{"id":189415,"date":"2015-10-07T15:27:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T15:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=189415"},"modified":"2015-10-07T15:27:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T15:27:38","slug":"david-cameron-destroyed-on-air-over-hypocritical-saudi-arabia-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/david-cameron-destroyed-on-air-over-hypocritical-saudi-arabia-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"David Cameron destroyed on air over hypocritical Saudi Arabia deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Cameron has repeatedly refused to explain why the British government agreed to a \u201csqualid\u201d deal with Saudi Arabia, as the\u00a0country prepares to behead and crucify a teenager for engaging in pro-democracy protests during the Arab Spring.<\/p>\n<p>In an excruciating interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/david-cameron-challenged-over-saudi-arabian-teenager\">Channel 4\u2019s Jon Snow<\/a>, the Prime Minister floundered for a response when questioned on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/0ce7880c-684b-11e5-a57f-21b88f7d973f.html#axzz3nrW396dh\">recently exposed<\/a> secret deal with the Saudis to allow both nations\u2019 election to the UN Human Rights Council in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This sounds a bit squalid for one of the most human rights abusing regimes on earth,&#8221; Mr Snow comments.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"khGa49rM6iM\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"David Cameron on Ali Mohammed al-Nimr and Saudi Arabia\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/khGa49rM6iM?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/david-cameron-attempts-to-defend-squalid-deal-with-saudi-arabia-in-excruciating-interview-with-jon-a6684066.html\">Read more<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Cameron has repeatedly refused to explain why the British government agreed to a \u201csqualid\u201d deal with Saudi Arabia, as the\u00a0country prepares to behead and crucify a teenager for engaging in pro-democracy protests during the Arab Spring. In an excruciating interview with Channel 4\u2019s Jon Snow, the Prime Minister floundered for a response when questioned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-189415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}