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it being relocated to belarus. at the border of poland. the baltic states. ♪ >> hello very warm welcome to the programs with days after the hold on power being put into question, russia hit ukraine hard with deadly strikes on civilians. also in the program tonight, i have been speaking to the president of iraq and his first english speaking interview on television. and after years of fighting and corruption, iraq is now a stable country that is open or new investment and partnerships. the first part of the tourist submarine that imploded touring the titanic have been seen for the first time since the incident. and funding to avoid collapse the u.k. water services cover

over one quarter of the country but it has fallen billions of pounds into debt. bbc investigation finds pedophiles using artificial intelligence technology to create and sell lifelike child sexual abuse material. we speak to a safety expert about what they want to see done. we start with the situation in you rain and theorrifying details of a russian missile attack on a restaurant in kramatorsk . 11 people were killed and most of the rescue workers have spent the day going through the rubble looking for survivors. it is in the eastern donetsk region. part of the countries occupied by russia. this was the scene after the attack. it was a popular, busy restaurant with many for -- families eating out before the nightly curfew. dozens of people were injured. the missile damage nearby apartment buildings and shops as well. among the dead were 214-year-old

twins. -- 2, 14-year-old twins. our correspondentndrew has the latest from the scene in kramatorsk . andrew: in the cenr of kramatorsk where the missiles hit. the blast area around it is huge. there are buildings hundreds of meters away that were damaged. behind me is the place that seems to have taken the hardest hit a restaurant popular with locals, soldiers, journalists and aid workers, i went there a lot myself. we understand rescue workers are still looking for many survivors may be trapped underneath concrete. we have heard -- saws and other working -- lifting equipment as they try to dig through the rubble. why this spot was targeted. we do not know if it was deliberately targeted by two

russian missiles, it is clearly a popular area in the center of town. whatever the russians may or may not be trying to target, it was clear that this was a big cy at a busy time of the evening with many, many civilians around. as we see so often in this, ask, many civilian casualties. maryam moshiri: the strikes come days after a weekend of instability in russia where the mercenary group staged a rebellion against the country. in the end, the mutiny proved short-lived coming to a halt when yevgeny prigozhin told his troops to stand down hundreds of kilometers away from russia's capital, moscow. leader alexander -- flew to the capital of belarus, minsk. and they did not go -- know his exact location after his plane was seen flying back to st. petersburg.

there is some concerns about what his arrival in minx -- minsk could mean if he arrives --. let's speak to christine, in agreed that this is on geopolitical analysis in europe. thank you for joining us. first of all, how has goshen and what happened -- prigozhin and what happened over the weekend change the status quo of russia, putin, and his status of power. christine: if there is one thing that was taken for granted in the europe and u.s. and beijg is there is a sense of stability and longevity in russia. whether you like it or not, prigozhin has been there and will stay

there. suddenly with this mad -- toward moscow that was stopped -- mad dash that was stopped -- toward moscow that was stopped. there is a sense of hostility in a scalp that the prigozhin regime does t have to live as long as president putin does. right now he is desperately trying to do cleanup to change the narrative and downplay what happened to the vulnerability of the past weekend. yet the crack's are already there. are they fatal, are they not? it is unclear. i do not think will know anytime soon, but the option, the light coming through the crack of a possibility that tre could be a different political future of any kind in russia is something new. we do not know what that would look like, it doesn't necessarily piece democracy or release of prisoners and a familiar, normal democratic regime by any means, but there

is an inherent in pretty debility in moscow now that has massive implications for russian people and for everyone around russia as well. maryam: list talk about buckner group. are in belarus. what impact will that have on nato and we are ready heard about poland being worried at the border. christine: this is not an unusual development. lukashenko has not been an independent actor or notable actor on the world stage. he has basically been a yes-man to putin. allowing russia to station troops and train troops in belarus. but to have a figure like prigozhin in belarus makes lukashenko sing more autonomous. it is unclear who is calling all

the shots, it is unclear what degree of agency or dependence lukashenko, prigozhin our putin have. and people have been accused of atrocities in africa, syria, ukraine, if you had these troops in belarus so close to nato borders, this would make it incumbent upon nato to look very seriously at its borders. to make it unquestionable that any kind of testing of the nato border in the baltics or in poland would immediately fail. that means sending troops like germany has decided to station 4000 permanent troops -- that came after the prigozhin muti. the strong signal and real fundamental support along the eastern flank will be essential. we do not know what comes next

out of russia. we do not know the manger of belarus and of prigozhin and with lukashenko and we do not want to be caught offguard in any scenario. maryam: good to talk with you as always. thank you very much. christine: thank you. maryam: the wreckage from the titan submersible which imploded by exploring direct events and tenant -- titanic has been recovered and brought to shore. five people died wh it broke apart close to the seafloor two hours after it began its dive. a crane was used to unload the debris from the arctic ship in the harbor. the canadian work of saint job -- st. john's. the canadian police are investigating the fatalities. we have our correspondent with the latest about this. reporter: when all the search and rescue ships left the scene, one vessel was left and that was

