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Carrie Bickmore breaks down on air over chemical attacks in Syria

The Project host could not hide her emotions.
Two TV hosts at a news desk; one looks serious, the other appears emotional while speaking, with a cityscape backdrop.Network Ten

The Project’s Carrie Bickmore has broken down on live TV after a distressing report covering the chemical attacks in Syria.  

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“Sorry, I know I was going to start this conversation, but I can’t watch those images,” Bickmore, 36, said as she teared up. “I know I am not alone. The audience was covering their faces. Our tears, feeling sad, we can’t do anything.

“I know sitting here in safe Australia, our feelings don’t change anything,” the mother-of-two continued. “What can Trump do? Will he change his mind? Will he act? Is this something we will look back on and feel like the world did nothing?”

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Bickmore’s co-host Waleed Aly was lost for words.  “I don’t think I have anything optimistic to say about it,” he said.

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“He’s manoeuvred himself into a hopeless situation as far as responding to this is concerned.”

Bickmore then referred to a photo of a man named Abdul-Hamid Alyousef who was photographed holding his late twins who died of a suspected chemical attack.

 “Imagine the dad with his twins dead in his arms?” a visibly upset Bickmore said. 

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Aly, 38, responded: “I don’t know what more we can say really.”

SEE ALSO: The Project viewers outraged after Waleed 

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