Gavin Grey: UK correspondent on the Taliban saying it is 'ready and willing' to work with Nigel Farage

Nigel Farage recently unveiled his controversial plans to deport asylum seekers, but the Taliban have already voiced their support.

The Taliban claimed it was 'ready and willing' to work with Farage to accept Afghans who have been deported from the UK.

UK correspondent Gavin Grey explained further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Devin Gray, UK correspondent with US. Now, Hey, Gevin, Hi,
there have Devin so fill us in on this trial
of the asylum seeker.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yeah. So, this sum is an Ethiopian asylum seeker who
had only recently arrived in the UK and while his
application was being processed, and of course we've reported before
about how long this takes, he's been put up in
a taxpayer funded hotel in Essex, to the east of London.
But while it's there, it's alleged, and we've been hearing

(00:30):
in court now that he told two fourteen year old
girls eating pizza in a town center local residents that
he wanted to have a baby with them and tried
to kiss them. It all began, they said, proposition in
the teenagers without any encouragement, after accepting an offer of
food from them. Back at the start of July. Allegations

(00:51):
of the incident went very, very very viral, led to
a wave of anti immigration protests and counter demonstrations outside
the hotel where he was staying in Epping, but also
around other hotels housing adult male single asylum seekers. Now
the man denies sexual assault, inciting a girl to engage

(01:12):
in sexual activity and harassment without violence. But opening the trial,
the defendant is said to was said to have approached
the girls who were sitting on a bench eating the
pizza and made these inappropriate comments, inviting them back to
the hotel where he told them he would like to
make a baby. But suffice to say, when these children

(01:35):
went back to their parents, that's what led to a
great deal of local anger. Yeah too.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Right now, how's Nigel Farage feeling about the help that's
been offered to him by the Taliban?

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Well, I think you'll feel absolutely emboldened at this point
in time. This morning, So yesterday Nigel Farage announced his
policy on what to do with the increasing issue of
mass legal immigration into the UK via small boats across
the Channel. Now, Nigel Pharaohs is the leader of Reform UK,

(02:06):
a sort of upstart party. It's only got four MPs,
it's only been in existen as a matter of months,
but it is leading the opinion pole, smashing both the
government Labor and the previous government conservatives, both of whom
on this issue are proving have proved to be pretty impotent. Frankly,
and so Nigel Pharaohs is saying, right, we are going
to deport six hundred thousand illegal migrants if we're elected

(02:31):
to power. We're going to do that by striking deals
with countries like Afghanistan, Iran and Eritrea, who make up
the majority of those people crossing in small boats. We
will rip up and leave the European Convention on Human Rights,
which will enable us to do this. Now, critics said, yeah, yeah, yeah,
but you won't be able to get these deals with Afghanistan,

(02:53):
you won't be able to get them with Iran and Eritrea. Well,
I'm afraid to say for them. The Taliban have come
forward and said and actually we might not be recognized
as a legitimate government of Afghanistan by the UK, but
we would be willing to talk to Nigel Faraj and
would give the money, any money that he might be
giving us to do this to support the returnees, insisting

(03:14):
it would be done with dignity. So all of a sudden,
now we're hearing that labor the current government is now
considering talking to Afghanistan, And you think, why wasn't this
done before? If it's such a good idea, And that's
very much I think why in the opinion polls so
many people are now turning away from the government Labor
and the previous government Conservative too.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Gavin, thanks very much, appreciated quite interesting that, Nigel Fajjan
Gavin Gray, UK Correspondent.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
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