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Qatari security officials threaten to break reporter’s camera live on air

A Danish television reporter was threatened by Qatari security officials to have his camera broken, during a live broadcast.

Rasmus Tantholdt, a reporter for Danish broadcaster TV 2 News has since been apologised to by Qatari delegates.

A video shows Tantholdt, speaking to camera near a roundabout in Doha, when Qatari security officials approached him on a golf buggy and one placed a hand over the video lens.

“You invited the whole world to come here, why can’t we film? It’s a public place,” the reporter says in English. He then displayed his press accreditation, though it had little sway over the officials.

The reporter tried to protest his right to record and report, but as he did so one official attempted to wrest the

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