Johanna Chisholm
BBC Live editor

This live page is closing shortly, but BBC 's reporters are continuing to track developments on some of the major stories we’ve been following throughout the day.

In the last few hours, our data journalism and fact-checking team have analysed visa overstayers data to see how it squares with Donald Trump’s travel ban affecting 12 countries. Trump's just spoken about this, so head to the BBC News live page for updates.

The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has been keeping our open-source intelligence team busy this afternoon. They’ve verified footage of a projectile destroying a well-known building in the southern city of Kherson.

Our late team is continuing to monitor the conflict in the Middle East as they look to provide updates on the situation inside Gaza.

For more of our videos, investigations and analysis, you can head to the pages of the BBC website.

Joshua Cheetham, Shayan Sardarizadeh & Richard Irvine-Brown
BBC journalists

Two videos and a photograph have shown the violent destruction of the Regional State istration building in Kherson, Ukraine, today.

The building - which officials say was unused - is well known locally.

The first video, captured at around dawn local time, given the level of light and direction of the sun, is filmed from a quadcopter drone already pointed towards the building. It shows an explosion on the roof before a second blast appears to destroy much of the front of the historic building.

The head of the Kherson region said in a Telegram post this morning that Moscow’s forces had dropped four glide bombs on the city, external.

This all comes four days after Ukraine claimed strikes on four air bases in Russia using a fleet of quadcopters.

A second video, again filmed from the air with the camera trained on the building, it shows the smouldering building struck by a projectile which causes a further explosion. The shadows nearby indicate it was filmed at around 15:00 local time (13:00 BST).

Anthony Reuben and David Verry
BBC

Image source, Getty Images

If you were surprised while reading articles about the expansion of eligibility for free school meals in England to learn that one-quarter of children can get them, you are not alone.

The official statistics suggest, external that 25.7% of pupils at state-funded schools in England were eligible for free school meals in the 2024-25 academic year, which represents almost 2.2 million pupils.

But that does not mean that one-quarter of schoolchildren come from households with an annual income below £7,400, which is the current qualification.

All primary school children in London are eligible for free school meals and in the rest of England those in Reception, year 1 and year 2 get them.

The statistics say that 1.3 million of the children who receive free school meals get them because of universal provision, not because they qualify through the criteria.

That means 900,000 schoolchildren actually qualify through the means test.

But that's a fairly low proportion of the number of children living in relative poverty after housing costs, which is 4.5 million, according to the latest statistics, external.

Christine Jeavans
BBC senior journalist

Here’s some further analysis of the visa overstay figures for countries on US President Donald Trump’s new travel ban list.

The White House fact sheet on the travel ban, external quotes overstay rates - the percentage of visitors who stay longer than they should, rather than the total number of overstayers in each case.

As Lucy Gilder posted earlier, there’s quite a difference between those two figures.

Of the almost 10 million business or tourist visitors from all countries requiring a visa, about 314,000 overstayed in 2023, an overall rate of 3.2%.

This chart shows the top five countries on the full or partial travel ban by number of overstayers and the top five for the countries that have not been restricted.

The highest number, 40,884, were Colombian nationals - a country not on the White House list.

Next is Haiti with 27,269 overstayers - that is on the travel ban list - and Venezuela, which is on the partial ban list, with 21,513 overstayers.

But the next 41 countries by number of overstayers are not on the list. They include places like Brazil, Ecuador, China and India, each with more than 12,000 people outstaying their business or tourist visa in 2023.

By contrast, Cuba, Sudan and Laos are the next highest banned or restricted countries but each had fewer than 1,000 overstayers.

Looking at the rate it’s a completely different story.

Of the top 10 nationalities overstaying business or tourist visas, nine are on the travel ban or restrictions list with only Djibouti not featuring. It has a rate of 24% but that represents only 38 people outstaying their time.

Harriet Agerholm
BBC journalist

We’ve been looking at the latest school census figures that were released earlier which provide the first complete snapshot of private school pupil numbers in England since the government introduced VAT on fees.

The number of pupils attending private schools in January 2025 fell by 11,000 compared with the previous year – a drop of almost 2%.

It’s the first time since the Covid pandemic that private school pupil numbers have fallen - they dropped by 1.3% in 2021.

It’s worth putting the most recent fall in context: there was also a drop in pupils attending non-independent schools (mainly state schools and some special schools run by charities) of 0.6%.

