FROM EMILY MAITLIS
Hello,
Labour Resignation Yesterday members of the Cabinet tried to tell us that turmoil within the Labour party was pretty much a media confection - the chatter, if you like, of the Westminster village. Today - with the resignation of a Labour minister who has admitted he's lost faith in Gordon Brown - it's a pretty hard argument for them to sustain.
David Cairns - the Scotland Office minister - now becomes the second member of Gordon Brown's government to resign within a week - he says he just hasn't got confidence in his leader.
The question is, are there more to follow?
We'll be assessing what this means for the Prime Minister and whether the rebels' cause has now gained enough momentum to force a leadership election.
George Soros and the economic crisis "I'm afraid we're not through the worst of it at all - in some ways we're heading into the storm, rather than coming out of it".
The words of hedge fund supremo George Soros, who I spoke to half an hour ago. He believes this is the product of ten years of greed - and that Britain - with its heavy dependence on the financial sector - is one of the worst placed economies to deal with it.
He knows a thing or two about making money in a crisis. He wouldn't divulge how much HE has made in the last 48 hours, but he did say he thought the whole financial system had gone overboard in recent times.
Tonight, as the world waits with baited breath to see what happens to the American Insurance Group - AIG, and watches as even a high street name like HBOS sees its share price slashed, our Economics Editor Paul Mason is on Wall Street with the latest analysis.
Was Iraq the Wrong War? As General David Petraeus - the American soldier credited with making the surge a success in Iraq - says goodbye, we talk to the UK's Chief of Defence Staff Sir Jock Stirrup about what has been achieved.
Could a 'surge' in Afghanistan secure victory there? Does he believe the focus was put into the wrong country, given the clear problems with the mission against Taleban forces?
And we report from Afghanistan, revealing just who is funding the Taleban and how they are being armed.
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