Russia attacked the BBC over the scandal involving its editing of video clips that were filmed 54 minutes apart showing President Donald Trump's speech on January 6, 2021 so it misleadingly appeared he had encouraged his supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol.

“They are beyond reproach," Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, told her country's state-run Tass news agency, originally in Russian.

Zakharova also accused the BBC , Britain's public broadcaster, of "falsification" in its reporting of the 2022 Bucha massacre by Russian troops in Ukraine.

Newsweek has contacted the BBC Press Office for comment via email.

The scandal is the latest vindication of Trump in his campaign against the media, which he and his allies accuse of persistent bias against him, and

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