BBC anchor Kate Silverton breaks down as she presents heart-rending story about baby pulled alive from rubble in war-torn Syria
Emotional footage shows volunteer emergency worker sobbing after rescuing yet another child following deadly airstrike
BBC News anchor Kate Silverton broke down in tears on live TV as she reported on the aftermath of airstrikes in war-torn Syria.
The seasoned journalist couldn’t hold back the tears as she presented the heart-rending story of a baby pulled alive from the rubble.
Silverton later took to Twitter to thank people for sending their thoughts after crying live on BBC News.
The journalist wrote: “To all of you sending thoughts – thank you – no words really – my job to be inscrutable & impartial but I am also human #syria @BBCNews”
Emotional footage emerged showing a Syrian rescue worker – one of the famed ‘white helmets’ – desperately digging through the rubble in the aftermath of an airstrike in Idlib.
The brave volunteer – named as Abu Kifah – pulls a 30-day-old baby girl from the debris of a bombed-out building after two hours of searching for survivors.
After taking the child, who is covered in dust and blood, to a nearby ambulance, he breaks down in tears himself.
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At least 11 civilians, including seven children, have died during attacks on Idlib, nearby Jarjanaz and central Hama province on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The city is close to battle-scarred Aleppo, which has seen some of the worst fighting and bombing of the Syrian conflict.
Fighting there has killed 338 people since 23 September, including 106 children.
Another 846 have been wounded in that time, including 261 children, according to the World Health Organization.
Rick Brennan, WHO's head of emergency risk management and humanitarian response, told a UN briefing in Geneva: "We are asking for four things: stop the killing, stop attacks on health care, let the sick and wounded out and let the aid in.
"The situation really is unfathomable."
Russia and Syrian government forces launched a campaign to recapture the rebel-held area of the city this month, abandoning a ceasefire a week after it took effect.
Brennan said he did not have details on the kinds of injuries suffered by Aleppo’s civilian inhabitants, but it was obvious what to expect.
He said: "There will be shrapnel wounds, there will be blast wounds, there will be burns, penetrating injuries to the head, chest and abdomen.
“There will be lost limbs, there will be fractures. The range of injuries is pretty predictable."
No hospital was able to take hundreds of patients at a time, he added.
Today's video is just the latest example of a helpless child being pulled from the rubble of a building in the war-torn country.
Last week, a tiny baby was found buried in the remains of its home in Aleppo.
And heartbreaking footage of Omran Daqneesh sitting dazed in an ambulance covered in dust and blood shocked the world earlier this year.
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