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huge relieve in kyiv that the deal has passed and that hungary is on board and the response has stressed the fact this is a united european response, and the symbolism of that is important to ukraine as well as the fact it means that the funding is now approved. ukraine has been stressing all along that this is not just about supporting this country, it is about the broader cause of european security, that ukraine is fighting for europe as well against the russian attempts to change the world order by force. but war cost a lot of money and it is notjust about getting missiles and ammunition and shells and tanks from the west, it is about hard cash, because the government needs to keep doing what a normal government in a normal country would do, paying state sector salaries and paying pensions and it is about even just keeping on the heating, the price is high and ukraine needs help with the money because everything else, all of their other income is going to the war effort di
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 iranian backed attacks on american personnel in the region