Trump to sue BBC for 'up to $5bn'
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Charlotte Gallagher, and in the early hours of Saturday, the 15th of November, these are our main stories. Donald Trump says he will sue the BBC for up to $5 billion, despite the broadcaster apologising for a documentary which edited his speech. The US president also says he will order an investigation into prominent Democrats' alleged links to Jeffrey Epstein. And the mining giant BHP is found liable for Brazil's worst environmental disaster. Also in this podcast, the latest from COP30. And we're in the occupied West Bank, where there's been a record number of attacks on Palestinians by Israeli settlers.
The message they want to send is that they can reach anywhere, into cities, into villages, that they can kill civilians, can burn houses and mosques.
Let's start with the ongoing row between the BBC and the US President. Donald Trump has said he will take legal action against the broadcaster. The BBC has already apologised for editing together two parts of Mr Trump's speech on the day of the Capitol riots, which gave the impression he had called for violence. The BBC's Director General and Head of News have resigned over the scandal. Speaking on Air Force One, President Trump told reporters about his plans. We'll sue them for anywhere between a billion and five billion dollars, probably sometime next week. So you're ready to take legal action? I think I have to do it. I mean, they've even admitted that they cheated. They changed the words coming out of my mouth.
Mr Trump has also been speaking to another British broadcaster, GB News. The interviewer, saying that the BBC had apologised but wasn't willing to pay compensation, asked President Trump how far he was willing to go.
I'm not looking to get into lawsuits, but I think I have an obligation to do it. This was so egregious. If you don't do it, you don't stop it from happening again with other people. I think you probably have an obligation. I'd like to find out why they did it. You know, it's so bad. Who thinks like this? And I wonder if they've done it. We'll find this out. You know, the nice part about litigation is we'll find out how many times have they done it to other people. Maybe they did it to me quite a bit.
So Donald Trump is not backing down. Our correspondent in Washington, Sean Dilley, was watching his interview. He was very unhappy with the BBC. He said he has an obligation that things get found out when there is litigation. And he said that for him, he just wants to understand who thinks like that. Ultimately, who would edit the words he used and why. So broadly, what we also learned throughout not just the GB News interview, but his gaggle with journalist on Air Force One. He said that he would hope that the action would start probably in the next week somewhere in a court in the United States. And it would be for an amount he'd hoped to get between $1 billion and $5 billion. So we are talking quite a lot of money there.
And how do you think he seemed in the interview? Going just in terms of how he sounds, I think he probably sounds quite hurt. But he's somebody who does take to heart any personal criticism. In the United States, the media here aren't as interested in this topic as the UK media are. But it so happens that the BBC is already a matter of public debate and its role in public life and politics and beyond. So I think he's probably had quite an outpouring of supporters when he was sort of agreeing to do his GB News interview and speak to The Telegraph, who first reported about the leaked memo from Michael Prescott and the Panorama programme itself. So I think he sounded like somebody who felt justified in what he was doing.
Now, it's further to judge whether he is justified. He isn't justified. Maybe you take one view on that either way. But he sounded like a man with purpose. And he has been known to sue U.S. networks, hasn't he? Yeah, but not for billions of dollars. I mean, you know, he mentioned CBS News.
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