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| Hello. The BBC has apologised to US President Donald Trump for editing together parts of a speech he made on the day of the Capitol riot. As Ukraine faces a barrage of Russian attacks, the country is bracing for its "worst winter" of the war, a government official has said. And finally, would you spend £1m ($1.3m) on a pile of old rope? | |
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TOP OF THE AGENDA | BBC apologises to Trump over Panorama edit but refuses to pay compensation |
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|  | The BBC said it 'stongly' disagreed 'there is a basis for a defamation claim'. Credit: Reuters/AFP via Getty Images | The BBC has apologised to Trump for a Panorama documentary episode which spliced together parts of a speech he made on 6 January 2021 and said it will not show the programme again. Lawyers for the US president had threatened to sue the BBC for $1bn (£759m) in damages unless the corporation issued a retraction, apology and compensation by Friday. The BBC has rejected Trump's demands for compensation. The apology comes after a second similarly edited clip, broadcast on Newsnight in 2022, was revealed by the Daily Telegraph newspaper. The BBC said it is looking into what happened. |
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| Ukraine fights to hold on through winter as Russia ramps up attacks |  | Russia launched 268 ballistic missiles and 5,298 drones on Ukraine last month. Credit: EPA/Shutterstock | More than three-and-a-half years of Russia's war on Ukraine have taken their toll and the war of attrition is continuing on the homefront, with civilians subject to barrages of missiles and drone attacks. Yet Ukrainians are fighting back hard by trying to keep morale high ahead of what some believe "will be the worst winter" in the country's history. |
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| | James Landale, diplomatic correspondent |
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| | Walk the streets of Kyiv and you'll pass a sea of tired faces - people's eyes are red from a lack of sleep, their rest broken by the air raid sirens. "I am tired of not sleeping enough," says Yana Kolomiets. "But... people who fight on the front line are tired [too]."
All across Ukraine, families are bracing themselves for tough times ahead - a long, cold winter in which Russian President Vladimir Putin is attempting to finish off his invasion by striking Ukraine's power supplies. Ukrainians are enduring regular power cuts of up to 16 hours a day. In winter, temperatures can plummet as low as -20C (-4F). One senior government figure told me they expect the next few months to be brutal. |
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| | | - Corruption scandal: Two Ukrainian ministers have resigned in the wake of an investigation into energy sector corruption.
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