{"id":79997,"date":"2025-08-19T13:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/79997\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T13:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:24:09","slug":"bbc-verify-live-how-we-know-this-image-of-leaders-waiting-for-trump-is-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/79997\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: How we know this image of ‘leaders’ waiting for Trump is AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

What we fact-checked during last night\u2019s White House meetingpublished at 11:01 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

11:01 BST<\/p>\n

Thomas Copeland
BBC Verify Live journalist<\/p>\n

The BBC Verify team were closely monitoring comments made by world leaders during yesterday\u2019s summit.<\/p>\n

Here are two claims fact-checked by Jake Horton and Nick Beake.<\/p>\n

Did Trump end six wars without a ‘ceasefire’ being mentioned?<\/p>\n

When asked if he would seek a ceasefire before negotiating a full peace deal, Trump claimed he had ended six wars, “without even the mention of the word ceasefire.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Trump has used the word “ceasefire” repeatedly when talking about these conflicts. <\/p>\n

\u201cIndia and Pakistan have agreed to a FULL AND IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE,” he posted in May.<\/p>\n

The president also posted the timings at which Israel and Iran would \u201cstart the CEASEFIRE\u201d.<\/p>\n

And after fighting between Thailand and Cambodia, Trump called on the Thai leader to \u201crequest a Ceasefire, and END to the War\u201d before an official ceasefire was announced by US , external<\/a>S, external<\/a>ecretary of , external<\/a>S, external<\/a>tate Marco Rubio, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The White House has previously listed remaining three wars as being between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Serbia and Kosovo, and Egypt and Ethiopia.<\/p>\n

No evidence for Trump\u2019s figure on US spending on Ukraine<\/p>\n

Trump said “well over $300bn” had been spent on US military support for Ukraine, but we can\u2019t find any evidence for this claim. <\/p>\n

\"Bar<\/p>\n

The US spent a total of $130.6bn (\u00a398.9bn) between 24 January 2022 and 30 June 2025, according to the Kiel Institute, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The US Department of Defense has a higher figure. It said $184.8bn has been, external<\/a> “appropriated”, external<\/a> for Operation Atlantic Resolve, the military response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What we fact-checked during last night\u2019s White House meetingpublished at 11:01 British Summer Time 11:01 BST Thomas CopelandBBC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-79997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}