0600 Headlines/News/Sports Bulletin/short weather forecast
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0618 Rural News
0630 News Update
0640 Report from our Mana News team
0645 Pacific Regional News : Ex RNZ International
0650 Business and financial news. David Jones
0700 NEWS ZAIRE - Tutsi rebels announces 3 week ceasefire to allow refugees to be repatriated to Burundi and Rwanda. Medecins Sans Frontieres cautious about offer. I/v with Jacques del Miliaro, MSF head in Rwanda. (Mng Rpt) COALITION - caretaker govt announces more than half million dollars set aside for parties involved in talks, to pay for policy advice and analysis. Understood request came from NZ First leader, Winston Peters. Live i/v with Chief Parliamentary Reporter Janice Rodenburg. BRITOMART DEVELOPMENT passes major hurdle with AK City Council endorsing project. Comment from mayor Les Mills and councillors Ken Graham and Bruce Hucker. (Kent Caddick); John Collyns, Bus and Coach Assn, says proposed Britomart terminal has serious design flaws which could make public transport inefficient. He's i/ved live. MELBOURNE CUP -TAB estimates NZers investing more than $4 million on race. Stephen Hewson studies the field.
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS U.S. ELECTION - Bill Clinton wants to be first Democrat to be elected for 2nd presidential term since Franklin D Roosevelt while Bob Dole seeks to make a late run from behind. Some random comments from the American electorate. (Judy Lessing); live i/v with Los Angeles correspondent Richard Arnold; live i/v wit "Atlanta Constitution" political reporter Tom Baxter; live i/v with Judy Lessing. U.S. ELECTION - Americans living in NZ have been able to vote for weeks now. A look at how the ex-patriate community is marking the occasion. (Clare Sziranyi) U.S. ELECTION - live i/v with Terence O'Brien, director of VUW Centre for Strategic Studies. FINANCE - money markets latest with David Jones.
0800 NEWS/WEATHER ZAIRE - UNHCR holding urgent meetings on humanitarian catastrophe. High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadako Ogato, backs calls for establishment of international aid corridors. I/v with UNHCR spokesman Fernando del Mundo. BRITOMART DEVELOPMENT - live i/v with AK mayor Les Mills. PAPERS/ASPAC HEADLINES FRUIT GROWERS in Wairarapa lose much of export apple crop due to hailstorms. Some orchards suffered almost total loss of export fruit. Live i/v with president of Wairarapa Fruit Growers' Assn, Richard Butler. SOUTH CANTERBURY CHE says Timaru health services will be maintained despite proposal to axe up to 200 positions at hospital as part of review of services. (Mark Torley) MELBOURNE CUP - Victoria Racing Club betting on more than 100,000 people attending race for 1st time since 1980. Live i/v with reporter Nicole Swift.
0830 NEWS/SPORTS U.S. ELECTION - comment from American voters; live i/v with Martin Walker, Washington correspondent for "The Guardian". MELBOURNE CUP - live i/v with James Earls, Victoria racing Club's racing manager re weather and track conditions. COOK ISLANDS - speculation that High Commissioner in NZ, Iaveta Short, is resigning his post early next year with view to becoming next prime minister. (Lualemana Tino Pereira) PLANE DOOR OPENS on United Aviation commuter flight to Gisborne. Passengers had to reach out and secure dorr and hold it closed until aircraft landed. Live i/v with passenger Patricia Ensor. FIREWORKS sales booming even though skyrockets and bangers no longer available (Marguerite Fahy) DUCHESS OF YORK - live i/v with correspondent Keith Chalkley about comments in illegible autobiography in which Duchess says she was never fit to become royalty and was hopeless from the start.