Thomas Copeland
BBC Verify Live journalist

We’ll be closing this live page shortly, but we’ve shown how we verify and fact-check a range of stories today so be sure to scroll back here to read about what we’ve been working on. Our teams in London and Washington DC will be monitoring these and other stories through this evening.

We started the day by verifying footage of one of the deadliest shooting attacks in Jerusalem in recent years. Click here to see the dashcam video we analysed which shows a crowd of people running away as gunfire rings out.

With at least 19 people killed during protests in Nepal over the government’s decision to ban social media platforms, we’ve verified a series of videos showing police using tear gas and young people being injured near the parliament building in Kathmandu.

Just after we posted a summary of our work tracking the destruction of three tower blocks in Gaza by the Israeli military over the weekend, we got word that the Israel Defense Forces had ordered the evacuation of a fourth building. We then verified and analysed videos of that fourth strike, which levelled a commercial tower block in Gaza City.

With London Underground workers out on strike in a dispute over pay and working conditions we dug into what freedom of information requests have revealed about how much they are paid.

We’ll be back tomorrow with more from BBC Verify.

Anthony Reuben
BBC Verify senior journalist

Image source, Reuters

If you’re in the UK capital and about to head home, then you’ll know almost all London Underground services have been shut down today by staff striking over pay and conditions.

There have been various freedom of information requests made to Transport for London (TfL) recently about their staff’s current pay and conditions.

In November, TfL was asked, external how much its Underground train drivers get paid and said: “The current fixed salary for a full-time Tube driver is £68,096.”

There was a separate request from June, external asking about the pay of various grades of station staff.

The biggest group was CSA1 (Customer Service Assistant) of which there are 2,652, earning an average of £38,490 a year.

The highest-paid group was CSMX (Customer Service Manager) of which there are 23, earning an average of £78,224 a year.

Permanent employees of TfL are able to join a final salary pension scheme, external. Overtime may be paid at between, external basic rate and double the hourly rate depending on the grade of the employee and the day of the week.

And we also know from a request in February, external that TfL staff get 30 days annual leave plus eight bank holidays per year.

Thomas Copeland & Thomas Spencer
BBC Verify

We’ve been analysing a series of a videos showing the destruction of a tower block in Gaza City - the fourth to be targeted by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in as many days.

The Israeli military issued an evacuation order for the area before the strike. While we understand the building to be commercial rather than residential, it is located next to a large number of tents where people have been living and many of the videos we have verified show people walking nearby.

Close analysis of the footage shows this strike was carried out with two projectiles. After the first hit a large plume of smoke erupted from the base of the building. About 10 seconds later, a second projectile struck the building and it quickly collapsed.

According to military experts who’ve spoken to BBC Verify the projectiles are likely GBU-31 series Joint Direct Attack Munitions fired from an Israeli Air Force F-16 or F-15 fighter jet.

Amael Kotlarski from defence intelligence company Janes told us this US-manufactured weapon consists of a 2,000-pound bomb with GPS guided wing attachment which allows the munition to accurately strike its target.

Jake Horton
BBC Verify senior journalist

On Saturday, US President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social: “I love the smell of deportations in the morning… Chicago is about to find out why it’s called the Department of War.”

He has previously called Chicago "the murder capital of the world" - and has said he will send in National Guard troops to "solve the crime problem fast" - even though official figures show violent crime falling.

As the city awaits a Trump intervention, footage masquerading as current federal enforcement activity there is being shared online.

Image source, X

A video of three masked agents arresting someone and putting them in the back of an unmarked vehicle as onlookers protest has been widely shared over the weekend - attracting millions of views.

It is from Chicago - we located it to a road in the downtown area. But the footage is old - we found the original posted on Instagram back in June.

People have also been sharing a video of a large crowd walking along the Chicago River - claiming it was from a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the weekend.

Image source, X

One post with 700,000 views says: “Chicago makes it clear that ICE is not welcome in their city.In one of the biggest protests in the cities history, Chicagoans took to the streets to push back and raise their voices.”

There were protests against Trump’s planned crackdown in the city on Saturday - but the widely shared video is from a different march against the Trump administration in June.

