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of them we're empowering ourselves to be more efficient or quicker with our transactions. we can make mobile payments from our stands. the truth is that every device is a potential entry point for security attack. i think a eventually there's a thousands, maybe sometimes millions each day. they use the cyber, they use the technology as an extension of traditional official intelligence has not many main threat. this is due to the 3 laws of robotics. one of the things that's happening at the many cyber implants right now, i'd be where they're really worried about it. really b, you can't put a chip in my brain. so there has been a lot of progress from the hacker side using ai and using other advanced
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technologies to there has been on the defensive in ah, today, shocking allegations of sexual abuse were revealed. involving a former top us figure skating coach been stuck on bed and that's it. also do new hosting. you don't have been keeping the pool. the extent of yet all sick friend go to school. me haven't get zone into z in recent years, there has been a wave of revelations about sex abuse in sport, or from all over the world. people are speaking out. 265 athletes have brought allegations of sexual abuse against larry nasser. the u. s. olympic gymnastics, team, doctor, i know now where you really are a child molester and
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a master manipulator. more sexual abuse, accusations were raised by a group of shop. 4 3, an average former coach of brazil's domestics teams has been accused of sexually assaulting dozens of young athlete. sexual abuse is rife in all areas of sport, individual and team sports, amateur and professional sport. athletes are often abused by the very people who help them when metals, she was a hero, he was admired by everybody. so why would somebody believe me? i was just a little girl. she's coming home. all this house are calling marshall. such company irrespective of gender one, the sports person in 7 was sexually abused when they were under 18 in the price or pre to, to, to retrieve really was, was fall too much. who knew what makes the mill you of sport so favourable to
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sexual abuse? is bloomed as dish and finished noah all paid off. he li, they'd would see an size disk dell find a fine forklift guide in sustainable to sports indian for ions and for one stroke to get them yuki functional rice group. as long as the metals and money keep coming, they don't care. we explored the issue of sexual abuse in several countries and several sports trying to get to the root of the problem and fathom why from governments to the io see, no one seems to be able to stop the terrible damage being inflicted on young people . ah ah ah,
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our investigation begins in the seaside town of blackpool in the north of england. this is the home of a former star of british books. i full stewart was a premier league footballer and plead for england. he had a successful career o waited a very long time before speaking up about what his coach did to him. one morning in late 2016 paul read an article in the guardian newspaper in which an ex footballer andy woodward, described how he was abused by his coach as a boy. nothing gets a little bit further in the store. if i,
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if i upset him in any way, drop me from the t at any point you tell me, you will go and you will disappear and the dream won't happen. i was frightened to death because he had complete power over me. by that stage, it was like a double whammy, and he would try to abuse me sometimes even when my sister was in the same house, it was just like reading my own story, but with somebody else, somebody else his name and. and that really braz ignited with me if you will think really, really hit her a strong note. and i felt compelled to, to speak hope. ah paul was raped by his coach between the ages of 10 and 14. he took us to see the
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manchester suburb where he lived as a child, the place where the abuse started back. then as soon as the school day ended, paul would spend all his time on the football pitch across the motorway, a few 100 yards from his home. that was where frank roper, his abuser 1st spotted him. at the time roper was working as a talent scout. recruiting young hopefuls for a local club. what you used to do is you used to play football games after school again. so the skills and then people like him would come in around and look for flyers. and he, he approached my dad because he was asking who the father was of the number 10 roper took paula to his team. the assaults began a week later, paul was 10. the 1st time that he sexually abused me, he whispered in my ear,
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but if i tell anyone he would kill my mom and dad and my brothers. and he also said that this is what you have to do if you want to be a footballer. depending on his mood, oh, he would sometimes beat me up. her been laughing his bark because he'd say, parents didn't love me. i used to sank myself away, dreaming that i was playing o profit, where money is in, i could play or wembley wearing flight. and it was my way of almost this associates or so from what was actually happening, who became withdrawn is school marx went from bad to worse. he started refusing to go to school and spent a lot of time in his bedroom. mm. within
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lunch. happy child. he had been, was gone, replaced by a silent teenager who clung doggedly to his dream of becoming a footballer. hall was sexually assaulted almost daily for 4 years. powerless to free himself from the hold his coach had over him. the syndrome is familiar to sociologists. the child is in an extremely weak position, and the club is all powerful. the coaches all powerful, they will do as they're told otherwise, they'll be out and. and if you're a sports coach with, with some level of power and influence, then of course you have something to, to manipulate children with because they, they want your endorsement, they want your approval, they want your skills to train them. if you can offer them at glory that they can
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dream about and if you can offer them success, that is something that that would they would aspire to. then of course, you have an enormous power over them because there's too much at stake to, to say no to your coach. so this produces a very conformist, very conservative attitude amongst the machine boys where they will do as i told, and they will sacrifice whatever they need to sacrifice to make it into the team. and to stay in the team are all kept quiet so as to stay on the team. but as he got older, he got stronger. late one afternoon when he was 14 rubber was giving him a lift home from football practice in his car. as usual, instead of taking him straight home, he parked in a secluded spot not far away. this was the place when when i just before i was 15 that i decided enough was
