Richard Irvine-Brown
BBC Verify journalist

The internet has partially returned to Tanzania after being shut down since the disputed re-election of President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Wednesday.

Hundreds of people have reportedly been killed in protests and violence in the wake of the contested vote, which is when internet monitoring organisation NetBlocks has said network connectivity was first turned off by the Tanzanian government.

Netblocks confirmed yesterday connectivity had been restored, but added that significant restrictions still apply to social media and messaging platforms.

Isik Mater, director of research at NetBlocks, told BBC Verify these restrictions “limit access to information at a critical time”. “The internet is a basic digital right and essential for transparency and public participation during elections,” she added.

Because shutdown has prevented Tanzanians from sharing what’s happening, another consequence of it has been old images from other countries wrongly being posted on social media as if from recent unrest.

One video claimed to be soldiers blocking a street in Tanzania, but matched footage shared by Madagascan social media accounts during protests there in October.

Another showing hundreds of protesters in the streets is at least six years old and from Port au Prince in Haiti. This is clear because a sign for the Office Nationale d’Assurance-Vieillesse, a Haitian government department, is visible in the background.

Anthony Reuben
BBC Verify senior journalist

It seems likely from this morning’s speech that Chancellor Rachel Reeves is planning to raise taxes, but she carefully avoided giving any details about which ones could go up.

Her problem is that if she needs to raise substantial amounts of money the easiest way to do so would be to increase one of the big revenue raisers: income tax, National Insurance or VAT – but Labour’s general election manifesto last year promised not to do that.

Putting 1p on the basic rate of income tax, for example, would raise £7bn or £8bn a year, according to the government’s calculations, external. Putting 1p on the higher rate would raise about £2bn a year.

If the chancellor is ignoring the three biggest revenue raisers the next four biggest are corporation tax, council tax, business rates and fuel duties.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank said, external that raising tens of billions of pounds in taxes without breaking Labour’s manifesto pledges would be “difficult, but not impossible”.

But it warned that “many of the tax-raising options outside the ‘big three’ would have particularly damaging effects on growth and welfare”.

Emma Pengelly
BBC Verify journalist

We’ve verified material posted online showing the result of what Russian officials say were Ukrainian drone attacks inside the country overnight.

According to the Ministry of Defence in Moscow, external 85 Ukrainian drones were intercepted and destroyed mostly in the Voronezh and Nizhny Novgorod regions.

Video from Sterlitamak in the Bashkortostan region, which is around 1,000km (620 miles) away from the border with Ukraine, captured an explosion at a petrochemical plant. Regional governor Radiy Khabirov later said Sterlitamak was attacked by two drones and “debris fell in an industrial zone”.

We’ve verified the footage that shows an orange glow in the direction of the plant. We were able to geolocate it by matching the row of red and white chimneys at the site as well as a car park and fencing in the foreground to satellite imagery.

A photo, also captured in Sterlitamak, shows smoke plumes in the direction of the plant at dawn. We were able to pinpoint this location by matching the supermarket front and building roofs to street-level images.

Rob Corp
BBC Verify Live editor

Good morning.

We’re currently workingthrough reports of attacks in both Russia and Ukraine overnight. Our team isverifying videos that appear to show the aftermath of an attack on apetrochemical plant in Russia’s Bashkortostan region and strikes on theUkrainian port city of Odesa.

Our fact-check team has beenlistening to UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ speech this morning whereshe spoke ahead of this month’s Budget.We’re checking out some of the points she saidwere affecting what will be announced on 26 November.

Elsewhere we’ll bring youanalysis of new figures that show India imported slightly more Russian oil inOctober compared with September. That’s despite US President Donald Trumpputting additional tariffs on Indian goods in an attempt to force it to reduceits purchases of supplies from Russia.

And BBC Verify has piecedtogether what happened when 10 people were stabbed on a high-speed train fromDoncaster to London on Saturday. You can watchour report by clicking play above.