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00:00:00dohar light, you
00:00:01of know, sickness and diarrhea same, every
00:00:03of every parent's journey with a child that's got you know sickness and
00:00:06diarrhea. um, but then as things progressed she
00:00:10started to bleed and that's when we went back to the doctors and that's when we were rushed
00:00:14a
00:00:16a casualty um and everything you saw in dirty business is what happened
00:00:19um which is the the channel 4 series yeah
00:00:23based on your family's experience and
00:00:26exploring the state
00:00:28of the UK waters and the yeah the industry involved in it
00:00:31southwest water carried out
00:00:33a investigations at the time um despite formal investigations
00:00:37no cause for the outbreak was identified um the inquest
00:00:41documentation confirming that no definitive source of infection was established and the
00:00:44circumstances southwest water say of waste water infrastructure
00:00:48regulation the late 1990s is very different from today and since
00:00:52then there has been significant investment however can I
00:00:56just say something yeah you can at the time it took them
00:01:00'30 days to take samples from the
00:01:03a water in the area and we're always told that if there's a sewage
00:01:06spillage into the sea 48 hours waiting to see
00:01:10but they did not they assumed at the time they completely
00:01:14of assumed it was
00:01:15from food and when they drew a blank
00:01:19that's when they started looking at the environment when you think about it
00:01:22back in 1999 and water
00:01:26in companies say you're
00:01:26in a very different place to to where we were in the'.
00:01:30'90s, but are we that? well, that's the thing, I
00:01:33mean, you went to Westminster with surface
00:01:37against Sewage last week with some very
00:01:40stark statistics from the summer
00:01:44in period, um, also with personal stories from
00:01:47families, this summer,
00:01:49there was a young girl called Keeva, eight years old, she became seriously oll after
00:01:52swimming at Aven Beach, endorse it again,
00:01:55designated bathing water site awarded,
00:01:59excellent'. she swallowed seawater while swimming at her local
00:02:02beach and was hospitalized afterwards. what is it like for you
00:02:06to see this happening up and down the
00:02:09country repeatedly? what is
00:02:13it like for you as family who have lost a daughter?
00:02:16it it's a mixture, there's anger,
00:02:20real anger, but also there's
00:02:24Jesus a deep sadness, because when i had
00:02:27my meeting with the secretary of state and the... secretary for water, the
00:02:31minister for water, sorry, I said to them really clearly,
00:02:35I am not going to stop until something
00:02:39changes, because I cannot allow this to happen
00:02:43to another child and another family, I
00:02:46can't, because it's horrific, and you
00:02:50can't, you can't ignore the fact that this is a public health
00:02:53crisis, the the suwage system, its
00:02:57primary function is to protect public health. 'and it's
00:03:01not doing that, and so I just cannot
00:03:04understand why there are all these people in power, all these
00:03:08people that have the authority, they must have children, they must
00:03:12have families, they must feel,
00:03:16you know, they must understand, and yet they continue
00:03:19to do the same things over and over again,
00:03:23such as discharging sewage into bathing water, why would you
00:03:27do that, why would you run the'. on your
00:03:31watch, the possibility of another death, why would you
00:03:35do that? final question, julie, um, water safety became a
00:03:38a mandatory part
00:03:39of the curriculum in the UK in schools to do
00:03:43with water safety, we had an unprecedented number of deaths this year from people
00:03:47getting into difficulty open water swimming, it didn't include
00:03:50water quality, we know that that does get to
00:03:54as part of geography lessons, but in your case you actually
00:03:58brought our guide with the... service against sewage to make people
00:04:02aware,
00:04:03of because that's the thing, people go to the seaside and they
00:04:06of don't always
00:04:07have an app to check what the quality of water is like, but you want to
00:04:11educate young people, because while they're perhaps not being looked
00:04:14after by the state or water companies, they need to
00:04:17look after themselves, what do you want to see in schools? well, the
00:04:20people that are taking them on the trips, doing the risk assessments, doing a full risk
00:04:24assessment, looking at water quality, including that in the risk
00:04:27assessment, and also making children. aware, I mean, how many? I
00:04:31mean, I know, I because I used to work in education, if kids
00:04:35a got dirty, just rinse your hands in the water when you're on an outdoor ed, just give your hands
00:04:38and it's like, now that's not the case, that is not a safe
00:04:42place to actually make sure you're clean, you know, use some wet wipes, use
00:04:46antiback, use something, don't touch your lip, you know, all that kind of
00:04:50basic stuff, don't touch yours, wash your hands before
00:04:53eating, hygiene, think
00:04:55of the water as potentially
00:04:58of contaminated, don't assume. It's not cuz
00:05:01we can't assume that the water companies, the environmental
00:05:05agency, the government are looking after us at the
00:05:08moment, they aren't, so we have to protect ourselves.
