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First up, though.

A storm at the BBC.

Last night, the Director-General Tim Davy and its Chief of News, Deborah Turneris, resigned.

The trigger, a leaked memo criticizing a documentary for editing a Donald Trump speech in order to mislead viewers.

It's the latest in a string of controversies at the broadcaster over allegations of bias. Trump has welcomed the resignations, but trouble at the

top reveals a far deeper crisis at one of Britain's best-known institutions. I think for the head of the BBC,

this was really the last straw.

Tom Wainwright is the economist's media editor.

It comes after a series of controversies with their news coverage.

And I think the whole thing really highlights the difficult role that the BBC has to play and has always had to play in the media landscape

here in the UK. So Tom, let's break down what happened. We've had high-level resignations

after a leaked memo. What was in that memo? Well, this memo was about a documentary which

aired on the BBC actually last year, and it was a documentary all about Donald Trump.

And the controversy concerns two bits of the speech

the Donald Trump made on 6th of January 2021 that were edited together.

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