The BBC has apologized to US President Donald Trump for his edited speech, but has refused to meet his demand for $1 billion in compensation, the BBC reports.

The corporation acknowledged that the segment of the Panorama program featuring Trump had been edited. It could have created a false impression that the president called for violence during his January 6, 2021 speech.

The apology came two hours after The Telegraph published a second similar edited segment that was broadcast on Newsnight in 2022.

In addition to its apology, the BBC has removed the aforesaid program from broadcast.

Also, the BBC presented arguments for rejecting the US president’s demand for $1 billion in compensation: the program was not broadcast in the US, the documentary did not harm Trump, the editing was not malicious, the clip was only a short segment of a one-hour program, and political statements are protected by US freedom-of-speech laws.