| Tuesday 2 November 2010 at 10.30pm on BBC Two Presented by Kirsty Wark & Emily Maitlis David Cameron has said new treaties on defence and nuclear co-operation with France marked a "new chapter" in a long history of defence co-operation. Speaking alongside French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the UK PM said it would make both countries' citizens safer and would save money. Colonel Tim Collins - who has served with the French many times - will join us tonight. We'll discuss if the deal is a challenge to our sovereignty and if it will work. The US Federal Reserve is set to launch a second round of quantitative easing (QE2) today - probably the US policy community's last shot at averting a double-dip recession. The Bank of England holds its monthly meeting tomorrow and QE will also be on the agenda there. Tonight our Economics editor Paul Mason will explain what the bankers are doing and why, and explain the argument raging among economists over the dangers of QE2. Read more on Paul's 'mother of all guides to quantitative easing' blog. Meanwhile, voters are going to the polls in the US mid-term elections which will see a new House of Representatives and a third of the Senate elected. President Barack Obama's Democratic Party is expected to lose its majority in the House of Representatives, but may hold on to the Senate. Republicans hope to capitalise on voter discontent with the economy. Tonight Peter Marshall reports from the key swing state of Pennsylvania where Democrats could lose house seats, the governorship, and a crucial race that could ultimately decide who controls the senate. And Emily Maitlis will be joined in Washington by Howard Dean, the former chairman of the Democratic National Party who himself ran for President in 2004, and by the satirist PJ O'Rourke. Do join Kirsty and Emily at 2230 on BBC Two. | 
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