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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 WILD HORSES - govt announces shooting of up to 300 Kaimanawa horses won't proceed. Intense pressure on govt produced reprieve although Conservation minister Simon Upton held out against it until end. Comment from him, PM Jim Bolger, and Labour leader Helen Clark. (Janice Rodenburg); Kiri Coughlan reports from the Central Plateau as news reaches horse-lovers who'd gathered to oppose cull; live i/v with Political editor Karen Fisher.
POLLS - latest Colmar-Brunton shows Labour down again to 15% while Christian Coalition breaks 5% threshold. CM Research poll has different figures. Live i/v with Political editor Karen Fisher about results and, the backdown on wild horse cull.
WILD HORSES - live i/v with Dr Ian Shearer, patron of International League for the Protection of Horses, who's campaigned to save Kaimanawa horses.
SPRINKLERS - renewed calls to make sprinkler systems complsory in resthomes treated with scepticism by Building Industry Authority. Calls follow deaths of 2 elderly residents of Feilding resthome fire. Comment from Authority's John Hunt, and Catherine Beard, Insurance Council. (Helen Matterson) illegible
ALI'IVA'A - family still angry at police over investigation into 12 year old's death in 1992. Body was found half naked in a ditch in a Mt Roskill park and police concluded she had drowned. Police apologise to family after admitting conclusion was wrong, now treating case as suspicious and possibly a homicide. Comment from local MP Phil Goff and Agnes' sister Annie. (Kent Caddick); live i/v with Asst Police Commissioner Brion Duncan.
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS MāORI LAND - govt plans to introduce Māori Reserved land Amdt Bill later this month, enidng fixed rents under perpetual leases, and plans to spend more than $40 million in compensation to owners and lessees. Mixed response from lessess in areas of Taranaki, inner city WN, Nelson, and West Coast. Comment from Fedn of Māori Authorities spokesperson Paul Morgan, Greymouth councillor Neil Ellery, Nelson-Motueka Combined Leasees Assn spokesperson Seddon Marshall and rural valuer John Larmer. (Claire Silvester); live i/v with Lyn Williams, spokesperson for West Coast Lessees' Assn; live i/v with Māori Affairs minister John Luxton.
OLYMPICS - Centenary Games over, cost $US1.7 billion to stage and were first to be entirely privately financed. Commercialisation offended some, including head of International Olympic Committee, Juan Antonio Samaranche. A look back at the Games from NZ's point of view. (Mark Crysell)
BOSNIAN - European Union says it's pressing on with talks over divided city of Mostar as it tries to reconcile Croats and Muslims over issue of municipal control of city. Sticking point is Bosnian Croat boyucott of newly elected city council in which Muslims have majority. (BBC)
FINANCE - money markets latest with David Jones.
0800 NEWS/WEATHER WILD HORSES - what effect will reprieve for Kaimanawa herd have on ecology of area? Live i/v with plant ecologist Prof Allen Mark.
AGNES ALI'IVA'A - live i/v with AK police reporter Glenda Wakeham, who worked on the story when Agnes' body found in 1992. PAPERS/ASPAC HEADLINES MāORI LAND - over 2,200 leases affected by new legislation. In value, half are held by farmers in Taranaki while remainder mainly urbanresidential properties as well as some commercial or industrial sites in various parts of country. Live i/v with Paul Morgan, deputy chair of Fedn of Māori Authorities.
N.Z. FILM COMPANY Isambard Productions attracting top international talent after signing $120 million 12 picture deal. "The Climb", starring English actor John Hurt already underway in Auckland. Comment from France-based director Bob Swaim and Isambard head Tom Parkinson. (Karlum Lattimore)
CANNABIS - AK police uncover one of most sophisticted growing operations they've seen, believe there are dozens more around country. Comment from deputy leader of Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party, Mike Finlayson. (Andrew Fleming)
0830 NEWS/SPORTS TERRORISM - President Clinton signs Bill to punish foreign companies that invest in oil and gas projects in Iran or Libya. New law vehemently opposed by European govts. I/v with "Guardian" correspondent Martin Walker. (Mng Rpt) MEAT COMPANY price war, coupled with falling sheep and cattle numbers, means lambs again being transported across Cook Strait as companies battle for stock. North Island farmers currently getting up to 20% more for stock than South Islanders. Live i/v with Rurals reporter Kevin Ikin. SYDNEY OLYMPICS representatives have been looking and learning in Atlanta. What will be done differently? I/v with Richard Palfreyman, media director Sydney 2000 organising committee. (Mng Rpt) OLYMPICS - Atlanta least successful Games for Britain since Hlesinki in 1952. Moves for radical shake-up in entire approach to Olympic sport. (Keith Chalkley) EGYPTIAN COURT upholds Islamic ruling that happily married university professor must divorce his wife because he's been found to have renounced Islam. Decisior seen as major blow to Mubarak administration which wants Egypt to avoid being An as a fundamentalist state. I/v with Cairo journalist, NZer Len McGrane.