development in northern ireland news thatjeffrey donaldson, the leader of the democratic unionist party, has been charged with historical sexual offences and has quit as leader. the dup says mr donaldson, who has been in politics for almost a0 years, has had his membership suspended pending the outcome of a judicial process. the party released a statement earlier. it says. police issued a statement on friday morning, not disclosing the identity of those charged. it read a 61 year old man had been charged with non recent sexual offences , adding that a 57 year old woman was also arrested and charged with aiding and abetting additional offences . the statement confirmed two people will appear in court on april the 24th. our ireland correspondent sara girvin has the latest. more details, more information starting to trickle through after what has been really shock breaking news that sirjeffrey donaldson has stepped down with immediate effect as the leader of the democratic u
development in northern ireland news thatjeffrey donaldson the leader of the democratic unionist party has been charged with historical sexual offences and has quit as leader. the dup says mr donaldson, who has been in politics for almost ao years, has had his membership suspended pending the outcome of a judicial process. the party released a statement earlier, it says: police issued a statement earlier this morning. it read a 61 year old man had been charged with non recent sexual offences adding that a 57 year old woman was also arrested and charged with aiding and abetting additional offences . the statement confirmed two people will appear in court on april 24. let s speak to our ireland correspondent, sara girvin. a quite stunning development. take us through it. a quite stunning development. take us through it us through it. yeah, it s really remarkable. us through it. yeah, it s really remarkable. sir us through it. yeah, it s really remarkable. sirjef
had called on people to turn out at midday in moscow and other cities to spoil their ballots or vote for any other candidate. these were the scenes in moscow. there ve been no protest chants the authorities warned that activists could be arrested. a rights monitoring group in russia says more than 70 people have been detained. vladimir putin is almost certain to win, giving him another six years in power. the kremlin has ensured he faces no credible opponent. protests were also held at russian embassies abroad. mr navalny s widow, yulia, was among those queuing outside the russian embassy in berlin to vote. there have been demonstrations in the uk, france, tokyo and georgia. with me is the bbc s vitaly shevchenko. thank you for being with us. third and final day of voting, give us a sense of the picture in russia. people are voting and queues did form at a greater number of polling stations, as far as we can tell. the opposition had called for its supporters to come at noon
if you paid any attention to the u.s. jobs report at any point over the last three years, there s a good chance you ve heard the phrase, better than expected. you ve probably heard it again over the last few days following the latest job in december. 216,000 new jobs were created. much better than expected for cnbc. back in the old days, weeks 150,000 or more jobs created in one month was good. there are now 100 one point 42 open positions for every job seeker in america. well every available job is not matched every available job seeker, mathematically, america has more jobs than it has available workers. that s just the fact. december s 2100is not anomaly either. that s largely been the trend of the biden presidency since the office in 2021. you can find similar headlines about better than expected numbers for june 2021, january 2022, june 2022, september 2023, for example. this has been one of the top achievements of the biden presidency. it shows that he s been able to