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Thursday, March 5, 2026

False information about Minneapolis shooting victim Alex Pretti spreading online - BBC

  • We're looking at false information spreading about Alex Pretti who was killed by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis

  • We've been analysing dramatic footage of a Russian drone attack on a crowded passenger train in Ukraine

  • The team is verifying Iran videos of a deadly market fire where eyewitnesses say security forces fired on people trying to escape

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  1. BBC Verify Live will be back with you tomorrow morning, so do take a few moment now to scroll down and read about what the team have been covering today.

    We started in Ukraine, where a crowded passenger train was hit by a Russian drone strike. We verified dramatic footage showing a carriage set ablaze while passengers, including one woman carrying a baby, are evacuated to safety.

    At lunchtime we moved to domestic politics, examining the UK’s trade relationship with China following Sir Keir Starmer’s visit to Beijing and digging into the data behind a Conservative claim that unemployment always rises under Labour. Click here to see what we found.

    And this afternoon we’ve been debunking misinformation spreading online about Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday. We tracked a false allegation that Pretti had been fired as a nurse back to a fake news website and exposed two pictures claiming to show Pretti in drag as...



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