| THURSDAY 8 JANUARY 22:30 GMT - BBC TWO PRESENTED BY KIRSTY WARK Hello, INTEREST RATE We've been giving a lot of thought to how we deal with the half per cent interest rate cut, when the general view appears to be that it is going to have a pretty limited effect as long as the banks are short on credit. Paul Mason is out in the City trying to find out whether printing money really is a serious option now for the Bank of England and the Treasury, and we are booking guests to create the right alchemy to deliver what used to be called "blue skies thinking." GAZA It is very frustrating not knowing exactly what is going on inside Gaza with Israel refusing access to international journalists, but here in the Newsnight office the BBC correspondent Alan Johnston - who knows Gaza better than most having lived there for three years before being kidnapped and held hostage in 2007 - is speaking to all his contacts there. Tonight he'll be examining the impact the Israeli operation is having on Hamas. NIGERIA And Sue Lloyd-Roberts has spent two weeks filming in one of the most dangerous places on earth - the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Why are criminal gangs able to kidnap hundreds of foreign oil workers - and secure ransom money, kill local people, and steal millions of barrels of oil, and go unpunished? Sue meets a heavily armed local gang who have attacked numerous tankers and oil rigs. Click here to read more See you at 10.30pm 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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