In this episode John is joined by US academic and foreign policy analyst, Daniel Pipes, to explore the significance of the vote taken by the US Congress to overturn President Obama's veto against families of the victims of 9/11 from bringing forward a civil action against the Saudi government over its alleged involved in the attack. What does this mean for US-Saudi relations? And how can Washington claim to be a champion of human rights and democracy while retaining a special relationship with this brutal regime waging war in Yemen?
We also take to streets of Edinburgh to ask: what do you think of western policy towards Saudi Arabia?
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