The BBC said Thursday it was investigating a possible second instance in which a speech by US President Donald Trump was edited in a misleading way.

On Monday the BBC apologised for giving the impression that Trump had directly urged "violent action" just before the assault on the US Capitol by his supporters in 2021 in a documentary that aired in October last year.

Trump's lawyers wrote a letter to the BBC, giving it until Friday to "appropriately compensate" the president for "harm caused" by the edit, or face a $1 billion legal case.

The BBC director-general and the organisation's top news executive resigned Sunday over the controversy.

On Thursday The Telegraph said the broadcaster also aired another report, in June, 2022 on its "Newsnight" programme, in which phrases spoken at dif

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