Anthony Reuben
BBC Verify senior journalist

We're closing our live page but it's not the end of the day for the team.

The late team will be contributing to coverage of the conflict between Iran and Israel on this live page.

They'll mainly be watching for new videos coming out, with reports of explosions in both countries continuing. This video, external, showing a blast in Shahin Shahr, Iran, has been verified although it's not clear what exactly was struck at the site.

We'll also be keeping across the movements of US tanker aircraft into Europe.

You can find coverage of the final day of the summit of G7 leaders in Canada here.

And some members of the team are off to Sheffield for tomorrow's BBC Verify on Tour in collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University, external.

Olga Malchevska
BBC News

Ukraine’s capital has suffered multiple attacks in several parts of the city. My friends at home in Kyiv have been describing one of the biggest attacks of the war so far.

“We watched the footage of a Russian drone hitting a block of flats next to ours multiple times,” texts my former schoolmate Julia. “Thank God we are alive."

The footage she refers to shows a Shahed drone hitting a civilian block of flats in a densely populated area.

In a different part of Kyiv, a similar block of flats stands ripped apart by a Russian missile – a whole section of the building is gone. Reportedly, there are people still under the rubble.

Image source, X/Volodymyr Zelensky

Living not far from it – Svitlana – the mother of two – says “drones were flying like bees around us, their humming merging with the howls of sirens”.

She got her primary school-age son Zakhar to sleep in a corridor because there was no time to run to the closest basement as “you would most certainly die on your way there” if there is an impact.

Kyiv's Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko has announced a day of mourning day on Wednesday. With another night approaching, Kyiv residents don’t trust they would be able to sleep in peace.

Image source, Berezivska

Kevin Nguyen and Shruti Menon
BBC Verify

Image source, X

Our team has verified footage showing a large fire burning on one of two crude oil tankers that collided off the Gulf of Oman last night.

Vessel-tracking software showed two tankers, Adalynn and Front Eagle, in the busy Strait of Hormuz around 01:14 local time. By the end of the morning video emerged showing a large part of Adalynn’s hull on fire.

The video isn’t the clearest but you can just make out the name Adalynn on the stern. We were able to determine this was the same vessel by comparing photos of Adalynn with archive pictures of the same vessel back when it was previously called the “Lara I”.

We also put several frames from the video through a reverse image search - to see if the footage was already on the internet - and found nothing to suggest the video was not new.

A screenrecording we made from MarineTraffic, a vessel-tracking portal, shows the 336m long, 60m wide Front Eagle approaching from the north and colliding with the Adalynn’s left side.

Frontline, the company the operates the Front Eagle, said all crew onboard were reported safe and uninjured.

The Joint Maritime Information Centre (JMIC), a international naval monitoring service said, the incident was under investigation, but its assessment so far is that the collision was “navigation related and not maritime security-related”.

There have been suggestions of GPS interference in the Strait of Hormuz due to rising tensions in the region. BBC Verify has not been able to independently verify this.

Rob Corp
BBC Verify Live editor

We’ve just heard from Ukrainian interior minister Ihor Klymenko who has said that the number of people known to have died following a major Russian missile and drone attack last night is now 10 in the capital Kyiv and 2 in the southern port city of Odesa.

Earlier we reported that at least 15 were believed to have been killed in Kyiv. In his statement Klymenko said that rescuers and police continue to work at two locations in the capital.

“There are still people under the rubble, so the work will not stop until everyone is found,” he added.

Alex Murray and Thomas Spencer
BBC Verify

Image source, Getty Images

Flight data provided to BBC Verify by plane-tracking website FlightRadar24 shows at least 30 US military tanker aircraft travelled from the US to unknown locations in Europe on 15 and 16 June.

At least 7 of these aircraft - KC-135s that refuel aircraft in mid-air - stopped off at known US air bases in Spain and England as well as at Glasgow Prestwick Airport in Ayrshire.

