BBC director general Tim Davie and CEO of News Deborah Turness have resigned, after a newspaper report suggested a BBC Panorama documentary misled viewers by editing a speech by US President Donald Trump.

They announced their resignations in separate emails to all BBC staff, at 18:00.

The BBC's chair Samir Shah also released a statement.

Here are their statements in full:

Director general Tim Davie

Dear all

I wanted to let you know that I have decided to leave the BBC after 20 years. This is entirely my decision, and I remain very thankful to the chair and board for their unswerving and unanimous support throughout my entire tenure including during recent days.

I am working through exact timings with the Board to allow for an orderly transition to a successor over the coming months.

I have been reflecting on the very intense personal and professional demands of managing this role over many years in these febrile times, combined with the fact that I want to give a successor time to help shape the Charter plans they will be delivering.

In these increasingly polarised times, the BBC is of unique value and speaks to the very best of us. It helps make the UK a special place; overwhelmingly kind, tolerant and curious. Like all public organisations, the BBC is not perfect, and we must always be open, transparent and accountable. While not being the only reason, the current debate around BBC News has understandably contributed to my decision. Overall the BBC is delivering well, but there have been some mistakes made and as director general I have to take ultimate responsibility.

Our organisation is a critical ingredient of a healthy society, as well as a thriving creative sector. We should champion it, not weaponise it.

Despite a hugely competitive market, I am proud that the BBC remains the most trusted news brand globally. We have continued to ensure that it is used by almost everyone in the UK as well as hundreds of millions of people globally. Despite the inevitable issues and challenges, our journalism and quality content continues to be admired as a gold standard. Our transition to a digital organisation has been deeply impressive, and our thriving commercial businesses are admired globally. Also, our work together on ensuring that we have the right culture has been important and motivating. I could not be more impressed by what you are achieving.

You will ask why now, why this moment?

I am BBC through and through, having spent the last 20 years of my life working for this organisation as director of marketing, communications and audiences, director of audio and music, acting director general and chief executive of BBC Studios. I care deeply about it and want it to succeed. That is why I want to create the best conditions and space for a new DG to come in and positively shape the next Royal Charter. I hope that as we move forward, a sensible, calm and rational public conversation can take place about the next chapter of the BBC.

This timing allows a new DG to help shape the next charter. I believe we are in a strong position to deliver growth.

Thank you again, it has been a wonderful ride, which I have loved. I count myself very lucky to have served as DG no.17. I will have a proper chance to see many of you before I go but I have been incredibly proud to lead the BBC as DG for over five years. It is a precious UK institution and you are a world-class team. Thank you all for the tireless support and friendship.

I will always be a passionate cheerleader for civilised society, a strong BBC and a thriving UK.

Best wishes,

Tim

CEO of News Deborah Turness

Dear all,

I have never been more proud of the work that you do every day. You really are the best of the best.

I have taken the difficult decision that it will no longer be my role to lead you in the collective vision that we all have: to pursue the truth with no agenda.

The ongoing controversy around the Panorama on President Trump has reached a stage where it is causing damage to the BBC – an institution that I love.

As the CEO of BBC News and Current Affairs, the buck stops with me - and I took the decision to offer my resignation to the Director-General last night.

In public life leaders need to be fully accountable, and that is why I am stepping down. While mistakes have been made, I want to be absolutely clear recent allegations that BBC News is institutionally biased are wrong.

In a polarised world, BBC News journalism is more vital than ever, and I could not be prouder of the work that you do. Together we have bucked the global trend, to grow trust in BBC News, and I want to thank you, wherever you are in the world, for your courageous work to deliver that.

My plea to you: please keep the courage to continue our mission. I'm only sorry that I won't be there to lead and champion your brilliant journalism.

It has been a great privilege to work with you all.

I will now work with Tim to plan an orderly handover to ensure that my decision to step away causes the least disruption possible to the important work that you do.

With very best wishes,

Deborah

BBC chair Samir Shah

Dear all,

I write to you all on a very difficult day, following the news that our director general Tim Davie will be stepping down. The CEO of News Deborah Turness has also resigned.

On behalf of the BBC Board I want to extend my sincere gratitude to both of them for their unwavering service and commitment to the BBC.