00:05:12And that's my big message at the moment is, don't
00:05:16assume, take care, look after your children, keep them
00:05:19safe, the water isn't
00:05:21safe.
00:10:37Prayer apps, digital scriptures and virtual communities: faith
00:10:41is moving to our screens, from AI, spiritual guides and tik
00:10:45tok priests to worship in virtual reality, technology is changing
00:10:48how people believe and belong, but can it deepen
00:10:52faith or does something get lost along?
00:10:57the way faith on our phones: version says its
00:11:01family of bible apps has now passed 1 billion
00:11:05installs. for churches, apps and social media are no longer just
00:11:09extras, they are becoming important ways to reach people. in
00:11:122025, the Vatican held its first jubilee for digital
00:11:16missionaries with more than 1000 catholic influencers taking part
00:11:20in Rome or online. their goal is to connect with people who
00:11:24may never... through a church door, in poland, one
00:11:28young priest is taking that mission to tik tok. On
00:11:32tik toks there are many people who wants to like fight with
00:11:35me, so I bless them and yeah, that's what I
00:11:38do. This is father Sebastian, he's 30 and has
00:11:42more than 42000 followers on
00:11:45TikTok. For more than six years he served as a priest
00:11:49in Saviece, a Polish town of around 4500
00:11:52people. He als pretty
00:11:55unusual sideline, so i've got this
00:11:59tik tok office, bought this boxes, here
00:12:02sit, and i put some music, indie uh,
00:12:06christian indie folk, that's what i love, christian
00:12:10indie like that, uh, yeah, and i
00:12:14start, and i'm going live, sebastian began posting on
00:12:18tik tok in october 2022, after watching another priest
00:12:21livestream, he thought it was something he could do too and began broadcast.
00:12:27not all of his fellow priests approved, but sebastian carried
00:12:30on, it worked, so what keeps people
00:12:34watching? my tiktok world
00:12:38is um is filled with variety. i know that my
00:12:42first mission is to, as i said to lead teenagers closer to
00:12:46christ, so i want to have stuff about Christ
00:12:50and and the church, but i know that i won't like catch them
00:12:54when if
00:12:54i want if i will be doing only that kind of stuff, that's why i've got some
00:12:58kind of lifestyle content or about video
00:13:01games,
00:13:05poland is still one of europe's most catholic countries, but even here
00:13:09fewer people are practicing their faith, especially among
00:13:12genz. in 1992, 69% of pols
00:13:16aged 18 to 24 said they regularly attended religious services, by
00:13:202021 that had dropped to just
00:13:2223%. Christianity
00:13:25is not shrinking everywhere, it's
00:13:29growing fastest in Sub Saheran Africa, driven largely by
00:13:33its young expanding population. By 2020, the region was
00:13:37home to about 700 million Christians compared with about 500
00:13:41million in Europe, but back in Poland, the church
00:13:45is losing touch with many young people, Sebastian wants to bring them
00:13:49back. I want to catch people who uh who don't follow
00:13:52these caltics out, they don't go to church. they don't have any contacts with this
00:13:56religion stuff, but they do have a TikTok, my mission in TikTok is to be
00:14:00bridged from this their world to the true world from
00:14:04God. Catching young people where they already are can
00:14:08make faith feel more personal and more accessible, but that same
00:14:11access can also be exploited. Islamist preachers have learned to use
00:14:15social media to build large, often young audiences, their
00:14:19messages can blend into ordinary everyday content, and
00:14:22algorithms can gradually narrow the range of you. users see,
