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0700 NEWS TOXIC ALGA - A new and deadly toxic micro alga has been found off the Bay of Plenty coast, the Cawthron Institute in Nelson has revealed. It was feared the bug was the same as the one which killed 11 people in South America in 1991, but scientists now hope it isn't. Wrap with Graeme Robertson and Lesley Rhodes (Robyn Cubie) The alga was first found in April during routine screening of water samples by local health officers. Live i/v with health protection officer Eddie Ashcroft. HEALTH CONFERENCE - Anti-government feeling at the Nurses Organisation conference is being picked up by Labour and the Alliance. Wrap with Jenny Shipley, Helen Clark, Jim Anderton and Nigel Kee pres of the nurses org. (Kathryn Street) IRAQ - Tension's flared again in Iraq with Iraqi forces firing a surface to air missile at US fighters. The US moved B52 bombers closer to the region in retaliation. Live i/v with Martin Walker in Washington.
illegible - The Sanitarium Health Food Company and multi-national Kelloggs are fighting... over how much sugar they have in their products. A Sanitarium ad claims Nutrigrain has more sugar than chocolate cake - Kellogs says the ad's unethical. Wrap with Bernard Dignan from NZ sugar company, Kim Sterling from Sanitarium, John Birkbeck from the nutrition foundation and Erin baker. (Clare Sziranyi)
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS ELECTION ADVERTISING - The Advertising Standards Complaints Board have ruled an Employers Fedration ad supporting the Employment Contracts Act is factually incorrect and must be changed. But it rejected a complaint about ads placed by the Voters Organisation for Tactical Education. The CTU says it's concerned about the growing sophistication of political advertising following the Employers Fed ads. Live i/v with secretary Angela Foulkes and Steve Marshall, chief exec of the federation. BONDI MURDER - Police across the Tasman are looking at two possibilities in their investigation into the death of a British tourist at Bondi Beach. Zandra Sharp wrap with police insp Dick Baker and a young mum. NUCLEAR TREATY - The decision in the UN to adopt the Comprehensive Test ban Treaty banning nuclear tests is marred by the boycott by India. Live i/v with professor Paul Rogers, a British expert lecturing in New Zealand, who says the treaty isn't complete without India's signature. SHARK - A Chatham Islands fisherman has caught a shark which is believed to be the one responsible for a near-fatal attack last week. Wrap with the fisher Tim Gregory-Hunt and Eddie Rereti. (Gordon Harcourt) FINANCE - money markets latest with Mark Crysell.
0800 NEWS/WEATHER IRAQ-US - Conflict in Iraq has escalated with an announcement in Washington F-117 stealth bombers would be sent to the country, i/v with Pentagon spokesperson Brian Whitman. EDUCATION - As party policies begin to be released it is becoming obvious that education will be a big election issue and a lot of money will be promised for it. i/v with professor of education Ivan Snook on what is being offered and the history of education policy. PAPERS/ASPAC HEADLINES FINANCE - The Fiscal Responsibility Act requires the government to open its books in the run-up to the election, so any incoming government knows the state of them. This hapens today. Live i/v with economics correspondent Bronwen Evans before she goes into the media lock-up, including audio of Don Turkington of Caville White Securities and Stephen Topliss of Doyle Patterson Brown. PARTY PROFILE - Continuing series of wraps on the major parties, Stephen Parker illegible at the Alliance. Audio of Jim Anderton and Pam Corkery.
0830 NEWS/SPORTS AIDS/BEER - A Wellington brewer says, he may have found a cure for AIDS and hepatitis, based on ethane, and he's off to Switzerland to research it. Audio of Dr Richard Meech, chair of the AIDS Medical and Technical Advisory Committee, who is extremely sceptical of the idea. But Warwick Jameson is confident. Live i/v with him. MUSIC - A British study says music may affect us psychologically more than we think. Links have been made between country music and suicide and between classical music and buying more expensive wine, i/v with Dr David Hargreaves from the Univeristy of Leicester, co-author of the report. JAPAN - New parties are being formed in the run-up to Japan's elections and a prominent policy is New Zealand-style economic reforms, i/v with correspondent Tanya Katterns. FRUIT AND VEG REPORT with Jack Forsythe.