Thursday’s report by Max Foster from the London office of CNN International was supposed to reveal the identity of Jihadi John, a young British man who is believed to have executed a number of Islamic State hostages.
Yet, as his report was going into its fourth minute, the on-air gallery depicting a masked man in black robes with a knife in his hand gave way to the image of the Russian president.
СNN called the incident a technical failure.
“Due to a failure of a video server during today’s breaking news broadcast, a photo of Vladimir Putin, prepared for our next report, was accidentally shown. We apologize for that mistake,” a channel spokesman said.
