The BBC has apologised to Donald Trump over the editing of a speech in a Panorama programme in 2024.

The corporation said it was an "error of judgement" and the programme will "not be broadcast again in this form on any BBC platforms".

But it added that it "strongly" disagrees that there is "a basis for a defamation claim".

It emerged earlier, Donald Trump's legal team said the US president had not yet filed a lawsuit against the BBC over the

broadcaster's editing of a speech he made in 2021 on the day his supporters overran the Capitol building.

The legal team sent a letter over the weekend threatening to sue the media giant for $1bn and issuing three demands:

• Issue a "full and fair retraction" of the Panorama programme

• Apologise immediately

• "Appropriately compensate" the US

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