera panned but it's always a possibility just around the grates around to the western side of the caribbean also seeing a few showers to panama maybe nicaragua costa rica could see want to say lava showers a little dry there for the greater antilles lovely weather there into the lesser antilles and that's the case over the next thousand of you much to see want to see showers coming back into his banjara maybe the odd shot just creeping into jamaica or maybe the odd shout to to the cause of cuba meanwhile into the u.s. still looking a little disturbed around the lakes but i mean dry and fine. the weather sponsored by qatar at least. of the three big challenges facing humankind in the

twenty first century they are looking toward climate change and technological disruption especially the rise of intelligence in bioengineering this will change the world more than anything else professor you know harare talks to al jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello and welcome to this al-jazeera news hour live from doha denis coming up in the next sixty minutes. m.s. . each month that. zimbabwe gets its second president after claims he contested election and

a legal challenge. a rare opportunity to cut the salaries of politicians colombians votes in the referendum designed to stamp out corruption. from prisoner of war to presidential candidate tributes to u.s. republican senator john mccain who has died of cancer. and pain france's purpose to hold mass up to half a million catholics in ireland a day after meeting victims of church sexual abuse. that zimbabwe's new president deserves a country to unite and focus on helping the economy grow and as a man and gaga was swollen enough to weeks of political uncertainty over an election disputed by the main opposition the integration took. at the national stadium in the capital harare on friday the high court dismissed a challenge by the opposition leader nelson chamisa he has rejected the ruling and

he has vowed to continue fighting there that should outcome we saw that was going on and in the full glare of a broad spectrum off international agreement and a global media. we all freely exercise our democratic rights. leader for choice and indeed these we did i wish to thank you my fellow everybody and for everything you did to my call for peace. our correspondent erin metacity was there at the ceremony in harare. one of the main themes in islam and i got was that it was the other unit he knows this is a divided nation and he only won the election by narrow margin you know is that

enough to me that the main opposition leader still has a lot of unwanted he's got a bike race in the eleventh was that people opposition was not in killed by holding the poll to take over the election results for the first time in a while since that incident he did not blame the opposition in the alliance for the violence an indication that perhaps he is trying to move on it by going to be bygones when he started the speech he didn't get invited robert mugabe the former president to the proceedings mugabe declined saying that he's not even wanted my grain isn't feeling well but he thinks his daughter born and i have an in bed now all eyes on the opposition of course what are they going to do we know that they are going to have a meeting on wednesday to plan the way forward they don't attract international meeting to come in and intel team the president's trying to get all people on a flight from opposition leaders i hear but nothing to me so i did not attend the president did we need all of you on board is he going to grow this economy and he's promised to deal with corruption to deal with all things that are going wrong in

the country anything the president or people people who didn't vote for him are waiting to see he delivered on that front. well that was a correspondent who's there at the inauguration now because it's david moore is a professor at the university of johannesburg he specializes in zimbabwe and politics and history and he's joining us from there. do you think that amazon money has said enough has done enough in order to placate or assuage the fears and concerns of the international community in order to attract this direct foreign direct investment that he said desperately needs. thanks for about every martin. i think he was on a good track until those six people were killed that your previous correspondence was talking about so there's going to have to be a lot of quick rethinking probably a lot of advice from the british ambassador who is seen to be supporting mona gaga

. and at the international community level we have no response from united states or the we have response from the missions that were there observing and they're quite critical. and i think perhaps more importantly is domestically can he win the trust of the m.d.c. and you talked a little bit about nelson chamisa saying that he would continue on the path of rejecting the result of the the accept the legality of the results so they've gone to the a you that's a good stalling tactic and you mentioned the meeting on wednesday i would imagine they'd be thinking very carefully about what to do next some sort of a coalition. or to remain a loyal opposition i think they would fear the coalition or a government of national unity which is a bit stronger because in two thousand and nine to twenty thirteen they got too involved in social service ministries it didn't have the resources to doing that i was a little found in as minister was in trouble because yes well i'm just i'm particularly

