By Admin 
US President Donald seems to be in a mood to take legal action against BBC. He has said that he will recover 5 billion dollars from BBC. Britain’s public broadcast company BBC had apologized to him last year for editing his speech in a documentary and running it incompletely.
Trump told media persons on Saturday, ‘We will sue them. We will sue them for one billion to five billion US dollars. Will take such steps next week.
He said, ‘We have to do this, they have admitted that they (BBC) have committed fraud. He changed the words that came out of my mouth.
The controversy comes after a tense period for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which resulted in the resignation of top BBC executives. Its Indian-origin chief Sameer Shah has also apologized.
What was the opinion of BBC?
On Thursday, the BBC said that editing of Trump’s January 6, 2021 speech had created the false impression that the President had directly called for violent action. It will not be broadcast again. BBC has apologized to the US President. But has refused to give any kind of compensation.
Trump had threatened
Trump had threatened to sue the public broadcaster for one billion US dollars if he did not retract the statement, apologize and compensate him. However, he has now said that despite the apology he intends to take legal action.
In an interview given to Britain’s ‘GB News’, Trump said that although he does not want to get involved in the lawsuit, he feels that it is his responsibility to do so.
He said, ‘This is a very serious matter. If you don’t do this, you can’t stop it from happening again to other people.
The controversial ‘Panorama’ footage was broadcast in October 2024. In this, Trump’s speech given in Washington DC in 2021 was mentioned. He had told his supporters, ‘We will walk to the Capitol (Parliament) and encourage our brave MPs and women.’
More than 50 minutes into the speech, he said, “And we fight.” We fight with all our heart.
However, the program showed him saying, ‘We will walk to the Capitol… and I will be there with you.’ And we will fight. We will fight tooth and nail.
The controversy over the way Trump’s speech was edited led to the resignation of BBC Director General Tim Davie and Head of News Deborah Turnness.
A BBC statement said: ‘We acknowledge that our editing inadvertently created the impression that we were showing the same part of the speech continuously, rather than different parts of it. This created the false impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action.
A BBC spokesperson said the broadcaster’s lawyers have written to Trump’s legal team in response, and BBC chairman Samir Shah has sent a separate personal letter to the White House, “making clear to President Trump that he and the public broadcaster regret the editing of the President’s speech on January 6, 2021, which was shown in the program.”
The spokesperson said: ‘However, the BBC regrets that the way the video clip was edited was incorrect. But we completely disagree that there is any basis for a defamation claim in this.