Rob Corp
BBC Verify Live editor

We’re about to finish our live coverage for the day but we’ll continue to monitor social media and messaging apps for new material to add to our reporting across the BBC.

Going into the evening we’ll be checking for more information on the flooding in northern Pakistan and keeping a watch for any stories that might develop.

We’ve brought you a couple of snippets on this page relating to the Glastonbury Festival which continues through until Sunday and there’s coverage throughout the weekend on BBC iPlayer.

And, you can read our investigation which was published today about how the first month of Gaza’s new aid system unfolded. Footage analysed by BBC Verify showed a near-daily cycle of chaos, panic, live gunfire and dead or injured Palestinians.

For more from BBC Verify - analysis, investigations and videos - check out or pages on the BBC website.

Anthony Reuben
BBC Verify senior journalist

Image source, PA Media

Before we head off, and with Glastonbury under way, many people are thinking about the weekend of music to come. The BBC Verify team is, of course, thinking about statistics.

We’ve looked at the key question of how likely you are to bump into someone you know at a music festival, following research, external that found that if you are looking for a friend who is moving around then you should also move around yourself instead of standing still.

How likely you are to bump into them depends - of course - on how many people there are in the crowd, how many people you know there and how many steps you’re taking.

For example, if you’re in an area with 100,000 people, you know one other person in the crowd and you walk 18,000 steps in a day, your chances of bumping into them would be about 11%.

If you wanted to have a 50% chance of meeting someone you know during the day then you'd need to know about six people in the crowd.

Sherie Ryder and Sebastian Vandermeersch
BBC Verify journalists

We’ve been monitoring footage appearing online from northern Pakistan where several people are reported to have drowned following heavy rains.

Some of the footage we’ve verified is distressing, showing people stranded on patches of high ground in the midst of torrential flood waters on the Swat River.

We’ve also seen footage showing a man carrying away a limp body. We’ve located it to the area because we can see a communications tower in the background which is also seen in photos taken in 2021 from the General Auyb Khan Bridge over the Swat River in Kanju.

We carried out reverse image searches to establish the footage being posted online is from today and has not been posted on social media before. We’re continuing to look for the exact location where this was filmed.

Rob Corp
BBC Verify Live editor

BBC Verify is dedicated to examining the facts and claims behind a story to try to determine whether or not it is true - whether that’s a political statement, a video shared on social media, or images from a war zone.

And we’re also keen to hear from you - is there something you think we should investigate? We're particularly interested in claims you have heard or seen that maybe don’t seem right.

Or perhaps you’ve come across something online and want to know if it was created using AI or even a deepfake.

You can send your suggestions to the team here.

Sebastian Vandermeersch and Richard Irvine-Brown
BBC Verify

We’re investigating a series of large explosions along the Beaufort Ridge and in the town of Natabieh in southern Lebanon.

In a post on its official X account, the Israel Defense Forces said it had targeted an underground site which had been used by the Hezbollah group. The IDF added its forces had previously rendered the facility inoperable but had become aware of attempts by Hezbollah to “restore” it.

Separately, we’ve verified footage posted online from the nearby town of Nabatieh, just west of Beaufort Ridge, which shows a badly damaged apartment building - we can see a hole in the roof and the upper floors been largely destroyed. There are reports of casualties, but we can’t verify these.

Image source, X

We also can’t verify what caused the damage in Natabieh. Some online posts have suggested the damage was caused by a Hezbollah rocket that detonated as a result of the nearby Israeli air strikes.

We’ll be continuing to look for additional footage which may help us understand what happened there.

Paul Brown
BBC Verify senior journalist

We regularly use satellite pictures on BBC Verify Live as part of our daily coverage - and today is no exception as we’re now seeing images showing the build-up of tents at Worthy Farm in Somerset ahead of the start of this year's Glastonbury Festival.

A high-resolution image captured by PlanetLabs on 18 June shows many of the stages and tents already set up, as well as stalls and temporary accommodation for workers.

Another image taken yesterday shows festival-goers have already arrived en-masse along with their tents.

The later image appears a bit fuzzier because of some cloud cover - but the forecast for the weekend ahead is largely warm and sunny.

If you weren't lucky enough to secure a ticket, or just prefer to watch from home, you can follow the BBC's coverage here.

Anthony Reuben
BBC Verify senior journalist

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has sent over its first take on the government’s overnight U-turn on disability benefits.

The think tank estimates that the planned reforms to the system that were previously supposed to save the government £5.5bn in 2029-30 will now only save £2.5bn.

That £3bn a year difference matches the analysis from another think tank, the Resolution Foundation, that we reported earlier.

