bbc verify found the factory.identified as a textile factory in an industrial town south of tehran. people in georgia are voting in what many see as one of the most important parliamentary elections since independence from the soviet union more than 30 years ago. the georgian dream party — which has governed for twelve years — is hoping to extend its hold on power. it's being challenged by a number of opposition groupings who accuse georgian dream of jeopardising moves to join the european union — and adopting increasingly pro— russian policies. our south caucasus and central asia correspondent rayhan demytrie sent us this update from a polling station. georgian citizens are electing their new parliament, and this parliamentary election has been described as the most consequential for the country's european future. the choice that the voters have is between the incumbent georgian dream party, in powerfor the past 12 years, which has campaigned with the message that this election is about a choice between war and p

bbc verify have found no evidence to support the claim.an people, then that's what i'm going to do. now onto walz. this is the first presidential election since the supreme court, including three conservative justices appointed by donald trump, overturned the constitutional right to abortion in 2022. democrats think the battle over reproductive rights is a winning issue for them, and they have this warning. he will ban abortion across this country, whether congress is there or not _ be absolutely clear about it. but that's not what trump says. in this campaign, he's ruled out a nationwide abortion ban, so this claim is misleading. walz will still try to capitalise on divisions among conservatives, including trump and vance themselves, over how far into a pregnancy individual states should ban abortions from. and you'll probably hear a lot about project 2025 from walz. they've made it easy for us to know what they're going to do, because they wrote it in a 900—page document called project 2025. walz claims trump plans to implement an ultra

bbc verify has been working overnight to verify the locations. here is what we found.the attacks were incoming. iran said the targets included israeli air bases and the mossad headquarters. we have been able to verify strikes in the vicinity of three key locations. this air base, a second air base, and what is reported to be the mossad headquarters. this video is from one of the airbases. the light is through the night sky are missiles heading for the air base. in one video we can count at least nine missiles clearly hitting the ground. the airbases believed to house f 35 fighters, but most were presumed to be airborne. the second location we have looked at is the second air base. in this video, you can see a crater not of the airbase itself but as a school a few miles away. we matched the school to recent social media photos plus the size and shape of the surrounding area to satellite imagery. we also verified videos of missiles hitting northern tel aviv. a short distance from what is believed to be israeli intelligence headquarters, this video was taken from the balc

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you can see these pictures but they have been verified by bbc verify, basically showing similar is sou a line that we have brought you just a few minutes ago, that iran is, quote, entitled and obligated to defend itself against external, aggressive acts. the foreign ministry said this on saturday. this is after the israeli air strikes on a israeli air strikes on a israeli military targets. they called the israeli attack a violation of international law and the ministry said in a statement that iran recognises its responsibilities towards regional peace and security. that is coming from reuters and we previously reported that iran has said that it has the right to defend itself from the foreign ministry saying it is entitled and obliged to defend itself after israel launched retaliatory air strikes against the country overnight. there has been plenty of international response including from prime minister keir starmer. let�*s take a listen to his response to this. i am clear that israel has the right to defend itself against iranian aggression. i am equally clear that we need to avoid

a correspondent at bbc cat might verify talked me through the work they are doing.ify looking through some of the pictures and footage and source material available just to recap on what we do know. the statement from the idf dropped just before 2pm uk time, there was a strike, we don't know where, the idf says three terrorists were killed and they are working to confirm if one of them is the hamas leader, this man, yahya sinwar. the idf has also said there is no sign of hostages in the area where the strike took place. at verify, in this situation, we look for all the material from gaza which can help us confirm what has happened and to build up more of a picture about what has transpired over the last few hours. there is some very graphic imagery online which we are pretty sure appeared for the first time this afternoon. we are not showing it because of how graphic it is. the picture shows a dead man with a severe head injury surrounded by rubble. the man also appears to be wearing a military type vest. what we have been doing is looking at that picture and some o

bbc verify has been working overnight to verify the locations. here is what we found. fired from iran. us intelligence warned that the attacks were incoming. iran said the targets included israeli air bases and the mossad headquarters. we have been able to verify strikes in the vicinity of three key locations. this air base, a second air base, and what is reported to be the mossad headquarters. this video is from one of the airbases. the light is through the night sky are missiles heading for the air base. in one video we can count at least nine missiles clearly hitting the ground. has polymer to make ——... de airbases believed to house f 35 fighters, but most were presumed to be airborne. the second location we have looked at is the second air base. in this video, you can see a crater not of the airbase itself but as a school a few miles away. we matched the school to recent social media photos plus the size and shape of the surrounding area to satellite imagery. we also verified videos of missiles hitting northern tel aviv. a short distance from what is believed to b

