Preview: Mehdi Hasan speaks to the Saudi ambassador to the UN“Just because there are elections in Syria doesn’t mean there have to be elections somewhere else” – Abdallah al-Mouallimi, the Saudi ambassador to the UN, tells Mehdi HasanWatch the full episode online: http://aje.io/shqc

Posted by UpFront on Friday, March 25, 2016

Nearly a year into the Saudi-led coalition’s airstrikes in Yemen, what does the kingdom hope to gain?

In this week’s wide-ranging Headliner interview, Mehdi Hasan speaks to Abdallah al-Mouallimi, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the UN, about the country’s involvement in Yemen and Syria, ISIL and the kingdom’s human rights record.