Tuesday, 14 November, 2006

By Robert Morgan
Producer, BBC Newsnight

Presented by Jeremy Paxman

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Radicalisation

We've got a powerful investigation on the programme tonight. Last week there was a stark warning from the head of MI5 about 30 terror plots in the UK involving young British Muslims. But whose hands are moulding anger and resentment to create the British Jihad?

Richard Watson investigates radicalisation over the internet, on university campuses and in criminal gangs and uncovers alarming evidence which reveals how a minority of young British Muslims are being drawn into a life of extremism and crime. We're hope to be getting reaction from a Home office minister on this story.

Cancer

Another day another cancer scare story. Researchers in the United States now say eating more than one-and- a- half servings of red meat a day could double women's risk of breast cancer.

But are there now so many conflicting and contradictory warnings it's almost impossible for women to understand this illness and its causes? We'll be trying to make sense of the often confused and contradictory barrage of advice and information are faced with.

Rumsfeld

A group of international lawyers has filed a lawsuit in Germany calling on prosecutors to investigate the former American defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, for war crimes. The case is being brought on behalf of twelve former detainees of the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad and the Guantanamo detention centre on Cuba; it's alleged that Mr Rumsfeld personally approved the use of torture there.

The lawsuit's being filed under a German law that allows the prosecution of war crimes regardless of where they're committed in the world. We'll be speaking to the lawyer in charge of the case, Wolfgang Kaleck...