Anthony Reuben
BBC Verify senior journalist

We're closing this live page now, but there's still plenty of work that our late teams are digging into for the evening.

Our open-source investigators will be contributing to our separate live page about Israel and Iran’s continuing attacks on each other.

Other members of the team will be feeding into live coverage of the announcement of the inquiry into grooming gangs in the UK.

And you can stay across the BBC News website to see what comes out of the meeting of G7 leaders in Canada later tonight.

Verify Live will be back here again on Tuesday morning.

Lucy Gilder
BBC Verify journalist

We’ve just been talking about the limitations in national police data on the ethnicity of grooming gang suspects.

The Casey report, however, says that “despite the lack of a full picture in the national data sets, there was and is enough evidence available in local police data in three areas which we examined which show disproportionate numbers of suspects from Asian ethnic backgrounds”.

The three police force areas it mentions are Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire.

The review reports that in Greater Manchester, 54% of recent group-based child sexual exploitation suspects were recorded as Asian.

“These data show that child sexual exploitation suspects in Greater Manchester are more than twice as likely to be of Asian ethnicity compared to the proportion of the Asian population in the area," it notes.

Unlike the NPCC figures we mentioned earlier, Greater Manchester Police uses both “self-defined” ethnicity data (where a person gives their ethnicity) and police officers’ observations of a person’s ethnicity to record information about suspects.

Shayan Sardarizadeh
BBC Verify senior journalist

In the process of verifying real footage of the ongoing conflict between Iran and Israel, we also regularly come across widely shared videos and claims that are false or misleading.

One such clip, widely shared, external and viewed millions of times by users in Iran, claims to show multiple Iranian missiles over Israel.

But a search for other copies of the video on the internet reveals that it actually dates back to January, and was shared by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, external after one of the company's rockets exploded in the air.

Another widely shared clip, posted by pro-Israel accounts, claims to show Iranians starting anti-government street protests during the conflict.

While the video does show anti-government protests in Iran, it was filmed eight years ago, external during widespread economic protests over a rise in fuel prices.

Lucy Gilder
BBC Verify journalist

Image source, PA Media

One of the recommendations in the Casey review, external is to order police forces in England and Wales to improve their collection of ethnicity data in child sexual abuse and exploitation cases.

Publicly available data of this kind is limited, something the home secretary acknowledged in her Commons statement just now.

The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) collects data on group-based child sexual abuse and exploitation crimes recorded by 44 police forces in England and Wales, external.

• It defines “group-based” as two or more individuals who know each other and are known to be involved in the sexual exploitation of children and young people.
• Child sexual exploitation (CSE) is defined as “taking advantage of an imbalance of power to coerce, manipulate or deceive a child or young person under the age of 18 into sexual activity”.

Only suspects are included in these figures, not people who have been charged or convicted of these crimes.

For 2024, the most recent data available, for a majority of suspects with a “recorded self-defined ethnicity” (where the suspect gave their ethnicity) fell under these four NPCC categories:

• White British: 55%
• Pakistani: 12.9%
• Other white background: 6.5%
• Other Asian background: 4.2%

The NPCC says ethnicity data “should be treated with caution”, as it doesn’t capture the whole picture. In 2024, of the 1,006 recorded suspects, there was only ethnicity data for less than a third.

The Casey review also says that police recorded ethnicity data is “not good enough to support any statements about the ethnicity of group-based child sexual exploitation offenders at the national level”.

Lucy Gilder and Alex Murray
BBC Verify

Image source, Wana News Agency via Reuters

We’ve been trying to find reliable numbers to check the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) claim that since it began its attack on Iran last week, “more than 120 missile launchers have been destroyed”.

Launchers are the platforms from which multiple missiles can be fired, and can be in a fixed position or mobile - mounted on a truck, for example.

The IDF goes on to claim that this would constitute ”a third of the Iranian regime's total missile launchers”. That would mean the Israeli military estimates Iran to have 360 missile launchers in total.

A 2020 US military unclassified assessment of the “Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat", external is unhelpful, being both dated and vague. It gives the number of launchers as “undetermined” for Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBMs).

Fortunately, our defence researcher has recent data from the International Institute for Strategic Studies, which publishes an open-source assessment of the military forces and equipment inventories of over 170 countries.

