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The Copenhagen climate change summit finally got under way today with a call for decisive action from the host of the conference, Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen, who called the event an "opportunity the world cannot afford to miss".

Tonight, Science Editor Susan Watts will report on what the delegates drawn from 192 countries hope to achieve at the meeting and what stumbling blocks remain.

We will be discussing the issues in the studio with guests including John Prescott, who helped the broker the original UN climate change deal in December 1997.

Also, head of this week's pre-Budget report, the prime minister has been outlining measures to streamline central government and improve efficiency.

Gordon Brown said that planned money saving measures include halving the amount spent on consultancies, slashing communications budgets and ending the "culture of excess" in some parts of the public service.

But how much of this is new? And even if implemented how much efficiency will these measures deliver? David Grossman reports tonight.

And Jackie Long has a report on a homeless charity in North Wales which has been working to help the most troubled families in society - instead of taking the children into care, they effectively take the whole family in.

Join Kirsty for all that and more at 10.30pm on BBC Two.