Lucy Gilder
BBC Verify journalist

Verify Live will be finishing for the day shortly - we will be keeping a watch on the latest from Iran and Israel.Here are three other Verify stories you can look out for later today:

• An investigation about a Russian warship which disguised itself using a fake ID signal while travelling through the English Channel with two sanctioned oil tankers
• Analysis of the nine Nato countries that didn’t meet their previous 2% defence spending targets
• A video explaining what we know about Florida’s so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention centre

And if you want to catch up on BBC Verify’s previous investigations, videos and analysis then go to our pages on the BBC website.

Shayan Sardarizadeh and Alex Murray
BBC Verify

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We have been working on verifying footage of a reported Israeli air strike in Iran after the ceasefire negotiated by US President Donald Trump came into effect.

The Israelis acted after accusing Iran of launching a missile in breach of the truce - which Tehran has denied.

One video, which we have confirmed, claims to show a plume of smoke rising from a location behind a big warehouse next to a green field in the northern city of Babolsar.

We were able to find the warehouse, with its distinctive shape and white roof, on a satellite map.

We were then able to locate an Iranian air defence radar site approximately 6km (3.7 miles) north-east of the warehouse. A sphere at the site looks like the frame of a radar dome.

The site’s location ties in with the direction of the camera in the video, which is looking east.

We also verified an image which was taken from a vantage point in the north looking south towards the radar site.

We used a mobile phone mast seen in that image and its shadow on satellite imagery to establish the perspective from where it was taken.

Image source, X/Vahid Online

Lucy Gilder
BBC Verify journalist

I’ve been looking into US government plans to build , externala temporary migration detention centre in Florida, external, which one official has called “Alligator Alcatraz” because of the reptiles that roam the nearby swamps. The temporary facility would be located at a former airfield west of the city of Miami.

In a promotional video for the facility, external, Florida’s Attorney General James Uthmeier said: "[If] people, get out, there's not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons. Nowhere to go, nowhere to hide.”

The US government has described the site as a “cost-effective” way to deliver President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan.

I asked the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees US immigration policy, about the cost of the facility. It told me Alligator Alcatraz and other (as yet unnamed) sites in the area would cost about $450m (£330m) for one year and provide 5,000 detention beds.

The announcement comes at a time when the Trump administration is trying to boost detention capacity. Figures published by ICE, external , external(US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) show just under 40,000 people were detained in its facilities last week out of a total capacity of 41,500 beds.

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Earlier we reported an Iranian missile had hit Beersheba in southern Israel before the ceasefire between the two sides came into effect.

One video we verified - which we talked about here - shows the moment the missile struck causing a large explosion.

Tom Edgington
BBC Verify senior journalist

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Before he headed to today’s Nato summit, UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer pledged to spend 5% of GDP on national security by 2035.

However, not all of the planned increase will come directly from the defence budget. While 3.5% of national income will go on “core” defence, the government says the remaining 1.5% will be spent on “resilience and security”, external.

BBC Verify understands that the money for resilience and security will come from other departments’ budgets rather than from the Ministry of Defence but will still count towards the 5% target.

The government’s National Security Strategy sets out some areas where this money could be spent, external, including on food security, undersea infrastructure and cyber defences.

It has been claimed that some of the resilience and security budget could be spent on rural broadband. We understand this is plausible if the government believed the UK’s broadband infrastructure was a legitimate target.

Raising core defence spending to 3.5% of GDP would cost about £30bn a year compared with what is currently being spent, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).

The last time the UK spent this proportion of its income on defence was at the end of the 1980s, the IFS adds, external.

Yi Ma
BBC Verify researcher

Image source, X

I’ve been working to verify several dramatic videos circulating on social media which show severe flooding in China's south-western Guizhou province.

According to Chinese state media, the area is experiencing the kind of flooding seen “once-in-30-years” following heavy rainfall.

One verified video shows a street in the city of Rongjiang that is inundated with flood water and shops completely submerged, while residents can be seen looking out from first-floor windows. Another video, filmed from a higher vantage point, shows a wide area affected by flooding.

We verified the footage by matching shop names, building layouts, and street features visible in the videos to central Rongjiang locations west of the main river, using the Chinese mapping service Amap. Reverse image searches also confirmed the videos had not appeared online before today.

Local officials have ordered people to evacuate the affected areas and there have so far been no official reports of deaths or injuries from the flooding.

Ben Chu
BBC Verify policy and analysis correspondent

Some of the Labour MPs who are planning to rebel against the government over its welfare reforms have raised concerns about the number of people they say will be “pushed into poverty” by the changes.

The government’s own official impact assessment estimates, external that around 250,000 more people (including 50,000 children) will be left in “relative poverty” (after housing costs) by 2030 than if the changes weren’t made.

However, that assessment is based on Labour ministers not going ahead with changes planned by the Conservatives when they were in power which government analysts say would have pushed a further 150,000 people into poverty.

Image source, EPA

Some groups have suggested this means the government’s 250,000 estimate understates the effective impact of its proposed reforms - because the previous administration’s reforms weren’t implemented.

Using the current system as the baseline, rather than a scenario where the previous government’s plans were implemented, Iain Porter from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested, external the actual poverty impact of the government’s changes could therefore be up to 400,000 (adding the 250,000 figure to the 150,000 figure to generate an estimate of the total numbers affected).

However, the government’s impact assessment cautions against simply adding the two figures together, saying that “some people are affected by more than one [reform] measure” - so that approach risks double-counting individuals.

Taking account of this double-counting risk, the Resolution Foundation think tank has estimated, external that the net effect of the government’s reforms (excluding the effect of the previous administration’s planned reform) would mean “at least 300,000” people entering relative poverty by 2030.

