Thomas Copeland
BBC Verify Live journalist

We’re closing this live page soon but our verification team are continuing to look for footage and news lines from the shooting in Minneapolis - you can follow the BBC’s coverage on our main live page.

Scroll back here to see how we verified an overnight drone strike in Russia, got expert comment on the Israeli double strike at a hospital in Gaza, reviewed footage of President Donald Trump’s crime crackdown in the US capital and unravelled a network of AI Holocaust spammers.

Plus, we asked medical experts for their assessment about viral claims following new pictures of bruising on Trump’s hand.

We’ll be back with more updates tomorrow morning.

Sebastian Vandermeersch
BBC Verify

We have verified images of an Israeli strike on a building in al-Mawasi, southern Gaza, on 25 August.

We established the location by matching distinctive rooftop water tanks and surrounding buildings seen in the footage.

The IDF are reported to have issued a warning before the strike.

The profile of the weapon is clearly visible, and munitions expert Trevor Ball, says this matches the shape of a US-made MK-82 500lb bomb fitted with a JDAM guidance kit.

In May 2024, the Biden administration temporarily paused shipments to Israel of 500lb and 2,000lb bombs over concerns about their use in densely populated areas of Gaza.

These transfers resumed in July 2024.

Satellite imagery from Planet Labs shows that in recent months, the area around the building has become more densely filled with tents following IDF evacuation orders directing civilians toward Al-Mawasi from surrounding areas.

Imagery from yesterday shows the camp tightly packed on three sides of the building, with the nearest tents less than 15 metres away.

A video we verified of the strike filmed from the tented camp shows debris flying well into this populated area.

Image source, X

The energy regulator for Great Britain, Ofgem, has raised the domestic price cap on fuel bills, meaning prices will rise by 2% for millions of households from October.

Why are prices rising? BBC Verify's Ben Chu has been looking into the details and whether US President Donald Trump is right that wind power is responsible.

Shruti Menon and Yi Ma
BBC Verify

From today, the US is implementing an additional 25% tariff on Indian imports, bringing the total rate to 50% - the highest rate in Asia.

Washington has linked the move to India’s ongoing purchases of Russian oil, saying that these imports support Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

Our research shows that both India and China have significantly increased their Russian oil imports since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 yet Beijing has so far avoided being penalised by the US for its trade in Russian oil.

India has significantly increased its purchases of Russian oil from 1% of all imports in 2021 to 38% in 2024.

China’s imports of Russian crude oil increased between 2021 and 2024 from 15% of the total to nearly 20%, according to Chinese customs data. Indian officials have called the tariffs “unfair and unjustified,” insisting their energy procurement is driven by commercial imperatives and national energy security.

Latest data shows India has not significantly slowed its Russian oil purchases, although some Indian refiners did pause purchases for a brief period - but that was due to market conditions and was not driven by political pressure.

While the US, UK and EU have all banned direct imports of oil and refined products from Russia, Indian refineries processing Russian crude continue to export diesel, jet fuel, and gasoline as “Indian-origin” products to Western markets - a move analysts describe as a sanctions workaround.

Thomas Copeland
BBC Verify Live journalist

We have just seen posts on X from Minneapolis Police and the city council saying that the shooter has been “contained” and is not an “active threat” following a shooting at a Roman Catholic school.

The public have been advised to stay away from the area “to allow emergency personnel to help victims”, officials say.

Law enforcement sources have told the BBC's US partner CBS News that the shooting took place while students were at Mass.

We have so far not seen official confirmation about the number of casualties following the shooting.

You can follow the latest developments on this BBC News live page.

Thomas Copeland
BBC Verify Live journalist

We are checking social media posts following reports that a number of people have been shot near a Roman Catholic school in Minneapolis in the US state of Minnesota.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has just posted on social media that he has been briefed on a shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School.

“I’m praying for our kids and teachers whose first week of school was marred by this horrific act of violence,” he said.

We are yet to see any official comment from the police but reports indicate a large number of emergency vehicles are now at the scene.

We can also see a Minnesota State Patrol helicopter on aircraft-tracking site FlightRadar24 which appears to be overhead the Annunciation Catholic Church on 54th Street.

Peter Mwai
BBC Verify senior journalist

Image source, X

We have verified images showing the aftermath of bus crash near Afghanistan's capital Kabul earlier today which killed 25 people, according to the Taliban interior ministry.

Local media reports say 27 others were injured.

In the images, we can see the bus has overturned and two vehicles with cranes are preparing to lift it.

