It did not take long for the White House to react - and that's unsurprising given that the resignations were driven, on the face of it at least, by the BBC's splicing together of that Trump speech from January 2021.
It was clear on Friday that the White House was keen to weigh in on the BBC row, with the White House press secretary using an interview with The Daily Telegraph to criticise the BBC.
"This purposefully dishonest, selectively edited clip by the BBC is further evidence that they are total, 100% fake news that should no longer be worth the time on the television screens of the great people of the United Kingdom," Karoline Leavitt told the newspaper.
After last night's resignations, Mr Trump posted a lengthy statement on Truth Social.
"The TOP people in the BBC, including TIM DAVIE, the BOSS, are all quitting/FIRED, because they were caught "doctoring" my very good (PERFECT!) speech of January 6th," he wrote.
"Thank you to The Telegraph for exposing these Corrupt 'Journalists.' These are very dishonest people who tried to step on the scales of a Presidential Election. On top of everything else, they are from a Foreign Country, one that many consider our Number One Ally. What a terrible thing for Democracy!"
It was the Telegraph that leaked the internal memo last week, in which it was revealed that a BBC Panorama report - aired just before the election last year - had spliced together two parts of a long Trump speech which he made on 6 January 2021.
That was the day of the storming of the Capitol building in Washington by Trump supporters who believed the 2020 election had been stolen by Joe Biden.
Mr Trump gave a speech that day. In a Panorama report broadcast just before the US election last year, the BBC aired a clip from the speech.
The following is the transcript of that clip.
"We're gonna walk down to the Capitol and I'll be with you and we fight. We fight like hell and if you don't fight like hell, you're not gonna have a country anymore."
The clip was presented as one sentence - one thought. However, it was actually two distinct parts of the speech spliced together, reordered and covered with pictures of the crowd to hide the join - known as the edit point or cut.
Had the Panorama production team not edited the clip, this is what viewers would have heard. The sections used by Panorama are in bold for clarity.
"After this, we're going to walk down - and I'll be there with you - we're gonna walk down, we're gonna walk down anyone you want, but I think right here, we're going to walk down to the Capitol, and we're going to cheer on our brave congressmen and women, and we probably not gonna be cheering so much for some of them. Because you're never going to take back our country with weakness you have to be strong. We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing, and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated. I know that everyone will soon be marching down to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."
The "fight like hell" line came about an hour later - right at the end of the speech. Here it is in full. Again, the section used by Panorama are in bold for clarity.
"And again, most people would stand there at 9 o'clock in the evening and say I want to thank you very much, and they go off to some other life. But I said something's wrong here, something is really wrong, can't have happened. And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. Our exciting adventures and boldest endeavours have not yet begun. My fellow Americans, for our movement, for our children, and for our beloved country. And I say this despite all that's happened. The best is yet to come. So we're going to, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I love Pennsylvania Avenue. And we're going to the Capitol. The Democrats are hopeless, they never vote for anything. Not even one vote. But we're going to try and give our Republicans, the weak ones because the strong ones don't need any of our help. We're going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country. So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I want to thank you all. God bless you and God Bless America."
The riot at the Capitol building unfolded that afternoon.
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The president and his team have always claimed the "fight like hell" comment was purely rhetorical, and they have dismissed accusations that Mr Trump encouraged the unrest.
Trump's alleged role in the unrest and his broader efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election were the subject of a federal criminal case. The president was indicted on four felony counts.
The case was dismissed by federal prosecutors following his 2024 election victory because of a long-standing policy that prohibits the prosecution of sitting presidents.
But in a final report released last January, federal prosecutor Jack Smith said he believed there was enough evidence to convict Mr Trump in a trial had it happened.
There is a legitimate and enduring debate over Mr Trump's role in the events of 6 January. But that does not in any way explain or excuse the BBC's decision to splice together and reorder two distinct parts of the president's speech.
More than 20 people answered the call he made on social media - one wears a T-shirt saying Jesus is King.
Another wears a Union Jack anorak with a T-shirt emblazoned "UTK" - Unite the Kingdom - the movement organised by anti-Islam campaigner Tommy Robinson.
Wearing a white robe over a wetsuit, Dewar strides down the beach and prepares for a mass baptism.
His voice booms out: "In the name of Jesus Christ, I gladly baptise you!"
Critics call Dewar "the far-right bishop" - a label he rejects.
But he does represent a new type of Christianity - more militant, more political - and one that is on the rise.