drone as it enters the building where hamas leader yahya sinwar was killed on wednesday, and at bbc verifyave confirmed the location of this building in rafah in southern gaza and we have studied satellite imagery of the area. as the drone enters a first—floor room, we see a man sitting in an armchair. he is moving and appears wounded. he waves an object and then for as it apparently at the drone and after this israeli forces killed him. but it wasn't until soldiers returned on thursday that they realise they may have killed the leader of hamas. a dna match later on thursday confirmed this. the building where yahya sinwar was killed is here, in a northern area of rafah, those to gaza's border with egypt. we have established their matching known images and videos of the area with the footage released by israel. also, the sequence of satellite images clearly shows how israeli forces have been operating in the area for weeks. at the end of september, buildings had been destroyed. this video shared on social media last month shows extensive damage, and you can see the building where yahya sinw

here s ben chu from bbc verify with the context.y in her budget, so what does that mean and why does that matter? well, let's start with the existing borrowing rule, to have the national debt projected to four as a share of the economy between the fourth and fifth years of a rolling five year official forecast. here was the picture during the march budget byjeremy hunt, a very small projected fall in the fifth year, as you can see there. because the fall was so small, that meant essentially zero room for extra borrowing, but rachel reeves is, we understand, likely to use a different measure of the national debt, one that also takes into account more government financial assets, such as the student loans made by the state. so what is the significance of that? as you can see, it falls by more in the five years. the upshot is it would enable her to borrow more over the parliament to spend on capital infrastructure. so, what is that? it is things like new transport links, new schools and hospitals and also new energy schemes. she argues

with me is our reporter richard irvine—brown from bbc verify.u have been looking at this strike aside, tell me more about the scene.— about the scene. 0k, as you have been — about the scene. 0k, as you have been using _ about the scene. 0k, as you have been using at - about the scene. 0k, as you have been using at the - about the scene. 0k, as you have been using at the top | about the scene. 0k, as you | have been using at the top of the piece, we have been looking at the video that agencies have been filing, we have been looking at what local arab media have been reporting, and we can see a scene where we can count at least 13 bodies wrapped in blankets on the street. we can see a lot of rubble and we can see an adjacent building still standing and the body parts of at least two other people. so when these agencies filed these photos, we want to look at them and say, can we tell a bit more about the same? so for instance, the northern half of beit lahia is quite rural and the southern half is hugely densely packed with buildings. if 93 people

here's ben chu, from bbc verify.s published yesterday alongside the budget and it is true, as the conservatives say, that it does not endorse in black and white that £22 billion figure, which has been cited by rachel reeves and many other government ministers. however, what it does say is that the 0br asked the treasury back in august to tell it what it didn't tell it in the preparations for that march budget about spending pressures. unexpected spending pressures. unexpected spending pressures. and the 0br says that the treasury told it that those spending pressures that it had not talked about of £9.5 billion a year in 2024 to 2025, the current fiscal year. so thatis the current fiscal year. so that is obvious the half of the £22 billion figure roughly the rachel reeves cited. but the 0br did also say this. that this analysis was not provided to the 0br at the time of the march budget, talking about the £9.5 billion figure. and it also said that had this information be made available, a materially differentjudgment

let me show you some of the footage, which has also been verified by the bbc team, starting with thisu can see two buildings are on fire. not this one, but this one here is a bank building. there is another video here where you can see a big fireball. in that building, there. both of these locations are registered sites of the bank, and israel says it is targeting the bank because it is used by hezbollah, it says the bank was storing funds for hezbollah, which were being used to buy weapons and pay its military. but one expert from a defence think tank, said this to us. this risks setting a dangerous precedent. they also said it risks blurring the line between military and civilian infrastructure, and the un also raised concerns that residents were only given a brief warning to evacuate. so there is a lot of verified material out there. there is also some fake imagery doing the rounds, which we wanted to show you. some of it has been viewed thousands of times online. this is one of them. it supposedly shows a plane landing in beirut airport. this is coming up under searches of the air

