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Speaker 1: UK correspondent given great is with us this evening, Hi Gevin,

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Speaker 1: hither Jack. So Georgia has experienced the fourth night of

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Speaker 1: huge street demonstrations. What has triggered all of.

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Speaker 2: Us Basically, they held an election and to the surprise

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Speaker 2: of many, the country, which is a former Russian republic,

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Speaker 2: has kind of turned its back on joining the European

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Speaker 2: Union and once really closer links to Russia. Now many

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Speaker 2: of the opposition party who say this election was a

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Speaker 2: shock result, say the election was rigged and they are

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Speaker 2: demanding that the government think again. It has also led

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Speaker 2: to a string of very very senior resignations of people

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Speaker 2: within the country. Indeed, the latest reports suggest George's ambassador

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Speaker 2: to the US has now stood down, saying he'd come

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Speaker 2: under considerable pressure. But it's not just those high profile

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Speaker 2: figures as well. Teachers other workers all say that they

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Speaker 2: are going to resign or refusing to work, and it

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Speaker 2: really has led a very very frustrating period for the country.

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Speaker 2: Now three thousand teachers signing letters condemning the decision to

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Speaker 2: put the EU accession on hold so joining the European Union.

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Speaker 2: The pro Western president who's due to step down in

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Speaker 2: just four weeks time. She says she's going to refuse

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Speaker 2: to step down until a new vote has been held.

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Speaker 2: So at the moment, Georgia, with its population a three

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Speaker 2: point seven million and a bridge as it were, between

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Speaker 2: Eastern Europe and Russia, very much, very much in a

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Speaker 2: deepening political and constitutional crisis, with tens of thousands of

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Speaker 2: people out on the freezing streets again last night met

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Speaker 2: with the water, canon, tear gas and all sorts of

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Speaker 2: really pretty violent and harsh reaction from the police. Many

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Speaker 2: fear this country is really looking into the abyss regards

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Speaker 2: whether or not other election will be held.

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Speaker 1: Yea, how have Greg Wallace's alleged victims reacted to his response?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty furious of course. Greg Wallace, big television star

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Speaker 2: here for the BBC hosted Master Chef for over twenty

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Speaker 2: years and suspended for alleged inappropriate sexual comments and inappropriate behavior.

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Speaker 2: He then went on to social media and said this

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Speaker 2: is these complaints have come from a handful of middle

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Speaker 2: class women of a certain age. Well, many of his

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Speaker 2: victims now stepping forward and saying well, look, this just

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Speaker 2: shows that he hasn't learned his lesson. He seems to

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Speaker 2: be saying he's the victim of classism, and they're saying

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Speaker 2: this has got nothing to do with class it's got

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Speaker 2: something to do with your behavior. And they alleged that

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Speaker 2: he should really in this period where he stepped aside,

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Speaker 2: have a think about his behavior and what he reckons

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Speaker 2: about it. So this does look like it's going to

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Speaker 2: be a very very difficult period for the program, and

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Speaker 2: questions are for the BBC about how they have handled

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Speaker 2: earlier complaints about the sixty year old, why he wasn't

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Speaker 2: looked at earlier, how he was still presenting the program,

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Speaker 2: and what they knew when basically so at the moment,

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Speaker 2: as I said, he's suspended. These are all allegations. But

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Speaker 2: since he's made his comments now a growing number of

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Speaker 2: younger women on the program who hadn't made complaints at

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Speaker 2: the time are it is reported coming forward Jack now

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Speaker 2: to complaint as well.

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Speaker 1: And given to Belgium, we're Belgium's six workers get maternity

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Speaker 1: leaven pensions under a new World first law.

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Speaker 2: Yes, quite extraordinarly is so real leaping in I suppose

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Speaker 2: sort of modern day thinking, but sex workers will be

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Speaker 2: entitled to official employment contracts, the health insurance pensions maternity

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Speaker 2: leave and sick date. In other words, being a prostitute

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Speaker 2: will be the same, or being a sex worker will

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Speaker 2: be treated like any other job. And there are tens

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Speaker 2: of millions of sex workers worldwide, but it's decriminalized in

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Speaker 2: Belgium just a couple of years ago, legal in several

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Speaker 2: countries now, including Germany, Greece, the Netherlands. But getting that

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Speaker 2: sort of employment rights and getting contracts out there for

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Speaker 2: sex workers that is a global first. Many are saying

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Speaker 2: this is great, a great tactic from Belgium to change

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Speaker 2: the law and saying, you know this will what got

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Speaker 2: prompted because the lack of state support during the COVID pandemic.

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Speaker 2: But others are saying, are we really really in a

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Speaker 2: state where we are acknowledging and doing more than acknowledging

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Speaker 2: sex workers by giving them these rights.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fascinating, isn't it. Hey, thank you very much

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Speaker 1: for your time given. We appreciate it. Gaven Gray, UK correspondent.

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