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0700 NEWS SHOOTING INCIDENT in CH - Armed Offenders Squad rushed to Woolston shopping area. Live i/v with reporter Sophia Wenborn. (incident over, nobody hurt, little damage) ISRAELI helicopter gunships attack densely-populated areas of Beirut in first attack on city in 14 years. Attack centres on HIzbollah control centre. Israeli co-ordinator for Lebanese Affairs, Uri Lubrani, says centre used to co-ordinate attacks on Israel. Live i/v with correspondent Robert Berger. POVERTY - researchers say if you're single and earning less than $211 a week, or a couple with 1 child and earning less than $325, you're living below the poverty line. On those figurs, 1 in 5 NZers, including 1 in 3 children, are living below the line. Live i/v with Health minister Jenny Shipley. 7 YEAR OLD girl trying to be youngest pilot to fly across the US crashes her light plane, killing herself, her father, and her instructor. (Connie Lawn) TRUSTBANK - NZ's last major NZ-owned bank likely to be sold to foreign owner despite reluctance of at least 1 of regional trusts which own it.( community trusts own 78% of bank. Live i/v with Eddie Thompson, chair of South Canterbury Trust, which is reluctant to sell.
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS UNLEADED PETROL - some drivers risking damage to car engines by using lower octane unleaded 91 petrol because of concern over unleaded 96. Maurice Winn, former product development adviser to BP Oil, says some people have over-reacted to dangers of higher octane fuel. He's i/ved live. LIBERIA - Monrovia chaotic as fighting and looting continue. UN staff move to US embassy compound after own compound invaded by looters and many will be evacuated to Sierra Leone. (Judy Lessing) REST HOMES quality deteriorating, according to independent study. Licensed Rest Homes Assn, which commissioned study, says results are frightening and blames inadequate funding from RHAs. Live i/v with Assn president Simon O'Dowd. IMMIGRATION - NZ First leader Winston Peters hits back at critics, reiterates policy on immigration and says he's not playing the race card; immigration debate filters through to Asia, with feature on Mr Peters' policies appearing in "South China Morning Post" and editorial in "Asian Wall Street Journal" questioning policies. I/v with correspondent Jo Andrews. DUSSELDORF FIRE - feared more than 20 people dead and over 100 injured in airport terminal fire. Live i/v with correspondent John Walker. FINANCE - money markets latest with David Jones
0800 NEWS/WEATHER SHOOTING INCIDENT - live i/v with Snr Sgt Ian Freeman about Woolston incident. 5 people now helping with inquiries. ISRAEL says Beirut operation could last several days. (BBC) POVERTY - live i/vs with 2 delegates, facilitator Cindy Kiro and Monte Cecilia House Trust administrator Janet Branigan, to AK conference which aimed "to expose uncomfortable truth about level of poverty", particularly child poverty in NZ. PAPERS/ASPAC HEADLINES SUSPENSIONS - govt considering changing law to make schools report details of every case where pupil is suspended. Education minister Wyatt Creech concerned children as young as 7 and 8 have been suspended. He's i/ved live. NATIONAL PARTY begins selecting list candidates this weekend, with Otago regional list. Task promises to be difficult. Live i/v with Chief Parliamentary reporter Janice Rodenburg.
0830 NEWS/SPORTS RABBIT VIRUS - Australian Primary Industries minister John Anderson announces earliest possible release of calicivirus won't be until next Spring. (Sally Nichol); live i/v with Chief Rurals reporter Wendy Mcgregor about developments in NZ. BRITISH BY-ELECTION - PM John Major's govt expected to lose critical illegible-election in Staffordshire, which will reduce majority to 1. (Keith Chalkley) PRIVY COUNCIL - live i/v with Privy Councillor and Law lord, Lord illegible-Wilkinson (currently in NZ) re whether NZ should continue to have right illegible appeal to Council. COMMENT OZ SPOT - live i/v with correspondent Phil Kafcaloudes about week's events illegible Tasman. (Education system sued by unsuccessful exam candidates)