1. NEWS
2. LEBANESE - in France five Lebanese are being questions in connection with last year's bomb attacks in Paris. PHILIP SHORT..00:00:47.
3. IRAN-IRAQ - Oil tankers escorted by American warships run the gauntlet through the Persian Gulf..KEITH GRAVES..00:02:30.
4. NEW BANKS - Reserve Bank has just issued eight new banking licenses as yet another step in the deregulation of the financial sector..GYLES BECKFORD..00:02:02. WESTON/BANKS - Professor of Banking and Management at Massey says she's surprised that other than NZI Finance there are no other local applicants..PROFESSOR RAE WESTON/MARGARET INGE..00:01:48.
5. DOUGLAS/JOURNAL - Wall Street Journal has published a long and favourable report about Finance Minister, Roger Douglas..CONNIE LAWN..00:01:05.
6. HEADS & WEATHER
7. FIJI - suggestions from London that Fiji runs the risk of being expelled from the Commonwealth..NORMAN MOSS..00:01:03.
8. JIM BOLGER - has been back on the campaign trail with a flying visit to the marginal East Cape electorate..ALISON BARTLEY..00:02:55.
9. CLEVEDON - meanwhile David Lange is continuing his daily sorties out of Wellington to electorates Labour believes it can gain..KAREN FISHER..00:04:12.
10. INQUIRY - SSC Inquiry has failed to have a Wellington newspaper reveal the source of a confidential government report it published..DUNCAN MCKAY..00:01:11.
11. HOSPITAL - Yesterday's High Court interim injunction preventing the release of a report on alleged medical negligence at Whakatane Hospital not popular with several parties involved...SARAH JOHNSTON..00:00:44.
12. NEWS & SPORT
13. BUILDINGS - civil engineer says some new Auckland buildings have severe structural defects that would not withstand an earthquake..CLIFF BARNETT/PAUL CLARKE..00:02:34.
14. AIDS - delegates at the Pacific AIDS summit in Sydney expected to reach a joint policy on dealing with the spread of the disease later today..CAROLINE GAISHAUSER..00:01:11.
15. SAMOA AIDS - Western Samoa's Health Minister says a new vocabulary to explain AIDS has to be invented but it's not proving easy to find a suitable word for sex.
16. HEADS & PAPERS
17. ANSETT - this weekend Ansett New Zealand launches is main trunk operation, providing the first competitor to Air New Zealand...LUALEMANA TINO PEREIRA..00:04:21.
18. SOCIAL WELFARE - system costs taxpayers about six billion dollars each year..ANN HERCUS/RICHARD GRIFFIN..00:02:35.
19. EXPORTERS - the Export Institute is using its annual conference as a platform for attacking the government for failing to contain exchange and interest rates..PETER BRITTENDEN..00:02:01.