Snowmail: Gaza - the aftermath
Updated on 22 January 2009
Did the Israelis use phosphorous and micro-shrapnel bombs in the recent bombardment of Gaza?
We are in Gaza again tonight amid developing evidence that Israeli forces may have used phosphorous bombs and DIME bombs (Dense Inert Metal Explosives - a form of micro shrapnel) which ended up killing and burning civilians.
Jonathan Miller is on the ground and has seen what may have been the effects of these munitions on the skin and has been examining the evidence still lying around on the ground. Each day that western correspondents penetrate deeper into Gaza, new evidence of the scale of the bombardment and its intensity emerges.
It's worth mentioning that a Dispatches programme, upon which I am the reporter, airs tonight, looking at what effect to people's understanding of the war in Gaza, the Israeli blockade barring journalists from entering the territory had (Channel 4, 11pm).
Knife crime up
The latest crime figures are out, and the two areas of concern seem to centre on killing with knives and robberies with knives. Simon Israel speaks exclusively to the knife crime "czar". His report, at seven.
Gas price down
Gas has come down in price. Keme Nzerem looks at why this has happened and whether the gas companies are passing on as much of the lower energy prices to consumers as they should.
Improving regulation
We all know the regulatory system broke down in the banking sector before the credit crunch. Tonight we talk live with the chairman of the FSA (the financial regulator), Lord Turner, about how regulation is to be improved. Faisal Islam will be dissecting the case for doing something significant now.
Milk sentence
China's milk villains have been sentenced to death. These were the people that introduced melamine into the milk supply, killing children in China and beyond. The whole saga represents an intriguing collision between old and new, as Nick Paton Walsh will be reporting from the far east.
Oscar nominations
Finally, it's Oscar time. I'm afraid I always judge the Oscars on the ones I've seen. Frost-Nixon has picked up a few nominations. But the Anglo-Indian film Slumdog Millionaire has cornered a vast number of nominations, as has a film in which the star is born old and gets younger as he grows up - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, not to be confused with Jenson Button.
