and yet so it was a country that really did not exist in terms of suffering the united states france and u.k. were actually running the affairs behind the scenes. can get greece granted permission for britain and the united states to build military bases in libya. and when point was discovered and believed in france in one nine hundred fifty nine british and american companies were first to be granted concessions. libya would now experience the transformative power of oil. libya began to really change from one of the poorest countries in the war to one of the richest in africa. before the oil. extended families and the tribal leaders had their sons in the army because it was the guaranteed for

their future there was no business after the oil having a small store anywhere will give you a salary better than going to long. or you money was shifting libya's established order. as the arab world was in thrall that evolutionary times embodied by one man above all egypt's leadership the last. there was mujhse wave of span of years and masses and military coups were taking place in iraq in syria in sudan and nasa was inspiring young arabs to go into the army and then plan and plot military coups to change regimes to change what nasser used to characterize as reactionary illusions pro western regimes the army and the nationalist and activists students began to educate against the monarchy and the elite.

education would turn to revolution on september first one nine hundred sixty nine degrees the susie was ousted while receiving medical treatment in turkey. the group of military men we posed the king where headed by a little known twenty seven year old officer called my mother that. if. you feel. it if you. want to. keep it moving. it was riding in an anti west end anti imperialist way. the first thing he did is he terminated the agreement for the military bases

brought an american base in tripoli and its base to. it was a very popular movement because anti-colonialism nationalism call for. more egalitarian society or more modernization but it's not a coincidence that only two of the twelve members of the consul that led the coup in one nine hundred sixty nine came from an eminent in the tos background most of them came from a lower middle class background. by taking these nationalist calls there she was very popular. also above all you will come very strongly in a side of the bill a scene called for justice and palestine. out of nationalism support for the palestinian cause against israel and the colonial mission to drive with an interest out of libya these were the pillars of the new regime headed by mama defra

who having promoted themselves to the rank of color looked to make even greater changes. he took over the banks the italian banks and bulky douma bank from became maybe a sensor back at the same time he was very willing gauged with his people locally so he would physicist finishes he would visit towns he would meet people almost every day at the same time to reach of change inside the lives of people in terms of infrastructure building holds building the schools building hospitals clinics and so on so forth to never stop. they had a very ambitious a plan for nationalizing some big businesses and also taking over the oil industry . in march one thousand nine hundred seventy the gadhafi regime created the state on national oil corporation the n.o.c. to take direct control of oil production and distribution. the n.o.c.

replace the libyan petroleum corporation moving the administration of oil from benghazi in the east where the vast majority of libya's oil fields were located to a new permanent location in the west in tripoli the heart of gadhafi is power. three years later he nationalized fifty one percent to four assess of foreign oil companies operating in libya. than in one nine hundred seventy three broke out between israel and egypt along with syria an embargo by the oil cartel opic against country support. the israelis lead to a could droop link of the price of oil. for the remainder of the decade good deaf ear would use this new money and new power to lay out his vision for a new libya. what was his ideology which did he set out to achieve exactly for the libyan people at the time object was actively seeking of course one

would be deaf a came it came with a sim rather that of the loss of force which is. still akio which is liberty or freedom socialism and an art of unity and also he wants to the same thing that he deliberately at this time of course the citizen it's with the libya and also the same time he introduced himself as a very simple person that he would go and he would sit with his students at the university and he would drive his own car so here's a person he's from them he is from among them so he gets a lot of support at the time what are your personal recollections of what he was like he was a doctor which of course said very simple and he came with no ideology he found what the street wanted and he had a lot of love i remember he came to the university with discussing with him the law of the of the student union and he came with the military forty. so one of

the students told him hey you know that's in the university business nation you're not supposed to come in with this kind of uniform so he took his volkswagen went back to his place changed and came and spent the night with us to the three o'clock in the morning and we ate together marconi that we made there so. i think this is the original go that is the simple guy. he does a lot of thinking he has ambitions but at the time he was not vicious i actually recalled as a young boy three times when i met with gadhafi or interacted with him in early one nine hundred seventy i was in high school in tripoli he came once to our school in his own yellow folks fight in alone no security no bodyguards he drove all the way inside to our school yard and we always came around and surrounded his car he came

