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People being in a smaller bubble, it might have helped. ive seen it helping people as well. some people do feel confident being in a small bubble. this is the way forward for us now, and this has really helped sort of decrease the feelings of anxiety, feelings of mental health issues. how is the family? prisons are moving cautiously to their new normal. visits at isis have just restarted, but there is still no touching or hugging. the pandemic has thrown up many surprises, but few would have pre...

Now the ministry ofjustice is looking to see whether changes forced upon them by covid could become part of a new normal in prisons. its promoted safety. its promoted less feelings of anxiety for the boys. its been very beneficial. people being in a smaller bubble might have helped. ive seen it helping people as well. some people do feel confident being in a small bubble. this is the way forward for us now, and this has really helped sort of decrease the feelings of anxiety, feelings of mental h...

Making jails even more dangerous places. here at isis prison in east london, as in everyjail, the authorities response was a strict regime of testing and isolation. you reach to your tonsils, yeah? inmates were locked in their cells for 23 and a half hours a day. education classes, group activities and family visits were all cancelled. its had a massive impact on the prisoners. everything was completely locked down. to do covid checks, welfare checks, well—being checks, staff were doing hourly...

Roads in central london at the start of what they say will be a fortnight of demonstrations. the group wants to force the government to stop all new investments in fossil fuels that are driving climate change. police say a significant operation will be in place to manage the ongoing protests. when the covid crisis hit last year, there was concern at how prisons would cope, with calls from politicians for some inmates to be released early. the government resisted that and ordered a full lockdown ...

These scenes unthinkable just weeks ago. dancing hand in hand with musics the syrian forces that celebrated what they call a brutal defeat. our cnn international correspondent nick peyton walsh has been reporting from raqqa and brings us a rare look inside a former isis prison. >> reporter: isis usually leaves places looking like this in their self-declared capital was not different. with one exception. where are the people? hard lay soul here. while the victors swarming around isiss old hq, the...

Actions the way were doing them is going to do a good job of clearing isis away from some of the areas where -- which they now occupy and which are vitally important for them to hold. but just conducting these kinds of operations is not going to take it the area away from isis permanently and theyll be back. so the secretary of state is right, its not something significantly different, its just pretty much more of the same. >> so there -- i mean the word "unilateral," theyll act unilaterally if ...

Services committee, general -- i mean secretary of defense ash carter said that the u.s. will be sending a special expeditionary force to -- targeting forcing, is what he called it, to iraq to conduct unilateral raids against isis targets to conduct missions to rescue hostages, kill isil leaders, and essentially to assist kurdish and iraqi forces there inside iraq. now u.s. officials here say that this is very similar to what happened in october when a small special operations force accompanied ...

Quarters with -- in an isis raid, when u.s. and kurdish commandoes raided a prison in iraq, an isis prison, but they also saw pictures of americans top secret delta force moving through that isis compound. so i think it has been very awkward for this administration to explain what exactly u.s. troops are doing against isis, what is their role, and i think we will hear more clarification coming out of the white house quite soon, explaining this broader approach, explaining what the limitations ar...

Death of master sergeant wheeler in that raid on the isis prison. that, in fact, u.s. forces are carry out missions, boots on the ground, involved in combat. and the indications are now that that is going to increase. the way the united states officials have described it is theyre going to try to double down, redouble the efforts that have been working in the counter isis effort. again, bringing americans closer to combat. >> ron allen with breaking news. thank you very much. twint go to turkey....

The iraqi prisoners freed during last weeks commando raid by u.s. and kurdish forces are on an isis prison are now talking about their horrifying ordeal at the hands of isis. this is helmet cam video of the actual raid, released over the weekend. the crackle of gunfire heard throughout. kurdish officials now say the operation was carried out by 48 kurdish and 27 u.s. special forces. one of the americans, master sergeant joshua wheeler became the first american soldier killed in iraq since the u....