A one-hour recording of Morning Report from about 8.08am to 9am, the morning of the capture of the former Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, 15 December 2003..
Tk 1, 00'50" Geoff Robinson introduces an item on the capture.
Audio from the United State's administrator for Iraq, Paul Bremner, speaking in Baghdad; the US major-general who headed the operation Ray Odierno; United State's president George W. Bush; correspondent Nick Robinson in Tikrit; Simon Henderson, author of the biography Instant Empire: Sadam Hussein's Ambitions for Iraq. 07'30" New Zealand Foreign Minister Phil Goff and his Australian counterpart held talks in Marlborough over the weekend. Phil Goff comments. 13'35" major delays for Auckland trains after the discovery of a body on a rail track- Tranzrail's Sue Foley. 16'00" Selwyn District Council chief executive, Paul Davey, talks about the weekend fire which caused the evacuation of about 300 homes.
Other items before 9am: World trade deal likely to fail - comment from Suze Reynolds of the Trade Liberalisation Network, Barry Coates of Oxfam New Zealand, Lockwood Smith - National spokesman; interview with an Iraqi living in Auckland, Eddie Haddad, about Saddam's capture; interview with MP Maurice Williamson newly-reinstated National caucus member; Te Arawa 14 Rotorua lakebeds settlement - comment from MP Wayne Mapp, Anaru Rangiheua of Te Arawa Trust Board, Rotorua Mayor Graham Hall and district councillor Cliff Lee; Australian refugee advocate Elaine Jeff-Smith on Nauru hunger strike; comment on new Motor Vehicle Sales Act from Consumer Affairs Minister, Judith Tizard, Consumers' Institute head David Russell and Stephen Matthews of the Motor Trade Assn.
Monday Oz spot with Phil Kafcaloudes.