00:00UK public broadcaster the BBC has apologized to U.S. President Donald Trump
00:05after being threatened with a lawsuit over a deceptively edited video.
00:09The video in question was a documentary the BBC aired last year,
00:13which spliced together two separate parts of a speech Trump made in 2021.
00:18The edit made it look like Trump had called for violence by his supporters in the January 6th Capitol riot.
00:24Trump's lawyers threatened to sue the BBC for $1 billion U.S. dollars
00:28unless it pulled the documentary, apologized, and paid Trump for damage to his reputation.
00:33The BBC issued an apology on Friday but said the claims for damages are baseless.
00:38The crisis at the BBC has brought public scrutiny of its reporting
00:41and prompted the resignations of some of its top leadership.
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