BBC Breakfast's Naga Munchetty pauses show to share 'breaking news' announcement

Naga Munchetty briefly interrupted Saturday's BBC Breakfast broadcast to deliver some urgent 'breaking' news to viewers.

While discussing the day's main stories, the 49-year-old presenter swiftly moved on to 'breaking' news as the banner flashed across the screen.

She informed viewers: "The release of three Israeli hostages by Hamas is currently taking place in Gaza and it's the latest stage in the ceasefire deal which will also see the release of more than 180 Palestinian prisoners by Israel."

In the midst of the update, Naga passed over to her colleague Yolande Knell, the BBC Middle East correspondent, just as a 'breaking' banner came into view with the headline: "Hamas to release 3 male hostages".

The correspondent reported: "What we've seen in the past hour is a much more orderly handover than the previous release of hostages."

Detailing the events, she said: "We saw Hamas masked gunmen lining up in unison in the south of Gaza and keeping a crowd well back and the Red Cross was quickly there and then we saw these two Israeli men being handed over to them - Ofer Kalderon and Yarden Bibas", adding that they were expecting a third Israeli man, Keith Siegel, who was born in the US, to be released imminently, reports the Express.

The show on Saturday was led by Naga alongside her co-host Charlie Stayt. This comes just after Naga and Charlie had earlier in the week broken into Thursday's live broadcast with some tragic "breaking" news.

On the show which aired on (January 30), the pair informed viewers that a plane and helicopter had crashed into each other above Washington DC before plunging into the Potomac River.

The jet, which was coming from Wichita, Kansas, was carrying 60 passengers and four crew members, and three