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california largest active wildfire exploded, engulfing the gold rush, or a town of greenville and threatening several others. a sheriff's office stores b strows, saloons, gas stations, homes, all left and embers. it's 800 residence appear to have escaped following a mandatory evacuation order. over the last 24 hours, we've had explosive fire growth, driven by winds out of the west and southwest media and ologist have given a red flag warning where we have historically dry conditions, low humidity, low fuel moisture combined with those winds that drove the fire. as we drove through mountain passage to reach greenville came another evacuation order for taylorsville, then one after the other for clear creek time town walker lake and the list goes on . the dixie fires been burning for 3 weeks,

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a 0 world? ah ah . oh, i mysteries, death. possibly a tragic accident. another theory is suicide. while some observers are convinced this very public death in central london was an act of murder, the victim,

a man of wealth, power, and intrigue. ah, it was a mid week summer afternoon in the british capital. and most londoners were going about their daily business. it was a wedding day, the followers of british politics. remember as the day when prime minister tony blair was on his way to buckingham palace to offer his resignation to queen elizabeth. but there was another important event on that cloudy afternoon. ah, count enhanced harris as one of london's most fashionable addresses former residents into 3 previous but his prime ministers, it lies just a few 100 meters from piccadilly centers. ah,

on that june day in 2007, the gin to you rose garden was filled with police 1st responders to the strange discovery of a man's body lying on the mon. the body was that of 63 year old doctor ashley, small one father of to me, a billionaire businessman and a spy. ah, his fall from the fish floor balcony, which spot more questions than answers and he's fallen. did he jump or was he pushed? dr. my one was the 3rd dejection living in london to die in this way. in 1973, the egyptian ambassador to the u. k. general lacy nazis fell from a balcony in the very same building. and in 2001 actress sewer house, me known as the cinder runner of egypt in cinema, also found to her death. ah,

it generally accepted the dash off mall. one was a highly valued intelligence agent. but what is in dispute is whether he was working for israel for his native egypt, or both. as is the case with any unexplained death in britain, a police investigation and a coroner's court would attempt to find answers their role to draw different sections of law enforcement into the investigation. the tim plenty of dax diamond fees are going to be open. and common law for plenty of person. but if you are, as you had the please walked out of a little note she has, she will most likely use some metropolitan police. and the last one would miss

dial one to talk to him out of new scotland yard. in britain, there's a strict police protocol. when arriving at a suspicious incident, it's essential that evidence is preserved clues that may be of value later in the investigation. they tend to seen, they should feel the area. so there's 2 areas to see here. one is where the person has fallen, so that entire area should be sealed because there may be important evidence. secondly, the apartment from where the person has fallen that needs to be sealed as well. it's very important that these areas a sealed because the forensic detail you may, someone else come out to work on that short short but it does take

a look in the what's called autumn. a couple enable man, though he tells you there were 3 immediate explanations facing the police, an accident, suicide, or murder. in some cases because is obvious and as evidence, man, some police attention is drawn to a single conclusion. absolutely, the police quite frequently can do that. and the problem is, once they do that, then they will look for the evidence to support that theory. a potentially ignoring other more profitable avenues that they could be going down or discarding bits of evidence that didn't fit without the theory. so that can be a problem. and it happens fairly regularly. in this case, the police had undertaken an investigation, but it seems that the police had already pre determined themselves. but this is a suicide case. the police have come to the

coroner's court. they said, this man is formed over the balcony. we don't have any other evidence. what is certain is that dr. mar, one was alive. when he tumbled over the balcony of his luxury apartment, initial police investigations looked at all possible options. the former editor of the british newspaper, the independent, has followed the case closely at the time he poured out over the suicide theory, saying there were too many unanswered questions. no. all thing i do know about him are 2 things. one is very proudman. and i don't think troutman kill himself, not law. and secondly was, he is a very meticulous man. and i don't believe he was a left unfinished business. it wasn't clear whether he think it was

a no, sorry thing. if it was to no bus or to seem right to me, the coroner's court would later establish that mar, one, died from a traumatic rupture to the l. water. the main artery, carrying blood from the heart. according to this document published by we can lease more one's family does not believe he took his own life. she was planning for the future, and suicide did not figure in his plans. dr. my once family, it will very much of the mind that he did not commit suicide. so in order to persuade the coroner, the current, the story that this was a case of suicide, mom would have to highlight certain things. how did dr. m? i want to present in the days, weeks leading up to the 27th of june,

