| THURSDAY 6 JANUARY 22:30 GMT - BBC TWO FROM KIRSTY WARK Hello Newsnight viewers at home and abroad. Today the focus of the tsunami disaster switched to Jakarta where at an emergency summit, the UN Secretary General Kofi Anan called for an extra half billion pounds in aid and estimated it will take between five and ten years to rebuild the countries affected. Meanwhile, the World Bank has pledged up to a billion dollars altogether - but as a loan. We'll explore the conditions of that loan and the difficulties of disbursing money in Indonesia, described by Transparency International as one of the top ten most corrupt countries in the world. In London, Chancellor Gordon Brown has said that Britain will use its presidency of the G8 to push for a modern day Marshall Plan delivering full debt cancellation for the world's poorest countries. But how will this square with taking on new debt from the World Bank in this crisis, even if there is a zero per cent interest rate on it? The timing of Gordon Brown's announcement has apparently been in the diary for months - Tony Blair's press conference which coincided with it, has not. So was the collision nothing more than politicians' lives or was it as the Tories have put it, evidence of the two squabbling like children in the playground? Has the White House got something to hide over the interrogation of terrorism prisoners? Today it refused to provide the Senate Judiciary Committee with additional documents on Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales' involvement in the decision to allow aggressive interrogations of terrorism detainees at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. The committee is assessing the White House counsel's suitability to be Attorney General. And why does Iran have some of the world's most experienced plastic surgeons, specialising in sex changes? Since Ayatollah Khomeini took power, sex changes have become an accepted fact of life for people uncomfortable with their sexuality. We have an exclusive film. Please join us at 10.30. Kirsty If you have a story for Newsnight, please send us an email via our website:  bbc.co.uk/newsnight | 
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