there are a lot of other sites that bbc verify has been spending time looking for.m these sites which we have identified so far, it looks like from these sites that the damage is to military sites. there was some pressure from the white house on israel to contain its strikes. the evidence suggests that that pressure may have worked. new un data says that concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are accumulating faster than at any time in human existence. the un's weather monitoring body found that levels had risen by 11% in the past two decades. new un data says that concentrations of greenhouse the concentration of c02 also rose in 2023. more wildfires and the onset of an el nino weather event, both adding to fossil fuel emissions. scientists say the last time these levels were seen was around three to five million years ago when global temperatures were between two to three degrees higher. they also noted some evidence showing that as the world warms trees aren't able to soak up the same ammount of c02 as they once were. the finding comes as the un say

bbc verify s merlyn thomas has been speaking to one of them. how

let's look now at how the attack on wednesday in ankara unfolded with nick eardley from bbc verify.were responsible for an attack on turkish aerospace industries, a major defence companyjust outside the capital, ankara. it manufactures drones and jets, among other things, for both military and commercial use. there's a lot of footage online of what happened. here's what we verified and what we know so far. this appears to be the moment the attack began. you can see two people emerging from a yellow taxi. they are heavily armed. others run away as they emerge from the car. at least one person falls to the ground. we've verified that this took place here. here's another video we've looked at. you can see a large explosion. this has been filmed just beside the tie complex in a car park. this has been filmed just beside the tae complex in a car park. we've circled where you can see someone heavily armed. this video isn't clear enough to be sure, but it looks like it could be one of the gunmen. let's look at more verified footage. we can see two attackers, one man and one woman, approach

regina: that's ben chief from the bbc verify team and our correspondent is in westminister. hear from the bbc breakfast this morning? hannah: there's lots of reaction and is still an if whether or not they go ahead with this. we do not know for sure that this is going to be announced in the budget. if they do go ahead, that question about the manifesto pledge whether or not it breaks that will run and run. to some extent that is a question of semantics but already being used by the conservatives to attack labor and it does potentially raise issues of trust as well. e more profound implications as ben was saying there are potentially economic, the liberal democrats today have been urging the government to rethink on that basis. they say the chancellor should be protecting particularly smaller businesses who are the backbone of the economy and in communities particularly in areas the liberal democrats represent. it was only yesterday that we have this big investment summit in london with the chancellor and prime minister urging businesses to invest in the u.k. to create more j

as it enters the building where yayha sinwar was killed on wednesday and bbc verify confirms locationlding and ruffle in southern gaza in this study and satellite imagery of the area is the drone enters the first floor room, we see a man sitting in an armchair, he is moving and appears wounded, he waits an object and then throws it, apparently at the drone and then israeli forces killed him. according to the forces, the return fire those trying to flee in them that the building with tank fire but it wasn't until the soldiers returned on thursday that they realise that the face of one of the men they kill it strongly resembled that of the leader of hamas. in order to confirm this, they said the dna testing in order to confirm this they sent for dna testing, and on thursday it was confirmed — it was him. hamas has confirmed his death as well. and for some it came as a surprise that he appeared so how was sinwar found? he was found here, we have established this by matching known videos of the area with footage released by israel. the israeli military has released images of what it says

and bbc verify�*s ros atkins has been examining what happened on that day injuly as donald trump returnsc website. ahead of the us presidential election, the department of homeland security has repeated its warnings of the threat that online video and audio fakes could pose in the run—up to the vote. the bbc s disinformation and social media correspondent marianna spring has been investigating how one faked clip divided a baltimore community. this peaceful baltimore suburb with sizeablejewish and black communities found itself at the centre of a storm when an audio clip of its high school's headmaster, seemingly making racist and anti—semitic comments, went viral on social media. between these ungrateful black kids who can't test their way out of a paper bag, or these teachers who don't get it, how hard is it to get these students to meet their grade level expectations? baltimore is one the most safest, unsafest places in the world. alfie was offended by the clip and decided to re—share it. you hear something like this like, wow. in the back of your mind growing up, you're thinking like,

