Lucy Gilder
BBC Verify journalist

Today’s Verify Live page is drawing to a close, but the late reporter will continue with verification work throughout the evening.

Here’s a reminder of a few things we looked at today:

• Analysed what weapons could be sent to Ukraine via Nato countries as part of a new deal announced by US President Donald Trump on Monday
• Fact-checked Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch’s claim that wealthy people are leaving the UK “in droves”
• Verified footage from Gaza showing multiple gunshots close to a large crowd of people gathered near an aid distribution site

Our specialists will continue monitoring social media for posts from Gaza and keeping an eye on the latest Israeli military activity in Syria.

You can find more of BBC Verify’s fact-checks, open-source investigations and data journalism in our section of the BBC News website.

Aisha Sembhi
BBC Verify journalist

Chelsea won football’s Club World Cup at the weekend after beating Paris Saint-Germain at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.

US President Donald Trump was at the match - and he unexpectedly joined the English team when they lifted the trophy.

In the post-match press conference, midfielder Cole Palmer admitted he was “a bit confused” by the situation. Since then, people have gone on X claiming that Chelsea “Photoshopped’ Trump out of their celebrations. Some of these posts, external have been viewed millions of times. But the claims aren’t true.

We’ve looked through the posts made by Chelsea’s official social media accounts since they won the Club World Cup - and there aren't any images that appear to have been digitally altered to remove Trump.

Some people thought , externalthis image, external, posted on Chelsea’s Instagram account, had been Photoshopped to remove the president. The top comment reads “thank god y'all removed trump [sic]”.

But he’s there - look behind Neto!

Rob England
BBC Verify senior data journalist

Earlier today it emerged that thousands of Afghans were resettled in the UK under a confidential scheme, set up after a British official inadvertently leaked their data.

The undisclosed pathway was part of the UK’s broader evacuation efforts following the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan in 2021.

It worked alongside the government’s two publicly advertised legal immigration routes to the country for people considered at risk of harm under Taliban rule:

• Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP): For current or former staff employed by the UK government in Afghanistan since 2001, assessed to be at serious risk of harm

• Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS): For other civilian groups such as those deemed to have assisted the UK, ethnic and religious minorities, and LGBT+ individuals

These schemes have so far seen just over 34,200 people arriving in the UK since 2021, including 4,500 resettled through the confidential pathway.

Those individuals were included in the overall totals for the two main schemes in official Home Office statistics. The BBC has approached the government for clarity on which route they were assigned to.

Both main routes are now closed and the government says it will not accept new applications. People arriving through them are granted the right to permanently settle in the UK.

The evacuation followed nearly two decades of UK and US military involvement in Afghanistan, beginning with the 2001 invasion that ousted the Taliban.

Peter Mwai
BBC Verify senior journalist

Image source, X

We have been following the latest fighting in Sudan, which has been concentrated in remote areas around the central state of North Kordofan.

The warring parties - the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) - have been fighting for the control of the town of Umm Sumeima in recent days. It is along the main road heading towards western areas of the country.

The RSF claimed to have taken control of the town following heavy fighting on Sunday, but a pro-army group later claimed to have recaptured the town.

We have verified a video that shows pro-army fighters at a health centre inside the town on Monday, which appears to support claims about the town having been recaptured.

We confirmed the location through matching the wall, the buildings and the trees to satellite imagery on Google Earth.

The sign for the health centre, which we see in the video clip, also has the name of the town in Arabic.The fighters on screen mention the date and time of filming.

A new deal announced by US President Donald Trump on Monday would include billions of dollars worth of military equipment for Ukraine.

BBC Verify’s Olga Robinson has been looking at what kind of weapons could be sent directly and what it might mean for the war.

Ben Chu
BBC Verify policy and analysis correspondent

I've been on BBC Radio 4’s The World at One this lunchtime to talk about media reports which claim large numbers of wealthy people have been leaving the UK because of the Labour government’s changes to the tax system, external.

Last week, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch claimed at Prime Minister's Questions, external that wealthy people are “leaving in droves”.

The figures in the media are mostly based on analysis by a wealth advisory firm called Henley & Partners which has been working with a “global wealth intelligence firm” called New World Wealth.

