ONE NEWS. 12/01/2004

Pressure is mounting on the Cook Islands Government to kick out NZ multi-millionnaire and convicted criminal Mark Lyon.
June Baudinet (Businesswoman); Vereara Maeva (Secretary, Aronga Mana); Tinomana Ariki (Paramount Chief); Norman George (Lyon's Lawyer); Father Tony Dunn (St Mary's Parish).

Help is starting to pour into Niue a week after Cyclone Heta wrought destruction across the island.
Edouard Fritch (French Polynesia Vice-President); Robert Rex (Niue MP); Toke Palagi (Niue Deputy Premier).

The Head of the Crown Forestry Rental Trust has been sacked two months after a damning Parliamentary Select Committee report.
Angela Foulkes (Crown Forestry Rental Trust); Gerry Brownlee (National Deputy Leader).

The Medical Association is alarmed at the number of NZ trained doctors leaving for Australia to follow the lure of better money.
Andrea Hedgland (NZ Locum); Rob Walter (Australian Divisions of General Practice); Robert Marr (Doctors' Reform Area); Ross Boswwll (NZ Medical Association Deputy Chairman).

The most senior Shi'ite Muslim cleric in Iraq says the violence in Iraq will continue to get worse unless the political situation is sorted out quickly.
Tim Smith (British Army Spokesman).

The ANC has celebrated 10 years in power by launching a new election campaign which promises to beat poverty and unemployment in South Africa.
Thabo Mbeki (South African President); Kgalema Mothanthe (ANC Secretary-General).