Donald Trump has given the BBC a deadline of Friday to retract "false" and "defamatory" statements made about him in a Panorama documentary, or face a billion-dollar legal action.The US president threatened legal action after a report from Michael Prescott, a former external adviser to the BBC's editorial standards committee, raised concerns that a speech Mr Trump had made before the attack on the US Capitol on January 6 2021 had been selectively edited by the BBC.

Donald Trump has given the BBC a deadline of Friday to retract "false" and "defamatory" statements made about him in a Panorama documentary, or face a billion-dollar legal action.The US president threatened legal action after a report from Michael Prescott, a former external adviser to the BBC's editorial standards committee, raised concerns that a speech Mr Trump had made before the attack on the US Capitol on January 6 2021 had been selectively edited by the BBC.