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0600 NEWS/WEATHER
0609 NZ NEWSPAPERS
0611 MāORI NEWS 1616 NEWS STORY MALAYSIA - ANWAR SENTENCE - protests in capital Kuala Lumpur at sentencing of former Finance minister Anwar Ibrahim to 6 years in prison. Anwar denounces verdict as political conspiracy. (BBC)
0620 RURAL NEWS DAIRY MERGER - South Island Dairy Co-op chair John Roadley confident merger with NZ Dairy Group will be wrapped up today. More than 78% of Dairy Group's farmer shareholders gave blessing to merger and Mr Roadley expects vote to go same way at CH meeting today. (Kevin Ikin) DAIRY GIANT - Kiwi Dairy Co announces it's actively promoting idea of single giant company in dairy industry, has approached other major companies to form mega co-op. Chair John Young admits negotiations won't be easy. (Kevin Ikin) DROUGHT - OTAGO farmers warned to start planning for continued drought immediately, after grim NIWA prediction. Scientists say it's possible drought may worsen. Comment from David Shepherd, head of Otago's drought relief committee. (Diana Leufkens) FEDERATED FARMERS ROW - Northland Fed Farmers to become affiliated body of national organisation, as result of arbitration hearing into long-standing funding dispute. (Diana Leufkens)
0625 SPORTS STORY U.S. SPORTS - live i/v with Paul Witteman, "Sports Illustrated". (ice hockey player Wayne Gretsky likely to announce retirement this week; Mark McGwire already hitting home runs in new baseball series)
0630 NEWS/WEATHER
0635 NEWS STORY KOSOVO - PEACE PROPOSAL - European leaders discuss peace proposals with UN Secretary General. Meeting comes as at least 64 people reportedly killed and 20 injured after 2 refugee columns hit by NATO bombs. Britain says complete independence for Kosovo will destabilise entire region, province is landlocked and with little indigenous wealth. Live i/v with London correspondent Alistair Wanklyn.
0640 INTERNATIONAL PAPERS
0642 MANA NEWS FISHERIES COMMISSION hits back after ACT leader Richrd Prebble calls it a scandal. MāORI SHAKESPEAREAN - young Māori drama student selected for Shakespearean acting school in Britain.
0648 BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL NEWS BRIERLEY INVESTMENT postpones releasing business plan, says one consent remains outstanding but not forthcoming about the consent is or who it involves. Some market analysts wondering if a business partner or a bank, rather than a shareholder, holding up affairs. (Clare Sziranyi) DAIRY MERGERS - farmer shareholders of NZ Dairy Group vote to merge with South Island Dairy Co-op, while other North Island dairy giant Kiwi Dairies announces active suport for rationalisation to form single giant company in dairy industry. (Kevin Ikin) FINANCE/MARKETS MARKET REVIEW POWER SWITCHING - TransAlta says campaign by CH-based lines company Orion to entice customers to switch to other retailers has had little impact. As TransAlta moves to raise prices, some South Island customers are expecting lower bills, and all the while, wholesale price of electricity is sliding down. (Bronwen Evans) MILLENNIUM BUG blamed for drop in IT companies' profitability. Mark Townsend, senior product manager with Oracle in U.S.' Silicon Valley, says businesses have been diverting IT money into Y2K readiness and this has sucked money out of industry as a whole. (Bronwen Evans) BUSINESS BRIEFS
0700 INTRO/NEWS KOSOVO - REFUGEES KILLED - Serb media centre reports NATO missiles have killed 70 ethnic Albanian refugees in 2 separate attacks on refugee convoys. NATO sources says planes have attacked vehicles but are refusing to comment on strike until film form returning planes is studied. I/v with correspondent Mike Williams in Belgrade. (Mng Rpt) KOSOVO - PEACE PLAN - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan briefs EU leaders on plan. Germany also working on plan calling for Yugoslav troops to leave Kosovo, return of refugees, and international peacekeeping force. Serbia not impressed with plan. I/v with Serbian ambassador to UN, Vladislav Jovanovic. (Mng Rpt) MALAYSIA - ANWAR SENTENCE - protests in Kuala Lumpur continue into night following sentencing of former Finance minister Anwar Ibrahim to 6 years' imprisonment. Correspondent Simon Ingram says Malaysian opposition willuse Anwar's conviction to foment anti-govt feeling in lead-up to next election. (Mng Rpt); Anwar's lawyer, Karpal Singh, says appeal will be filed first to Court of Appeal and if unsucessful, then to Federal Court - i/ved. (Mng Rpt)
