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How did an EU law designed to facilitate the free movement of hairdressers and electricians contribute to the death of a man in Cambridgeshire at the hands of an incompetent foreign doctor?

David Gray was killed by an overdose of painkiller by an out-of-hours doctor in 2008 - a basic error a trainee nurse would not have been expected to make.

As his inquest gets underway Newsnight uncovers fresh evidence of the systemic failures that caused his death and produces new, unpublished data which shows wide variations in the quality of out-of-hours care across England.

Matt Prodger reports and we'll be asking the Health Minister Mike O'Brien whether he can reassure patients that the problems highlighted by this case have been resolved.

Also, the chief executives of four top US banks are appearing before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in Washington today. The panel was set up by Congress to examine the causes of the financial crisis.

The series of public hearings began amid news that Mr Obama plans to announce a new levy on the country's biggest financial firms to recover up to $120 billion in taxpayers' money used to prop up corporations during the economic crisis.

Tonight, our Economics editor Paul Mason will be reporting on both stories and asking whether the levy - a massive unilateral shift - is the right approach.

And we have a film by global terror expert Peter Taylor looking at the Saudi rehabilitation programme for ex-Guantanamo prisoners.

He speaks to one man who went through the programme, only to abscond to Yemen and become a founding member of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the group responsible for the Christmas day bomb plot.

Do join Jeremy Paxman for all that and more at 10.30pm on BBC Two.