Amman: Two journalists in Jordan have had an on-air brawl during a televised debate about the civil war in neighbouring Syria, breaking apart the studio's table where they had been seated.

The program, aired on Tuesday on the "Seven Stars" satellite television channel, featured journalists Shaker al-Johari and Mohammad al-Jayousi.

The pair was talking about the three-year-old war, pitting rebels against President Bashar al-Assad's government, a conflict that activists say has killed more than 150,000 people.

Turning the tables: It seems these Jordanian journalists disagree on Syria.

Turning the tables: It seems these Jordanian journalists disagree on Syria. Photo: AP

However, the debate fell apart as al-Jayousi accused al-Johari of supporting the Syrian rebels, with Al-Johari then accusing al-Jayousi of taking money for supporting al-Assad.

The two men, obviously carried away by the debate, stood up and grabbed the edge of the studio table they had been seated at, and tried to fight each other.

In the scuffle, the top of the table broke off and the rest of it toppled as the moderator and studio workers tried to stop the fight and finally separated the two journalists.