Good Morning Britain reporter Jay Akbar was caught yawning on camera, unaware he was live on-air

A Good Morning Britain star was caught yawning live on air after suffering a tech issue.

The news reporter suffered the awkward blunder during Thursday’s (July 23) episode of the ITV hit breakfast show.

Jay Akbar was tasked with reporting on a “tragic incident” live from West Mersea beach near Colchester, Essex.

Residents are concerned there may have been fatalities, with reports of people being retrieved from the water and receiving CPR.

The West Mersea Coastguard Rescue Team released a statement saying their ‘thoughts are with the family involved’, though no additional information has been disclosed.

However before the report even started Richard Madeley, who was presenting the show alongside Kate Garraway, was forced to intervene and issue an apology.

As the camera switched to the journalist, the programme encountered an audio problem, leaving Jay unaware he was broadcasting live.

Richard sought the most recent information, enquiring: “Jay Akbar, can you give us the latest?”

It became apparent Jay was unable to hear the broadcaster as he gazed expressionless at the camera before being caught yawning. Richard wasted no time in apologising to the audience at home.

He stated: “Oh I’m sorry, he’s obviously got comms issues there. We will try again later.”

Reports indicate that emergency services, including a minimum of six ambulances, reached the location at approximately 5.30pm on Wednesday evening, with the RNLI being first to arrive.

In a Facebook post on Wednesday evening, the force said: “While we remain on scene, we would ask the public to avoid the Seaview Avenue and beach area.

“We appreciate that this will cause some local issues, but would ask for your patience and understanding as we may be there for some time yet.”

Meanwhile an Essex Police spokesperson added: “Emergency services are currently on scene of an ongoing incident in West Mersea, Colchester. While we remain on scene, we would ask the public to avoid the Seaview Avenue and beach area.

“We appreciate that this will cause some local issues, but would ask for your patience and understanding as we may be there for some time yet. Thank you.”

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Things have been happening behind the scenes though

Work on the largest council housebuilding project in decades in Swansea is yet to start more than a year and a half after it was given planning permission. It will consist of 156 houses, bungalows, and flats off Brokesby Road, Bonymaen, and be built in phases.

The council’s planning committee unanimously approved the development at a meeting on December 3, 2024. Bonymaen councillor Mandy Evans, addressing the committee, said: “This is massive for us.”

She particularly welcomed the 26 four-bedroom homes which are to be included. “We’ve got big families who are struggling – struggling to live a decent life,” she said.

Speaking after the meeting deputy council leader Andrea Harrington said: “This is major step forward in our aims of creating more affordable housing in the city, adding to our existing housing stock.”

The council, when asked this month by the Local Democracy Reporting Service when construction would start and what progress had taken place behind the scenes, said a start date hadn’t been confirmed yet. It added that site investigations, statutory approval work, engagement, and procurement have been progressing and the first phase would be ready to start following the appointment of a design and build contractor.

Council leader Rob Stewart said: “Brokesby Road is a great example of the kind of development we want to see. It’s a major project that will provide homes for our tenants and important work is continuing behind the scenes to help bring it forward.”

The development will include green spaces, play areas, and walking and cycling paths. One of the planning conditions was around drinking water as Welsh Water said there was insufficient capacity at the time of the application to supply the 156 homes.

The Labour-run council has a target of providing 1,000 extra affordable homes between 2021 and 2031 and it reached 431 as of the end of March this year.

These include 101 new-build homes, converted council offices, and community centres, and the purchase of former council houses sold under the right to buy scheme brought in by Margaret Thatcher when she was Prime Minister.

“Behind every one of these homes is a person, a couple, or a family who now has a place to call home and that’s what this programme is all about,” said Cllr Stewart.

There are thousands of people waiting for housing in Swansea, although this includes council house tenants waiting for a transfer, and putting people up in bed and breakfast accommodation cost £7.2m in 2025-26.

The council recouped around £3.4m of this sum via Welsh Government funding, housing benefit, and Home Office funding for released prisoners and it has acquired two sizeable buildings to provide temporary accommodation, one of which is open.

