A news anchor has burst into laughter after the breakfast show featured a story on a disgraced Malaysian diplomat who defecated outside a woman’s home before indecently assaulting her.

The ‘emergency defecation situation’ was too much for New Zealand newsreader Hilary Barry, who continued to laugh through to the next report on the 3 News Paul Henry breakfast show, Nine reported.

Mohammed Rizalman bin Islaim was a military attache at Malaysia’s Wellington embassy in New Zealand at the time of the attack in November, and pleaded guilty to indecent assault after denying initial charges of attempted rape and burglary.

New Zealand newsreader Hilary Barry could not contain her laughter (pictured) while reporting on 3 News breakfast show Paul Henry

She had been reporting on the 'emergency defecation situation' which saw disgraced Malaysian diplomat defecate on the doorstep of a Wellington woman before he walked into her bedroom naked from the waist down

Rizalman had waited outside Tania Billingsley’s Wellington home for 30 minutes, and defecated on her patio, before walking into her bedroom naked from the waist down.

He told the courtroom he was in an ‘emergency defecation situation’.

‘I think I’m having one myself,’ the New Zealand newsreader said, unable to contain her laughter.

She wiped away tears and then struggled to report on the news that followed, a tragic story of a man who was sucked out of a plane to his death after take off from Mogadishu, Somalia.

Ms Barry continued to laugh, and between gasps said: ‘I’m not laughing at this’.

When she eventually got through the report, she laughed: ‘Today could be the day I lose my job.’

‘Still, I’d get to lie in.’

Rizalman was sentenced to nine months home detention.

When she eventually got through the report, she laughed: ‘Today could be the day I lose my job’

Fellow 3 News anchors could also not contain their laughter at the 'emergency defecation situation'. 'I think I'm having one myself,' Ms Barry laughed