| WEDNESDAY 17 DECEMBER 22:30 GMT - BBC TWO FROM PROGRAMME PRODUCER SHAMINDER NAHAL Hello, Jobs Today's figures on unemployment make for grim reading and they pose an uncomfortable question for the Government. As the shake out worsens, will it be migrant workers, the young and the old who lose their jobs; or the hi-tech workers who were supposed to be the future of Britain? Paul Mason investigates. Iraq Gordon Brown and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki have announced UK forces will have "completed their tasks" and leave the country by the end of July 2009. Our Diplomatic Editor Mark Urban will assess the fallout behind the deal. vCJD Susan Watts has an exclusive report on the discovery of variant CJD in a new human genetic group. So far, 164 people have died of variant CJD - which originally came from cows infected with BSE. Cases have been declining since 2000 and all were limited to one genetic group of the population. But Newsnight has learned of a new case that has raised fears there could be a second wave of the human form of the disease. End of Year interviews In 2006, the barrister Constance Briscoe wrote a shocking memoir of her childhood detailing the physical and mental abuse meted out to her by her mother - who later took her to court for libel. In her first broadcast interview since winning the case, Constance Briscoe talks about the abuse she suffered, her self-esteem and her decision to undergo plastic surgery and why she believes the lessons of recent child abuse cases will not be learnt. Join us tonight at 10.30pm. Missed Newsnight? Click here to watch online Newsnight Blog Add your comments to our correspondents' blogs: CLICK HERE | 
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