Presented by Gavin Esler
Today's Quote for the Day:
"The Christmas pud, the iconic symbol of all that's best in British life, now stands accused of contributing to global warming" - Sir Terry Wogan.
It's an interesting comment on British newspapers that more column inches today are devoted to the winner of the X Factor than to the meeting which - we are constantly lectured - is going to save the planet.
But perhaps British newspapers have got it about right.
A talent show with a cheerful young singer may mean more to most of us than the world gathering in Copenhagen on the basis of climate change science, which opinion polls show many British people find a bit dodgy.
Newsnight's Science Editor Susan Watts is in Copenhagen and will be reporting on today's walk-out by African nations.
Are the developed and developing world now further apart?
Is a deal looking less likely, or just as likely but less effective?
We'll be joined in the studio by the Environment Secretary Hilary Benn and we hope to speak to the president of the Maldives, where rising sea levels are of more significance than rising stars on the X Factor.
Speaking of which... Kirsty has been interviewing the grand impresario Simon Cowell - who tells her about his plans for a political discussion show in the run up to the General Election, taking the X Factor to America and his duty of care to Britain's Got Talent winner Susan Boyle.
And, with just 10 days to go before Christmas, Newsnight has been catching up with the soldiers of the Green Howards, the 2nd Battalion, the Yorkshire Regiment.
They will be on duty in Helmand while their families try to celebrate the holidays as best they can back home.
And finally... Kyle sends me the following topical, but inevitably bad taste, joke:
"What do Tiger Woods and Canadian seals have in common? They both get clubbed by Scandinavians."
Newsnight is on BBC Two at 10.30pm.
Gavin
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