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democratic hopefuls are making their final pitch to voters ahead of monday's presidential nominating process all 11 candidates are in the state of iowa which is traditionally served as a vital launching point or a burial ground for presidential campaigns there is no clear front runner but polls suggest senator bernie sanders has a narrow lead over former vice president joe biden such as state might pump ale has served kazakhstan to press china over the detention of wigger muslims and a visit to the country pompei i met ethnic conflicts to accuse china of detaining members of their family it's estimated between one and 2000000 people mostly wigger muslims have been detained and these camps are so the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera and other bolton at the bottom of the hour the meantime handed over to al-jazeera world.

robin respected in the stirring t.v. address from the 1970 s. the audience is the people of yemen and the speaker is the president of the yemen i remember republican we met and i thought. that. this message is one of unity that showed how a country divided can heal its differences and move forward. with.

radical remember i would put. that in memory. i thank you that you have a bad friend here and. i want to play robbie i said president bush and would be fulfilled within a few years however brutal events of the banquet would end up really shaping the course of yemen's history. that's what. i. shall be. at home but.

this is the story of a murder an assassination that took place over 40 years ago the killing occurred in the yemeni city of sana'a and the victim was none other than the country's president. it's a murder that still resonates today in a nation that is still deeply divided added odds with its neighbors. in this film. from al jazeera arabic will reveal the chain of events that is in every sense stranger than fiction a timeline to the political assassination of president funding a killing that took place on an october day in 1977. even though while hamdi was assassinated over 4 decades ago all recent protests

have evoked the memory of the dead leader here in 2011 protestors against yemeni president ali abdullah saleh hark back to times past. how at the end of the leave. a man matic e.c.s. subsets the man and. mouat. a man they call him the end of the how well and he was said to them what have we. who are not yet have a lot at them sort of we'll be. having what i said at the end of our look at the style of the canonical order of ahmed and. hyundai defined what it meant to be a yemeni because there's an entire generation of yemenis. who's looking for their humvee their humvee who defined what it meant to be a yemeni who defined with the yemeni state and everyone is looking for that today

and we ask where is our humvee what said all family apart from leaders before and after him was that he bore the personal charisma of a reformer and a modern asked his country north yemen was divided from its neighbor and the son of authority lay not in the hands of central government but with a number of powerful tribes. saw himself as a force that could unite a divided country. and none of that even now we. will have had as always al challenged me out of a gravity well of the way that i have managed to lash out and have like a low number. as have a canner. well brought up a well back i have i'm well. really help i like theater to get through that if you look at the real me

a man nothe. cream here. you got a little more bob in this thought a latino. family home. while yemen has never been as prosperous as its gulf neighbors it does occupy an important strategic position at the mouth of the red sea. historically yemen had been ruled by and divided between the ottoman and british empires the north declared independence in 1962 and the south in 19673 years later south yemen would become the only marxist country in the region allying itself with the soviet union . meanwhile ibrahim a humvee was becoming a rising star of yemeni politics in 1992 he was transferred from a mid ranking military role to become deputy prime minister and later that same

year deputy commander in chief of the armed forces 2 years later our humvee emerged as the figurehead of the self-proclaimed corrective movement a manifesto for an imminent crude atar. andy hiller. canard that is listeners that are colored letters they'll go out that they're going to be allowed to study at will that's had a whistle. so over the year. they yell handy fee. back at the umbrella handy good weather and with a little. latitude. on the 13th of june 19 17400 made his move this british embassy cable from the north yemen capital sanaa reported the resignation of the event president. there were other high profile

resignations on that day clearing the decks for the arrival of a new president the transition was bloodless and for the 1st time a modernizer was at the helm of the yemen arab republic. cover it's the cover to cover their drama really let them have a shade of it but i haven't had what i gathered. yet it was honorable of the last 11 from the assumed we dearly helena to cut the bit damp damaged our medical school limb to cut the amount of the living hell that the lot whenever you take women act as quo that really meant no coffee visit our work at the well we're going to have him the war sorry the robberies that are in the. the love a simple dollar. it was $974.00 and president al hunt his victory celebrations were short lived his 1st priority was to build confidence with neighboring saudi

