1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,120 Speaker 1: Kevin Gray, are UK your correspondent. Let's go chicken now 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 1: on what's going on? Gavin good Evening hither right now 3 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 1: this asylum seeker whose crimes led to the big protests, 4 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 1: we have a sentence. 5 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:18,120 Speaker 2: We do, indeed, yes. So he's believed to be thirty 6 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 2: eight from Egypt. Hadush Kabatu had only just arrived in 7 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:24,920 Speaker 2: the UK illegally and was being processed as it were, 8 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:28,720 Speaker 2: staying in a hotel in Essex. And he's now been 9 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 2: found guilty of touching and trying to kiss a school 10 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 2: girl age just fourteen, wearing a school uniform in a park. 11 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:39,559 Speaker 2: He's been jailed for a year for the sexual assault 12 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:42,599 Speaker 2: on the fourteen year old girl, laying his hand on 13 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:45,159 Speaker 2: her thigh, saying she'd make a good wife, would come 14 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:49,080 Speaker 2: back to Africa with him, and saying that she would 15 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:53,920 Speaker 2: also make good babies with him. He also then tried 16 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 2: to touch on the thigh as well a woman who 17 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 2: had gone to see if he needed anything because he 18 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 2: was looking distress, and he tried the same tactic with her. 19 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 2: And he's now been sentenced to this year in jail. 20 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:08,319 Speaker 2: He said, apparently he wishes to be deported, well, so 21 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 2: does frankly most of the rest of the country, I 22 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:15,120 Speaker 2: would suggest, because his arrest, which upset the girls said, 23 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:18,360 Speaker 2: she's constantly looking over her shoulder. Now obviously she told 24 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 2: the parents. The parents would spread on social media and 25 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 2: there were protests outside the hotel where he was staying, 26 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:26,120 Speaker 2: and there was a wave of not just protests outside 27 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 2: this hotel in Epping in Essex, to the east of London, 28 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:33,040 Speaker 2: but also around the UK where single male asylum seekers 29 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 2: who have arrived on the boat illegally with no idea, 30 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 2: we have no idea who they are are feared by 31 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:44,039 Speaker 2: local residents. It is, as you can hear in every 32 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:47,039 Speaker 2: sort of headline in the UK, one of the big 33 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 2: election topics I would suggest, come any elections coming up 34 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 2: over the coming months and years. 35 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, President Trump, but among the other things and 36 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 1: clumsy made it that you win. He's also seed that 37 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 1: what the London city of London wants to go to 38 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: sharia law? Any response from the MEA THEIA No. 39 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:09,920 Speaker 2: And it's rather interesting. He and the London Mayor, Sir 40 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:14,640 Speaker 2: Sadiq Khan, have had quite a row over the years 41 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 2: on various social media platforms, and this time the mayor 42 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:22,840 Speaker 2: is refusing to comments. So Donald Trump's quote was, I 43 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 2: look at London, where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, 44 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:29,519 Speaker 2: terrible mayor, and it's been changed. It's been so changed. 45 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 2: Now they want to go to Sharia law. But you're 46 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 2: in a different country. You can't do that. Well, Sir 47 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 2: Sadiq spokesperson said, we're not going to dignify his appalling 48 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:41,640 Speaker 2: and bigoted comments with a response. London is the greatest 49 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 2: city in the world, safer than major US cities, and 50 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 2: we're delighted to welcome the record number of American citizens 51 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 2: moving here. So it is a kind of response without 52 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 2: a direct response about sharia law. Incidentally, there are actually 53 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 2: Sharia courts. Those are courts for Muslim people in the UK, 54 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,919 Speaker 2: but they have no legal jurisdiction. The real courts, of course, 55 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 2: are the normal British courts, but people are uncomfortable that 56 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 2: these Sharia courts exist in the first place. 57 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 1: Anyway, Are the Sharia courts funded by the government or 58 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 1: are they just like a religious self funded thing. 59 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 2: It's pretty much self funded. It's thought there were eighty 60 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 2: five in total, according to one think tank. Most of 61 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:25,640 Speaker 2: the work dealt with is religious marriage arbitration, but they 62 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:29,080 Speaker 2: may also rule on things like financial matters, but the 63 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 2: UK government very clear the rulings are not legally binding. 64 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 2: So it's a very sort of interesting and some would 65 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 2: say worrying aspect of our laws. 66 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 1: Absolutely. Now you've got nineteen UK grocery stores closing. What's 67 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 1: going on, Well. 68 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 2: They're Amazon, they're owned by Amazon. Amazon opened these stores 69 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 2: as a sort of experiment, but it's not gone very well. 70 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 2: So they opened in March twenty twenty one and they're 71 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 2: going to shut down nineteen UK grocery stores less than 72 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 2: five years therefore, after they were launched. They are till 73 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 2: free sites. In other words, as you go around, you 74 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 2: effectively scam what you bought and that automatically deducts it 75 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 2: from your credit card. So the company says it's going 76 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 2: to focus on online deliveries in the grocery sector with 77 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:20,479 Speaker 2: partners a couple of major supermarkets in those and it 78 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 2: said it's launched a consultation process on its closure proposals. 79 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 2: It began its first closure of the site a couple 80 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 2: of years back. It shut down three they're called Amazon 81 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 2: Fresh stores, and then it opened its first UK grocery stores. 82 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,039 Speaker 2: I mentioned a couple of years earlier, but now they 83 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:38,679 Speaker 2: are all on the on my off list as well. 84 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:41,359 Speaker 2: It's a very tough market to break into the food 85 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:45,240 Speaker 2: market here and the sales of it and the existing 86 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:49,599 Speaker 2: four or five supermarket giants have a real stronghold which 87 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 2: even the independence I think struggle again sometimes m. 88 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:54,920 Speaker 1: Hmm sounds like something we know a little bit about 89 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 1: here too, Givin, thank you for that. 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