Trump sues the BBC
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
President Donald Trump has filed a multi-billion dollar lawsuit in Florida, accusing the BBC of defamation and violating a trade practices law over the way his speech was edited ahead of the US Capitol riot in 2020. Also: The US President says a Russia-Ukraine peace deal is closer than ever after talks in Berlin. European leaders say they're optimistic, but remain circumspect. Scammers are targeting children with cancer to raise money with online videos, but the donations raised are not reaching the families. Police in Australia say the two men who killed 15 people at a Jewish Hannukah celebration at Sydney's Bondi Beach had ISIS flags in their car. And the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is putting gifts she received from world leaders up for auction.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.5 | You're listening to the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We're recording this at 5 o'clock GMT on Tuesday, December the 16th. |
| 0:17.6 | President Trump launches a multi-billion dollar lawsuit against the BBC for editing his speech on |
| 0:22.7 | January the 6th. The German Chancellor says a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine is possible for |
| 0:28.2 | the first time since the war began. And the BBC investigation exposes an international scam |
| 0:33.8 | that claims to raise money for children with cancer. |
| 0:43.6 | Also in the podcast, we have the latest on the investigation into the Bondi beach shooting and... |
| 0:44.6 | I can't process what it'll mean to have lost two of the most important people who have done |
| 0:50.5 | more to help me and my family and thousands of families like our family. |
| 0:55.1 | It's a devastating loss. |
| 0:57.5 | Remembering Rob Reiner and Michelle Singer, Reiner after their son, |
| 1:01.8 | is arrested on suspicion of murder. |
| 1:09.1 | Donald Trump is suing the BBC for $5 billion after a TV documentary spliced together |
| 1:15.7 | two sections of a speech he gave to supporters ahead of the US Capitol riot nearly five years ago. |
| 1:21.7 | The US president accused the BBC of defamation and violating a trade practices law. |
| 1:26.9 | The BBC has apologised for the edits but |
| 1:29.5 | refused to pay compensation, saying there's no basis for a defamation claim. Our North |
| 1:34.4 | America correspondent, Peter Bowes, told me more. President Trump threatened to do this. He's |
| 1:39.7 | spoken about it several times. And now, well, it is official. These court papers have been filed in Florida |
| 1:46.2 | in some detail looking through the various documents, but essentially he is accusing the BBC |
| 1:52.2 | of false, defamatory, disparaging, inflammatory and malicious depiction of him, President Trump, |
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