give up its secrets. rebecca morelle, bbc news. the time is 10:30pm and darren is here with the weather. hello, i want to touch on the flooding in italy first of all. this is just another example of severe weather becoming more severe and happening more often. it wasn t too long ago that this part of italy was in drought, but there has been six months of rain in the last couple of weeks which has certainly changed all that. this programme contains repetitive flashing images there s more analysis of the days main stories on newsnight with victoria which is just getting under way the site of the former redcar steelworks is at the centre of a furious row between the conservative mayor of tees valley and labour. truly shocking. industrial scale corruption on teesside. a huge site acquired by the public body south tees developments limited for £12 million, in 2019. what s going on then? we ll talk live to the conservative mayor who s facing labour claims of cronyism, corruption
another day of strikes more than 1,000 ambulance staff in wales walk out in a dispute over pay and conditions. meanwhile in england, nurses continue their strike action for a second day in a row. an aristocrat father pleads for his estranged daughter to turn herself into the police after going missing with her newborn baby and her convicted sex offender partner i beseach you to find a way to turn yourself and your wee one into the police as soon as possible so you and he or she can be protected. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. international leaders have paid tribute to new zealand s prime minister, jacinda ardern, who s made the suprise announcement that she ll step down early next month. she says she simply doesn t have enough left in the tank to fight this 0ctober s general election. her australian counterpart, anthony albanese, has described ms ardern as an inspiration to many, as a leader of intellect, strength, and empathy. arder
communication if you like but not enough was done. the other issue i think we will hear an awful lot about was obviously last week was a science week, we heard from some of the top scientists and again the general theme there seemed to be the scientists frustration with this government mantra of following the science which they said basically meant that scientists were used as scapegoats for controversial decisions that politicians were making. and then of course the general thing which has been bubbling along over the last few weeks has been the chaos and confusion right at the centre of government in downing street. a lot of that is to do with the personalities involved, and so i think we will be hearing more on all of that because michael gove really had a front row seat to all of it. and another big name that we are expecting to hear from this week, matt hancock, the former health secretary, of course, who has come in for a huge amount of criticism from those at the very