Donald Trump threatens to sue BBC
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The BBC says it will respond in due course to a threat of legal action over a documentary which misrepresented a speech made by President Trump. The BBC chairman apologised for an "error of judgement" over an edit of comments Mr Trump made to his supporters who stormed the Capitol building in January 2021. Also: the Syrian president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, is in the US to hold talks with President Trump. The BBC has been speaking to minority groups in Syria who say he's failing to protect them. A court in Paris has granted the former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, early release from jail, just weeks after he started a five-year sentence. The Cop30 summit opens in Brazil, as the host insists the summit must lead to implementation of critical climate change measures. The former South Korean president, Yoon Suk Yeol,is facing new charges, related to his decision to declare emergency martial law in December, 2024. And: A cyber-criminal who spent almost 10 years on the FBI's most wanted list has been speaking to the BBC, in an exclusive interview from prison.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm Nick Myles and at 16 hours GMT on Monday the 10th of November, these are our main stories. |
| 0:16.9 | President Trump threatens to sue the BBC over a documentary which misrepresented comments he made to his supporters who stormed the Capitol building in January 2021. |
| 0:28.5 | With the Syrian president in Washington for talks with Donald Trump, we hear from minority groups in Syria who say he's failing to protect them. |
| 0:36.9 | We wanted to start new businesses, but there is no security. |
| 0:40.7 | My dearest friends are dead. |
| 0:42.6 | I will have to leave the country again. |
| 0:45.0 | And as another UN climate change conference is getting underway in Brazil, for many |
| 0:49.7 | delegates, it's personal. |
| 0:51.6 | You know, I'm a new dad. |
| 0:52.8 | My son's almost three, so the ways that I think about the climate crisis now is so wild. |
| 0:57.4 | So my orientation to the climate crisis is so much more. |
| 1:00.5 | And it's something that's often at the back of my mind, right? |
| 1:04.4 | Also in this podcast, we set up fake websites selling fake goods. |
| 1:09.7 | Did you ever feel guilty? We didn't think about consequences. |
| 1:13.5 | What were you buying? I was changing cars like changing clothes. An exclusive interview with a former |
| 1:19.6 | cybercriminal who helped swindle people out of hundreds of millions of dollars. It has been described as an extraordinary moment in of Domus. |
| 1:32.6 | It has been described as an extraordinary moment in the history of the BBC. |
| 1:38.0 | The resignations of Tim Davy, who was in overall charge of the corporation and his head of news, Deborah Turner. As you may have heard in our earlier edition, it all came about |
| 1:43.5 | after a leaked memo criticised a BBC TV documentary program about President Trump, which was broadcast weeks before he won the election a year ago. |
| 1:53.7 | 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 |
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