horizon object which had a deep-sea rope on it and it was tasked to with pulling up the debris from the titan sub, as much as possible. the ship brought the brie in today 10 days after the catastrophic accident on the bottom of the atlantic ocean. we got to see some of the items that have been possible to pick up. just to remind you, the construction of the type sub was -- titan sub was essentially a cylinder with two titanium into caps on either end. they have been able to recover those titanium into caps. --ends caps. they had a porthole with a window that was missing. you could tell because the hoist they were using to lifted up was going through the whole where the word hole would have been. what does it mean? we do not know. and we also found the landing legs. this is the long metal structures that they would use

when it is put on a deck of a ship and they were superficial coverings. it was after equipment bay. that was also picked up and within a short. and we also saw little bits of pieces. -- bits and pieces but nothing that was easy to make out because at all times they were trying to cover everything. the question is, have a got enough now for people to reconstruct what happened to marjorie can rock what happened and also identify where the cause of the failure occurred for that catastrophic implosion. what we do not know, of course, is there have been any sign of human remains. i am afraid because of the energy involved in that event 10 days ago, it is unlikely that any remains be uncovered. maryam: thats our science correspondent on the story. the biggest u.k. waters by thames

water is on the brink of collapse. it has had issues over the years with sewage spills and leaks. it has gone 14 billion pounds into debt as well. and they are working to secure extra funding and the government as it is ready to act in a worse case scenario. what does that mean? we are joined by -- a specialist in public services and regulation industries. what does it mean for the scenarios they could lie ahead for thames water? reporter: i'm not sure the government knows what it wants to do yet. its level of failure to engage of trying to get proper water services to british bill payers is being in credit ash has been incredible area is stepping back and saying there have been 72 billion pounds paid out to private water companies in england since privatization. they have 3 billion pounds of debt and as he set a moment ago,

they have also gotten 14 billion now. one oion is it could go into a special administration or solvency procedure. another option perhaps after that is that it could be taken into temporary public ownership. i think it is important to see that the shareholders who have pocketed so much cash of 1.4 billion pounds of dividend in 2022, 1.6 million for the ceo. the shareholders, the directors who run the company in the ground, they need to be held accountable. also the creditors who are owed a lot of debt that big banks in america and germany. they need a cut as well. because all the money has comes straight out of the money of the londoners that live in that thames valley. they are talking now about another 40% rise to pay for the

investment. the government does not really have good options, that speaks to theeal big policy failure of privatization. maryam: what would public ownership mean for people's bills? what would it mean for other issues that we talk about a lot in the u.k., in particular, more sewage being dumped into rivers and --the sea? reporter: if you go to scottish water, they have 10% less than the average bill for water in england where everything is privatized. you can see around the world that england is an extreme outliner -- outlier in having privatized water services. 90% of jurisdictions have public water because we can see water is a natural monopoly and bills will be low in public ownership. the old nationalization where you have a board of directors

appointed by the secretary of state is not necessarily the best way to go. if we look at paris water, recently brought back, they give a voice in the governing body for the sappy work at the utility and service users they have a voice where they can play a part in the government. that is what really modern public ownership and public governments ought to look like with public stake involved. maryam: it is good to talk to you thank you for joining us here on bbc. around the world and across the u.k., this is bbc news. let's take you through some of the stories making headlines in today. conservative london -- daniel has pulled out of the contest after being accused of groping a woman. he said he denied the allegation against him. he said he was withdrawing from the race because of a pressure on his family and the difficulty

having his campaign as a charred. kevin spacey has appeared in court of london accused of a string of sexual offenses. the oscar-winning actor is facing a judge in -- dozen charges from 2001. he denies the claims and has pleaded not guilty. the prosecution goes underway on friday. and there is an investigation into telecom -- for a major disruption to an i-9 call service on sunday. they said emergency calls were failing to connect because of a technical fault. they manage them and they apologize for the problems that many of the people suffered on sunday when they tried to call the emergency services. welcome, you are live with me with maryam on bbc news. the context. police are on high alert after the shooting dead of a teenage

boy by a police officer on a paris suburb on tuesday. this is the second night of rioting. last night, 31 people were arrested and 24 police were injured in a night of disturbances. the teenager named -- teenager died from bullet ruined -- when noon -- wound to the chest. i am joined by sociologists and research director at the french national center of scientific research nationalizing in violence. before we talk about this in and out of what is happening that we have more information about what happened during what was supposed to be a routine traffic stop? >> we have two videos from two different angles. it is clearly seen on the video that the car was stopped and the police officer was standing on the side of the car. he was brandishing a gun,

towards the driver, when the driver tried to ride away from the stop, he shot him. maryam: so, after the shooting, we saw people taking to the streets, people rioting. why is there so much anger over this particular event? is this anger more targeted generally at the police, if so, why? >> it is both at the police and this very specific event. it is not an isolated event. there have been not throughup -- not two, but three people shot dead by the police in france as part of a trucking stop. and there has been last year 13 people shot dead by the police in france. that makes france the leading country for the number of people shot dead by the police in traffic stops. it is quite a big issue. in addition to that, the message

