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0609 NZ NEWSPAPERS
0611 Māori NEWS 1616 NEWS STORY KOSOVO - AIR STRIKES - 8TH DAY - NATO says it will expand bombing campaign. Live i/v with London correspondent Alistair Wanklin.
0620 RURAL NEWS FACIAL ECZEMA outbreak in North Island thought to be worst in 10 years and is costing livestock industry millions of dollars. Tony Fraser, Ruakura Animal Health Laboratory, says spores found in 90% of pastures tested so far from Northland to Manawatu. (Diana Leufkens) CATERPILLAR PEST identified as tropical grass-web worm ravaging Northland illegible. Crown Research and MAF scientists investigating impact but farmers criticise lack of any plans beyond that for dealing with pest. (kevin Ikin) WOOL PRICES fall back at Napier wool sale, wiping out gains made at last week's South Island sale. More than 5th of 12,500 bales put up for auction failed to meet reserve prices. (Kevin Ikin) GENETICALLY ENGINEERED KIWIFRUIT - Kiwifruit NZ says firm "no", rules out funding reasearch into genetically engineered fruit or marketing it in future. Chair Doug Voss says genetically modified kiwifruit is not what buyers want. (Diana Leufkens)
0625 SPORTS STORY U.S. SPORTS - live i/v with Paul Witteman, "Sports Illustrated".
0630 NEWS/WEATHER
0635 NEWS STORY BRITAIN - McLIBEL - Appeal Court cuts amount of damages against environmentalists Dave Morris and Helen Steel, who were found guilty of libelling McDonalds hamburger chain and ordered to pay it $180,000. Appeal Court cuts that to $120,000. (Keith Chalkley)
0640 INTERNATIONAL PAPERS
0642 MANA NEWS TREATY SETTLEMENTS - Independent MP Tuariki Delamere calls for group with more firepower than waitangi Tribunal to look at 2 issues he says are blocking settlements.
0648 BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL NEWS WORLD TRADE ORGN - DEADLOCK - WTO fails to reach agreement on new director-general. Chair of exec body says difficulties so serious neither candidate - NZer Mike Moore and Tahi deputy PM Supachai - could be elected. Some observers suggest 3rd compromise candidate may have to be found. (AAP) ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY REFORM ACT comes into effect, separation of different types of electricity business takes place. Commerce Commission's Kate Brown says several businesses scrambling for exemptions because they hadn't realised they were covered by Act. (Helen Matterson) UNITED NETWORKS, AK-based electricity lines company, to cut about 80 jobs. Formerly Power NZ, company is country's largest network. (Helen Matterson) FINANCE/MARKETS MARKET REVIEW TAX CHANGES - from today more than million wage and salary earners won't have to file annual tax returns and changes in withholding tax could cost many investors more. Live i/v with John Shewan, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, and Peter Barrand, IRD. AIR NZ - CREDIT RATING - Standard and Poors puts Air NZ on negative credit watch as airline ponders over exercising pre-emptive right and buy other 50% stake in Ansett Australia. Standard and Poors says such a merger could put Air NZ at financial risk at time when difficult trading conditions in Asia are set to continue longer than expected. (Helen Matterson) BUSINESS BRIEFS
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0700 INTRO/NEWS KOSOVO - REFUGEES - continuing exodus, with conditions growing worse. Live i/ with correspondent Malcolm Brown, who's been talking to refugees still streaming into Macedonia; in Albania, number of refugees now estimated to have reached about 100,000 with no sign of let-up. I/v with correspondent Jonathan Steel. (Mng Rpt) KOSOVO - AIR STRIKES - NATO says it's expanding bombing campaign. Spokesman Dr Jamie Sead says it's been difficult to hit Serb forces in Kosovo. (Mng Rpt) Māori - COURT CASES - 2 key cases result in success for groups taking them: High Court grants injunctions against split-up of ECNZ and against Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Commission's allocation model. Live i/v with Māori Issues correspondent Chris Wikaira, with comment from sir Graham Latimer; live i/v with State Owned Enterprises minister Tony Ryall.
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS NZ PAPERS FINANCE UPDATE FIRE SERVICE - DEADLINE - govt gives Commission chair Roger Estall one last chance to convince it he and his senior managers can work together on restructuring programme. Live i/v with Political editor Al Morrison. APRIL CHANGES - April 1, raft of changes affecting workers, superannuitants and beneficiaries come into force, Live i/v with Labour MP Ruth Dyson, Peter King of Poverty Measurement Group, Social Services minister Roger Sowry, and Nellie Bush and Maureen Bell, Vincentian Home for the Elderly. (Bryan Crump) NORTHERN IRELAND - PEACE PROCESS - first anniversary of accord with issue of disarmament still divisive. British and Irish PMs meeting in Belfast to try to break deadlock. I/v with correspondent David McKittrick. SCI-FI CONVENTION in AK over Easter weekend. Lost episode of "Dr Who" will be screened. (Lisa Owen)
0800 NEWS/WEATHER KOSOVO - DISCUSSION - Yugoslav deputy PM Vuk Draskovic blames humanitarian crisis on NATO's military action; Masar Krasniqi, NZ's Albanian community, says President Milosevic is a war criminal; live discussion with BBC's Jackie Rowlands who's now in Macedonia after being expelled from Kosovo, Nigel Vinson, British military analyst specialising in Yugoslav conflict, and Dr Reuben Azizian, former Soviet diplomat and AK Univ political scientist. INTERNATIONAL PAPERS WAIKATO UNIV RESTRUCTURING - right of vice-chancellors to restructure univs they manage called into question by High Court ruling in Hamilton, Prof Bryan Gould found to be acting outside his powers when he decided to merge 7 schools into 4 larger faculties. Assn of Univ Staff took him to court, objecting to way he handled restructuring. Live i/v with reporter Andrew McRae. EAST TIMOR - UN assessment team visits territory, Australia, and NZ, Live i/v with team head, Francesc Vendrell.
0830 NEWS/WEATHER CANADA - NUNAVIT, Canada's newest territory comes into being, Canada's largest aboriginal land claims settlement ever. Nunavit is size of western Europe, cvers 3 times zones and has only 25,000 people. Live i/v with Jane Stewart, Canada's minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. CHURCH ADVERTISING - churches using television commercials to help fill pews this Easter, say adverts help raise public's awareness about true nature of Easter but doubts raised about effectiveness at time of falling church attendance. (Mark Torley) WEEKEND WEATHER FRUIT AND VEG REPORT with Jack Forsythe. OZ SPOT - live i/v with correspondent Phil Kafcaloudes.