out we met with him we started chatting with him he was so modest and down to earth and wanted to be directly in touch with people he was like that so it seems a very popular person at the beginning we did a few years became very unpopular and that's the question what changed him how did he become that brutal autocratic rule in libya who i think i think believe clearly i mean he especially of a different the loss of he became he is that he is the leader of the arab world and he's entitled to it. he started with of course eliminating his group i would have the discus thrower the council supreme council of the revolution. and of course he wanted to do something new first of all he cancelled the constitution this is happened in one thousand nine hundred three not so here and knows the cultural revolution and of course based on the he would get so many of the students who ever

in any direction enter into britain to prison but he did something before that it tried putting all the intellectuals in libya who ever have an opinion and he wouldn't speak to be able to categorize the who they are and wish the election they are and so one thousand nine hundred three he imprisoned everybody the communists the socialist islamists and all of them including by the way including one of the hundred he was was one of those who were resident in seventy three with everybody else as a band that. they look for and it is a shame. what was the effect the significance of the five political points he declared and you are in one nine hundred seventy three at a time when you were resisting well he found a descent growing up descent inside the r.c.c. dissent in the army and he was not at the time with that grip on it so he went to war and he also as we would all leave power we give it to the people civilians to

the civilian so he went there and he deceived them so they are all out but he is the leader of the new revolution the popular revolution and then of course to make it sound revolution it took us to jail so do you think he has always had that idea of becoming a dictator or was this a reaction to a threat to his position and power that changed him i think he said there was growing this is no more well look he didn't know more he never had the education or experience to make him a democrat for us i'm not in power. or so i am with democracy i don't know if i'll be in power although i practice democracy now where i live but there were times assassination attempts is that's what's made him really brutal let me complete the idea so he had surplus of money that he never thought of and here he saw politicians from everywhere i saw the head of the liberal party in england came and

tell him. you are the one who teach us about freedom on libyan t.v. because he was treated well so i'm using these sorts of things changed him i think i think if you go back to the few years before the coup gaddafi was a very dominant figure with all his companions and colleagues which he gathered around himself to to actually do it to do the coup he was not going to accept criticism he was not going to accept anybody even from the closest of his colleagues who actually did the coup with him to force him to change his mind or policy and anything and i think his his it was in his personality and his in his character almost to be autocratic and to be dominating and he will not give in to other opinions so the precipitations for a dictator were were there in his character and as as things moved on and he started getting challenges not just from his own group adam who was and was adamant

a military coup attempt in december one thousand nine hundred seventy nine hundred sixty nine story and then the student movement were very expressive against him i remember he used to come to terrible university and the students were very vocal very brave telling him look you know new colleagues the army officer you should go back to your barracks we want civilian route so as he had rejections from the students from intellectuals from army officers he started to become very pruett to protect his dominance as his control over power. basically. took a firm grip of the country every aspect of the country's life and i think that there was the first clear sign that gadhafi was heading to be an absolute dictator of libya. despite growing isolation in libya continues to pursue policies which are

a unique mix of strict muslim rules and marxist ideology. gadhafi established the gym area fate of the masses a system of people's committees and the general people's congress this was part of good faith heard the universal theory that he laid out in his green book he himself would claim to have no official role in the gym area but would remain the commander in chief of the armed forces and go by a new title brother leader. i think it was it was tore certain point a successful experience to a certain limit it was not completely independent system from gadaffi is not resident of saudi and above look it is all about nick and he's not a minister not the prime minister is the leader of lucia which is kind of ongoing a process that never ends it was they looted and subverted and became a way of really and has seeing the mobilization and cramping and

punishing dissident voices in libyan society. the army was burst their two deals were burst the student union was burst the other independent out sociate in were burst and everything became either you are revolutionary or counter-revolutionary and you could see that the informal the situations the security apparatus the secret police the out of the so-called revolutionary committees began to dominate the formal institutions of the state what gadhafi is actually daring is working very hard today to create a personalized centralized state in which really there are no proper institutions and he is the center of everything. gadhafi was hollowing out libya's political structures all roads to real power would lead only to him and all dissent brutally repressed. the whole power became his home and that's why he start really

become a very vicious against anyone who will even voice anything different from his opinion . the mahdi think of that he will be in prison if you're not in prison you will be hanged in the streets. that's where libya have seen probably one of the most vicious hang in term pain scale ever haven't was here during the month of ramadan that used to be done just around the hoop and that is t.v. broadcasters and they've handed those young people in their own cities or to show them and also the same time to go and they destroy their homes. while mom will get their fix the size of brute force at home is authority didn't

extend to wider arab affairs. following the. death of your man are the nasa in one nine hundred seventy gadhafi had seen himself as a parent to advance by an arab ism but not a success and what he said that had sidelined get their feet during the war with israel and ignored the libyan leader as egypt fed in line with western interests signing a peace treaty with israel. good defeat took this as a personal insult and a betrayal of the arab cause. he's a leader with your friends in the area and man who dreamed of uniting the arab world is perhaps discovering that no one shares his vision any more isolated and overlooked. would turn away from the arab world and find a new cause in an old fight.

