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In a major escalation of hostilities, Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis have launched an attack on the Saudi capital Riyadh. We get the latest from Matthew Martin, the Saudi Arabia Bureau Chief for the US news website Semafor. We get a briefing on the Houthis' aims, and how aligned they are to Iran from Baraa Shiban from the Royal United Services Institute, we then hear about the impact of recent Houthi attacks on Saudi’s oil exports from Ellen Fraser, an energy expert at Baringa Partners So how will the Saudi government respond to the escalation? We get the view of Nawaf Obaid, a former government advisor, now a senior research fellow at King’s College London. We then hear from Michael Ratney, a former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia - about how serious a moment this is for Kingdom.