In its most recent report, external, Henley & Partners projects that 16,500 more US dollar millionaires will leave the UK in 2025 than will arrive.

Image source, Getty Images

But the methodology of New World Wealth has been called into question.

The firm says it “tracks the movements of more than 150,000 high net-worth individuals [globally] in its in-house database”.

Yet it’s not clear how representative this sample is of all wealthy people, so it’s not necessarily reliable to extrapolate from this data to estimate how many dollar millionaires are moving in and out of each country in the way they do.

Further, New World Wealth says it “uses various public sources to check city locations, external, including LinkedIn and other business portals”.

But an individual’s LinkedIn status does not show whether someone has migrated or pays taxes in a given country, raising further questions about the reliability of these figures.

There are stories of individual rich people leaving the UK and blaming Labour’s tax changes - but these anecdotes don’t reach the bar of reliable data.

Independent tax researchers told BBC Verify it’s important to bear in mind that wealthy people come to and leave the UK all the time for lots of different reasons unrelated to tax.

It’s the net additional flow that matters if we’re going to make statistical claims and we do not have the necessary information yet to determine whether net outflows are higher since Labour came to power.

Olga Robinson and Thomas Spencer
BBC Verify

Image source, Reuters

We’re looking at what “top-of-the-line” weapons could be sent to Ukraine via Nato countries as part of a new deal announced by US President Donald Trump on Monday.

There’s little concrete detail for us to assess so far, but one weapon Trump did explicitly mention was the Patriot surface-to-air missile system. It’s a key air defence weapon in the US arsenal that can down both the ballistic and cruise missiles that Russia routinely uses to attack Ukrainian cities and infrastructure.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has previously said the country needs 25 Patriot systems, external to protect “all of Ukraine” from Russian air attacks.

Trump stated that some Patriot systems will arrive in Ukraine "within days" from Nato states – which he didn’t name. Those countries would then buy replacements from the US.

He added that one country has “17 Patriots ready to be shipped” and a “big portion of the 17 will go to the war zone” in Ukraine. It’s not clear whether he meant 17 missile launchers or batteries – which contain multiple launchers.

Paul Brown
BBC Verify senior journalist

Image source, Telegram

Russia's Ministry of Defence said this morning it had repelled a “massive” Ukrainian drone attack overnight across several regions.

Footage from Voronezh in south-west Russia shows damage to several buildings in the Sovetsky district of the city. Local officials say falling debris from intercepting drones caused the damage. They added that 16 people were injured.

The area is largely residential with a few retail outlets - and we can see some shop signs in clips from the scene we’ve watched this morning. Those details allowed us to geolocate the footage to this area.

There were also drone attacks in parts of Ukraine away from the front line. The Ukrainian Air Force reported 178 successful interceptions over the “north, south, east and centre of the country.”

Kumar Malhotra and Peter Mwai
BBC Verify

Several videos have been posted online today which appear to show Syrian government forces inside the southern city of Suweida following recent violent clashes between Druze militias and Sunni Bedouin fighters.

The videos were all from a major junction on a main road coming from the north. We matched features such as the central roundabout structure, surrounding buildings and street signs to what we could see on Google Earth to pinpoint the location.

In one video, a line of liveried pickup trucks and armed men in military outfits are waiting to move forwards.

These match still images taken by the AFP news agency showing government forces in the city.

Violence between the two groups broke out on Sunday with about 100 people reportedly killed so far. Israel said on Monday it had targeted several tanks it thought were heading to Suweida.

Updated 13:56 BST - this post has been updated following new reports of the number killed in this week's clashes in Suweida.

As we've been reporting on BBC Verify Live, we've verified footage posted online from southern Gaza showing multiple gunshots close to a large crowd of people gathered near one of the strip’s aid distribution sites.

The clip shows individuals on a dune taking cover as rounds hit the ground just meters away. Eyewitnesses and local journalists have said the footage was filmed last Saturday.

This morning the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - the organisation that distributes aid - told the BBC the video “isn't at or in the vicinity of our site" but it was "trying to determine if it was involving an actual queue to our site which could be 1.5-2km away”.

Benedict Garman
BBC Verify senior journalist

Earlier we verified video showing bullets hitting sand near people waiting for aid close to one of the Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) sites in Rafah.