This is a sad day for the BBC. Tim has been an outstanding director general for the last five years. He has propelled the BBC forward with determination, single-mindedness and foresight.

He has had the full support of me and the board throughout. However, I understand the continued pressure on him, personally and professionally, which has led him to take this decision today. The whole board respects the decision and the reasons for it.

Tim has given 20 years of his life to the BBC. He is a devoted and inspirational leader and an absolute believer in the BBC and public service broadcasting. He has achieved a great deal. Foremost, under his tenure, the transformation of the BBC to meet the challenges in a world of unprecedented change and competition is well underway.

Personally, I will miss his stamina, good humour and resilience and I will miss working with him. I wish him and his family the very best for the future.

I also want to thank Deborah for her leadership of BBC News over the past three years. She has transformed the operation of News with real commitment and a clear vision of the future.

She has acted with integrity in challenging circumstances and leaves a strong legacy from which to build for the many millions around the world who rely on and trust the voice of BBC News every day.

Tim has also asked me to pass on the following words in relation to Deborah's resignation. He says: "In the past three years, Deborah has led the newsroom with extraordinary energy, changing the way that it works and cementing BBC News as the most used and trusted news outlet in the UK and the most trusted news provider internationally.

"She has been a valued colleague and a passionate advocate for her team of more than 5,000 people who work round the clock and around the world, on and off air, to report without fear or favour in an age where press freedom has never been under greater pressure. Deborah offered her resignation to me last night, and I want to thank her for all that she has done and to wish her the very best for her future."

I fully understand this has been a difficult period for everyone connected to the BBC and it goes without saying this is an incredibly important time for the organisation.

On behalf of the board, I want to assure you all that we will do everything we can to ensure a smooth transition as we appoint Tim's successor. We will continue to work with Tim in this interim period.

In terms of News, Deborah has agreed to support the organisation to work through an orderly handover.

I fully understand this is unsettling for all of us, but I remain resolute that the BBC will continue to deliver world class public service broadcasting in the days, weeks and months ahead.

I will be back in touch to update you all as soon as possible.

Thank you,

Samir Shah

Three people died and 15 more were injured after powerful waves battered popular Spanish holiday island Tenerife.

A woman died after being pulled into the ocean near the the Puerto de la Cruz resort and a man died at Santa Cruz de Tenerife, emergency services said on Sunday.

A third man was found dead in the ocean near a beach in Granadilla.

Emergency services have told the public to stay away from coastal paths and to avoid taking pictures and videos of the rough seas, as the turbulent weather continues.

Rescue services said they airlifted a man who fell into water at La Guancha in the north of the island, but that he was later pronounced dead at hospital.

They said another man died after he was found floating near a beach at El Cabezo in the south, with lifeguards and medical staff unable to resuscitate him.

At Puerto de la Cruz, a holiday resort in northern Tenerife, one woman died of a heart attack and another 10 people were swept out to sea. Three of those were seriously injured and taken to hospital.

A local waiter, who gave his name only as Pedro, told the Reuters news agency that he jumped into the water in an attempt to save people being swept out.

"As soon as I saw a man waving at me I took my clothes off, jumped to the water and I managed to grab three of them and save them. I couldn't save the woman because she passed away at that moment," he said.

Eyewitness Carlos said he warned people taking photos to move away from the waves but "they did not pay attention".

Officials say the Canary Islands, the Spanish archipelago Tenerife belongs to, are on alert for coastal hazards.

They warned sea conditions are expected to worsen with swells reaching two-to-four metres, and tourists and locals should exercise "extreme caution".

Israel has received the body of a hostage after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was expecting the remains of a soldier killed in 2014 to be returned.

The body was being taken to be formally identified, the Israeli military said.

Earlier, Netanyahu said Israel was due to receive the body of Hadar Goldin, a soldier who was killed in an ambush by Hamas during a previous conflict in 2014 and whose body has been held in Gaza since then.

Hamas's armed wing also said on Sunday that it would hand over Hadar Goldin's body.

If the body is confirmed to be Lt Goldin's, Hamas will have returned all 20 living hostages and 24 out of 28 deceased hostages under the first phase of a ceasefire deal.

