Newsnight 7 August

Presented by Kirsty Wark.

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Liberia
In Liberia Nigerian peacekeepers have been deployed onto the streets of Monrovia for the first time, and the country's politicians have holed up in the wreckage of their parliament building to discuss how to run the country when Charles Taylor steps down. But the man himself still failed to make a promised appearance.

The rebel leader has suggested that war crime charges could be dropped if it would encourage President Taylor to leave.

We discussed whether the interests of international justice are working against those of people in Liberia.

Profile of Charles Taylor

Arnold Schwarzenegger

He said he would be back but it wasn't expected to be as a politician; Arnold Schwarzenegger has said that he intends to enter the race to be Governor of California.

What are the extraordinary set of political events in the Golden State that have led to the political chaos of the Democrat Governor being recalled and Arnie entering the race?

Local power
And what happens when politicians devolve power to local communities and it goes wrong? All politicians nowadays talk of localism, but how do you balance that with the need to deliver better services?

Newsnight has been to Aston to look at a project to regenerate one of the most rundown parts of Birmingham where disagreements among the local community led to a radical rethink of local involvement.

Click here for the report

Iraq
Plus the latest from Iraq on the car bomb that has wrecked the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad.

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