In a major upheaval at the British Broadcasting Corporation , both the BBC ’s director general and head of news resigned on Sunday (November 9) amid controversy surrounding the editing of a speech by US President Donald Trump in a documentary.

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The BBC said Director-General Tim Davie and news CEO Deborah Turness had both decided to leave the corporation.

Britain's publicly funded national broadcaster has been criticized for editing a speech Trump made on January 6, 2021, before protesters attacked the Capitol in Washington.

BBC leadership faces fallout

Critics said that the way the speech was edited for a BBC documentary last year was misleading and cut out a section where Trump said that he wanted s

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