ITV Good Morning Britain halted as Ranvir Singh issues devastating breaking news update
Ranvir Singh interrupted Thursday's instalment of ITV GMB to deliver a heartbreaking news update
Good Morning Britain was halted for major breaking news today. Ranvir Singh took over from show hosts Kate Garraway and Adil Ray as she updated viewers on the unfolding situation with regards to Israel and Iran.
Kate and Adil had been discussing the day's headlines so far when the camera cut to Ranvir, with Kate saying: 'Now, Ranvir as the rest of today's news and I think you're starting with some breaking news, aren't you?'
Ranvir replied: "Yeah, indeed, thank you so much, Kate. Breaking news that in a new wave of Iranian missile strikes, which have hit Israel in the last few hours, a major hospital in the city of Beersheba has suffered extensive damage, and buildings have been destroyed in Tel Aviv.
"Meanwhile, Donald Trump has approved plans to attack Iran but has not made final decisions on whether to go ahead."
A live news update then came from reporter Richard Gaisford in Tel Aviv, as he highlighted a devastating amount of damage in the area - "the world's largest diamond trading district" - with ITV viewers.
He said: "This is the world's largest diamond trading area. The missile alert started at breakfast time this morning, and you're looking at pictures now of the Holon district of Tel Aviv.
'Extensive damage throughout this city in the centre of Israel, we heard ballistic missiles flying over our heads.
"The air defence systems were in action. Certainly, it seems Iran still has the ability to target Israel with its ballistic missiles, and at this point, Israel is not able to stop all of them."
The journalist then went on to explain that the strikes are a "really significant" attack, but highlighted the fact to GMB fans that what they were seeing was actually the result of a military assault earlier this week, as reports Manchester Evening News.
He said: "This has been developing over the last few days, and it shows really at this stage that Iran is not yet done.
"There had been some talks that perhaps the Israelis had been able to take out most of the missile sites.
"That certainly doesn't appear to be the case that they are still able to launch and get their missile right into the heart of Israel."
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has urged the Iranian regime and Benjamin Netanyahu's Israeli government to de-escalate and pull back from the brink as he flew to the G7 in Canada earlier this week.
It came as Iranian missiles rained down on Tel Aviv in response to the Israeli government's assault on military and nuclear targets in Tehran.
Fighter jets and extra British military assets will be deployed to the Middle East as fears grow over an all-out war in the region, the PM revealed.
The assets have been described by the Prime Minister as "contingency support" and it is understood aircraft began deployment preparations on Friday. The UK already has jets in the region as part of its Operation Shader contribution.
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