A major row broke out after US President Donald Trump threatened to sue the BBC for at least one billion dollars over what he says is a misleading edit of his January 6 speech. The clash has triggered resignations at the top of the broadcaster, The Panorama episode at the centre of the controversy stitched together two separate lines from Trump’s 2021 speech in Washington. The edit made it appear as though he delivered one continuous call to march on the Capitol with the words: “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be there with you. And we fight. We fight like hell.” The sequence suggested Trump urged the crowd towards direct confrontation. BBC leadership later acknowledged the mistake. The organisation admitted the edit created a misleading impression and apologised fo

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