Ed Balls was forced to issue an apology as he made a 'bad' mistake on Good Morning Britain. The former MP was back fronting the ITV news programme on Wednesday (February 8) after a few days absence. He joined Susanna Reid at the helm of the show after Ben Shephard made an unusually early appearance on Monday and Tuesday.
Throughout the programme, Ed and Susanna were bringing live updates on the devastating Turkey and Syria earthquake. The death toll from the earthquake in southern Turkey and northern Syria, at the time of writing, has climbed past 9,400, making it the deadliest seismic event in more than a decade.
Turkish authorities updated the country’s death toll to 6,957 on Wednesday. In neighbouring Syria, the government has reported 1,250 deaths from Monday’s pre-dawn earthquake in the areas it controls.
