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
apparently have telephone contact with somebody in the compound. my name is dave koresh. david koresh. to his followers, david koresh was a messiah. god speaks to me. manifestation of god in the flesh. we believed this man had the truth. reporter: but to the u.s. government, david koresh was a threat. machine guns and explosive devices. reporter: in 1993, they went to war in waco. this ain t america anymore when the atf has that kind of power. reporter: it ended in catastrophe. 86 people dead. including at least 24 children. there had been nothing like this before. this siege was new and unique in american law enforcement history. if you distrust the government, waco is going to be symbolic to a lot of people of what they really fear. i m talking to you. somebody s going to get hurt. if he asks god for some kind of sign and god gives it, what does that mean? reporter: every saturday morning clive doyle and sheila martin study the bible. behold
he called it an inadvertent error. that has not quieted the protests in afghanistan. the taliban s calling on muslims to seek revenge. who s going to be the prime minister of australia come monday. the stage is set for a showdown. the governing labor party will vote on monday. rudd says ms. gill lard can t win the next election. we ll have more on that story in just a moment. i m zain verjee. world business today. good morning. from cnn london, i m nina dos santos. this is world business today. these are the top stories on friday, february the 24th. greece s debt burden has been lightened but its debt holders are about to see the value of their bonds drop. the u.s. takes on organized crime in japan imposing sanctions on high ranking members of the yakazu. what does google know about you? new privacy policies make it harder to keep your information under wraps these days. first up, to our top story today. today is the daze day that greece finally unveils its propos
little bit. and i m going to hit on something a little bit touchy in our world. remember when chef paula deen announced she had diabetes. a lot of people voicing their opinion, i told you so. that s what you get for cooking such incredibly rich food. we wish paula deen the best. we love her. i want to take another approach. sam talbot, a finalist on the show top chef, has had diabetes for most of his life. it s taught him important lessons about eating healthy. we re going to try to share them with you today. first, like a lot of people, i was pretty shocked to get the news about whitney houston dying just before the grammys. the coroner says it s going to be weeks before we know the cause of death. but given her drug abuse, people are asking tough questions. investigators did find prescription drugs in the hotel room where houston died. but the coroner told us something important. listen to this. nothing out of the ordinary was found as long as houston was taking the me
attack. one person has been killed by gunfire in daraa. the group says three members of the government s security forces were also killed in clashes with army defectors. business leaders in los angeles is preparing to roll out the red carpet for the man expected to become china s next president. xi jinping arrives in california for a two-day visit hosted by state governor jerry brown. visit will include a tour of the port of los angeles, china shipping terminal, which is undergoing an upgrade as sign of u.s. trade continues to grow. those are the headlines from cnn, the world s news leader. i m monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london, i m nina dos santos. and good afternoon from cnn hong kong, i m andrew stevens and you re watching world business today. the top stories this thursday, february 16th. the accounting scandal surrounding olympus escalates. seven arrests are made regarding the billion dollar fraud of the jab