US President Donald Trump’s lawyers have given the BBC until November 14 to retract a Panorama documentary that they say falsely and maliciously portrayed him as inciting violence. The programme had spliced together separate segments of his speech, creating what his legal team called a defamatory impression that he urged supporters to fight like hell and march with him to the Capitol.

The controversy has plunged the BBC into turmoil, leading to the resignations of its two top executives — Director General Tim Davie and News Chief Executive Deborah Turness — on Sunday. BBC chair Samir Shah apologised for what he described as “an error of judgment,” while denying accusations of systemic bias within the organisation, according to Reuters.

“The BBC would like to apologise for that error of j

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