Police Scotland officer Alan Greer took his own life after being suspended from duty pending a probe into crimes including rape and attempted murder against women over at least 14 years

A police officer has been unmasked as a rapist who carried out a string of sexual attacks and attempted murders of women over a period of at least 14 years.

PC Alan Greer – dubbed “Police Scotland’s Wayne Couzens” – took his own life in May after being suspended from duty pending an investigation into his offences.

Detectives have so far uncovered a further eight victims, five of whom were sex workers, who were attacked while Greer was off duty, a BBC Disclosure investigation has revealed.

“It feels a bit like this could be Police Scotland’s Wayne Couzens moment,” a source close to the investigation told the BBC.

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Couzens murdered 33-year-old Sarah Everard in south London in March 2021 while he was a serving Metropolitan Police officer. He is serving a whole-life sentence for kidnap, rape and murder.

Greer’s first known victim was a woman he raped in her home in Glasgow in 2012 after she had contacted police to report being the victim of a crime.

In 2018, a sex worker in Glasgow told police a man had been violent and gave them a phone number belonging to Greer, which police at the time were not able to trace back to him.

Greer’s crimes came to light in late 2025 when the first woman reported the 2012 rape to police, sparking an investigation by Police Scotland’s anti-corruption unit.

Detectives traced the officers who attended the woman’s home and found that Greer had been tracking the crime file for updates for no legitimate reason.

In February this year, detectives discovered that Greer had searched the police system for information about the incident involving the sex worker.

Greer was arrested in April on suspicion of the 2012 rape. Police raided his home and seized seven mobile phones and a laptop, which revealed the scale of his offending.

In the days after Greer took his own life, Police Scotland announced on its internal communications platform that he had died while suspended from duty and under criminal investigation.

The source close to the investigation told the BBC: “Some of his colleagues thought this was a callous move on behalf of the police, saying he was under criminal investigation when he’d only just died.

“But it’s clear they were all totally in the dark about this guy’s offending. Folk will be in a state of shock when they learn the full truth. I don’t think anyone really knows how bad it is yet.”

Greer’s family and colleagues were said to have been “oblivious” to his violent double life.

Assistant Chief Constable Lynn Ratcliff, gold commander for the investigation, told the broadcaster that the findings of the investigation into Greer were “truly shocking”. “This officer has clearly abused his power and has revisited someone that he’s encountered in the course of his duties,” she said.

“But this victim was brave enough to come and speak to us, and that really was the trigger point for us starting our investigation. That’s allowed us to proactively identify eight further victims.”

However, ACC Ratcliff said the comparison to Couzens was unhelpful and that at this stage there was no evidence to suggest that “red flags” were missed. She added that the force’s vetting process is “markedly different” to when Greer joined Strathclyde Police in 2009, meaning that he would not pass checks today.

With more victims of Greer expected to be identified, the assistant chief constable urged anyone who believes they may have been one of his victims to come forward.

David Algie was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of 22-year-old Michael Theaker

A convicted murderer who kicked a dad-to-be to death after an argument on a bus has died in prison.

David Algie, who was jailed for life for the murder of Michael Theaker in Orford, Warrington in 2006, suffered a massive brain haemorrhage after falling ill at HMP Wymott in Lancashire. He was 38-years-old.

Algie, then 21, was convicted of the murder of Mr Theaker in December 2006 alongside his brother Colin, 19, and a 16-year-old boy. A court heard how the brothers were seen high-fiving each other in the street following the senseless attack.

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The killers were said to have kicked Mr Theaker ‘like a football’ during the deadly assault in January 2006. The 22-year-old victim was left in a coma and died six days later, six weeks before the birth of his daughter.

In a statement following his death, Michael’s family said: “Michael was a likeable lad who never had problems with anyone. We are all devastated by this loss.”

In December 2006, David Algie was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 15 years. The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman has now confirmed he died in Preston Hospital in July 2024.

Algie, who had a history of substance misuse, had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2020, the PPO report says. In March 2023 he was released from jail, but just over three weeks later was back behind bars after breaching the terms of his licence.

