Lots of opportunity today.

What shall we do on the economy? More questions on the Irish banking guarantee. Various indicators of economic gloom.

Congress starts debating the US bailout. Vote tomorrow. Do you want more on this?

Palin and Biden debate late tonight. Do you want to see a preview?

We have an interview with Gore Vidal. What do you want to ask him?

Reshuffle? Will there be news?

What else?

Tell us what you would want to watch.

Yours,

Shaminder

In tonight's programme:

Ruth Kelly

Our Political Correspondent David Grossman really set the cat amongst the pigeons last night when he exclusively revealed that Ruth Kelly would be leaving the government in a reshuffle next week. The reaction was explosive . At a hastily convened press conference in a hotel foyer in Manchester at 3am, it was confirmed that the Transport Secretary would indeed be quitting the Cabinet. Our Political Editor Michael Crick has been investigating the sequence of events after Newsnight came off air which led to the extraordinary decision to announce Ruth Kelly's decision in the small hours of the morning.

Development

Gordon Brown chairs a UN meeting on the Millennium Development Goals tomorrow. We 're more than half way to the date when the targets are supposed to be met, and it's accepted that there's no way many of them will be. Maternal mortality is the issue occupying many people, as the number of mothers dying in childbirth in some countries has actually been going up. More money is needed from governments around the world - but how likely is that given the global economic crisis? Peter Marshall investigates.

Going cheap

We're rapidly becoming familiar with the " Aldi " Effect - the phenomenon whereby credit crunchees who used to shop at Waitrose go downmarket to Sainsburys, the Sainsburys lot head to Tescos and impoverished Tescos customers head to the eponymous German food discount chain. But just how big a phenomenon is it? Stephen Smith goes downmarket.

Colony Club

As crowds flock to the Francis Bacon show at Tate Britain, a less happy spectacle is going on at the club which Bacon made his own. The Colony Room in Soho is threatened with closure. It has to be one of the seediest spots in Britain, yet it was the breeding ground for some of the most internationally important artists of the post war years. Madeleine Holt, reports on an eleventh hour bid to save the club for posterity.

Join Jeremy Paxman at 10:30 tonight for all that and more.

Quote for the Day:
"It is a joke that won't go away but it makes me wince a bit whenever anyone brings it up because Gordon Brown has obviously become a rather tragic character and it doesn't seem appropriate to make fun of him any more" - Liberal Democrat MP Vince Cable, who now regrets likening the Prime Minister to Mr Bean.

In tonight's programme:
Brown's Battles. After the summer holidays, this week was supposed to see what some are calling a re-launch of the Prime Minister. But amid talk of various initiatives, there is the continuing row over how bad the economy really is, question-marks over whether the cabinet talks with one voice (and if so, whose?) and whether huffing and puffing over Russia will get the EU anywhere. We'll cover all these stories and have a full assessment of the opening of the Republican Convention, now that Hurricane Gustav has proved less damaging than was originally thought.

Newsnight is at 10.30pm on BBC TWO
Gavin

Hello everyone,

There's lots around today but how should we do it?

The hurricane is blowing the Republican convention off course.

It's meant to be the start of the Brown relaunch, but the government's already been hit by two big negatives - Alistair Darling's dire message on the economy, and the leaked letter from Jacqui Smith's which reveals fears of rising crime and racial tensions as a result of the economic downturn. What shall we do on all this?

EU leaders are gathering in Brussels to discuss relations with Russia after the Georgian crisis. Who do you want to talk to?

Anything else?

Shaminder