Emergency vehicles can be seen nearby.We have matched the road and tracks along with power lines and a fence seen in the images with satellite imagery on Google Earth and can see the crash happened at Arghandai which is west of the capital along the Kabul-Ghazni highway.

We have also matched the distinctive mountain ranges in the images with imagery on Google Earth.

This always helps with geolocating content from remote places where there are few recognisable landmarks to use as reference points.

The accident comes less than a week after another bus collided with a lorry and a motorcycle in Herat province, western Afghanistan, killing 79 people including 17 children.

Most of those on that bus, which was heading to Kabul, were Afghan migrants who had been deported from Iran.

Richard Irvine-Brown
BBC Verify journalist

Image source, National Police of Ukraine

As well as investigating overnight drone attacks on Rostov-on-Don, southern Russia, we’re looking at reports of strikes in Ukraine.

Pictures on Telegram claim to show the aftermath of a strike in the Sumy region. Meanwhile a photograph from the Kherson Regional Prosecutor's Office shows a damaged building there - officials say one person was killed and are investigating it as a war crime.

The National Police of Ukraine has also reported shelling and drone attacks in the Donetsk region, close to the front line, with one person killed in Kostyantynivka and another in near Dobropillya, where we verified explosions close to a mine yesterday.

The police also said several people, including doctors and a police officer, were injured in drone attacks in northern Kherson. They posted this photo alongside the claims, which we can verify shows damage to the street outside an apartment building and was taken on Hvardiis’koi Dyvizii Street in the Tavriiskyi area, to the north of the city.

A reverse-image search shows it was not publicly online before this morning. We’ve also seen online chats posted last night and this morning by Russian quadcopter operators talking about strikes in the same area.

Kevin Nguyen and Kristina Völk
BBC Verify and BBC News

This “photo” is what kicked off a weeks-long BBC Trending investigation that took us from Poland to Pakistan.

It purports to show a Jewish girl named Miriam Gold - a knitting enthusiast who perished with her family in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

While there were real victims of the Holocaust called Miriam Gold, the narrative shared along with the post is as fake as the photo.

AI-generated pictures of Holocaust victims like “Miriam Gold” are flooding Facebook and a BBC investigation has revealed much of it is being driven by an international network of scammers, who work together to exploit Meta’s payment models to profit from dubious content.

One of the ways we unravelled this network was by chasing the few identifiable players we could find across social media.

We used a paid-for tool to extract every public Facebook group they were a member of and from there saw a lot of these AI creators were operating from Pakistan.

Meta has disabled many of these accounts and the groups we investigated on the grounds of “inauthentic behaviour” but AI Holocaust content is still thriving on Facebook. Many are alarmed by the trend.

“Here we have somebody making up the stories… for some kind of strange emotional game that is happening on social media,” said Pawel Sawicki, a spokesperson for the Auschwitz Memorial.

• Listen to BBC Trending's investigation, The Facebook grifters making money off AI Holocaust victims, by clicking here

Sebastian Vandermeersch
BBC Verify

Image source, AlGhad TV

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described Monday’s double strike at the Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza as a “tragic mishap”, but former British army officer Chris Cobb-Smith has told BBC Verify that this explanation is not credible.

Cobb-Smith, a military forensics expert who served in the Royal Artillery for more than 20 years and spent three years as a UN weapons inspector in Iraq, said the time between the two strikes made it impossible to call the incident a mishap, describing the second as “not an error, deliberate”.

He added that Israel’s extensive surveillance capabilities would have made it clear that first responders were on the scene before the second strike.

“They [the Israel Defense Forces] had plenty of time to monitor the battle damage - do an assessment and make the call that the first was not only a mistake but that there were now first responders on the scene who posed absolutely no threat,” he said.

Other experts consulted by BBC Verify declined to draw conclusions about what happened.

Since Monday we’ve been investigating two strikes carried out by the Israeli military on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, which hit the same location just nine minutes apart.

The first strike killed a Reuters cameraman who had been live-streaming from the hospital.

The second strike killed medics from the Palestinian Red Crescent and rescuers who were treating casualties from the first blast. Journalists who were at the scene were also killed.

This appears to be what is known as a “double-tap” where an initial strike is followed by a second that targets people who have gathered at the location.

Yesterday afternoon the Israeli military released its initial inquiry into the incident, without providing evidence, saying Israeli troops had identified a Hamas-placed camera near Nasser Hospital which was being used to monitor Israeli forces and “operated to remove the threat”.

They also described the six people killed in the strike as “terrorists”. The IDF statement made no explicit mention of the second strike.

BBC Verify’s Reha Kansara has been examining what happened on Monday.

