Watch: BBC newsreader chokes up as she announces Zaghari-Ratcliffe is coming home

A BBC newsreader choked up live on air as she announced that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is on her way back to Britain after 6 years detained in Iran.

Joanna Gosling struggled to hide her emotion as she revealed reports from the Reuters news agency that the British-Iranian had been freed.

Tulip Siddiq, her constituency MP, sent a tweet confirming that Zaghari-Ratcliffe was on the way to the airport to return home.

Watch the clip in full below:

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Jack is a business and economics journalist and the founder of The London Economic (TLE). He has contributed articles to VICE, Huffington Post and Independent and is a published author. Jack read History at the University of Wales, Bangor and has a Masters in Journalism from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.