He was transferred from Forest Bank in Salford to HMP Wymott in Lancashire in May that year. On July 6, 2024 Algie fell ill in his cell. Staff initially suspected a drugs overdose, because his speech was slurred, his pupils were dilated and he was ‘slightly unresponsive’.

An ambulance was called, but by the time Algie arrived at Royal Preston Hospital he had fallen into a coma. Scans confirmed a bleed on the brain and he was placed on life-support. On July 10 the prison began an application for early release on compassionate grounds. Algie died in the early hours of the following day after his ventilator was removed.

A post-mortem found the cause of death to be a brain haemorrhage. Following an inquest in April this year a coroner concluded Algie died of natural causes.

The PPO investigation found Algie’s care was of a ‘reasonable’ standard. But inspectors raised concerns about the ‘unacceptable and inhumane’ use of handcuffs when he was in a coma. Prisons and Probation Ombudsman Adrian Usher recommended the governor ‘implement further measures’ to ensure staff understand when restraints should be used.

Essex Police released a statement on Wednesday evening, saying emergency services were at the scene of an “ongoing incident” in West Mersea, Colchester.

“While we remain on scene, we would ask the public to avoid the Seaview Avenue and beach area,” the statement on Facebook read.

“We appreciate that this will cause some local issues, but would ask for your patience and understanding as we may be there for some time yet. Thank you.”

We will bring you further updates.

Police have arrested a masseur accused of sexually assaulting a pregnant British tourist during a massage session at her Majorcan hotel.

The 50-year-old was held on Tuesday after his alleged victim fled the room she was receiving an arranged massage in and alerted her husband.

Officers had to calm the 30-year-old woman down after being called to the hotel in the resort of Calas de Mallorca on Majorca’s eastern coast and finding her ‘highly distressed and crying.’

She told them there had been no problems initially, but the worker began moving his hands up her inner thigh towards her groin at one point in the massage session and ignored her demands to stop before allegedly committing a sex act. 

Staff rushed to the woman’s aid after she came out of the room shouting and asking for help, although she ended up going straight up to her room to speak to her husband before police were called.

Hotel managers admitted to the two officers who arrived at the scene that a guest had complained about being ‘inappropriately touched’ by the masseur around a year ago, but it didn’t go any further.

The unnamed masseur, who had left the hotel by the time police arrived, was arrested in nearby Porto Cristo shortly after officers finished talking to the British tourist.

It was not immediately clear this morning if the man has already appeared in court so a judge can decide whether to remand him in custody or release him on bail.

It comes several months after a masseur was convicted of sexually assaulting a British woman working as a production assistant on a prequel to a record-breaking TV series.

A court in the Portuguese city of Castelo Branco handed the man responsible a two-year suspended prison sentence and ordered him to pay his victim the equivalent of nearly £26,000 back in January. 

He was identified by Portuguese daily Jornal de Noticias, which published details of the conviction at the time, only as Lucas G.

It said he asked his victim to strip down to a bikini and lie on a massage table and groped her. 

He told the British woman in English: ‘At times it’s difficult to stop with pretty girls’ after she asked him to break off the massage she had booked at the spa of a hotel in Fundao near Castelo Branco.

She was staying at the hotel while she worked on the TV series.

As she went to leave, he got down on his knees and begged her not to say anything to the hotel owner before shouting and following her as she ran out the door and locked herself in her room.

The masseur denied any wrongdoing at his trial. Still, the three judges ruled it had been proven he took advantage of the fact he was in an isolated room alone with a woman and in a ‘position of control’ to satisfy his sexual desires.

She needed counselling after the incident, which happened in November 2021 but only resulted in a conviction at the start of the year.

Her lawyer David Silva Ramalho said afterwards: ‘The court had no doubts in fully confirming the veracity of what was stated in the indictment.

‘The decision is important because, despite not erasing what happened, it contributed to it not happening again.’

Last month an Irish tourist admitted groping a man half her age in the sauna of a Magaluf hotel where she was holidaying with her husband.

Raphaella Richer Martins Burns had been expected to protest her innocence after a preliminary hearing to see if a plea bargain could be thrashed out between her lawyer and a public prosecutor, but the hearing ended in a stalemate.

