by Zainab Okafor
BBC Middle East correspondent, Quentine Sommerville, struggled to finish his broadcast as he got high after getting too close to a stack of burning drugs.
In the video, titled, ‘Don’t inhale’, it shows the reporter standing next to a huge pile of heroin, opium and hashish, but as he tries to begin his report he started giggling uncontrollably, setting the cameraman off, and both burst out laughing.
He posted a link to the video on his YouTube page today as a ‘Christmas present’ to his Twitter followers.
He wrote: ‘Dear tweeps, it’s been a year of bullets & bloodshed. You’ve earned a xmas laugh, at my expense.’
The journalist, who is based in Jerusalem, has reported on several major issues in the Middle East since being deployed as a correspondent on the front line in 2012, including the Islamic State crisis
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