Netanyahu said Lt Goldin's family would now be able to give him a Jewish burial and reiterated his intention to bring back the bodies of all deceased hostages.

"We have returned 250 so far. We will bring them all back," he said.

On Saturday Lt Goldin's family said "an entire nation is waiting for Hadar to be returned to us".

"We are waiting for official confirmation that Hadar has returned to Israel. We don't give up on anyone in this country, ever. We ask everyone to remain calm. Until it's final, it's not over," the family said in a statement.

Lt Goldin, from Kfar Saba, is the only deceased hostage whose remains were being held in Gaza before the Hamas-led 7 October 2023 attack on Israel, which sparked the latest war.

He was killed in combat on 1 August 2014, not long after the start of a ceasefire in that year's war between Israel and Hamas. He was among a group of Israeli soldiers who were patrolling an agricultural area near Rafah in southern Gaza when they were attacked by a group of Hamas fighters.

The Israeli military determined that Lt Goldin was killed along with two other soldiers in a firefight, and that his body was then dragged into an underground tunnel by the Hamas fighters.

The Israeli military unleashed massive firepower to try to prevent Hamas from taking Lt Goldin hostage. Scores of Palestinian civilians were killed in the bombardment of Rafah, which continued for four days, including after Lt Goldin was declared dead.

On Saturday, the Israeli military said it had identified a body handed over from Gaza as that of Israeli-Argentinian Lior Rudaeff.

Also on Saturday, two Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in Gaza. The Israeli military said two people had crossed the yellow line that marks the line of Israeli control in Gaza and posed an "immediate threat".

Israeli military actions have killed at least 241 people since the start of the ceasefire, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, whose figures are seen by the UN as reliable.

The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the 7 October 2023 attack, in which Hamas-led gunmen killed about 1,200 people in southern Israel and took 251 others hostage.

At least 69,169 people have been killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza since then, the health ministry reported.

The Trump administration is ordering US states to stop paying full food aid benefits to low-income American families, saying they are "unauthorized".

A memo from the US Department of Agriculture, which runs the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap), said states can deliver just 65% of benefits after the Supreme Court allowed the administration to withhold some funding pending further legal hearings.

More than 42 million Americans who rely on the food aid began receiving only partial benefits this month due to the ongoing the US government shutdown.

Some states had been using their own emergency coffers to top up recipient benefits.

"States must immediately undo any steps taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November 2025," the USDA said in its Saturday memo.

It's the administration's latest move in the funding battle over Snap, also known as food stamps, as the longest government shutdown in US history drags on.

The Snap programme is used by around one in eight Americans and costs almost $9bn (£6.9bn) a month.

The legal saga was spurred after the USDA announced benefits would be halted in November due to the lack of funding over the shutdown.

The White House appealed to the country's highest court after a lower court ruled that Snap benefits should be paid out in full to recipients.

On Friday, the Supreme Court issued an emergency order temporarily allowing the Trump administration to temporarily withhold $4bn (£3.04bn) of funding for the benefits.

In the three weeks since the Louvre museum heist, as investigators sought to find out who was behind it and why the French crown jewels had been so easy to steal, another mystery remained: who the "fedora man" was.

The dapper youth in a hat was photographed outside the museum that Sunday and went viral on social media, prompting theories about his identity.

The first two mysteries were swiftly settled. The thieves' carelessness with DNA allowed police to work out their identities. The Louvre director admitted CCTV security was inadequate.

However, the fedora man remained an enigma - until now.

The dandy, it turns out, is a local teenage fan of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot who just happened to be at a real crime scene.

Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux, a 15-year-old from Rambouillet, south-west of Paris told the Associated Press (AP) news agency that he had planned to visit the Louvre with his family but found the museum was closed.

"We didn't know there was a heist," he said.

As he asked officers about the closure, an AP photographer seeking to capture the security cordon took a picture and included Pedro in the frame.

Pedro only realised the photo had gone viral four days later, when a friend sent him a screenshot asking: "Is that you?"

When he replied that it was, the friend said he had five million views on TikTok. "I was a bit surprised," Pedro told the AP.

He was even more shocked when his mother called to say the picture had appeared in The New York Times. It made a big impact on him, he said, because he reads that newspaper and "it's not every day you're in the New York Times".

