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0650 Business and financial news. David Jones
0700 NEWS WAITING LISTS - Labour MP Phil Goff releases figures gained under Official Information Act from AK's 3 CHEs, show at end February there were nearly 24,000 people waiting for operations. Comment also from AK Healthcare chief exec Dennis Pickup. (Paula Penfold) ASTHMA - number of NZers dying fromit are plummeting but disagreement as to why. Latest figures show asthma death rate fell by more than 75% in 5 years to 1993. WN asthma research group says its controversial research in 1989, which identified drug Fenoterol as causing many deaths, is responsible for fall but AK Hospital asthma researcher Dr Jeff Garrett says other factors responsible. (Allanah Kalafatelis); live i/v with Dr Neil Pearce, WN Asthma Research Group. ISRAEL/LEBANON - French Foreign minister Herve de Charette arrives in Israel on mission aimed at negotiating ceasefire between Israel and Hizbollah. Live i/v with correspondent Robert Berger; Lebanon's ambassador to NZ and Australia, Dr Latif Abul-Husn, calls on Israel to comply with UN Security Council resolution passed in 1978. (CKPT); live i/v with Israel's ambassador to NZ, Nissan Koren Krupsky. IRIAN JAYA - NZ-born pilot among 16 people shot dead on remote airstrip when Indonesian Army lieutenant opens fire with automatic machine gun. NZer identified as 50 year olf Martin Finlay. I/v with correspondent John McBeth as to what happened. (Mng Rpt)
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS TRIADS - police scale down investigation into suggestions that local triad planned to pay for murder of police detective. Asst Commissioner Ian Holyoake says police unable to find enough evidence to warrant arrest. Police concerned about possible future heroin trafficking. (Karlum Lattimore) IMMIGRATION - NZ First Party leader Winston Peters dismisses claims by ACT leader Richard Prebble that his anti-immigration stance is driving away foreign capital. Live i/v with both. INLAND REVENUE staff latest group of public servants to strike over pay claims, joining about 300 workers in Dept of Survey and Land Information who stopped work yesterday after some colleagues were suspended. Comment from IRD Commissioner Graham Holland, PSA organiser Zane Smith, PSA president Tony Simpson. (Mark Crysell) FINANCE - money markets latest with David Jones.
0800 NEWS/WEATHER WAITING LISTS - MP Phil Goff says Ak situation brought about by lack of money rather than lack of resources. Live i/v with Health minister Jenny Shipley. ISRAEL/LEBANON - Israeli blitz continues in "Operation Grapes of Wrath". power station bombed just east of Beirut and port of Tyre in south hit by missiles. I/v with correspondent Robert Fisk. PAPERS/ASPAC HEADLINES ASTHMA - death rates falling but what about asthma sufferers - have treatment methods helped them very much? I/v wsith chair of medical advisory panel for Asthma Fndn, Dr Julian Crane. "NEW IDEA" editorial staff redundancies following decision by publishers to base magazine in Australia. Magazine will still publish NZ stories, carry local advertising, and be printed here. Comment from former editor janetta Mackay, "Women's Weekly" editor Sarah-Kate Lynch. (Paula Penfold) UNLEADED PETROL - oil companies say long-awaited test results on effects of 96 octane unleaded petrol still at least a week away, have widened scope of tests to include more car parts and fuel hoses. Complaints from public continue to flow in. Live i/v with spokesperson Beppie Holm.
0830 NEWS/SPORTS SPORTS DRUGS Agency says athletes who return positive tests for performance enhancing drugs can't expect to remain anonymous. AK track cyclist and natonal squad member Anthony brown suspended for 2 years after testing positive for anabolic steroid, had attempted to keep information secret and threatened to take legal action against Cycling NZ if it identified him. Comment from Graeme Steel, NZ Sports Drugs Agency, Peter Dale of Hillary Commission, and Privacy Commissioner Bruce Slane. (Stephen Hewson) MENTAL HEALTH - CH families who claim system failing their relatives go public with concerns, tells Alliance news conference they're at desperation point with system that gives little or no support to their unstable relatives. Comment from parents Bob and Gay, Peter and Frances Jenkins, and Betty Nicholls of the Compulsive Disorder Support Group. (Hannah Belcher) RETIREMENT - Ninox Films produces series of mini-documentaries to be screened on television from Sunday, featuring people who spent week living in sort of retirement situation they'll be in, based on current financial plans. Live i/v with producer David Baldock. CALDER TRIAL - defence expected to finish presenting evidence today. (Merle Nowland) COMMENT SOUTH AFRICA - Truth and Reconciliation Commission begins first public hearing, bomb threat interrups first day's proceedings. I/v with correspondent Anthony Johnson.