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Prime Minister Gordon Brown has stepped up his pre-election rhetoric on immigration by telling would-be illegal migrants: "You are not welcome."

He said that we would "reduce the overall need for migration while continuing to attract the key people who will make the biggest contribution to the growth of our economy."

And with Labour facing a challenge in some areas from the anti-immigration BNP, Mr Brown urged a "united front" among the main parties to combat "xenophobia". But he said it was right for politicians to talk about immigration and address people's "needs and fears".

Richard Watson will be bringing us more on that tonight, and we'll be speaking to senior politicians from all the main political parties.

Elsewhere on the programme, Peter Marshall has been investigating why the courts are imposing draconian prison sentences on young people arrested for public order offences at political demonstrations.

And, 16 years after 800,000 people were killed in Africa's largest modern-day genocide, Tim Whewell visits Rwanda to see what challenges face the country as it rebuilds. Rwanda is moving on but at what cost to human rights?

Read more on that story here.

Do join Jeremy at 10.30pm on BBC Two.

Tony Blair returned to the centre stage of British politics today, making a speech to Labour members in his old constituency in which he praised Gordon Brown's leadership, the government's record and attacked Tory "vagueness".

It is rumoured that Blair will make several appearances during the campaign - but is he an asset or a liability to his party?

Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, Tory Chairman Eric Pickles and Liberal Democrat Home Affairs spokesman Chris Huhne give us their views.

We have the second film from our economics editor Paul Mason asking what's wrong with Britain and how do we fix it? Tonight, he finds the beginnings of a sustainable economy at Emma Bridgewater's booming family-owned pottery in Stoke, at a London dotcom where they have invented an alternative to banking, and in Margate, with artist Tracey Emin, who believes that a new art gallery soon to open there will transform the place.

Watch the first film here.

And nearly two decades after she famously tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II on US television, singer Sinead O'Connor now has strong criticism to make of his successor Pope Benedict XVI.

She has called his letter to the Catholics of Ireland about child abuse by clergy there "an insult not only to our intelligence, but to our faith and to our country", and called on fellow Catholics to boycott Mass until there is a full investigation into the Vatican.

Tonight, she joins us for a live debate on the programme.

Do join Gavin Esler at 10.30pm on BBC Two.

Tonight the three men vying to be chancellor after the general election - Alistair Darling, George Osborne and Vince Cable - go head to head in a live TV debate on Channel 4.

It is not the first time chancellor and would-be chancellors have slugged it out on TV, but the financial crisis has thrown a super trouper of a spotlight onto all things economic.

The debate is being watched closely, not least by our Political Editor Michael Crick, who will be assessing how the trio perform.

We will also be looking at Tory plans to block some of next year's planned National Insurance tax rises.

Mr Osborne has dubbed Labour's tax rise "the economics of the madhouse", claiming that seven out of 10 workers would be better off if the Tories won the election.

But the government has hit back with Gordon Brown calling the Tory plan a "panic measure" ahead of the election.

Who are we to believe? We'll ask politicians from the three main parties.

We've also got a report from outside the Westminster bubble. Our Economics Editor Paul Mason has travelled from the south-east of England to the tip of west Wales asking what is wrong with Britain, and how we can fix it.

And, as Home Secretary Alan Johnson takes steps to ban the "legal high" mephedrone and other synthetic drugs within weeks, Susan Watts reports on the tension between a government having to listen to media and public outcry, and the scientists calling for a proper establishment of the facts.

We hope to be talking to Dr Polly Taylor - who resigned from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs saying pressure is being put on scientists and academic freedom is being compromised to please politicians or the press.

Join Jeremy at 10:30pm.