BBC admits "error of judgement" amid resignations
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
BBC Chair Samir Shah has apologised for an "error of judgement" in how a documentary edited a speech by Donald Trump. Also on the programme, the presidents of the US and Syria will speak at a historic meeting at the White House; and, red kite chicks from England have been sent to Spain in order to bring the species back from the brink of extinction.
(People walk outside BBC Broadcasting House after Director General of BBC Tim Davie and Chief Executive of BBC News Deborah Turness resigned following accusations of bias at the British broadcaster, including in the way it edited a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump, in London, Britain, November 10, 2025. REUTERS/Jack Taylor)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.3 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service coming to you live from London. |
| 0:14.3 | I'm Julian Warwicker. |
| 0:16.0 | It's been described as an extraordinary moment in the history of the BBC. |
| 0:22.7 | The resignations of Tim Davy, who was in the history of the BBC, the resignations of Tim Davy, |
| 0:27.2 | who was in overall charge of the corporation, and his head of news, Deborah Turness, |
| 0:30.6 | announced on a Sunday evening with no advanced warning. It all came about after a leaked memo criticised a BBC TV documentary programme about President Trump, which was broadcast weeks before he won the election a year ago. |
| 0:41.9 | The specific error at the heart of the crisis was about the editing of a speech made by the President on the day of the riots on Capitol Hill in 2021. |
| 0:51.9 | The programme put two parts of the President's speech together, so he appeared to explicitly |
| 0:57.5 | encourage the rioting that day. That wasn't made clear to viewers. Questions are now being raised |
| 1:03.9 | about the impartiality of the BBC, one of its key commitments to its viewers and listeners, |
| 1:09.7 | and there's been a furious reaction from Washington |
| 1:11.9 | where President Trump has said some BBC journalists are corrupt. |
| 1:16.6 | Well, in the last couple of hours, the BBC chairman, Samir Shah, |
| 1:19.7 | has apologised on behalf of the corporation. |
| 1:22.8 | He explained to the BBC's Katie Razel what he was apologising for. |
| 1:27.5 | The apologising is for the way the team edited President Trump's speech to his supporters on January |
| 1:37.1 | 6th. |
| 1:38.5 | And that was the wrong call? It was a mistake. Is that what you're saying? |
| 1:41.8 | Yes. |
| 1:42.6 | And are you going to be, are you apologising directly to President Trump personally on |
| 1:47.6 | behalf of the BBC? We have received communication from President Trump and his people and we are |
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