| Wednesday 30 June 2010 at 10.30pm on BBC Two Presented by Emily Maitlis Can the private sector really provide 2.5 million new jobs within the next five years to save Britain from mass unemployment? It is an extraordinarily ambitious target by a government whose own independent forecasters predicted today that over 600,000 jobs will be lost in the public sector over the next six years. Tonight, as Labour accuses the coalition of forcing the 'abject misery of unemployment' on the country, we ask leading figures from the world of business - as well as the politicians themselves - whether it is realistic to assume that they can provide the jobs. The one phrase from the Tory handbook on crime-fighting that no-one ever forgets is, arguably, Michael Howard's mantra that 'prison works'. But that was old Tory, it seems, and today Justice Secretary Ken Clarke has torn up the handbook and called short term sentences an expensive failure. He accuses previous Labour home secretaries of building up the prison population with 'a chequebook and a copy of the Daily Mail'. How will that go down with the country at large? We'll be hearing the views of former inmate and Tory minister Jonathan Aitken, and Richard Watson has been speaking with some victims of crime to get their views. Also tonight, award winning Tim Whewell has an extraordinary film on the children of Rwanda. Read more on that story here. And we'll be asking whether the true star of the 2010 World Cup is a man who hasn't even set foot on the pitch - Maradona. Peter Marshall examines Diego's power and influence in Latin America. Join me at 10.30pm on BBC Two. Emily | 
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