According to news agency Associated Press, US President Donald Trump sued the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on Monday, demanding $10 billion in damages for the January 6 speech edit controversy.
The AP article claims that Trump has accused the BBC of engaging in unfair and deceptive trade practices in addition to defamation.
A "false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory, and malicious depiction of President Trump" was allegedly broadcast by the BBC, according to the 33-page lawsuit, which described it as "a brazen attempt to interfere in and influence" the 2024 US presidential election.
The BBC was accused in the lawsuit of "intentionally misrepresenting the meaning of what President Trump said" by "splicing together two entirely separate parts of President Trump's speech on January 6, 2021."

After the US President threatened legal action, the BBC apologised to Trump last month for editing the speech on January 6 but denied that it had defamed the Republican leader. The edit was referred to as a "mistake of judgement" by BBC chairman Samir Shah.
Top executives at the BBC, including the chief of news for the publicly financed channel, resigned as a result of the controversy.
What is the Donald Trump speech edit row from January 6th?
Speech in the centre of the row: The controversy concerns a speech made by Donald Trump prior to some of the Republican leader's followers storming the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, just as Congress was about to recognise President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election, which Trump falsely claimed was rigged.

BBC documentary: Days before the 2024 US presidential election, the BBC aired an hour-long documentary titled "Trump: A Second Chance?"
Chunks utilised: Three comments from two parts of the 2021 address, which were spoken over an hour apart, were combined into what seemed to be a single quote in which Trump exhorted followers to march alongside him and "fight like hell." Trump's statement that he wanted supporters to protest peacefully was one of the sections that was removed.