MALE CONTESTANT ON RUSSIAN GAME SHOW SLAMS WOMAN TO THE GROUND AND PUNCHES HER IN FACE ON LIVE TV

This is the sickening moment a woman is slammed to the ground - and punched in face while she lies prone - during a live Russian TV game-show.

A group of contestants are stood around a car in a 'Touch the Truck'-style game, trying to be the last one standing.

The female, who wears a red bikini, taunts and teases her fellow contestants and that's when the man beside her snaps - slamming her to the floor, before punching her in the face.

when the game-show host appears to help the woman she is lying on the floor in tears, with blood pouring from a wound on the bridge of her nose.

The video - which has some 123,000 views on social media - has sparked a debate about domestic violence, with the great majority expressing disbelief that a man could so suddenly dish out such a horrific beating.

However, some viewers who claim to have seen the entire programme, said the man had asked his victim on a number of occasions to stop her outrageous behaviour - hitting, spitting, swearing and punching - in effect, condoning his sickening outburst.