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0650 Business and financial news. David Jones
0700 NEWS MENINGITIS - health professionals demand authorities do more to control dramatic rise in deadly meningococcal disease. Meningitis appearing at rate of 13 cases per 100,000 people, giving NZ highest incidence in developed world. Comment from Community Paediatrics professor Dianna Lennon, Dr Michael Baker illegible Communicable Diseases Centre, and Michelle Hughes, whose son has suffered from disease. (Helen Matterson); live i/v with Health ministry deputy director general Dr Gillian Durham. MT RUAPEHU continuing volcanic activity over weekend throws air travel into disarray, with Civil Aviation Authority closing 8 airports. Comment from volcanologist Brad Scott, vox pops, and Turoa skifield marketing manager Joanne savage. (Stephen Hewson); live i/v with Brad Scott re latest situation. MT RUAPEHU/AIRPORTS - Maria Slade reports live from AK Airport, one of those closed by CAA on accont of volcanic ash. BOSNIA WAR CRIMES - UN investigators bring in heavy digging equipment to start first major excavation of suspected mass grave believed to contain bodies of hundreds of Moslems from Srebrenica. (BBC) STUDENT LOANS - Alliance releases figures showing debt blowing out, rise in student debt by $450 million or 45% in past year. Also figures showing number of 1st year enrolments in tertiary education has dropped by 17.6%. Leader Jim Anderton comments. (Janice Rodenburg); is the loans scheme a Crown asset as govt claims or is it heavy burden on younger generation of NZers? Live i/v with Education minister Wyatt Creech.
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS MATERNITY SERVICES - Royal NZ College of GPs advising people to delay pregnancy until new services sorted out. Live i/v with College spokesperson Dr Tessa Trunbull and Sam Denny, Northern RHA manager of maternity services. MT RUAPEHU - Ohakune businesspeople meet to discuss problems caused by disruption to ski season. Joanna Savage reports live. YACHTSMAN - 70 year old Les Powell sails into southern England port of Lymington, 7 months after leaving Whangarei and no word received of him. Comment from Whangarei marine manager Lou Saybin; i/v with Mr Powell re what happened to him on the voyage. (Mng Rpt) FINANCE - money markets latest with David Jones
0800 NEWS/WEATHER MENINGITIS - Communicable Disease Centre predicts number of cases will reach close to 600 by end of year, of 400 notified last year. Centre's Dr Michael Baker hopes to get funding for long-term study into risk factors associated with disease. He's i/ved live. MT RUAPHEU/AIRPORTS - live i/v with Air NZ spokesman Cameron Hill re latest on air traffic. PAPERS/ASPAC HEADLINES STUDENT LOANS - NZUSA co-president Grant Robertson disagrees with Education minister's view that loans scheme is asset for govt and provides students with cash they need for education - he's i/ved live. BOSNIA WAR CRIMES - UN tribunal at The Hague to decide this week whether to issue international arrest warrants for Serb army commander General Radko Mladic and political chief Radovan Karadzic. I/v with correspondent Gillian Sharpe. MONDAY OZ SPOT - live i/v with correspondent Phil Kafcaloudes. (sports betting NSW rules it will illegal within state to bet on Olympics)
0830 NEWS/SPORTS WIMBLEDON TENNIS - Dutch player Richard Krajicek wins over another unseeded player, Malivai Washington, to take title. I/v with official Johnny Perkins about the final. LABOUR PARTY turns 80 years old. About 30 members mark anniversay at central illegible carpark, formely site of Alexandra Ha,, where founding conference held. Commen from leader Helen Clark, and actor Jeremy Scrivener. (Janice Rodenburg) NUCLEAR WEAPONS - World Court to rule later today on whether use or threatened use of nuclear weapons illegal under international Law. NZ_based World Court project driving force behind move to take case to The Hague. LIve i/v with spokesperson Dr Ian Prior. RUGBY - more than $1 million laid in bets on Bledisloe Cup match at WN over weekend. Biggest single bet in favour of NZ was in tens of thousands of dollars. Live i/v with TAB manager of sports betting, Bob Gwyn. COMMENT NORTHERN IRELAND - police block path of 1200 Ulster Protestant loyalists in Portadown as they try to march along traditional route through Catholic area. Live i/v with correspondent David McKittrick.