| TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 22.30 BST - BBC TWO FROM PROGRAMME PRODUCER ROBERT MORGAN Hello, Trades Union Congress Just before we go on air tonight the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown will be holding a private meeting with trade union bosses. With the unions now firmly holding Labour's purse strings what will Mr Brown's message be? Some unions are threatening strike action over pay - while delegates have voted for a "windfall tax" on the profits of energy companies, at apparent odds with the Government's current policy. We will be speaking to one of those leaders and a cabinet minister. Airline Plot Trial Did US President Bush play a role in scuppering the airline terror trial? Security officials have expressed disappointment with the outcome of the terror trial in London in which three men were yesterday found guilty of conspiring to commit murder using home-made bombs. The jury didn't convict them on the central charge that they planned to blow up planes using liquid explosives disguised as soft drinks. They failed to reach verdicts on four other men. Richard Watson will be looking at how the pressure for early arrests in the case may have come from President Bush, even though he had reportedly been advised to wait by the then Prime Minister Tony Blair. Richard will also be examining how this reflects the different approaches of the British and Americans in terror investigations. Knife Crime Knife crime among young people is second only to terrorism as a threat to peace in London, according to police chiefs. Twenty young people have already died in the capital this year, compared to 16 across the whole of last year. Rarely have the voices of those closest to the problem been heard. Tonight on Newsnight we have a report from Andrew North who has been on the streets speaking to some of those who claim to carry knives - and those trying to avoid them. Cardinal Newman The Catholic Church is under growing pressure to abandon the exhumation and reburial of the body of one its most famous cardinals, in defiance of his wish to lie for eternity next to the man he loved. Gay rights campaigners have accused the Vatican - which has ordered the disinterment in the first step towards beatification - of attempting to cover up the sexuality of Cardinal John Henry Newman, who died in 1890. Gay rights campaigner, Peter Tatchell and Cardinal Newman's biographer will join us live. Join us at 10.30pm on BBC TWO 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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