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going to get their feet resented being sidelined in arab affairs now at the beginning of the one nine hundred eighty s. he'd look to the wider world for new purpose. he became literally against everybody especially in the arab world because he felt that all of the he had betrayed the are up close and he is the champion of the articles and alec has not i thought that in the art of. india. letters it is that is a possibility although obviously i mean it must be outside of this area it is a good initial. it is that. it is so that's why he starts supporting

a lot of the movements in different parts of the world he was accused of supporting so many different there's organizations or from. irene in the u.k. to d. gates in italy or monday learned south africa at the time when it was all the good that me and people like him and castro and yes i actually talked about mandela negative was a different and supported him. get their feet might have seen himself as a champion of a global and team purell struggle but for much of the west he was a supporter of worldwide terror. and then in december one thousand nine hundred five similar opinions attacks on airports in rome and vienna claimed the lives of one thousand civilians including five americans. the following year a west berlin nightclub was bombed killing three people two were american servicemen why do some german the president of united states european intelligence

agencies suggested palestinian groups based in syria where most likely responsible for the attacks for the u.s. however the blame squarely evening please be seated with one man darvish longstanding involvement in terrorism is well documented and there's no reputable evidence of his role in these attacks. good every of course was already huge degree reacted as a minister as a terms. if you say is a terrorist what he will agree so it's easy to troy them other than him in the twin stick and he did deny it didn't say that we are behind it but he didn't deny that idea and began to say this is a war against colonialism and imperialism the leaders of the western world have called you a terrorist about your government is a terrorist government reagan is the biggest terrorist in the world this mad dog of the middle east has a goal of

a world revolution muslim fundamentalist revolution. reagan named them the mad dog of the middle east sound good affianced them in the same day naming him as the mad dog of the international zionism movement and of course it was fairly. it was the lowest of the law of the blama see. in april one thousand nine hundred six diplomacy between the united states and libya came to a violent end. the day we have done what we had to do. if necessary we should do it again. you know i did states decided to punish him once and for all actually by trying to kill him. they send huge inner planes and bomb locations

in tripoli and his own house his own as quarters and all and below office but don't we also have that last specific means that including children including babies. it is a clear and the blunt attempt by the nicest leader of the free world to assassinate somebody because they don't like him could offer he was from the arab world and was a suitable person to fight with because after all khadafi had alienated almost everyone. so he was a perfect foil for the regular ministry. get deficit potations as the artist sponsor of terror was to once again make him the prime suspect when one nine hundred eighty eight an american airliner was brought down over the scottish town of lockerbie killing all two hundred fifty nine people on board.

the evidence for libya's direct involvement in carrying out the local the bombing was less than conclusive but in one thousand nine hundred ninety two pushed by the united states britain and france the united nations placed severe economic and trade sanctions on libya but its alleged involvement. that led to so many assumption of life if it's so many. kind of pinching sanctions economic sanctions political sanctions even believe be impossible twenty tough was was a kind of accusation in itself libyans completely world now enclosed inside that country and they suffered for years because because of his actions. after the looker be bombing this sanctions came in and that's really it's gadhafi hot button and i think that the libyan people heart the deaf he was locally affected by the embargo itself it is the libyan people who they are have been

affected first and with that his grip on power really tightened as he was looking to be an international leader supporting all these different groups around the world well by that time the libyan situation in libya became marginal for him is now part of a big international struggle is fighting against superpowers and he's not also a puppet of the russians easy's are against communism and communists are libya out of prison so now he is a part of international struggle you know the libyans were mazar for him and he got engaged in a. battle that became you know like the snowball against the west and the west was working against him and that affected the libyan population in an egg negative way because it was more dictatorship more oppression and everybody against me created an enemy he created when he started with you know supporting what he called the

