TV3 NEWS. 12/01/2004

Food is the immediate priority for cyclone-battered Niue with the island's supplies rapidly running out.
Edouard Fritch (French-Polynesian Vice President); Robert Rex (Niuean MP).

The Medical Association is alarmed at the number of NZ trained doctors leaving for Australia to follow the lure of better money.
Andrea Hedgland (NSW Doctor); Bill Glasson (Australian Medical Association); Kate Tompson (Wellington Doctor); Ross Boswill (NZ Medical Association); Heather Roy (Act MP).

A new British television documentary has shed light on how the Coalition forces managed to defeat the Iraqi forces so quickly during the war in Iraq. It reveals that there was large scale espionage, infiltration and bribery prior to the war.

The US President is expected to unveil plans this week to put a permanent space station on the moon from where manned Mars missions can be launched. Critics say it will cost too much.
Walt Cunningham (Apollo 7 Lunar Module Pilot).

The Head of the Crown Forestry Rental Trust has left 2 months after a damning Parliamentary Select Committee report.

Five people have been killed during a prtoest about unemployment in Iraq.
Michael O'Hanlon (The Brookings Institute); Mowaffak Rubaie (Iraqi Governing Council); Dan Senor (Coalition Authority Spokesman).

An exhibition honouring the iwi of the Wanganui River has been opened at Te Papa.
George Waretini (Koroua); Te Taru White (Te Papa); Piki Waretini (Kuia).