How do you stop child sex abuse being livestreamed across the internet?
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Hi, I’m Julie Etchingham, presenter for News at Ten - this week, we’re airing an investigation I’ve been working on for months with producer Reshma Rumsey.
It’s a tough watch.
The subject is the booming world market in online livestream child sexual abuse. So vast is the scale that one police chief has declared it a global health emergency.
Millions of children are caught up in it. Girls and boys - including under five year olds - are forced to perform sex acts on camera, live and on demand.
And because the livestreams are encrypted, it’s near impossible for law enforcement to stop it.
And shockingly, the UK is the third largest global consumer of it.
But campaigners say there could be a breakthrough in the fight against the crime.
They believe AI could be a game-changer.
At the heart of our investigation is an extraordinary young Filipino woman who was trafficked into the livestream abuse industry after she became an orphan at 13.
Her courage in telling her story, with the aim of raising the alarm - is breathtaking. Reshma and I will never forget it.
There are a lot of questions yet, though.
How will the tech companies and manufacturers react?
Privacy campaigners will no doubt raise big questions about government mandated software installed on our devices.
Are there other routes to crack down on the crime - AI is also an effective tool in scanning suspected bank accounts for small amounts of money being paid out to parties in countries like the Philippines.
But the campaigners argue that ‘Safety by Design’ has been mandated in so many other areas of life - seatbelts in cars for example - why shouldn’t this AI trained software be regarded as the same.
One thing is for sure - Ruby and millions of children out there - all part of our globally connected human family - are crying out for help…
You can read more about our investigation here and watch the full report on ITVX here.
Cracking down on the ‘mayhem’ of illegal e-biking

We’re on patrol with Gwent Police in Newport when we spot it, writes ITV News Wales Reporter Rhys Williams — an unregistered electric motorbike, carrying two boys, tearing through a residential street.
Officers move to intercept, but before they can get close, the bike veers off down a narrow wooded footpath and vanishes.
Even the drone tracking it from above loses sight. It’s just minutes into the operation, and already the scale of the challenge is clear — these bikes are fast, untraceable, and gone in seconds.
Watch Rhys’ report on how police are trying to keep pace with this latest anti-social menace on ITVX.
Post Office Horizon scandal: 'Will it ever be put right?'
Former subpostmasters affected by the Horizon IT scandal have welcomed the damning first report from the official inquiry, saying it shows the "full scale of the horror that they unleashed on us".
It's been called one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British legal history, now a report into the Horizon IT scandal has found Post Office bosses were aware the system was faulty but "maintained a fiction" that it was always accurate, having "disastrous impacts".
Approximately 1,000 subpostmasters were wrongfully convicted by the Post Office between 1999 and 2015, after the Horizon IT software made it appear as if money was missing from their accounts.
ITV News Reporter Ellie Pitt travelled to London with some of those still seeking redress…
See the ITV drama that kickstarted a campaign for justice: Mr Bates vs The Post Office is available to watch on ITVX
And: Infected blood victims ‘harmed further’ by payout delays
Labour’s first year - our experts give their take
Keir Starmer’s Labour Party romped to an election win last July, securing a bumper majority over a beleaguered Conservative Party.
But a year on, and with Starmer rocked by a backbench rebellion over winter fuel payments and welfare reforms, the prime minister has seen his personal ratings plummet among voters.
ITV News experts have examined how the Government is dealing with the economy, health, immigration and housing in its first year in office.
Watch the special discussion on ITVX.
And, don’t miss Presenter Tom Bradby and Political Editor Robert Peston discussing the latest from the corridors of power on our weekly Talking Politics podcast here which this week focuses on immigration, with ‘one in, one out’ top of talks between Starmer and French president Emmanuel Macron.
Meet the women living with hair loss who are empowering others
Because you've read this far, here's a bit of a news detox. We've launched an Uplifting Stories channel on YouTube because not all news is bad. Here’s an example of what you can see…
Dani Gilbert's mum first noticed a small patch of hair loss when Dani was a child.
By the time she was an adult, she'd lost all hair from her body. But rather than let alopecia define her, Dani has used her position as an influencer to inspire others to embrace their condition.
While it's not been an easy journey, she's determined to spread a message of positivity.
ITV News Tyne Tees Presenter Amy Lea also met Gaileen, who reveals her hair loss on camera to all for the first time…
Antarctica: The impact of climate change and marveling at a frozen land
From shrinking ice to the very real threat of climate change and to why you can play snowball fights in Antarctica, ITV News Science Correspondent Martin Stew experienced life for British researchers first-hand.
During an exclusive three-week journey to the bottom of the world, Martin lived and worked alongside those scientists as they investigated the very latest impact of warming seas on nature and the environment.
He’s now documented that voyage of discovery and learning in a new hour-long documentary - watch it on YouTube or on ITVX.
Airport apology after woman twice asked to prove stoma condition
Rhonda O’Neill has a rare condition known as autonomic neuropathy. She was already anxious ahead of a hospital appointment in London to remove a hernia and reverse her stoma when she arrived at Belfast International Airport.
As she made her way through security, her stoma was flagged in the scanner. Despite having a medical card to show her condition she says one worker asked her to lift her skirt to prove it and pressed on her abdomen which was extremely painful.
Rhonda refused to reveal her stoma and was taken to a private room with two women without her sister with whom she was travelling.
“To ask somebody to expose themselves, their bottom half alone, never mind the stoma, it really is dreadful,” she told UTV.
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‘We’re not trespassers - generations have used these beach huts’
Beach huts. They’re as much a part of British seaside holidays as buckets and spades, 99 cones and sandy sandwiches.
As such, those who have access to one guard it jealously. These huts sell for tens of thousands and are prized assets.
So when Plymouth City council and Cornwall council decided not to renew the licences for families to use 20 huts on the Rame Peninsula, they should have realised they wouldn’t go quietly.
ITV News West Country’s Marina Jenkins reports for ITVX.
Ralph Fiennes on why Shakespeare should stay on school curriculum
Bafta-winning actor Ralph Fiennes has a couple of bugbears: he doesn’t like actors wearing microphones on stage and he thinks plans to remove Shakespeare from the curriculum are ridiculous.
The star of 007 films, 28 Days Later and Harry Potter movies and many more says the arts desperately needs more funding and more support, starting in schools.
He spoke to ITV News Arts Editor Nina Nannar at the Theatre Royal in Bath, where he’s been given a season of productions to run.
What’s coming up…
Saturday July 12: Orange Order parades. Parades to take place across Northern Ireland as unionists and loyalists marks the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne
Sunday July 13: 40 years since Live Aid was staged at Wembley Stadium
Monday July 14: Church of England General Synod, held in York, to debate abuse redress
Tuesday July 15: Sentencing hearing of Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers who were convicted of causing criminal damage to the Sycamore Gap tree. Newcastle Crown Court
And finally… The one-armed golfer and his drive to succeed
Avid golfer Mark Marshall lost the lower part of his right arm in an accident at work a decade ago.
He was just 19 at the time and says it's taken a lot to get over it.
Now, Mark, from Retford, has remodelled his game, built power into his left arm and shoulder and is banging balls down the middle of the fairway once again...