Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson's contract will not be renewed after he was involved in a fight with a producer, the BBC has announced.
Director general Tony Hall said the decision had been taken with "great regret".
He said: "It is not a decision I have taken lightly."
Clarkson was suspended from the motor show after his involvement in what the BBC called a "fracas" with producer Oisin Tymon.
Mr Hall said he had met and spoken to both men and was publishing the findings of the BBC's internal investigation, though he added that he took "no pleasure" in doing so.
The investigation found that Mr Tymon was "subject to an unprovoked physical and verbal attack by Jeremy Clarkson" and took himself to A&E after being left with a split lip.
It said the attack lasted around 30 seconds and only stopped when a witness intervened.
Speaking after the decision was announced Mr Tymon said: "I've worked on Top Gear for almost a decade, a programme I love. Over that time Jeremy and I had a positive and successful working relationship, making some landmark projects together.
"He is a unique talent and I am well aware that many will be sorry his involvement in the show should end in this way."
In his statement Mr Hall said: "The BBC is a broad church. Our strength in many ways lies in that diversity. We need distinctive and different voices but they cannot come at any price. Common to all at the BBC have to be standards of decency and respect.
"I cannot condone what has happened on this occasion. A member of staff - who is a completely innocent party - took himself to Accident and Emergency after a physical altercation accompanied by sustained and prolonged verbal abuse of an extreme nature.
"For me a line has been crossed. There cannot be one rule for one and one rule for another dictated by either rank, or public relations and commercial considerations."
:: Read the full statement here
The report said "verbal abuse was directed at Oisin Tymon on more than one occasion - both during the attack and subsequently inside the hotel - and contained the strongest expletives and threats to sack him. The abuse was at such volume as to be heard in the dining room, and the shouting was audible in a hotel bedroom."
Mr Hall said "no blame" was attached to Mr Tymon, who, he said, "behaved with huge integrity throughout".
He added that the BBC would look to "renew" the show for next year.
Clarkson's Top Gear co-presenter James May told Sky News he had not been told the news officially but that it was a "tragedy".
"What ought to have been a small incident, sorted out easily, turned into something big."
He said he was sure Top Gear would "continue in some way" but could not say if he would stay because the presenters, with Richard Hammond, "come as a package".
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