Saudi Arabia is a pressure cooker on the verge of implosion. Over 2,000 Saudi asylum seekers are now going to the United States and Britain. The so-called reforms of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman have been hailed as revolutionary reformer. He allows Saudis to go to concerts and he allows women to attend football matches if accompanied by their male guardians. So this top-down revolution that is happening is producing asylum seekers.
In this week's episode of the Sunday debate we go back to 2019. In the aftermath of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul we brought together leading experts to debate how the West should respond to the abrasive crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman.
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