We've verified video from Salavat in Russia showing a large plume of smoke coming from an oil refinery following a reported Ukrainian drone attack
Our specialists are also investigating an apparent attack near a former market, which is now a rubbish dump, in Gaza City that local reports say has killed at least 17 people
And we're seeing dramatic videos from Hong Kong and mainland China showing the impact of Super Typhoon Ragasa
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Peter Mwai
BBC Verify senior journalist
New satellite imagery shows the devastation caused by a drone strike on worshippers at a mosque in the besieged Sudanese city of El-Fasher in North Darfur.
Reports say at least 75 people were killed in the attack on 19 September, although this figure hasn’t been idependently verified.
The latest satellite image by Maxar was captured on Monday – and comparing it with one from 18 September the full extent of the destruction is laid bare.
The attack appears to have hit directly in the centre of the mosque, levelling most of the main structure. The image also shows the debris, seen as white spots, scattered across the mosque’s grounds and the surrounding area.
Researchers from Yale University say the destruction is consistent “with an air-delivered munition” and the fact that most of the debris spray was towards the north-west indicates the explosive was fired at the building from the south.
The Sudanese army has accused the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of being behind the attack. The RSF, which has laid siege to the city for the past 15 months, is yet to respond to the accusation.
Yi Ma and Adam Durbin
BBC Verify
Super Typhoon Ragasa has reached Hong Kong, Macau, and southern China after taking at least 15 lives in Taiwan yesterday. The Hong Kong Observatory issued its highest level storm warning in the early hours of the morning local time.
People in Hong Kong have been recording the impact of the strongest typhoon of the year so far and sharing their footage online. We’re working to check they are not from previous tropical storms as we do see old footage being passed off as new during breaking news stories.
Several verified clips filmed from a residential highrise in the Heng Fa Chuen area of the city show high waves crashing onto the footpath. We were able to geolocate it by matching the building structures and footpath track seen in the video with Google Maps’ Street View ground-level coverage.
Another CCTV video from inside a restaurant shows water smashing in a door before it surges inside, tossing furniture around the room and dragging some outside as the flood recedes. The video matches customer photos posted online of the furniture and decor of the restaurant.
We’ve also seen footage of people in Macau using buckets and their hands to try and catch fish swept into flooded streets.
As Super Typhoon Ragasa continues to head westward towards Jiangyang City in mainland China intense wind and heavy rainfall is still forecast for Hong Kong until 20:00 local time (13:00 BST).
We are continuing to monitor and verify footage of the storm – and will bring you any updates of what we see.
Tom Edgington
BBC Verify senior journalist
The new Work and Pensions Secretary, Pat McFadden, has been speaking to broadcasters this morning where he outlined plans to double the number of youth hubs, external which are aimed at getting more young people into work or training. During an interview with Sky News McFadden acknowledged that UK youth unemployment was “too high”.
According to the latest official figures, external, 621,000 young people aged 16-to-24 were unemployed in May to July. This was 3,000 more than the previous year.
Although the absolute number has increased, the youth unemployment rate has fallen slightly: it’s currently at 13.8% which is down from 14.3% the year before. However, this is still much higher than the unemployment rate for everyone over 16, external, which stands at 4.7%.
Youth unemployment peaked at 22.5% in 2011 following the 2008 financial crisis, according to the House of Commons Library, external. 
Paul Brown
BBC Verify senior journalist
We’re looking into footage said to show the aftermath of a strike on a building near a former market in the centre of Gaza City.
In the graphic video, people can be seen digging through rubble with their hands to recover a body and body parts. The footage, posted on Instagram this morning, includes shots of some buildings which are identifiable on satellite imagery to confirm the location.
Palestinian social media channels, citing hospital officials, report a death toll of 17 from the attack. The market, one of the oldest in Gaza City, was largely dismantled shortly after the war began. It is now little more than a large rubbish dump, with some encampments for displaced people nearby.
Last month, press photographers captured Palestinians sifting through the rubbish in search of food. In one of these pictures a minaret of a nearby mosque can be seen, which is also visible in this morning’s footage.
The Israeli military has been approached for comment.