Several of those here came because they saw Dewar preaching fire and brimstone at Robinson's Unite the Kingdom march on 13 September.
And they are ready to follow him into the cold waters of the Celtic Sea. One by one, he blesses them, then plunges them under the waves. Afterwards, they hug. Some are euphoric.
Fergus Worrall drove from Bristol with his girlfriend Louise French; both were baptised.
"I saw Ceirion's speech at the Unite the Kingdom rally, and it was just epic," Worrall says. "I mean, I just loved it."
Worrall says he used to be "fairly lefty". After trying Buddhism and New Age practices, he came to Christianity. But Dewar's appeal is not just religious - online he decries immigration and the influence of Islam, a message that "chimed".
"We are a Christian culture, a Christian nation. And I do feel like we have lost a lot of that."
A month earlier, Dewar had addressed the 150,000-strong crowd at the Unite the Kingdom march in London, bishop's crook in hand, his voice thundering out over Westminster: “God, you have not abandoned Britain!”
When he looked out, he saw not just British and English flags, but wooden crosses and depictions of Jesus.
It was not his first appearance with Robinson. The year before, he spoke at another rally in Whitehall and said: "This nation of ours is under attack! We are at war! We are at war not just with the Muslim, not just with wokeness."
This is something new and growing - a movement that has long marched against immigration, against Islam, is now marching behind the cross.
I ask Dewar what for him, as a Christian, is the appeal of Robinson.
"It's not the appeal of Tommy Robinson, per se," he says. "It was the opportunity that he afforded to me to stand in front of that many people and to both pray for the people and this nation."
Dewar was marching front and centre with Robinson. He may be borrowing an audience from Robinson, but he's also effectively endorsing him, I suggest - and doing so in a bishop's garb.
"I don't think that at all. I'm very clear on what I endorse, and my political views are public and well-founded.
"My stand with Tommy is not necessarily political. It's a man that has surrendered his life to Christ, and he's on that journey of faith and trying as a good shepherd to help lead him in that and to shape that faith in a way that is beneficial to him."
I ask him whether he truly thinks we are "at war" with the Muslim.
"Unfortunately, what I was trying to convey, having listened to an entire day's worth of speeches, didn't come across quite the way I'd hoped to have expressed it," Dewar says.
"The problem for me is I understand we're a multi-ethnic, multicultural, multi-faith Britain, but when you have so many elements that refuse to get into the great melding pot of multiculturalism, but remain outside and try and force that culture, force that religious system, force that legal system into an existing culture, then there's always going to be problems.
"I would love to see more Christianity at the heart of our politics. I would like to see Christian principles once again driving our legal system."
Many on the hard and far right agree with him - and increasingly link an anti-Islam agenda with a Christian identity. That also adds grandeur to grassroots street politics, elevating a culture war into a clash of civilisations.
UKIP, which has become more explicitly nationalist since the departure of Nigel Farage as party leader, says in its manifesto that it will "declare war on radical Islam and place Christianity back into the heart of government".
Online, people call for a "holy war". Katie Hopkins, the far-right commentator who also marched shoulder to shoulder with Robinson, said in a recent interview: "Certainly the time of the crusades will need to come again... We are overrun."
One group organising online, with more than 50,000 followers, uses Christian imagery as part of its pledge to "hunt down Muslims".
Dr Maria Power, author of The Church, the Far Right, and the Claim to Christianity, describes this as "Christian nationalism" and says it has a precedent in the UK, especially in Northern Ireland, where Britishness and Christianity were often equated.
"But really, I've seen it increase since we've seen the power of Christian nationalism in the states develop. You start to see inklings of it, probably about four or five years ago. Particular pastors talking this way, podcasts emerging, and content emerging on places like YouTube. And it's very easy to fall down the rabbit hole of the algorithm, isn't it?"
Ceirion Dewar rejects the term Christian nationalism, which he sees as specific to the United States, a country that has a different tradition of public, political Christianity. And it's true that he and others have been advocating and preaching a more muscular Christianity since at least 2016 and the Brexit referendum.
One of his friends is Rikki Doolan, who belongs to the Spirit Embassy, a church in London with British-Zimbabwean origins. (A 2023 investigation by Al Jazeera accused Doolan and others in the church of being involved in money laundering, an accusation Doolan describes as "fake news and a false narrative".)
It was Doolan who "converted" Tommy Robinson to Christianity three weeks before the latter left prison earlier this year. Doolan says it is "a new journey" for Robinson.
