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Will We See Trump V BBC In Court?

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BBC

Politics, News

4.46.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Today, will the BBC actually end up in court against President Trump?

Where would a potential lawsuit by President Trump against the BBC take place? Is $1 billion dollars a realistic figure? What are the calculations both sides are making? Adam discusses with BBC home and legal correspondent Dominic Casciani.

And, the rate of UK employment has risen to 5%, the highest level since the pandemic. Meanwhile, Keir Starmer has dropped the biggest hint yet he is about to scrap the two child benefit cap. Adam is joined by Henry and Dharshini.

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stay around to listen to it because it's incredibly, incredibly powerful and makes me very proud of

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the job that we all do and the time we all spend together. Right, let's spend some more time

1:32.7

thinking about the news on this episode of Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. Fat boy sliver

1:38.6

me in the classroom doing our violin lessons. I was the tattle tail in the class. Can I have an

1:42.7

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 we're going to start off by talking about Donald Trump's threat of legal action against the BBC. And this is around that episode of Panorama, which was broadcast in October

2:06.5

2024, but which included an edited speech that Donald Trump gave on the 6th of January 2021

2:13.8

before the riots at the Capitol. We've talked about it a few times on Newscast.

2:18.9

This is the speech where he started off saying one thing, and then Panorama joined the end

2:24.4

of the speech to the start of the speech, and it looked like he was saying something else.

2:29.5

And since then, the chair of the BBC, Samir Shah, has apologised and said it was an error of judgment for the speech to be edited in that way.

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