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0611 MāORI NEWS
0616 NEWS STORY: BOUGAINVILLE - NZ troops leave later this week to monitor ceasefire, will be unarmed. Rebel leaders offering assurances they won't be under military threat. Comment from Brig Roger Mortlock, Foreign Affairs minister Don McKinnon, an Moses Havini, BRA spokesperson. (Mark Henderson)
0621 RURAL NEWS illegible SPORTS STORY: EUROPEAN SPORT - live i/v with correspondent John Daniell. (rugby)
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0636 NEWS STORY: MONARCHY - NZer Simon Gimson, who's been working as special assistant to Queen's private secretary says Princess Diana's death has speeded reform of monarchy, says Queen won't abdicate and line of succession won't skip generation to Prince William. (Keith Chalkley)
0639 INTERNATIONAL PAPERS
0642 MANA NEWS
0651 BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL NEWS: RESERVE BANK GOVERNOR Don Brash re-appointed for 3rd 5 year term. Policy Targets Agreement, specifying govt's required inflation rate, renegotiated. (Gyles Beckford) TELSTRA's debut on Australian and NZ sharemarkets stuns brokers and investors, traded at 30% premium on issue price, with share peaking at $3.08. Comment from Tony Connelly, Merrill Lynch. (Sharon Brettkelly); strong debut delivers $3 billion paper profit to shareholders in Australia. (Zandra Sharpe) FINANCE/MARKETS SKELLERUP GROUP - yield on bonds hits 100% on Stock Exchange as lending banks and bond holders await news on another rescue plan for group. (Gyles Beckford) AMP PROPERTY TRUST - new office trust promoted as offering investors exposure to icons of local property scene, focus on maintaining quality of property portfolio and returns to share and note holders. Comment from exec manager Anthony Beverley. (Gyles Beckford)
0700 INTRO/NEWS EGYPT - TOURIST MASSACRE - more than 70 people, mostly foreign tourists, killed at Luxor by Islamist fundamentalists. American Matthew Moyer describes what happened; i/v with correspondent Jim Muir. (Mng Rpt) BOUGAINVILLE - 130 NZ defence force personnel to be involved in monitoring group to oversee implementation of truce agreed at Burnham talks. Comment from Foreign Affairs minister Don McKinnon; live i/v with secretary of Bougainville interim govt and Bougainville Revolutionary Army, Martin Miriori; live i/v with NZArmy spokesman Cdr John Seward. PETER ELLIS CASE - AK law professor Bill Hodge calls for introduction of US-style jury selection system after revelations about jury in Ellis's trial for child sex abuse. Ellis' lawyer Judith Ablett-Kerr preparing petition to go to Governor General seeking pardon. Comment also from WN criminal lawyer Gary Turkington. (Tama Muru) COALITION - National Party caucus meets today, questions expected from Jenny Shipley's supporters who had hopes of her moving party to right and undermining NZ First. I/v with MP Brian Neeson. (Mng Rpt) NZ PAPERS
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS FINANCE UPDATE NAPIER HOSPITAL could close completely, following upgrade of Hastings Hospital due to be completed next September. Expected that Napier's residual services would remain in hospital but Healthcare Hawkes Bay has released discussion paper recommending new facility. (Heugh Chappell) SIR GRAHAM LATIMER, Māori Council chair and Northland kaumatua, strongly denies charges relating to completion of income tax and GST forms. Inland Revenue Dept alleges he wilfully filed 4 false returns with sum involved totalling around $33,000. Live i/v with regional reporter Lois Williams. IRAQ - WEAPONS INSPECTION - offer by Baghdad to allow American inspectors back into country under condition they're on equal footing with UN experts from other countries. President Saddam Hussein says he doesn't want confrontation over expulsion of inspectors. I/v with George Hawatmeh, "Jordan Times" re how illegible viewed by Arab world and how Iraq views current crisis. (Mng Rpt); former US president George Bush says he refused to finish off Saddam Hussein in 1991 Gulf War because he feared Allied coalition would shatter. (RTR) MILLENIUM - PITT ISLAND confirmed by scientific paper as being first inhabited place in world to welcome new millenium. Details published in Royal Geographical Society Journal. Live i/v with WN man Peter Lechner, co-author of paper.
0800 NEWS/WEATHER EGYPT - TOURIST MASSACRE - armed Muslim militant group Jamaa Islamiyya claims responsibility for Luxor attack. Live i/v with Nick Pellam, London-based writer on Egyptian affairs. BOUGAINVILLE - Foreign Affairs minister Don McKinnon says NZ-led truce monitoring force represents vote of confidence in peace process - i/ved. (Mng Rpt); live i/v with Prof Ted Wolfers, expert on Bougainville war, who's sceptical about monitors being unarmed and safe. INTERNATIONAL PAPERS COOK ISLANDS TAX INQUIRY back in court today as Winston Peters' challenge to Sir Ronald Davidson's report gets underway. Mr Peters wants court declaration Sir Ronald wrongly interpreted law when he found transactions at heart of inquiry had not been proved to amount to fraud. Live i/v with Fran O'Sullivan, "New Business Herald".
0830 NEWS/SPORTS BALLANTYNE'S FIRE - service in CH today to remember NZ's deadliest fire in 1947 ion which 41 people died. Live i/v with Rosemary Corliss, who was working in Ballantyne's on the day of the fire, and Tony Phillips, firefighter and historian. STUDENT FEES - AK Univ decides on across-board increase of about $400 per student, bringing fees to just over $2,800. Students' Assn was lobbying for no increase but president Philip Stevens says decision was move in right direction - i/ved live. DRIVING - engineer John Hughes, Transit NZ, says NZ drivers more aggressive than many overseas. He's working on computer systems that simulate traffic flows, says NZers quicker off mark at red lights and squeeze into smaller gaps when crossing lanes. He's i/ved live. FISH RESEARCH discovers how fish work out water currents. (through skin). Live i/v with Dr John Montgomery, AK Univ Biology School. PAKISTAN - CONTEMPT - concern about govt's stability following appearance in court of PM Nawaz Sharif on charges of contempt arising from 4 month confrontation with judiciary. I/v with correspondent Zaffar Abbass. (Mng Rpt)