BBC Verify has been investigating an AI-generated video that claims to show Monday's car blast at the Red Fort in Delhi that killed eight people
Verified footage from Russia shows a shower of debris falling on the city of Oryol after what the regional governor said was a missile attack
Following renewed tensions between Thailand and Cambodia, we're seeing false images being shared claiming to show troop movements near the border
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Thomas Copeland
BBC Verify Live journalist
We’ll be closing this live page shortly, so now’s the time to scroll back and read what we’ve been covering today.
We started the day in Russia, verifying dramatic footage of burning debris falling from the sky onto the western city of Oryol after a reported Ukrainian attack. Click here to watch the video.
Here in the UK, we’ve been tracking the government’s progress with its growth targets and NHS waiting lists.
This afternoon, BBC Verify’s reporter in Delhi has been debunking AI-generated footage claiming to show Monday’s deadly car blast in the city and exposing how some of the images spreading widely online are actually old and unrelated.
Plus, check out this behind-the-scenes breakdown by one of our data scientists into how we used specialist satellite image analysis to measure the scale of destruction in Gaza.
BBC Verify Live will be back tomorrow morning with more from the team.
Gerry Georgieva
BBC Verify researcher
A senior Conservative has criticised the UK government over recent mistaken release of prisoners, saying Justice Secretary David Lammy “doesn't know whether they were accidentally released or not”.
Speaking yesterday, shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick said they should check if they were in their cells or not.
But Richard Garside, director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies charity, tells me it's not so simple because first "the prison has to know that someone has been released in error”.
Garside says that “no number of cell checks will help you identify the error” if prison officials believe they have not made a mistake.
In the official statistics, external for last year, the Ministry of Justice says that “some release in error incidents are only identified when a prisoner returns to custody at a later date”.
Garside says there are several reasons for freeing prisoners incorrectly including miscalculation of release dates, incorrect or missing paperwork, and confusion over changing rules.
Shruti Menon
BBC Verify senior journalist, reporting from Delhi
I’ve been monitoring social media after Delhi’s Red Fort blast on Monday that killed eight people.
This post below is spreading widely online but it features old and unrelated images that are being misleadingly shared across platforms.
In the image on the left, you can see charred vehicles, fire, thick smoke rising into the air and some buildings in the background.
This picture immediately made me suspicious because it was taken during daylight hours but the Delhi blast happened just before 19:00 local time – well after sunset.
The image on the right in this post shows a single car engulfed in flames as sparks fly in the air.
I ran these pictures through reverse image search tools and confirmed that both of them were actually taken years ago.
One was taken after a 2014 bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, and was used in a Guardian report at the time.
The other is actually a totally different car fire incident in Delhi, shown here in a report by a local news media outlet from April of this year.
Joshua Cheetham
BBC Verify journalist
We’ve been looking into reports of a fire at an oil refinery in the Russian city of Nizhnekamsk in the Tatarstan region some 900km (550 miles) east of Moscow.
Looking through social media, we’ve found several videos that show a fire burning at the refinery, as people look on from a distance away.
We located the site by matching up features in the video – such as distillation columns and buildings – with similar features on satellite pictures and street-level imagery available on mapping from Google and its Russian equivalent, Yandex.
Telegram channel Exilenova+ reports the complex is run by Nizhnekamskneftekhim, which makes synthetic rubbers, plastics and other products.
Local authorities say the blaze has been extinguished and no casualties were reported. It is unclear what caused the fire.
The same site was targeted by a Ukrainian drone attack last April. At the time, it was the deepest drone attack inside Russia since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Anthony Reuben and Gerry Georgieva
BBC Verify
The UK economy grew by 0.1% in the third quarter of , externalth, externalis year, external.
That’s down from 0.3% growth in the second quarter.While the government has said economic growth is its top priority, it’s not the overall figure that was targeted among Labour’s Plan for Change, external “milestones”.
The ones linked to growth were:

We only have updated statistics for one of those today – GDP per head – which showed no growth in the third quarter.It is up 0.8%, compared with the same quarter a year ago. The government wants it to be higher by the end of the parliament – likely to be in 2029.
RHDI per head, external has not been updated for the third quarter yet, but between April and June it went up by 0.2%.
And the government is also targeting regional GDP per head, but the latest figures for that, external only go up to 2023.
Shruti Menon
BBC Verify senior journalist, reporting from Delhi
I’ve been reviewing multiple videos and images claiming to show Monday’s blast near the Red Fort in Delhi that killed at least eight people and injured dozens more.
I have identified both AI-generated and older images being circulated that falsely claim to be of the explosion.
One of them is a viral Instagram reel that claims to show the moment of the blast.
The video mentions the date of the incident in text with text in Hindi saying “terrorist blast in a car parked outside Delhi’s Red fort, eight people killed”.
In the first eight seconds of the video, people nearby can be seen walking towards the fireball as it happens. The rest of the video shows a car in flames.
