{"id":423585,"date":"2026-02-13T12:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423585\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T12:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:40:08","slug":"bbc-verify-fact-check-is-reforms-nigel-farage-right-to-claim-one-million-in-uk-dont-speak-any-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/423585\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify fact-check: Is Reform&#8217;s Nigel Farage right to claim one million in UK &#8216;don&#8217;t speak any English\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sudanese army destroys paramilitary air defence systempublished at 12:13 GMT<\/p>\n<p>12:13 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-3u1n9h-Contributor etflsgg2\">Peter Mwai and Richard Irvine-Brown<br \/>BBC Verify<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The air defence system as seen from the drone's camera\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/b324f549-2e87-4258-be94-81e10cdd0349.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"625\" height=\"351\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, X\/Sudan News Agency<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Video has emerged showing the moment a Sudanese army drone struck an air defence system used by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the Kordofan region of southern Sudan earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although images claiming to show the destroyed Chinese-made FK-2000 system first appeared on social media on 10 February, the video published yesterday by the state news agency, tells us more about the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the last frames of the video we can make out the FK-2000 &#8211; its launching and transport platforms, plus its radars &#8211; before the camera cuts out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We were able to match the long straight dirt track near a river bed, a small group of houses and what looks like a reservoir so we could confirm the strike was 3 miles (5km) west of al-Debeibat &#8211; a town people have mentioned on Sudanese social media as being close to the attack. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This puts it in the heart of the fighting between the government\u2019s forces and RSF in the region. Both sides have been fighting a civil war across Sudan for almost three years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And we can be confident the attack was on 10 February because satellite images from that day show scrub burning at the same place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sudanese army destroys paramilitary air defence systempublished at 12:13 GMT 12:13 GMT Peter Mwai and Richard Irvine-BrownBBC Verify&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-423585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}