warnings of a public health emergency in the uk this winterfor the nhs, amid fears services could be even more stretched after a bad summer. and a show of solidarity for salman rushdie: authors gather in new york to demonstrate their support, a week after he was attacked. we start in the us, where a former british member of the islamic state terror group, has been sentenced to life in prison, by a court in virginia. el shafee elsheikh, who s 3a, was among a group of british is members who carried out a brutal reign of terror in syria. our north america correspondent nomia iqbal reports from virginia. and then they would ask me to. el shafee elsheikh claimed he was a simple is fighter who wanted to help. but it wasn t true. he was part of the islamic state group which terrorised large swathes of iraq and syria between 2014 and 2017. beatings, electrocutions and mock executions were carried out by the jihadists on western hostages, who called their torturers the beatles due t
on a tour. so i walked around. watch this exchange i had with sarah bloomfield, the museum director. we re speaking about the shoes, the shoes that are on exhibit at the museum. watch this. these are shoes, old shoes. this is one of our most iconic exhibits. if you visit these killing centers today, you see thousands upon thousands of shoes like this. the shoes of the victims. the germans took their shoes because they were going to reuse them and recycle them, if you will. but of course the victims would be killed. but this is what is left of those lives. these shoes are 80, 90 years old and they re here. the only surviving elements for all those people who were exterminated. this is the trace of the people before they were gassed. i think of those shoes. my four grandparents, we didn t have anything. nothing was found basically. it s just horrendous, horrendous situation. it s so important, so timely to remind people who don t know anything about it. and i think
Responded to it and found some help with it. and i read every message that has been sent even though it s like i couldn t respond to them all. but to feel like there is this community out there and to know how many, you know, there s this ocean of, of loss and grief, and sadness and you don t have to be fake cheerful on new years eve. you start an incredible dialogue about grove that really took off that people are latching on to, and there s everybody has an experience with it. people don t like to talk about it it s a bond that joins us altogether especially on a night like this who can be difficult to a lot of people who may be alone or facing difficulty. thinking about as he were ring in the new year, we re just what is your first trip you are going to take next year?
Direct interaction with law enforcement. but artistic expression that one has used as a means to convey their lived experience or just delving into the depths of their imagination is not something you should suffer criminal liability for. yet if you think about it, one could possibly say, look, i didn t confess to a crime. i wasn t rapping my confession, it was my artistry at play here. and it could be used as the rhetoric to be used to suggest you re just couching that in the language to avoid criminality and prosecution. but is it a practice in terms of what s being used these are public statements. why do you think finding d.a.s across the country why shouldn t they be able to to do so on the ocean of, hey, everyone is going to claim it s artistic expression when it very well may be a confession? so that s a good question. on its face, again, if an artist