I’m not going to pretend to have approached the BBC’s recent Panorama documentary, Anti-Semitism: Why British Jews Are Afraid, with any degree of impartiality. The title alone triggered me. ‘YOU! YOU, YOU UTTER BASTARDS! YOU’RE WHY WE’RE AFRAID!’ Alas, the BBC has declined to make a 30-minute documentary about itself.
The BBC has asked a US court to throw out Donald Trump’s $10bn (£7.5bn) lawsuit over the way a documentary edited one of his speeches, warning that proceeding with the case would have a “chilling effect” on its reporting on the president.
In papers filed to the Florida court dealing with the case, the BBC’s US lawyers claimed Trump’s reputation had not been damaged by the documentary, given it aired in the UK a week before his re-election.
The broadcaster’s lawyers also reiterated that the Panorama documentary, Trump: a Second Chance, was simply not published in the US, including Florida, meaning the court had no jurisdiction to hear the case.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Persian mistranslated part of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s speech Monday on Iran, making it appear that the United States was targeting the Iranian “people” rather than the Iranian “regime.”
During BBC Persian’s broadcast of the war secretary’s speech to audiences inside Iran, the network mistranslated the word “regime” as “mardom,” which means “people” in Persian.
This mix-up led audiences to believe the Iranian people were being targeted by the U.S., when, in reality, Hegseth had said the Iranian regime was being targeted by American forces.
The BBC "mistakenly" altered a speech by Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth on the war in Iran, making him appear to say the United States was targeting the Iranian "people".
This comes only a handful of months since they did the same to President Trump.
Defund the BBC! pic.twitter.com/iezrIh5vFX
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) March 7, 2026
An accident? Again? h/t Mauser
LONDON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC can go to trial in 2027, a U.S. judge has said.
Judge Roy K. Altman of the federal court for the Southern District of Florida rejected an attempt by Britain’s national broadcaster to delay proceedings.
He set a provisional start date of Feb. 15 2027 for a two-week trial. Altman’s court order was issued Wednesday.
Trump filed a lawsuit in December over the way the BBC edited a speech he gave on Jan. 6, 2021. The claim seeks $5 billion in damages for defamation and $5 billion for unfair trade practices.
Donald Trump has filed a $10bn (£7.4bn) lawsuit against the BBC, accusing the broadcaster of defamation.
The US president’s lawyers filed court papers in Florida on Monday over a doctored speech that made Mr Trump appear to encourage the Capitol Hill riot.
In November, The Telegraph disclosed that Panorama spliced together parts of an address given by Mr Trump on Jan 6 2021, before some of his supporters attacked the US Capitol building. The edit omitted Mr Trump’s calls for people to march “peacefully”.
BREAKING: Trump CONFIRMS he will be filing a lawsuit against the BBC “probably this afternoon/tomorrow morning”.
I want Trump to financially destroy the BBC so comprehensively that it can’t survive in its current form.
Absolutely wonderful news.
Trump is NOT backing down! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/IChmqJ50bF— Lee Harris (@LeeHarris) December 15, 2025
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump has officially filed a $10 BILLION lawsuit against BBC for their deceptive edit of his speech, which was intended to look like he was calling for vioIence on J6
BANKRUPT that foreign fake news rag, 47!
An example MUST be set! 🇺🇸🔥 pic.twitter.com/deAS2uL4mh
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 16, 2025
The BBC is being investigated by the broadcast regulator in the US over its “misleading and deceptive conduct” in editing a Donald Trump speech.
Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, wrote to executives at the BBC and to two American broadcasters on Wednesday to find out whether the report was aired in the US.
He spells out how the Panorama programme spliced together parts of a speech that were separated by 54 minutes.
Western media have become apologists for violent Islamists.
Earlier this month, US president Donald Trump condemned Nigeria over the violent persecution of its Christian minority by Islamist groups like Boko Haram, Fulani militants and other violent actors. Trump called Nigeria a ‘country of particular concern’, and he is not alone. This weekend, Pope Leo XIV picked out Nigeria as a nation in which Christians are being persecuted.
At least since the Obama presidency the US State Dept. held to the position that the conflict was a land dispute between the Fulani tribesman (Muslims) and the Christian Igbo tribe.
THE BBC’s doctoring of a Trump speech on a Panorama programme is bad enough, but it pales into insignificance when you consider its coverage of covid over the past five years. The broadcaster shamelessly went along with the government and NHS over lockdowns, masks, testing and the rollout of the vaccines without ever raising a dissenting voice or questioning any of the mandates.
The BBC has told President Trump’s lawyers that it would fight his lawsuit for up to $5 billion, claiming nobody in America watched its misleading Panorama programme and it didn’t damage his reputation.
The broadcaster’s lawyers have responded robustly to Trump’s threat to sue billions for dollars in damages with a letter that clearly sets out the belief that it has no case to answer.
US President Donald Trump has said he will take legal action against the BBC over how his speech was edited by Panorama, after the corporation apologised but refused to compensate him.
Speaking to reporters on board Air Force One on Friday evening, Trump said: “We’ll sue them for anywhere between $1bn [£759m] and $5bn, probably sometime next week.”
The BBC has been accused of doctoring footage of a Donald Trump speech on Newsnight two years before a similarly edited clip was shown on Panorama.
Footage of a speech given by the US President on January 6, 2021, was edited in a way that appeared to show him inciting his followers to storm the Capitol building in Washington DC.
It was shown in an episode of Newsnight in June 2022, more than two years before a similarly spliced clip was aired in a BBC Panorama documentary.
The BBC has apologised to US President Donald Trump for a Panorama episode that spliced parts of his 6 January 2021 speech together, but rejected his demands for compensation.
The corporation said the edit had given “the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action” and said it would not show the 2024 programme again.
Lawyers for Trump have threatened to sue the BBC for $1bn (£759m) in damages unless the corporation issues a retraction, apologises and compensates him.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) once fancied itself the gold standard of journalism — the global voice of calm reason in a noisy world. “Nation shall speak peace unto nation,” its motto declared. But these days, it seems the BBC prefers to funnel deceit into living rooms. What was once a proud symbol of objectivity has morphed into a state-funded sermon of sanctimony, dripping with bias, and dressed up as “public service.”
Sub CBC same same different.
Donald Trump has said he feels he has “an obligation” to sue the BBC over its editing of one of his speeches, as a deadline looms for the corporation to respond to his billion-dollar legal threat.
The US president accused the broadcaster of having “defrauded the public” with an edition of Panorama last year that spliced together two parts of a speech he made on 6 January 2021 and has given it until Friday to respond.
It is seen as one of the main factors in the shock resignation on Sunday of Tim Davie, the BBC’s director general, and Deborah Turness, the head of BBC News.
In the end, it was revelations concerning the manner in which the BBC’s flagship current affairs program, “Panorama,” spliced together clips of a speech by US President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021, that forced the corporation’s boss and head of news to quit on Sunday.
But director-general Tim Davie and Deborah Turness, the chief executive of BBC News, have been in the firing line for months over allegations of bias — not least because of the national broadcaster’s coverage of antisemitism, the war in Gaza, and Israel more generally.
h/t MP
