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0700 NEWS CESSNA aircraft disappears in Ruahine ranges but pilot found. Live i/v with search and rescue co-ordinator Jim McLean. PRIVATE PATIENTS - Health minister Jenny Shipley says public patients come first, releases protocols for treating paying patients in public patients. Comment also from David Turner of Southern Cross medical insurance, Ian Powell of Salaried Medical Specialists Assn, and Marion Harrison, Ashburton Hospital support group. (Leigh-Anne Wiig) PRIVATE PATIENTS - i/v with John Ayling, chief exec of Healthcare Otago which piloted scheme. Protocol 3 requires CHEs to make reasonable return on their work - did Healthcare Otago achieve that? (Mng Rpt) POLICE CUTS - around 200 people attend public meeting in Napier to protest gainst proposed police cuts. Comment from Napier mayor Alan Dick. I/v with one of the meeting organisers, local MP Geoff Braybrooke; live i/v with regional police commander Colin Wilson who was booed and jeered at the meeting. (Mng Rpt)
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS GREENEPEACE going to court in Tahiti to argue for return of 2 ships and helicopter seized during campaign against latest round of French testing at Mururoa. Live i/v with lawyer Duncan Currie. NELSON MANDELA addresses Parliamentary press gallery's 125th anniversary dinner in WN, says NZ has emerged as one of South Africa's most reliable friends. Comment also from PM Jim Bolger, journalists Ian Templeton and Patrick Smellie (Stephen Parker) NIGERIA - heavy security presence in oil-rich Ogoniland and military govt clamps down on possible unrest in wake of executions of activists. (BBC) CESSNA - Feilding pilot Graham Sandbrook can't quite believe his luck after surviving a plane crash in the Ruahine Ranges. He's i/ved live.
0800 NEWS/WEATHER NEPAL - over 400 people including 200 foreign trekkers rescued after being stranded by avalanches. More than 50 people confirmed killed. I/v with correspondent Mani Rana in Katmandu. (Mng Rpt) PAPERS/ASPAC HEADS APEC meeting begins in Japan this weekend, preceded by meeting of region's foreign and trade ministers in Osaka. Agricultural trade barriers on agenda. Comment from Foreign minister Don McKinnon, Canadian PM Jean Chretien, Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohammed. (Janice Rodenburg) U.S. GOVERNMENT shuts down because of shortage of funds, following stand-off between President Clinton and Reublican-dominated Congress over federal budget Live i/v with"Guardian" Washington correspondent Martin Walker. RUAPEHU blows most significant amount of ash in month. Civil Aviation extends danger area west of mountain for first time. Live i/v with Bruce Houghton, Inst of Geological and Nuclear Sciences, Wairakei. DISADVANTAGED FAMILIES - more than 50 to have opportunity of fully paid holiday, thanks to Salvation Army and Telecom. I/v with Army's Major Peter Savage about the scheme. (Mng Rpt) REGIONAL WEATHER
0830 NEWS/SPORTS AUSTRALIA - PM Paul Keating stands by Health minister Carmen Lawrence despite damning Royal Commission report which found she acted improperly and untruthfuly re "Easton affair". Live i/v with Canberra correspondent Pru Goward. CROWN HEALTH ENTERPRISES - 10 chief execs have now resigned over 3 years of CH operation. Comment from Dennis Woods, chair of Wanganui CHE, and Ken Eagle, personnel consultant. (Sacha Hardy) QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK - visiting US educationalist says NZ's framework has potential to make NZ world leader in education and training. Prof Dale Parnell Oregon State Univ., i/ved live. ELLERSLIE FLOWER SHOW opens this morning, with about 90,000 people expected over next 5 days. David Steemson reports live. COMMENT GREECE - PM Andreas Papandreou moves to limit political fall-out following continuing scandal over photos of naked wife Dmitra in tabloid newspapers. Criticism of role wife plays in govt despite holdingno elected office. Live i/v with correspondent Louis Economopoulos.