liberation movements so would you say he was in joined because he was accused of a lot of terrorist attacks in vienna and rome in berlin and he never used to deny any of it if felt that libya was too small for him he wanted a bigger station so he tried with the arab unity uniting the whole as we say from the gulf to the ocean from bahrain to morocco and he failed with that so now he wanted the whole world to be a stage so he started supporting revolutionary movements all around the world i recall somebody telling me and this is exactly accurate information that in in the eighty's there was a camp in libya supervised by something called the international revolutionary metabo this camp had seventeen thousand trainees military trainees from thirty five nationalities where the question is losing including irish was was he. a reason is that the latin america to asia to all over the world

was he doing that because he believed in it as a revolutionary leader and so on or as mr b. series said he created an enemy he needed the sort of enemy i think both i think he suffered from grandiose illusions that actually could rule the world he could change regimes all over the world and these regimes become the emulate his own model and he will be like the mouse to tongue of them you know. that's one thing the other thing i think he enjoyed this idea that this this this this man that the popular man of the masses all over the world is taken on the in. bierria list is taken on the biggest imperialists in the world which is the united states when the terrorist attack and berlin happened run reagan called the mad dog of the middle east so did the west needs someone like a daffy. to be an international villain as well was what was in it for the west i think they want to make an example of gadhafi in the region that if you go beyond

your limits that it clearly wouldn't come and attack you in new york in your place so i think that the fifth course that i think personally i think he is the one who created this for himself because he thought that he has become a real big player in the world stage and of course he does not have he does have that power or the or or what will allow him to do such a thing there and i would like to add to this why did libya came up and the agenda of the americans nine hundred seventy nine one thousand eight. i was part of the libyan opposition and i had a meeting with. foreign agency american for ages and see you know it was imposed on me and they said we would like to help you at the time when reagan won the election i can tell you at the time the war between iraq and iran hiten and iran threatened to stop all the oil supplies from the gulf libya for the united states

and for europe is an oil political entity it's a supplier when the supply from the gulf is under heat libya becomes important for the united states they want to topple him go to another regime that would bring libya back to good relation and higher order production and better relations is the same thing now it was convenient for the american foreign policy to find a maverick like gadhafi and pick him as an enemy and do it all display more international terrorism and all the mischief is around the world on him and i recall after the lockerbie nine hundred eighty eight and we all know now with outside that lockerbie wasn't just libya component there was iran involved there was a group based in syria involved and if you have to be a bad boy so you become fight with the weakest one and this in this case it was

good a few because at that time it was not convenient to pick a fight with iran and it was not convenient to become fight with syria so that says gaddafi played that role for conveniently played that role for the west especially america. def eventually handed over the two libyan officials suspected of carrying out the look of the bombing but the sanctions remained and fueled increasing dissent against the regime. one denies ation the libyan islamic fighting group formed by measure he didn't return and. from afghanistan in the early one nine hundred ninety s. plotted to kill libya's leader and replace the gym area with an islamic state. it failed. crushed by a deficit curity forces many of his members mostly hailing from the biggest eastern region where locked up without trial in a squalid conditions in a brazilian prison in tripoli. in june one nine hundred ninety six after

being denied access to their families and to lawyers and mistreated by guards protested some revolted some escaped. in the chaos an estimated one thousand two hundred seventy prisoners were allegedly shot dead by prison guards and the orders from gadhafi is intelligent chief. though the facts of the incident remain contested it became one of the most notorious episodes of the gadhafi era. that was one of the ugliest massacres most brutal massacres under the regime. and i think in the long term the town today regime twelve hundred and seventy but isn't that skilled they have twelve hundred or seventy families many of them were from benghazi. the families of those killed in abu salim prison in one thousand into six started to voice their the months. those demands fell on deaf ears.

the fallout from the alleged massacre that was in prison was part of a growing discontent simmering in libya. but could def in huge was his troubles with the west not least the u.n. sanctions which threaten his authority at home. but then in two thousand and three the us invaded iraq and changed the course of libya's future. real change in course happened just after the death of saddam hussein's son and mosul or they. were killed by the american special forces. that f. is wife at the time she told them you know if it's you you are free to do whatever you want i don't want this to happen to my kids. cough this so-called