2007. did it seem happy? did he have any plans? so i understand his wife was very clear that this was a 63 old man with everything to live for. he was still working. he still had an active life. and in fact, she had holidays plan with his grandchildren. so you would highlight that, you know, somebody who had the ongoing plans the, they anticipate being around not taking their own life in the inquest took place in london some 3 years later they declared an open verdict. meaning that the death was suspicious, but was no clear cause me sure . well when hey, when heavy and low would the lead to her? was it in no hyatt, i should have little one with turkey. bird weight isn't that?

can it did the probably or the day he let me out the good in nor can you when it, where you can and your d a. d local and b, n. m a silicon, mr. tower. why the mostly listen and the lease. so when kathy haseb calling everybody plenty of room, when they're sitting in dan was let tina have di here in the russia went on a fish just in the hallway and fish. that is between the whole what about open verdict for all day. and so the open verdict is where the corner thing something is wrong here. but i don't know what happened. there was not enough evidence before me to come to any conclusion as to how this death occurred. this all. the court opened

the me some voted years in ashley mall. one money mona gammel, i don't nasa, daughter of egypt, then president jabal abdur nasa. ah, on the day her husband died. mona was in beirut, while their 2 sons wanting cairo. there are no independent witnesses to whatever card 24 carlton house terrace on that june afternoon in 2007. welcome to be prime minister for 10 years. but 10 years, our country and no one can be in any day. he has considerable achievement to can i say there are plenty of theories which but hard facts are in short supply the scene offered investigators a lot of clues, but nothing definitive enough for them to come to

a conclusion as to what exactly happened in the apartment. mm. the shops of life and death were equally and matic both filled with incomplete details and half answered questions. just who was ash off mar, one. only those who were closest to him can genuinely answer the question. one british journalist succeeded in contacting mall. one's family ah, i spent about 6 months trying to speak to someone from moment family via the british lawyer off to after

a long period of time and expectedly, i kind of given up on ever hearing from them. and then after the blue, i got an email from that who was my younger son? and he said meet me in london, tori, lunchtime. and so of course i raced the next day, he was smoking and very thoughtful and his answers, he took a long time to answer every one of my questions. so i asked him about some questions initially just tina to tell me by his father, what was it like right up came in with some of the more pressing questions that i had for example, does it, did he believe that his father killed himself and if not and who was behind his death for the moment the family, it was very important that the coroner's inquest would show that she did not kill himself for that face. and for also the probably the 1st time they they are

completely satisfied that investigation. show that to be the case. when did not kill himself for me quite by that because it was my father and i found out that he didn't commit suicide. so want to know why he wasn't with us. i. there's some evidence that dr. my one salt in those final days that his life was on the sweat. ah, no one's widow. mona nurse has rarely spoken publicly about her husband's death. but in july 2010, she did agree to a london newspaper interview. she claimed the agents of the israeli intelligence as motto were behind her husband's death. though there's no evidence to back this up. she said that her husband feared for his life, believing that assassins were coming after him. and she categorically ruled on the

possibility of suicide, saying they were a happy couple with everything to live for. she told the paper that quote, there is no way he killed himself. it is so painful to think about one's husband being thrown over the balcony. so who was ash off my one's enemies might be on july in egypt where it's being claimed me a gyptian businessman was spying for israel. ah. and together and not one thing. they could, you know, be fitting for him. if he had told us of milan, whom the head of leah fatherland on when it was for me to go to select the diamond in my home. when i went to my darling myself got at the

