he was from the eastern part he was in exile in egypt and he came back with the army which with the help of the british came eateries to a certain extent was was there man and yet so it was a country that really did look exist in terms of suffering to 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 sense 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. in libya began to really change from one of the poorest countries in the war to one of the richest in africa. before the oil the extended families

and the tribal leaders had their sons in the army because it was the guaranteed for their future there was no business of the oil having a small store anywhere we'll give you a salary better than going to long. oil money was shifting libya's established order. as the arab world was in thrall of lucian three times embodied by one man above all egypt's leader general of the last. there was no use wave of bank out of business and massacres and military coups were taking place in iraq in syria in sudan and nasser was inspiring young arabs to go into the army and then plan and plot military coups to. change regimes to change what nasa used to characterize as

reactionary illusions pro western regimes the army and the nationalist and the activists students began to educate again is the monarchy and the elite. agitation would turn to revolution on september first one nine hundred sixty nine the susi was ousted while receiving medical treatment in turkey. the group of military men would be posed to king were headed by a little known twenty seven year old officer called my mother that. if. you feel. even if you. have to. do it it would be. more frightening and anti west than 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 and. it was a very popular movement because anti-colonialism nationalism call for more egalitarian society or more modernization and 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 to spec around most of them came from a lower middle class background. by taking these nationalist calls there she was very popular. also above all come very strongly in the side of the bill is seen call 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 dome bank from became a center back at the same time he was very willing gauged with his people locally so he would physicists villages he would visit towns he would meet people almost every day at the same time very to change inside the lives of people in terms of infrastructure building a house building a schools building hospitals clinics and so on so horde never stopped. they had a very ambitious a plan for nationalizing some big businesses and also taking over the oil industry . in march 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 opec against countries supporting the israelis led to a could droop link of the price of oil. for the remainder of the decade a 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 won't want to be deaf it 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 the same thing that he deliberately destroyed it's of course the citizen it's with the libyan people 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 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 till three o'clock in the morning and we ate together marconi that we made there so . i think this is the origin of 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 fighting 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 and this is happened in one thousand nine hundred three also here and knows the cultural revolution and of course based on the he put 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 are resident in seventy three with everybody else as a band. they look for his asian labels i live here so 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 received well he found a descent growing up dissent 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 told us 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're 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 isn't 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'm i'm 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 we 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 how was and was 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 and your 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 prudent 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 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 there's our public is not a minister not the prime minister is the leader of lucia which is kind of on going

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 pushed the student union was pursed the other independent and were pursed and everything became either you are evolutionary or counter-revolutionary and you could see that the informal institutions the security apparatus the secret police the art 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 personalize. centralized state in which really there are no proper institutions and he is the center of everything. good that he 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 in his head 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 we live you have seen probably one of the most vicious hanging campaigns can ever have been it was here during the month of ramadan that used to be done just around the hoop and it is t.v. broadcast and they've handed those young people in their own cities or to show them

and also the same time they go and they destroy their homes. while mom will get their feet exercised brute force at home is authority didn't extend to wider arab affairs. following the death of egypt's german are the nasr in one nine hundred seventy gadhafi had seen himself as their parent to advance by an arab as a but not a successor and what he said that had sidelined gadhafi during the war with israel and ignored the libyan leader as egypt where in line with western interests signing a peace treaty with israel. gadhafi took this as a personal insult and a betrayal of the arab cause. he's a leader with your friends in the area the man who dreamed of uniting the arab world is perhaps discovering that no one shares his vision anymore. isolated and overlooked. would turn away from the arab world and find

a new cause in an old fight. on behalf of her majesty's government i apologize reservedly a historic apology for one of british intelligence his darkest episodes it was a growing agreement of that the libyans could be quite useful to the west seven years after the death of gadhafi al-jazeera world investigates western collusion with the libyan security services. gadhafi rendition and the west on al-jazeera. journeys of personal discovery more american here and then more air india al-jazeera correspondents tell their passengers stories that have marked their lives i feel sad that they have to endure

a difficult time. for your town like my family status and wealth has benefited from their choice to enslave. al-jazeera correspondent coming soon if inscribed in the wild west previously where the average person couldn't touching tell if a post had been set on height or if not why does this updated nafta have the kind of support that it needs we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. hello adrian filling in here in doha the top stories this hour on al-jazeera turkish investigators have found left the saudi consul general's residence in istanbul after nine hours searching for clues into the disappearance of the

