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
today criticised labour in the commons today says criticised labour in the commons today says the redevelopment represents a huge opportunity. it is bi aer than represents a huge opportunity. it 3 bigger than gibraltar. it represents a huge opportunity. it 1 bigger than gibraltar. it is the largest brownfield regeneration project anywhere in the country. and it is absolutely central to teesside for the future. we have lost thousands ofjobs over the last 40 years in steel, chemicals, engineering and shipbuilding. all of those anchor industries that used to support the north east economy and were so important to the wider uk. we ve now got a once chance to reset, based around the clean energy sector. hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, onshore and offshore wind, and it s imperative that we seize that. but this is something that is usually contaminated, it had a long industrial history, the mediation costs are in hundreds of millions. a local commentator believes a ben houchen and hi
meant to be that if countries were currently green, but in danger of going to amber, they would be put on that list. portugal, in this case, hasjumped that list. portugal, in this case, has jumped straight from green to amber. this is an industry that has lost thousands of jobs amber. this is an industry that has lost thousands ofjobs in the course of the last year. they really do need to be so much to survive and, to some degree, they have told me this evening they feel they have been partially sacrificed. however, it is clear that the government is taking his variants incredibly seriously. they don t want to let one end that is vaccine resistant after such an important effort with the vaccines, that could bring us back to square one again. ok. the vaccines, that could bring us back to square one again. 0k, thank ou. the portuguese foreign ministry tweeted after the announcement that it couldn t see the logic in the decision to put portugal on the amber list. our reporter alison rober