And overall, the share of all pupils in England attending private schools remains fairly stable at 6.4%. It was 6.5% last year.

Compared with 2024, there were falls in the numbers of children starting at both private and non-private schools aged four and 11 - transition points into primary and secondary education.

This year saw a 5.9% fall in the number of four-year-olds and 3.8% fall in 11-year-olds attending private schools.

Richard Irvine-Brown and Paul Brown
BBC journalists

We’re looking into reports of an attack on al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City this morning.

Graphic videos we’ve seen this morning show two injured men with blood on their legs, a third man who isn’t moving and has an apparently serious wound to his forehead, and other bloodied men being rushed to a nearby tent for treatment.

The footage is definitely from the courtyard of al-Ahli: we can see a smaller building with a pitched, red roof as well as fencing with a cross-and-circle pattern. This matches not only pre-conflict photos of the site but images we verified in October 2023 when a massive explosion in the courtyard was reported to have killed hundreds.

The shadows are long and from east to west and the weather report for this morning in Gaza - sunny after early clouds – corresponds with the conditions in the footage. Reverse searching frames from the videos shows neither have been publicly online for long.

However, we are unable to confirm some reports that the hospital was bombed as the videos don’t show enough of the scene.

Shruti Menon
BBC senior journalist

We've been keeping a close eye on flooding in India, where we've already begun seeing AI-generated videos and misleading footage claiming to show flood-related devastation in the north east.

These claims have mostly been circulating on social media.

One video - with over 18,000 views - shows flood waters gushing through a damaged road in a hilly area. Some local media have used the video to claim it shows flood-related devastation in Assam.

s have also claimed the video, external is from Sikkim - both states are situated in India's northeast.

But when using reverse image search - one of our most-used tools - it shows the video was first posted by a YouTube channel, external on 28 May (the intense flooding in India's northeast began this week). A description of that video says “created by artificial intelligence” in Spanish.

We can tell it is an AI-generated video as it has some of the tell-tale signs, such as half a vehicle, waves in the water and movement of the vehicles that looks unreal.

We've also seen the video used in the context of flooding in Nepal and Myanmar in recent days. Some Burmese local media outlets also fact-checked the video and found it to be AI-generated.

At least 44 people have died and several thousands have been affected by heavy rainfall in India’s northeast, which has triggered flooding and landslides in recent days.

Benedict Garman and Kevin Nguyen
BBC senior journalists

Satellite imagery that we've been analysing from Gaza shows how hundreds of buildings in the neighbourhood of Shujaiya, in east Gaza City, have been almost entirely reduced to rubble.

The below images show Shujaiya. The one on the top is from 9 May, and the one below is the same view a bit less a month later on 3 June.

Historical map data of the same area shows that this used to be a dense residential area.

Among the rubble we can see in the latest aerial imagery are the now ruins of homes, schools, a sports centre and a mosque.

This part of Shujaiya is more than 1.5km from the border with Israel, and within an area that the IDF has declared a militarised buffer zone.

On 4 April, the IDF announced it was dismantling “Hamas terrorist infrastructure” that included a Hamas command centre. It added it allowed for civilians to evacuate the area via “organised routes for their safety”.

On 15 May, an IDF drone image shared on social media (which has been verified by the BBC) showed the extensive destruction and several buildings had already been razed.

Other videos and photos shared by the IDF and geolocated by BBC - done by matching the layout of buildings and other features to satellite images - show controlled demolitions in different areas of Shujaiya, as well as across Gaza more widely.

When reached for comment, the IDF said it remains "committed to conducting its operations in accordance with international law" and that it will continue to operate against "terrorist organisations in the Gaza Strip as required" in order to defend Israel.

Paul Brown and Richard Irvine-Brown
BBC senior journalists

Footage we've just verified from northern Gaza shows tanks and heavy machinery carrying out demolition work within 100m (300ft) of the Indonesian Hospital.

This follows reports that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is making preparations to use medical facilities for military purposes. We have asked the IDF for comment.

By identifying key features like a row of red tents and a red gas canister we established that the footage was filmed from within the hospital building itself. Reverse image searches suggest it first appeared online within the last 24 hours.

The footage carries the watermark of Mahmoud Abusalama, a Palestinian journalist whose work has been used by various outlets, including the Palestinian news agency Wafa and Al Jazeera. It was shared last night by Dr Muneer Alboursh, director general of the Hamas-run health ministry.

