The BBC has become the latest media organisation to receive a legal threat from US President Donald Trump over a documentary it released last year.

An hour-long special of the public broadcaster's investigative series Panorama, which aired a week before the presidential election in November, included edits to a speech Mr Trump gave on January 6, 2021.

A letter sent to the BBC by one of the president's lawyers demanded a full retraction of the documentary, an apology and payments that "appropriately compensate President Trump for the harm caused".

The letter said if those demands were not met, the Mr Trump would be "left with no alternative" but to sue for $US1 billion ($1.53 billion) in damages.

BBC chair Samir Shah said in an interview with his own organisation on Monday he was no

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