Newsnight - 07/08/2009

What does the news that Pakistan's most wanted man, Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, has reportedly been killed by a US missile mean for stability in the region? Harriet Harman and Peter Mandelson (among others) are taking it in turns to occupy the headlines while Gordon Brown enjoys his summer break. Are they running the country or making the running for a post-Brown Labour party? There is a film from New York about how the police department is using cricket to help improve relations with the city's ethnic minorities. Plus an interview with Joseph O'Neill, author of Netherland, the story of cricket in a post-9/11 New York - the book Barack Obama describes as 'brilliant'.