arabia a country that was bigger more powerful and far wealthier than impoverished north yemen hyundai's 1st official visit was to the saudi capital riyadh aiming to maintain good relations yet reduce dependence on saudi arabia who wield it considerable influence over yemen's powerful times. as the incoming president our humvee was walking a tightrope his instinct as a modernizer was to bring the reins of power into the capital but that meant wrestling control from the tribes who had traditionally run yemen. one of. those to create modern armed force that would not be organized tribally would be composed of units that were mixed personnel that would therefore be loyal to the chain of command rather than the particular

shapes. of are going to be able to. carry out an account when i can and will be and i'll get asked out. of the. war. on the 27th of april 975 president al hamdi issued a decree which effectively centralized control of the army. no longer tribes wield great influence over the military the new power brokers would be on hamdi and army officers loyal to the new president. and then the motherfucker say ask listen to the. possible human problems in the field we're looking to know how to put into the hands of. man a good idea is was how to let them sell

a cabinet so i would do it with the death of let them sell half. that effort to get out it's about. how he how he'd allow themselves. the and just let them sell a lot of the family get the black and that shetland was. yemen in the 1970 s. was desperately poor and kept afloat by foreign aid hungry believed that this dependence on aid fundamentally weakened both parts of yemen be formulated a 5 year development plan harnessing local co-operatives their goal to economically place yemen on its own 2 feet. when every mile hamdi came to power in $974.00 as

a charismatic figure a populous with a clear political plan and he knew that in order to bring about the kind of changes that he wanted to see in the country that it was necessary to strengthen government institutions. and i think his vision was to build upon the success of these local cooperative associations he was certainly the 1st one to express a vision of using the cooperatives as a national organization and a way to build up a national political base. from the cooperative. and

of the. willing. he thought would be that we have to say about the donor. and if you're going to. have a good. kind of. beyond the borders of north yemen continue to develop international relations including with the soviet union who had close ties with neighboring south yemen in march $977.00 regional security top the agenda at a red sea summit meeting in the yemeni city of tire it's being claimed that the

thai summit there were rumblings of an assassination plot against. live europe but then. what care can murder me i'm a mere who here and in the suburb and. half of the home areas of the island you're poor the whole of. the modern mother dies a lot of their commits but. come out often if it's a little girl you have been fairly dark them some of them are. there as well as other tournaments neither of them had that and in less than an advantage of my mother who are. men and i'm only a hill of intelligence only i develop a lot of. wind of one gathering and blood and i know b.s.

and the children a story i don't see much that it had to do i will do that in kenya and what about when i elected sag i will come and i didn't have a lot of sodium accommodative yourself a spectacle and heart for that so if you hear a sort of united to and having to do a little you're full of that in geology of the mallet to have a surveyor you can and do math and these only i'm a little clean well if i'm a father a 1000000. around the same time a humvee met his southern counterpart president salamat i.b.r.d. in a town straddling the north side border they committed to improving relations and to begin steps to unify yemen into a single country both leaders agreed to sit down again 9 months later in the southern city of aden the stage was set for the 1st visit by

a minority any leader to the marxist regime in the south are hundreds however would not live to keep disappointment. was on a fairly mean what are sort of hanging in there it differ then you can learn what i don't see as an army at all yet and then there are more and i think that in the some of the nickel i've heard about i hadn't thought. guernica seller can come up with a hidden meaning if you can get in and out but he got a lot of that is that it doesn't have an intimate bit that farm look at that car what it must be that a. couple at that time it was that be the lair as well as how he'd look at that element that is that if a yemeni government is that that is why levy got everything at least 11 i wish that i got into one actual you know be not a lot done in a shop a shoe mally well let's. say at them at the store and have a lemon a lot had