nick eardley from bbc verify has been looking at the damage done in lebanon so far.n recent days. as we've been hearing, dozens of rockets have been fired into northern israel today by hezbollah and there has been significant damage done by israeli strikes in lebanon. this footage here is from yaroun the south—west of lebanon, and you can see buildings have been flattened over a pretty large area. we've been mapping the wider picture, and if you have a look at the screen here and focus in on the region, i can show you a map, which is based on data from the institute for the study of war. it is up—to—date as of yesterday morning so it doesn't include the most recent strikes. today it includes reported strikes, we haven't verified them all, and there may be some we don't know about, but if i focus it in here, if we zoom in down on the border area, in purple here you can see recent hezbollah attacks on israel, and in red you can see israeli strikes in lebanon. let's focus in on a few examples to show you the extent of some of the damage we have been seeing in lebanon. t

merlyn thomas from bbc verify reports from washington. events like hurricanes are often accompanied by misinformation, the fact we have had two of these in the middle of the election campaign has magnified the false claims online. agencies dealing with these on the ground and even the president are now calling them out. the hurricane is about to make landfall, but the deluge of misinformation online has already begun. there's been a reckless, irresponsible and relentless promotion of disinformation and outright lies that are disturbing people. after hurricane helene, donald trump has repeatedly highlighted the payment of $750 offered to victims by fema, the government agency that deals with disasters in the us. they're offering them $750. they've been destroyed. these people have been destroyed. but this isn't all they're getting. this is an upfront payment for emergency supplies. fema says those affected will be able to apply for additional funds for repairing damage to homes and personal property. trump, who president biden singled out

tonight, a bbc verify investigation can reveal how a post on linkedin, which wrongly claimed the suspect sources of false information, and that even though it was deleted, it went on to be viewed millions of times and exploited by leading far right figures. 0ur uk editor, ed thomas, has the story. inside the southport riots. uncontrolled rage on st luke's road, fuelled by relentless misinformation. for the first time, we show how a deleted linkedin post was weaponised and seen by millions, and we confront the white nationalist... southport riots, was itjust a pr opportunity for you? ..accused of exploiting the deaths of children. dave, have you got anything to say? our investigation has been tracking a single social media post, part of a wider pattern of misinformation that all merged together, twisting reality. my two youngest children went to holiday club this morning in southport for a day of fun only for a migrant to enter and murder/fatally wound multiple children. this is the first piece of local testimony identified by the bbc, incorrectly saying the suspect was a migrant. if ther

as families are displaced repeatedly on israel's orders, bbc verify has tracked how quickly improvised say they protect civilians. the un says nowhere is safe. israel does not allow journalists into gaza so trusted palestinian colleagues filmed in a supposedly safe area hit by at least 18 israeli airstrikes. she and her family have had to move 15 times. translation: we were walking on the street when a car- was hit and we saw it burning. on the left there were people killed. on right there were people killed. even the donkeys were thrown around in the bombing and we said that is it, we are done. the next rocket will be for us. on the west bank, the other side of the palestinian territories, violence and killing have increased sharply. this isjenin where many israeli raids have neither deterred nor destroyed local armed palestinian militia. the cemetery is filling up with their dead. the war in gaza has radicalised both sides. the west bank is already part of the part of serious conflict conflict in the middle east, but could be a big explosion here if israel and iran continue to accele

as families are displaced repeatedly on israel's orders, bbc verify has tracked how quickly improvised spring up. the israelis say they're protecting civilians. the un says nowhere is safe. israel does not allow journalists into gaza, so trusted palestinian colleagues filmed this woman and her family in al mawasi, a supposedly safe area hit by at least 18 israeli air strikes. she and her family have had to move 15 times. translation: we were walking on salahadin street when a car | was hit and we saw it burning. on the left, there were people killed. on the right, there were people killed. even the donkeys were thrown around in the bombing, and we said, "that's it, we're done. "the next rocket will be for us." on the west bank, the other side of the palestinian territories, violence and killing have increased sharply. this isjenin, where many israeli raids have not deterred or destroyed local armed palestinian militias. the cemetery is filling up with their dead. the war in gaza has radicalised both sides. the west bank is already part of the pile—up of serious conflict in the middle e

bbc verify�*s merlyn thomas paid them a visit to understand how their livelihood has been impacted byds of rural pennsylvania, bob and kristina lange, long standing republicans, decided they could no longer vote for donald trump. this time around, they're firmly behind kamala harris. my parents told me, always vote republican, and i always have, until now. even willing to take part in what they thought would be a simple advert for her campaign. donald trump has not looked out for the middle class. but a post on x by a pro—trump supporter falsely accused them of being trained actors and prolific democratic donors. there's tons here, right? oh yeah. those false claims were seen by millions and sparked a wave of online abuse. okay, so there are things here that we won't say because it's too vulgar and just vulgar. how did you feel when you saw that? it's very heavy. i mean, that's the thing when people spread hate. mhm. it spreads heaviness. you know, it spreads negativity. itjust, um, it's a very heavy feeling. misinformation often has a kernel of truth which is then twisted here. it's

