The BBC apologized Thursday to U.S. President Donald Trump over a misleading edit of his speech on Jan. 6, 2021, but said it had not defamed him, rejecting the basis for his $1-billion US lawsuit threat.

The British network said its chair, Samir Shah, sent a personal letter to the White House saying that he and the corporation were sorry for the edit of the speech Trump gave before some of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol as Congress was poised to certify the results of U.S. president-elect Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election .

The BBC said there are no plans to rebroadcast the documentary, which had spliced together parts of his speech that came almost an hour apart.

"We accept that our edit unintentionally created the impression that we were showing a single continuous s

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