journalist jamal khashoggi he was last seen entering the saudi consulate two weeks ago andrew simmons reports now from istanbul now this part of the investigation appears to be complete now nine hours of searching the consul's residence by forensic teams and investigators overseen by saudi officials they spent quite a time on the first floor of the building we saw them in action looking at a number of areas and according to a source close to the investigation there had been samples found these samples were not told exactly what they were they were blood samples or d.n.a. samples but we were told that important evidence was found the washington post has published the last opinion piece written by jamal khashoggi before he disappeared the column focuses on freedom of expression in the arab world the newspaper says that it was submitted to them by jamal's translator and assistant

a day after he was reported missing the washington post says that it held off publishing the piece until now with the hope that it could be edited with. european union leaders meeting in brussels say they won't hold a special summit on briggs it next month because not enough progress has been made on a deal with the u.k. european official said the britain's prime minister's reason may fail to present any new ideas the deadlock centers on keeping the border in ireland open after northern ireland leaves the e.u. with the rest of the u.k. . the united nations special envoy to syria has told the security council that he's stepping down from the role in november staffan de mistura spent years mediating between the syrian government and rebel sides he told the council that the situation in syria is relatively stable but says that he's moving on for personal reasons. a government minister in india has resigned after as many as twenty women accused him of sexual harassment and assault was the deputy foreign minister the

allegations against the sixty seven year old date back to his time as a newspaper editor in the late one nine hundred eighty s. he's part of a long list of prominent men who have been named in what's being called india's hash tag me two movements more news in a little over twenty five minutes but now let's get you back to the big picture. to get their feet isn't it being sidelined in arab affairs now at the beginning of the one nine hundred eighty s. he'd look to the wider world for a new purpose. because he feels. betrayed the. cause and he is the champion of the.

it is that. 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. today it's brigades 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 way and supported him. get their feet might have seen himself as a champion for global and really struggle but for much of the west he was a supporter of worldwide terror. and then in december one thousand nine hundred five similar pain as 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 gentleman 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 they blame squarely evening please be seated with one man gadhafi is 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 it turns. if you say is a terrorist everybody will agree so it's easy to troy demanded payment one stick and he did deny it he 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 diverse 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 haven't the same naming him as the mad dog of the international zionism movement and of course it was very. it was the lowest of the law of the global sea. in april one thousand nine hundred eighty 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 in 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 afi 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 assumptions of life if it's so many. kind of pinching sanctions economic sanctions political sanctions even believe twin you tough was was a kind of accusation yourself libyans completely were no inclosed inside their country and they suffered for years because because of his actions. after the look or be bombing this sanctions came in and that's really it's gadhafi

hot button 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. 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 enjoined 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 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 with mr 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 tse-tung 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. period list he's taken on the biggest imperialist in the world which is the united states when the terrorist attack in berlin happened rod reagan called me 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 clearly you can come and attack you and your in your place so i think at the fifth course that i think personally i think he is the one who created this for himself because he thought that he has to 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 put 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 voice you become fight with the weakest one and this in this case it was good 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 fuel increasing dissent against the regime. one denies ation the libyan islamic fighting group formed by major 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 within islam extent. 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 the inmates 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 good definite 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 seen in prison was part of a growing discontent simmering in libya. but could def in you it 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 the so-called war on terror led by the united states and that a man labeled a terrorist could now be a friend of the west libya has begun the process of 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 a 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 a hundred and 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 long time to have a good relation with united states and i think that the what happened after that is so so them 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 was 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. cozy. yet 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 so i was out there 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 the view including british as well as american oil companies martin came back on the phillips came back this territory

and came back charles came back. and then they take him to go next level of allowing him to visit you and he was there in france and paris would circassian signing the agreement with. the military companies and the oil companies and all of that's an old clearly if that's 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 chemistry. 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 other than i did they.

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 and 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 the so 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 was they 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 the 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 but doing a dinner for african leaders and of course nobody showed up to his dinner you know so the i asked one of his assists in a live i won't 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 were can with the cia helping them in their anti terrorist war i think that he was never going to change because if each if he changed that means he would finish. he struck the financial and economic is with us which is to the west as liking but even in his heart he never actually 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 the gains the injustices of the gadhafi regime. we started to see small scale protests eruptions of public discontent so there was

a slight sort of shift and ironing out. but really by twenty and everyone here expectations for real change had been dashed and people have realize that there was no real change coming. change was to come. dictators were to fall in tunisia and egypt. leaving get their feet exposed to the resistible winds sweeping through north africa and. 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. seven years after moammar gadhafi is controversial rain came to a violent end libya is frozen in time. competing forces each running for power and influence continue to disrupt