our special correspondent fergal keane has been working with bbc verify to bring you this report — avast, unfolding crisis. israel filmed these images of people fleeing the offensive by its forces in northern gaza. tens of thousands. hungry, frightened, told by israel to leave. they carry what they can away from their homes, with no knowing when they will be allowed to return. elsewhere, the israeli military screens the men for anyone suspected of links with hamas. insidejabalia's kamal adwan hospital today. the wounded. this man is crying, "all my children are gone". another says to him, "i've been telling you for a week that you should leave your house". an exhausted nurse sent this voice note. we don't have water. we don't know what will happen tomorrow. i am so tired. the situation is very, very, very bad. there was supposed to be a polio vaccination campaign today. not a procession of wounded children. nearly half of gaza's population is under 18. and child casualties appearagain and again. it is hard to look upon such suffering but it is a fact of this war. the israel defense f

bbc verify has been looking at footage, and the importance of this route to thousands of people fleeinghard irvine—brown has more. beirut�*s hospitals are said to be overwhelmed by the surge in casualties, as the conflict intensifies and more than a0 emergency personnel are reported to have been killed in recent days. lebanon's prime minister has urged the international community to pressure israel "to allow rescue and relief teams to reach bombed sites and allow them to move" casualties. the medical centre at the american university of beirut has played a central role in treating the wounded from israeli strikes in the city. joining me is dr fadlo khuri, president of the american university of beirut. thanks forjoining us. give me an idea of the numbers you have had to deal with over the last week. �* ., ., ., week. better to frame it over the last couple _ week. better to frame it over the last couple weeks - week. better to frame it over the last couple weeks but. week. better to frame it over the last couple weeks but we| the last couple weeks but we have had several hundred casualt

as families are constantly being moved from place to place at israel's behest, bbc verify has tracked how quickly makeshift camps are springing up. the israelis say they are protecting the civilian population. the un claims that there is no safety anywhere. israel does not allow gas. foreign journalists, so our trusted palestinian colleagues filmed insaf hasan ali and her family in al-mawas, a supposedly safe neighborhood that has suffered at least 18 israeli airstrikes, insaf and her family had to move 15 times. we were walking along salahadin street, when a nearby shell hit a car, we saw it burning, people were killed everywhere, left and right, even donkeys were scattered during the bombing and... the end, the next rocket will hit us. in the west bank of the jordan river, on the other side of the palestinian territories, the number of cases of violence and murder has increased dramatically. this is jenin, where numerous israeli raids have not stopped or destroyed a local palestinian armed group. the cemetery is filled with the graves of their dead. war in ghazi radicalized both sid

nick eardley from bbc verify is here. thanks, sophie.ucks it has observed crossing into gaza, and the changes have been significant. you can see them here. before the current conflict, the average was 500 trucks a day. but if we focus in on the last year, the number of trucks increases gradually. in march, around 5,000 trucks crossed into gaza. that's around 170 a day. but since then, a big fall. and a then a significant decrease at the start of this month. this equates to just 13 trucks per day. the un also looked at the population of gaza — just over two million people — and found 96% of them were facing crisis levels of food insecurity, or worse. this map shows the key entry points for aid in the last year. let's look at one — the rafah crossing. the majority of aid was delivered early in the conflict. you can see this satellite picture from november last year. you can seal the infrastructure around the crossing there. but this is what it looks like now. this is a few weeks ago. it's empty, and buildings have been flattened after isra

our special correspondent fergal keane has been working with bbc verify to bring you this report.it is a vast, unfolding crisis. israel filmed these images of people fleeing the offensive by its forces in northern gaza. tens of thousands. hungry, frightened, told by israel to leave. they carry what they can away from their homes, with no knowing when they will be allowed to return. elsewhere, the israeli military screens the men for anyone suspected of links with hamas. insidejabalia's kamal adwan hospital today. the wounded. this man is crying, "all my children are gone." another says to him, "i've been telling you for a week that you should leave your house." an exhausted nurse sent this voice note. we don't have water. we don't know what will happen tomorrow. i am so tired. the situation is very, very, very bad. there was supposed to be a polio vaccination campaign today. not a procession of wounded children. nearly half of gaza's population is under 18. and child casualties appearagain and again. it is hard to look upon such suffering but it is a fact of this war. the israel d

