Along with colleagues at BBC Munro, we spent the last few days looking at how the US used heavy air strike to pave the way for their forces to enter Venezuelan last week. Using satellite images, verified videos and eyewitness accounts, here’s our report. www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Demonstrations are continuing across Iran in the biggest challenge to the country’s clerical establishment in more than three years. Here’s BBC Verify’s report on the protests and the increasing violence being used by security forces. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The new US national security plan has a striking Europe stance: - Welcomes growth of far-right "patriotic" parties -Questions if countries can remain reliable allies citing "migration policies" - Echoes Russia by pledging to end the "perception" of Nato as a "perpetually expanding alliance"

Interesting read on how US sanctions targeting the ICC judge who authorised an arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu have completely upended every aspect of his life. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

New from BBC Verify: 'Our job is only killing' - how Sudan's brutal militia carried out a massacre Our team verified dozens of videos, analysed satellite imagery and tracked RSF fighters across social media to piece together how the mass killings unfolded www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A BBC Verify investigation revealed fighters from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) executed unarmed people after capturing the Sudanese city of el-Fasher. One fighter, who goes by the name Abu Lulu, features in several clips carrying out brutal killings. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We spent the past few months looking at Russian paramilitaries in Africa. In Mali’s capital Bamako a key base has expanded significantly since August 2023. Base 101 was home to thousands of troops from the Wagner Group. It now houses its replacement, the Africa Corps. www.bbc.com/news/live/cg...

For Palestinians, a line on a map can be the difference between life and death. BBC Verify found Israel is controlling more of Gaza than agreed in the ceasefire deal. Israel said anyone who crossed its "yellow line" would be “met with fire”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New images reviewed by BBC Verify show that intensive bombardments and controlled explosions have levelled several neighbourhoods in Gaza City over the past four weeks. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NEW: Israel struck Nasser Hospital at least 4 times in its attack which killed journalists, BBC Verify found. We found Israel hit two staircases in the first wave. Minutes later it struck one of the staircases twice more. @benedictgarman.com @sebkilli.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Despite Donald Trump's calls for a ceasefire, Russia has fired double the number of drones and missiles at Ukraine since he took office. July was a record month for Russian aerial attacks. Story with @matt-murphy96.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Russia has more than doubled the number of drones and missiles fired towards Ukraine since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, a BBC Verify analysis has found, despite his calls for a ceasefire. New story with @nedd.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Israel has demolished thousands of buildings across Gaza since it withdrew from a ceasefire with Hamas in March, with entire towns and suburbs levelled in the past few weeks. Reporting from @benedictgarman.com and @matt-murphy96.bsky.social for BBC Verify: www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

I'm reporting a story for an independent outlet about the rivalry between FIFA and Pro Evo Soccer in 2000s/10s - do you know devs who worked on those series or who would have an insight about football/soccer games in that period? Please send them my way, DM or [email protected]. Shares appreciated!

BBC Verify has analysed dozens of fakes - a lot of them AI generated - related to the Iran-Israel conflict in the last week. We’ve found that the top three fakes have amassed over 100m views across multiple platforms. @shayan86.bsky.social @matt-murphy96.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...

We've taken a look at the Iranian uranium enrichment site which could find itself attacked if the US joins the Israeli campaign against Iran. www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

The Israeli military has admitted that it conducted a previously unacknowledged strike on Gaza, which reportedly killed at least 1 Palestinian and injured 30 others. It was only when approached by BBC Verify that the IDF admitted it had carried out an artillery strike. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Israel is preparing a series of sites in Gaza that could be used as distribution centres for humanitarian aid in a controversial new plan, satellite images show. Aid groups criticised the plan, accusing Israel of using food and fuel as "part of a military strategy". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This week I had so many readers get in touch about an apparently fake online astroturf campaign in *support* of festivals taking over London parks. So I dug into it. www.londoncentric.media/p/five-gays-...

"As models get better at “essentially lying” to pass safety tests, he argues, their true capabilities will be obscured." www.economist.com/science-and-...

Russian authorities are systematically seizing thousands of homes from Ukrainian residents of Mariupol. BBC Verify has analysed dozens of official documents published since July 2024 that show at least 5,700 homes have been identified for seizure. www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Our investigation has found that Russian authorities are systematically seizing thousands of homes from Ukrainian residents who fled Mariupol, as the city marks three years of occupation.