a gun owner could develop them when a lunatic and i don't have a lot so what i learned here earlier that i had to do is you can without that kind of thing of a mystical energy and if you. would also hear that i hope you can look they're going to heal and i'm going to hurt in manila and other than conflict was not going to be. here yet i don't so i don't i'm there isn't one to convene up. here that i love and you're cool i'm going to give you or enigmas up held up whatever the negative i'm going to the last name of it up and took when i was in a funk now. under the stewardship of a humvee german appear to be on

a fast track to unification one of supporters welcomed the idea some domestic opponents and a more powerful neighbor viewed the prospect with less enthusiasm the saudi role in yemen has always been complex has always been complicated the saudi is did not like the. in the end toward the end they saw him as independent of them of course they saw him as perhaps threatening because he was able to consolidate the country behind him very difficult thing to do in yemen. and he also had particular international efforts to try and rope the relationship with the south yemen and of the saudis would be very. anxious if there were any moves to unify the country all good days for him meat and no couldn't even talk

about me much for a dollar and what any any other would mean not sure that he had any. good enough so if that is so the. and yet that minister. he gave and she'd. had it and machine mini me he could have been at the party and. not wanting to risk alienating the country's neighbor president al hamdi flew to saudi arabia his aim to reassure the saudis that his desire was to forge a new relationship one that looked toward shared and prosperous future according to president al homsi spokesman to accompany the leader the visit ended prematurely. never has involved at the military well again i guess we should. have. a little

how do you see in this thing. we certainly have better better had better. i wish there were. back there lou when you have an issue for a little sort of go ahead. i would have had another. euro or. help and. can raise. money to diversify who would refer to her now and the most american who would later walk the line. of brain matter a shade but he would. look out of yesterday. sadly not be tacky. and sort of. yemeni just kind of that the have many of

them was at a surreal dia be better. be topical. be number. he said doda haina be not all that i mean he said was that i what i eat what he did a living yet he did that will be. meanwhile back in north him and loyal associates warned comedy that he was over reliant on untrustworthy military leaders notably his army commander. me. and i mean and i mean him do anything but here over there the head of them 2nd and then an unknown are going to have. you know how to. work on your lawn and i think. they had. honeys. where they want to build a lot of. how they're going to have

a lot of can my habitats out the other living a 3rd of them of that i took a 4 by 4 room with a 5th another and opening the saudis that resorted to the most favorite and most. tried and true i hate to say true it wasn't but which is to pay off give money to those tribes that they thought would support them and what it meant was create problems for this interim government in this case humpty to try to keep him from becoming too strong and i think in the end they just decided he was a threat and decided to remove it. says he was in the latter really if he's got a center certainly can endure and has said it's only. the latin america the levy

to. blame and if it's an out of the national. i would like to sort out while i will not i will. let another lemon governor. kelly egypt and if i listen to rush me or not know why i did it in early gatlin little english me big whether it be yellow with the will get at him an ear. just read a brilliantly or can with damage not international who cannot govern as i lead the last letter to leslie collective was sucked out of the gutter lamanna the race a shade of brown and the ethnos will in again a measure. president all hamdi however dismissed suggestions that the army commanders are hashmi was plotting against him he argued quite the opposite that our hashmi had been consistently loyal to throughout his presidency.

by the commander can you be a priority raymond how do you know when or where you work and then i would go out there and know not how i know that the bait with no question was lacking he would have even happened near for the. crimean quickly read the memo to get it quickly read longhand you happen to have it this way. in their local medical and. of course at about 7 eleventh's our good stuff but i was a lot i had either for 11 that are all mad a cafe or have you any. idea what i lost on our one novel i should i will crush me supper how the hell. would you what. for but i will and the what i can and no other with me who already is eg if they were at the leading. in part 2 our humvees friends is deadly rivals and the enemies who posed as

