Kinds of words and innuendos that there is turmoil within the family in the form of criticism but that doesnt justify you know being arrested like criminals with mass Security Forces coming to their homes and yanking him out of their private residences mohamed bin solomon known as has a reputation for cracking down on anyone who opposes him 27 tane dozens of senior members of the royal family and billionaire businessmen were rounded up and detained at a luxury hotel in riyadh the saudi government said it was an anticorruption drive Rights Groups disagreed. Hundreds of activists including womens Rights Campaign allusion i have to are also in prison. Hes not worried about people trying to make a pool he doesnt want any independent voices that dont agree with him and its noteworthy that a madman abdulaziz a woman of 3 people on the council of royal members in saudi arabia that decides the succession he was one of the 3 who didnt vote for him had been summoned to become the crown Prince Mohammed bin solomons most notorious legacy so far is between 18 killing of saudi journalists. In the kingdoms consolation a stand to show she was murdered by a hit squad made up of some of been solomons personal entourage his body dismembered and eva found the cia concluded that the crown prince must have known about the operation if not ordered it himself. Who is the most senior thats really and. Actually overseas for many years came back. 3 years ago to kind of try to calm things down. After b. S. Took over and there were some. Kind of turmoil within the royal family prince ahmed and mohammed bin nayef were both seen as possible rivals to the throne when i say 4 year old king solomon dies reports suggest they now face long term imprisonment or even death. Brian al jazeera. Lebanons top leaders say the country shouldnt rip a 1200000000. 00 worth of debt that still on monday the Prime Minister president and Central Bank Governor of agreed to back any decision that the government makes to manage the debt except paying it back when its due the country is struggling with an unprecedented economic crisis its led to months of mass demonstrations the south korean government has limited sales of mosques to to a person per week its trying to replenish stocks which have been running low due as a panic buying over the corona Virus Outbreak the total number of infections that now stands at more than 7000. 00. 21. 00 people aboard a cruise ship off San Francisco in california have tested positive for the corona virus the grand princess is being held off shore while its 3 and a half 1000 passengers and crew tested at least 35 people at reported flu like symptoms. U. S. President donald trump has appointed a new white house chief of staff republican congressman mark meadows will take over from Mick Mulvaney hes been acting chief for the past year although he will now be washingtons special envoy to Northern Ireland turkeys defense minister says the ceasefire is Holding Around it late province in the in syria the agreement brokered by turkey and russia ended airstrikes for the 1st time in months but theyve been reports of some fighting in the southern parts of the province between Syrian Government forces and the section of the of opposition. Those are the headlines ill be back with an update for you in around 25 minutes right about the aljazeera family the Hosni Mubarak story. Org. On the 3rd of august 28th that in the trial of the former president of egypt personal mubarak for corruption and ordering the killing of protesters began in cairo. Along with mubarak in the cage where his 2 sons and get my face for my interior minister and 6 x. Police commanders. But. I thought that i dont know. What was the 83 year old former dictator thinking all in the courtroom that day. Was he perhaps reviewing the journey through life that had brought him to this place. Last. New years eve 2000 the world comes together to celebrate the coming good millennium. Put it comes the whole of new beginnings. But not in my. List then 3 months. Egypt had already celebrated something rather different. And yet tried that for me. 3 election of president Hosni Mubarak for the 4th time. What a contrast from his problems 18 years previous. Were. In his 1st speech when he became president for the 1st time he said that he wouldnt stand for more than 2 terms. That his speeches wouldnt last longer than 20 minutes but his wife wouldnt appear in the media and unlike others buildings on public monuments wouldnt be named after. A human sharpie how to implement it better that. The president that took office in 1008 to one was a totally different person from he who was in control in 1990. And waterboard the promises that timi back in those early days of all. Of them were forgotten. That should. Bear the burden of the people around him would all say you are leaving what would we do without you you have to stay this pressure was not just from the hypocrites around him but also for a bus family i dont mean his close relatives but more the on a scrupulous people surrounding the it was mrs initially choosing to keep mrs lowder in the background. Yet in the 1st years of his push to see. Did dunder to minor activities which were except by the children. Princess of wales was accompanied by the wife of the egyptian president mrs b. Then a stamp went by she became more and more. She was ambitious to be sent to a stake. They didnt advertise a twite but Suzanne Tebbit now known as Suzanne Mubarak was huff which. Her mother coming from the tiny coal mining village of fun to predict. Believe me parma the daughter of a humble coal miner never lived to see this moment. Her daughter meeting Queen Elizabeth as egypts firstly. Could life get any better than davis. In 1930 just says her husband embarked on his 2nd term suzanne too was emboldened to start her 1st major public project. But reading for all resulted in millions of books being distributed to the egyptian public that little cost over the following 17 years