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enough. he made in advance to reach over to me and leaned over to me. i pushed him off. i opened the door and just run and run from her home. and he never came back to the house again after that i'd, i'd simply enjoyed enough. you know, 4 years was a long, long time to, to, to suffer, or on a daily basis what i was suffering. all stewart is far from being an isolated case. in a high level british sport. the united kingdom has witnessed the biggest sexual abuse scandal and sporting history, the one involving the most victims and abusers. it is still ongoing. in late
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2016, over a period of several weeks chilling revelations of hundreds of cases of sexual abuse of young footballers where headline news the scandal was unleashed by a newspaper article. the one that prompted paul stuart to speak out david con, as a guardian reporter, he was one of the team of journalists who broke the story. in the article published on the 16th of november 2016, andy woodward of 43 year old ex footballer who had played professionally at regional level revealed that he had been raped by his coach between the ages of 11 and 17. it was obviously a very powerful interview with on the woodward, but i don't think that anybody realised than that it would release the floodgates of so many other people coming forward me. 4 days later, steve walters,
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another ex footballer told how his coach had abused him. the following day, david white, a former manchester city player, described how he too had been abused by his coach. more and more victims came forward. in a single week, 6 footballers accused their former coaches in the fortnight after the initial article. 350 footballers spoke out the nation was devastated by their stories. the police squad that dealt with pedophilia cases was tasked with coordinating all the information. it took the investigators over a year and a half to produce an initial report. mm . ah, the ellipse almost 3000 referrals that police had purely as a result of the initial sort of public story that i'm the woodward actually made
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around 300 suspects that were identified. some were dead. some there wasn't sufficient evidence to prosecute, but for many there was, and some of those trials are still ongoing now and actually involve around about $350.00 football clubs. all levels of the game speedy. but the next 0300 suspects. 350 clubs, 3000 referrals. the country reeled at the figures, but they came as no surprise to those who had been studying the problem for years. i recall thinking when i 1st saw it, that is a game changer. for some of those i, i suppose it's it was almost what we'd been waiting for.
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ah ah, and i make no, certainly no borders line to nationalities. and you guys, as a merge, we don't have authority. we don't of, of actually, the whole world needs to take action and be ready. people are judgment, common crisis with we can do better, we should be doing better. every one is contributing each in their own way. but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenge is great. the response has been massive. so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we're in it together
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with oh, when i was showing wrong, when i'll prove just don't hold any world vs to shape out disdain becomes the advocate and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart, we choose to look so common ground. my car chill is a sport sociologist sexual abuse. this is specialist field. he is one of a dozen or so academics around the world. i've been trying to draw attention to the issue for years until the football scandal. no one wanted to know myself, a little stuck on the figure is on
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a new well, did the city commit down per real close to sort of a boy because they built several 1000 to athletes in belgium and the netherlands to partner study published in 20151 study about 4000 x athletes and they looked all forms of, of abuse on the, the headline find in a was that just over 14 percent of their sample had experienced some form of sexual violence. 14 percent is about one in 7. the evidence suggests that one in 7 athletes under 18 be they, male or female experiences, sexual abuse, but study use the term sexual abuse and the broad sense of the convention on the rights of the child to mean anything from indecent images to rate is massive. i
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deeply trouble it, but also within that study, they found that athletes who were non heterosexual identified, their prefers rate was also higher. they found that to athletes from a minority ethnic background, their prevalence rate was also higher. and they found that athletes at the international level who performed the international level, the prevalence rate for those athletes was, i think just a 30 percent. so considerably higher than the, the general sample. so often put an important study in the 1st real robust study. we've had in this, in this area, and with the break, del stewart reached the international level in his sport, the level at which almost one athlete in 3 has experienced sexual abuse in 10868 years after he found the strength to rebuff his coach he fulfilled his dream. age
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22. he signed a 200000 pound contract to play for manchester city, one of the top british clubs in the 198788 season alone. he scored 28 goals in london. club tottenham hotspur paid a fortune for him and in 1091 he scored a goal that one has seen the fe cut oh had seen fortune and professional recognition. he moved to london with his wife and he had met 3 years earlier. their 1st child was born around then in magazine photographs. paul looks the happiest of men as if he had forgotten the 4 years of sexual abuse. but victory's adulation and wealth, we're not enough to heal the wounds. well, i'll stop it denied tobin london. i was parted with teammates
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and somebody offered me a tablet. i didn't really know what it was at the time, but it was extra site for you. once i took the tablet, all of a sudden the euphoria was just fresh. like nothing i'd ever felt before. much it was just it just made you so happy. then i got hope tom both actually to say ok. ok. i was just in such a self the stroke mode at that time and the more drink god. the more drugs have the more i needed to sometimes just normally pain after a year and rehab paul ended his career in football, he set up a small medical communications business and went back to live in blackpool with his
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wife and their 3 children. frank roper, his abuser, was never brought to trial. he died of cancer in 2005. he. the police received allegations of abuse by roper from 31 victims all kept his secret for 42 years. why do most victims keep quiet about their abuse? ah ah, in the suburbs of madrid, a former champion gymnast, describe so sexual abuse, victims locked themselves into silence.
