0600 NEWS/SPORTS/WEATHER
0609 NZ NEWSPAPERS
0611 MāORI NEWS
0616 NEWS STORY: MISSILES - Australian Defence Dept confirms it's considering buying ling-range Tomahawk cruise missiles to enhance strike force capacity. News prompts warnings of regional arms race and calls for missile-free zone to be set up in South Pacific. Comment from Labor's Defence spokesman Arch Bevis, AK Univ political scientist Steve Hoadley, and NZ Foreign Affairs minister Don McKinnon. (Helen Matterson)
0621 RURAL NEWS
0626 SPORTS STORY: MOTOR RACING - live i/v with Paris-based correspondent John Daniell. (Belgiam Grand Prix won by Michael Schumacher)
0630 NEWS/WEATHER
0636 NEWS STORY: MURIWHENUA - Ngati Kuri Trust Board spokesman Tom Bowling-Murray calls for Muriwhenua Runanga to be wound up because of its debts. Runanga spokesperson Shane Jones disputes call. (Chris Wikaira)
0640 OVERSEAS NEWSPAPERS
0642 MANA NEWS
0651 BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL NEWS: SKY CITY expects little bottom-line profit improvement in coming year. Managing director Evan Davies says Sky has plans to improve non-gaming revenue from restaurants, hotel and theatre but says company will also be hit by higher depreciation costs, higher tax rate and end to capitalising some development costs. (Gyles Beckford) PROFIT ANNOUNCEMENTS (Reid Farmers, Direct Capital) BANKERS TRUST corporate finance section beefed up with take-over of smaller investment bank F R Partners. (Gyles Beckford) FINANCE/MARKETS PROPERTY/HOUSING MARKET SURVEY by ASB Bank highlights uneven nature of economy throughout country. Bank's chief economist Rozanna Wozniak says different regions house and property prices are moving for different reasons. (Gyles Beckford) SHARE MARKET CLUBS making come-back in Britain. (BBC) SUPERANNUATION - Investment Savings Insurance Assn backs a "yes" vote in referendum. Chief exec Roger Gill says scheme is well-designed and gives basis of knitting together private and public retirement schemes. (Gyles Beckford)
0700 INTRO/NEWS RESIGNATION - Jenny Bloxham resigns as deputy president of NZ First Party, cites personality problems as reason. Live i/v with Political editor Al Morrison. USED CAR IMPORTS - row over odometer tampering continues, with car fraud campaigner Dermot Nottingham claiming he was asked to investigate 3,000 suspect cars because then Customs minister Neil Kirton didn't trust officials to do the job, Nei Kirton denies claim but still determined on forcing govt inquiry. (q). Comment from State Services Commissioner Michael Wintringham, Labour MP RIck Barker, and PSA's Joe Tonner, (Clare Sziranyi) RESIGNATION - live i/v with Michael Laws re reasons for Jenny Bloxham's resignation as NZ First's deputy president; further live i/v with Political editor Al Morrison. MISSILES - defence analyst says Australia sneighbours will be forced to follow suit if it goes ahead with plans to buy cruise missiles. I/v with Andrew Mack, ANU professor of International Relations. (Mng Rpt) STUDENT UNION - Waikato Univ students first in country to vote for voluntary membership of Students' Assn. About 20% of students voted in referendum on matter. (Andrew McRae)
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS MURIWHENUA - Tom Bowling-Murray, Ngati Kuri Trust Board, says Muriwhenua Runanga is insolvent and Ngati Kuri doesn't want its assets from treaty settlement procvess to be used to offset "unjustified debt". Muriwhenua claims manager Shane Jones says debts are manageable and describes attempts to abolish runanga as "dangerous mischief-making". (Mng Rpt) GERMANY - EGON KRENZ, East Germany's last communist leader, sentenced to 6 and half years' jail for deaths of civilians killed as they tried to flee to West over Berlin Wall. I/v with correspondent Geoff Rodoreda. PM JIM BOLGER starts visit to South Pacific states today, going to Tonga, Niue and Samoa. Comment from Labour MP Taito Philip Field, Alliance's Matt Robson, and Tongan opposition MP Akilisa Pohiva. (RNZI Bruce Hill); live i/v with VUW Strategic Studies Center director Terence O'Brien.
0800 NEWS/WEATHER MISSILES - Australian Defence minister Ian McLaughlin confirms he's considering buying long-range cruise missiles. Live i/v with AK Univ political scientist Steve Hoadley; live i/v with David Isenberg, senior research analyst with Centre for Defence Information in Washington. MELANOMA - British dermatologist, Prof Jonathan Rees of Newcastle Univ, alarmed by "Sunday Times" article quoting him as saying there's no link between sunlight and melanoma. Prof Rees says his message has been twisted and he's spent last 24 hours trying to put message straight. (said problem has been over-hyped in Britain) I/ved live. INTERNATIONAL PAPERS PHARMACEUTICALS BILL - intensive negotiations under way to try to cut expected bill of $778 million. Health officials recommending change in way pharmacists are paid to encourage lower level of dispensing. Comment from Jim Thompson, illegible Society, and Conway Powell, Transitional Health Authority. (Eric Frykberg) STUDENT UNION - Waikato Univ students vote for voluntary membership of Students' Assn. Live i/v with National MP Tony Steele, who has Private Members' Bill before select committee on issue of voluntary membership, and Michael Gibbs, president of NZUSA which favours compulsory membership.
0830 NEWS/SPORTS TRUANCY/YOUTH CRIME - DN programme to combat problem appears to be successful, with dramatic reduction in number of arrests after 2 years, at time when youth crime is rising elsewhere. Criminologist Gay Maxwell says programme works by focusing on individuals and problems at home or school; live i/v with Chief Youth Court judge David Carruthers. AK HOUSE PRICES - still strong confidence among AK house buyers and real estate industry, despite new survey showing region's house prices are cooling. Those keeping eye on market says there's nothing to show AK's house prices have peaked. (Eileen Cameron) STERILISATIONS - ideas that led to forced sterilisations in Sweden part of worldwide philosophy of eugenics. VUW historian Charlotte McDonald says idea was seriously discussed in NZ during 1920s - i/ved live. TUSSOCK MOTH SPRAY - research released by AK Healthcare says there's no link between problem a pregnancies in AK's eastern suburbs and aerial spray programme conducted over past year. Those opposed to spraying believe the research is inconclusive. (Nicola Pauling) TENNIS - U.S. OPEN - NZ's Brett Steven battles it out against Spaniard Juan Albert Viloca. Correspondent Judy Lessing reports live. BRAZIL - PRISON INMATES hold 60 visiting relatives hostage in uprising to protest against overcrowding and poor conditions in Sao Paolo. Live i/v with correspondent Jan Rosher.