The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is preparing to issue an apology after facing heavy backlash for editing Donald Trump’s January 6 speech in a way critics say made it look as if the US president encouraged the 2021 Capitol riot. At the centre of the storm is Samir Shah, the Indian-origin Chair of the BBC, who will write to the UK Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee on Monday to address the row. Shah is expected to acknowledge that the 2024 BBC Panorama documentary should not have altered Trump’s speech in the way it did. According to reports, he will tell lawmakers that the programme could have made it clearer that the audio had been changed. He will also say the BBC did not intend to mislead viewers. The White House had earlier called the edit “dishonest." Th

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