"People said, 'You've become a star'. I was astonished that just with one photo you can become viral in a few days."

Asked why he wore an old-fashioned waistcoat and a fedora to the museum, Pedro said he began dressing this way recently, inspired by 20th-century statesmen and fictional detectives.

"I like to be chic," he told the AP. "I go to school like this."

As wild speculation about the photo of him circulated online - some wondered whether he might be a real detective or an AI fake - Pedro remained silent for weeks.

"I didn't want to say immediately it was me," he said. "With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last."

Israel has received the body of a hostage after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was expecting the remains of a soldier killed in 2014 to be returned.

The body was being taken to be formally identified, the Israeli military said.

Earlier, Netanyahu said Israel was due to receive the body of Hadar Goldin, a soldier who was killed in an ambush by Hamas during a previous conflict in 2014 and whose body has been held in Gaza since then.

Hamas's armed wing also said on Sunday that it would hand over Hadar Goldin's body.

If the body is confirmed to be Lt Goldin's, Hamas will have returned all 20 living hostages and 24 out of 28 deceased hostages under the first phase of a ceasefire deal.

Netanyahu said Lt Goldin's family would now be able to give him a Jewish burial and reiterated his intention to bring back the bodies of all deceased hostages.

"We have returned 250 so far. We will bring them all back," he said.

On Saturday Lt Goldin's family said "an entire nation is waiting for Hadar to be returned to us".

"We are waiting for official confirmation that Hadar has returned to Israel. We don't give up on anyone in this country, ever. We ask everyone to remain calm. Until it's final, it's not over," the family said in a statement.

Lt Goldin, from Kfar Saba, is the only deceased hostage whose remains were being held in Gaza before the Hamas-led 7 October 2023 attack on Israel, which sparked the latest war.

He was killed in combat on 1 August 2014, not long after the start of a ceasefire in that year's war between Israel and Hamas. He was among a group of Israeli soldiers who were patrolling an agricultural area near Rafah in southern Gaza when they were attacked by a group of Hamas fighters.

The Israeli military determined that Lt Goldin was killed along with two other soldiers in a firefight, and that his body was then dragged into an underground tunnel by the Hamas fighters.

The Israeli military unleashed massive firepower to try to prevent Hamas from taking Lt Goldin hostage. Scores of Palestinian civilians were killed in the bombardment of Rafah, which continued for four days, including after Lt Goldin was declared dead.

On Saturday, the Israeli military said it had identified a body handed over from Gaza as that of Israeli-Argentinian Lior Rudaeff.

Also on Saturday, two Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in Gaza. The Israeli military said two people had crossed the yellow line that marks the line of Israeli control in Gaza and posed an "immediate threat".

Israeli military actions have killed at least 241 people since the start of the ceasefire, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, whose figures are seen by the UN as reliable.

The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the 7 October 2023 attack, in which Hamas-led gunmen killed about 1,200 people in southern Israel and took 251 others hostage.

At least 69,169 people have been killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza since then, the health ministry reported.

Flight delays and cancellations continue to snarl US air travel for a third day as Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned air traffic will be "reduced to a trickle" if the US government shutdown continues.

Roughly 1,400 flights to, from, or within the US were cancelled and 2,700 delayed on Sunday morning, according to flight tracker FlightAware. The longest delays were reported in Newark, New Jersey – more than two hours on average.

In a hopeful sign, lawmakers are working on a possible deal to reach a compromise on government funding and end the shutdown, according to US media reports.

The Senate was scheduled to convene on Sunday in a rare weekend session.

Duffy warned the impacts on air travel will grow dire if they do not break the stalemate soon.

"You're going to see air travel be reduced to a trickle," he said on CNN on Sunday. He added that travellers trying to fly home for the Thanksgiving holiday later this month may not be able to get there.

"Many of them are not going to be able to get on an airplane, because there are not going to be that many flights that fly if this thing doesn't open back up," he said.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced last week that it would be reducing air travel capacity by up to 6% this weekend and 10% by next weekend at 40 of the nation's busiest airports. The cuts do not apply to international flights, but some airlines may choose to also cancel some of those flights, the FAA said.