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yemen war profiteer on al jazeera. and we shall carry on doha these are the top stories on al-jazeera a man in the philippines has become the 1st person to die from corona virus outside of china 304 people have died within china and more than $14000.00 cases have been confirmed and hong kong pressure is growing on the government to close its border with the mainland the philippines and new zealand have joined the u.s. and australia and banning entry to foreigners who recently visited china there's that new zealand's prime minister has been saying. new zealand permanent residents and citizens who have been in mainland china will continue to be able to retune harm they will be required to go into isolation for

a period of 14 days for anyone who has visited mainland china in the last 14 days they will not be able to come in and remain within new zealand's borders restrictions will be placed at the border we will be reviewing that every 48 hours china is also struggling to contain an outbreak of bird flu cases reported on a farm in the city of shanghai and then province with 4500 birds died the government has called a further further 17800 chicken has called them rather 5 n one strain of bird flu can be transmitted to humans it is rare though iraq has a new prime minister after months of political deadlock and anti-government protests but administrators say the form of communication minister mohammad alawi as part of the old ruling elite and they'll continue protesting france is deploying $600.00 more soldiers to africa to hell region to fight against armed groups the french defense ministry says the troops will mostly be sent to an area that

includes parts of mali became a faso in his chair and already has about $4500.00 soldiers in the region japan is sending a warship to the gulf for what it calls an intelligence gathering mission. talking on a destroyer was sent off with the ceremony near tokyo on sunday 90 percent of japan's oil imports come from the gulf the prime minister shinzo aves expected to authorize the military to protect commercial oil tankers but this has been opposed by some groups. u.s. secretary of state might pompei who has urged to press china over the detention of leader muslims and a visit to the country met with ethnic conflicts who accuse china detaining family members. so the headlines keep it here much more to come on al-jazeera in the meantime al-jazeera world continues. it was $977.00 and

a bit of him off comedy was in his 3rd year as president of north yemen he aimed to modernize the country but faced internal opposition some suspected army commander hashmi of plotting against it. 9 months said pa since president of family had met his southern counterpart it was approaching the 14th of october and the 2 leaders were due to meet an agent for what many expected would be an important announcement about reunification of north and south yemen. had a facility of the allegation that would lead to i mean the i that. can have more a lie of about him the allied while i thought i did i that they have the kind i was shocked at the how they got out to him. so far to the how without commuter commuter that never no longer the poor what a sad way out. according

to now declassified the u.s. state department documents me invited al homsi to lunch at his home in sanaa it was billed as a celebration to mark the return to the capital of yemen's prime minister who'd been receiving medical treatment abroad. humvee was late and at 130 in the afternoon al-hashmi called the president to remind him of the invitation and the importance of attending. that i'd have to say and that i. well all be it so you will like me and that madge the fact that and then i will make the magazine in every argument i left have alleged that i don't say i yell kelab the level a hit that there was had there and they were. one of the 1st to arrive at what became known as the lost lunch was abdullah. a senior

army officer and brother of the president the host hashmi had assembled a guest list that was a who's who of yemen's leadership amongst the dignitaries was ali abdullah saleh commander of the thai iis military brigade and a future president. to find out more money came from undersea to arabic went to paris to meet with a humvee spokesman at the time all the spokesman was not at the lunch he did speak to a key witness. in the well what's your handle and i live alone or american dad of flesh and i had the luck. khaled known kind of to do i'm going to the community de lima company severus a year and a week into. a 10. who barely seem to do on recovery will either have

a very good on going to the house video and other. immaculata. according to the eyewitness as the bodyguards waited outside our humvee was welcomed by all cost me and ali abdullah saleh both yemeni presidents in waiting. good fortune was about to run out. the number 20 but i'm an. 11 me cannot. get out of the lobby about a no knock on about a novel i said. i don't like that last. can you read it i'm going to be a middle of the road race i can go my. unknown . but i wonder how lost people what with all and about how lucky i live eat a pile of 1st from

a thread talk about in some public eye though. the gal at the beginning and get the. sheriff. then why go. to a little you know what i meant but didn't have any color and if you're going to have a screen. what the. family. have a can do with. this you have a ladder and then cut back well if you got to do that then you can and i wish i did he never has a little to. the point where he walks through the door is one of the account gets