Israel's Channel 14 TV reported yesterday that the Indonesian is one of four hospitals no longer functioning in northern Gaza. The report described this as "an important phase in operational activity in the area" that "is expected to allow military use of the compounds".

Last week, we verified footage of patients and staff being evacuated from al-Awda hospital which is around 250m from the Indonesian.

Tom Edgington
BBC senior journalist

Image source, Reuters

Free school meals will be extended to pupils in England whose families receive Universal Credit, the government has announced, with Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson saying this will “lift 100,000 children over the course of the parliament out of poverty”.

Tom Waters from the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) told BBC that the measure wouldn’t reduce relative child poverty by 100,000 immediately but would do so “by around the end of the parliament”.

That’s because the previous government put in temporary measures that enabled more children to qualify for free meals even if their parents earned more than £7,400 - which would normally mean they were ineligible.

As a result, about 500,000 children will be eligible immediately - but 1.7 million will benefit in the long-run, according to the IFS’ analysis.

Relative poverty measures the number of households earning less than 60% of the current average income. On this measure 4.5 million - almost one in three (31%) - UK children currently live in poverty.

Lucy Gilder
BBC journalist

Image source, EPA

One of the big stories we’re covering today is that Donald Trump has signed a ban on travel to the US from 12 countries, external. Partial travel restrictions have been imposed on seven additional countries.

We’ve had a look at the White House’s list of countries and almost all (15 out of 19) mention visa overstaying as the main or one of the justifications for their full or partial travel ban.

But there are countries which have much higher rates of overstaying who are not subject to the travel ban.

And in some cases, the actual number of overstayers from the banned countries is very small compared to people from countries not on the list.

For example, in 2023, external:

• There were 377 business and tourist visa overstayers from Chad, which is on the banned list
• From Colombia, there were more 40,000, but it is not on the banned list

In some cases, the White House provides additional justification for the country facing a travel ban, such as not having “appropriate screening and vetting measures” for their citizens.

In a video announcing the policy, Trump said that the recent Boulder attack “underscored the extreme dangers posed to our country by the entry of foreign nationals who are not properly vetted”.

US officials have said that the Boulder suspect – an Egyptian national – arrived in the US on a tourist visa in August 2022, which expired the following year. He then made an asylum claim in September 2022.

Egypt is another country which does not appear on the banned list.

Paul Brown and Thomas Spencer
BBC

Yesterday, we spent a long time poring over new satellite imagery from Planet Labs, which helped us piece together how significant Sunday's Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian airbases were.

The images of two Russian airbases in north-western and central Russia, taken on Wednesday morning, show at least 12 aircraft damaged or destroyed.

Meanwhile, drone footage, released by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) on Wednesday, showed attacks on these two bases as well as two more targeted elsewhere.

Some of the clearest satellite imagery that we've been looking at covers Olenya and Belaya and shows five damaged or destroyed planes at the former and seven at the latter.

For instance, at Olenya - a major Russian airbase in the north-west - the SBU footage shows smoke pouring from three aircraft, identified as Tu-95 strategic bombers.

Meanwhile, imagery provided by Planet Labs from Wednesday, shows the entirety of Belaya airbase in Irkutsk Oblast, nearly 3,000km from the Ukrainian border.

It showed three damaged Tu-95s and four Tu-22s (as seen in the below picture) and in various parts of the base.

• Curious for more? We looked at the satellite imagery of two other Russian airbases

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt launched an attack on the BBC's coverage of reports that Israeli forces had killed Palestinians near an aid distribution centre in Gaza. She claimed that the BBC took down a story after reviewing footage.

The BBC has said the claim is completely wrong and that it stands by its journalism.

Ros Atkins from BBC has been taking a look at the facts.

Rob Corp
BBC Live editor

Hello - we're here with the latest updates from the BBC's team working on fact-checks, online open-source gathering, disinformation debunking and data journalism.

I've been to our morning meeting and the main prospects for BBC today are:

• Fact-checking the White House's reasons for bringing in a travel ban against 12 countries
• Monitoring the situation in Gaza after the group running the controversial aid sites said they would remain closed for a second day for improvement works
• And looking at how effective extending eligibility for free school meals in England will be at reducing poverty

Plus we'll be looking out for more details on the impact of Ukraine's audacious drone strikes against Russian airbases - you can read our analysis of what satellite imagery shows us here.