hello, welcome to verified live. three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. a man with a knife has attacked nursery school children in the french town of annecy. the victims are as young as three, according to french reports, which say two children and a man are in a life threatening condition. one of the children attacked is a british national and another is a dutch national. a man was arrested near the scene. the moment of his arrest was captured on camera. take a look. people are screaming in the background. the man in this video injured whilst being arrested, police say he is a syrian who has refugee status in sweden, with no known links to islamist groups. he has a child who is apparently the same age as the little chldren he attacked. this all happened in the town of annecy, in the french alps. the children, all aged three and under, were on an outing to a park, some in pushchairs. the attacker also stabbed an elderly man walking nearby, be
but the reality is much more sinister. translation: in the trick of the trade, it felt - like a hand hitting me. takako, not her real name, was only a teenager when she was sexually assaulted on the train for the first time. translation: it started to feel like it was touching and grabbing me. i that s when i finally realised that this was chikan. i was sexually assaulted almost every day. bbc eye has been investigating a network of websites selling thousands of videos of women being sexually abused on public transport across east asia. this is a horrific business of sexual assault. the websites are run by a shadowy figure known as uncle qi. but who is he? our investigation has led us to tokyo, where we tracked down uncle qi and his close associates. translation: hi. hi, noctis? posing as a potential investor, our undercoverjournalist met with them multiple times, until uncle qi himself agreed to meet us. in this meeting, tang zhuoran, a 27 year old from china admits to being
and developed. there s so much money and so much research pouring in that this is not going to stop any time soon. and so countries including the uk are racing to to position themselves not only as leaders within it, but also to find a way of regulating it to try and maximise the benefits that it can bring. and we know it brings huge benefits. you know, we just saw the other week an ai tool discover a new antibiotic, for example. but there are also lots of risks as well. not least, you know, how is this going to affect things like the jobs market in the near future? we already see tools like chat gpt able to do jobs that traditionally humans have done, and the uk very much wants to be part of this conversation. well, it wants to lead the conversation. the question is, can it actually, you know, when the amount of money and resources and infrastructure that we have here is comparatively small, you need a lot of computers to process data that s used in al, an awful lot of them.
let s stay with the subject of whether it s breaking news coming to us today from the uk health security agency. it has issued a weekend heat health alert. the heat health alert has been erased from yellow to a more severe amber, with warnings in three different regions of england, the midlands, eastern and southern england. the amber alert which is more severe than what we had before comes into effect from 9am on friday and indicates that high temperatures could affect the whole population and perhaps more importantly could also affect the health service. now this is what the weather watchers have been calling an iberian plume, a plume of very warm weather that has come in from the spanish peninsula. we will not last especially long and probably will be over by sunday but it comes and cuts across spain and portugal, bringing across spain and portugal, bringing a lot of high pressure and with it temperatures that could at some point touch 30 degrees, which may be normal for p
Assaulted on public transport across east asia. visitors to one of the sites could even order their own tailor made videos. bbc eye sjow yin fung reports from tokyo. this is nagoya injapan. translation: there is a guy looking for a target. - the railway police are running a covert operation, on the hunt to catch sexual assaulters. translation: | would - like to follow him to check his behaviourfor a bit. sexual violence against women in public is a global phenomenon. but injapan, the problem is so endemic that it has its own name, chikan. translation: you re riding back and forth on a single ticket. - it looks like the kind of behaviour a chikan perpetrator would make. the suspect is taken to the police station for further questioning. chikan has been normalised over the years by its prominence in the adult entertainment industry.