- When British broadcaster 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, US President Donald Trump is threatening a US$5 billion (S$6.5 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 left. The crisis has been sparked by the admission that in a piece that aired before 2024’s US presidential election, the BBC’s flagship documentary programme Panorama spliced together parts of Mr Trump’s speech on the day...