the only catch the president s wife was on the back of instead of the off. Here. She had the passion for art and music in particular classical western arabic music where. She was a good reader who had obtained a masters in sociology at the American University in cairo. The history of terms. As our president begins more and more power his wife created her own court surrounding herself with ministers and top ships. She had no status within the constitution she was just the president s wife but it was almost like the 1st lady left the 1st ladys back your presence was amazing in yesterdays speech the speech was excellent egyptians are hypocritical to whoever is in power with that has a little of that the end up being turned into little dictatorships that will. And this to you star has words is too early also. Why Suzanne Mubarak called the spotlight an eldest son no matter settled was a changed man. With his bachelor days behind him he was no also a father. Baby muhammad named after his grandfather had the right in 1907 to charm the president and perhaps to remind him of a happy childhood he himself never. Called them. How madonna was always playing with a toy pistol. If officials walked in they would have to play with mohammed and act dead when he shot them up. But of course and with. If he didnt fall mohammed would get very angry. This happened once when a senior official came to visit the president. Obama took aim and fired the man looked at him and smiled he looked at his grandfather and asked why he didnt die. The president of the demand and said why didnt you die lie down youre dead and the more. The president and his grandson were playing. The president. Was playing his escape. And the plaything the influence his name could carry throughout. With a weapon. In the late eightys began expanding into partnerships that many businessmen regarded as dubious the most but again in. The 2nd there was no reference to his name in any of these partnerships. The acceptable form of word was to call him facilitator. As he had the ability to influence ministers to facilitate the work. He. Made. Some of the stories in egypt about business conducted by mubaraks sons became a law firm matter and there is in fact a famous joke an owner of a cafe had photos up on the wall of the 3 president s talk to. A guy walks into the cafe and asks who these guys are all no answers this is not either of the 1952 revolution president s. War and this is the father of my business partner. Was accumulating wealth and influence in his own country. Wasnt exactly his he loved. Where he had been since then the 1980 s. What he may have been doing behind this and the unsubstantiated rumors of Money Laundering right publicly it was simply bank of americas chief. But it seems he was biding his time for greater things that could. Have been to london a few times and he invited me to dinner at a restaurant behind. What. He was very keen on internal egyptian politics and would ask or comment on a number of issues. I really felt this is where his interest in Public Affairs that. June 2000. President and the birth of the 1st republican didnt state in the history of the add a book. City is how fizzing s. It died after 3 decades. d smeared on a shot at. A deli its. A lot of b. S. We didnt days of discussion of the syrian cause situation had been amended to allow his 34 year old son bush the ophthalmologist to become president. The movie. Where syria. Others would respond to full. Agreement. With the president bashar assad to power after his late father. Was preparing his son Saddam Hussein was preparing his sons a day or. Was preparing his son seif. So became a trend of succession in the region this motivated as a wife and mother. For Susan Mubarak it was like a light had been switched off. The chosen one would be here youngest son who i know had returned from london not only should he be thrust forward to succeed his father in due course but the brilliance of the scheme would mean that a new president. Would have no interest in prosecuting the mistakes of the old president Hosni Mubarak. It could all be. Flawed and then i let me get my for him Suzanne Mubaraks insistence on the triumph of the succession project wasnt just political of him and it was as much about her maintaining her social status. He moved shifting from the president s wife to becoming the president s mother. Similar to the queen mother then that i am now a month from our work and there was an important psychological factor here true. In so much as suzanne saw herself is the woman made a success of and she was now preparing another mubarak her son. The 1st step in getting manners eventually elevation to the presidency was for him to join the Ruling National Democratic Party which if nothing else was not the democratic nor gnash. From the outset imagine again to maneuver easily to power in the pocket in less than 2 years the excellent banker was head of the n. D. P. Politburo powerful committee specially created for. All of the going out of his father respected his intelligence claiming that he had finished his exams in a shorter time than moment which meant he saved a whole year his father really thought he was clever and generally respected his opinion. Having taken over the party the genius son also assumed responsibility for his fathers office. But only when now to get to the president was to go mad. But there was still. The president himself was showing no signs of wanting to step aside in favor of his boy. Out of the authorities from what had order initially who was against his son succeeding him not so much out of concern for the country but more because he was generally selfish and wanted to remain in power to the extent that he once said what would i do if i left the presidency chopped onions how the heart of mustard. Whatever material to slough it what that means. 