Sky News is relaunching its YouTube series 'Explains' with reporter Olive Enokido-Lineham hosting
The first episode examines how Donald Trump reinvented and empowered the ICE agency
Enokido-Lineham brings experience in verification and open-source investigations to the series
The series aims to provide crucial context behind current news stories and complex topics
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Sky News announced the relaunch of its YouTube series 'Explains' on Sunday, February 22, 2026, with reporter Olive Enokido-Lineham hosting the long-form investigative program that will break down complex topics starting with an examination of how former President Donald Trump transformed the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. The new series represents Sky News' commitment to providing deeper context behind current news stories, with each episode focusing on a single topic through the lens of historical background and significance. Before taking on this series, Enokokido-Lineham specialized in verification and open-source investigations, producing notable stories about the war in Gaza and verifying footage from conflict zones in Ukraine and Syria, as well as creating the documentary 'Escaping Putin' following a Russian soldier who fled the army. The inaugural episode of 'Explains' tackles the controversial evolution of ICE, analyzing how the agency has operated over its 20-year history while spotlighting the specific changes implemented during Trump's administration that expanded its budget, authority, and enforcement tactics.
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Why context matters – Sky News Explains YouTube series relaunches The first episode of the new series looks at how Donald Trump reinvented the immigration agency ICE in the US. Sunday 22 February 2026 14:42, UK 19:28 Share In each episode of our Sky News Explains series, our reporter Olive Enokido-Lineham takes a closer look at one topic and why the context behind it matters Why you can trust Sky News Sky News is relaunching its YouTube series Explains. In each episode of the new long-form series , our reporter Olive Enokido-Lineham will break down one topic and get to the context behind the story. She'll be speaking to our correspondents from around the world and experts on that particular topic. Watch our full episode at the top of this article. Before re-launching Sky News Explains, Olive specialised in verification and open-source investigations . Her stories include investigations into the war in Gaza, to verifying videos from Ukraine and Syria. Olive also produced the Sky News documentary Escaping Putin , which follows a Russian soldier who fled from the army and the anti-war activists behind it. For the first episode of Sky News Explains , Olive looks at how Donald Trump reinvented the US immigration agency ICE. ICE has been in the news for months, but the agency itself is over 20 years old. Olive looks at who ICE are, how their tactics have changed and why Trump has given them so much money and power. In the episode, Olive analyses footage of ICE agents and data. She talks to former ICE acting director John Sandweg, and two of our US correspondents Mark Stone , in Washington DC and Martha Kelner - who reported from Minneapolis following the shooting of Renee Good .