merly thomas form bbc verify has more. how many of y'all can hear me?ichael smalls junior says he went towards it to livestream himself with nothing but an air mattress and an umbrella. why? to make money. the winds are picking up and i don't know how to swim. and this isn't the first time he's done this. a few weeks ago, he says he went out with a different prop, a tent in hurricane helene. he's one of several content creators on platforms like kik, a social media platform for live streaming, who've made money from pulling reckless stunts and risking their lives in these hurricanes. you know, you know, make a little money, i didn't make, i didn't make 10,000 off of that. but i definitely, it definitely, you know, paid a couple bills off of that. while relief workers were trying to help those in need in tampa, florida, in a mandatory evacuation zone, michael decided to stay. you know, i take safety very seriously, to a degree. i guess you can say it's irresponsible. but for me, i would say it's a calculated risk. say, for example, you did get into troub

at bbc verify, we've confirmed the location this building, in rafah, in southern gaza, and we've studied of the area. as the drone enters the first—floor room, we see a man sitting in an armchair. he's moving and appears wounded. he waves an object, then throws it — apparently at the drone. afterthis, israeli forces killed him. according to israel, there were exchanges of fire and then their tanks aimed at the buildings. but it wasn't until soldiers returned on thursday that they realised that the face of one of the men they'd killed strongly resembled that of the leader of hamas. in order to confirm this, they sent for dna testing, and on thursday it was confirmed — it was him. hamas has confirmed his death as well. and for some, it came as a surprise that he appeared alone, as rushdi abualouf, the bbc�*s gaza correspondent, explains. i met him four orfive times before. he was rarely giving any interview to foreign media. he was always surrounded with a very tight security arrangement around him. so how was sinwar found? the building where sinwar was killed is here, in a northern area o

here's ben chu from bbc verify.he run—up to the budget about complaints from cabinet ministers about being forced to accept more spending cuts in their day—to—day budgets. we've been hearing in the run—up to the budget about complaints from cabinet ministers about being forced to accept more spending cuts in their day—to—day budgets. yet rachel reeves also says she will end austerity, which is taken to mean no more cuts in departments' budgets. so how do we reconcile these things, which seem to be somewhat contradictory? well, let's start with the context, first of all. this shows the department's day—to—day budgets, adjusted for inflation since 2010. so health is 38% higher. health has been a protected department. but look at transport — no higher today than it was 1a years ago. and justice, well, that's 14% lower. and communities and housing still almost 60% lower. these are so—called unprotected departments. we will have to wait to see the detail of their new spending settlements to understand what has been going

israel says the militants were transporting weapons on... my colleagues from the bbc verifi departmentlyzed the footage and the significance of this route for thousands of lebanese. videos have spread showing the destruction caused by the strike near the main checkpoint on the border between lebanon and syria. as you can see the entire road is covered with debris, which is now impassable for vehicles. it is a key highway between beirut and damascus. if i show you... what it looks like on google earth as we approach this precipice, almost to the level of the road, so you'll get a good idea, here's a freeze frame from the video that we verified, where we see the same precipice. a video posted on youtube in 2022 by a motorcyclist using the same road helped us verify the location. here is a frame from that video, the same pylons, the same mountain slopes and trees. as well as in the video of the destruction, the same section of the road was hit in 2006, here it is, to verify that the footage released today is new, we searched the web for images taken from the film, using various visualizat

bbc verify has been looking at footage, and the importance of this route to thousands of people fleeingshowed damage following the strike at the border crossing and you can see it spans the width of the road rendering it and filmed by a motorcyclist on that road. you can see the same pylons and rock formations, the same as the footage of the damage. a note of caution, similar spot on this road was struck in 2006, seen here, so to confirm the footage was new we took stills from the video and searched for previous images online, and we looked at the damage we are seeing today, and we think that is different to what we saw in 2006 and then we cross checked the location with doors able to visualise with tools able to visualise what the terrain looks like and confirmed that the damage happened here around 700 metres from the checkpoint, five kilometres from the border itself. so, today the israeli military confirmed they had struck the masnaa border, but what is the knock—on effect? it is a direct route for those trying to get out of lebanon. the territory is very mountainous so the next cro

