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From the Web Team: Iran's powerful Guardian Council has said it is ready to recount disputed votes from Friday's presidential poll in which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner.
The decision follows massive rallies in Iran's major cities in support of Mir Hossein Mousavi and other candidates.
Seven people are reported to have died in a Tehran rally on Monday, but despite this, witnesses have told the BBC that thousands of Mousavi supporters are out on the capital's streets again this evening.
Tonight, we will be looking at the strength of their opposition in the wake of the bloody police and militia clampdown.
The photographs emerging from Tehran may be reminiscent of images from the 1979 revolution, but do they really have the power to shake the Islamic regime?
Or will they peter out like the street clashes which erupted in Tehran in July 1999 and June 2003?
Plus, we have the first part of Paul Mason's journey across northern China assessing the effects of the global financial crisis on what is the third biggest economy in the world.
Our Economics editor gets off the beaten track in the arid Helan Shan mountains, and enjoys a surprising meeting with some Chinese bikers.
Also tonight, the digital revolution.
The government has published its Digital Britain report which includes a levy on all fixed telephone lines to establish a national fund for next generation broadband and a call for the BBC to be stripped of some of its licence fee money to fund local news provided by other organisations.
Tonight we will take a closer look at the proposals and ask if we should all have to pay the price to turn Britain's broadband not-spots into hot-spots, and whether the plan is likely to turn Britain into the "digital capital" the government claims.
We speak to the author of the report, Lord Carter.
Newsnight is on BBC Two at 10.30pm.
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