war on terror led by the united states and that the man labeled a terrorist could now be a friend of the west libya has begun the process rejoining the community of nations . and colonel gadhafi knows the way forward. gadhafi had been warning western powers for years about these dangerous islamist terrorists and the problems of islamist terrorists and complain that nobody ever listened to him and suddenly the world work up to the danger and the enormity of the problem and suddenly would be useful to have an ally in tripoli. get deaf you would renos his support for illicit groups worldwide give up his nascent nuclear weapons program and pay compensation to the families of those killed in attacks for which libya would take responsibility. he would also introduce a limited program of reforms led by his son safely islam including the eventual

release of some of the political prisoners held that it was still in prison. with that all sanctions were to be lifted the israeli. libya was now back in the international fold. all of a sudden what reagan called the mad dog this this but this sponsor of terrorism all over the world this supposedly developer of little weapons became a good guy that governments like the british government and the american government could do business with. leading the way to do business in tripoli was british prime minister tony blair bless visit in two thousand and four accompanied by representatives of u.k. industry culminated in the so-called deal in the desert that included an exploration agreement for anglo dutch it royal dutch shell worth more than six

hundred million dollars libya's rehabilitation was revealing this truth the west's top brass looking after its own bottom line reaching out the hand opposite today. we do not forget the past. but we do try in the light. of the genuine changes happening to move beyond. one after another western leaders went to libya offering the hand of friendship multimillion dollar business deals and the kind of legitimacy mommer get their free had long forgotten from u.s. secretary of state condoleezza rice to newly elected french president nicolas sarkozy tripoli welcomed the west and the west jump them. to death who went almost hundred eighty degrees in his relations with america bill really out of the fear of what the united states could do to him it was very dispersed time to have a good relation with united states and i think that what happened after that is so

saddam coming out from that hole in the ground i think a message very clear came to him from the red states this is what will happen to you a list you do this and this because they want a political victory for them and the condition there that you give up your nuclear program we started listening from cheney people and we used to know them that. let's start something called the constructive engagement with libya and they said one condition that he gets rid of the worse a weapon of mass destruction not because he's going to use it but because they might go to a terrorist group and then we saw can deliver rice visit in tripoli we saw a lot of world leaders like berlusconi like so cozy. here it's started looking grateful and i think tony blair and george w. bush and i remember this very well it was very convenient for them because of their failure in iraq because of the big lie that saddam had w m d's what did tony blair

come out to say say look although we did not find them in iraq but actually we found them in libya and we managed to get rid of them in libya without a war so yeah so totally lurkers wanted to promote that as a success story and it was very convenient for. both for gadhafi to remain in power and to to be you had billy tatum and for tony blair and and and w. bush george w. bush to actually show some sort of a success against the background of that failure in iraq. we saw a stream of western companies coming back to their view including british as well as american oil companies martin came back on of course phillips came back this territory and came back shelf came back. and then they take it's going to external of allowing him to visit you and he was there in france and paris would circassian

signing the agreement with. the military company use the oil companies and all of that so no clearly the deaf willing to buy himself with the will to fully deal with the truth to be accepted in the west. but this gadhafi was getting closer to the west he was alienating himself from the arab world the rest of the. subject doing well. in a good man and. now. he has a clash with king abdullah of saudi or what he's trying to imply that he's just the budget of the americans there was also a bad chemistry between him and prince how much of. that was real bad.

they never felt comfortable with them. why did duffy burned bridges already charred across the region he continued to build bridges reaching out to sub-saharan africa. in two thousand and nine mama to get their feet was elected chairman of the a fricken union he mediately vowed to pursue his vision of pan african unity including a unified african army and the single african currency all part for united states of africa later that same year get their female his first ever visit to the united states of america and took the stage at his maiden united nations general assembly language eleven about me yes. yes yes yes i did date me i don't. know some as i've lived.

far from having been rehabilitated the man called the mad dog of the middle east by a us president was showing his true colors and baring his teeth at those who believed they'd brought him to heel. they were trying to rehabilitate him in the international community but if you see his speech in front of the arabic summit and also in the. in the u n it seemed like he didn't change when he called the security council the council of terror but he came to the united nations i think that's what he. destroy all of the hope that those countries they had in this show they saw the real gadhafi that he is a person he thinks that he is above the united nations is above the world and he is a person who can't really escape how this world would work and i think that was the point where say clearly this guy is no hope in him and of course there is no hope