2003. Just sucks. As the president spoke in parliament he collapsed. Line on. Egyptian Television Oprah largely cut away from the moment but the act was quite literally falling apart. Then just over 6 months later he failed again. This time he traveled to munich in germany for back surgery. It was raining it was terrible. Therefore because he was in such easy your pain he couldnt walk. He was really really suffering and and his situation was like the weather. Is one and a half hour surgery was completely on event for and the president was on the road to recovery. But as he did cooperated in his german hospital room or circulated in egypt that he had died on the operating table. It was simple enough for me to put paid to the stories by making a Television Appearance but he was also anxious to get back on. This was always my impression that he wanted to go back to egypt as quick as possible to show that hes ok and then i remember the 1st thing in the days after the operation. Is good as to iraq as much as possible and to walk stands i remember this because he said i want to leave as quick as possible but i will not leave if im not able to walk down the gangway from the. To show that im. Back again and fit. Within days of his return mubarak was clearing to act the strongman again. He shuffled his cabinet introducing new faces most of them businessmen and members of the mans n. D. P. Party. In the streets of cairo we called it. Mubarak skeptic but true friend that was a hard as the new generation came on the scene his son his sons friends and a small group of businessmen everything began to change it was like an old man passing the speeding wheel to his son leaving us all to crash it had been acquitted of a. Mans ambitious agenda for seizing power from his aging father was getting more obvious. As the time approached for another president ial election in 2005 some said it was the moment forgot to make his move. But the old man was not going to go without a fight my honor to welcome our white house. To do that for the kind of subtle messages from his father twice over. The wall wasnt really ready. And that he needed to stay left college but if i go back if there was one kind of constant threat. With the bark there was this kind of sense that he was irreplaceable. Only he understood each other only he could manage easily and i think that even these kind of subtle messages about son were kind of part and parcel of his indispensability to 2 ruling egypt short stop. In. September 2005 and the president who had once promised to stay for only one term was camp. Painting for his 5th in office. And he also had a further surprise for the electorate. This time thanks to a cool situation changed they were allowed to vote for other people. The trouble was that the rules were so another that only nonentities could stand against the man who had ruled our country for a quarter of a century. No one was surprised one has no mubarak one eye lens right. For the 1st lady. Plans for a smooth succession for her son so that she could progress to 1st mother may have been temporarily frustrated. But the reality was that she still dominated the project that was the mubarak presidency. But. Then she settled on none of the dishes plan. Or obsession with winning the Nobel Peace Prize to the extent that she supported his appointment to nisco so as to help get her the price. Than it was the women m. P. s movement so she could get the nobel prize she traveled the world making speeches receiving whatever prizes she could. She created reading for all she visited children i mean she did everything but none of it was spontaneous it was all done for the purpose of furthering her personal glory that. America is sure it was below. Them who knows what did you grow. And dia most of inspired Suzanne Mubarak to believe that she could possibly be a candidate for a Nobel Peace Prize. But what was certain by 2008 was that her husband now approaching his 80th birthday was increasingly isolated as his wife and his son protected him from uncomfortable truths. The president didnt always receive all the information that he should have he just got told stuff that wouldnt upset him if it was something that may disturb him we were usually told not to tell him just to make sure he was always in a good mood. I couldnt believe it when the film the president shared came to the movie theaters of each of them along sometimes i think i ordered. A book and they loved each was a huge hit and the talk of the streets and i. Try to talk about. Them in a chemical to live like the ice everyone knew that although the producers said it was a fiction this was really the true story of an isolated president comes like a nice guy whos only reliable informant about what was going on in the country was on an important function. Of people who go on to come across. As in the course of the falcons are shrinking. In the film he was a ship. In reality he was muhammad i shoot the president personally make a bomb just. Rubble down on the campus on the way how would he say it and when that man woke up he was like oh master. No one could laugh talk or feel anything to and i would look. In the car but everyone was serious. And it was as if we were. It was. So i was the one who would speak to tell him a few jokes make him laugh until he would then Start Talking about Politics State affairs or just generally socializing. Oh my limited going to im sure. You remember. In the movie the fictional president s henchman fire in his shift because of his relationship with the press. In north. Korea life then mirror gone out when a year after the film was released i sure was removed by mubaraks. They realized that i began talking to him about some relationship. Including his son succession. To them i appeared to be dangerous. When i received a call from the minister of information saying that. You will no longer see the president. Continued if nothing had changed with the. 2 countries. But. It was more a message to. Rather than to the. Conflict over the presidency had reached its peak. Isolated and exhausted yet still fighting. On the 18th 2009 the