It gives “100+” as an inventory for launchers for Short Range Ballistic Missiles and a further “100+” for MRBMs operated by the IRGC’s Aerospace Force, which controls Iran’s strategic missiles.

We’re also asking a range of weapons experts if they can provide more insight into the IDF’s claim.

Shayan Sardarizadeh
BBC Verify senior journalist

Image source, Twitter

In the past year, we've seen an uptick in content created using artificial intelligence and shared in relation to major news stories.

And the Iran-Israel conflict is no different.

One video, published by Iranian media, purports to show, external evidence of a high-rise building being directly hit by a missile.

But there are several errors that we spotted in the footage that are consistent with AI generation. For instance, the missile moves at an unusually slow pace, and several projectiles appear in the clip out of nowhere.

Another tell-tale sign is the audio in the video, as there's no delay in the sound of the blast - which would be expected.

Another clip, external, viewed millions of times online, claims to show extensive damage to buildings and aircraft at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport.

However, we were able to track down the original source of this video. It was first created and shared by a user on Instagram, who regularly posts AI-generated videos.

There's currently no evidence that Ben Gurion airport has been a target of or damaged by Iranian missiles.

Kumar Malhotra and Joshua Cheetham
BBC Verify

Satellite images have revealed damage inflicted by Israel on missile sites and an airport runway in Iran as the two countries continue to launch strikes against each other.

Images from Planet Labs show several areas of significant damage at the international airport in Tabriz, capital of Iran's East Azerbaijan province.

Images taken on 14 June show a large blackened area clearly visible in the centre of the main runway. There are also signs of damage to two taxiways at two points where they meet the main runway and on another section of one of the taxiways.

It's not clear if the airport is currently operational, but the Flightradar24 tracking website shows no commercial flights arriving or departing since early on Friday, when Israel first launched attacks on Iran.

Flight tracking sites would not normally register the movement of military aircraft.

You can read more of what we know about some of the damage to missile sites here.

Tom Edgington
BBC Verify senior journalist

The findings of a review into the sexual exploitation and abuse of children by grooming gangs in England and Wales will be announced later today.

Speaking to the BBC this morning, shadow home secretary Chris Philp defended the Conservatives against criticism that they had not done enough to implement the recommendations of the October 2022 independent report into child sexual abuse, external, by Professor Alexis Jay.

“The grooming gang taskforce was set up by Rishi Sunak in response to that report and that led to 550 arrests in the first year alone and I’m pleased the grooming gang taskforce is being continued,” Philip said.

A taskforce, made up of specialist officers that work with individual police forces to investigate suspected grooming gangs, was set up under Sunak, in April 2023, external.

In April 2025, the current Labour government produced figures showing, external that the taskforce did “contribute to 550 arrests across the UK” in its first year.

Professor Jay has been critical of the initial response by the previous Conservative government to her report in October 2022, calling it “awful”.

Speaking to MPs in January 2025, she said, external: “It was inconsequential, insubstantial, committed to nothing… The reaction of all of us, but mostly victims and survivors, was such huge disappointment and anger."

Philp said her recommendations were “in the process of being implemented” by the Conservative government, when Sunak called the 2024 general election.

• On our separate live blog, our colleagues are covering the release of the report into sexual abuse carried out by grooming gangs in England and Wales

Anthony Reuben
BBC Verify senior journalist

We’re expecting a statement this afternoon in the House of Commons by Foreign Office minister Hamish Falconer about the Air India flight to London Gatwick, which tragically crashed on Thursday shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad.

All but one of the 242 people on board the flight died - there were 53 Britons on board.

Officials have also been trying to establish how many people were killed on the ground and have been continuing the slow process of matching DNA samples to confirm the victims' identities. On Sunday, doctors in India said 270 bodies had been recovered from the site.

Investigations into the cause of the crash have continued over the weekend, but you can read BBC Verify’s initial thoughts about what might have caused the crash here.

Merlyn Thomas
BBC Verify senior reporter

Analysing satellite imagery can give us insight into what’s happening on the ground - especially in Iran, where it’s incredibly difficult for BBC journalists to operate.

We’ve been analysing images from several areas across Iran that have been hit by Israeli strikes - some in reported military bases as well as nuclear facilities.

