| THURSDAY 28TH FEBRUARY 22:30 GMT - BBC TWO FROM KIRSTY WARK Hello, Dear viewers BAGS Where do you stand on the Plastic Bag Debate? M&S has announced that in their food department customers are going to be charged 5p per plastic bag in an effort to reduce consumer demand. A good move or a publicity stunt when there are many other ways M&S could be moving ahead towards their promise of being carbon neutral by 2012? There are other ways - The Irish Government introduced a plastic bag tax in 2002 and claims use has fallen by 90%. Even China has banned ultra thin bags and free bags will be banned from June of this year - as a result the country's leading plastic bag producers closed down. So is this just 'greenwash' or a good thing? We will also debate whether the environmental lobby is ruling our lives. AFGHANISTAN It has just been announced that Prince Harry has been fighting the Taleban in Afghanistan - and as luck would have it tonight we have a film from Alastair Leithead about the strategy in that country. Six years after the fall of the Taleban, President Karzai has control of just 30% of the country, US National Intelligence Director Michael McConnell told a Senate committee. The Taleban hold 10%. So what are the US the British and Afghan governments getting right and wrong in Afghanistan? The British in Helmand province may think experience in Northern Ireland, and 1950s Malaya puts them at the forefront of counter insurgency, but the Americans running the south east now seem well ahead, as Alastair Leithead reports. See you later, Kirsty Missed Newsnight? Click here to watch the latest programme online Newsnight Blog Add your comments to our correspondents' blogs: CLICK HERE | 
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