| WEDNESDAY 1st OCTOBER 22.30 BST - BBC TWO FROM PROGRAMME PRODUCER DAN KELLY Hello Jeremy Paxman is presenting tonight's programme. Banking crisis "It is clear that this is what we must do right now to prevent a crisis from turning into a catastrophe" said Barack Obama. Tonight Senators Obama and McCain vote on the $700 billion Wall Street package that their compatriots in the House of Representatives have already given the thumbs down. We'll have the latest news on the backstage wheeler-dealing which could decide the fate of the global economy. France today also stepped in with their own proposals to stem the crisis - a reported 300 billion euro rescue package for European banks. We'll be speaking to the French chief finance minister Christine Lagarde live on the programme tonight. Conservative conference At the Conservative Party conference David Cameron asserted he?s "a man with a plan" to rebuild Britain's battered economy and repair its "broken society". Winding up his party's conference, he also shrugged off jibes that he was a novice saying "more of the same" wasn't the answer. David Grossman asks if the strategy worked. Exclusive Interview Ryan Crocker, the US ambassador to Iraq is also worried about the US financial crisis. In an exclusive interview with Jeremy tonight, he tells us that the war in Iraq isn't some Hollywood movie - we can't just switch it off when we run out of money to pay for it. And we have the results of our 'Place that Face' competition. How did you rank our 12 post-war prime ministers in order of greatness? All will be revealed tonight at 10.30pm on BBC2. Missed Newsnight? Click here to watch online Newsnight Blog Add your comments to our correspondents' blogs: CLICK HERE | 
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