US President Donald Trump has threatened legal action against the BBC over the way a speech he made was edited in a documentary.

Britain's national broadcaster is facing a leadership crisis and mounting political pressure after two of its most senior executives resigned on Sunday over accusations of bias in the Panorama documentary's editing of a speech Trump made on January 6, 2021, before a crowd of his supporters stormed the Capitol in Washington.

Trump welcomed the resignations of BBC director-general Tim Davie and news chief Deborah Turness on Sunday, before reports of the legal letter emerged on Monday.

BBC chairman Samir Shah apologised on Monday for the broadcaster's "error of judgment" in editing the Trump speech.

"We accept that the way the speech was ed

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