Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service, coming to you live from London.
I'm Julian Warwicko.
It's been described as an extraordinary moment in the history of the BBC,
the resignations of Tim Davy,
who was in overall charge of the corporation, and he's head of news,
Deborah Turness, announced on a Sunday evening with no advanced warning.
It all came about after a leaked memo criticised a BBC TV documentary programme about President Trump,
which was broadcast weeks before he won the election a year ago.
The specific error at the heart of the crisis was about the editing of a speech made by the president on the day of the riots on Capitol Hill in 2021.
The programme put two parts of the president's speech together,
so he appeared to explicitly encourage the rioting that day.
made clear to viewers.
Questions are now being raised about the impartiality of the BBC,
one of its key commitments to its viewers and listeners.
And there's been a furious reaction from Washington,
where President Trump has said some BBC journalists are corrupt.
Well, in the last couple of hours, the BBC chairman,
Samir Shah, has apologised on behalf of the corporation.
He explained to the BBC's Katie Razzle what he was apologising for.
The apologising is for the way the team edited President Trump's speech to his supporters on January the 6th.