murky where facts give way to fearing and speculation it's a story with different and depending on the storyteller. the guests were expecting to bid al hunt a farewell given that the president was due to fly to aden for all important talks with his southern counterpart the next day as minutes turn to hours hyundai's bodyguards became increasingly concerned and yeah i did i hope i don't buy that they'd make the u.n. really bad how. hot out the law lemay you know the fogel cover had what i that's there those yellow would overwhelm at least well hope the kind of. jealousy of have thought malev a good salary. less as a. lot of i got than i have. come to my life. since that is that there

was a. very good. but the. negative . notes. i even of yeah well. i'm glad we got you know who can drive a missile and know god haven't already alice obama's have a laugh at. the president's bodyguards were left wondering how all hamdi could have been assassinated while in the company of his most trusted political allies what should have been a lunch celebration had become a crime scene so what happened that afternoon and who may have been responsible most of those present on that day have since died indeed a number would themselves be murdered later there are clues however to be found in the archives of western embassies who closely followed events in yemen in 19771

american account attributed to all crushed me who would before the day's end assume the presidency claimed that unidentified gunman had shot al homsi while in his car . another more euro decant said that al hamdi and his brother had rented a small house hideaway that they had picked up 2 french guns and that somehow both brothers had been murdered not only had the president been killed but it appeared that his character was also under assassination. they were only going to feel now that they had what happened in in get can where when and. when you walk and with a laugh or the main american day. and one of the french connection the 2 women who were said to have been with the

brothers not only did the exist but they were indeed murdered in yemen around the same time as president are harmed their names were very only twat and false wires. verily twa had a glamorous lifestyle enjoying the company of film directors in france as glitzy riviera to some she was a high class call go to others she was a spy. to live in a mound of a dump that. dot com now and if she can't or put it i mean the police could use if you don't get past it probably paled of only quote actually most of what have you to mocked him as you put it back if your. if your only caught in the trenches car if you're past your you man. a few need to look at is not a locker never you know it was an aquarium and. one of my very good yummy friends

mohammed shami was a diplomat. and he was. an a friend of his in the embassy in paris her fanny was the person who recruited. these 2 prostitutes and had them and sent them to yemen and i remember her as sami he also cried when he told me that story he was a true believer in the end the role that al handy. was going to hopefully play in the development of yemen so 100 shani just thought terrible that he had been the person who had recruited these 2 prostitutes prostitutes who were then killed and thrown into a room with the brothers in order to bring shame in.

this respect the respect upon the 100 brothers their family. is the most sort of not put. this into fam. question kitty but you are more. wrong the affair you may need tell a book. you don't agree you know them or. miss you are the last measure get their ms affair contrail a key review on the. law although i was told this a don't don't isn't the icky marco patience the more calm or fair to. say the farmer. or i

lay open or. because it doesn't give it the shots they decide to miss you are more easily to patsy off that you ever did to plan their lines. on this character's son now sweet. is it possible to ever find a twat happen. i was a humvee murder and who benefited from his assassination there are several firies no hard facts are in short supply. where the. value of the us are less a lover coeval that feeling. alive the loss of that when we were there is. a good little theory. it will be a no actually i mean read the choice but i doubt that assad had one of them that had a belly and got let me. back in i got to know how to get away from the russian. also

on the list of suspects for tribal enemies opposed to our humvees a rouge in their power others suspected the hand of saudi arabia so i have never asked any and now that i've got it so who are they and then thought it had been thought of them who had no and i have asked that it come of a flower she did know so well i wasn't i think i was lucky that's all the best i like best yet. and i ask that he get me that a lot of you are thinking of a mile and a well i think that the saudis decided to get rid of the simply because they saw him as getting too strong and. undercutting their influence in yemen. able to counter their traditional way of dealing with tribes. 2 weeks after the murder saudi arabia issued an official statement categorically denying

any involvement in the hyundai's assassination. the denial came after claims within yemen including by a number of foreign diplomats that individual saudis may have been involved in the assassination albeit in directly. their suspicion was that those who benefited most from the crime had links to saudi arabia. the widespread view what i heard from yemeni contacts friends in private of course was that these assassinate this hassidim hamdi was. it was a saudi run operation using yemenis who were in their pay more. people that don't would do their back and among those was crushed me and certainly

only dulls sala of the some of the current thai is. no one was ever charged with the murder neither al-hashmi nor sana ever had met at any point in the death of all found. me died just a few months off towards us for ali abdullah saleh he became president in 1978 and would later point the finger of blame at saudi arabia. which it will not own and eat and i will not out of that unless you. damage i have. myself i like. and want to laugh at it. so that you know you can be a bit of heidi and you only at the at least don't let me do my talk on the deck and you know how that if he had the deck and he asked me why you have to listen to. the al jazeera arabic examination of the death of a bit of a mile from d.c.