Kumar Malhotra
BBC Verify senior journalist

Image source, X

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says it’s looking into an incident on Sunday, external where a suspected Houthi drone hit an airport in southern Israel, near Eilat, a resort on the Gulf of Aqaba.

In a statement on X, the Houthi group confirmed it had targeted the Ramon airport, amongst other places in Israel. , external

Two people were injured and the airport was briefly shut, according to the Reuters news agency.

BBC Verify has seen video and images shared online which shows smoke rising from the airport complex, broken glass and damage to the inside of the airport building.

Using maps and images on Google and cross-referencing Israeli media reports, we’ve confirmed the footage was taken at the airport and is from Sunday.

Israel has a number of defence systems designed to detect and intercept incoming missiles and drones, which have been used to counter attacks from Lebanon, Yemen, Iran and Gaza.

The IDF says its preliminary enquiry showed the drone was detected, but not classified as “hostile”, and so was not intercepted.

There might be a number of reasons why this happened, according to David Heathcote, head of intelligence at UK-based McKenzie Intelligence Services. “It could be a technical, human or information processing error,” he says.

In May, a Houthi missile landed near the main terminal of Ben Gurion airport, on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.

Benedict Garman
BBC Verify senior journalist

The Israeli military published a map, external on Saturday showing what it calls a ‘humanitarian area’ in Al Mawasi near Khan Younis.

This is the first time the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has designated a zone like this since attacks resumed in March following a two-month ceasefire with Hamas.

Earlier in the war, people were directed to so-called humanitarian zones by the IDF “for their safety”, though a BBC Verify investigation found they had still been struck nearly 100 times.

The same language is being used again, with an evacuation notice issued by the IDF, external this morning, saying: “For your safety, you are required to immediately evacuate the building and the adjacent tents southwards towards the humanitarian area in Mawasi Khan Younis.”

The new area is one of the smallest it has designated, at less than 43 sq km, around 12% of Gaza’s landmass.

It may not stay this size, as the IDF regularly changed the boundaries of previous zones, and they ranged in size from less than 7 sq km at the start of the war to 71 sq km in November last year.

The population of Gaza is estimated at around 2.1 million people and al-Mawasi is already very densely populated with displaced people.

The IDF’s “humanitarian area” is not recognised by the United Nations or international humanitarian organisations who have widely criticised, external their use.

Shruti Menon
BBC Verify senior journalist

Image source, X

We’ve verified several videos from the violent protests in Kathmandu today as young people took to the streets to demonstrate against the Nepalese government blocking a range of social media sites.

One distressing clip shows a boy bleeding heavily from the back of his head and being carried away by several people.

We’ve cross-referenced the buildings near the parliament in the city as well as confirming the location and daylight weather conditions match other footage provided by news agencies.

It is unclear from the footage who the boy is or how they were injured.

In another verified video, filmed in front of the parliament gate, a young man is seen collapsing as shots can be heard in the background.

Many social media users have claimed the boy was shot - however, we reviewed the video in slow motion and it shows a large brick hitting the student right before he collapses.

Other clips we’ve verified show large crowds gathered as police use teargas and water cannon against demonstrators. At least 19 people have died and dozens of protesters have been injured after clashing with police.

Fridon Kiria
BBC Monitoring

We have verified and confirmed the location of an apartment block in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, where three people including a child were reportedly killed in a Russian strike overnight. Eleven people were wounded, according to local officials.

Kyiv mayor Vitaly Klitschko said the nine-storey building in the Svyatoshynskyi district sustained “severe damage” from the fourth to the eighth floor.

We have verified and geolocated the scene of the strike by matching the images from the Ukrainian emergencies service’s Telegram channel to the same building that can clearly be seen on Google Maps.

We were also able to match some of the features of a nearby playground to the one visible in the emergencies service’s pictures.

The head of the city military administration, Tymur Tkachenko, has said at least 12 residential blocks were damaged in the Svyatoshynskyi district overnight with 64 apartments requiring repairs and 17 completely destroyed.