Benedict Garman
BBC Verify senior journalist

We’ve seen several videos being shared on social media of people evacuating a damaged train in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro following a Russian missile attack nearby.

Regional administration chief Serhiy Lysak said seven people were killed and about 70 injured in the strike. Lysak added that 10 children were among the wounded.

We were able to take details from the various videos we found and match them with reference images from satellite pictures and other publicly available sources to gives us the train’s location.

First, we geolocated a photo of smoke rising in the distance behind a distinctive building which we could identify as Dnipro’s main railway station. That narrowed down the search area.

Then there were clues in the videos themselves where we could see passengers sheltering in a wooded area, two chimneys in the distance, the railway tracks and a collection of visibly damaged buildings behind the train.

We matched these features on satellite imagery to a spot about 4km (2.5 miles) west of the station.The damaged buildings in the video are labelled on internet mapping as a “pipe-welding workshop” - this chimes with one eye-witness saying the attack targeted a factory about 100m (330ft) from the train.

Peter Mwai
BBC Verify senior journalist

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Earlier, we reported on our efforts to verify footage showing the aftermath of an Iranian missile attack which severely damaged an apartment block in Beersheba, southern Israel.

We have now managed to verify a video which shows the moment the missile hit.

In the clip, filmed from one of the tall buildings nearby, we see a flash of light in the sky moments before the missile impacts causing a large explosion.

After earlier confirming the location, we worked backwards and matched two buildings with angular roofs seen in the footage to imagery from Google Street View.

We were also able to match the tall building very close to where the person was filming - it is recognizable due to the windows and their placement and the pattern of painting on the wall.

We also did reverse image search on key frames from the video, to check whether this footage has been posted online before today.

Anthony Reuben
BBC Verify senior journalist

Nato leaders are gathering for the defence alliance’s summit where it’s expected members will pledge to make a significant increase in defence spending - from the current target of 2% of GDP to 5%.

But nine countries have yet to reach the previous aspiration of 2%, according to the latest Nato estimates, which are for 2024, external.

Spain was the lowest, with estimated spending of 1.24%. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said the country will achieve 2% in 2025, but claims to have been granted an exemption, external from increasing spending to the new 5% target, which he described as “incompatible with our worldview".

US President Donald Trump - who has frequently accused Nato members of not putting enough money into defence - said Spain “has to pay what everybody else has to pay”.

Paul Brown
BBC Verify senior journalist

Just before and shortly after US President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) issued three evacuation notices for Tehran.

They covered particularly busy areas of the city and were put on the IDF’s Farsi language social media during the early hours of Tuesday morning. A combined area of 1 sq km was covered by the orders.

Iranian state TV has said the strikes that followed last night's warnings were among the most intense seen in the city since the conflict began.

Footage of the aftermath is scarce, but we have verified a clip showing some damage to a building within one of those zones and a gathering of emergency workers.

We've also verified footage of people taking shelter in their cars overnight having evacuated nearby buildings.

Our team will continue to monitor social media feeds for any indication of the scale of damage.

Image source, X/IDFFarsi

Lucy Gilder
BBC Verify journalist

After the Trump administration bombed three Iranian nuclear sites at the weekend, Democrats as well as some lawmakers from his own Republican Party have questioned his legal authority to do so.

Late last night, President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire between Iran and Israel - the details of which are still unclear.

Before that development, we spoke to legal experts about whether the US strikes on Iran were in line with the US Constitution or whether Trump should have consulted Congress first.

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There are two parts of the US Constitution that are relevant here: Article I and Article II.

Article I lists the ability "to declare war" as one of Congress' powers. However, Article II - which lays out the president's powers - says that "the president shall be Commander in Chief of the Army", and sources at the White House have told the BBC they see this as the rationale for the strikes on Iran.

Four constitutional experts told us that Trump had some authority under Article II to order the military strikes.

Although one legal scholar said he didn't believe Trump had the authority to launch the strikes as there wasn't "a sudden attack to repel".

Previous administrations have also carried out strikes without congressional approval. President Barack Obama authorised airstrikes in Libya without requesting permission from Congress, which his administration justified under Article II.

You can read more on the legality of Trump’s actions here.

Peter Mwai
BBC Verify senior journalist

Image source, X/Magen David Adom

We have been using images and videos posted on social media to verify the aftermath of an Iranian missile attack on Israel early on Tuesday moments before the Israeli government announced it had agreed to a ceasefire.

The Israeli ambulance service Magen David Adom says four people were killed and 22 were wounded in the attack on the southern town of Beersheba.

One of the videos we’ve verified shows smoke rising into the sky from a location with several high-rise buildings. We have located the footage shared on social media with satellite imagery to an area of Beersheba.

We’ve also been able to match a pet shop seen in another picture shared on X by Magen David Adom, external of rescuers at the scene which we found was very close to the apartment building that was hit.

Rob Corp
BBC Verify Live editor

Good morning.

We're keeping a close eye on developments in the Middle East after Iran and Israel agreed to a US and Qatar-brokered ceasefire. The truce appears to be under strain after Israel accused Iran of launching missiles after they had agreed to stand down. Iran has denied the allegation.

But in the hours before they agreed to stand down both sides continued carrying out attacks with Israeli air raids reported in northern Iran and an Iranian missile hitting southern Israel. The BBC News live page has the latest news and reaction.

We're looking to verify footage from both countries to get an understanding of what was hit in those attacks.

Elsewhere, journalists on the fact-check team are across today's Nato summit where 32 member states will pledge to spend 5% of GDP on national security - the UK among them. They'll be looking at how that spending breaks down in terms of where the money will come from and what it will be spent on.

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