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0608 News in Māori
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0618 Rural News
0630 News Update illegible Report from our Mana News team
0645 Pacific Regional News : Ex RNZ International
0650 Business and financial news. Janice Aplin
0700 NEWS IRAQ - US warships and B-52 bombers fire Cruise missiles at military tagets in southern Iraq in response to Iraqi military action against Kurds in north of country. President Clinton not ruling out further attacks; 5 Iraqis reproted killed and 19 wounded. President Saddam Hussein declares no-fly zones are now null and void. (BBC); Iraq's deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz accuses US of spreading misinformation and disinformation about situation; live i/v with "Guardian"s Washington correspondent Martin Walker; UN Security Council meets soon to discuss Iraq situation, including future of oil for food programme and dismantling of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Live i/v with correspondent Judy Lessing; live i/v with NZ Foreign Affairs minister Don McKinnon. PRISON STRIKE - union and management meet tomorrow with mediator. Corrections Dept continues to complain of assault, abuse, and harassment from striking prison workers. Live i/v with John Slater, Penal Officers' Assn. J WATTIES food processing plant in Hasting closes after all 370 permanent and illegible staff suspended after strike action over breakdown in contract negotiations. Watties arguing it needs to control labour costs to meet competition in food processing business. (Heugh Chapell)
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS ELECTORAL COMMISSION rejects criticism of MMP education campaign. VOTE orgn places adverts in all metropolitan newspapers which are critical of way Commission is informing public how to vote, says it's failing to inform on importance of splitting vote. Electoral Commission questions accuracy of statements made by VOTE. Live i/v with Commission's chief exec Dr Paul Harris and Alex Sweeney, VOTE. CHRISTIAN COALITION officially launches election campaign in AK. Audio of co-leader Graeme Lee and campaign director John Stringer. (Stephen Parker) IRAQ - how were Iraqis able to press attack on Kurdish area after 6 years of sanctions, defeat by West, and debilitating 8 year war with Iran before that? I/v with Ailie Saunders, Royal United Services Inst for Defence Studies, London. HOUSE - Habitat for Humanity building house in Ak's Aotea Square this morning, will be almost ready for occupation by Sunday. Construction part of environmental conference at Aotea Centre, with theme of "sustainable communities". (David Steemson) FINANCE - money markets latest with Janice Aplin.
0800 NEWS/WEATHER IRAQ - US attack has not gone down well in Arab circles. I/v with George Hawatmeh, "Jordan Times". (Mng Rpt) PRISON STRIKE - can Corrections Dept work things out with striking prison officers with help of mediator? Live i/v with Dept's human resources manager June Dallinger. SOUTH PACIFIC FORUM - France's role in Pacific again causing controversy at Forum after 2 French Polynesian representatives turned up uninvited after being warned not to come. Comment from Papua New Guinea PM Sir Julius Chan, PM Jim Bolger, Bunny McDiarmid of Greenpeace. (Marie Hosking) PAPERS/ASPAC HEADLINES MāORI POLICY unveiled by NZ First. Leader Winston Peters launches "Te Maramatanga" at Huntly's Waahi marae. Many similarities between it and what Labour is offering. Comment from Winston Peters, Helen Clark, and Alliance deputy leader Sandra Lee. (Janice Rodenburg) MāORI SEATS - live i/v with veteran Māori broadcaster and Wairoa mayor Derek Fox about battle for the seats.
0830 NEWS/SPORTS ELDERLY - Age Concern worried about long term impact of move by some RHAs to illegible growing costs of home care services. (Marguerite Fahy); live i/v with Robin Northey, expert on home care services, who's been looking into merits of residential care of home care. CASINO - Sky City Ltd, owner of AK casino, makes better than expected first year profit and announces bid to open casino in Queenstown. Comment from chief exec Evan Davies and Ralph Gerdelan, Compulsive Gambling Society. (Maria Slade) IRAQ - live i/v with Terence O'Brien, director of VUW Centre for Strategic Studies and former chair of UN Security Council sanctions committee on Iraq, US and UN attitudes. ELECTION - minor parites pointing to possibility of minority govt supported by other parties issue by issue, rather than majority coalition govt. Opinion polls indicating no one party will win majority on its own. Comment from Alliance leader Jim Anderton, retiring Labour MP David Caygill, NZ First leader Winston Peters and Sir Roger Douglas, ACT. (Janice Rodenburg) HONG KONG - 2 NZ judges cleared by official inquiry into suggestions they tried to influence outcome of fraud trial involving NZer Aaron Nattrass. Judge Brian Caird, who's discharged himself from case on grounds of ill health, refused defence request case should not be referred to either of the judges, Defendant Aaron Nattrass renews claims NZ govt initiated prosecution as act of illegible. (Belinda Caminada)