we start with breaking news that his just coming to us, the dup leader jeffrey donelson has said he is written to the speaker of the stormont assembly to confirm that the conditions exists for the return of the northern ireland power—sharing executive and indicated he expects the assembly to sit on saturday. we've seen just a number of moves through the last couple of days. we saw legislation late in the house of commons. now the dup leader says he's written to the dup leader says he's written to the speaker of the stormont assembly, saying the conditions now exist for the return power—sharing in northern ireland, expected to start on saturday. we'll have a full live coverage of that. i really significant moment with the return of power—sharing in northern ireland. more on that breaking development here in the next little while. let's head to the us. the defence secretary lloyd austin has called on iran to stop supplying weapons to the houthi rebels in yemen. speaking at the pentagon, he said the us does not want a wider middle east conflict, but it reserves the right to respond to ira