as families are displaced repeatedly on israel's orders, bbc verify has tracked how quickly improvisedey protect civilians the un says nowhere is safe. israel does not allowjournalists into gaza so trusted palestinian colleagues filmed in south a supposedly safe area hit by at least 18 israeli airstrikes. she and herfamily least 18 israeli airstrikes. she and her family have least 18 israeli airstrikes. she and herfamily have had to move 15 times. translation: we were move 15 times. translation: - were walking on the street when a car was hit and we saw it burning. on the left there were people killed. on right poor people killed. on right poor people killed. on right poor people killed. even the donkeys with thrown around in the bombing and we said that is it, we are done. the next rocket will be for us. fin we are done. the next rocket will be for us.— will be for us. on the west bank, will be for us. on the west bank. the _ will be for us. on the west bank, the other _ will be for us. on the west bank, the other side - will be for us. on the west bank, the other side of. will be for

with me to look a little deeper into what she's had to say is jake horton from bbc verify. have you with us again. sue: touch on this last good to have you with us again. s“i2 touch on this last night on 60 minutes and reference the rate in this clip. we now have historic low unemployment among all groups of people _ this clip and this claim is quite accurate. it right that unemployment is a relatively low rate. but this isn't the lowest rate in history and not even in recent years. the lowest rate in history is 2.5%, back in 1953. even in recent years, it was lower than the current rate. the lowest under trump was 3.5%. under the biden administration, and drop slightly before at 3.4% of the in the last year. it's not right say flows historically or even recent years. what about the manufacturing industry? what about the manufacturing indust ? . , , industry? specifically there, she was talking _ industry? specifically there, she was talking on _ industry? specifically there, she was talking on abov _ industry? specifically there, she was talking on abov you - industry? spe

at bbc verify, we've confirmed the location this building, in rafah, in southern gaza, and we've studiedrone enters the first—floor room, we see a man sitting in an armchair. he's moving and appears wounded. he waves an object, then throws it — apparently at the drone. afterthis, israeli forces killed him. according to israel, there were exchanges of fire and then their tanks aimed at the buildings. but it wasn't until soldiers returned on thursday that they realised that the face of one of the men they'd killed strongly resembled that of the leader of hamas. in order to confirm this, they sent for dna testing, and on thursday it was confirmed — it was him. hamas has confirmed his death as well. and for some, it came as a surprise that he appeared alone, as rushdi abualouf, the bbc�*s gaza correspondent, explains. i met him four or five times before. he was rarely giving any interview to foreign media. he was always surrounded with a very tight security arrangement around him. so how was sinwar found? the building where sinwar was killed is here, in a northern area of rafah, close to gaz

nick eardley from bbc verify can explain. thanks, sophie.lishes figures showing aid trucks it has observed crossing into gaza, and the changes have been significant. before the current conflict, the average was 500 trucks a day. but if we focus in on the last year, it increases gradually. in april, 5,000 trucks crossed — that's around 170 a day. since then, a fall. and then a dramatic fall at the start of october. this equates to an average ofjust 13 a day. the un also looked at the population of gaza — just over two million people — and found 96% of them were facing crisis levels of food insecurity or worse. this map shows the key entry points for aid in the last year. let's look at one — the rafah crossing. it used to be where the vast majority of aid was delivered. you can see in this satellite picture all the infrastructure around the crossings in november. this is a few weeks ago — it's empty, and buildings have been flattened after israel's military offensive in the area. rafah crossing has now been closed since may 7th — no aid is get

our special correspondent fergal keane has been working with bbc verify to bring you this report a warning it contains distressing images. it is a vast, unfolding crisis. israel filmed these images of people fleeing the offensive by its forces in northern gaza. tens of thousands. hungry, frightened, told by israel to leave. "your lives are in danger," says the voice from the loudspeaker. they carry what they can away from their homes, with no knowing when they will be allowed to return. elsewhere, the israeli military screens the men for anyone suspected of links with hamas. insidejabalia's kamal adwan hospital today. the wounded. this man is crying, "all my children are gone." another says to him, "i've been telling you for a week that you should leave your house." an exhausted nurse sent this voice note. we don't have water. we contact the israeli force to let as charge water to the tank, but they don't accept until now. we don't know what will happen tomorrow. i am so tired. the situation is very, very, very bad. the israel defense forces blame hamas for this, saying they use the popula

