On 26 August, a devastating flash flood tore through a Himalayan valley on the Nepal-Tibet border, killing more than 1,300 people.

Within hours, videos began circulating on social media. Many were real clips showing the disaster unfolding, but others raised new questions.

In this episode, BBC Verify correspondent Merlyn Thomas takes you behind the scenes as our team works to piece together the story in real time and explains how with any natural disaster, one of the first things we see is a rush of misinformation.

Follow the clues with us in the newsroom as we geolocate online videos, debunk AI-generated content and use satellite imagery to try to understand what happened.

This is BBC Verify’s reporting process as you’ve never seen before.

In this video:

00:00 – Is this real?
01:01 – Reconstructing the disaster
1:55 – How we tell real from fake
2:21 – Piecing together geolocated footage
3:10 – What do we mean by “verify”
4:07 – Aftermath and moment of glacial collapse
6:13 – Survivors
7:28 – What satellite imagery can tell us
8:11 – Is this the same survivor house?

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MPs have voted against a fresh move to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales. The bill would have allowed adults with fewer than six months to live to apply to be given help to end their life.

It followed hours of debate and the result was close with 286 against and 270 in favour. Adam is joined by Ailbhe Rea, Political Editor of the New Statesman and Lara Spirit, Deputy Political editor of the Sunday Times to unpack the politics of the result and to reflect on the other big events in Westminster this week.

Including the moment the new Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced a fundamental shift on the government’s approach to Israel. Also, they discuss the news that Zack Polanski has been confirmed as the Green Party candidate for the Holborn and St Pancras by-election taking place next month, and whether the greens think they can win.

00:00 – Intro
00:59 – MPs vote down the assisted dying bill
06:04 – Could the state deliver assisted dying?
08:30 – Ed Miliband’s sanctions on West Bank settlers
13:14 – What the sanctions say about Miliband as foreign secretary
21:45 – The COP climate summit
28:14 – The Holborn and St Pancras by-election

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US President Donald Trump says he would offer every adult American a $5,000 payout if Republicans win both chambers of Congress in November’s midterm elections.

The plan would cost more than a trillion dollars, and he gave no details on how it would work or be funded.

Democrats labelled it an “empty promise” and others questioned whether such a pledge was legal or feasible.

So – is it? In this video…

00:39 – Trump’s $5,000 election pledge. What is it?
01:29 – Is it legal?
04:22 – Reaction?
05:05 – Has this happened before?
06:10 – How would it work?
07:20 – Why now?
08:49 – What are the ethics?

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“I switch the whole thing off.”

Former BBC correspondent Steve Evans reflects on his experience reporting near the World Trade Center on 9/11.

It has been 25 years since the attacks, and US President Donald Trump has said “we will never, ever forget” the victims as the country marked the anniversary.

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It’s almost 20 years since the first iPhone was released and since then more than three billion have sold worldwide, and Apple has …

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