BBC says it will fight Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit
LONDON: The BBC said on Tuesday it will fight a $10 billion lawsuit brought by US President Donald Trump against the British broadcaster over a documentary it edited of his 2021 speech in the run-up to the US Capitol uprising. “As we have previously made clear, we will defend this case,” a BBC spokesman said in a statement sent to AFP, adding that the company would not make “further comment on ongoing legal proceedings”. The lawsuit, filed in Miami federal court, seeks “damages of not less than $5,000,000,000” on each of two counts against the British broadcaster, alleging defamation and