00:14:26serving them more and more the same. experts worn that in many
00:14:30recent cases, much the path to radicalization has unfolded
00:14:34online, sometimes beginning on tik tok before moving into
00:14:37private chat groups. in Germany, one young muslim woman challenges
00:14:41extremist and misogynistic interpretations of her faith, that's made
00:14:45her a target of some very ugly backlash. German
00:14:49influencer Noor el huda Shihade began receiving death threats
00:14:53after she stopped wearing her hijab. She says it no
00:14:57longer reflected who she was. It's pretty obvious that I'm
00:15:00Muslim. I don't believe that wearing a hijab protects women from being
00:15:04sexualized, I just couldn't identify with it or couldn't find a
00:15:07personal reason for it, so I stopped wearing it. The
00:15:11clip quickly went viral on TikTok where algorithms often amplify
00:15:15content that spark strong reactions. The same algorithms
00:15:19also amplify islamist preachers, some with hundreds of thousand of
00:15:22followers. What experts note. This startly reduces the influx
00:15:26of variable content, pushing young users into potential extremist
00:15:30bubbles. This online radicalization is a growing
00:15:33problem.
00:15:37Noor el huda Shihade decided to fight
00:15:40back. It
00:15:43becomes dangerous when there's no counterbalance. If the only voices
00:15:47out there are hate preachers or misogenistic scholars and there's no one
00:15:51speaking up against them, offering different perspective and providing
00:15:55proper information, then the situation can become very
00:15:58dangerous. That's why she speaks out against Islamist
00:16:02extremism and misogyny online. She says that the hate
00:16:06has not. but neither has she.
00:16:10have i clear goal in mind. i really want to protect women from
00:16:13religious abuse and i'm not losing focus. sometimes it can hit
00:16:17you hard, especially when things get very personal, but my goal is
00:16:21much stronger than all that hate.
00:16:25some islamist creators present strict ideology in everyday advice
00:16:29on marriage, clothing and behavior. they present
00:16:33traditional gender roles as religious fact. experts say it's
00:16:37important. to have visible alternative voices that show young users
00:16:40diverse picture of Islam.
00:16:44Using technology to spread the word of God or debate faith is one
00:16:48thing, but now technology itself is becoming part the religious
00:16:52experience. Several online AI characters are designed to
00:16:56simulate Jesus and answer users with responses based on
00:16:59biblical texts. They promise personal spiritual guidance,
00:17:03but they also turn intimate questions of faith into a page.
00:17:07business, seeing God's hand in everyday moments brings true
00:17:10peace. You can talk to AI Jesus for just
00:17:14few dollars a minute. It was
00:17:17created by a US-based tech startup, which offers paid video calls
00:17:21through its website and app. AI Jesus was trained
00:17:24on the Bible and select sermons. It has focused set of
00:17:28information and purpose that's about the spirituality and the
00:17:31guidance and mentorship. AI Jesus remembers previous
00:17:35conversations and that's meant to. make exchanges more personal and
00:17:39foster an emotional connection. It's all part of much bigger
00:17:43market. Analyst value spiritual wellness apps, including
00:17:46meditation, mindfulness and faith-based apps at more than $2
00:17:50billion dollars with AI playing a growing role. We
00:17:54have this huge field of spiritualities
00:17:58and the mindfulness and the strive for immortality
00:18:02and self-optimatization, which I would also call religious
00:18:05and in this field a... is playing a
00:18:09huge role.
