The leader of Al-Queda, Osama Bin Laden, has appeared in a video aired on Arabic TV station Al-Jazeera. In it, he mocks George W. Bush and warns the US of further terrorist attacks. Osama Bin Laden (appearing in a video broadcast on Al-Jazeera); Adel Darwish (Middle East analyst).
Report on the upcoming US Presidential Election and the reaction of George W. Bush and John Kerry to the Bin Laden video. George W. Bush (US President); Senator John Kerry (Democratic Presidential Candidate); Arnold Swarzenegger (Governor of California).
Further update on the condition of the gravely-ill Yasser Arafat, now being treated in Paris. Leyla Shahid (PLO Representative in France); Abdullah Abdullah (Palestinian Foreign Ministry Director-General); voxpop (Palestinians).
The Waitangi Tribunal has just ruled that the Crown's treatment in the 19th century of several Gisbourne tribal groups amounted to one of the worst abuses of Maori in our country's history. It also said, however, that the Maori themselves were guilty of b Chris Wikaira (Waitangi Tribunal); Maever Moeau (Nga Uri o te Kooti); Lewis Moeau (Rongowhakaata iwi).
Further report on the fall-out from the Pitcairn Island sexual abuse trials. Matthew Forbes (Pitcairn Deputy-Governor); Simon Moore (Pitcairn Island Prosecutor).
NZ First today opened its Annual Conference, with President Doug Woolerton stating NZ First would be nobody's 'coalition lapdog' after the next election. Doug Woolerton (NZ First Party President).
A court in French Polynesia (Tahiti) is shortly to decide who will be the territory's next President (either the pro-independence Oscar Temaru or French ally Gaston Floss). It follows the attempted removal from office of Temaru following a vote of no conf Oscar Temaru (Presidential claimant); voxpop (French Polynesian politicians); Gaston Floss (Presidential claimant).
The 25 members of the European Union have approved the first European Constitution in Rome.
The influential British medical journal Lancet has published the results of a US study that argues up to 100,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed since the US invasion.
Further report on the upcoming US Presidential Election and analysis of the reaction (and fears) of the Muslim population in the US. Adel Fergany (Muslim immigrant in America); Omar Slater (President of the American Islamic Council); Elaine Linn (Muslim convert).
A conference on family planning organised by the NZ Family Planning Association has heard how British efforts to reduce its rate of teenage pregnancy might be useful in New Zealand. Alison Hadley (British Teenage Pregnancy Unit); Gill Greer (NZ Family Planning Association); Ruth Dyson (Assoc Health Minister).