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1700 to 1707 NEWS
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DOCTORS STRIKE: Tensions have escalated between junior hospital doctors and district health boards on the first day of a nationwide strike over pay - with the union now saying there will be another strike next month. About two thousand junior doctors walked off the job early this morning for 48 hours. Joining us now is union spokesperson Deborah Powell. LIVE
Listening to that is DHB spokesperson David Meates, who joins us now...LIVE
COURT-KAHUI: Medical specialists who examined the fatally injured Kahui twins have given evidence today. Their father Chris Kahui is accused of wounding them in a fit of rage because the twins' mother was out. Joy Reid is at his trial at the High Court in Auckland. LIVE
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BUSINESS NEWS
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POLITICS-BROADBAND: The National Party leader John Key has outlined a plan to connect most New Zealand homes to high speed broadband, in part using taxpayers' money to the tune of one and a half billion dollars over six years. But the Communications Minister David Cunliffe disagrees. CUTS.
Mr Key made his announcement in Wellington today. PREREC
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17.30 HEADLINES
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DOCTORS STRIKE (2): Junior doctors have lodged a new strike notice and will walk out of hospitals again for another two days on May the 7th and 8th. DHBs say it's unbelievable and they can't think of how to negotiate with a union that keeps increasing its claim and the stakes. Here to tell us how the day's gone is our health correspondent, Karen Brown. LIVE
CHCH-SILA: the jury in the trial of a man accused of killing two teenagers by running them over has visited the street where the girls were hit. Lipine Sila's on trial in the High Court at Christchurch, charged with murdering 16-year-olds Hannah Rossiter and Jane Young and causing grievous bodily harm to eight other people. Charlotte Graham joins us now. LIVE
SECURITY-MINES: Just days after Solid Energy's security firm was accused of spying on activists, another of its contractors has applied to patrol conservation land. Solid Energy says this is to ensure public safety on its sites near Buller. But the Green Party is questioning the move. Here's our political reporter, Kate Williamson. PKG
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WAATEA NEWS
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NICHOLAS MURDER: A High Court jury in Napier has heard a two day tracking exercise on a farm near the Kaweka Forest park, failed to find any evidence of the person who may have shot dead the elderly farmer, Jack Nicholas. 51 year old Murray Foreman from Haumoana is charged with his murder. Our reporter Heugh Chappell joins me now. LIVE
ROUTEBURN-MISSING: An Israeli man searching for his missing sister on Central Otago's rugged Routeburn Track is holding out hope she may still be alive. It's been almost a month since 35-year-old Liat Okin was last seen near the track's Mackenzie Hut. a privately-funded search will be underway tomorrow, led by Ms Okin's brother Itamar Tas. PREREC
USA-POLITICS: To the US where polls open in just a few hours in the Pennsylvania primary. With 158 delegates at stake, the Pennsylvania primary is the largest remaining contest for the two contenders for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. CNN's Candy Crawley reports PKG