Israeli troops fired more than 100 times during an attack which killed 15 emergency workers in Gaza, according to forensic audio analysis of footage commissioned by BBC Verify. Some gunfire was as close as 12 metres away. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

the baller league may be bleak football content slop. but it is, at least, addressing a question proper football has been swerving for decades: what happens when a sport prices out its next generation of fans? www.theguardian.com/football/202...

This is one of the most insane stories I’ve ever reader. Wilder still - it’s confirmed by the White House

2/ Peter Mwai, @benedictgarman.com , @kumarmalhotra.bsky.social alhotra.bsky.social, @matt-murphy96.bsky.social and I have been logging events around Khartoum for two months, across maybe 80 incidents and 100 videos. (Example detail here. Blue markers are where we saw SAF activity, red is RSF.)

How journalism works (and why while I’m less fussed than I used to be about being ripped off). If you pick up the print Daily Mail today, or look at the top of MailOnline right now, you’ll find a an exclusive special investigation into London’s Harry Potter shops and the couple who “own” them.

Zelensky: “Have you been to Ukraine? Have you seen the problems we have?” JD Vance: “I’ve been to… I… I’ve actually watched and see the stories…“

“The scale of the hypocrisy on display here is eye-watering.” If you read just one thing about Jeff Bezoz … www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/jeff...

President Donald Trump has made a flurry of claims about Ukraine and its president from his Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida. BBC Verify has fact-checked some of them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Great to see our Verify visual investigations presented in one of our premium storytelling formats here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc... @erwanrivault.bsky.social @matt-murphy96.bsky.social

Kash Patel has at least $1 million in Shein stock via his work as a consultant through a Cayman Islands-registered firm associated with Shein. lol. lmao, even www.wired.com/story/kash-p...

Great piece on the strangulation of London nightlife. The Globe, opposite Baker Street station in Marylebone: faced closure after “faint giggles” from patrons annoyed a single local resident. www.the-londoner.co.uk/noise-compla...

UK 10 year Gilt yield down another 5 basis points today - currently trading at 4.48% Now within 8 basis points of the level on 30 October 2024 when Rachel Reeves held her Budget 👇

Fascinating account of the Harris-Rogan negotiations. Different view to the suggestions that she just wasn't willing to play ball that's previously surfaced. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Latest on Syria from BBC Verify… satellite images show Russian military equipment being withdrawn from Moscow’s key strategic port Tartous @matt-murphy96.bsky.social t.co/2zuVT6kH25

Vessel tracking reviewed by BBC Verify shows that two Russian ships linked to its military have docked at the Kremlin's naval base on the Syrian coast at Tartous, with experts suggesting that an anticipated evacuation of the facility has finally begun. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify have shown a major oil slick spreading across the Kerch Strait between Russia & annexed Crimea, a month after two oil tankers were damaged in the area @jcheetham.bsky.social @matt-murphy96.bsky.social @erwanrivault.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Almost 100 strikes in the IDF's unilaterally designated "humanitarian zone" in Gaza - and this figure doesn't take into account the many reported strikes which didn't have imagery from the scene for us to verify. W/ @richib.bsky.social and @paulybrown.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Re: Home Office guidance supposedly issued in 2008 advising police not to intervene in child grooming cases because victims had ‘made an informed choice about their sexual behaviour’? BBC Verify found no evidence any document containing that advice exists www.bbc.com/news/article...

The defection of a senior RSF commander appears have have prompted a massacre in Sudan’s Gezira state by men wearing the paramilitary’s insignia. BBC Verify has pieced the attack together from video footage and eyewitness testimony.

BBC Verify has been analysing social media videos and images from Moscow to try to build up a clearer picture of the blast that killed Russian Lt Gen Igor Kirillov and his assistant. @matt-murphy96.bsky.social @joshcheetham.bsky.social @richib.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Satellite images show some Russian navy ships have left Tartous and are currently sitting offshore in the Mediterranean Sea. This is happening amid continuing uncertainty about the future of Moscow's military presence in Syria. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

People are pouring milk down the toilet and throwing butter in the bin. Here’s why - and why experts say there’s no danger in a new additive being used to reduce methane from burping cows (!!) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Forget the conjecture, Jake Horton forever plays it totally straight on US political facts. @matt-murphy96.bsky.social is the freshest face at Verify, too. This is what has been said, this is what has been done, by Biden and Trump, on pardons: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

IDF establishing new military corridor across northern Gaza, its third in #Gaza along with Netzarim and Philadelphi, with @nickeardleybbc.bsky.social & @matt-murphy96.bsky.social Analysis from @drhahellyer.bsky.social (RUSI) and Dr Eado Hecht (BESA) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...