BBC道歉！但拒绝赔偿

英国广播公司13日就其《全景》栏目一部纪录片拼接美国总统特朗普在2021年国会大厦骚乱事件当天的讲话、继而误导观众，向特朗普道歉，但拒绝特朗普方面提出的赔偿要求。

The BBC has apologised to US President Donald Trump for a Panorama episode that spliced together parts of his speech on Jan 6, 2021, but has rejected his demands for compensation.

英国广播公司发言人说，公司律师已就9日收到特朗普法律团队来信作出书面回复，公司董事会主席萨米尔·沙阿单独致信白宫，明确向特朗普表示，他本人和公司为剪辑特朗普讲话而抱歉。英国广播公司所有平台将不再重播这部纪录片。

In a statement posted by the BBC on Thursday, the network said its chair, Samir Shah, had sent a personal letter to the White House apologizing for the edit and that the network has “no plans” to rebroadcast the program.

这名发言人说：“尽管公司对视频片段的编辑方式深表遗憾，但我们强烈认为不存在提起诽谤诉讼的依据。”

“While the BBC sincerely regrets the manner in which the video clip was edited, we strongly disagree there is a basis for a defamation claim,” an unnamed spokesperson wrote in the statement.

特朗普的法律团队9日致信英国广播公司，要求后者最晚于14日作出回复，撤回相关纪录片、道歉并就所造成伤害向特朗普作出合理赔偿，否则将索赔10亿美元。

Lawyers for Trump have threatened to sue the BBC for $1bn in damages unless the corporation issues a retraction, apologizes and compensates him.

去年10月28日、即美国总统选举投票大约一周前，英国广播公司《全景》栏目播出纪录片《特朗普：第二次机会？》。这家媒体13日晚承认，其编辑把特朗普当年在国会大厦骚乱发生前所发表讲话中的两个相隔50多分钟的片段拼接在一起，“无意中”造成这是一段连贯讲话的印象，继而造成特朗普直接呼吁支持者采取暴力行动的错误印象。

The legal threats center on a spliced edit of Trump’s speech ahead of the Jan 6, 2021, Capitol riot that appeared in the network’s program “Trump: A Second Chance?” In the clip, the president appears to say, “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be there with you, and we fight. We fight like hell.”

In reality, those lines were delivered almost an hour apart, and the footage also omitted a soundbite where Trump tells supporters “to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard”.

这一事件引发巨大舆论争议。英国广播公司总裁蒂姆·戴维和新闻部门首席执行官德博拉·特尼斯9日宣布辞职。

The fallout from the scandal led to the resignations of BBC director general Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness on Sunday.

来源：新华社 BBC 政治新闻网

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