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The BBC will apologise for the misleading editing of a Donald Trump speech in a Panorama documentary, the Telegraph can disclose. Samir Shah, the BBC’s chairman, will write to the culture, media and sport committee on Monday to express regret for the way the speech, made on the day of the Jan 6 2021 Capitol riot, was spliced together. The apology will heap further pressure on Tim Davie, the BBC’s director general, to quit over an 8,000-word dossier compiled by a whistleblower that alleged widespread bias within the corporation. The Telegraph has previously disclosed that both Mr Davie and Mr...

My job deprives me of the luxury of partisanship, as I have to reach out to both sides on the issue of free trade--a disastrous policy one can give impeccably liberal or conservative reasons to be against. So I can't offer any opinion of the Tea Party movement per se. But I can tell you that the way they're handling the issue of free trade reveals a lot about them. Over the last year, I've interacted with the Tea Party about the issue at both the local level and with some of their leadership. And I've observed a few things....

Pro-government commander reported slain in western AfghanistanA Shiite Muslim commander from a militia allied with interim Prime Minister Hamid Karzai's government was slain last week at his home. The Afghan Islamic Press says unidentified gunmen attacked the house of the commander, Abdul Samad Lang, in the town of Farah and shot him dead along with his mother. Several other people were injured. The killers were not identified. The victim was a member of Harkat-e-Islami, which supports Afghanistan's interim government. Story filed: 14:47 Sunday 10th March 2002