Willem Marx

For NPR News, I'm Willem Marx in Davos, Switzerland.

The current set of demonstrations that have lasted two weeks are the biggest in years, and the Iranian authorities have promised to safeguard their existing system of government.

Meanwhile, President Trump has posted on social media that the U.S.

stands, quote, ready to help with Iran, quote, looking at freedom perhaps like never before.

Restrictions on Internet access limit information from inside Iran.

But as night fell Saturday, recently posted videos seem to show fresh protests in parts of the capital city, Tehran, and several other cities across the country.

Reza Pahlavi, son of the last shah of Iran who was deposed in 1979, issued one of his frequent messages, urging protesters to expand their efforts so as to topple the country's theocratic leadership.

For NPR News, I'm Willem Marks.

Thanks for having me on.

Well, they acknowledged that during a documentary broadcast as part of its flagship Panorama series, that January 6th speech by President Trump was edited in a way that it spliced together remarks made nearly an hour apart.

That created the impression he made a continuous call to fight like hell and march to the Capitol.

In a statement, the BBC said it accepted that the edit, quote, unintentionally created the impression that we were showing a single continuous section of the speech.

And they acknowledged this gave the mistaken impression that President Trump had made a direct call for violent action.

The documentary was broadcast a short time ahead of the U.S.

2024 presidential election.

And the chairman of the board of the BBC governor, Samir Shah, said it would not be broadcast again.

Well, in short, he said the apology from the BBC wasn't enough.

A week ago, his team had issued an initial threat that demanded a retraction, an apology and a financial settlement.

In that first letter, his attorney suggested he was willing to file a billion dollar lawsuit.

But last night, Trump told reporters on Air Force One en route to Florida, he and his attorneys would now sue the BBC for anywhere between $1 billion and $5 billion sometime next week.