Kayleen Devlin
BBC Verify senior journalist

This morning, we verified video footage showing smoke rising from an oil refinery in Haifa, Israel.

The video show plumes of smoke coming from the area in which Israel’s largest oil refinery is located, following overnight attacks by Iran.

We reverse image searched multiple keyframes within the video, and also checked agency images which confirmed a strike had taken place at the facility.

We then matched some key features from the video and agency images with what we can see from the site on Google Earth and old footage from the area.

Israeli media reported that Bazan Group, which operates the complex, said Iranian missiles had hit the facility overnight, causing damage to pipelines and transmission lines.

Bazan Group added that oil refining activities at the site are continuing, but other facilities on the site have shut down.

Image source, Telegram/MBSRsi98

Dan Isaacs
BBC Verify, Osint and Verification Editor

Image source, Maxar

As we mentioned a bit earlier, we’ve been looking this morning at the latest satellite imagery revealing the extent of damage to sites in Iran.

This one, provided by Maxar, shows the damage to a military facility at Bid Kaneh, about 30km west of the capital Tehran. You can clearly see severe damage to the roof of one of the buildings there.

We’ve also seen images from Tabriz airport, where military planes are reportedly stationed, revealing damage to the main runway, and damage to a missile base operated by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards near the western province of Kermanshah.

We’ll be showing these images to experts for their assessment of the damage and its significance to Iran’s ability to respond to Israel’s continued strikes.

Paul Brown and Shayan Sardarizadeh
BBC Verify senior journalists

Image source, Chris Biggers/Umbra Space

Imagery and analysis captured on Friday by Umbra Space reveals damage to several parts of a missile complex near the city of Tabriz in north-western Iran.

The damaged sites include, according to the annotated graphic provided by Umbra with analysis by geospatial intelligence consultant Chris Biggers:

• Weapon storage areas
• Missile shelters
• And silos

In Kermanshah, low resolution imagery from Planet Labs shows what appears to be extensive burn marks to an area near a known missile base, and possible damage to two buildings.

Footage we verified from the same site on Friday showed at least three large plumes of smoke rising from the base.

Maxar also provided imagery showing significant damage to one structure at Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Ghadir ballistic missile base near Tehran, and considerable damage to the IRGC radar site in Piranshahr in West Azerbaijan Province.

Paul Brown and Shayan Sardarizadeh
BBC Verify senior journalists

Image source, Maxar / BBC

Recently released satellite imagery from Maxar shows the clearest picture yet of what happened at the Iranian nuclear sites at Natanz and Isfahan.

At Natanz, we can see damage to the pilot fuel enrichment plant and an electrical substation, according to analysis by the Institute for Space and International Security.

This follows on from earlier analysis of radar imagery that first showed the damage.

On Friday, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, told the UN Security Council that "the above-ground part of the pilot fuel enrichment plant, where Iran was producing uranium enriched up to 60% U-235, has been destroyed".

Uranium-235 is essential both for nuclear power stations and also for nuclear weapons.

Verified footage taken shortly after the strikes show several plumes of smoke rising from the site.

On Saturday, the IAEA confirmed that four "critical buildings" had been damaged in Isfahan,, external including the Uranium conversion facility and the fuel plate fabrication plant.

BBC Verify analysis of the latest images from Maxar found visible damage to at least two structures at Isfahan and an apparent scorch mark near the periphery of the site.

The IAEA has said that "no increase in off-site radiation" has been recorded at either Natanz or Isfahan.

• Strikes by Israel and Iran are continuing as the conflict between the two countries enters its fourth day - you can read more about the ongoing conflict in our other live page

Johanna Chisholm
BBC Verify Live editor

Hello and good morning from the live page team here at BBC Verify.

We're continuing to track developments in Israel and Iran as the conflict between the two countries enters its fourth day.

Here's what else we're keeping across:

• Digging into satellite imagery to locate where strikes have been carried out in Iran and Israel
• ... And using additional imagery to get a clearer picture of damage inflicted on two of Iran's key nuclear sites (more on that in our next post)
• In the Commons, our fact-check team will be across Home Secretary Yvette Cooper's expected statement, which comes after PM Keir Starmer announced there will be a full national statutory inquiry into grooming gangs

We'll keep you updated on those lines here on BBC Verify Live - and for all the latest analysis and reaction head to the main BBC News live page.