Overview
- The public broadcaster said Sunday that director‑general Tim Davie and BBC News chief Deborah Turness will step down following days of pressure over the contested Panorama segment.
- The programme juxtaposed Trump’s line about walking to the Capitol with a separate call to “fight like devils,” creating a misleading impression of a single statement.
- BBC chairman Samir Shah is scheduled to appear before Parliament’s Culture and Media Committee on Monday to deliver a full response, with apologies expected according to multiple reports.
- Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy called the allegations extremely serious and said she had raised concerns about editorial standards with the BBC chairman.
- The dispute stems from a Telegraph report citing an internal memo by a former BBC adviser and follows an October Ofcom ruling that a separate Gaza report breached broadcasting rules; the White House denounced the edit as deliberately dishonest.