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00:00:03hit by flooding, many of
00:03:55there was um uh the mad madatter of the
00:03:58family to be honest she was the one that got up to mischief,
00:04:02Susanna's sister was the sensible one, um, but yeah, she
00:04:05was a lively, lively fun, loving little
00:04:09girl, um, that you know would always make
00:04:12us all laugh and fall about and would be up to
00:04:16mischief whenever the opportunity erose, not bad
00:04:19mischief, but enough to, you know, had to
00:04:22be to keep you on your toe, yeah, yeah, yeah, and as any
00:04:26girl her age is encouraged to be, should be, she was...
00:04:30she liked being outdoors, yeah,
00:04:32and she did that, lot of your photographs and
00:04:36memories of her, yeah, she loved the beach, she loved the beach, she loved being
00:04:40outdoors, yeah, she collected hundreds and hundreds of
00:04:42shells, and we had to keep them all, and and it
00:04:45was only, she could only collect them if she promised to
00:04:49return some and only take few home, um,
00:04:53but of course she never got to choose, it was this family trip to
00:04:56Devon that that changed the course of your family's life, and...
00:05:00ultimately led to the end of Heathers, can you talk to me about what happened that day, because it was an
00:05:04ordinary family trip to the beach? yeah, yeah,
00:05:06she she was enjoying herself, having lots of fun and we were going to
00:05:10go for a walk on the evening and 'um
00:05:14previously in the day we'd done the same walk along the seafront
00:05:17along the path um and that's where she trod in
00:05:21that uh the the water from the combined sewage overflow we
00:05:24carried on the day she played on the beach did normal
00:05:28things but then in the evening when we went for our evening
00:05:31walk uh she started she suddenly became
00:05:33unwell um and and became
00:05:37quite distressed uh so we got her back to
00:05:41the chalet'. did what any parent would do and go you got a
00:05:45b sickness and diarrhea, you can't have anything eat or drink, you'll be
00:05:48better soon, don't worry about it, I'll stay with you, dad and Suzann
00:05:52will go out, um, but she she
00:05:56didn't, she wasn't getting better, um,
00:05:59so we took it to the chemist, chemists prescribed to hiruly, you
00:06:03know, sickness and dire, same, you now, every every parents journey with
00:06:07a child that's got you know sickness and diarrhea,
00:06:10um, but then as things progress, she started to
00:06:13bleed and that's when we went back to the doctors and that's when we were rushed a
00:06:16casualty um and everything you saw in dirty business
00:06:20is what happened um which is the the channel 4
00:06:24series yeah based on your
00:06:27family's experience and exploring the state of the
00:06:30UK waters and the the industry involved in it
00:06:34southwest water carried out investigations at the
00:06:37time um despite formal investigations no cause for the outbreak was
00:06:40identified ' the inquest documentation confirming that no
00:06:44definitive source of infection was established and the circumstances southwest
00:06:48water say of waste water infrastructure regulation the late
00:06:511990s is very different from today and since then
00:06:54there has been significant investment. however, can I just say
00:06:58something? yeah, you can. at the time it took them
00:07:0230 days to take samples from the water in
00:07:05the area, and we're always told that if there's a sewage spillage
00:07:09into the sea, 48 hours waiting to... but
00:07:13they did not, they assumed at the time, they completely assumed it
00:07:17was from food, and when they drew a
00:07:19blank, that's when they started looking at the
00:07:22environment. when you think about it, Heather died back in
00:07:261999 and water companies say you're in a very
00:07:29different place to to where we were in the
00:07:321990s, but are we then? well, that's the thing, I
00:07:36mean, you went to Westminster
00:07:39with surface against Sewage last week with some very...
00:07:43stark statistics from the summer period.
00:07:47um, also with personal stories from families, this
00:07:50summer, there was a young girl called Keeva, eight years old, she became
00:07:54seriously oll after swimming at Aven Beach, endorset again,
00:07:58designated bathing water site awarded
00:08:01excellent, she swallowed seawater while swimming at her local
00:08:04beach and was hospitalized afterwards, what is it
00:08:07like for you to see this happening up
00:08:11and down the country?