Emma Pengelly & Fridon Kiria
BBC Verify & BBC Monitoring

Dashcam footage we have verified shows the moments before this morning’s shooting in Jerusalem in which at least six people were killed along with seven others seriously wounded.

In the last minute of the video several rounds of gunfire can be heard.

As the shooting starts a crowd of people surge towards the car with the dashcam as they run away from the scene. Some fall over between vehicles in the road in their rush to get to safety.

The dashcam captures a taxi driver helping a passenger just as a bus window close to them shatters - possibly caused by a bullet.

The timestamp on the footage of 10:10 local time (08:10 BST) is consistent with the Israeli police’s time for the incident of 10:15.

We’ve matched the surrounding fencing, trees and buildings to earlier verified videos and official photos from the scene.

Thomas Copeland
BBC Verify Live journalist

We have just verified footage posted on social media which shows a tall building in the Gaza Strip being hit by two projectiles before it collapses.

As we reported in the last hour the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) issued a new evacuation order which showed the location of the building on a map that was posted on X by its Arabic spokesman.

We checked the shape of the building and the map in the post with what we can see in the video and matched that to available satellite imagery.

This is the fourth Gaza tower block to be targeted by the Israeli military in as many days.

BBC Gaza correspondent Rushdi Abualouf said he understands the building struck today was a commercial block.

Image source, Instagram

Benedict Garman
BBC Verify senior journalist

Image source, EPA/Shutterstock

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has issued an evacuation order for another high-rise building in Gaza City after three towers were destroyed in as many days.

A spokesperson has warned that the Israeli military “will attack the building soon due to the presence of Hamas terrorist infrastructure inside it or adjacent to it.”

BBC Verify have reviewed videos of the evacuation and destruction of three towers that have been targeted - al-Ruya, Sussi and Mushtaha.

The IDF issued warnings to evacuate each building. It said they have “been converted into terrorist infrastructure” and that it had “identified intense terrorist activity” taking place inside them. No evidence was provided for these claims.

Multiple projectiles hit the al-Ruya Tower yesterday, resulting in at least one casualty, according to local media reports.

Israel Katz, Israel’s defence minister, posted a video of the strike on Sussi Tower collapsing on Saturday with the message: “We continue.”

And on Friday, verified footage showed the Mushtaha Tower collapsing after an explosion.

Mahmud Bassal, a spokesman for the Hamas-run Gaza civil defence agency, accused Israel of enacting "a policy of forced displacement".

Tamara Kovacevic
BBC Verify senior journalist

Image source, EPA

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has conceded that he would not be able to prevent migrant boat crossings of the English Channel within two weeks of his party winning power - despite pledging to do so in his conference speech last Friday.

Speaking to the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg yesterday, Farage said action would be taken within two weeks of passing the necessary legislation.

He said: “As soon as the law is in place, as soon as you have the ability to detain and deport, you’ll stop it in two weeks.”

Farage has previously pledged to deport 600,000 people who are living illegally in the UK over the course of the next parliament.

But to do so Parliament would first need to pass a new law proposed by Reform called the Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill, he has said. This would include the UK leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and international treaties like the Refugee Convention.

When questioned over the time it would take to pass the legislation, Farage said “let’s hope… it doesn’t take a long time” and “we actually mean it. The others [other parties] never have.”

Lucy Gilder
BBC Verify journalist

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Armed Forces Minister Luke Pollard was asked on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning about the UK government potentially moving asylum seekers out of hotels and into former UK military bases.

He said: “We’re looking at all the military sites that the MoD [Ministry of Defence] has - some of those have been visited by the Home Office in the past.”

Here’s what we know about the military sites currently being used to accommodate asylum seekers.

Wethersfield in Essex was opened for this purpose in 2023 under the previous Conservative government.It can accommodate up to 1,245 people and is expected to cost £339m in total between 2023 and 2027.

The site is projected to cost £500,000 less than hotels over this period, according to a National Audit Office (NAO) report published last year., external

This is a significantly smaller saving than an earlier Home Office assessment, which initially estimated that the site would cost £66m less than hotels.

One reason for this is that the estimated costs of converting Wethersfield into asylum accommodation have increased nearly ten-fold from £5m to £49m.