A newly released satellite image from Planet Labs PBC, taken on the morning of 13 July shows large groups of people congregated at the same spot.

It was captured a day after the video was filmed and less than 750m (0.5 miles) from Secure Distribution Site 2 (SDS2), north of Tel al-Sultan.

Three Israeli military armoured vehicles are visible in the image, positioned approximately 350m (0.2 miles) away - within the effective range of automatic weapons.

Additional groups of people appear to be gathered at a roadblock slightly further north along the road.

This isn't the first time satellite imagery has shown crowds waiting to get aid at this location. A previous image from 30 June showed a similar scene.

Gunfire has also been heard in other videos shared in recent weeks, which have been geolocated to the same spot.

Tom Edgington
BBC Verify senior journalist

Image source, Reuters

In his BBC interview, Donald Trump also discussed the US relationship with Nato, following the alliance’s commitment to spend 5% of GDP on defence and security by 2035.

Trump, who has repeatedly criticised European Nato members for not spending enough on defence, claimed that the US “paid for almost 100% of it [Nato]” in the past.

In cash terms, the US is by far the biggest spender on defence in the alliance, but Nato figures do not show it paying for “almost 100% of it”.

Last year, Nato’s 32 members collectively spent more than $1.4trn on defence. Of this, the US spent $935bn - almost two-thirds (64%) of the total, external.

That’s consistent with the trend over the past 10 years. From 2015 to 2024, the US accounted for just under 70% of Nato’s total defence spending each year on average.

Significant yes, but it’s an exaggeration to say “almost 100%”.

BBC Verify has previously looked at what each Nato member spends on defence.

Lucy Gilder
BBC Verify journalist

We’ve been listening back to President Donald Trump’s BBC interview.

During the call, Trump was asked about his record on illegal immigration and what was happening at the US southern border with Mexico. He made this claim:

“In the people pouring in… as you know last month it was zero. Now even I find it hard to believe it could be zero. But the people that do these reports are liberal and they said it was zero, zero people for the month.”

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) publishes monthly figures on recorded “encounters” with migrants at US borders.

Despite Trump’s “zero” claim, 8,725 encounters were recorded at the southern border with Mexico in May 2025 , externalaccording to the latest available figures., external

This is still, however, a significant drop from the same period last year under President Joe Biden, when 117,905 encounters were recorded.

Trump may have been referring to the number of illegal migrants released into the community after being apprehended by CBP, which was indeed zero in May.

Image source, Shutterstock

Emma Pengelly, Sherie Ryder and Alex Murray
BBC Verify

We’ve verified footage that has been circulating on social media showing shots being fired near crowds of people waiting for aid in southern Gaza. Having received the footage and from speaking to two journalists in Gaza we understand the incident took place on Saturday 12 July. We’ve also seen a post from an eyewitness, external on Instagram.

Based on the pylons seen in the footage and having looked at previous clips around aid distribution centres we could confirm the video was filmed close to one of the safe routes into an aid hub run by the Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

Using other forensic techniques - which we’ll explain in another live page post - we can place this incident near the GHF’s Secure Distribution Site 2.

In the video you can see clouds of sand being kicked up by the impact of the bullets being fired. There have been reports of some killings on Saturday, but it is not clear if any of these were a result of the shots captured in the video.

Nasser hospital in southern Gaza confirmed 24 people were killed near an aid distribution site. The GHF has denied that the incident took place near their site.

Rob Corp
BBC Verify Live editor

Good morning from BBC Verify Live.

Our fact-checkers, data journalists and verification specialists are working on these stories today:

• Gaza: BBC Verify has confirmed that video showing shots being fired near Palestinians waiting for aid on Saturday is genuine. We'll share what we know about the incident and how we verified the footage
• Ukraine: We're looking to learn more about the weapons Ukraine will receive from the US following yesterday's announcement by President Donald Trump - who gave few details other than to say it would include "billions of dollars' worth of military equipment"
• Trump: The president spoke to the BBC's Gary O'Donoghue last night in an exclusive phone interview. We're fact-checking what Trump said

All that to come - and ahead of Chancellor Rachel Reeves' big speech on the economy in the City of London later we'll be looking into how many millionaires and billionaires have left the UK since Labour came to power.