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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
Which means hes suffering right now like a political, a crisis in some way that he needs to rock thing he strategy be doesnt longer have the support of the traditional parties im afraid were out of time savannah, but it was good to talk to savannah a maya political analysts, specializing in latin america. Thank you for having me. Ah, this is al jazeera, lets recap your top stories, the ones to don, envoy as told the Associated Press that the countrys warring generals have agreed to send a representative to talks possibly in saudi arabia, the fighting between sedans, army and the power military, Rapid Support forces has now gone on for more than 3 weeks. United nations has issued a stock warning about the number of people fleeing to neighboring countries. The un refugee agency, in consultation with the governments in partners, are planning for up to 800000 people who mayfly fighting and sudan to the 7 neighboring countries. With our quick resolution to the crisis, we will continue to se
The bbc s star football presenter, gary lineker, has been suspended over comments he made criticising the british governments asylum policy. Ina in a tweet he compared the language of the uk government with germany in the 1930s. Britain will pay france hundreds of millions of dollars over the next three years for a new Detention Centre and more patrols to help clamp down on migrants crossing the channel in small boats. Saudi arabia and iran have agreed to re establish diplomatic ties seven years after riyadh s embassy in tehran was attacked following the saudi execution of a shia cleric. The gunman opens fire at a Jehovah Witness Hall and the german city of hamburg. Seven People Killed including an unborn baby. At ten oclock well be here with a full round up of the days news. First. The chef, the model the missing millions vt a Global Pandemic and a national emergency. From this evening, i must give the british people a very simple instruction. You must stay at home. An economy grindin