They’ve since resumed their journeys and according to flight-tracking data can been seen flying east of Sicily.

Six have no stated destination - one has landed on the Greek island of Crete where there is an air base.

We are also looking at a number of US Air Force KC-46 tankers and tracking their movements.

Lucy Gilder
BBC Verify journalist

UK MPs are debating decriminalising abortion in England and Wales with a vote in the House of Commons due this evening.

The current law states that abortion is illegal but is allowed under certain circumstances. It’s permitted in the first 24 weeks of pregnancy, if approved by two doctors who confirm it’s justified by meeting criteria such as whether the pregnant woman’s health is at risk.

Terminating a pregnancy after this time may also be allowed, but again only under certain circumstances.

Some MPs want to change that law to prevent women who have ended their pregnancies outside of the current rules from being investigated and prosecuted.

Ahead of the vote, I’ve been looking at the data trends around recorded abortions.

Image source, UK Parliament

The latest abortion statistics, external show a record high of 252,122 abortions were recorded in England and Wales in 2022.

The data is based on forms submitted to the government by clinics and hospitals.

Abortions at 24 weeks of pregnancy or later make up a tiny proportion of recorded abortions (0.1% of the total). There were 260 of these abortions reported in 2022.

Since March 2020, women in England and Wales have been allowed to take two abortion medications (mifepristone and misoprostol) at home for early medical abortion, without needing to attend a hospital or clinic first.

Taking both these pills at home was the most common method of abortion in 2022, accounting for 61% of all abortions that year.

As we reported earlier, BBC Verify has authenticated video capturing the moment that an apartment block in the Ukrainian capital was struck during a major Russian drone and missile attack.

We’ve also been gathering and verifying images showing significant damage to another block in the city.

Authorities in Kyiv say that at least 15 people were killed in the attack which has been described as one of the biggest since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Merlyn Thomas
BBC Verify senior reporter

We’ve been taking a closer look at one of Iran’s most fortified nuclear sites in Fordo.

There’s only one conventional weapon that might be able to target this site - and it’s not one that Israel has access to.

We looked at satellite imagery and spoke to experts to understand what’s happening in this site hidden away in the mountains of Iran.

Kumar Malhotra
BBC Verify senior journalist

We’ve geolocated graphic footage from Khan Younis, southern Gaza, showing the aftermath of a deadly incident surrounding aid distribution.

The video shows bloodied, lifeless bodies on the ground, damaged vehicles and dazed bystanders.

By matching the street layout and the shape of surrounding buildings with satellite imagery on Google Earth, we’ve confirmed the video was filmed at an intersection in eastern Khan Younis. We’ve also verified that the clip is recent, using screenshots and reverse image searches to rule out if it’s an old video previously uploaded online.

The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry agency said more than 50 people were killed. According to witnesses and rescuers, Israeli forces opened fire near an aid distribution site. The Israeli military has told the BBC it is looking into the reports.

We previously verified footage from the same area last month, showing people carrying sacks of aid. We’re continuing to gather and analyse further material from today’s incident.

Note: Due to the graphic nature of the original video we are not sharing it here.

Lucy Gilder
BBC Verify journalist

Image source, EPA

Reform UK’s former chairman Zia Yusuf posted on X over the weekend, external that:“Kent County Council is using taxpayer money to pay for TV licenses for asylum seekers.”

Yusuf now heads the party’s new “Doge” unit, modelled on the US Department of Government Efficiency. It aims to slash spending by the councils Reform now controls in England.

Yusuf posted the claim about Kent County Council without providing evidence. When I contacted Reform to ask for a receipt or document that could support that claim, I was told to wait for a story published in The Sun.

That story is now out,, external and while there’s more detail about the claim (the paper reports that the council spent "at least £1,000" on TV licences for people who’d arrived by small boats in 2022), there’s still no evidence to back it up.

I went back to Reform to ask again for proof but they still did not provide a receipt.

US Doge has a website where it posts some receipts and other evidence, although not all of them match up to the claimed savings.