Jake Horton
BBC Verify

BBC Verify has reviewed more than a dozen videos from the Columbia Heights area of Washington DC and spoken to people who live there to assess the impact of President Trump’s crime crackdown in the US capital.

The area is home to one of the city’s largest Latino populations and residents say they have seen a surge in immigration enforcement.

We examined one video of two men being arrested after having their car windows smashed by officers.

A distinctive building in the background with a number, enabled us to pin point the location to a street in Columbia Heights.

People living there, who wanted to remain anonymous, told us there had been raids on houses and other arrests in the street.

“People are walking around scared," one resident said. "I've never seen the streets so empty."

More than 1,000 arrests have been made across the US capital so far - nearly half were of suspected illegal immigrants, according to the White House.

• Read our full piece here

Thomas Copeland
BBC Verify Live journalist

You might have spotted photographs on your social media feed showing bruising on the back of US President Donald Trump’s right hand.

After a meeting between Trump and the president of South Korea in which the bruising was caught on camera, claims about Trump’s health have gathered tens of millions of views across X, TikTok and Facebook, with people speculating that the bruising is a result of an intravenous drip or the president had suffered a stroke.

Even California Governor Gavin Newsom made a veiled reference to the viral debate in a social media post yesterday, external.

Image source, Getty Images

So what’s really going on here? We’ve gathered together the statements from the White House, pictures of the president’s hands and some of the viral claims and put them to four vascular experts:

• Prof Alun Davies of Imperial College London
• Paritosh Sharma, consultant vascular surgeon
• Philip Coleridge-Smith, medical director of the British Vein Institute
• Prof Stephen Black of King's College London

The president’s physician Capt Sean Barbabella issued a memo, external in July revealing that Trump has a medical condition called chronic venous insufficiency.

It occurs when veins in the legs don't allow blood to flow back up to the heart, causing it to pool and swell in the lower limbs, and is a common and benign result of vein valves weakening as people age.

At the end of the memo, Barbabella said the bruising on the back of Trump's hand “is consistent with minor soft tissue irritation from frequent handshaking and the use of aspirin, which is taken as part of a standard cardiovascular prevention regimen.”

Three of the experts we asked said the bruising was likely a result of aspirin use combined with a minor hand injury.

While Mr Sharma suggested that it was possible this minor injury was caused from frequent handshaking, others thought this was unlikely.

Three of the experts said the insertion of an intravenous drip could possibly explain the bruising, but Mr Coleridge-Smith added an IV would likely be administered further up the arm.

As for the claim that Trump has suffered a stroke - all four experts said there was no evidence for this.

Image source, Reuters

Fridon Kiria and Richard Irvine-Brown
BBC Monitoring Russia Team and BBC Verify journalist

Image source, Telegram

We're investigating reports of overnight strikes in Russia and Ukraine - as both sides in the war continue to trade attacks.

In the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, around 200km (125 miles) from the front line in Ukraine, several images show a building on fire. Senior regional figure Yuriy Slyusar, posting on Telegram, initially claimed 10 drones were shot down overnight. One drone crashed - although it isn't clear if this was one of those 10 - causing an explosion and fire on the roof of an apartment building. There were no reports of casualties.

Local media say the building was on Khalturinsky Lane and a photograph and video we’ve verified from overnight shows a building on fire at the corner with Moskovskaya Street. Another video, filmed from a balcony 350m (1,100ft) to the east, shows the same scene.

Reverse-image checks using online searches show the earliest copies of the video appeared on Telegram and VK (the Russian equivalent of Facebook) a little after 21:30 BST (23:30 local time) last night.

This morning, the Russian ministry of defence said a total of 26 drones were shot down overnight, including 15 over the Rostov region.

Rob Corp
BBC Verify Live editor

Good morning.

We're starting the day with the latest cross-border attacks between Russia and Ukraine. Video seen and verified by our team shows the aftermath of a drone attack in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. Footage shared on the Telegram messaging app shows a building on fire after a drone apparently crashed and caught fire.

We're also hearing about attacks in Ukraine with Kherson reportedly struck this morning and Sumy overnight. We'll bring you more here when we have verified material.

Our fact-checkers have been listening to UK government minister Nick Thomas-Symonds this morning who's been defending the government's record on illegal migration following Reform UK's big push yesterday. We're checking the minister's claim that people arriving in the UK illegally from Afghanistan are being sent back – despite a returns deal being suspended after the Taliban regained power in 2021.

And we've been getting the opinions of doctors about bruising seen on one of US President Donald Trump's hands - as viral claims swirl online about the significance for his health.