TV3 NEWS. 20/01/2004

The PM has dismissed suggestions that the Government is deliberately delaying the Ahmed Zaoui case so that more evidence can be gathered against him as "ridiculous".
Paul Buchanan (Auckland University Lecturer); Helen Clark (PM - Labour).

John Kerry has won the Iowa caucus's vote for the Democratic Presidential candidacy.

NZ will give Niue $5 million to assist with rebuilding after Cyclone Heta.
Phil Goff (Foreign Affairs Minister).

Rescue services were on crash alert in Auckland amid fears that a huge airforce jet would be unable to land at Whenuapai airbase due to landing gear failure.
Tony Davie (Royal NZ Airfoce Pilot).

Former Catholic Priest Alan Woodcock has been in court charged with child sex abuse dating back to the 1970s and 1980s.

The PM is refusing to commit to Waitangi Day celebrations in the Far North.
Helen Clark (PM - Labour); Gerry Brownlee (National Deputy Leader).

The Waitangi Tribunal has begun a six day hearing into whether the Government's seabed and foreshore policy breaches the Treaty.
Tom Ngatai (Ngati Ruanui); Richard Boast (Lawyer); Angelina Greensill (Tainui).

The United Nations is considering sending a team to Iraq to investigate when credible elections could be held.
Naim Saeed (Iraqi Demonstrator); Paul Bremer (US Civil Administrator in Iraq); Kofi Annan (UN Secretary General).

Britain's Defence Secretary has met the widow of the first British soldier killed in Iraq, who has left evidence that there was not enough body armour for the soldiers.
Samantha Roberts (Widow); Geoff Hoon (British Defence Secretary).