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• BBC chairman Samir Shah faces questions over his leadership amid a “fake news” storm over the reporting of a Donald Trump speech

• The US president is reportedly threatening legal action in the row

• Mr Shah apologised to a Commons committee for the way a speech by the US president was edited for Panorama

Donald Trump is threatening to sue the BBC for $1 billion over the editing of one of his speeches in a growing “fake news” storm.

In a legal letter to the corporation, Trump counsel Alejandro Brito demanded that "false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflamm

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