00:08:14repeatedly, what is it like for you as family who have lost a
00:08:17daughter? it it's a mixture, there's
00:08:20anger,
00:08:22real anger, but also there's a
00:08:26deep sadness, because when i had my
00:08:30meeting with the secretary of state and the secretary for water,
00:08:34the minister for water, sorry, i said to them really clearly,
00:08:37i am not going to stop until something
00:08:41changes, because i cannot allow this to
00:08:45happen to another child and another family, i
00:08:48can't, because it's horrific, and
00:08:52you can't, you can't ignore the fact that this is a public
00:08:55health crisis, the the suwage system its
00:08:59primary function is to protect public health, and it's
00:09:03not doing that, and
00:09:06so i just cannot understand why there are all these
00:09:09people in power, all these people that have the authority.
00:09:13they must have children, they must have families, they
00:09:16must feel, they must
00:09:19understand, and yet they continue to
00:09:23do the same things over and over again, such as discharging
00:09:27sewage into bathing water, why would you do
00:09:30that, why would you run the risk on your
00:09:33watch, the possibility of another death?
00:09:36why would you do that? final question, julie, um, water safety
00:09:40became a mandatory part of the corrector? in the UK in
00:09:44schools to do with water safety, we had an unprecedented number of deaths this year
00:09:48from people getting into difficulty, open water
00:09:51swimming, it didn't include water quality, we
00:09:54know that that does get taught as part of
00:09:57geography lessons, but in your case you actually brought our guide
00:10:01with the charity service against sewage to make people
00:10:04aware, because that's the thing, people go to the seaside and they
00:10:08don't always have an app to check what the quality of water is like, but
00:10:12'you want to educate young people, because while they're
00:10:16perhaps not being looked after by the state or water companies, they need to look after
00:10:19themselves, what do you want to see in schools? well, the
00:10:23people that are taking them on the trips doing the'. assessments, doing a full risk
00:10:26assessment, looking at water quality, including that in the risk
00:10:30assessment and also making children aware, mean how many,
00:10:33mean i know because i used to work in education, if kids got dirty just
00:10:37rinse your hands in the water when you're on an outdoor ed, just give your hands and
00:10:41it's like now that's not the case, that is not a safe place
00:10:45to actually make sure you're clean, you know use some wet wipes, use
00:10:48anti-back use something, don't touch your lip you all that kind
00:10:52of basic stuff don't touch your lips your hands before
00:10:55eating, hygiene, think of the water as
00:10:59potentially contaminated, don't assume it's
00:11:02not, cuz we can't assume that the water
00:11:06companies, the environmental agency, the government are
00:11:09looking after us at the moment, they aren't,
00:11:12so we have to protect ourselves and that's my big
00:11:15message at the moment is, don't assume, take
00:11:19care, look after your children, keep them safe, the water
00:11:23isn't safe,
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00:12:10From Earthquakes to floods and wildfires, disasters are
00:12:13becoming more destructive around the world, rescue teams are
00:12:17racing to save lives, tech is giving them new tools from
00:12:21drones and robots to AI powered warning systems, but how
00:12:24much? difference can they really make? let's find
00:12:27out.
00:12:30what if technology could explore a dangerous disaster zone before
00:12:34rescuers go in? AI power drones and robots can
00:12:37map damaged areas and assess risks in real time. but for
00:12:41these high-tech tools to work, they need fast and reliable data
00:12:44connections. researchers at the German rescue robotics center are putting
00:12:48them to the test.
00:12:51drones could soon become a standard tool for rescue teams. They can scan
00:12:55disaster zones, identify high risk areas and search for
00:12:58survivors. Drones are often controlled remotely and transmit live
00:13:02video and sensor data to rescue teams. They have to be remote
00:13:06controlled, so we need a low latency, it has to be
00:13:09continuous, it has to be absolutely reliable, so the
00:13:11communication must not break, not even very, very
00:13:15short time. Lives might depend on it.
00:13:19Wolfgang Kellerer and his colleagues are researching 6G, the next
00:13:22generation of mobile networks.
00:13:25day it could make communication between people and intelligent machines
00:13:28faster and more
00:13:29reliable.
