The judge ordered Trump to attend a hearing under oath related to the complaint against the BBC until December 11.

An American judge has ordered Donald Trump, the president of the United States, to answer questions under oath in a defamation case against the BBC by December 11 at the latest.

Mr Trump sued the BBC over a clip from the Panorama program in which two separate parts of his speech ahead of the ground attack on the US Capitol in 2021 were linked together.

Charles Tobin, the BBC's lawyer, said at the court session that although two months remain from the deadline for exchanging information and documents in this case, the network has not yet been able to receive his sworn statement from the prosecutor, that is, Trump, in the official session. At this stage of the procedure, both parties are required to provide each other with information and documents related to the case. Trump was originally scheduled to attend the Oct. 16 meeting, but canceled citing "matters of national importance" while he was in Georgia on the campaign trail.