But after insisting earlier this year she wanted her day in court to clear her name, the 38-year-old entered an unexpected guilty plea on June 23 on the day scheduled for her trial.

Brazilian-born Raphaella, based in a small village in east County Cork, had been warned she could face an 18-month prison sentence if convicted over the June 3 2025 sex assault.

But after her U-turn and last-minute decision to agree to a plea bargain deal, public prosecutors said they were happy for the matter to be resolved with a financial penalty.

Raphaella agreed to pay a fine of £2,325 and £430 in compensation to her victim, a Swedish tourist aged 18 when she touched his genitals without his consent in a Turkish steam bath.

She entered her guilty plea at a short hearing yesterday at the Audiencia Provincial Court in the Majorcan capital Palma via video link and was not required to travel to the island to appear in person.

That sex assault occurred at the four-star Hotel Martinique in Magaluf when the Irish woman was still 37.

She initially denied touching the man’s genitals to police before admitting to a ‘misunderstanding.’

Former UFC strawweight champion Jessica Andrade says she has been working as a delivery driver to earn extra money while she recovers from injury.

The Brazilian, 34, has not competed since losing to Loopy Godinez last August, when she injured a shoulder.

Andrade has fought 30 times in the UFC since her debut in 2013, winning 17 of her fights.

“I work as a delivery driver. I deliver meals and things like that. I just pick up orders through an app and make the deliveries,” Andrade said, external on the Brazilian MMA podcast Direto de Vegas.

“I do whatever it takes. I’m not afraid of hard work. I can do just about anything.”

Andrade said she has started a landscaping project at her friend’s house, which involves removing rocks, putting down grass and painting fences.

“If I’m good at this it becomes one more thing I can add if I ever find myself short on cash. We need some extra money,” she said.

In 2018 Andrade said she sold her UFC clothes, backpack and gloves because she was struggling to get sponsors, but added that she was “paid really well” in the promotion.

In 2023 she said she fought five times to pay for her divorce, while the following year she accused former coach Gilliard Parana of withholding money from her. Parana denied all allegations.

UFC fighter pay has been questioned by athletes and the media after boxer Conor Benn signed a reported £11m one-fight deal with Zuffa Boxing, owned by UFC president Dana White.

The UFC gives about 20% of revenue to fighter pay, while boxers get about 60% of revenue from their events.

Asked about criticism, White has pointed to UFC fighter pay rising since 2001.

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Published: 08:07 BST, 23 July 2026 | Updated: 08:22 BST, 23 July 2026

Katie Price has revealed she has had another secret boob job as she left her children horrified during her first appearance on the upcoming series of her daughter’s reality series. 

Season three of the ITV series The Princess Diaries is set for release on July 28 and in a sneak teaser, the former glamour model, 48, leaves her children shocked as she unveils the results of the cosmetic procedure after having her cup size increased once again. 

Katie was blocked from appearing in the first series of Princess’s show, a decision which has now been overturned for the new series. 

Facetiming their mum, Princess asks: ‘When are we going horse riding?’ as Katie replies: ‘When my boobs have healed.’

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Shocked, Princess exclaimed: ‘You’ve had them done again!’

As Katie pulled up her hoodie to reveal her surgically enhanced assets, Junior is left grimacing as he looked away from the phone. 

Katie Price told her horrified children she’s had another secret boob job as she finally makes her first appearance in The Princess Diaries following ban 

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 Katie revealed one boob is slightly more enlarged than the other as she explained: ‘One is bigger than the other at the minute.’

‘Flipping hell, it is bigger than the other isn’t it?’ added Princess. 

Trying not to look, Junior exclaimed: ‘They are bouncing around the camera mate.’

Princess then teased: ‘They look good though! Flipping heck, they are going to pop!’

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Meanwhile last week Princess and Junior revealed they’ve paid tribute to their dad Peter Andre with matching tattoos, after admitting they felt ‘neglected’ by their mum.

The pair have shared they had the word ‘unconditional’ inked onto them, after Peter wrote a song of the same name in honour of their older brother Harvey.