00:13:32The idea is simple: send the machines in
00:13:36first. ground robots can enter dangerous buildings, their sensors
00:13:39collect information while their thermal cameras search for people who
00:13:43may be trapped or injured.
00:13:47drones and other AI power devices are already being used.
00:13:51they help search teams find lost hikers in difficult terrain and provide.
00:13:55to people trapped by
00:13:56flooding
00:14:01in 2023, earthquakes struck Turkey and Syria and
00:14:05killed nearly 60,000 people. drones produced aerial
00:14:08maps of the disaster zone in real
00:14:11time.
00:14:14what our drone operators see is happening right now, there is no time
00:14:18delay, you don't have to wait for the next satellite constellation to pass over
00:14:21area, so what you see is what you get. and in
00:14:25rescue scenarios, having real-time data is absolutely
00:14:29crucial, but even the smartest robot is only as good as its
00:14:33connection. if the signal fails, operators lose
00:14:36control. researchers are testing portable mesh notes,
00:14:39small wireless relays that work together, they extend violess
00:14:43coverage even in difficult terrain. all of this
00:14:47has one goal, keeping rescuer safe, but
00:14:50what happens when someone is buried somewhere even those machines can't
00:14:54reach? Researchers are testing a very different kind of first
00:14:57responder, cockroaches, equipped with mini sensors.
00:15:01These biobots can crawl through tiny gaps and hazardous areas
00:15:05looking for survivors, and rescue doesn't only happen on
00:15:09land, underwater, strong currents and poor visibility can
00:15:12create new challenges. That's where underwater drones
00:15:16come
00:15:19in. This compact underwater drone is designed to make the work of
00:15:22rescue teams easier.
00:15:26According to its developer, it can be deployed in about 10 minutes
00:15:29and operate a depth of up to 300 meters
00:15:33and its hor battery
00:15:36technology. supposedly gives it a wired operating range of about
00:15:402 km for up to 4
00:15:42hours. we focus really on the most challenging
00:15:46conditions, so here in Switzerland for example we have rivers
00:15:49which are quite challenging to to operate in as humans.
00:15:53underwater drones are used to locate wartime munitions. about
00:15:571.6 million tons were dumped in the north and baltic seas during the
00:16:01world wars, posing long-term environmental and
00:16:04safety risks. using HD cameras and stick
00:16:07sensors or sona, the robot can survey large areas either
00:16:11autonomously or under remote control. once it
00:16:14identifies an object, operators can guide it for a closer
00:16:17inspection and recover loads of up to 40
00:16:19kilos.
00:16:22using AI and sensor fusion technology, the drone
00:16:25combines information from cameras and sonar, allowing it to navigate even
00:16:29in merky
00:16:30water.
00:16:34you have both basically visual information and acoustic information. uh
00:16:38displays this 3D map um in real time for the
00:16:41operator, or of course if you have an autonomous interface, it's much simpler is
00:16:44just say, well we need to search that area or inspect that kind of
00:16:48structure and it does it for you basically. the
00:16:52system has already been used in search and rescue missions. it could also
00:16:56support offshore wind, oil and gas inspections, reducing the need
00:16:59for dives and hazardous conditions.
00:17:03drones like this take years of engineering and lot of money.
00:17:07but not every AI rescue tool starts in a big company or
00:17:11research lab. this wildfire detection system
00:17:14began with an idea from teenager who wanted to protect
00:17:17his community. today is helping detect wildfires
00:17:21around the world. i started in 2020 because i personally
00:17:25had family friends who lost their homes to wildfires and i
00:17:29really wanted to do something about it. franco rodriguez
00:17:32villao was 16 when he co-founded satellites on
00:17:35fire. an AI powered early warning. system for wildfires.
00:17:39Today company figures show the platform is used in more than 20 countries
00:17:43and helped authorities respond to more than 600 wild fires in
00:17:462025. The company also says its alert system
00:17:49can detect fires faster than
00:17:51NASA's.
