Shayan Sardarizadeh
BBC Verify senior journalist

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Graphic videos and images have been posted online showing the aftermath of a car explosion in the Pakistan capital, Islamabad.

According to local reports, at least 12 people were killed in the blast which Pakistan’s interior minister said was carried out by a suicide bomber.

One graphic clip we have verified was filmed from the roof of one of the buildings at the judicial complex located near the Srinagar Highway in the city. It shows fire and smoke rising from a car parked in front of the complex. At least two injured people can be seen lying on the road.

We confirmed where the video was taken by matching the layout of the district courts complex and the road outside with imagery on Google Earth.

A second graphic clip, filmed outside one of the gates of the district courts, shows several bodies and blood on the road as a car burns in the background.

Another video, filmed from the same road, shows emergency services at the scene while a number of injured people are carried away.

Merlyn Thomas
BBC Verify correspondent

Analysis of pictures taken by satellites is one of the key ways we can see what has been happening inside the Sudanese city of el-Fasher - as we reported here on BBC Verify Live earlier.

Given it was under siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for 18 months, no foreign journalists have been able to report from there. Communications coming out of el-Fasher have been almost totally blacked out.

Satellite imagery has been crucial to telling the story of the siege and subsequent allegations of killings by RSF fighters. It allows us to get an insight into what’s happening on the ground in places we can’t access.

When Sudanese sources first claimed the RSF was carrying out mass killings we began piecing together the story of what happened by verifying dozens of videos, tracking RSF fighters across social media as well as seeing what satellite imagery could show us.

You can see how we used these resources in our investigations uncovering one of the key RSF commanders responsible for executions and the anatomy of how it carried out a massacre in el-Fasher.

Gerry Georgieva
BBC Verify researcher

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Commenting on today’s labour market figures, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch posted on X, external that "180,000 jobs have been lost in the past year".

The figure she mentions is true for payrolled employees, external in the UK, or the number of people who are employed in at least one job in which tax is taken through Pay As You Earn (PAYE). It has gone down by 180,000 in the year to October – from almost 30.5 million to nearly 30.3 million.

But the number of people in employment, external overall has gone up during this time. There were almost 34.2 million people in employment in July to September, up from nearly 33.8 million a year ago.

One figure going up while the other goes down could be to do with something like the number of self-employed people or it could reflect the different methodologies used.

The data on payrolled employees is provisional, based on partial HM Revenue and Customs’ PAYE tax data, and can be revised next month when more information becomes available.

The employment figure is based on the Labour Force Survey (LFS) that has been suffering from low response rates, external and is an estimate, subject to survey improvements.

Kayleen Devlin and Fridon Kiria
BBC Verify and BBC Monitoring

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We’ve been looking into a video of Russian soldiers moving into the city of Pokrovsk in Ukraine’s Donetsk region that Moscow's army has been trying to capture for more than a year.

The video, posted last night on Russian Telegram channels, shows soldiers using motorcycles and modified civilian vehicles moving in thick fog.

It was filmed near the southern entrance to Pokrovsk, which we confirmed by matching the shape of the roads and a tree visible in the footage to satellite imagery.

Claims of Russia nearing victory in Pokrovsk have been circulating in the past weeks, despite Ukrainian denials that its troops there are encircled.

What we can say is hundreds of Russian soldiers have infiltrated the city in the past few weeks and seized some Ukrainian positions in Pokrovsk.

According to the Institute for the Study of War's most recent update, Russia continues to advance in Pokrovsk but its progress has slowed and Ukraine has regained some ground through counter-attacks.

Daniel Wainwright
BBC Verify senior data journalist

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Just three out of 121 major hospital trusts in England met their cancer waiting time targets over the past year, BBC Verify’s analysis of NHS data shows.

The NHS in England publishes this data every month, external. But to give you the bigger picture over a longer period, we downloaded a year’s worth of the raw data and calculated what percentage of all cancer patients were treated within each of the three target times.

To do this we had to separate out the data for each target set by the NHS:

• Diagnosing or ruling cancer out within 28 days of referral for at least 75% of patients
• Starting treatment within 31 days of the decision for at least 96% of patients
• Taking no more than 62 days from referral to diagnosis for at least 85% of patients.

We also filtered out smaller providers and concentrated on “acute” hospital trusts. We excluded acute trusts that were specialists in things other than cancer such as eye or orthopaedic hospitals.

This left us with 121 of the bigger hospital trusts to compare with each other.

Read our full analysis which includes an interactive table we created to compare your local trust is doing on cancer waits.

Fridon Kiria and Yi Ma
BBC Verify

Earlier this morning the Ukrainian military announced it had struck an oil refinery in Saratov, a city in south-western Russia around 285 miles (460km) from the border with Ukraine.

In the past few hours, eyewitness accounts and videos of the alleged attack began circulating on social media. We have been able to verify one of the clips, which shows fires burning and lighting up the night sky from a distance.

Image source, X

The video appears to have been filmed from a residential area north of the refinery. While the strike is not visible in the clip, we were able to confirm the fires were burning from the direction of the facility.

We verified the video was recorded in Saratov by matching visible buildings with satellite images, while a reverse-image search of screen grabs from the footage suggests it has only emerged online today.

Governor of Saratov region Roman Busargin acknowledged on his Telegram channel last night that a drone strike had taken place, confirming “civilian infrastructure had been damaged” without mentioning the refinery.

In an update this morning, Busargin said one person had been injured after windows were damaged in several houses.

The chairman of the BBC has apologised for what he called an "error of judgement" in how a speech by Donald Trump was edited for an episode of Panorama.

The BBC's director general, Tim Davie, and CEO of news, Deborah Turness, resigned on Sunday after a leaked memo criticised the documentary.

But this crisis didn't come out of nowhere, as the BBC's analysis editor Ros Atkins explains.

Produced by Katerina Karelli. Graphics by Mesut Ersoz.

Richard Irvine-Brown
BBC Verify journalist

Following its takeover of the Sudanese city of el-Fasher in October, we’ve been investigating reports that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) buried hundreds of bodies in mass graves there, burning some before doing so.

In our previous reporting, we’ve analysed multiple satellite images of areas where we can see white shapes, consistent with the size of adult bodies in shrouds, and mounds of newly displaced earth near a former children’s hospital.

These were first reported by the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab, which has analysed further imagery on the grounds of the city’s Saudi Hospital and say this indicates some bodies were burned before burial in mass graves.

The Sudan Doctors Network has said the RSF had done this to “conceal evidence of their crimes against civilians”.

BBC Verify has obtained satellite imagery from Vantor allowing us to confirm Yale’s work showing ground being dug, white objects at the site the next day, and black smoke emerging from the area a few days later.

Rob Corp
BBC Verify Live editor

We start today by bringing you analysis of satellite imagery, first reported by the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab, that appears to show bodies were burned and buried in a mass grave in the Sudanese city of el-Fasher after it was captured by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

The RSF has been accused of carrying out systematic killings in the city which had been under the control of the regular Sudanese army. It has denied the allegations.

Other stories being worked on today include:

• Videos posted online apparently show Russian forces advancing towards the strategically important Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk. We’re working to verify the footage.
• As Indian police investigate yesterday’s explosion at the Red Fort in Delhi our team is looking to build a picture of what happened before the blast that killed at least eight
• Our fact-checkers are looking at the latest UK unemployment figures and what‘s being said about them as politicians react

More on those to come shortly.