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ITV is 直面するing fresh scrutiny over its 義務 of care to news 錨，総合司会者 Rageh Omaar after it was 示唆するd he already appeared ill the night before he struggled to speak during a 公式発表 broadcast.

テレビ視聴者s were left 関心d for the 10 o'clock news presenter as he 苦しむd evident difficulties に向かって the end of the programme on Friday - and now a channel 退役軍人 has said there were 警告 調印するs beforehand.

Nicholas Owen, a former ITV News presenter, sent a message of sympathy to Mr Omaar, 56, who has himself thanked the public for their support.

The Mail On Sunday 明らかにする／漏らすd that ITV news bosses did try to get Mr Omaar to を引き渡す his 公式発表 to a stand-in 錨，総合司会者 after he became unwell live on 空気／公表する.

But there are new questions over whether more should have been done to 保護する him.

ITV News presenter Rageh Omaar was seen struggling to speak on last Friday's News At Ten

退役軍人 presenter Nicholas Owen, who worked for ITV for １０年間s, has today 示唆するd Mr Omaar had been unwell the previous night

Mr Owen, speaking on GB News today, said: 'Of course I can identify with what happened - I know Rageh very 井戸／弁護士席 and he is a very distinguished cor 回答者／被告 and 広大な／多数の／重要な presenter.

'You just want to finish the 職業 if you sit in that 議長，司会を務める where millions of people and more are watching you and listening to you.

'I can remember going in the studio once or twice?thinking, "井戸／弁護士席, I don't feel 特に 100 per cent today" but usually Dr Studio, if that's the 権利 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語, kicks in - Dr Studio takes over and you get through.'

Mr Owen 追加するd: '明らかに he wasn't terribly 井戸／弁護士席 the previous night - so perhaps my dear 同僚s, and I worked at ITV for many years very, very happily, perhaps they might have stepped in and just 主張するd he step 支援する?

“I don't really know, maybe they did - it’s just very hard, 特に if he's done all of the 準備 with all of the scripts. We just wish him 井戸／弁護士席, that's the most important thing.'

Mr Omaar has 報道によれば 主張するd that he continued and 辞退するd to を引き渡す to a 交替／補充 host from the London 地域の news even though after the show he was taken straight to hospital.

An ITV News source told The Mail on Sunday: 'The programme team were trying to 取って代わる him when they realised there was a problem.

'They sent the 代替要員，物 presenter to the 始める，決める to take over but he 主張するd on remaining on 空気／公表する. No one could get him out of his 議長，司会を務める.

Nicholas Owen (left) told GB News presenter Camilla Tominey (権利) that he understood why Rageh Omaar might have 手配中の，お尋ね者 to continue 現在のing

Owen said: 'You just want to finish the 職業 if you sit in that 議長，司会を務める where millions of people and more are watching you and listening to you'

ITV News at Ten presenter Rageh Omaar 主張するd on finishing the show after he 契約d an illness while on 空気／公表する, にもかかわらず bosses' 嘆願s to bring in a stand-in 錨，総合司会者

'He 辞退するd to move. Even when he was told he had to go and that the team had called for 医療の help.

'Everyone did everything they could to help him. Rageh is a consummate professional.'?

Mr Omaar, ITV News's international 事件／事情／状勢s editor, was taken by 救急車 to a nearby hospital where he then spent the night after staff at the 放送者 called paramedics.

He was 発射する／解雇するd yesterday afternoon and was 回復するing with his family.

One friend of the newsreader 示唆するd he didn't feel 'unwell' while he was つまずくing over his words.

Both ITV and Mr Omaar's family were 気が進まない to give any 詳細（に述べる）s of the 原因（となる） of his on-審査する 病気.

Fiona Clark, a staff nurse, （人命などを）奪う，主張するd she had called ITV at 10.10pm and told them 'as an ICU nurse that Rageh Omaar 要求するd an 緊急 救急車'.?

Rageh Omaar, pictured here on the 開始する of Olives with Jerusalem in the background, is ITV's international 事件／事情／状勢s editor 同様に as a presenter of news 公式発表s?

Nicholas Owen, pictured on GB News today, worked for ITV for in the 1990s and 2000s

In a 声明 Mr Omaar thanked the show's テレビ視聴者s, 説: 'I would like to thank everyone for their 親切 and good wishes, 特に all the 医療の staff, all my wonderful 同僚s at ITV News, and our テレビ視聴者s who 表明するd 関心.

'At the time, I was 決定するd to finish 現在のing the programme. I am 感謝する for all the support I've been given.'

But テレビ視聴者s （刑事）被告 ITV News of failing in its 義務 of care to Mr Omaar ? にもかかわらず not knowing what was happening in the studio.

There were calls on social マスコミ for television regulator Ofcom to 調査／捜査する ITV's 治療 of the Somalia-born presenter.

An ITV News 広報担当者 said last night it 高く評価する／（相場などが）上がるd News at Ten テレビ視聴者s were '関心d about Rageh Omaar's wellbeing'.

They 追加するd: 'に引き続いて 医療の 治療 at hospital, he is now 回復するing at home with his family.

'We are wishing Rageh a 迅速な 回復 and look 今後 to him 存在 支援する on 審査する when he feels ready.'

MailOnline has approached ITV and ITN for その上の comment today, while Ofcom said it could not 確認する whether it had been 接触するd by テレビ視聴者s.?

Rageh Omaar has said in a 声明: 'At the time, I was 決定するd to finish 現在のing the programme. I am 感謝する for all the support I've been given'

There have been calls on social マスコミ for television regulator Ofcom to 調査／捜査する ITV's 治療 of Rageh Omaar after he was taken to hospital

Father-of-three Mr Omaar, who 熟考する／考慮するd modern history at Oxford, made his 指名する in his 役割 as a foreign 特派員 for the BBC during the 侵略 of Iraq and the 落ちる of Baghdad in 2003.

In September 2006, he moved to Al Jaz eera English, where he 現在のd the nightly weekday 文書の series and in January 2013 he became a special 特派員 and presenter at ITV.

The 放送者 is married to Georgiana Rose Montgomery-Cuninghame, with whom he has three children, Loula, Sami and Zachary.

After the death of the late Queen Elizabeth, Mr Omaar was also chosen by ITV to cover her funeral on September 19, 2022.