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0630 News/Weather/Māori News
0640 Report from our Mana News team
0645 Pacific Regional News : Ex RNZ International
0650 Business and financial news. David Jones.
0700 NEWS Defence Force says soldiers concerned about how much they're paid for peacekeeping duties should remember they signed up knowing they could serve in a war zone. (Peter Fowler) Live i/v with Defence minister Warren Cooper about payment of peacekeeping forces and how much of UN payment goes to government. RNZAF aircraft and helicopters rescue 23 fishermen off blazing Taiwanese vessel near Fiji. (Adam Hollingworth) I/v with NZ ambassador to South Korea. Peter Kennedy, about South Koreans' reaction to death of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung. Live i/v with chair of NZ-Korea Business Cl. Bill Dolan. about potential effects of Kim II Sung's death on NZ's trade links with north Asia. Live i/v with Rev Don Borrie. chair of NZ-Democratic Republic of Korea Society. about Kim II Sung. Labour Party Māori senior vice president Dovert Samuels gives assurance he and another council member Shane Te Pou have no intention of leaving party. (Kathryn Street) Germany loses to Bulgaria in soccer World Cup major upset. Live i/v with former NZ illegible coach. John Adshead.
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORT Good Health Wanganui to check if money available to search back before 1989 for case of patients who may have been misdiagnosed by hospital. Cief exec Ron Janes says patients discovered so far will start receiving treatment this week. (Peter Fowler) Live i/v with Les Maxwell. School Trustees Assn.. about looming primary teachers' strike and schools' legal responsibilities to staff and pupils. AK artificial reproduction clinic. Fertility Associates, prepared to challenge Human Rights Act over right to refuse treatment to some people. (Alexia Russell) ASPAC/PAPERS
0800 NEWS/WEATHER Live i/v with MP David Lange who's angry about limited ACC options for Wanganui medical misadventure victims. Live i/v with Privacy Commissioner Bruce Slane about new privacy rules being proposed for Government Computer Service. Film Commission decided to stop selling feature films overseas and concentrate on selling NZ film industry as whole in new markets like Asia. Former Commission chair Bill Sheat critical of move. (Adam Hollingworth) Mountaineer Rob Hall climbs K2. world's second highest mountain. first NZer to do it. (Peter Fowler) Partial sale of WN's Capital Power gets underway this week. (David Hargreaves) Conservation group Power For Our Future withdraws support for Wholesale Electricity Market Development Group. (David Hargreaves)
0825 REG/NEWS/SPORT Speaker of the House Peter Tapsell says it's inevitable the Māori race will be assimilated and disappear. He's i/ved about his comments: live i/v with Dr Ranginui Walker about Mr Tapsell's comments. Live i/v with PPTA Principals' Cl chair. Karin Sewell. about issues that will be discussed at this week's PPTA conference. KIM HILL PREVIEW/COMMENT Live i/v with Washington correspondent Connie Lawn about Republicans' condemnation of President Clinton for sending condolences to North Korea on death of Kim II Sung.