A session of parliament in Jordan discussing constitutional reforms descended into a fistfight which was live-streamed to local television.
The argument began as the chamber debated adding the Arabic female noun for a Jordanian citizen into the constitution’s section on equal rights, an amendment branded by some MPs as “useless”.
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