Footage has emerged online showing the aftermath of Israeli strikes across Tehran and the nearby city of Karaj, west of the Iranian capital. The Israeli army said it targeted the headquarters of internal security forces and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) units in the Tehran area. Iran’s health ministry says around 500 people have been...
Zoya Mateen BBC News, Delhi BBC Aryan Asari shot a video of the plane as it crashed seconds after taking off Every time Aryan Asari heard the sound of an airplane, he would go darting out of the house to look for it. Spotting planes was something of a hobby for him, his father Maganbhai...
Israel’s wave of strikes against Iran, which began on Thursday night, has continued throughout Friday on sites across the country. The Iranian foreign minister has called the attacks a “declaration of war”. BBC Verify’s Merlyn Thomas has been examining video footage and satellite imagery of the strikes and the damage they’ve caused. Produced by Aisha...
A London-bound Air India plane carrying 242 people crashed shortly after take-off in Ahmedabad, western India. Using footage and flight data, BBC Verify’s Merlyn Thomas has been taking a look at the final moments before the crash to find out what might have happened. Read full article at source...
A video showing the moment a London-bound Air India flight crashed in India is now verified. BBC Verify has geolocated Air India flight AI171 to a location in Ahmedabad which is consistent with the flight path between the runway and the crash site. The appearance of the aircraft in the footage is consistent with an...
Footage shared online shows hundreds of Palestinians climbing over a large mound of dirt – with some seen scaling a metal fence – as they rush to enter an aid site in Gaza run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). Palestinians are first seen waiting behind a fence, before a voice – off-camera, with an...
The IDF have released new footage that they say shows the underground tunnel network underneath the European hospital in southern Gaza. The Israeli army say they’ve found the body of Mohammed Sinwar – the Hamas leader in Gaza – who they said was the target of Israeli airstrikes on 13 May. Following BBC Verify’s previous...
Dawn French has taken down a video she posted on Instagram about the war in Gaza, saying she apologised “unreservedly” for it. The video sparked a backlash, with critics accusing the actress and comedian of appearing to “mock” the 7 October 2023 attack. On Saturday, French acknowledged on Instagram that the video “appeared one-sided”, and...
Last week I wrote about Janique Sanders, the Assisstant Director of Leadership and Community Engagement at UNC-Charlotte. Sanders was caught on video by undercover journalists for Accuracy in Media explaining that UNC was still promoting DEI despite a vote by the Board of Governors last year that put an end to the practice. “We’ve renamed,...
Ukraine claims to have left more than 40 Russian bomber planes “burning” in a large scale drone attack” in the Murmansk region. The footage appears to show Russian warplanes on a runway being struck and bursting into flames. Sources from Ukraine’s security service, SBU, told the BBC “enemy strategic bombers are burning en masse in...
A couple days ago I highlighted an undercover video put together by Accuracy in Media. In the video, an undercover reporter talks with an employee at UNC Charlotte named Janique Sanders whose title is assistant director of leadership and community engagement. With just a bit of prompting, Sanders explains that while DEI language at UNC...
Kate Whannel Political reporter Robert Jenrick confronts ‘lawbreaking’ on the tube Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick has said he hopes his video of himself confronting fare evaders on the London Underground will “shame people into action”. Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live’s Matt Chorley, Jenrick said activities such as fare dodging along with graffiti and...
A Chinese paraglider has survived being accidentally propelled 8,500m (27,800ft) into the sky above north-west China, state media report. Peng Yujiang was testing new equipment over the Qilian mountains on Saturday, when a rare updraft or air current known as a “cloud suck” pulled him higher into the air. Mr Peng narrowly survived death –...
We’ve all heard the story at this point but yesterday a local news channel got video of the incident in response to an open records request they had filed a month ago. The video, released by Milwaukee County through an open records request, is part of the evidence in the case against Judge Dugan, who...
US President Donald Trump confronted his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, over widely discredited claims of a white genocide in South Africa, during an Oval Office meeting on Wednesday. Mr Trump said that white farmers are “fleeing South Africa”, playing footage to the room showing people chanting “kill the Boer, kill the farmer”. Responding, Mr...