| WEDNESDAY 21 JANUARY 22:30 GMT - BBC TWO PRESENTED BY KIRSTY WARK Dear viewers "Woe Woe and Thrice Woe!" But unfortunately this is not a Frankie Howerd caper. Unemployment is heading to two million, the second bank bailout has fizzled rather than fired, and sterling's on the slide. At Prime Minister's questions, Gordon Brown said the government was doing everything it could to help people back into work and David Cameron insisted "the whole country is asking whether the Government knows what it is doing." We'll be asking whether the Opposition leader is right - whether the government does have a plan. We'll bring a sharp focus to the limited options including full-scale bank nationalisation, and printing money (anything not to say quantitative easing). And we'll be asking why the markets don't seem to believe in the latest bailout. The economic gloom has eclipsed the excitement of the inauguration of Barack Obama, who went straight to work today on his big economic recovery plan and his foreign policy priorities. President Obama's first public move was to halt the military court at Guantanamo Bay, and we are expecting a swift move on the economy. We're trying to tempt Robert Reich back onto the programme after the satellite went down on last night's American special, cutting him off just as he got going! And we have a moving and shocking film from Afghanistan. Cameraman Shoaib Sharifi spent a week filming in a hospital in Kandahar, the city that is the most dangerous place in southern Afghanistan. We see desperate doctors, wounded patients and one man who has to search out and pay donors to get a blood transfusion for his father (not an uncommon occurrence), and a woman whose family drove for a day to get her to hospital to try to save her unborn baby. See you at 10.30pm Missed Newsnight? Click here to watch the latest programme Newsnight Blog Add your comments to our correspondents' blogs | 
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