leet again, the autumn is already to get and give me a hit. it ought to be at levy. it's known that mother one became exceptionally wealthy through his business dealings in london. he owned a share in chelsea. football club and had a business reputation for playing by his own rules. upset lots of dozens of companies all over the place. and lichtenstein leaders into any deal that you can make money from. now. i've got no direct knowledge of these deals, but i do know of a number of companies that he was involved with. and any one of the live turns the one's career was most loan and in many ways distinguished his marriage to the daughter of egypt. and president opened many doors for him. some believe that he owed his reported billionaire status to having a master fortune brokering alms deals. during his lifetime,

my wife was described as a diplomat, a businessman, a politician, a government adviser, under spine. it's likely that at different stages, he performed all of these wrongs. but the name of my one is best known for espionage. there's no question that he spied for israel. he may, however, have been a double agent when his true loyalty being to his native egypt. when there's all countries is other than any other country interested in intelligence, that's the way you know what you will. and i mean, sometimes your friends think so the best swayed having someone so close to to the president found it was the son in law of government, the nasa. and later the president saw that was invaluable,

full accumulating information and close to the decision making. as was the case, or for any coin. these are the spy in the moscow's a few years earlier. at 1st, the suggestion that ash off more one, a man at the very heart of egyptian society, at spite or israel seems implausible. ah, what's intriguing about the my one kid. again, there are many things that we don't know what we do. i think fairly well documented from the israeli side, not from the chips and site is that was offered his own services to this, right. these there are several stories about how my one was recruited as in israeli spy. one comes from newly bod, joseph, and also who's written extensively about israeli intelligence. in 2016, bon joseph,

published the angel egyptian spy. who saved israel. this account of my one's life says he was code named the angel by israeli intelligence. the book claims that my one phoned the israeli embassy in london offering his services. after being initially rebuffed, more one and a senior more side agent agreed to meet the series of phone calls and messages followed. the mazda and agents realized quickly that this was a potential source like no other. the son in law of the egyptian president, a message was sent to my one, to go to a nearby cafe. ah, these railings would initially skeptical of the approach,

wondering if my one's true intention was to become a double agent in order to feed false information back to them. more one pushed and across the table. later the jerusalem post reported the european head of most ad saying that material like this from a source like this happens once in a 1000 years. well, any case officer who receives potential walk in or a double agent will always assume the worst. and the best way that a walk in can establish their credentials is by producing festival proof of their own identity. secondly, proof of their access to the kind of information that would be of interest to the recipient. and thirdly, best of all would be to provide a specimen. so examples of really good intelligence which demonstrates the status

of the agent and his or her level of access as to the contents of the envelope handed over in london cafe, that remains a mystery. also unknown and subject to much speculation, a mo ones, photos. obviously one of the documents are 40 people, either those under laps and take time until all of them would be different. but the fact it's, you, eagle, you become even closer to sad that that it was, twist father in law. that was more suspicious of fame soluble as it is, is a young playbook that was more interested in political power and ins on, you know, in, in his life that was coming up the lesser daughter the, this was a time of profound political change in egypt. on the 28th of september, 1970 nasa suffered a sudden heart attack and died at the age of $52.00. he

was succeeded by almost and this could have spelled the end of ash off my one's position at the heart of government an influence in egypt. but instead he drew close to sit at shielding him from political opponents and earning trust along the way. he represented egypt and a number of high level missions with 2 arab neighbors. saudi arabia and libya. ah, sophomore one was position at the center of egypt, decision making, while at the same time, feeding information to its greatest regional adversary. israel, a sophomore, won the bill of someone that's fad that we like closer to mo,

western minded, small economic minded. and as a result of 50 plastered him, but the more we talk to the in the more sophomore and became invaluable. today's ah, the coming up in part to arms dealing political maneuvering. spy, craft. the everyday world of ash rough, my one my high on promise, as he talk many, many season disappointed, a lot of people and the one of his business deals could have gone wrong or he took money on people he should not have done. and there was an aspect of revenge. ah,

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