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS NZ PAPERS FINANCE UPDATE FIRE SERVICE - RESTRUCTURING - Firefighters' Union says industrial dispute back to square one following announcement by chief exec Jean Martin that new committee will be set up to oversee restructuring and new project manager will be appointed to handle the change. Live i/v with union secretary Derek Best. Fire Service declines to be i/ved. PAKISTAN - MISSILE TEST - ignoring Western appeals to show restraint following India's weekend test, Pakistan test fires ling-range Ghauri missile. I/v with Islamabad correspondent Owen Bennett-Jones. (Mng Rpt) INDIA - GOVERNMENT CRUMBLES - govt under intense pressure to resign or face confidence vote after 2nd-biggest coalition partner withdraws support. I/v with correspondent Ranjan Gupta. (Mng Rpt) GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD - Greenpeace, Safe Food Campaign, and other environmentalists seeking judicial review of Health minister's decison to extend deadline for assessing modified food by one year. Live i/v with Stephanie Mills of Greenpeace.
0800 NEWS/WEATHER KOSOVO -REFUGEES KILLED- NATO sources confirm planes attacked vehicles on Prizren-Djakovica road but say it was military target. Serb media reports suggest attacks were on columns of refugees, one of them numbering more than 1,000 people. I/v with NATO spokesman Dr Jamie Sead. KOSOVO - AIR STRIKES - Dana Allin, military analyst at International Inst for Strategic Studies in London, says air attacks against Yugoslavia are a disaster, have done nothing to reverse President Milosevic's strategy of "ethnic cleansing". (Mng Rpt) INTERNATIONAL PAPERS MALAYSIA - ANWAR SENTENCE - i/v with Elias Hashim, cousin of Anwar Ibrahim, who lives in NZ, about Anwar. (Mng Rpt); conduct of trial questioned by NZ, Australia, and Britain, while New York-based Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights says conviction is "result of two decades of attacks on the once-independent judiciary". Live i/v re implications of trial for Malaysia with Dr James Putzel, director of development studies unit at London School of Economics. RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ACT - Environment minister Simon Upton amends significant part of draft Bill overhauling RMA. In face of growing controversy, he decides local body councils will conduct hearings but applicants will have recourse to independent commissioner if they choose. Local authorities still not happy. Live i/v with Louise Rosson, Local Government NZ, and Mr Upton.
0830 NEWS/WEATHER RUSSIAN MAFIA - NZ warned of new automatic teller machine scam. VISA alerts authorities in NZ and elsewhere of further extension of activities of Russian gangsters. (Mark Torley) DAIRY GIANT - Kiwi Dairies confirms it's appraoched 4 other companies about forming single giant co-op. Live i/v with Mark Masters, chair of Dairy Farmers of NZ, Fed Farmers division. DROUGHT - OTAGO farmers devastated bypredictions drought in region is set to continue. NIWA says it appears La Nina weather pattern will continue, meaning little rain will fall in Otago this Winter and Spring. (Eileen Cameron) MARAE RIGHTS - WOMEN - call by Māori Affairs minister Tau Henare to give Māori women speaking rights receives some support amid reservations. Activist Titewhai Harawira says Mr Henare should have made views public at Waitangi commemmorations last February, if he's serious. Comment also from lawyer Annette Sykes, writer Wasi Shortland and Mr Henare. (Tama Muru) SOUTH AFRICA - ELECTION - President Mandela formally declares June 2 as date for second all-race election. Live i/v with correspondent Anthony Johnson. FRUIT AND VEG REPORT with Jack Forsythe.