Donald Trump said he will sue the BBC next week after the corporation apologised but declined to compensate him for a Panorama edit of a 2021 speech.

Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One on Friday, Trump said: “We’ll sue them for anywhere between $1bn dollars (£759.8m) and $5bn (£3.79bn), probably sometime next week.”

It comes as the deadline the US President’s lawyers had given the BBC to respond expired at 10pm on Friday. New Feature

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His legal team had threatened to sue the BBC for $1bn in damages unless a retraction and apology were issued after two parts of his 6 January 2021 speech was spliced together.

The corporation said the splicing of the speech was an “error of judgment” but said it refused to pay financial comp

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