00:18:11ai systems generate language by predicting likely words. they have
00:18:15no faith or spiritual experience. still, almost
00:18:1840% of christian densiar said AI spiritual advice could be
00:18:22as trustworthy as pastors, according to a survey
00:18:26carried out by a faith tech company. what AI
00:18:30is also doing is creating
00:18:32immersive experiences we that
00:18:36associate? with um feelings of transcendence and
00:18:40religions and here huge question
00:18:43is, is this authentic? hi
00:18:47Jesus, my name is Jeff. The company says AI Jesus is not intended
00:18:51to replace clergy or scripture, but to offer comfort and guidance
00:18:54based on Christian teachings, but there are concerns.
00:18:58Researchers warn that data protection rules for AI chatbots are often
00:19:01unclear. Studies show these systems can also produce false
00:19:05information and reproduce bias. The
00:19:09experience may feel spiritual, but the service
00:19:12remains commercial. Can an AI modeled on
00:19:16religious figure offer meaningful spiritual guidance, or does
00:19:20it turn faith into a money maker? The AI Jesus exists
00:19:24only in the cloud, but physical AI is also entering religious
00:19:27spaces. At temple in Kyoto, an AI powered robot has been
00:19:31designed to discuss Buddhist teachings and reconnect people with their
00:19:35faith. This is Buddha. Japan's first AI robot
00:19:39monk hard at work in Kyoto's showing in temple, it can
00:19:43walk and sit in lotus position. Once
00:19:47again, I bring my palms together in heartfelt prayer.
00:19:51Plus buddharoid can have real time conversations about buddhist
00:19:54teachings. Buddhism teaches us to avoid violence and
00:19:57hurtful words, follow ethical principles and calmly train the
00:20:01mind. It might remind you of Minder, this
00:20:05humanoid used in another Kyoto temple launched. in 2019,
00:20:08but minder can only chant pre-recorded sermons and can't have
00:20:12dialogue. buuderoid was developed to offer spiritual advice and
00:20:16spark renewed interest in Buddhism in Japan.
00:20:20it was developed by saji kumagai. we
00:20:24consult regarding our daily, what to
00:20:27say problems and troubles or
00:20:30anxiety with human marks,
00:20:34but front the human, some... we feel
00:20:38very shy to uh talk honestly, on
00:20:42the other hand, with robot or with AI
00:20:46chatbot, it's very easy and to talk.
00:20:50Buddhism is one the largest religions in Japan, more than a third the
00:20:53population identified as Buddhist in 2020, but the number is
00:20:57falling fast, down 12% within a
00:21:00decade. Fewer young people feel
00:21:03connected to the faith, still not everyone's convinced about using
00:21:07AI to change
00:21:08that. There are
00:21:12many ways to answer
00:21:13questions.
00:21:50Buddo roid knows its mission well. I am not a Buddhist
00:21:54monk, but I have given the role of conveying the teachings of Buddhism and
00:21:58listening everyone's stories. Japan isn't the
00:22:02only place exploring how robots might interact with religion. In
00:22:06the United Arab Emirates, humanoid robot dressed in traditional
00:22:10emirati clothing also sparked debate. Clips
00:22:13appearing to show buosunaida praying a mosk true criticism
00:22:17online. Some social media users argued. that prayer requires
00:22:21intention, consciousness and faith, qualities a
00:22:24machine cannot possess. the robot's inventor is clear about his
00:22:28limits. robot is not cannot be muslim or cannot
00:22:32be a religion, it's robot. we take
00:22:36it to improve our life. when faith goes digital, who
00:22:40gets the final say? the believer, the religious community or
00:22:43the people behind the algorithm. there are no simple answers
00:22:47and this debate is only beginning. So what do you
00:22:51think, would you turn to an AI for spiritual advice? Let us
00:22:55know, that's all from me, thanks for watching,
00:22:57bye.