Monday, 19 November, 2007
- 19 Nov 07, 06:14 PM
Northern Rock
The Chancellor has promised to protect the interests of taxpayers and depositers over the crisis at Northern Rock. The mortgage lender has revealed that bids from potential investors fall below the current market value of the business. Alistair Darling said any proposal on the future ownership of the bank would have to be approved by the government. But will taxpayers really get all their money back with interest? Stephanie Flanders and Michael Crick are on the case. And we'll be debating the political fallout for the chancellor and the Government.
BBC News special: Credit Crunch
Climate Change
Gordon Brown pledged today to make Britain a world leader in the battle against global warming, with a green "technological revolution" which he said could create hundreds of thousands of jobs in the UK. In his first major speech on the environment since becoming Prime Minister, Mr Brown hinted strongly that he is ready to extend the Government's target of a 60% cut in Britain's greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, revealing that he has asked an independent committee of experts to look at the possibility of an 80% goal. But does the Prime Minster's rhetoric make sense in reality when the Government is set to back the expansion of Heathrow later this week? Science Editor, Susan Watts investigates. And we hope an Environment Minister and the director of Greenpeace will go head to head on this story.
Climate change - reports and analysis
Burma
The heads of state of the association of south-east Asian countries Asean currently meeting in Singapore will tomorrow sign a charter committing the association' s ten members states to promoting human rights and bolstering democracy - which all sounds fair and sensible enough until you remember that Burma is one of Asean's members. UN special envoy to Burma, Ibrahim Gambari who recently met with some of the top Generals and the country's democratically elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, whose been under effective house arrest for the last fifteen years, was invited to the summit to brief Asean's heads of state but earlier today the Burmese delegation objected and that briefing has now been cancelled. But what's actually happening inside Burma? We asked Sue Lloyd-Roberts to go into Burma undercover to find out how life has been for the people and what going on with the country's underground pro-democracy movement. See her powerful report tonight.
Read Sue's report and watch a preview of her film here.
Burma protests - in-depth
On Tuesday's Newsnight the two contenders for the Liberal Democrat leadership go head to head. 
She never thought that the fact she worked for the Americans for 90 days before joining the British Embassy might make the difference between a more secure future and continued uncertainty.