Doolan was also on stage at UTK. I ask him about some of the statements made there, including by a Belgian politician, that "Islam does not belong in Europe and Islam does not belong in the UK". He says he disagrees with that "because it's not realistic". But "if we can’t fix the problem, then that makes more sense. But I would like to try and fix it first".
Doolan and Dewar stand outside the established Church. But the majority of Christians in the UK still belong to the Church of England.
Dr Sam Wells is the vicar of St Martin's-in-the-Field, a Church of England church on the corner of Trafalgar Square in London. He was holding an annual service commemorating victims of suicide when Robinson's march came right up to the square, resulting in skirmishes with the police. Wells says his congregation was "hurt" by the Christian imagery on display.
"The gestures of the cross, the Christian symbols, are about love and understanding and peace and gentleness and they're being thrust in people's faces as weapons," he says. "I think that's very painful."
Wells was one of the senior clergy leaders who signed an open letter denouncing Robinson's march as a "corruption" of the Christian faith, saying the cross was being "co-opted" by the far right. Dewar in turn wrote his own letter denouncing the Anglican hierarchy for seeking "polite applause in editorial offices and political chambers", calling on them to "repent".
Dr Wells says Dewar’s letter is "very well expressed but I think it’s nonsense".
"Christian values, what does that actually mean? I think it means love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness. An institution or a church or a preacher has a right to be called Christian if they look like Jesus. Those marches didn't look like Jesus to me. They looked like the kind of people who were attacking Jesus in Holy Week.
"I think they're reading a different Bible from the one I'm reading."
If the talk is of winning, well there are very different battlegrounds.
The cloisters versus a Cornish beach.
Dewar has several mass baptisms planned across the country; so does Doolan.
This is not just about the extreme right using Christianity for their own ends; it’s just as much some Christians using the far right to reach new audiences.
A new Christian politics, in all sorts of ways and all sorts of places, is on the march.
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Every 20 minutes, someone in the UK is hit by an uninsured or hit-and-run driver, the Motor Insurers' Bureau (MIB) said, based on claims from over 26,000 victims each year.
Every day, at least one person is so seriously injured by an uninsured or hit-and-run driver that they need life-long care and every week, at least one person is killed by an uninsured driver, according to the bureau.
Thurrock in Essex is the worst offending area for uninsured driving, according to claim data from the MIB, a non-profit organisation created to protect people from the impact of uninsured and hit-and-run drivers.
Four different postal areas in Birmingham are among the 15 hotspots highlighted by the MIB, with areas in Peterborough, Manchester, Belfast and Havering also named due to housing a large number of defendants per 1,000 residents.
The 15 worst postal areas for uninsured driving
• 1. Thurrock (RM19)
• 2. Birmingham (B25)
• 3. Birmingham (B18)
• 4. Peterborough (PE1)
• 5. Sandwell (B66)
• 6. Havering (RM1)
• 7. Birmingham (B21)
• 8. Manchester (M18)
• 9. Birmingham (B35)
• 10. Belfast (BT17)
• 11. Epping Forest (IG7)
• 12. Belfast (BT13)
• 13. Buckinghamshire (HP18)
• 14. Bradford (BD7)
• 15. Luton (LU1)
One of the victims of an uninsured driver is cyclist Cahal O'Reilly, 55, who was five miles from the ferryport in Holyhead, Wales, when he was hit from behind in September 2021.
He was thrown on to the windscreen and 20m through the air until he landed on the side of the road, seriously injured.
The uninsured driver, who police estimate was driving at 70mph, fled the scene.
'Left for dead'
"I was left for dead, bleeding to death on the side of the road," Mr O'Reilly told Sky News.
"Nobody knows how long I was on the floor for. When I came to my senses, I could taste my own blood and feel the road on my cheek."
He realised he was "pretty seriously injured" when he could not move his ankles, and lay still until help arrived.
A passing motorist, who initially thought Mr O'Reilly's lifeless form was debris before realising it was a body, called the emergency services.
Mr O'Reilly was left with serious injuries, including a broken back and neck, shattered pelvis, smashed bone in his leg, and dislocated shoulder and required several surgeries in the days after the crash.
"I suffered a polytrauma, which is multiple horrendous injuries," Mr O'Reilly said. "The police said if I hadn't been wearing a helmet, I would be dead, and officers didn't think I would make it.
"The hospital consultant told my wife that most people don't survive the impact, the time until the ambulance arrives, and 22 hours of operations in 48 hours."
