Lucy Gilder
BBC Verify journalist

During his interview on the BBC’s Political Thinking podcast, Reform UK’s Nigel Farage said: “If you go to parts of east London… you see London Underground stations with foreign languages next to them.”

In response to a 2025 Freedom of Information (FOI) request Transport for London (TfL) referenced two stations in the capital with dual-language signs, external.

One is Southall in west London which has Punjabi signage and the other is Whitechapel, east London, which has signs in Bengali.

TfL said the Bengali sign was added to Whitechapel station following a request from the mayor of Tower Hamlets borough.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said on X at the time, external that the signage was about “recognising and celebrating the vital contribution Bangladeshi Londoners have made shaping the Tower Hamlets community”.

Tfl says the Southall Punjabi signs were there before it took over the station which is now part of the Elizabeth Line.

In the same FOI answer, TfL responded “no” when asked if it had plans for more stations to be bilingual.

BBC Verify has asked TfL whether any more dual-language signs have been added to its stations since it provided that FOI response last year.

Peter Mwai and Richard Irvine-Brown
BBC Verify

Video has emerged showing the moment a Sudanese army drone struck an air defence system used by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the Kordofan region of southern Sudan earlier this week.

Although images claiming to show the destroyed Chinese-made FK-2000 system first appeared on social media on 10 February, the video published yesterday by the state news agency, tells us more about the attack.

In the last frames of the video we can make out the FK-2000 – its launching and transport platforms, plus its radars – before the camera cuts out.

We were able to match the long straight dirt track near a river bed, a small group of houses and what looks like a reservoir so we could confirm the strike was 3 miles (5km) west of al-Debeibat – a town people have mentioned on Sudanese social media as being close to the attack.

This puts it in the heart of the fighting between the government’s forces and RSF in the region. Both sides have been fighting a civil war across Sudan for almost three years.

And we can be confident the attack was on 10 February because satellite images from that day show scrub burning at the same place.

Paul Brown
BBC Verify senior journalist

We’ve been reviewing footage following overnight attacks on Ukraine which local officials say have killed at least six people across the country.

The strikes reportedly targeted Odesa, Kramatorsk and Zaporizhzhia, and involved one missile and 154 drones, according to the Ukrainian Air Force.

Footage filmed this morning in the city of Odesa shows widespread damage to a car dealership, where one building has been almost completely blown out, and a number of vehicles destroyed.

Among the vehicles seen in the video were Mitsubishis and Peugeots which meant we could narrow down our search for where the attack happened to the location of these dealerships.

At one point the video offers a very similar angle on the Peugeot showroom to one seen in a photograph on the outlet’s official website.

Lucy Gilder
BBC Verify journalist

Following criticism of comments on immigration by billionaire Manchester United co-owner Jim Ratcliffe, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage posted a video on X with the words “Jim Ratcliffe is right”.

In the video, external, Farage claims “one million people living in this country don’t speak any English at all”.

He made a similar claim on the BBC’s Political Thinking podcast, telling Nick Robinson: “You look at the last census, there’s a million living in Britain don’t speak English.”

The claim that one million people don’t speak any English is incorrect.

Every decade, the Office for National Statistics runs a census of people living in England and Wales which gathers information on a range of topics including languages.

According to the 2021 census, external:

• 161,000 people in England and Wales “could not speak English at all” – about 0.3% of the population
• 880,000 people (1.5% of the population) “could not speak English well”

Combining these figures gets you to just over one million – but that’s not the total number of people who don’t speak English “at all”.

Farage did use the correct ONS figures in a Telegraph article yesterday, external.

BBC Verify has fact-checked Jim Ratcliffe’s comments on immigration including the incorrect claim that the UK population had grown by 12 million since 2020.

Rob Corp
BBC Verify Live editor

Good morning.

We start today by fact-checking claims made by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage about immigration.

Farage posted a video on X yesterday, following comments made by billionaire Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe, where the Reform UK leader wrote: “Jim Ratcliffe is right”.

In the video he claims that “one million people living in this country don’t speak any English at all”. He’s wrong, and we’ll bring you more shortly on what we know.

Elsewhere, there’s been another night of drone and missile attacks across Ukraine. At least six people were killed across the country, according to officials. We’re verifying footage showing the aftermath of one attack on the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to tell European leaders the continent must learn to defend itself when he visits the Munich Security Conference which gets under way today. We’re looking at what Europe’s Nato members spend on defence.