at least for the libyan people we knew that for forty years this is what this person has done he has no interest in it but to be the dictator to be the a thirty year old regime that he has created a lie i remember when he came to new york before coming they did the client visas for some of his delegation and when he came there they treated him bad the white house treated them bad even for the dinners that president obama called for he was not invited and he tried to challenge obama by doing a dinner for african leaders and of course nobody showed up to his dinner you know so the i asked one of his as a civil life i would say his name and he told me well it was fear told me gadhafi took a talk talk out of fear it was almost impossible for gadhafi to change he's still branding america as imperialist and the biggest enemy of the world and at the same time is where it can with the cia helping them in their anti terrorist war so i

think that he was never going to change because if each if he changed that means he would finish. he struck the news financial and economic is with us which is two of the west is like well but even his heart he never. trusted the money never believed in anything. by two thousand and eleven the people that he did ruled with an iron fist for forty two years were showing dead distrust of their brother leader standing guard for what they did believe in and their gains the injustices of the gadhafi regime. we started to see small scale protests of eruptions of public discontent and so there was a slight sort of shift and i going up. but really by twenty and expectations for real change had been dashed and people have realized that there was no real change

coming. change was to come. dictators were to fall in tunisia and egypt. leaving get their feet s'posed to the resistible winds sweeping through north africa. libya was in because of a seismic up evil. one that would bring calm and mamata deaf ears rule and lived to a grisly end.

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a few in sendai maybe one or two in tokyo but if we fast forward to saturday we can see that even that begins to clear away selling all that well behind it though a maximum temperature in sendai of eighteen degrees much what we're expecting in seoul beijing a little warmer at twenty one. al-jazeera . hello i'm barbara sara this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next sixty minutes turkish security sources say they have definite evidence that missing saudi journalist. was killed plus

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say the information about what happened to the saudi government critique was shared with washington turkey has also announced that a joint turkish saudi team will be formed to investigate that the severe and the father of four who was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul last week republican senators meanwhile say the u.s. should stop a one hundred ten billion dollar arms deal with riyadh if the country is found to have had a hand in her disappearance and there should be sanctions at the highest levels the president though seems less willing to act we're going to have more on that in just a moment first though this update from stephanie decker outside the saudi consulate in istanbul. the president's spokesperson announcing that a joint working group will be set up between turkey and saudi arabia according to sources at the request of the saudis to carry out an investigation into what happened to you we do understand however that the turks will be carrying out an

independent investigation as well they've been waiting to go into the consulate the saudi consulate before what we understand the saudis have been making that difficult perhaps this working group will mean that there will be some movement on that in the next few days also we understand from intelligence sources security sources that the turks have informed washington of their findings that they firmly believe that the saudi journalist has been killed and they say they know where it happened this is all part of a wider campaign of leaks by ankara over the last couple of days through the media telling them issuing them what they believe happened to the saudi journalist painting a horrific picture of course we still have no official evidence no official facts a new turkish official who's gone on camera to make these allegations but that also highlights and shows you just how sensitive the matter is politically the latest from istanbul while president donald trump appears reluctant to take punitive measures against saudi arabia if it is proved responsible for g.'s disappearance

the spy pressure from senators from both parties he's opposed to stopping a u.s. arms the all with riyadh worth one hundred and ten billion dollars alan fischer of reports now from washington. the u.s. president has repeatedly stopped short of blaming saudi arabia for the disappearance of jamal khashoggi what happened is a terrible thing assuming that happened i mean maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised but somehow i tend to doubt it and we take it very seriously and donald trump says he opposed any move by u.s. senators to block arms sales is so deep in retaliation i don't like the concept of stopping an investment of one hundred ten billion dollars into the united states. because you know they're going to do they're going to take that money and spend it or russia or china or someplace else so i think there are other ways if it turns out to be as bad as it might be there are certainly other ways of handling the

situation but the president says u.s. investigators are now helping inquiries abroad with a report jew in his words very soon but turkey's foreign minister on a trip to iraq says that's not the case but they do want sodhi help because the incident took place in saudi arabia's consulate we're working on this matter that the saudi authorities and they must cooperate with us on this matter we will announce the results at the end of the investigation a leading republican senator with access to the latest intelligence says he believes jamal khashoggi has been murdered and everything points to saudi arabia and it would appear that he's not a law about one democrat says the white house can't talk about what it wouldn't do to punish the president trumps unwillingness to set out any consequences or even a threat of consequences essentially tells the saudis that were ok with this kind of conduct and behavior last year saudi arabia spent more than twenty seven million dollars to more be in washington

