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	FRIDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER 22.30 BST - BBC TWO FROM GAVIN ESLER Hello The $700 billion Question Tonight we have a special programme devoted to today's momentous events in Washington as President Bush struggles to convince Republican rebels in Congress to back his $700 billion bail out of Wall Street. Our Diplomatic Editor Mark Urban will have all the latest drama from Capitol Hill, and we'll hear from a leading Republican in Congress who is against the plan, and a Democrat who is in favour, we'll also hear from a former Bush economic adviser. The recriminations in Washington have already started. The way the Democrats tell it, presidential candidate John McCain is busting the $700 billion deal that was in the bag (apparently) yesterday. Well, maybe. Conservative Republicans in Congress are not too keen on spraying taxpayers' money at banks which have proved less than competent to manage risk in the past. Oh, and Senator McCain? As I write this, he's on his horse galloping off into the sunset (well, to the presidential debate with Senator Obama in Mississippi). Gavin Quote for the Day "This is a plea to President Bush ... please get your party in line (and ask) Senator McCain to leave town ..." - Senator Charles Schumer, Chairman, Joint Economic Committee. Review And don't forget to scroll down to see what is planned for Newsnight Review at 11pm.
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	FROM KIRSTY WARK RIGHTEOUS KILL And then on Review, FINALLY Robert de Niro and Al Pacino get to co-star in a movie (rather than just sharing a desultory cup of coffee as they did for a few minutes in Heat). In Righteous Kill director and producer Jon Avnet cast the old friends as grizzled New York cops, on the edge of retirement who are on a last big investigation, tracking down a serial killer who just might be one of their own. Will these two American movie stars earn the critical acclaim so elusive since Raging Bull and Insomnia? ROTHKO - TATE MODERN Mark Rothko's late work forms the first major exhibition of his paintings in the UK for two decades and reunites at Tate Modern half of the Seagram murals for the first time since Rothko completed them and then refused to hand them over to the Four Seasons restaurant in New York. Originally commissioned for the Seagram Building, the Tate has had nine of them ever since they arrived on the day the news broke of Rothko's suicide in February 1970. Rothko said "Maybe you have noticed two characteristics exist in my paintings; either their surfaces are expansive and push outwards in all directions, or their surfaces contract and rush inward in all directions. Between these two poles you can find everything I want to say." The idea of inner light too remained a constant in Rothko's canvases and at the Tate you can - as Rothko often desired - get up close to experience the paintings with their layers of paint and glaze - sharp and soft, translucent and opaque, smooth or brushstroke textures. THE BELIEVERS by ZOË HELLER Zoë Heller's new novel takes us into the tormented anger-ridden heart of an outwardly radically chic New York family, whose frailties and secrets are exposed when the father Joel Litvinoff falls into a coma. He is a famous and feted human rights lawyer who came to prominence in the sixties and dazzled his future wife Audrey whom he met on a trip to London. They raise three children or "trainee humans" as the increasingly angry and frustrated Audrey calls them, and each one now in their twenties tries to break out from the suffocating strictures of the brownstone in Greenwich Village that is the Litvinoff home. LEAVING by VACLAV HAVEL When Vaclav Havel was catapulted from a dissident banned Czech dramatist who had endured several spells in prison to the role of his country's President, he set aside his artistic endeavours including a play he was working on about a leader who loses office but cannot bear to relinquish the trappings of high office. When Havel himself lost power in 2003, he returned to the play titled "Leaving". It had its British premiere this week at The Orange Tree Theatre in London and Havel himself takes the role of the offstage authorial voice. Ian Hislop, Natalie Haynes and Emily King are our reviewers this week. Do join us for what I think will be some robust views, Kirsty Missed Newsnight? Click here to watch the latest programme online Newsnight Blog Add your comments to our correspondents' blogs: CLICK HERE
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