Donald Trump has threatened to sue the BBC for a billion dollars if they don’t apologise and compensate him.

The US President has given the BBC a deadline of Friday to retract ‘false’ and ‘defamatory’ statements made about him in a Panorama documentary.

He threatened legal action after a report from Michael Prescott, a former external adviser to the BBC’s Editorial Standards Committee.

In it, he raised concerns that a speech Trump had made before the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, had been selectively edited by the BBC. The impact has prompted widespread debate about the BBC, impartiality and how the national broadcaster can move forward from this.

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