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0700 NEWS BLOOD - unspecified number of batches of blood products quarantined after discovery derived from blood donated by woman who later died of Creutzfedlt Jacob Disease, prompts renewed push by haemophiliacs for govt to fund synthetic plasma products. Haemophilia Society says Health ministry resisting changing to Recombinant-8 because of cost concents. Comment also from Dr Colin Feek. (Lisa Owen). Recombinant Synthetic Factor 8 made from captured DNA culture grown in vats. Transfusion medical specialist Dr Jim Faed explains live. FISHING CREWS - more stories of beatings and harsh working conditions aboard Taiwanese boats. 35 Chinese crew from 3 boats jump ship in WN, several treated in hospital for bruising and say they've been denied wages. Taiwanese boats are working on joint ventures negotiated by Sanfords South Island. Comment from lawyer Paul Chang, Kathy Whelan of Intl Transport Workers' Fedn, and Paul Lau of Anglican Mission. (Marguerite Fahy); Labour MP Graham Kelly calls for ministerial inquiry. (q) PUBLIC SERVICE Assn hopes meeting tomorrow with State Services minister Paul East may ease industrial disruption. This morning around 1400 Courts Dept staff still on strike and some IRD staff considering further action. Comment from PSA's Grant Cairncross. (Stephen Parker); ive i/v with PSA president Tony Simpson. CONSTABLE - investigation into shooting of Hawkes Bay police officer Glenn McKibbin enters 3rd week, with no sign of breakthrough in hunt for killer. Comment from inquiry head Ross Pinkham. (Eileen Cameron)
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS FISHING CREWS - live i/v with Labour's Fisheries spokesman Graham Kelly, who wants ministerial inquiry into issue of mistreatment of crews on foreign fishing boats in NZ; live i/v with Fisheries minister Doug Kidd. SPAIN - new PM Jose Maria Azner finally sworn in after 8 weeks of negotiation with opposition parties, bringing centrist political grouping to power after 2 decades of swing from fascist dictatorship to socialism. I/v with correspondent Adela Gooch. (Mng Rpt) MARK TODD wins 3rd Badminton equestrian title, goes clear in showjumping on Bertie Blunt, finished 1 point clear of fellow NZer Vaugn Jefferis. He's i/ved live. FINANCE - money markets latest with David Jones
0800 NEWS/WEATHER BLOOD - world authority on Creutzfeldt Jacob Disease, Dr Richard Hornabrook, says it's very unlikely CJD transmitted through blood. Comment also from National Blood Transfusion advisory committee chair Dr Steve Gibbins. Health and Disability Commissioner Robyn Stent says from July first, under the new Code of patient rights, people who want to know whether they've received potentially risky blood products must be told. (q) (Allanah Kalafatelis); live i/v with Robyn Stent. BSE - calls growing for inquiry into whether feed said to have caused BSE is still being given to British cattle. Govt acknowledges BSE could be inherited thought it doesn't believe transmission happening to any "significant" extent. (Keith Chalkley) PAPERS/ASPAC HEADLINES ISRAEL/PALESTINE negotiators meeting in Red sea town of Taba for "final status talks", expected to be marathon, designed to deal with thorniest issues besetting peace process, such as future status of Jerusalem. I/v with correspondent Robert Berger. ELECTION - senior Opposition whip Jonathan Hunt calls for law change to eliminate snap elections or engineering of election dates for political advantage, proposes move to MMP should also include fixed election date. (Karen Fisher)
0830 NEWS/SPORTS MONDAY OZ SPOT - live i/v with correspondent Phil Kafcaloudes about weekend's events across Tasman. (Firearms Assn argues against banning automatic weapons) COT DEATH - Hong Kong paediatrician Dr Tony Nelson questions widely held beliefs about causes, and importance of many practices promoted in NZ as ways of preventing it. Hong Kong's cot death rate far lower than NZ's. He's i/ved. (Mng Rpt) DUCK SHOOTING SEASON starts - live i/v with veteran Vince Coory to see how his portable maimai worked. (see MR1 3.5.96) COMMENT SOUTH AFRICA - constitutional deadock over mostly white single language schools. National Party wants to insert education clause into Bill of Rights to allow survival of state-funded Afrikaans language schools, which are largely white. ANC negotiator Mohammed Valimusa says National Party trying to presernve schools as islands on their own. I/v with correspondent Anthony Johnson.