| Monday 3 August 2009 - 22.30 BST - BBC TWO Presented by Kirsty Wark From the web team: Despite the worst recession in decades, banking giants Barclays and HSBC have announced multi-billion half-year profits. Both banks managed to shore up their finances without government bailouts, but they have benefited from government guarantees of loans and assets. Much of the profit at Barclays comes from the bank's investment arm - where the average six month salary is £100,000. Can that be right? And has anything actually changed after the banking crisis? Tonight Richard Watson will be investigating if the bankers are cashing in when the rest of us are paying for their mistakes. Seven weeks after the disputed presidential poll which prompted mass protests and deep divisions within Iran's elite, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has formally endorsed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as winner of the election. Senior Iranian political figures appear to have snubbed the ceremony - former presidents Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami were absent, as were defeated election candidates Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi. Gordon Corera reports on the divisions faced by Ahmadinejad within his own political support base, and the rifts exposed within the clergy. The Rorschach test, a psychological evaluation comprising a series of 10 inkblot plates created by a Swiss psychiatrist nearly 90 years ago has been reproduced on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, complete with how to interpret patients' responses. It is a move which has sparked a furious debate between psychologists who argue that prior exposure to the images and the interpretations of them could render them ineffective as a psychological assessment tool and supporters of the free access ethos who oppose suppression of any information. We'll debate. And David Grossman is in California where Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has approved spending cuts of more than half a billion dollars to the state's budget. Deep cuts will be made in child welfare, health care for the poor, and HIV/Aids initiatives. Do join Kirsty Wark for all that and more at 10.30pm on BBC Two. | 
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