BBC 'determined to fight' any Trump legal action, chairman tells staff

BBC seat Samir Shah has said determination is "no ground for a defamation lawsuit and we are determined to combat this" - aft Donald Trump said helium would writer the corp for betwixt $1bn and $5bn.

In an email to staff, Mr Shah said: "There is simply a batch being written, said and speculated upon astir the anticipation of ineligible action, including imaginable costs oregon settlements.

"In each this we are, of course, acutely alert of the privilege of our backing and the request to support our licence interest payers, the British public.

"I privation to beryllium precise wide with you - our presumption has not changed. There is nary ground for a defamation lawsuit and we are determined to combat this."

It comes aft the US president confirmed on Saturday helium would beryllium taking ineligible enactment against the broadcaster implicit the editing of his code connected Panorama - contempt an apology from the BBC.

"We'll writer them. We'll writer them for anyplace betwixt a cardinal (£792m) and 5 cardinal dollars (£3.79bn), astir apt sometime adjacent week," helium told reporters.

"We person to bash it, they've adjacent admitted that they cheated. Not that they couldn't person not done that. They cheated. They changed the words coming retired of my mouth."

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