News in Picture

Does prison work? That's the question we'll be asking tonight when we broadcast from inside HM Prison High Down in Surrey, home to some 1100 inmates.

Jeremy has been meeting the prisoners to ask them about their experiences of life at her Majesty's pleasure - how did they end up in jail and do they think some time inside will "work" for them?

Jeremy will also be joined in the prison workshop by the Justice Secretary Ken Clarke, who any day now will be unveiling his prisons Green Paper on rehabilitation and sentencing policy.

Jeremy will be asking Mr Clarke if short term sentences - which have drawn scrutiny as the cost and population of jails rise - really work, or if they're too blame for terrible rates of recidivism.

Then Ken Clarke will debate how we should rehabilitate the country's criminals with an audience including current prisoners, ex-police officers, prison governors and academics.

Do join us for Newsnight behind bars tonight at 10.30pm on BBC Two.


***Keep up to date with Newsnight on Twitter and Facebook***

Watch the item

Tonight we have the latest instalment in our Emmy-award winning White Horse Village series, following China's attempts to transform its interior from an agrarian hinterland of subsistence farmers eking out a living in small plots of land, to a 21st Century powerhouse of cities and industry.

You can read more about this extraordinary project here and see a picture gallery about the remarkable transformation of White Horse Village here.

But we'll be leading tonight's programme on the release by the controversial whistle-blowing site Wikileaks of a cache of secret messages sent by US diplomatic staff.

We'll have the latest revelations just out, will be considering what the diplomatic fall out will be and will assess the impact this most recent release will have around the world with senior diplomats and politicians.

Join Jeremy at 10.30pm on BBC Two for all that.

Before then you can watch Jeremy's full interview with author and journalist Christopher Hitchens - in which he talks about his cancer, life, politics + writing - at 7.30pm on BBC2.