Speaking at the ITV2 Reality Showcase on Friday, Junior said he and Princess had the tattoos as a sign of their ‘love and unity’ as a family.

The pair’s appearance came after admitting their mum Katie’s four-part Sky documentary put them in an ‘awkward position,’ having opened up about the challenges they faced during their childhood on the show.

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Katie revealed one boob is slightly more enlarged than the other as she explained : ‘One is bigger than the other at the minute’

Speaking about the tattoo, Junior said: ‘The word that we got, our dad basically wrote a song with that word.

‘When you see the tattoo you’re going to laugh because it’s the smallest tattoo.

‘We wanted to get something that is very relatable to us as a family because unity, love and togetherness is really important to us.

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‘Our dad wrote a song for Harvey named the word [we had tattooed].’

Princess then recalled lyrics from the track, saying: ‘It’s something like ‘becoming a father before I became a dad.’

‘The song is about becoming a father before a dad because Harvey’s not his biological son, but he fathered him growing up and it taught him how to be a father.’

Police are searching for Sandy Scott Barron after his Dacia Duster car was found yesterday.

Police searching for a man who has been missing for five days have found his car abandoned near a bridge in Perth and Kinross.

Sandy Scott Barron’s family have not heard from the 37-year-old since Saturday, July 18. He is now being treated as a missing person after his black Dacia Duster car, registration SD67 SXG, was discovered.

The vehicle was discovered on a track off the B846 south of Tummel Bridge, near Pitlochry, at around 5.30pm on Wednesday, July 22. Enquiries are now ongoing to find the missing man from Inverbervie in Aberdeenshire.

He has been described as being white, 5ft 11in tall and of slim build with short brown hair.

Sergeant Colin Duff, of Perth Police Station, said: “We are working to establish Sandy’s movements and I would urge anyone who believes they may have seen him or his black Dacia Duster at any point in recent days to get in touch as a matter of urgency.

“From enquiries carried out so far, it is possible he may have travelled in the direction of Kinloch Rannoch. If anyone believes they may have seen him, please call 101 quoting reference 2645 of July 22.”

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Britain has withdrawn remaining diplomatic staff from Iran as the conflict with the US continued to escalate with a twelfth night of airstrikes and attacks by the Houthis in the Red Sea.

A statement on the Foreign Office (FCDO) website said: ‘Due to the security situation, UK staff have been temporarily withdrawn from Iran. Our embassy continues to operate remotely.’

The FCDO advises against all travel to Iran, saying British and dual British-Iranian residents face ‘significant risk of arrest, questioning or detention’.

A similar move was made in February ahead of the start of US and Israeli combat operations.

US Central Command said late on Wednesday that the 12th night of attacks was designed to ‘further degrade Iran’s ability to threaten civilian mariners and commercial vessels transiting regional waters’.

Announcing the end of the latest wave of strikes on Thursday morning, they said US forces struck military targets including maritime capabilities, missile and drone storage facilities, coastal surveillance sites and air defence assets.

‘The strikes further degrade Iran’s ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial vessels,’ they said on X.

Heavy machinery is targeted at an unknown location, during what CENTCOM says are strikes on Iran

Missiles struck near the cities of Ahvaz, Ramshir and Andimeshk in western Iran, according to Iranian state media, who said two people were killed in the town of Shalamcheh on the Iraqi border.

Kuwait’s army said on X that the country’s air defences were ‘confronting attacks by hostile drones, following the sinful Iranian aggression’.

US President Donald Trump had warned earlier that one bridge or power plant would be destroyed for each ship shot at by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz.

‘From this point forward, any time the Islamic Republic of Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, whether it be by Missile, Rocket, Drone, or any other device or weapon, the United States will bomb and destroy ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT,’ Trump wrote on social media.

Foreign minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi also said an ‘eye for an eye’ approach would be adopted by Iran.

‘Any aggression against Iran, including our infrastructure, will compel a powerful and decisive response,’ he posted on X on Wednesday.

Iran’s army and its Revolutionary Guards on Thursday said they attacked several US bases in Kuwait following attacks by American forces on Iran. 

