This is the moment a journalist was accosted by an aggressive protester while trying to report live from the ‘Por Ceuta’ march in Madrid.

Jesus Poveda was in Cibeles on Wednesday night for Malas Lenguas, a news commentary programme for the public broadcasting channel RTVE.

While speaking to camera, locals draped in Spanish flags begin surrounding him and shouting ‘fuera!’ (get out).

Suddenly, a bald muscular man runs into view while screaming ‘Pedro Sanchez, hijo de puta!’ (Pedro Sanchez, son of a b***h’).

He then gets right into the reporter’s face while shouting at him, and seemingly knocking his head against his.

It was at this moment that other demonstrators had to pull him away, before they began laughing.

The brave reporter initially refused to leave the area despite the threats.

However, after much pleading from his colleagues in the studio, who said they were concerned for his safety, he eventually walked away.

Malas Lenguas said in a post on X: ‘Our reporter Jesus Poveda confronted at Cibeles.

‘Live from Madrid, several attendees turn against our colleague shouting ‘Pedro Sanchez, son of a b***h!”

He was not the only reporter to face threats on Wednesday night.

Another young RTVE reporter became engulfed by demonstrators while also reporting from Madrid.

Young children were seen putting their middle finger right in his face and shouting obscenities.

He was then physically dragged and pushed by multiple protesters, all while insisting he was just doing his job.

It is not the first time an RTVE reporter has been attacked while covering the Ceuta story.

Last month, a young female reporter was pushed and shoved while reporting live from the Spanish enclave.

Many see RTVE as an extension of Pedro Sanchez’s government, because the broadcaster is state owned.

It therefore comes under attack from far-right forces more than any other network.

RTVE president Jose Pablo Lopez said: ‘Today it was Jesus Poveda’s turn in Madrid, and that of other colleagues from the news desks in Ceuta and Barcelona, as well as teams from the Mañaneros program.

‘These are not isolated cases. We’ve been putting up with insults and assaults for over a month every time we go out to report.

‘Although some believe it’s a fun game, the political and media targeting of RTVE professionals has consequences on the street. Assaulting journalists is dynamiting democracy.’