BBC to argue Trump failed to show he was defamed in documentary
Britain’s public broadcaster, the BBC, said on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump had failed to establish that it defamed him in a documentary broadcast shortly before he ...
BBC lawsuit could sink US special relationship
Defamation is a niche branch of the law for the rich and powerful but the $5 billion claim by President Trump against the BBC for defaming him is off the scale. ...
Trump seeks $10 billion in damages, accuses BBC of splicing speech to incite violence
President Donald Trump sued the BBC on Monday for defamation over edited clips of a speech that made it appear he directed supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol, opening ...
BBC board member Banerji resigns after Trump documentary edit
An independent director on the BBC’s board, Shumeet Banerji, has quit on Friday in the wake of what the public broadcaster said was an incorrect edit of a speech ...
How the BBC blunder must have happened
I have spent thousands of hours sitting alongside video editors working on productions quite similar to the Panorama documentary that has landed the British Broadcasting Corporation with the threat of ...
The BBC and an ironic twist to its impartial legacy
President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Airforce One on Friday that he will sue the BBC for between $1 and $5 billion for cheating and putting words in his mouth in a ...
Trump says he will likely sue the BBC for up to $5 billion over edited speech
US President Donald Trump said on Friday he would likely sue the BBC next week for as much as $5 billion after the British broadcaster admitted it wrongly edited a video ...
Pressure mounts on BBC as Director General Tim Davie and News Chief Deborah Turness quit
The BBC’s boss and its head of news quit on Sunday following accusations of bias at the British broadcaster, including in the way it edited a speech by U....
Wildlife NGO launches campaign to expose bird trapping in Maroni
The Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS), an international wildlife protection group, has launched a new campaign in Cyprus aimed at exposing what it says is large-scale illegal bird trapping in ...
Ex-England striker Gary Lineker to leave BBC presenting role
Gary Lineker, a former England captain and the face of soccer on British television for over two decades, will leave the BBC, the broadcaster said in a statement on Monday.
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UK broadcaster Michael Parkinson dies aged 88
British broadcaster Michael Parkinson, best known for interviewing some of the world’s biggest stars on his long-running chat show, has died aged 88, the BBC said on Thursday, citing a ...
Lineker pulled from BBC presenting after migration row
Former England soccer captain Gary Lineker has been taken off air by the BBC after his comments on Britain’s migration policy sparked a furious row between the government and ...
BBC chair made ‘errors of judgement’ over Boris Johnson loan, lawmakers say
BBC Chair Richard Sharp made “significant errors of judgement” in failing to declare his involvement in facilitating a loan for then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson shortly before he was appointed to ...
How a Cypriot artist became the last victim of UK obscenity laws
A new BBC documentary airing next week revisits the famous 1966 case in Britain which prosecuted artist Stass Paraskos
In 1966, Cypriot artist Stass Paraskos was arrested for staging his exhibition Lovers ...
Russia tells BBC journalist to go home in row with Britain
Russia has told a BBC journalist working in Moscow to leave the country by the end of this month in retaliation for what it called London’s discrimination against Russian ...