Air traffic controllers, who are not being paid during the shutdown, are reportedly fatigued and not coming to work, triggering the reductions in air traffic allowances.

Duffy said Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth offered to have military air traffic controllers step in to help but he declined the offer because they are not certified to direct air traffic at the civilian airports.

Altogether, hundreds of thousands of federal workers are not being paid since the Government ran out of money on 1 October. Food-assistance for low-income Americans also have been in limbo, with the administration agreeing to pay only half of monthly benefits.

Sunday marked the 40th day of the longest shutdown in history as Republicans and Democrats still have not agreed on a funding resolution to reopen the government.

Republicans and Democrats have blamed each other for causing the impasse and for the travel disruptions.

Democrats have refused to back any Republican spending plan unless money for health insurance subsidies be included, while Republicans want to provide funding for the without anything else attached.

President Donald Trump suggested over the weekend money should be sent directly to Americans to buy health insurance rather than to insurance companies.

Republican senators are working on a compromise package that could end the impasse with a vote to advance legislation possibly coming on Sunday.

Three people died and 15 more were injured after powerful waves battered popular Spanish holiday island Tenerife.

A woman died after being pulled into the ocean near the the Puerto de la Cruz resort and a man died at Santa Cruz de Tenerife, emergency services said on Sunday.

A third man was found dead in the ocean near a beach in Granadilla.

Emergency services have told the public to stay away from coastal paths and to avoid taking pictures and videos of the rough seas, as the turbulent weather continues.

Rescue services said they airlifted a man who fell into water at La Guancha in the north of the island, but that he was later pronounced dead at hospital.

They said another man died after he was found floating near a beach at El Cabezo in the south, with lifeguards and medical staff unable to resuscitate him.

At Puerto de la Cruz, a holiday resort in northern Tenerife, one woman died of a heart attack and another 10 people were swept out to sea. Three of those were seriously injured and taken to hospital.

A local waiter, who gave his name only as Pedro, told the Reuters news agency that he jumped into the water in an attempt to save people being swept out.

"As soon as I saw a man waving at me I took my clothes off, jumped to the water and I managed to grab three of them and save them. I couldn't save the woman because she passed away at that moment," he said.

Eyewitness Carlos said he warned people taking photos to move away from the waves but "they did not pay attention".

Officials say the Canary Islands, the Spanish archipelago Tenerife belongs to, are on alert for coastal hazards.

They warned sea conditions are expected to worsen with swells reaching two-to-four metres, and tourists and locals should exercise "extreme caution".

In the three weeks since the Louvre museum heist, as investigators sought to find out who was behind it and why the French crown jewels had been so easy to steal, another mystery remained: who the "fedora man" was.

The dapper youth in a hat was photographed outside the museum that Sunday and went viral on social media, prompting theories about his identity.

The first two mysteries were swiftly settled. The thieves' carelessness with DNA allowed police to work out their identities. The Louvre director admitted CCTV security was inadequate.

However, the fedora man remained an enigma - until now.

The dandy, it turns out, is a local teenage fan of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot who just happened to be at a real crime scene.

Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux, a 15-year-old from Rambouillet, south-west of Paris told the Associated Press (AP) news agency that he had planned to visit the Louvre with his family but found the museum was closed.

"We didn't know there was a heist," he said.

As he asked officers about the closure, an AP photographer seeking to capture the security cordon took a picture and included Pedro in the frame.

Pedro only realised the photo had gone viral four days later, when a friend sent him a screenshot asking: "Is that you?"

When he replied that it was, the friend said he had five million views on TikTok. "I was a bit surprised," Pedro told the AP.

He was even more shocked when his mother called to say the picture had appeared in The New York Times. It made a big impact on him, he said, because he reads that newspaper and "it's not every day you're in the New York Times".

"People said, 'You've become a star'. I was astonished that just with one photo you can become viral in a few days."

Asked why he wore an old-fashioned waistcoat and a fedora to the museum, Pedro said he began dressing this way recently, inspired by 20th-century statesmen and fictional detectives.

"I like to be chic," he told the AP. "I go to school like this."

As wild speculation about the photo of him circulated online - some wondered whether he might be a real detective or an AI fake - Pedro remained silent for weeks.

"I didn't want to say immediately it was me," he said. "With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last."