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
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is among several injured in a stabbing in italy which left one person dead. and in sweden, resesarchers say they re close to completing the first crash test dummy based on an average woman. and in sport, england s progress at the men s t20 world cup match looks precarious as rain delays their match against australia in melbourne. the world s richest man, elon musk, has completed his long running £38 billion takeover of the social media company, twitter. the entrepreuner tweeted the bird is freed, in an apparent reference to the deal closing. mr musk also posted a longer statement on twitter, saying he didn t buy the firm to make more money. i did it to try to help humanity, whom i love . there are reports that a number of senior executives have been sacked and escorted out of the company s san francisco headquarters by security. elon musk has previously been critical of twitter s moderation policy. twitter has not yet confirmed the takeover, but an early investor in