A press photograph captured people searching the dump for food – the minaret is also visible in footage we verified today
Thomas Copeland
BBC Verify Live journalist
The BBC Verify team in Washington DC were listening to President Donald Trump’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly yesterday.
It was a wide-ranging address – here’s three things he said that they fact-checked.
Has Trump really ‘ended seven unendable wars’?
The president listed “wars” he claims to have ended as being between: Israel and Iran, Pakistan and India, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Thailand and Cambodia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Egypt and Ethiopia and Serbia and Kosovo.
A number of these “wars” lasted just days and it is unclear whether some of the peace deals will hold.
While Trump claimed “talks mediated by the United States” ended a four-day conflict between India and Pakistan, the government in New Delhi has played down the role of the US.
In June, the US hit nuclear sites in Iran – a move seen as ending 12 days of hostilities with Israel, but experts say there has been no permanent peace agreement.
'Sharia law' in London
The Mayor of London featured in the speech with Trump calling Sadiq Khan “a terrible mayor – terrible, terrible mayor. Now they want to go to Sharia law."
False claims like this one have circulated for years on social media and a spokesperson for Khan told the BBC: "We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response."
Sharia law is an Islamic legal system and Sharia councils do exist in the UK – there were an estimated 85 across the UK in 2009, according to one think tank. Most of their work deals with marriage and financial arbitration between Muslims but the UK government has been clear, external that their rulings are "not legally binding".
Has illegal immigration into the US ‘totally stopped’?
“In fact they’re not even coming anymore because they know they can’t get through,” Trump went on to say about illegal immigrants.
Since he took office, figures from US Customs and Border Protection do show a significant fall in apprehensions of illegal migrants – but not to zero. Total monthly apprehensions dropped from 28,728 in January 2025 to 5,456 in August, external.
Trump also claimed that under the previous Biden administration “millions of people were pouring in. Twenty-five million altogether”. Border crossings did reach record levels under President Joe Biden but Trump’s figures are exaggerated.
The Department of Homeland Security estimates there were 11 million “border encounters” during Biden’s time in office.
Fact-checks by Joshua Cheetham, Nick Beake and Rupert Carey
Sherie Ryder and Paul Brown
BBC Verify
This screengrab from a street in the city shows a dense cloud of smoke coming from the Gazprom refinery
This morning we’ve been assessing newly emerged footage showing a fire at an oil refinery in the city of Salavat in Bashkortostan, Russia – about 1,200km (750 miles) south-east of Moscow.
In one clip we see a huge thick billowing cloud of black smoke in the distance. By looking at the surrounding buildings in the footage we can see where they are on publicly available satellite mapping from Google and its Russian equivalent Yandex to confirm the location.
Another clip, showing smoke rising in the distance, was filmed from a building near a main roundabout off Ulitsa Pervomayskaya Street. We carried out reverse image searches of several screengrabs to ensure the footage we are seeing isn’t old.
Bashkortostan regional governor Radiy Khabirov posted on Telegram this morning that the Gazprom Neftekhim refinery had been hit by Ukrainian drones.
It’s not the first time the site has been targeted as less than a week ago, on 18 September, there was a massive explosion there following two drone strikes. No casualties were reported.
Rob Corp
BBC Verify Live editor
Hello – welcome to today’s live page where we show how the team works to verify video and check facts on the day’s news stories.
This morning we’re working on verifying footage apparently showing a major fire at a petrochemical facility in Salavat in Russia. The governor for the Bashkortostan region has posted on Telegram that the site was attacked by Ukrainian drones. So far we’ve checked and geolocated two videos that show a huge plume of thick, black smoke coming from the facility.
As the Israeli military continues its offensive in Gaza City, we’re seeing footage apparently showing the aftermath of a strike near a former market. Unverified reports say at least 17 people were killed at the site which is now a rubbish dump. We’ll bring you more about what we’ve found and have asked the Israel Defense Forces for comment.
Away from conflict coverage, Super Typhoon Ragasa has hit Hong Kong and the southern coast of mainland China after sweeping across Taiwan, where 14 people were killed – we’re gathering and checking videos showing the immense force of the storm.
And if you missed it last night – BBC Verify’s US team listened to President Donald Trump’s speech to the UN General Assembly. We’ll bring you three things he said that they fact-checked.
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