-- belongs to the minority group. so when you talk of police violence, there is an issue of police discrimination and use of force. maryam: let's look at some of the anger that is targeted toward police. you said there are many kinds of shooting. what is the government now saying it's going to do about this? >> the government at the moment, the president, the prime minister, they have been extremely cautious in their public statement. usually, they tend to write a blank check to the police and say the police just did what they had to do, but this time, given the videos, i think they are extremely cautious in what they say and they try to have a more balanced approach. through a police homicide.

maryam: ok. thank you very much. thank you for joining us in explaining what is happening in france. as always, there will be more on this story on the bbc website if you want to go there and have a look at the latest. thank you, sebastian. the bbc investigation has found pedophiles are using artificial intelligence and virtual reality technology to create and sell child sexual abuse material. they market the material on mainstream platforms. responding to the bb investigation they say i -- ai abuse is no different to other kinds. and companies will be required to identify and remove it. reporter: since ai generated images become possible, there has been a huge flood. i:s rt journalist who spent months researching this world where pedophiles use ai to create and share images of child abuse. tavia: the volume is saying i

will do at least a thousand images a month. reporter: they have thousands of followers, some of these people. we did not pay to subscribe and we did not view any illegal material but we could see the comment and hashtags. of -- octavia: it is not just young girls talking about -- this one we cannot read out, but i just did not even know words like that existed. reporter: it is really shocking. octavia: yes and often using the word rape. reporter: the images are created using stable diffusion and they are so lifelike that police fear they will not be able to tell the difference between these and real ones. >> to identify where it is an actual child in the world is being abused as opposed to an artificial synthetic child.

that is more difficult for us to identify of where a child needs to be safeguarded. maryam: i am joyed now i the ceo of ly crowd projection charity worker. this is terrifying the way that ai and vr are being used. remind people why this is, in many ways, as dangerous as the real thing. lucy: i think, first of all, there is no question if it is as dangerous as the real thing. in terms of what happens when people are using and abusing -- viewing sexual images of a child if it is a real image or nai image of a child, -- four and -- or an ai image of a child. people can use it to justify themselves for what they are doing.

what i mean by that is that many of the people whom we work with who have offended online a field that part of the addressing of their behavior so they do not offend again is that they have to stop engaging in fantasies about children. and sexual fantasy about children can reinforce the attraction. and what ai images will do is reinforce that. maryam: what can we do about this? it seems to be a wild west out there online when it comes the ai and vr on the way it is used. what is reticular late concerning about this is this is on -- particularly concerning about this is that it is on mainstream lifeforms. lucy: agencies are being in this department and arrests are being made. other departments are looking into this and academic researchers are exploring this. the collaboration between us is what we need. we need to understand the threat, insight, and take measures. we also need to take the tech --

habitat companies step up. we see how dangerous it can be for children, we have seen how offending can take place on the web unchallenged on platforms. what we have here is a little bit of an opportunity to get into these spaces with the way we did not do with the internet the first time around. it was not intended to be used for child sexual abuse, these spaces are not intended for that either, but they will be. we have a window of opportunity to come together and look at understand the problem and get the right measures in place as soon as possible. maryam: do you think you have enough pooling of resources of people doing research and the authorities? lucy: i think we are trying really hard. academic and researchers. and the pace of that we need to speed up. there is a really serious challenge of the scale of the problem in the open web already. young people and children child

sexual abuse images are circulating. children are at risk on the open we we have not solved the problem yet there are eating your eddies to address the problem we have and think about and address the problem that is coming towards us. maryam: ok. deborah, tha you very much indeed for joining us here on the context on bbc news. i think he once again for your time. thank you. -- i thank you once again for your time. thank you. do stay with us he on bbc the context because in a little bit we will have our interview in the englh language, for the first time between me and the president of iraq. we discussed many things including iraq's current situation. the relative peace and stability and how the belief is that iraq is very much ready for business. we also discussed climate change. it is a big issue in the country

right now. causing a lot of displacement, iraqi people. stay tuned for that exclusive interview with the president in just a few minutes time. you're watching the context on bbc news. i am maryam. ♪ narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... narrator: financial services firm, raond james. man: bdo. accountants and advisors. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. by judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. and by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ ♪

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