Friday on BBC Verify Livepublished at 10:43 GMT
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Thomas Copeland
BBC Verify Live journalist
Today we’re tracking the spread of anti-government protests across Tehran and other cities in Iran during the internet blackout. We’ve been working with our with our colleagues at BBC Persian to verify videos and images of both peaceful demonstrations and violent clashes with Iran’s security forces. More than 30 protesters and eight security personnel have now been killed, according to US-based Human Rights Activist News Agency (HRANA), and around 2,270 protesters arrested.
We’re also looking at the missile strike Russia made overnight on Kyiv. Russia’s defence ministry say it’s a response to a drone attack on Vladimir Putin’s residence in December, which Kyiv denies carrying out. We’re speaking to weapons experts to find out more about the Oreshnik missile which Moscow is reported to have used and which has only been deployed once before in this war.
And after the fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by an ICE agent two days ago, we’re looking into a shooting incident involving a Border Patrol agent in Portland, Oregon, that left two people wounded yesterday.
