Newsnight, Thursday 12 February, 2009

Watch highlights from Newsnight, presented by Kirsty Wark.

Geert WildersLabour's 'prawn cocktail offensive'Taleban in Pakistan

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Geert Wilders

The media scrum at Heathrow was a perfect publicity moment for the far right Dutch MP, Geert Wilders. The Foreign Secretary David Miliband described his anti-Islamic film as "hate filled", but others have said that throwing Wilders out has set a dangerous precedent and is an act of "appeasement" to radical Islam. Caroline Hawley reports.

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Labour's 'prawn cocktail offensive'

The Prime Minister has defended his choice of ex-HBOS chief Sir James Crosby for a senior role with the FSA and has insisted that whistleblower Paul Moore's allegations were investigated and found to be without substance.

But has Gordon Brown's relationship with the City been too close and uncritical? Newsnight's David Grossman reports.

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Taleban in Pakistan

The Pakistani Government has said that last November's attack on Mumbai was launched and partly planned from Pakistan. Last year Karachi erupted in riots that killed 50 people. The suspicion is that the Taleban were behind the violence. Barbara Plett investigates whether the Islamist movement is "talebanising" the country's biggest city.

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