Trump Threatens To Sue BBC For One Billion Dollars
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🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Today, President Trump has threatened to sue the BBC for $1bn.
In a latter to the corporation Trump’s legal team demands the BBC “immediately retract” a Panorama programme which edited a speech he made calling it “false and defamatory”.
It comes as BBC chair Samir Shah apologised for an "error of judgement" over the edit, and said the BBC was considering how to respond to Trump.
BBC director general Tim Davie and CEO of BBC news Deborah Turness resigned on Sunday night, after a leaked memo criticised a 2024 Panorama programme about the US president.
Adam and Chris are joined by Chief Washington Presenter Caitriona Perry and Media and Culture Editor Katie Razzall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | Hello, big news about the BBC in the last 24 hours. |
| 0:09.4 | Donald Trump is threatening to sue the organisation for $1 billion over that clip of him and how it was edited by Panorama when they did their programme last year about what happened on January the 6th, |
| 0:21.1 | 2021 when there was the riots at the capital. And in addition to that, two of the most |
| 0:26.7 | senior people at the organisation, the Director General Tim Davy and the head of news, Deborah |
| 0:31.8 | Tunes, announced their resignation for related reasons. What is going on and what does it mean? |
| 0:37.2 | We'll discuss on this episode of Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. Fat boy sliver me in the classroom doing our violin lessons. I was the tappletail in the class. Can I have an apology, please? I trust almost nobody. That daddy has to sometimes do strong language. Next time in Moscow. I feel delulu with no salulu. Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio. And it is Chris at Westminster. And here with me is our media and culture editor, Katie Razel. Hello, Katie. Hello, Adam. Hello, Chris. Hi. And joining us from Washington is Katrina Perry. Hi, Katrina. |
| 1:12.0 | Hi, I'm coming to you from the White House. Oh, and that's why we might hear some ambient noise, |
| 1:17.0 | like police cars and things. And drilling and excavators and demolition crews. Oh, yeah, of course, |
| 1:23.0 | because of the new ballroom, whole other episode of newscast. Right. Katie, last time I was in this studio was with |
| 1:29.0 | Laura. We were doing the Sunday morning episode of newscast. And we did a recap of what had been |
| 1:35.0 | happening with the BBC and the stories that had been in the telegraph and various other newspapers |
| 1:39.1 | all last week about this letter that had been written by a former advisor on editorial standards |
| 1:46.5 | who'd finished in the role, written a quite excoriating letter about loads of areas |
| 1:51.9 | where he felt the BBC had made mistakes editorially. |
| 1:54.8 | And Laura and I were chatting it over with Henry and we thought, well, you know what? |
| 1:58.3 | This is going to become a bit of a parliamentary story because Samir Shah, the chair of the BBC, has got to write to the Culture Select Committee |
| 2:05.0 | by today, just explaining what was going on behind the scenes. And we thought, OK, this is not a sort |
| 2:10.6 | of existential crisis for the BBC. It's criticism of the BBC. But then on Sunday evening, |
| 2:15.9 | it sort of took on a slightly more existential |
| 2:18.3 | tinge. |
| 2:19.3 | Well, I'm going to feel a bit smug and say that I did not feel the same way about it as you did. |
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