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						Thanks to all of you who have sent in jokes about musicians - we'll get to those at the end of the email. But one puzzle: why are viola players the butt of so many of the gags? What have they done to deserve this? 


In tonight's programme:


Military Morale 


Our diplomatic editor Mark Urban has been hearing from serving British soldiers about low morale in Iraq and loss of support from some in the army for the mission there. 


One serving British Army officer has told us that the "overwhelming feeling" of many of his peers is that the invasion was "illegal, immoral and unwinnable". 


He describes troops who feel that they are "reluctantly providing target practice for insurgents, senselessly haemorrhaging casualties and squandering soldiers' lives." 


It's a difficult story to get at - for obvious reasons. But the concerns are real.


G8 and Climate Change 


Stephanie is in Germany for the G8 Summit. She'll be looking at what, if anything can be achieved from summits like these. 


Or is the G8 just a "meaningless photo opportunity", "unrepresentative", "big on rhetoric low on substance" as some of you have suggested on our website? 


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And our Environment analyst Roger Harrabin reports on how far Carbon Trading really will help solve the problems caused by climate change. 


Orange Prize 


The winner will be announced tonight - and Newsnight will be there. (Though some of us continue to wonder - when Kiran Desai's magnificent novel wins the Booker Prize why in 2007 it continues to be necessary to have a women only literary prize.) Isn't it rather like netball compared to basketball? 


And finally...


So many musician jokes, I don't know where to start. The ones about viola players were particularly vicious. Including: 


How can you tell when a violist is playing out of tune? 


The bow is moving.


But my favourite so far was this offering from an anonymous viewer: 


"What do you call a guy who likes to hang out with musicians? A drummer." 


Newsnight will be keeping perfect time at 10.30pm tonight. 


Gavin 


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