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Speaker 1: Devin Gray, UK correspondent with US. Now, Hey, Gevin, Hi,

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Speaker 1: there have Devin so fill us in on this trial

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Speaker 1: of the asylum seeker.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So, this sum is an Ethiopian asylum seeker who

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Speaker 2: had only recently arrived in the UK and while his

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Speaker 2: application was being processed, and of course we've reported before

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Speaker 2: about how long this takes, he's been put up in

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Speaker 2: a taxpayer funded hotel in Essex, to the east of London.

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Speaker 2: But while it's there, it's alleged, and we've been hearing

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Speaker 2: in court now that he told two fourteen year old

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Speaker 2: girls eating pizza in a town center local residents that

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Speaker 2: he wanted to have a baby with them and tried

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Speaker 2: to kiss them. It all began, they said, proposition in

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Speaker 2: the teenagers without any encouragement, after accepting an offer of

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Speaker 2: food from them. Back at the start of July. Allegations

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Speaker 2: of the incident went very, very very viral, led to

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Speaker 2: a wave of anti immigration protests and counter demonstrations outside

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Speaker 2: the hotel where he was staying in Epping, but also

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Speaker 2: around other hotels housing adult male single asylum seekers. Now

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Speaker 2: the man denies sexual assault, inciting a girl to engage

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Speaker 2: in sexual activity and harassment without violence. But opening the trial,

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Speaker 2: the defendant is said to was said to have approached

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Speaker 2: the girls who were sitting on a bench eating the

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Speaker 2: pizza and made these inappropriate comments, inviting them back to

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Speaker 2: the hotel where he told them he would like to

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Speaker 2: make a baby. But suffice to say, when these children

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Speaker 2: went back to their parents, that's what led to a

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Speaker 2: great deal of local anger. Yeah too.

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Speaker 1: Right now, how's Nigel Farage feeling about the help that's

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Speaker 1: been offered to him by the Taliban?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think you'll feel absolutely emboldened at this point

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Speaker 2: in time. This morning, So yesterday Nigel Farage announced his

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Speaker 2: policy on what to do with the increasing issue of

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Speaker 2: mass legal immigration into the UK via small boats across

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Speaker 2: the Channel. Now, Nigel Pharaohs is the leader of Reform UK,

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Speaker 2: a sort of upstart party. It's only got four MPs,

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Speaker 2: it's only been in existen as a matter of months,

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Speaker 2: but it is leading the opinion pole, smashing both the

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Speaker 2: government Labor and the previous government conservatives, both of whom

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Speaker 2: on this issue are proving have proved to be pretty impotent. Frankly,

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Speaker 2: and so Nigel Pharaohs is saying, right, we are going

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Speaker 2: to deport six hundred thousand illegal migrants if we're elected

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Speaker 2: to power. We're going to do that by striking deals

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Speaker 2: with countries like Afghanistan, Iran and Eritrea, who make up

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Speaker 2: the majority of those people crossing in small boats. We

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Speaker 2: will rip up and leave the European Convention on Human Rights,

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Speaker 2: which will enable us to do this. Now, critics said, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: but you won't be able to get these deals with Afghanistan,

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Speaker 2: you won't be able to get them with Iran and Eritrea. Well,

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Speaker 2: I'm afraid to say for them. The Taliban have come

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Speaker 2: forward and said and actually we might not be recognized

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Speaker 2: as a legitimate government of Afghanistan by the UK, but

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Speaker 2: we would be willing to talk to Nigel Faraj and

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Speaker 2: would give the money, any money that he might be

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Speaker 2: giving us to do this to support the returnees, insisting

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Speaker 2: it would be done with dignity. So all of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: now we're hearing that labor the current government is now

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Speaker 2: considering talking to Afghanistan, And you think, why wasn't this

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Speaker 2: done before? If it's such a good idea, And that's

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Speaker 2: very much I think why in the opinion polls so

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Speaker 2: many people are now turning away from the government Labor

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Speaker 2: and the previous government Conservative too.

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Speaker 1: Gavin, thanks very much, appreciated quite interesting that, Nigel Fajjan

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Speaker 1: Gavin Gray, UK Correspondent.

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