nick eardley from bbc verify has been looking at the damage in lebanon so far.here has been a significant exchange of fire in recent days, as we've been hearing, dozens of rockets have been fired into northern israel today by hezbollah and there has been significant damage done by israeli strikes in lebanon. this footage here is from yarun in the southwest of lebanon. and you can see buildings have been flattened over a pretty large area. we've been mapping the wider picture and if we have a look at this screen here and focus in on the region, i can show you a map which is based on data from the institute for the study of war. it's up to date as of yesterday morning, so it doesn't include the most recent strikes today. it includes reported strikes, we haven't verified them all, and there may be some that we don't know about. but if i focus it in here, if we zoom in down on the border area in purple here, you can see recent hezbollah attacks on israel. and in red you can see israeli strikes in lebanon. let's focus in on a few examples to show you the extent of so

on bbc verify we have been looking at the impact of some of the recent israeli air strikes on lebanon and the damage it has caused. the fbi arrests a man from afghanistan accused of planning an election day attack on the united states. and lisa marie presley's posthumous memoir reveals intimate details of life with elvis. we have an exclusive interview with her daughter, riley keough. more than five million people in florida are under evacuation orders with the impending arrival of hurricane milton. it's the most powerful category five storm, with ferocious winds of up to 270 kilometres an hour. let's ta ke let's take your life to tampa, florida. ~ ., , ,. ., florida. milton is expected to hit the area _ florida. milton is expected to hit the area later _ florida. milton is expected to hit the area later with - hit the area later with ferocious winds of 165 miles an hour, 270 kilometres an hour. as we said in the introduction thatis as we said in the introduction that is why presidentjoe biden has warned people to leave now, it is a matter of life and death, as the state undertakes it

nick eardley from bbc verify has been taking a closer look at exactly what happened on the night chris 5th 2022, police were on the lookout for an audi linked to a shooting. it was spotted by unmarked armed officers at 9:52pm in south london. police followed the car on this route, and at the time, they didn't know it was chris kaba driving. this is dashcam footage from the unmarked police car. the trial heard mr kaba called a friend and said he suspected police were following him. officers decided to use a tactic called enforced stop extraction. the audi pulls into this road, kirkstall gardens, at 10:07pm. marked police cars were waiting. you can see the street here. it's quite narrow. this was produced by the prosecution, a reconstruction of how police attempted to block the car in. this is dashcam footage from one of the police cars. we've slowed it down slightly. officers surround the car and point their guns, but mr kaba tries to get through the roadblock police have created. martyn blake says he feared one of his colleagues would be killed. one of the officers present spoke to the

obviously the three of us are going to be sitting here relying on our colleagues, and we have our great bbc verifyut who is responsible at that point to say this is not donald trump, you know, this is misinformation, this is disinformation, and we need to debunk this immediately? and i think the concern i have is it's not entirely clear to me who's responsible for that. and that can put us, of course but really, voters, most importantly in a tricky spot. sumi, what are they doing as well to protect election workers? there was a lot of talk after 2020 and even around 2022 about how hard it was, it had got harder to recruit volunteers and people to work at polling stations and stuff, have they. and stuff, have they, are they taking kind of extra efforts this time around to try and protect poll workers and poll counters? yeah. we talked to the head of cisa, jen easterly, and she talked about the fact that they've actually been doing this for, you know, notjust in the direct lead up to this election, but for months now and several months ahead of 2024, to make sure that they have a solid infrastructur

and to understand that process, i've been speaking to my colleague from bbc verify, shayan sardarizadeh attack on israel. we were on our toes waiting for it to happen and obviously, when it did happen, we started looking at the sources we've got and the places we usually look for these types of videos. now, fortunately, in my case, i was born and raised in iran before moving to the united kingdom so i know iranian sources pretty well and where to look when it comes to an event that is directly linked to iran, so we started checking videos coming from iran. it's really not an exaggeration to say within half an hour, maybe 45 minutes of — the moment we got this alert that iran had launched these missiles, we had upwards of, i think, 100 videos to look at because they were coming in thick and fast. in different parts of iran, people were basically pointing their smartphone cameras at the sky, seeing these — what clearly looks like missiles travelling in a certain direction. and pretty much interestingly, even with those videos, you know, night—time, pitch dark because mostly — not always b