00:17:54We combine satellites, cameras, drones, sensors and
00:17:58AI to detect fires. We have an AI algorithm
00:18:02that is enabling us to detect much faster by
00:18:05combining different kinds of information. reports from customers in
00:18:09territory, the platform can send smartphone
00:18:12alerts to people who are in danger and notified
00:18:16first responders. franco's goal is to save lives
00:18:19and to protect forests, wildlife and fragile
00:18:23ecosystems.
00:18:28we want to be an integral solution for this problem globally, so this means
00:18:32being in prevention, detection, monitoring and suppression of the
00:18:34fires.
00:18:39But many regions simply don't have this technology. In many places
00:18:42hit hardest by climate related disasters, rescue
00:18:46teams work with whatever they have. Pakistan is among the countries
00:18:49most vulnerable to climate change. Every monsoon,
00:18:53floods kill hundreds and in the worst years force millions from their
00:18:56homes. The warning systems often don't reach
00:18:59everyone. That's where citizen lead technology can
00:19:02help. Nothing but water where roads and fields
00:19:06won't stood. Pakistan's monsoon floods are deadly threat. In
00:19:102022 alone flooding killed more than 1700 people and affected
00:19:1433 million others, nearly one in seven Pakistanis. In some
00:19:18flood prone areas, early warning systems still have gaps, studies point
00:19:21to problems with monitoring, forecasting and
00:19:24coordination.
00:19:27In some places, communities, NGOs and startups are stepping
00:19:31in. One karache based IoT company has installed
00:19:35sensors at five flat prone sites along. indus river in synt
00:19:38province to track water levels in real
00:19:41time.
00:19:43the system uses two kinds of sensors: ultrasonic sensors
00:19:47measure water levels by sending sound waves and by
00:19:50timing their return from the water surface. radar sensors
00:19:54work similarly with radio waves and according to the company
00:19:57remain reliable even in bad
00:19:59weather.
00:20:03solar radiation to sensors humne install water level monitoring ke.
00:20:39but where they work, the census give authorities more time to want people
00:20:43and
00:20:43evacuate.
00:20:47In karachi, millions of people living in. formal settlements that are hard
00:20:53these areas are poorly mapped, making evacuation even more
00:20:57difficult.
00:20:59local initiative is now digitizing old maps and combining them with
00:21:03satellite imagery to map flad rules. people in
00:21:06karache already share flood updates on whatsapp, warning about flooded
00:21:10streets and blocked roads. now those
00:21:13crowd source reports are feeding a live map through an app called
00:21:16arfard info.
00:21:22we take all of that data together and we collectively turn it into
00:21:26a live map which lets you
00:21:28choose your mode of transport and based on that it tells
00:21:32you what ways is safe way for you to
00:21:35take. for now these tools remain local and
00:21:39limited but as floods become more severe the challenge is
00:21:43getting them to the people who need them
00:21:45most.
00:21:50One of the best rescue tools is also one of the simplest phone
00:21:53alerts. They can save more lives than the most expensive rescue
00:21:57equipment. When powerful earthquake struck Venezuela in June
00:22:002026, the country had no public early warning
00:22:04system, but millions of Android phones still sounded
00:22:07alarm. Using data from smartphones, Google's alert
00:22:10system detected the quake and warned people before the strongest
00:22:14shaking arrived. Chile, by contrast, has a state run
00:22:18warning system, one of the most...
00:22:44AI helps us collect, consolidate and process information more
00:22:47efficiently so we can produce timely reports. issue alerts and
00:22:51analyze incoming data. The goal is to ensure that both
00:22:55authorities and the public are warned in a timely
00:22:57manner.
00:23:00To warn as many people as possible, Senaprett relies on cell
00:23:04broadcast technology. Instead of sending millions of individual text
00:23:07messages, alerts are transmitted simultaneously from every cell tower
00:23:11in the danger zone to all compatible phones nearby.
00:23:15Even if the networks are overloaded, the warning still gets
00:23:17through.
00:24:20Fast, reliable phone alerts are the first line of defense.
00:24:24AI, drones and robots are helping rescue teams go
00:24:28even further. That's all for me. Bye.
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00:30:15companion, chatting with it almost like it's a close
00:30:18friend.
00:30:21But what is AI actually good at? When should we
00:30:24trust it, and when should we be more
00:30:27skeptical?
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