Doctors had to use rods to reconnect Mr O'Reilly's knee and ankle on his right leg, as the bottom of his foot "was just hanging on by skin and muscle", and use an arterial skin graft from his left arm to help patch up the damage to his smashed leg.
Mr O'Reilly, who lives in Wandsworth, south London, also had to wear a neck brace for more than five months to stabilise his shattered neck and had to learn how to walk again, with serious setbacks on the way.
'Challenging' recovery
"My pelvis and back fused and healed very quickly, but my leg took the main force of initial impact, with bits of my leg tissue found in the headlight of the car," Mr O'Reilly said.
Just when he started seeing some progress in the rehab for his leg, about 18 months after the crash, doctors discovered that the metal work supposed to hold the bones together was falling apart, causing a serious infection in his leg.
Mr O'Reilly required another surgery and was told that if the bone did not heal, his leg would have to be amputated.
Four years on from the horrifying crash, he was told that his bone had finally fused last month.
"If you walk past me in the street, you wouldn't know now, but the process to get there was very difficult and psychologically quite challenging," Mr O'Reilly said.
The former British Army major hopes he will be able to return to work as a business consultant next year.
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He is now campaigning with the MIB to stop uninsured drivers from hitting the roads, as he wants "nobody to go through what I had to go through".
"We have to do something in this country," he said. "People are morally making a choice where they don't care about their fellow citizens and fail to insure their car and make sure it is properly taxed. Something like that is a social responsibility."
£1bn cost of uninsured drivers
Uninsured driving costs the government £1bn a year, including compensation for victims, emergency services, medical costs and loss of productivity.
An uninsured vehicle is seized every four minutes across the UK, with almost 120,000 seized so far this year, the MIB said.
The bureau has launched a week-long road safety initiative in collaboration with police forces across the UK, including targeted enforcement in problem areas and public education to urge people to check their insurance status.
"Our aim is to end uninsured driving, which means working closely with the police across the UK to remove dangerous vehicles from our roads," Martin Saunders, head of enforcement at MIB, said.
"At the same time, we are ramping up our support for motorists who want to drive legally, providing them with the knowledge they need to have the right cover in place."
In his place is Colonel Michael Randrianirina, who was sworn in as president of the island nation last month after his military unit joined the protesters.
Sky News' Africa correspondent Yousra Elbagir sits down with the new leader.
The first question I ask Colonel Randrianirina, as he sits in an ornate mahogany chair in his military fatigues, is how it feels to be in the palace as president.
He sighs and sinks deeper into the chair. He looks humbled and struggles to find the words.
"How do I put it?" he says. "I am happy and it is also a great honour to have come to this palace to be able to help and support the Malagasy people in deep poverty."
As commander of an elite non-combatant military unit, Corps d'Administration des Personnels et des Services de l'Armée de Terre (CAPSAT), the colonel rode a wave of Gen Z protests to the palace. On 11 October, he shared a video on social media instructing officers to disobey shoot-to-kill orders and support the movement.
At least 22 protesters have been killed and more than 100 injured after denouncing the power cuts and water shortages that have come to signify government corruption in the impoverished island nation.
Why did he share the pivotal video?
He says: "I am a military officer but I am also part of the people and I will return to the people. When you feel sorry for what the people are suffering from... they have been poor for so long and wealth has been looted - but you still shoot them and kill them. That was not why I entered the military of Madagascar, to kill people."
Soon after his speech, soldiers allowed the young protesters rejecting then president Andry Rajoelina to occupy Place du 13 Mai Square on Independence Avenue in the heart of Antananarivo, the island nation's capital.
Colonel Randrianirina paraded through a crowd and addressed them from the hatch of an armoured vehicle. "The president of the nation has to leave… If that does not happen," he threatened, "we will see".
After Mr Rajoelina fled Madagascar on 13 October, the National Assembly voted to impeach him for "desertion of duty". Three days later, Colonel Randrianirina stood in fatigues in front of the palace. With officers by his side, he announced their seizure of power and the dissolution of the constitution and all government institutions outside of the National Assembly.
Shortly after, the African Union suspended Madagascar's membership on account of the military takeover.
In the palace as president, he insists that this is not a military coup.
"It is support for the people and the country and for us to not be prone to civil war - between the people - between the military officers and your needs, so you adjust helping to support the people to avoid this.
"We were not conducting any coup at all, it was the president [Rajoelina] himself who decided to leave the country."
United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres condemned "the unconstitutional change of government in Madagascar" and called for "the return to constitutional order and the rule of law," when reports of a military takeover first circulated on 16 October. The day we met the new president, he had just been congratulated by France's President Emmanuel Macron.
