| Thursday 14 January 2010 2230 GMT - BBC Two Presented by Emily Maitlis President Obama has called Haiti a tragedy 'that calls out for American leadership'. And in thus doing he has reported to have put two former presidents in charge of the operation. Clinton and Bush make unlikely bedfellows. (No one, it seems, is mentioning Katrina). But Haiti is a country that barely functions at the best of times. And these are the worst. Haitians - suffering their most lethal earthquake for two centuries - are digging for survivors with their bare hands. And in such an inaccessible country, the death toll can only be guessed at. Obama has pledged a hundred million dollars - but warned it will take time to get the rescue effort through. Time is already running out. We hope to be speaking to Bill Clinton on the programme tonight. Did we overreact to the swine flu threat - and how much did it cost us if we did? Some put the price at a fairly massive £1.5 billion - the amount the government paid to pharmaceutical companies for vaccines and drugs that are now stockpiling without use. As the government begins to wind down its response to the virus, our Science editor asks if the pharma companies marketed their wares just a little too keenly to a government desperate to avoid being caught out. And then we have the last in our series of films on the infamous detention centre at Guantanamo. Tonight's is the extraordinary story of Uighur inmates from China who were picked up on the Afghan-Pakistan border, sent to Gitmo and have now been exiled to a remote pacific island. Read more about them here. Why has it proved so difficult to close Guantanamo? And are some in America already mourning its demise? We'll debate that and more this evening. Do join us on BBC Two at 10.30pm. | 
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