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This was the moment an erotic film was aired during a live TV news broadcast.

Viewers of 24-hour Swedish news channel TV4 News got a surprise during a sober discussion about Russia's support for Syria.

As two journalists talked about Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, a pornographic film began playing on a TV in the background.

Danyal EK, a 23-year-old student who was watching at the time, told The Local: "At first I realized I was looking at a naked woman and it quickly became clear she was having sex.

"It didn't take long before I realized it was a porn film.

"The image wasn't exactly in focus, but it wasn't hard to figure out what was going on."

"I had two theories. One is that someone was pissed off after getting fired and put the porno up as act of revenge. My other thought was that someone had simply screwed up."

The blue movie was shown for 10 minutes before the plug was pulled.

A spokesman for the TV channel said: "Put simply, it's crap that it happened. We're going to do everything we can so that it doesn't happen again."