{"id":591753,"date":"2026-04-18T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/591753\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T13:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:00:08","slug":"sky-news-halted-for-breaking-alert-in-devastating-blow-to-trump-and-starmer-tv-radio-showbiz-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/591753\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky News halted for breaking alert in devastating blow to Trump and Starmer | TV &#038; Radio | Showbiz &#038; TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Sky News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/sky-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sky News<\/a> was interrupted for a breaking bulletin as anchor Samantha Washington delivered the latest on the Iran war \u2013 and it\u2019s a <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/showbiz\/tv-radio\/2194418\/confused-trump-sparks-health-worries\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">devastating blow<\/a> to both US president <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Donald Trump\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> and UK prime minister Keir Starmer. The war is now in its 50th day, despite numerous claims from Trump in recent weeks that it had been \u201cwon\u201d by the US.<\/p>\n<p>Washington told viewers: \u201cSome breaking news to update you with. The UK Maritime Trade Operations says that it has received reports of an incident 20 nautical miles northeast of Oman. The captain of a tanker has reported being approached by two IRGC gun boats. The IRGC gun boats then fired upon said tanker. Tanker and crew are reported safe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo that appears to be a development on the last bit of breaking news that I brought you about 10 minutes ago to say that vessels trying to cross the Strait have reported gunfire. So a little bit more detail emerging there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reuters called the very brief reopening of the waterway the \u201cfirst major movement\u201d of ships in the Strait since the start of the war.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is set to address the media at 2pm UK time \u201con an unrelated matter\u201d, after previously claiming Tehran said it would \u201cnever close\u201d the Strait again.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei said in a new social media post that the country\u2019s \u201cvaliant navy is also ready to inflict new bitter defeats on its enemies\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>US officials, however, claim more than 150 Iranian vessels have been destroyed, including all of its submarines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sky News was interrupted for a breaking bulletin as anchor Samantha Washington delivered the latest on the Iran&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,12,451,801,228242,258317,7672,3,116908,258319,183832,61387,258320,452,453,3479,258318,227350],"class_list":{"0":"post-591753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-iran-war","14":"tag-is-the-uk-at-war","15":"tag-keir-starmer","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-sky-news","18":"tag-sky-news-breaking","19":"tag-sky-news-latest","20":"tag-starmer","21":"tag-starmer-breaking","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories","24":"tag-trump","25":"tag-trump-latest","26":"tag-us-iran-war"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}