BBC News presenter Joanna Gosling apologised on-air after becoming overwhelmed with emotion while announcing the “moving” news that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is “heading to Tehran airport and on her way home”. British-Iranian mother Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe is about to leave Iran where she has been in custody since 2016, her MP Tulip Siddiq has said.
Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her fellow detainee Anoosheh Ashoori are believed to be heading to Tehran airport in a bid to leave the country. While announcing the breaking story on BBC news, presenter Gosling was visibly overcome with emotion.
The broadcast journalist, 51, said: “Sorry, this is a moving moment because these are people who have been detained for some time. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been held for nearly six years in Iran and her husband has worked tirelessly to secure her release.”
