| TUESDAY 3 FEBRUARY 22:30 GBT - BBC TWO FROM MARK URBAN This from our Diplomatic Editor Mark Urban who will be looking tonight at the challenges ahead for British and American foreign policy on the day David Milliband met Hillary Clinton: Watching David Miliband at the end of his meeting with Hillary Clinton, we are watching for signs of how Britain will engage with the new administration, and how warm or otherwise the diplomatic relationship might be. British politicians like to talk about the special relationship but in recent years, US officials, anxious not to offend all sorts of other allies have called it a special relationship. That indeed is what Secretary Clinton Clinton did today - until she turned to leave, when with her final words of the short press conference she referred to, "the special relationship". One could almost hear the champagne corks popping at the British embassy ! An issue of semantics ? British diplomats insist not, and that the health of US/UK relations has always been judged by such fine grading of phraseology. What is clear though is that the US Secretary of State, who had extensive contacts with the great and good of Britain in her years as First Lady, is one of the most Anglophile members of the Obama Administration. Others are not quite so friendly. Also tonight - controversy over the President Obama's "Buy America" clause that some European officials have criticised as the "worst possible signal the new US administration could send out." We hope to speak to John Bruton, the European Union's Ambassador to Washington. And we'll reporting on Sri Lanka and the saga over Carol Thatcher and the use of the word "golliwog". Missed Newsnight? Catch the latest programme on the BBC's iPlayer | 
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