What are the president's lawyers claiming?

Donald Trump has made good on his threat to file a lawsuit against the BBC over its editing of a speech he made. Here the Guardian examines some of the key passages in the claim.

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Claim: malicious and defamatory As set forth in a damning, recently leaked BBC internal whistleblower document, the BBC intentionally used the Panorama documentary to maliciously, falsely, and defamatorily make it appear that President Trump explicitly called for violent action and rioting, and that he "said something he did not".

The “internal whisteblower document” was a memo sent to the board by Michael Prescott, a former independent external adviser to the BBC. The memo made no finding of malice, although it did describe the nature of the programme as being “anti-Trump” and that the splicing together of the clips “materially misled viewers”. The issue of malice is important because public figures in the US must prove actual malice. The BBC argues that the edit was done to shorten a long clip and not with malice.

Claim: VPN use to access documentary

The Panorama documentary’s publicity, coupled with significant increases in VPN usage in Florida since its debut, establishes the immense likelihood that citizens of Florida accessed the documentary before the BBC had it removed.