Newsnight 30 Sept

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Labour Revolt
The Labour leadership was defeated at the party conference over its policy of using private money to build and maintain schools and hospitals. Both the Chancellor Gordon Brown and the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, urged party members to support the Private Finance Initiative. But despite their pleas, the big unions have pressed their demand for an independent review of the policy to a vote.

We asked the Chancellor whether the Government will take any notice?

Liberal Swedes
The Swedish authorities have released a man who was arrested last month for trying to board a plane to Britain with a loaded gun in his hand luggage. Prosecutors say there's little evidence to prove that Kerim Chatty was intending to hijack the plane. But whatever Karim Chatty was up to with his gun, it seems there are serious flaws in Sweden's ability to handle terrorism. It's long been viewed as perhaps the safest place in Europe in which to hide.

Peter Marshall reported on how intelligence sources in America and France believe attempts are being made from Sweden to co-ordinate terrorist cells across the rest of Europe and North Africa.

Watch or read Peter Marshall's report

Major Affair
We've tried for an interview with John Major but hardly surprising he's still lying low as are all his friends. Michael Crick, however, pored over the archives to assess how, if at all, the weekend's revelations should change the way our most recent Conservative Prime Minister is viewed.

Tumbling Markets
The FTSE slid again. And Standard Life, Europe's largest mutual insurer, added to jitters by announcing it's to impose a ten per cent exit penalty, if customers want to withdraw money early. Our Business Correspondent Paul Mason told exactly how worried we should be.

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