BBC chair to issue statement today after resignations of director general and news CEO

Samir Shah is set to apologise in parliament today

The national broadcaster continues to be under pressure after being accused of editing Donald Trump's speech shown in a Panorama documentary, making it seem as if the US President incited violence.

Tim Davie, the BBC’s director general, announced his resignation yesterday evening after five years in the role. During that time, he faced multiple accusations of bias and several controversies.

Sunday evening also saw the resignation of BBC News CEO Deborah Turness.

Davie said that, as director general, he must 'take the ultimate responsibility,' while Turness acknowledged that 'the buck stops with me.'

All focus is now on Shah, the broadcaster's chair, who is expected to make his statement today and offer an apology.

A BBC spokesperson said: "The BBC chairman will provide a full response to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee on Monday."

Donald Trump has since released a statement after the resignations and following the controversy over editing one of his speeches featured in an episode of The BBC's Panorama documentary series about the 2021 US Capitol Hill riots.

This comes in the wake of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt accusing the BBC of being "purposefully dishonest" and using "selectively edited" footage in its film.

In an interview with the Telegraph, Leavitt described the BBC as "100% fake news".

She added that watching BBC bulletins on trips to the UK "ruins" her day and claimed taxpayers are being "forced to foot the bill for a leftist propaganda machine".

Now, Donald Trump has reacted to the news with a statement on his social media platform Truth Social.

He wrote: "The TOP people in the BBC, including TIM DAVIE, the BOSS, are all quitting/FIRED, because they were caught 'doctoring' my very good (PERFECT!) speech of January 6th.

"Thank you to The Telegraph for exposing these Corrupt 'Journalists.'

"These are very dishonest people who tried to step on the scales of a Presidential Election. On top of everything else, they are from a Foreign Country, one that many consider our Number One Ally.

"What a terrible thing for Democracy!"

The Telegraph claim to have seen a leaked document that suggested an episode of BBC's Panorama programme "completely misled" viewers being splicing two parts of the speech together.

The leaked extract of the memo reads: “It was completely misleading to edit the clip in the way Panorama aired it. The fact that he did not explicitly exhort supporters to go down and fight at Capitol Hill was one of the reasons there were no federal charges for incitement to riot.”

Davie took the role in 2020, replacing Tony Hall.