a process of seeking to influence politicians and she policy in its favor one washington more church says their money can't help them with this saudi arabia is one of the most influential lobbying and p.r. machines in washington d.c. but in this case the facts just speak low. any lobbyist campaign contributions or any p.r. spokespersons talking points possibly could so what good does that do us no donald trump says he's expect to get a port in the case he will come under pressure from senators to make it public when he receives it only seems reluctant to take action against the country he's built up as a friend and an ally he might be left with no choice but to us. washington well john hendren joins us live now from washington d.c. and we saw in that report there john there really does seem to be a split between what an increasing number of of senators are saying and then actually what the president is saying on the one hand he's saying let's wait and find out exactly what happened then on the other hand almost the smiths seeing any

possibility of sanctions or severing ties with saudi arabia. that's right president trump's relationship with the king has been very close the first place he visited was saudi arabia and they cemented what was billed as one hundred and ten billion dollar arms dealers sale to saudi arabia from united states businesses and that is what is it risk here twenty two senators have signed a letter to donald trump invoking the magnitsky act that was originally designed to target russia but it is it is not russia specific and senators are saying we need to see if there have been extrajudicial killings and if so under this act there should be sanctions in the first sanction that is likely to be weighed in the senate would be that arms deal senator rand paul a republican from kentucky has already said he will introduce legislation to reverse that arms deal you you heard president trump expressing economic concerns

he is very troubled about the prospect of losing that arms deal but this is a rare case in which republicans are joining democrats in a bipartisan way to oppose what appears to be the president's position on this now he has said he has not committed yet to action but congress seems to be moving in a bipartisan way senator bob corker the head of the senate foreign relations committee has said the political support for the saudis inside the senate has never been lower and he said the situation could cause it to go in his words off a cliff and i mean you mentioned that the position of the president the administration the seem to be a little bit unclear and another was a state department briefing a short while ago all of this leak questions they're being asked what came out of it. well that didn't really terribly clarify matters the saudi ambassador to the u.s. has returned to saudi arabia and heather now at the spokesman for the state

department has said we have communicated with the saudi ambassador and we expect information upon his return to the united states she went on to say that we are all concerned about the whereabouts of chris shoji we don't know what happened to him she said we will hold back into we have concrete information we can share however we know that the administration does have intelligence on this these senators have intelligence that has not been public group publicly released that intelligence appears to come entirely from turkey and there is talk about a videotape there so the state department right now is not really taking a position just saying when the saudi ambassador returns that they will insist on getting information about exactly what happened to jamal khashoggi john hendren with the latest from washington d.c. john thank you now for more on this we're joined again from washington by michele

dunne she's the director of the middle east program at the code for international peace and is a former middle east specialist at the u.s. state department madame thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera i mean john hendren and our other correspondents really painting a picture of how complicated this is getting and how split the u.s. government is over this some into the administration now first that pressure from the media now seems that pressure from congress what pressure do you think they are putting on the saudis to try to i guess calm the waters or try to come clean about what might have happened to jim. well we've seen reports of quite a few phone calls and so forth from from president trump from his son in law jared cushion or who has this close relationship with crown prince mohammed bin cell mon. and others so i think there's been a lot of phone calls going back and forth and you know some some attempt to come up

with. what happened here and and so forth now i think it's too early to talk about a real split between the white house and the congress over this to be honest with you it's very typical even in a situation in which an administration doesn't have as closer relationship as we know this white house has with the saudi royal family it's very typical for an administration to try to get itself some room and to resist you know saying immediately what their reaction is going to be or what the consequences are going to be i think they're trying to buy themselves a little time to figure out what has happened here they are under pressure by the fact that the senators are saying there is intelligence and they've seen it and they are convinced by it and this global magnitsky act this letter that's going forward from the senate now to the from twenty two senators to the white house starts a one hundred twenty day clock ticking in which

a report has to be made and if that report shows saudi government complicity then names have to be named and sanctions have to be imposed it's not not easy to escape this so that's the other big thing going on i think is there is this. investment. conference planned in saudi arabia for i believe next week to which the u.s. treasury secretary was supposed to go as well as some very prominent american business figures were starting to see some of those american business figures pull out or express doubts and it's not clear yet whether secretary minutiae. and it will go that's very important because it connects directly to mohammed bin so man's need to bring foreign investment into the kingdom so that would be an important signal if the united states were to say well we're not attending or this conference should be postponed or something like that but the administration i mean regardless of what comes out.