News in Picture

Here in the Newsnight office we are busily preparing to mark our 30th anniversary with a special programme on Saturday evening at 8pm on BBC Two - there are lots of great features and archive up on our website.

But before then we have a programme tonight and here is what we have planned.

First up we have Caroline Hawley and Meirion Jones' startling investigation into a so-called "bomb detector", thousands of which have been sold to Iraq by a British company. The devices simply do not work. There are concerns that the detectors have failed to stop bomb attacks that have killed hundreds of people.

The government has just announced a ban on the export of this equipment to Iraq and Afghanistan following our investigation. Read more about that story here.

Liz MacKean is in Doncaster to bring us the latest on the story of the two brothers who tortured two boys in a "sadistic" attack in Edlington. They were sentenced today at Sheffield Crown Court to an indefinite period of detention, and told that they will serve a minimum of five years.

Gavin Esler will be speaking to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, Ed Balls.

And though Newsnight Review is no more, Kirsty Wark has sent this message about a new cultural offering whose first programme broadcasts tonight at 11pm on BBC Two:

"Hello from the set of the all-new Review Show, where we are putting the final editorial, pictorial and design pieces in place for tonight's first show - an hour long special looking at the cultural impact on the US of Barack Obama's first year in The White House.

He won on the prospectus of closing the old divides and fostering a new spirit. "The time has come to put away childish things" he said. But how has the self-styled "skinny kid with the funny name" fared?

Live in the studio will be four people who collectively have thought and written a lot about Obama - novelist Hari Kunzru who lives in New York and whose latest subject is Middle America, the youngest ever NY Times op-ed writer, and film critic, Ross Douthat who has called the president an "ideologue and pragmatist all at once", Bonnie Greer, who wrote Obama Music, and American academic, Sarah Churchwell. We are delighted too that Natalie Merchant will also be on set, singing for us live."

Click here for more details on The Review Show.

Join Gavin Esler at 10.30pm on BBC Two for Newsnight.