I ran the video through Google’s Synth ID, an AI-detection tool. Its results suggested AI generation in both video and audio confirming it was artificially created.
On close observation, the video also has a watermark on the bottom right that reads Veo, which is Google’s own AI-generation tool.
The video can be misleading because it has taken authentic footage from the blast that we verified at the time and used those to remake using Veo with added explosions, flames, people and sounds.
Indian fact-checking websites have also reported the video isn’t authentic.
Delhi police have urged users not to circulate unverified material or claims as the investigations are still on.
Phil Leake and Christine Jeavans
BBC Verify
The NHS waiting list for planned treatment in England fell to 7.39 million procedures in September, down by almost 16,000 since August.
This ended a run of three consecutive monthly rises since May, when the waiting list stood at 7.36 million. Of those waiting, 61.8% had been on the list for fewer than 18 weeks, which is the highest figure for more than three years but still below the NHS target of 92% and the government’s interim goal of 65% by March 2026.
Every NHS trust in England has an individual target to reach by next March, with each one needing to see 60% of patients within 18 weeks or improve on their November 2024 figure by five percentage points, whichever is greater.
Trusts began officially working towards their targets in April 2025 so September marks the halfway point.Of the 135 trusts that had at least 5,000 waits for planned treatment last November, 98 had improved, 36 were doing the same or worse and one – Sheffield Hospitals NHS Trust – did not submit data for September.
Only 24 trusts were meeting their March 2026 target according to the latest figures.
Find out whether waiting times are getting better near you with our NHS tracker.
As we reported earlier, BBC Verify has seen and checked videos being posted online that show a city in western Russia being showered with what appears to be drone or missile debris during a Ukrainian attack.
Click play below to see the flaming shards falling in a residential area of Oryol last night.
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Footage shows burning debris falling on Russia's Oryol
Kayleen Devlin
BBC Verify senior journalist
Screenshots from old night-vision drone videos have been circulating online in recent days which are being used to falsely claim that Thai soldiers are operating near the Cambodian border.
A reverse image search traced the pictures to a Facebook post shared early on Tuesday which claims the footage showed Thai troops planting homemade bombs under cover of darkness.
Using a fake-image detection tool, I analysed the screenshots for signs of manipulation or AI-generation, and those checks showed no signs of image tampering.
However, further analysis showed the images were not recent. One was uploaded to Getty Images’ iStock platform in 2019 and filmed in Israel. The other came from a stock-video site in 2021 with no confirmed location.
The misleading posts emerged as a truce agreed by the two countries following border clashes in July has come under strain. This week Thailand said one of its soldiers was injured by a landmine while Cambodia accused Thai forces of firing across the border.
Rob Corp
BBC Verify Live editor
We’re keen to hear what you think the BBC Verify team should be looking into.
We're interested in investigating claims you may've seen online in your social feeds. We're also keen to know if you've think an image may have been made using artificial intelligence to spread disinformation.
You can also get in touch with BBC Verify if you've got a question about how we verify video posted online or work with satellite imagery.
You can send your suggestions to the team here.
Satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify show Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in areas of Gaza that have remained under its control since the ceasefire with Hamas on 10 October.
Click the play button below to watch our data scientist Barbara Metzler explain how we used pixel-wise T-tests to do our analysis.
You can read our full investigation here.
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How we used satellite data to see scale of Gaza destruction
Emma Pengelly & Fridon Kiria
BBC Verify and BBC Monitoring
This morning we’ve been verifying video said to show Russian air defences engaging a Ukrainian attack in Oryol, western Russia. In the footage, burning debris cascades around the buildings as a siren and car alarms sound.
We’ve geolocated the clip to the western edge of the city by matching the distinctive yellow and white apartment blocks and car park layout to those visible in satellite imagery on Yandex, a Russian search engine that has a mapping tool.
The footage was newly posted this morning. Oryol regional governor Andrey Klychkov posted warnings of “missile” threats to residents.
He later said Russian air defences destroyed “several objects” resulting in fragments falling in a residential area. He added cars, windows and balconies were damaged but there are no reported casualties.
This morning the Russian Ministry of Defence reported Ukrainian drone attacks over several regions including Oryol.
This wouldn’t be the first time Ukraine has targeted Oryol city. At the end of October we verified videos showing explosions in the direction of its power station.
Rob Corp
BBC Verify Live editor
Good morning from the team of fact-checkers, video verifiers, data journalists and disinformation debunkers here in the BBC’s London newsroom.
We’re seeing videos being shared online apparently showing burning orange shards of missile or drone debris raining down over the Russian city of Oryol. We’ve verified some of the footage and will bring you some still images here shortly.
BBC Verify’s reporter in New Delhi is checking two new videos that have surfaced following Monday’s car explosion near the historic Red Fort in the Indian capital. However, while one appears to be genuine CCTV, the other has the hallmarks of AI-generation.
And we’re across some official data that dropped this morning including the latest stats on NHS performance in England that we’ll plug into an interactive lookup tool so you can see how your local health trust is doing.

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