0600 NEWS/SPORTS/WEATHER
0609 NZ NEWSPAPERS
0611 MāORI NEWS
0616 NEWS STORY: AUSTRALIAN GOVT REPORT - secret report about Pacific Island states found by reporter at Pacific Forum meeting in Cairns and published, contains highly critical views of Island leaders and economies. Brian Mason, chief of staff for Cook Islands PM Sir Geoffrey Henry, says report with its personal comments on leaders is not acceptable. (Mng Rpt)
0621 RURAL NEWS
0626 SPORTS STORY: GOLF - final day of the British Open. Live i/v with commentator Graham Agars.
0630 NEWS/WEATHER
0636 NEWS STORY: NORTHERN INELAND - CEASEFIRE declared by IRA so Sinn Fein can join all-party peace talks next month, Getting the IRA truce may prove to be the easy part (keith Chalkley)
0640 OVERSEAS NEWSPAPERS
0642 MANA NEWS
0651 BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL NEWS: MONETARY CONDITIONS - Reserve Bank index criticised for contributing to decline in dollar and possible choking off economic growth. (Gyles Beckford) DOLLAR FALLS - Meat and Wool Boards' Economic Service says fall won't have much immediate impact on export returns because little of either commodity being sold at moment. (kevin Ikin); Dairy Board pleased by fall, had already cemented exchange rate of around US 65 cents for much of season. Group treasurer Geoff Taylor thinks dollar won't fall much lower. (Gyles Beckford) MORTGAGE RATES - floating mortgages likely to rise because of wholesale illegible rates. (Gyles Beckford) FINANCE/MARKETS MORTGAGE RETAIL MARKET Sovereign group enters sector but plans to fund mortgages in different way, through securitisation. Comment from managing director Paul Bravo. (Gyles Beckford) ASIAN CURRENCIES - is recent battering the end of double digit growth for "tiger economics"? Comment from David Roach, Independent Strategies, London. MCLIBEL - McDonalds decides not to try to enforce recent court judgement in libel case against activists Dave Morris and Helen Steel.
0700 INTRO/NEWS NORTHERN IRELAND - CEASEFIRE - live i/v with Sinn Fein chair Mitchell McLaughlin. MURIWHENUA LAND CLAIM - govt offers to return Aupori State Forest as interim settiement but claimants say the offer's insulting. Comment from Muriwhenua Runanga chair Rima Edwards and researcher Margaret Mutu. (Lois Williams) BOSNIA - SERB HARDLINERS EXPEL President Biliana Plavisic from ruling party and demand she steps down from office following her outspoken attacks on de facto leader Radovan Karadzic and threat to arrest him and his allies for corruption I/v with correspondent karen Colman. (Mng Rpt) AUSTRALIAN GOVT REPORT - diplomats in Canberr and around region move to limit damage. Caustic response from Pacific Island leaders to comments in report which include remarks on contrast between allegedly hard-nosed Australian and indulgent NZ policies towards Island nations. NZ deputy PM Winston Peters denounced as opportunistic and a loose cannon. Mr Peters says he'll ignore the remarks, which emanated from an ignorant bureaucrat. Acting Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Upton seeking a copy of documents and won't comment until he gets them. (Eric Frykberg) MORTGAGE RATES - surge in wholesale rates likely to cause floating mortgage rates to rise, possibly beyond 10% in near future. Live i/v with Business editor Gyles Beckford. NORTHERN IRELAND - CEASEFIRE - Ulster Unionist party says it won't attend peace talks because IRA ceasefire is a sham. Deputy leader John Taylor says meaningful ceasefire would involve IRA giving up weapons and renouncing all acts of violence not just those invlving firearms. He's i/ved live.
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORT FINANCE UPDATE EUROPE - FLOODS - heavy rain still falling across Poland and Czech Republic. raising river levels dangerously high in regions already hit by floods which illegible nearly 100 people. In Garmany, floods leave areas close to Oder under water. Live i/v with correspondent Geoff Rodoreda. PHARMACEUTICALS - move by 3 AK hospitals to try to bring in cheap antibiotic caught in ongoing battle between Pharmac and pharmaceutical industry. Health ministry, which originally approved application to buy generic antibiotic from Ireland, has reversed decision. (Marguerite Fahy) SOCIAL STUDIES - another re-write of curriculum after earlier drafts called racist and doctrinaire. Race Relations Conciliator Rajen prasad recommends changes in report prompted by complaint that curriculum glosses over biculturalism, calls on Education ministry to give Social Studies same emphasis as sciences because of importance in influencing race relations. He's i/ved live, with Education ministry's senior manager of curriculum implementation Janet Winter-Live. MONDAY OZ SPOT - live i/v with correspondent Phil Kafcaloudes. (leaded govt report on Pacific Island leaders)
0800 NEWS/WEATHER MATIU RATA remains in critical but stable condition in AK Hospital's intensive care unit-moved there from Whangarei for kidney dialysis treatment. I/v with wife Nellie. (Mng Rpt) WORTHERN IRELAND - CEASEFIRE - yet to be established whether it's an end to the troubles". Live i/v with correspondent David McKittrick. INTERNATIONAL PAPERS AUSTRALIAN GOVT REPORT written by Canberra Foreign Affairs officaial says NZ govt sometimes takes contrary view to Australia to underline "its own fading independence". Are the report's criticisms of NZ valid and what's likely to be govt response? Live i/v with VUW South Pacific political specialist Rod Alley. DOLLAR FALL - ANZ Bank chief economist Paul Stewart says it was expected to fall and he expects it to drop further. He's i/ved live. RUGBY - was weekend's game the greatest ever played between All Blacks and Springboks? Rare victory for NZ at Johannesburg's Ellis Park. Live i/v with former All Black and TVNZ commentator Grant Fox and SABC commentator Gerald de Koch.
0830 NEWS/SPORTS GOLF - American golfer Justin Leonard wins British Open at Royal Troon. I/v with commentator Graham Agars. (Mng Rpt) ARAMOANA SALTMARSHES - DoC proposes to make them ecologically protected area, higher status than conservation area. Live i/v with Prof Alan Mark, chair of local conservation board. NEWS MUSEUM - Washington museum looks at journalism in all its forms. (Judy Lessing) McLIBEL - McDonalds says it won't try to stop Dave Morris and Helen Steel from handing out libellous pamphlets about the company, also won't try to recover any legal costs or collect the $NZ92,000 it won in symbolic damages. Live i/v with Mark Steven, spokesperson for law firm Steven Innocent. NEW YORK - DEAF MUTES - Police arrest 7 people in case involving more than 60 Mexican, most of whom are deaf and mute, who they say were forced to work on streets selling trinkets for pittence wages. Live i/v with Dennis Catlett, WOR-AM reporter.