a broken state but time forgot. in the second of a two part series the big picture asks who is to blame. the last for libya on al-jazeera. hello the weather is dry across northern parts of the middle east got a fair bit of cloud over towards the high ground having said that speck to stop pushing up towards a good parts of brown as well as seeing some of that cloud chance of some rain we got somewhere west of weather dampened drizzly whether they're just pushing into syria to spilling out of turkey sinking further south which as we go through thursday so some of that just pushing into the far west of iraq thirty six houses in baghdad still pretty hot here twenty eight there for beirut's over the next couple of days lovely weather will continue chance of a few spots of rain to seizing down as the central parts of iraq maybe into west

central southern parts of iran as well just notice a little further south still a chance of some rain across the reagan places they make it way down across the gulf a little bit of cloud there into central areas of our saudi arabia pushing a little further north which is well stable see that wet weather just nothing a little further north and even here as we go one into friday watch out for some right possibility of the arts in the heat of the day there for doha as we go through friday afternoon wanted to show as having a possibility showers a possibility to into mozambique as we go through thursday than nothing a little further north with dry weather coming in behind. discover new developments in surgery i'm going to cover up what i'm in here ashima japan to meet the surgeon pioneering new techniques in regenerating on. a breakthrough medical trial provide some much needed only to cystic fibrosis

sufferers based on all of the evidence behind the virus at least one hundred forty more active cats a very nice thing that the cure revisited on al-jazeera. al-jazeera where ever you. sources say the turkish investigators have found important evidence in the case as the residence of the saudi consul general in istanbul is such. donald trump faces

pressure to reveal his saudi links and made allegations that he could be helping riyadh cover up jamal khashoggi disappearance. hello i'm adrian finnegan this is ours here are live from doha also coming out leaders rule out a special summit on breaks in next month citing a lack of progress on a possible deal with the u.k. and will be live in time with people of those who get a one off general election in one of the world's youngest democracies. turkish investigators looking for evidence linked to the disappearance of the journalist jamal khashoggi have completed searches of two saudi arabian diplomatic buildings in istanbul they spent more than twelve hours combing both the consulate

and the consul general's residence his soldiers are told i was there that important samples were found during the search investigators suspect that was killed by a fifteen man saudi hit squad in the consulate on october second in the u.s. meanwhile democrats are putting pressure on president trump over his response to the case they want donald trump to disclose any business ties that he may have with saudi arabia trump has been reluctant to criticize the saudi leadership to spout mounting evidence linking riyadh to g.'s disappearance in the meanwhile the washington post has published what it calls the last opinion piece written by jamal khashoggi the column calls for grace of freedom of expression in the arab world let's go live now to istanbul al-jazeera stratford is outside the saudi consulate so turkish investigators finally allowed into the residence of the saudi consul general what are they saying about what they found.

well we do know that the investigation seems to be very very much focused on certain areas within that building we know that. dogs we used to to search certain areas of the garden we understand they may well have been some sort of excavation made in that area rule so know that a lot of focus on the guy in a particular vehicle in that garage or in the concert generals home we understand one of those vehicles was used on the day that crucial she disappeared and we see the moving from the consulate here down to that building. we also know as you say that says some of last night saying best to go she was also focused get to gain on the consulate itself. the sources telling us that a lot of the focus of the investigation they very much on the siebel was be called to see both of that building the building which is basically the only. only open to

saudi residence in fact diplomatic stuff now sources in the last couple of hours have said that they have evidence now very strong evidence that shows he was killed inside the c. bulk of the consulate a few more details coming through as well they have a sources are telling us that insight sebald they found fingerprints of six of the fifteen men that have been described on turkish media of being very much the focus of this investigation those fifteen men that came over reportedly on those jets on the day that crucial she disappeared very interesting as well sources telling us that there's very much of a lot of focus now also on a person believed to have been closely very close had close personal relationships even with could show she who we are told may have been feeding information facts. to saudi arabia from that day that could show she arrived here in turkey more than

a year and a half ago. as we've seen in recent days as this investigation push is forward more drips of information being leaked through the turkish government media now my colleague jamal shah was here last night as that investigation team arrived and this is his report. on wednesday turkish investigators turned their attention to the saudi consul donal's home after finally being given permission to enter it's a team of forensic experts some police headed by the attorney general's office began combing through the residence from inside and now it's all in the presence of saudi officials the exception being the consul general himself who unexpectedly left turkey the day before. by the evening of facials had told al jazeera that investigators had uncovered more evidence in the case of missing journalists. down the road a second search of the consulate itself was conducted on wednesday with police

