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welcome to the world today, an hour of international news from the bbc. we start in northern ireland, where politics has been thrown into turmoil with the news that the leader of the democratic unionist party, sirjeffrey donaldson, has resigned after being charged with rape and other historical sexual offences. he was arrested yesterday along with a 57 year old woman, who has been charged with aiding and abetting in connection with the alleged offences. they will appear in court next month. sirjeffrey, who is northern ireland s longest serving mp at westminster, says he will strenously contest the charges. jennifer o leary reports. sirjeffrey donaldson, a leader whojust weeks ago returned his party to power sharing at stormont. today, his political career appears to be over. in a statement, his party announced his resignation, confirming that he s been charged with allegations of an historical nature. bbc news understands he s been charged with rape and multiple other s ....
3, 4, 9, 8, 7, 1 8, 8, 8, 5, 2, 3, 4 9, 8, 7. i m katie bo lillis in washington. and this is cnn welcome everyone. thanks for joining. i m omar jimenez in today for fredricka whitfield. we begin this hour with some breaking news as the us begins, humanitarian airdrops today over gaza, we re now learning that vice president kamala harris will meet with israel war cabinet minister benny gantz on monday in washington. and it also comes as a senior us official tells cnn that has six weeks ceasefire has basically been accepted by israel they re now waiting on a response from hamas. now, earlier today, three c-130 hercules cargo planes dropped a total of 66 bundles of aid in gaza. they included mainly food, but no water or medical supplies. cnn s priscilla alvarez is in washington now, priscilla, president biden weighed in on the airdrops it s a short time ago. what is he saying? he did and he echoed his remarks from this week, which is that this is still not enough aid ....
3pm today, some 11 hours after the first reports began, the news continues right here on cnn right now on early start, president biden promising major new sanctions against vladimir putin they re sitting down with the wife and daughter of alexey navalny about 24 hours to go until republican primary voters in south carolina had to the polls. what nikki haley is doing to try to convince her home state to pick her over donald trump and for the first time in more than 50 years, the us has returned the moon i know this was a nail-biter, but we are on the on the surface and we are transmitting. and welcome to the moon just amazing, we re back on the moon. good morning to our viewers. in the united states and around the world, i m kasie hunt. it s friday, february 23rd. happy friday. we made it. welcome to the very last edition of early start after more than 12 years here on cnn will have more on what s next for us at the conclusion of this hour. so stick around. it ....
you good morning everyone. welcome to cnn this morning well, good to be with you. thank you for joining us. here s what we re watching for you this morning. it is primary day in south carolina, polls open in one hour the big question here can nikki haley shocked the political world? and when her home state or opponent donald trump, is looking to win his foreign contest i got indicted a second time at a third time and a fourth time. and a lot of people said that that s why the black people likely donald trump courting controversy as he tries to court black voters ukraine marks two years of war against russia as kyiv pleads for the help it needs against the kremlin s war machine and other university we have georgia and a rust and the on-campus killing of a student s a death that has left the community in mourning of voters will cast the first ballots in south carolina s republican presidential primary in a little less than an hour from now, the state s forme ....
will be treated as an act of terrorism . the president has said that ecuador is in a state of internal armed conflict . ione wells reports from sao paulo. a moment of utter horror, broadcast live on television. armed men with balaclavas over theirface broke into the set of this public television channel in ecuador while it was live on air, brandishing guns and what appears to be explosives. it comes a day after the country s new president daniel noboa declared a state of emergency yesterday. ecuador has been rocked by a series of attacks after the apparent escape of a powerful gang leader, jose adolfo macias, from prison. police and military were ordered to intervene in controlling prisons in attempts to control violence but the violence has exploded further since then. explosions in streets, police officers carrying out stop and search, some reportedly being abducted. for ordinary people in ecuador, terror on the streets. translation: i hope this state of emergency y ....