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Icelandic TV program featuring PM forced off air by protesters
An annual nationally televised meeting between Iceland's prime minister and other political leaders was forced off the air on New Year's Eve when a group of 500 angry protesters disrupted the broadcast.
For more than two decades, the leaders of Iceland's political parties have met every New Year's Eve over champagne and spiced herring to discuss the year ahead on Iceland's Channel 2 television.
But this year's show with Prime Minister Geir Haarde was cut short 45 minutes into the program when a torch-wielding crowd stormed Reykjavik's Hotel Borg in an attempt to get to the studio.
An annual nationally televised meeting between Iceland's prime minister and other political leaders was forced off the air on New Year's Eve when a group of 500 angry protesters disrupted the broadcast.
For more than two decades, the leaders of Iceland's political parties have met every New Year's Eve over champagne and spiced herring to discuss the year ahead on Iceland's Channel 2 television.
But this year's show with Prime Minister Geir Haarde was cut short 45 minutes into the program when a torch-wielding crowd stormed Reykjavik's Hotel Borg in an attempt to get to the studio.