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glory of this terrace was an olympic gymnast. it was 36 years before she spoke about her experience. i live, i have a hard it's so nice feelings on this mail. they did last, you know, they mathnasium with my experience in the gym, i was not allowed to look up. i was just looking down to the floor when our and given us glorious story starts with the little girl who loved sport. got a big grocery my, me but you know, i, i remember those were the happy days in the gym. you know, i was really, really excited about didn't i only thought about being in the gym and work. you know,
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when i moved out of the 1st you the local club, i went to the national training center and must have been 11, probably 10 or 11. i think i was just starting to train with, with the coach. the coach was his use car bio, the star of spanish gymnastics. you know, he was very charming. he had been a very good gymnast. we felt very special that he paid attention to us. you know, then now, then the strange things started to happen. this was very subtle, very, very slow. he isolated us from the rest of our world. he would not allow us to speak with with the boys in the gym, but also with our brothers and sisters. and a sudden our parents are bad ones. he controlled what we 8,
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he controlled our sleeping. he controlled everything, you know. so then he started giving us the massage. ah, he, i used to be the 1st one getting to the gym in the afternoon. he would make me work, wait for him. and then in the warm up room that was in the basement that ranked my him. it felt like my body was there, but i was not, i was, i was dancing with carmen, or they bolero, they ravel and that's what i, what i did, i had to keep my mind b. c, with other stuff. i used to repeat in my mind my routine over and over and over and over and over again. just not to think
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for . busy ringback busy monday i couldn't stop the tears and i came out crying. and so my father went after him to the lock room. i could hear them screaming from outside and my father came out and he told me you're not ever coming back here again. he never asked me. i never told you might i thought this is going with me to my grave. my secret some survivors of abuse will talk about how they didn't want to speak about what was happening because it wasn't
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just their dream. it was that parents treat and so for many survivors, it isn't often known till the parents of, of actually died that they're able to feel able to speak about their experiences. they hope gloria is one such survivor. she waited until her father died to speak out. in 2012 aged 48, she reported the abuse to the police. in the ensuing investigation, 14 people testified against his use. car bio, several girls he coached alongside, gloria reported inappropriate touching. some like i read martinez. agreed to testify publicly. others such as almo dana san jose, who married carbajal, testified in his favor. the abuse had happened too long ago for car bio to be tried . eventually an agreement was reached with the spanish gymnastics federation, under which he ceased to be a national coach. at the time,
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the chairman of the federation was none other than car bios own son. also a former champion, gymnast car by o is denied the abuse and still has a sizable fan following. he just told me that he loved me. so of course you had, you had this love hate relationship. he was your coach who took care of you and the distance is just so confusing. you know, at that age you don't know what's going on. i felt responsible for what was happening to me as a t. i sent ashamed. i thought i provoked it because i was pretty it's so i was now gonna tell my father that i was provoking that, or anybody, you know, if somebody had asked me, i would have denied it at the time. on vin, i kinda as for she hadn't been goin nitika shove tut and asked him
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if my to position when to him. if it's a when done and a stikes hutsel zagging dead, these is fine photos. good food of fear, wendy's locker does. it is unfair to stitch 15 viet von, they can no longer cush, making her want on socially any. go get to stop. that's which question. we don't teach children from a young age. what that right saw. if we did those kinds of things, we might start to erode the vulnerability that, that these children have. many factors make these crimes easy to commit. and hard to report in sporting context. the power the coach has over the athletes. the fact that they are used to pain on a culture of obedience, parental pressure, shame, and dreams of glory. you might think sporting federations would do their utmost to protect their athletes and punish the perpetrators that very often they do just the
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opposite. some generations deliberately conceal abuse and protect abusers. the u. s. swimming federation is one of the worst examples usa swimming federation is a powerful organization of the 104 metals, one by the usa and the 2016 olympics. 33 were won by swimmers. this is the federation that produced michael phelps, the athlete who currently holds the most olympic titles with 28 metals. to his credit. it has almost 4 100000 members and an annual budget of over $40000000.00. aah! one man is responsible for the success. chuck,
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well guess who is executive director of usa swimming for 20 years. chuck walker succeeded in turning a non profit sporting association into a highly profitable federation. and during the 20 years when he was executive director, he covered up numerous cases of sexual abuse. we're empowering ourselves to be more efficient quicker with our transactions. but with that comes a trade off every device p as a potential entry point for security attack any machine it's an extension of traditional time. the defenders have always been one step behind the attackers. both limited with them was one comes up sion law. so it's not a matter of, if it happens, it's a matter of went with
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hunger and suffering at the border between valerie, some poland, where thousands of migrants including children, remain stranded in a bid to enter the u. we spoke to some of the people at the camp who tried very hard to get treatment abroad, but we didn't get permission to leave the country. we received an offer for treatment from germany, but we were not allowed to leave curtis sound. you sold your cars, is valuable things. yes. to get my you know, right now we don't have anything on the detention over detention over the ongoing migrant crisis. poland is even now dragging russia into the argument that moscow framing war. so for the chaos at the border on the 1st tests, many of the guantanamo detainees shared slide on towards.

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