intrigued by the fact that the list of absences at this inaugural event it would have been really really important i'd have thought for the leader of the opposition alliance nelson chamisa to have made an appearance at this in order to show that they were working together to me forward blah blah and also the apology notes coming from robert mugabe. yeah robert mugabe in his last interview that long rambling one before the election kind of said he would support me so he wouldn't support going to gaga that might have been a poison chalice for jimmy's but i'm sure they're not very well and they did send the representative of the family for nelson jimmy i think the party or would have been disappointed if he'd gone ahead to do that and i would also think that they really haven't decided what they want to do yet so it's

a gesture of disappointment look i think most analysts have said that really the m.d.c. has won every election since two thousand why should they feel that this one was any different and they've been denied and the constitutional court is not a neutral court the zick was you know the military was behind it in many ways and in any case it was it was a very very close election and when you're talking about the sec even having to change the results three times so that they end up with fifty zero point six nine percent instead of the fifty point zero eight it indicates that there was a fairly incompetent body running that election and at the end of the day the court only could look at the numbers which were there in real terms and the m.d.c. doesn't quite think they were right so it would have been a gesture of reconciliation fortune he said to do that but it also would have been a gesture perhaps slightly prematurely of capitulation all right don't think

they're quite willing to capitulate yet david moore thank you very much good to talk to you thanks. now the polls of a pending colombiana referendum for tougher anti corruption laws opposition politicians are supporting the vote which needs a third of the electorate in order to pass or if it does go through the bill could see the salaries of congressmen and women in lowered force politicians to declare their income and change the way public contract term warded alessandra reports now from bogota on what could be a landmark decision because the former senator cloudy a lot places on a mission trying to convince colombians to vote in the country's first ever and take corruption initiative because in columbiana titian's in colombia are stealing fifty billion a year that's a quarter of colombia's wealth they still through illegal contracts three full spitting and contracting their friends this is the citizen action to end it. volunteers gathered four million signatures for the referendum to reach the ballots

but they now need twelve million colombians to vote on sunday for it to pass which michael says would be a turning point in the fight against graft i must get out on one yes we have been waiting twenty five years for congress to act on these measures instead they voted them down every single time voters will weigh in on seven different measures that would affect politicians salary term limits and introduce mandatory jail sentences for corruption but while some cases of recently made headlines the initiative success is far from certain congress is widely considered the most corrupt institution in the country and he was surprised by many colombians but while lawmakers say things should choose many also seem to pose this referendum. most parties in congress voted in favor of the referendum before the last presidential elections but i've seen some voided any promotion of being issued to have president announced he will vote but many in this party say they will not let

me ask will. laws don't solve corruption columbia is full of codes and regulations but nothing changes we need to change the culture in the country and we need citizens to keep a close eye on politicians otherwise we are just throwing away public money in initiatives that will have little effect. but on their seven man this have transparency international says the vote can have a major impact. if millions of citizens in favor for eleven strong symbolic effort in the political class it will said this is not an issue they'll field in the background xpect in the south and concrete measures if it passes the referendum will be binding with congress obligated to introduce changes within a year the answer lies in the hands of colombian voters who have an opportunity to turn the page on politics as usual in the country alison.

tributes are pouring in from around the world for us republican senator john mccain who died on saturday he was eighty one and had been suffering from brain cancer he spent more than five years as a prisoner of war vietnam and more than three decades as a senator in two thousand and eight he ran for the presidency against barack obama mike hanna takes a look back at his life and legacy was a from prison off war to presidential candidate in two thousand and eight john mccain mounted a challenge against barack obama but lost in a landslide my friends we have we have come to the end of a long journey. the american people have spoken and they have spoken clearly he returned to the senate where he served as a senator for arizona more than thirty years at war hero this in the trump election a man with whom mccain had a prickly relationship in the past which did not improve senator mccain emerged as the conscience of the republican party in pushing back against several actions of

a president who was the party's new voice on the trump travel ban i think the effect will probably in some areas give isis some more propaganda we don't want to shake news on threats against the media when you look at history the first thing the dictators do is shut down the press and i'm not saying that that's that that president trump is trying to be a dictator i'm just saying we need to learn the lessons of history. on the likely reaction of past leaders to claims of alternative facts they would be alarmed by the growing inability and even an willingness to separate truth from lives senator mccain served in the vietnam war is a shutdown over her noyo he broke his leg and on.