has uncovered numerous documents and heard testimony from many who were in yemen in the 1970 s. these include the deputy ambassador at the u.s. mission in yemen who arrived in sanaa 2 months after the murder of a humvee he diplomatic cables from the time have been released others remain under lock and key the reasons why the government might not declassify which is that is the word to make it public would be perhaps there are intelligence sources really there are quotes or connections with individuals who are still alive who might be compromised by what's in the message could be american intelligence people because the yemeni political figures that would be one reason why you might not do it the 2nd might be that there is something in the message which would undermine our relationship it was with another country. another cable this time declassified from

british diplomats in saudi arabia in 1977 sheds further details on the denial of saudi involvement it was in response to news agency reports in the region and to a bulletin on radio moscow the statement added that saudi arabia would stand by those they refer to as their brothers in yemen recognizing the close ties between humvee and saudi arabia. breaking the news to the yemeni people that their president had been killed was a task that fell to al hunt his official spokesman. he was summoned to the office of all hashmi the recently installed president and asked to draft a statement the result was an announcement that was high on emotion and low on details. i would remember the lower east usually in mono you

know. what you know if you have. a fish alert and they get collagen emotion and their own lives i look at the how difficult work and library warholian if you look at who has had it who are who literally. badly look to go for can. have a fever. they work they are highly. and so that's your 7th day then it's sad that the crew had a swoop like that can come and tipped over so we're going to go like that again oh october this would go into the neck i was in the. bad bad. 7 now back to gilligan and we love. you i shall be here many ok. now what the peabody came

out and i'm going to go with. the coverage all morning it. has to share me but i was. never. home share this young man and that's when you can see. that's your money. i mean. you know a little shop may have all but here. are the. alamo but. many of. the reaction from the international community to the assassination was muted there were regrets and sympathy expressed but little else they became our family had been

murdered a whirl was missing or. because they learned with a great sorrow the tragic death of the president of the arab republic of yemen he's excellent to see that he brought him mohammad out hyundai islamist want the law to be a let the orderly but it is not a plea at that they have a shot. what do and you know what would be eliminate a. bit of. it well more. people not about it have it. and let me i would be. the host of what became known as the last lunch. assumed office and succeeded to the presidency his tenure however was short lived just 8 months into his term he

too was assassinated killed by a briefcase bomb allegedly carried by an envoy from some of yemen though some dispute the truth identity of his killing. the revolving door of yemeni leadership brought in a new president. a month later he was of office and ali abdullah son who consolidated his power base and later in 1990 would become president of the united yemen. a political survivor. would remain in power through 33 turbulent years his political career ended with his murder in 2017. the biggest goal his major goal was to turn yemen into. the major regional player in politics

in terms of red sea security and in terms of unifying north and south yemen it's easy to conjecture as to what they may have accomplished was he actually serious about uniting north and south but none of this came to your version because the was killed before he was able to. to go down to our then in the cold war of 1977 and announce his plans. to years offered hope for many yemenis here was a modernizing president with the stated aim of unifying the country. as for who killed him there are suspects and theories but no one will ever know researchers have examined documents film and video without ever producing a smoking gun. the new president. certainly benefited from the murder

and all hamdi had enemies including some tribal leaders opposed to his reform agenda. as for saudi arabia no direct evidence linking riyadh to the plotters ever came to light. the secrets of the assassination of abraham hamdi remain a mystery 40 years on there are few witnesses still alive and his family is still seeking justice had he survived yemen might have steered a different path with different outcomes cut short by murder able him or hundreds vision was unfulfilled.

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