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Hello and welcome to News Hour, live from the BBC World Service in London.

I'm Rebecca Kesby.

Coming up with the next half an hour, we'll be getting the very latest on that super typhoon,

which has made landfall across the Philippines, the second typhoon within a week.

But first, rather unusually, we begin this program with news coming from inside the BBC today.

In the past couple of hours, the Director-General of the BBC Tim Davy has resigned. It follows days of

criticism in the national press here in the UK following the publication of a leaked internal

report into allegations of bias and most prominently the broadcasting of a panorama documentary

programme in which the lengthy speech given by President Trump on January the 6th, 2021,

was represented by a clip of the president which cut together two separate portions of the speech,

giving a misleading interpretation of the president's words.

The CEO of News, Deborah Terness, has also resigned this evening. In a statement to staff,

she wrote, The Buck stops with me. In public life, leaders need to be fully accountable, and that

is why I'm stepping down. Well, it comes at a critical time for the publicly funded broadcaster.

The constitutional basis of its existence, or charter, as it's known,

is up for review in 2027. The British Broadcasting Corporation has a huge global reach,

with audiences of up to 450 million a week. That's nearly half a billion people around the world.

Well, we're going to get into the details with our British affairs correspondent Rob Watson in just a moment first.

Let me read you a statement coming from President Trump himself within the past few minutes,

just as we come to air.

He's just posted this on social media, and I'm quoting,

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