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From Kirsty Wark: Today is rush to transparency day (kind of)
The Director General of the BBC, Mark Thompson, today revealed that the corporation paid more than £2,000 to fly his family back from a holiday in Sicily in the wake of the Ross/Brand affair.
Why did his family need to come home too? The BBC said it was due to "safety considerations".
That is just one of the many details about top executives' expenses revealed by the BBC today, as Mark Thompson announced that in future the BBC would release expenses claims made by the 50 highest earning executives... we hope to be speaking to him.
And yet more on expenses. Conservative MPs are to pay back a further £125,000 they received in Parliamentary expenses - on top of the £130,000 already paid.
An internal panel - set up by party leader David Cameron - has been examining all Tory expense claims. Mr Cameron says he wants to restore public faith in the system.
Political correspondent David Grossman will have all the details.
In Iran the main opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi is continuing to defy the country's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, following the news on his website that 70 academics who visited the opposition leader yesterday had been arrested.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad meanwhile is calling on President Barack Obama to apologise for his condemnation earlier this week of the violence in the country.
We will be hearing from Tehran about the crackdown and from the US State Department about what the international community can do.
From the web team: Buzz Aldrin interview: Here is something else you should know about:
On Thursday 2 July 2009 Newsnight will have an interview with Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin and we want your suggestions of what questions we should ask him.
Forty years on from the Apollo 11 mission what do you want to know from the man who joined Neil Armstrong on that historic first landing on the surface of the Moon?
Send your question suggestions to newsnight@bbc.co.uk Put Buzz in the subject heading. We will select the best ones and put them to Buzz Aldrin at the interview which will be broadcast on Newsnight on Thursday 2 July 2009 at 10.30pm on BBC Two, then made available for international viewers on the Newsnight website.
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