Episodes

  • Livestream child abuse is booming: Could AI finally shut it down?

    Livestream child abuse is booming: Could AI finally shut it down?
    Jul 11 2025
    Millions of young children are being sexually abused, with perpetrators often on the other side of the world.

    Online livestream abuse has become a booming global industry - with the UK the third largest consumer.

    How does this sick practice too often go undetected? And could AI be the solution to shutting it down?

    Julie Etchingham and John Tanagho, Executive Director at the International Justice Mission, tell Lucy Watson What You Need To Know.

    You can watch Julie's investigation here.
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    16 mins
  • Who hacked M&S?

    Who hacked M&S?
    Jul 9 2025
    How much do you think your personal information is worth to criminal gangs?

    Millions of customers details were stolen when Marks and Spencer was hacked in April, bringing much of its online business to a standstill for weeks.

    So how much damage has it done and who are DragonForce, the group the Marks and Spencer chairman said is believed to be behind it?

    Consumer Editor Chris Choi tells Lucy Watson What You Need To Know.
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    20 mins
  • Is there a glaring flaw in the disposable vapes ban?

    Is there a glaring flaw in the disposable vapes ban?
    Jul 7 2025
    One month into the ban on disposable vapes, how much waste is being cut and what environmental impact is it actually having?

    The all-important refillable pods are in scarce supply, so is there a massive flaw in the rules?

    Digital Reporter Sam Leader tells Lucy Watson What You Need To Know.
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    15 mins
  • Amanda Knox: How I tell my kids mummy was jailed for murder

    Amanda Knox: How I tell my kids mummy was jailed for murder
    Jul 4 2025
    Amanda Knox's every move has been scrutinized for nearly all of her adult life. The murder of Meredith Kercher and the subsequent arrest, trial, conviction, imprisonment, acquittal and release of Knox, then her retrial, second conviction, and ultimately her definitive exoneration by Italy’s Supreme Court in 2015 is a story that has made headlines around the world for almost twenty years.

    Amanda is now 37, a wife to author and podcaster Christopher Robinson, and a mother of two children, Eureka and Echo, but still - as she puts it to ITV News' Lucy Watson - she is "forever branded the girl accused of murder."

    Amanda Knox speaks to Lucy Watson for ITV News' What You Need To Know.

    Full interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/RlcpJ_2L3c0
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    16 mins
  • What is 'Baby Botox' and why is it booming? With ex Love Islander Faye Winter

    What is 'Baby Botox' and why is it booming? With ex Love Islander Faye Winter
    Jul 2 2025
    Ever heard of Baby Botox? The latest desirable injections. Their popularity is booming - young people, some still in their early 20s are buying into the promise of being unwrinkled for life.

    But behind the satisfying selfies lies a much darker truth: with many risking lasting damage to their faces by choosing cheap deals online.

    So what is driving the trend? How do you spot counterfeit botox? And who should and shouldn’t do the injections?

    Faye Winter is an influencer and former Love Island contestant who has been open about her own damaging botox experience. She joins ITV News Digital Reporter Cree-Summer Haughton to tell Lucy Watson what you need to know.
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    16 mins
  • The epilepsy drug behind a scandal 'bigger than Thalidomide'

    The epilepsy drug behind a scandal 'bigger than Thalidomide'
    Jun 30 2025
    It's been called a bigger scandal than thalidomide but one you may never have heard of.

    For decades women were taking an epilepsy drug during pregnancy, without being told it could harm their babies.

    How long were the dangers known about - and why weren't they told?

    ITV Meridian Social Affairs Correspondent Christine Alsford tells I'm Lucy Watson and this is What You Need to Know.


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    15 mins
  • Parking QR codes and other scams: how to avoid them

    Parking QR codes and other scams: how to avoid them
    Jun 27 2025
    Hundreds of fake companies. Thousands of scams. An estimated billion euros swindled. But just one entity apparently behind it all.

    ITV News has helped uncover a global scamming network - targeting victims around the world - which appears to use ordinary suburban homes across the UK to hide their operation.

    Sam Holder and Daniel Boal tell Sally Biddulph What You Need To Know.
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    11 mins
  • Why 12 year-olds are taking ketamine

    Why 12 year-olds are taking ketamine
    Jun 25 2025
    When were you first offered drugs? Uni? Sixth form?

    Well, when it comes to Ketamine - children as young as 12 are getting hooked on the horse tranquilizer.

    Why are they taking it, how are they getting it and what's it doing to them?

    George Hancorn tells Lucy Watson what you need to know.
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    13 mins