Trump vs press: US Prez’s battle with BBC could threaten its global reach

BBC leaders grilled by lawmakers over standards after Trump’s latest threat

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The BBC broadcasts in 43 languages across 64 countries

(AP)

When the BBC launched an expansion into the US. in June, its head of news promised “trust at a time of dramatic global uncertainty”.

Five months on, President Donald Trump is threatening a $5 billion lawsuit, governments long hostile to independent news are vowing to make life difficult for the British broadcaster and its news chief Deborah Turness has gone.

Summary

» The crisis has been sparked by the admission that in a piece that aired before last year’s U.S. presidential election

» Senior BBC leaders were quizzed by Parliament's Culture, Media and Sport Committee amid ‘a crisis at the publicly funded corporation