They also attacked and destroyed several American military assets in Jordan.

The targets included a radar for the US THAAD missile defence system, a Patriot system, a C-RAM radar and a helicopter hangar, according to a statement from the Guards aired by state TV.

Meanwhile, a Saudi vessel was attacked in the Red Sea as Tehran-backed Houthi rebels claimed to strike tankers in the waterway, Riyadh’s state media said Thursday.

The Houthis had threatened to blockade Saudi ports on the Red Sea – a key route for oil shipments – while the five-month war had already led to the effective closure of the vital Strait of Hormuz.

Washington and Tehran have been battling over key crude supply route Hormuz, which led to the collapse of a preliminary deal aimed at ending the war that has sent global oil prices climbing.

The Houthis said they had carried out missile and drone strikes on two Saudi tankers in the Red Sea, the Encelia and the Layla, after threatening to blockade Saudi ports.

British naval security monitor UKMTO said the master of a tanker reported being hit by an unknown projectile about 70 nautical miles southwest of Al Shuqaiq, causing a fire that the crew was fighting.

Saudi Arabia confirmed the Encelia had been struck, without commenting on the other tanker.

It remains unclear how fully the Houthis could enforce a blockade, but the threat could compound the shock of the Hormuz closure, endangering Riyadh’s ability to bypass the strait for some oil exports.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Thursday they stopped three oil tankers from passing through the Strait of Hormuz, as the United States and Iran vie for control over the vital waterway.

In recent weeks, Iran has hit tankers using a route hugging the Omani coast to traverse the strait, in a bid to strongarm vessels into using its own waters and pay for safe passage.

‘Three oil tankers, provoked and tempted by the child-killing American army, were trying to pass through the mine-laid route south of the Strait of Hormuz, but after one of them exploded and caught fire, the other two quickly turned around and turned back,’ the Guards said in a statement quoted by Iranian state media.

 ‘The Strait of Hormuz is under our control… and any ship that is deceived by the US and intends to pass without coordination with the Islamic Republic of Iran will suffer the same fate,’ the statement added.

The statement did not say when the incident happened.

Houthi supporters hold up their weapons during a protest against Saudi Arabia

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Donald Trump will allow Saudi Arabia to develop its own civilian nuclear program under a sweeping new deal as the Iran war spirals into the Red Sea

Fighting reignited two weeks ago after ceasefire talks between the US and Iran broke down 

The 11th night of strikes on Iran into Wednesday saw air defences opening fire over the capital Tehran.

Iran launched a missile attack on a Jordanian city while alerts were sounded in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

Iran has responded to US attacks by targeting energy infrastructure and desalination plants which provide drinking water in neighbouring Gulf countries.

The Guards claimed attacks on Ali Al Salem base, Camp Udairi and a telecommunications tower, while the army said it targeted Camp Doha, Ali Al Salem base and Camp Arifjan, according to separate statements by the forces carried by state TV.

International law generally prohibits such attacks unless the infrastructure is being used for military purposes.

It  comes as the US on Wednesday announced a landmark deal with Saudi Arabia that would establish a civilian nuclear program in the Gulf country, with Washington insisting the agreement includes nonproliferation safeguards.

The move comes as Trump fights a war with Iran that began in large part over concerns with Tehran’s nuclear program – an issue that remains a key point of contention during now-stalled peace talks.

Two agreements – one on ‘peaceful nuclear cooperation’ and another on ‘bilateral safeguards’ – were signed by US Energy Secretary Chris Wright and his Saudi counterpart Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, the US Energy Department said.

The text of the deals was not immediately made public.

‘Together, these two agreements lay the legal foundation for a decades-long, multi-billion-dollar partnership that advances several priority economic and strategic objectives, including nuclear nonproliferation,’ the department said in a statement.

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, has previously vowed that his country would ‘without a doubt’ build nuclear weapons if Iran developed them.

The kingdom has faced mounting drone and missile attacks by Iran on its military and civilian infrastructure since Tehran’s war with the US resumed earlier this month.

Saudi officials insist the program is strictly civilian and will allow the kingdom to power its homes with nuclear energy, freeing up more crude for export.