Tom Edgington
BBC Verify senior journalist

Before he left the G7 summit in Canada a day early, US President Donald Trump signed off on part of the US-UK tariff deal.

As Trump was announcing the latest stage of the deal - which he appeared to mistakenly refer to as “our trade agreement with the European Union” - he dropped some of the paperwork on the ground.

As they were being gathered, a few of the pages were visible - leading people on social media to post that some of the pages were blank.

In one X post - viewed more than 200,000 times - a user commented that the US-UK tariff deal “is a blank sheet of paper and only Trump signed it. (Genuine screen grab)”.However, high-resolution photos captured by photo agencies at the G7 prove otherwise.

Text can clearly been seen on a page held by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and in the folder held by Trump.

You can read more about the agreement here.

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Olga Robinson and Shayan Sardarizadeh
BBC Verify

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As we reported on BBC Verify Live yesterday, the ongoing exchange of air strikes between Iran and Israel has unleashed a wave of viral fakes on social media.

One image, which contains several telltale signs of AI generation has been viewed more than 32 million times on X alone. It claims to shows high-rise buildings in Tel Aviv badly damaged by Iranian missile attacks.

But the image includes several errors that are consistent with AI-generated content, including distorted vehicles and buildings the merge with the background. We found that it’s a screenshot from a video posted by a TikTok account that regularly publishes AI-generated content.

As we’ve seen in previous conflicts, social media users have also been attempting to pass off computer game footage as genuine too. One dramatic clip, viewed 18 million times on TikTok, claims to show a fighter jet being attacked.

The unrealistic depiction of smoke and fire in the video is consistent with CGI material we have seen shared in other conflicts.

The video has also been traced back to YouTube - it has been circulating online since at least May - and shows a simulation of a fighter jet engaging with an air defence system.

Peter Mwai
BBC Verify senior journalist

We’ve been looking at footage posted on social media showing the latest Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, which killed at least 15 people.

One video we’ve verified shows a drone flying directly into a large residential building in the city’s eastern Pozniaky district, before exploding on impact.

We’ve matched the building and a nearby car park seen in the footage using satellite and street view imagery. We also ran screengrabs of the footage through an online image search to confirm there were no prior uploads of the video, helping us to confirm it’s recent.

Our team is now working to verify additional videos and images, including aftermath footage reportedly from Kyiv where a section of a multi-storey residential building appears to have collapsed following an attack.

Paul Brown
BBC Verify senior journalist

Image source, Planet Labs

Satellite imagery has become a key tool for us to verify the impact of Israel’s military action against Iran.

The latest pictures from the specialist satellite firm Planet Labs came into us overnight which shows damage at the Tabriz North missile base in Iran following recent Israeli air strikes.

Several buildings have clearly been targeted, including at least two that have been completely flattened. There are also two large scorch marks on the ground to the east and west of the base, suggesting a fire broke out at some point.

We'll run the images past experts to try to get a sense of what kind of facilities were targeted.

Yesterday Israel declared it had neutralised one-third of Iran's ballistic missile launchers. Tabriz has been a regular target for Israel since hostilities escalated last week. Yesterday we reported on the effects of strikes on the city's international airport, as well as other sites.

Rob Corp
BBC Verify Live editor

Welcome to Tuesday's live page.

We're now into the fifth day of missile and air strikes by Iran and Israel as the conflict between the two sides continues.

We're using open-source intelligence techniques to get a clearer picture of the situation on the ground in both countries - the team is currently looking to:

• Assess satellite imagery to get more information on which Iranian military facilities have been targeted by Israel
• Verify the impact of this morning's Iranian missile attack on Israel - following explosions in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem

• Find evidence from social media and messaging apps to see if Iranians are heeding US President Donald Trump's message to evacuate Tehran

We'll also keep across the latest from Ukraine following a major overnight drone and missile attack by Russia which is reported to have killed at least 15 people in Kyiv.