ABC news coverage of the Persian Gulf war. Latest developments, summaries to date; analysts & correspondent. Includes TVNZ's TV1 news at Midday. Extract from US House of Representatives debate on war. Judith Kipper (Middle East expert); Ruppert Pengelley (International Defense Review); Paul Brimmer (Kissinger Assoc.s); Thomas Foley (leader of House of Rep.s); George Mitchell (Senate Majority Leader); Robert Michel (Minority Leader, House); Alphonse D'Amato (senator); Peter Beutel (oil analyst); Bernard Trainor (military analyst); Nahman Shai (Israeli Army spokesperson); William Crowe (ret. chair Joint Chiefs of Staff).
ABC News: The Gulf War. Events in the Gulf War & analysis. Israel is attacked. Fred Halladay (Centre of Strategic & Intl Studies); Bernard Trainor (ret. Gen.; military analyst); Judith Kipper (Middle East analyst); Tony Cordesman (National Security Analyst); Edward Luttwak (Senior Fellow, CSIS); Brian Jenkins (Terrorism Expert); Tim Johnson (ABC News Medical ed.); Israeli Air Force Commander; Paul Beaver (Senior ed., Jane's); Robert Neumann (fmr Ambassador to Saudi Arabia); Zalman Shoval (Israeli Ambassador to USA).
Gulf War stories: (i) BBC Newsnight - analysis of Allied strategy in Operation Desert Storm; (ii) Interview with British military analyst: his interpretation of SCUD assault on Israel; (iii) Report from British House of Commons, where MP's debate the implications of the Gulf war; (iv) Update on mood in Britain; (v) Update on day's events in the Gulf; (vi) Reaction to situation in Gulf in Australia; (vii) Financial markets react to Gulf news; (viii) NZ war veterans react to war; (ix) Further Gulf stories, including Jordanian view of war; (x) Mood among NZ's Jewish community; (xi) Mood among relatives of NZers in Gulf; (xii) NZ commercial pilot set to return to his home in the Gulf; (xiii) Environmentalists fear a catastrophe in the Gulf; (xiv) Cost of war in human terms. (ii) Francis Tusa (military analyst, live); (iii) John Major (GB PM); Neil Kinnock, MP (Labour Leader); Paddy Ashdown, MP (Liberal Democrat leader); Tony Benn, MP (Labour); (iv) Liam Jeory (TVNZ correspondent, live); (vii) William Donaldson (NY Stock Exchange chair); Paul Nicolson (sharebroker, NZ); John Luxton, MP (Energy Minister); (ix) Crown Prince Hassan (Jordan); (x) Adam Ross (AKL Jewish Community); (xi) Patrick Collins; Fagaese Sauvao (US Marine's father); Amohaere Ngaropo (mother); Sam Ngaropo (father); Jane Arnett; (xii) Max Paulin (pilot); Vicki Paulin (wife); (xiii) Edward Badolato (energy analyst); David Halevy (Israeli military analyst); Abdullah Toukan (Jordan's Science Adviser.