Trump ordered to sit for deposition in defamation lawsuit against BBC - The Globe and Mail

Judge says Trump must sit for questioning from a BBC lawyer by December 11 or face possible dismissal of lawsuit. A federal judge in the United States has ordered President Donald Trump to sit for a deposition as part of his $10bn defamation lawsuit against the British broadcaster BBC. On Thursday, US Magistrate Judge Enjolique Lett ruled that Trump would be required to answer questions under oath in a session with the BBC‘s lawyers. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Trump seeks to block the BBC’s attempt to subpoena Ivanka Trump, Trump Jrlist 2 of 3Trump threatens to report journalist Kristen Welker to broadcast regulatorlist 3 of 3Can Trump ban CNN, news outlets he doesn’t like from the White House?end of listThe deposition is scheduled to take place no later than December 11, or Trump could face sanctions, including the possible dismissal of the lawsuit. Trump had previously been scheduled to sit for deposition on October 16 but had cancelled due to a “matter of national importance”. Charles Tobin, a lawyer for the BBC, said that the president was in fact campaigning in the state of Georgia on that day.

ToplineA federal magistrate judge threatened Friday to levy sanctions against President Donald Trump for failing to "participate" in his own defamation lawsuit against the BBC, after the broadcaster informed the court that Trump had backed out of a planned deposition in the case and suggested he couldn't be interviewed until next year. President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn as he departs the White House on October 12 in Washington, DC. Key FactsMagistrate Judge Enjolique A. Lett issued an order Friday directing Trump to file a response to the BBC regarding his deposition by Oct. 22, noting the court had already "admonished" the president for his "lack of participation" in the case "to no avail. "Failing to "strict[ly]" comply with the court's schedule for discovery in the case, Lett wrote Friday, "will lead to sanctions. "Trump has sued the BBC for $10 billion, claiming the broadcaster allegedly defamed him by "deceptively" editing a video of the president's speech on Jan. 6, 2021 for a 2024 documentary, in order to falsely suggest Trump was trying to incite violence on Jan. 6 and bias viewers against him in the 2024 election.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has asked a judge to order US President Donald Trump to set a firm date to give sworn testimony in his $10-billion (€8.6 billion) defamation lawsuit against the network, court filings showed. "Nearly eight months into discovery, after seven depositions of BBC witnesses, and with only two months of discovery remaining, the BBC still has not been able to depose, and does not even have a schedule to depose, the most central figure in this case: Plaintiff himself," the BBC's lawyers wrote.

Workers have begun drilling the first deposition hole for use at the Onkalo underground used nuclear fuel repository near Olkiluoto, Finland. Radioactive waste management company Posiva said a kick-off meeting was held on Tuesday, where it went through the safety aspects, technical specifications and more detailed plans for the drilling operation once again. The drilling of the first deposition hole using the Deposition Hole Boring Machine (DHBM) was started in the 1.9-billion-year-old Olkiluoto bedrock at a depth of more than 400 metres on Wednesday afternoon.

About 150,000 supporters of Serbia’s opposition student movement rallied in central Belgrade on Thursday, seeking to oust the party of veteran leader Aleksandar Vucic in crunch parliamentary elections this weekend. The Student List, a leaderless movement of student-backed candidates, wants to end more than 14 years of rule by Vucic’s rightwing populist Serbian Progressive party (SNS) in Sunday’s vote. Civil society groups have said the campaign has been marred by intimidation, arrests and misuse of public resources. “I came to support the Student List because young people finally gave me hope that it is possible to live in a normal country,” Marija Nedeljkovic Radic, 47, said as she arrived for the students’ rally. “Really, for the first time in my life, I believe that it is possible.”Crowds streamed into Belgrade’s central Slavija Square from all directions, also filling several blocks of streets around the area. Photograph: Armin Durgut/APSunday’s vote comes after nearly two years of student-led protests sparked by the 2024 collapse of a canopy at the newly renovated Novi Sad railway station that killed 16 people.