focusing on the c. block section of the compound where they had previously uncovered evidence that they say proved she was murdered more and more information is being revealed as a clearer picture begins to form albeit slowly of what's happened to jamal khashoggi turkish investigators have identified this man madam or trip a member of crown prince mohammed bin one man's personal detail as a main suspect he had accompanied bin sandman on several foreign visits in recent months turkish intelligence leaks a multitude made for phone calls to the crown prince his own personal secretary on the day she went missing and it was under more troops name that the private jets used by the saudi hit team were hired turkish investigators say they already have the evidence that proves that jamal hustle he was murdered and his body dismembered they say the reason why they insist on conducting searches like the one in the building behind me. it's so that they can establish all of the facts that will go

after anyone and everyone responsible for this crime even thought includes one of the most powerful men. in istanbul so who is the man of the center of all of this. well the saudi journalist was once close to the inner circles of the saudi royal family he earned his reputation as a reformist by pushing boundaries and questioning government policies in two thousand and three a shock she became media advisor to prince turki been faisal the prince headed saudi arabia's intelligence service and later design bastard to the us but last year went into self-imposed exile in the us after becoming concerned about the actions of crown prince mohammed bin salman he told in march that he left the kingdom because he didn't want to be arrested more now from al-jazeera is mike hanna in washington on how the case is causing problems for the u.s. president. president trump will receive

a personal report on the case in coming hours he's urged turkish authorities to hand over any video recordings they may have we've asked for if it exists the president has been reluctant to criticize saudi arabia or discuss any sanction that may be imposed dismissing allegations of saudi complicity as and i quote another case of guilty until proven innocent they are and now we have other very good allies in the middle east but if you look at saudi arabia the. tremendous purchase of not only military equipment but. president trump is awaiting the report from the secretary of state who were sent to the region in the face of growing political uproar mike pompei o spent time with senior figures during a visit to riyadh and said they had denied any knowledge of the matter and had started a full investigation. he also met with the turkish president in ankara shaking hands for the camera but insisted it was too early to go into details about the

journalist disappearance and talk about any of the facts. that they didn't want to either in that they want to have the opportunity to complete this investigation in a throw away and more pressure from congress the house speaker paul ryan saying action must be taken we have laws for this we recently passed the magnitsky act which is a man who was killed in prison in a russian prison so we have sanction laws on the books in terms of this bipartisan action president trump is given one hundred twenty days to decide on what sanctions to impose a group of democrat senators have demanded that the trump family disclose any business ties that may have had with saudi arabia in the past decade but this is legally and enforceable and likely to be brushed aside by the president and a reminder of the man who's at the center office ongoing crisis the washington post has published in a. union piece written by jamal khashoggi shortly before his disappearance in a t.

criticizes the lack of international response to the abuse of journalists in countries like saudi arabia and egypt he writes these actions no longer carry the consequence of a backlash from the international community instead these actions may trigger condemnation quickly followed by silence as a result he continues arab governments have been given free rein to continue silencing the media at an increasing rate chilling words from a man who may himself have been silenced by cannot al-jazeera washington. european union leaders meeting in brussels so that they won't hold a special summit on briggs of next month because not enough progress has been made towards a deal the deadlock centers on keeping the border open on the island of arland after northern ireland leaves the e.u. along with the rest of the u.k. next march ahead of the summit islands prime minister leo vodka explained what his

government wants. arden's position you know is as it always has been ever since the referendum happened we want there to be a withdrawal agreement so the u.k. can meet the e.u. in order to fashion we want there to be a transition period so that businesses and citizens can prepare for any changes at may take place we want there to be added protection of citizens rights all across europe wants there to be a financial settlement i mean also need a binding guarantee that there will not be hard border between northern ireland of the republic of ireland or european leaders say the british prime minister it's reason they failed to provide any new ideas for breaking the deadlock with a no deal bragg's of becoming more likely the e.u. is insisting on a fallback position specifically for the irish border it would be implemented only in the event that no wider breaks a deal was reached but even that's proving difficult to agree on as a whole reports from brussels. the hopes of doing

a break deal look at this summit long gone british prime minister to reserve may's positive tone on a rival won't of impressed many here in brussels what we've seen is that we've sold most of the issues in withdrawal agreements there are still we still the question is and. i believe everybody around the table wants to get a deal. by working intensively and closely we can achieve i believe a deal he's achieved with the time to make his have. spent less than half an hour addressing her fellow leaders on the status of exit talks before they went into dinner without a further sign of the u.k.'s growing isolation within this bloc he presented them with no new ideas to break the current deadlock so there wasn't much to discuss e.u. leaders are running out of patience with britain just as britain is running out of time they called off a planned emergency summit in november judging that insufficient progress has been made to expect a deal by then it looks that's still we do have

a lot of discussions and i'll try not to prove mental disturbance or to keep on still and it's very difficult for you.