| Thursday 25 March 2010 at 10.30pm on BBC Two Presented by Kirsty Wark How will the Pope deal with the latest child abuse allegations to hit the Vatican? Tonight he appears to be under more pressure than ever before. In the 1990s did he fail to respond to letters from an American archbishop about a priest who may have molested as many as 200 deaf boys? Internal correspondence from bishops in Wisconsin directly to Cardinal Ratzinger, warning him and other top Vatican officials that failure to act could embarrass the church, have been unearthed as part of a lawsuit, according to The New York Times. The Vatican has denied that there was any cover up and has denounced what it has called a smear campaign against the Pope. We'll discuss where these accusations leave Benedict XVI. Unions on the march? We examine the impact on industrial relations of this age of austerity. As I write the rail union, the RMT, has just announced four days of strikes from 6 April. Potentially this will be much more disruptive for many more people than the BA strike, and could cause considerable problems for the Labour Party. And the former commissioner of the Met, Sir Ian Blair, has made a personal film about the problems of policing in Britain in an age of spending cuts. He sets out his ideas for change, including reducing the number of bobbies on the beat (replacing many with Community Support Officers). We'll be joined by the Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling, Chris Huhne the Home Affairs spokesman for the Liberal Democrats, and Police and Security Minister, David Hanson. Join me at 10.30pm on BBC Two. Kirsty | 
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