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Speaker 1: With us. Now is Gevin Gray, UK correspondent. Hello, Gevin, Hi,

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Speaker 1: So we're going to get a decision today on whither

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Speaker 1: the court was right about the asylum hotel.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, expecting that in about six hours time. And

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Speaker 2: this is going to be really really crucial for the

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Speaker 2: government and for how asylum seekers are treated here in

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Speaker 2: the UK now at the moment while they are awaiting

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Speaker 2: a decision on their asylum application. Some, in fact more

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Speaker 2: than thirty thousand are currently being put up in hotels

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Speaker 2: at taxpayers expense. I don't mean rubbishy old hotels. I

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Speaker 2: mean some quite nice hotels as well. It is done

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Speaker 2: at the cost daily cost of millions of pounds and

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Speaker 2: plenty of people in this thing country. I think that

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Speaker 2: is so wrong. So in Epping to the east of London,

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Speaker 2: there has been a series of protests outside one of

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Speaker 2: these hotels because a fourteen year old girl claims she

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Speaker 2: was sexually assaulted by an Ethiopian man living at that

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Speaker 2: hotel as an asylum seeker and he'd only just arrived

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Speaker 2: in the country. And the protests got well pretty heated.

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Speaker 2: There wasn't a lot of violence, but it was pretty

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Speaker 2: fraught at times, and the local council managed to win

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Speaker 2: in court an injunction saying it's got to be shut

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Speaker 2: down to asylum seekerts because it was against planning regulations

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Speaker 2: and also could cause violence outside. They won, but the

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Speaker 2: government has gone to appeal saying well, hang on a minute,

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Speaker 2: we are currently using couple of hundred hotels like this.

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Speaker 2: If we have to turf them all out, all asylum

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Speaker 2: seekers have to leave the hotels, then this is going

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Speaker 2: to put our policies into massive problems. And so that

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Speaker 2: is what the Court of Appeal are going to decide

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Speaker 2: on today. And I have to say there are lots

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Speaker 2: of people waiting with bated breath to see what that

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Speaker 2: judgment will be.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I can imagine. So now that strike on the

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Speaker 1: Eused delegation, the Eused delegation officer in Kiev, was that

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Speaker 1: done deliberately or was it an accident?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't know. Actually there are places around on

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Speaker 2: that particular development in Kiev which were being targeted, so

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Speaker 2: it's possible that it might have been a drone that

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Speaker 2: had gone wrong in an attack. Equally, of course, the

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Speaker 2: EU and the UK been absolutely on the nail when

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Speaker 2: it comes to imposing some pretty tough sanctions. So the

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Speaker 2: idea that both offices were hit and hit badly is

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Speaker 2: still up for grabs as to why that was and

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Speaker 2: was it a mistake Either way, both sides are just

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Speaker 2: saying this is just now a sham the idea that

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Speaker 2: Russia wants peace, that this is mocking the peace efforts

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Speaker 2: that have been put there. Interestingly, absolutely no word that

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Speaker 2: I've seen from a one mister Donald J. Trump about

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Speaker 2: this attack and his response to it, but certainly the

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Speaker 2: Russian ambassador to the UK in London, Andre Kellen, He's

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Speaker 2: been summoned into the Foreign Office at which I dare

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Speaker 2: say there was a bit of a dressing down as

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Speaker 2: best they could, and indeed a charged affair in Brussels

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Speaker 2: summoned in response to talk to EU officials as well.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, I think this is going to be something

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Speaker 2: that the EU and the UK are going to use

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Speaker 2: now to a nineteenth round of sanctions against Russia. The

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Speaker 2: question is is any of it working? Do they care?

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Speaker 1: Kevin? Are you going to go for any of these

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Speaker 1: Guinness World Records?

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Speaker 2: Well, Heather, I'll go halves with you for some of these,

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Speaker 2: I think. Now, So what have we got? Well, it

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Speaker 2: is the seventiethe of us through the Guinness World Record titles.

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Speaker 2: It was begun on the twenty seventh of August nineteen

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Speaker 2: fifty five. So this week Everest decided that it would

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Speaker 2: launch a couple of ideas for people who might still

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Speaker 2: want to get into the record books. They are recommending

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Speaker 2: the most whoopee cushions sat on in one minute, the

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Speaker 2: fastest time to blow a stamp ten meters, the most

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Speaker 2: high fives in thirty seconds. That sounds relatively painless that

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Speaker 2: you and I could do, heather, the fastest four hundred

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Speaker 2: meters sackrace. I like that, But in another one, that

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Speaker 2: is for the more adventurous, The fastest time to ascend

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Speaker 2: the height of Everest by bicycle. Now I don't think

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Speaker 2: I mean going up Everest in a bicycle. I think

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Speaker 2: it's the height of Everest.

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Speaker 1: Anyway.

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Speaker 2: These things are all ones you can try. But in

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Speaker 2: our midst we already have a Guinness World Record holder

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Speaker 2: amongst your team. No doubt she will reveal herself shortly. Oh, yes,

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Speaker 2: what was it for a game?

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Speaker 1: I didn't know this, can you remember, Devin?

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Speaker 2: It's yes, it is for singing. We're all in a

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Speaker 2: yellow submarine while in a swimming pool. I think so weird.

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Speaker 1: I mean I recall that I wish we held. Thank you, Gevin,

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Gavin Gray, UK correspondent.

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