Colonel Randrianirina is promising elections in 18 to 24 months, after what he calls a "refoundation and recovery" of the country - a process he admits might take a long time.
Observers are concerned that elections will be postponed and the new president will become another strongman, but Gen Z organisers are holding on to faith that this hard-earned outcome is worth it.
'We were living under a dictatorship'
I asked a group of five young organisers if they have concerns that the president will become another dictator, just like previous Malagasy rulers who ascended to power off the back of a popular uprising. Ousted president Mr Rajoelina came into power after protests in 2009 that also ended in a CAPSAT-supported coup.
University student Ratsirarisoa Nomena told us: "The new president is not a dictator... he is listening to the people and he is validated by the people.
"We as students also validated him - he is not a dictator because the motivation of the army is from the people for the people.
"We were living under dictatorship. There was no freedom of expression and it was very hard to fight for that in Madagascar. We had to face being injured and losing our lives and the lives of our fellow students. Malagasy citizens who fought with us lost their lives too. This is what we went through - to me, we are halfway to victory."
Their president is aware of their support and does not credit Gen Z alone for his place in the palace.
"Generation Z are part of the reason [I am here] but the full Malagasy people really wanted change at the time we are speaking," Mr Randrianirina told me. "The Malagasy people have been suffering for so long and deprived of fundamental rights - no access to water supply and electricity, facing insecurity.
"Malagasy people, including the Gen Z, government officials and trade unions really wanted change so it is the whole Malagasy people that supported me to this point."
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Across Africa, young people are showing their disapproval of the old guard.
Gen Z protesters have made their mark in Tanzania, Kenya, Cameroon, Morocco, Mozambique and Nigeria in 2025 alone - denouncing disputed elections and the corruption impacting their futures.
Is the Gen Z coup of Madagascar a warning for old leaders on a young continent?
"I don't know what to say about the other countries, but I know my own country," Mr Randrianirina says.
"If tomorrow the people of Madagascar hate me, then I will leave this palace."
His journey to this point is a remarkable story, and it's a tale of how one man went from being a jihadist battlefield commander to a statesman on the global stage - now being welcomed by the world's most powerful nation.
Mr Sharaa became leader of Syria after the fall of the Bashar al Assad regime in December last year.
Before that he went by the nom de guerre Abu Mohammed al Jolani.
During Syria's brutal civil war, he was the leader of the Nusra Front - a designated terror organisation, the Syrian branch of al Qaeda.
Back then, the thought of him setting foot on US soil and meeting a US president would have been unthinkable. There was a $10m reward for information leading to his capture.
So what is going on? Why is diplomacy being turned on its head?
After 14 years of conflict which started during the so-called Arab Spring, Syria is in a mess.
Mr Sharaa - as the head of the transitional government - is seen by the US as having the greatest chance of holding the country together and stopping it from falling back into civil war and failed state territory.
But to do that, Syria has to emerge from its pariah status and that's what the US is gambling on and why it's inclined to offer its support and a warm embrace.
By endorsing Mr Sharaa, it is hoping he will shed his past and emerge as a leader for everyone and unite the country.
Holding him close also means it's less likely that Iran and Russia will again be able to gain a strong strategic foothold in the country.
So, a man who was once an enemy of the US is now being feted as a potential ally.
There are big questions, though. He has rejected his extremist background, saying he did what he did because of the circumstances of the civil war.
But since he took power, there have been sectarian clashes. In July, fighting broke out between Druze armed groups and Bedouin tribal fighters in Sweida.
It was a sign of just how fragile the country remains and also raises concerns about his ability to be a leader for everyone.
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Nonetheless, Mr Sharaa is viewed as the best chance of stabilising Syria and by extension an important part of the Middle East.
Get Syria right, the logic goes, and the rest of the jigsaw will be easier to put and hold together.
The visit to Washington is highly significant and historic. It's the first-ever official visit by a Syrian head of state since the country's independence in 1946.
The meeting with Donald Trump is, though, the really big deal. The two men met in Riyadh in May but in the meeting later today they will discuss lifting sanctions - crucial to Syria's post-war reconstruction - how Syria can help in the fight against Islamic State, and a possible pathway to normalisation of relations with Israel.
The optics will be fascinating as the US continues to engage with a former militant with jihadi links.
It's a risk, but if successful, it could reshape Syria's role in the region from US enemy to strong regional ally.