One of the concessions the government has put forward to see off a potential rebellion by Labour MPs is that the changes will not affect current benefit claimants and will only be applied to future applicants.

Tom Waters from the IFS said this decision would cause inequalities as it “will lead to big differences” in what people are paid, adding that it could amount to “thousands of pounds a year, for many years in some cases – between similar people with similar health conditions who happen to have applied at a slightly different time“.

Merlyn Thomas
BBC Verify senior reporter

Ever since the new aid system began operations in Gaza one month ago - run by the US and Israel-based Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) - the overall picture has been one of confusion and constant danger.

Within days of the plan starting, dozens of Palestinians were killed in separate incidents on 1 and 3 June, sparking international condemnation. Since then there have been near-daily reports of killings of people travelling to collect aid.

The GHF has denied there have been any "incident or fatalities at or near" any of its distribution sites.As part of the investigation, we analysed dozens of videos which show repeated incidents of gunfire near people travelling to collect aid. We’ve also seen graphic footage of lifeless bodies scattered around a beach in southern Gaza.

We knew it would be a challenge to verify video because much of the initial footage was filmed overnight as people travelled during the early hours of the morning in the hopes of getting aid. It meant we couldn’t visually locate where these incidents occurred.

We trawled through dozens of videos and images of gunfire as well as footage showing dead and injured Palestinians to piece together what’s happening on the ground.

BBC Verify has not found videos which allow a definitive assessment of who is responsible for the wave of killings, but the overall picture is one of confusion and constant danger.

You can read our investigation in full here.

Daniel Wainwright
BBC Verify

Our new NHS tracker lets you see how your local hospital trust is doing on its targets for routine treatment - things like hip and knee replacements.

The NHS in England says 92% of people should wait less than 18 weeks, but it hasn’t met that target since November 2015.

In January, the government and NHS told every trust to either get to 60% by next March or improve by five percentage points, whichever is the bigger.

The starting point was their position in November 2024’s data, published this January, external. So we applied the improvement - 60% or five points better - to each trust to work out where they have to get to by March 2026.

We found that the majority of trusts had seen an increase by April, but more than a third had moved further away and have more ground to make up.

You can see that for your hospital in our interactive tool and we’ll keep tracking this as the NHS works to improve waiting times.

Paul Brown
BBC Verify senior journalist

Footage has emerged overnight on Iranian social media channels showing a fire at a high-rise block in the capital Tehran.

There has been speculation online that it was the result of a targeted drone strike. However, as yet, we’ve seen no evidence to support that.

We've geolocated the footage to the Aseman Tower, one of the tallest buildings in Iran - it’s pretty straightforward finding it on satellite maps.

We also ensured the footage had not been posted before by running reverse image searches on stills and video from the scene.

The US-brokered ceasefire between Iran and Israel has been in place since Tuesday following 12 days of fighting. Both sides committed violations early on, prompting a spirited rebuke from US President Donald Trump.

Image source, Telegram/Google StreetView

Anthony Reuben
BBC Verify senior journalist

Image source, Getty Images

The government announced late last night that it was making major concessions to its own MPs who were threatening to vote against its proposed changes to working-age welfare benefits. It had hoped its reforms would save £5bn a year by the end of the decade.

Ruth Curtice, chief executive of think tank the Resolution Foundation, was on BBC Radio 4’s Today this morning putting an estimate on how much the changes could cost.

She estimated that the decision to allow all existing Personal Independence Payment recipients to keep the benefit would cost between £1.5bn and £2bn “when you also take into account consequentials for things like carers’ allowance”.

And she said the other concession - freezing the health-related element of Universal Credit for future claimants (with some exceptions) and not those who currently get it - could cost another £1bn. So the potential cost of the U-turn could be £3bn.

You can follow more of the coverage of the changes to disability benefits on this live page.

Rob Corp
BBC Verify Live editor

Welcome to the live page - here you'll find the stories, videos, fact-checks and analysis we're working on across the day.

We've just published a BBC Verify investigation into repeated incidents of gunfire near people travelling to collect aid from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - the US and Israel-backed group that began distributing food in the territory a month ago. It operates from sites built in Gaza by the Israel Defense Forces which also protects the perimeters and routes to them.

According to the Hamas-run health ministry, more than 500 people have been killed on their way to get aid and Gazan officials, medics and eyewitnesses have blamed the vast majority of those deaths and injuries on Israeli fire. In statements over the past month, the IDF said that its troops have fired "warning shots" at individuals who it described as "suspects".

Elsewhere, we're looking into the potential cost of the UK government's U-turn on parts of its plan to cut the cost of working-age welfare benefits. The government had hoped that the changes, including tightening the rules around claiming disability benefits, would save £5bn by 2030.