BBC chair Samir Shah has apologised for an "error of judgement" in how Panorama edited a speech by Donald Trump
BBC DG Tim Davie & CEO of News Deborah Turness resigned on Sunday night, after a leaked memo criticised a 2024 doc about the US president
The memo, written by ex- adviser Michael Prescott, said the programme put two parts of Trump's speech together so he appeared to explicitly encourage the Capitol Hill riots of Jan 2021
In a letter to MPs on Culture, Media & Sport Committee, Shah says the editing "did give the impression of a direct call for violent action"
President Trump has sent a letter to the BBC, threatening legal action
Prescott's memo also criticised other areas of BBC News coverage - he said he sent it to the BBC Board in "despair at inaction by the BBC Executive"
But Shah says it is "simply not true" to say the BBC has done nothing to tackle problems he raised, & in a later interview says there is no ‘systemic bias at the BBC’