6.30 NEWS & TOP HALF. 14/05/1986

News, sport and weather.
Main stories:

Protest against live sheep exports upsets agreement between exporters and unions.
Farmers have been told to hold back interest payments for six months by a group of rural women who have come to the capital to discuss the farmers’ plight.
Mikhail Gorbachev to address Soviet Union on the meltdown at Chernobyl. Interviews with workers at the site.
Marshall Islands used as an example of what may happen to those exposed to the fallout from the accident.
Stats reveal Fiji to have the world’s highest suicide rate.
Photocopy firm Xerox threatens to pull out of South Africa.
Extreme right wing group in SA, the Afrikaner Resistance Movement, gathers momentum.
Kiwi dollar falls by 4 cents overnight.