Another is that fewer people have been accommodated at the site than expected.

A smaller military site called Napier Barracks, near Folkestone in Kent, opened under the Conservatives in 2020 and can hold up to 328 people.

There is limited publicly available information about its costs.

In its report, the NAO found that the Home Office had also incurred substantial costs setting up military sites which were never used.

For example, under the last government nearly £3m was spent preparing the former RAF base at Linton-on-Ouse in North Yorkshire to accommodate asylum seekers.

But these plans were ultimately scrapped because of local opposition.

As we reported earlier, BBC Verify’s Nick Beake has been to the US state of Georgia to follow-up on a raid by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) which saw 475 people, including 300 South Korean nationals, arrested.

Nick spoke to one of the workers who told him more about what happened.

Nick Beake
BBC Verify correspondent, reporting from Ellabell, Georgia

Image source, EPA/US Immigration and Customs Enforcement handout

A South Korean worker who witnessed a massive immigration operation at a car factory in Georgia has told BBC Verify of the panic and confusion as federal agents descended on the site.

The man was at the factory, partly owned by South Korean car maker Hyundai, when agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided the site. ICE arrested 475 people, including 300 South Korean nationals, with some being led away in chains.

As news of the operation spread, the man said panicked family members tried to contact the workers."They were detained and they left all their cell phones in the office. They were getting calls, but we couldn't answer because [the office] was locked," he said.

The operation has become the largest single-site immigration enforcement operation in the history of Homeland Security investigations, officials said, adding that hundreds of people who were not legally allowed to work in the US were detained.

BBC Verify has been reviewing footage posted on social media and apparently filmed inside the factory.

The man told BBC Verify he believed nearly all the workers had some legal right to be in the US, but were on the wrong type of visas or their right to work had expired.

• Read the full story here

Shruti Menon
BBC Verify senior journalist

We have verified two videos from Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, showing a large group of people waving flags and chanting slogans after protests erupted over the government’s decision to ban social media platforms like X, Youtube, Instagram and Whatsapp.

We’ve confirmed the video was filmed around the parliament in Kathmandu as the building seen in the video matches with Google Street View imagery of the location. We’ve confirmed that the video is from this morning and initially shows four people on top of the entrance building of the parliament before more people climb on.

As a result of the protests and students breaching the parliament, the government has imposed a curfew in parts of Kathmandu. Local media reports say that police fired teargas and water cannon at the protestors.

Our colleagues from BBC Nepali are reporting that two protestors have died from gunshot wounds. I’ll continue verifying more material being posted from Kathmandu.

Emma Pengelly
BBC Verify journalist

Image source, X

We’ve been verifying footage posted to social media this morning following reports of a shooting in Jerusalem.

We’ve authenticated one piece of video where we can see that vehicles appear to have been stopped and people dressed in black, possibly security personnel, run across Golda Me’ir Boulevard in the outskirts of the city.

We’re also working on footage which appears to show the immediate aftermath of the shooting which shows injured people being treated next to a bus.

Israel’s ambulance service says at least five people have been killed and seven others are wounded.

We’ll bring you more as we get it.

Rob Corp
BBC Verify Live editor

Good morning from the live page bringing you the work of the BBC Verify team across the day.

We’re starting this morning by verifying footage being posted online following a shooting in Jerusalem earlier.

The Israeli ambulance service says at least five people were killed at Ramot Junction on the outskirts of the city and several others injured. We’re gathering material and checking it’s authentic which can then be shared with journalists across BBC News.

Elsewhere our team is monitoring social media posts from inside Gaza as Israeli forces press ahead with an operation aimed at seizing and occupying the Strip’s largest urban area. Over the weekend high-rise buildings in Gaza City were bombed as Israel warned thousands of Palestinians to leave for what it calls humanitarian zones in the south of the territory.

We’ve also verified footage showing protesters trying to breach the perimeter of Nepal's parliament after thousands of youngsters took to the streets to demonstrate against the government’s decision to ban social media.

And with the UK government saying it would consider using military sites to house asylum seekers, we’re looking at how much that would cost compared with putting people up in hotels.