0600 NEWS/SPORTS/WEATHER
0609 NZ NEWSPAPERS
0611 Māori NEWS
0616 NEWS STORY: ANSETT AIR CRASH - Court of Appeal rules police can have access to cockpit voice recorder from 1995 crash. Ruling disappoints Airline Pilots' Assn, speculation it may take case to Privy Council. (Clare Pasley)
0621 RURAL NEWS
0626 NEWS STORY: BOUGAINVILLE rebels say they'll release today Papua New Guinea politician who's keen held hostage. John Momis taken captive at election rally earlier this month. I/v with RNZI's Bruce Hill. (Mng Rpt)
0630 NEWS/WEATHER
0636 NEWS STORY: POWER PRICE - pressure mounting on govt to keep South Island electricity price differential. Southern MPs, power companies, and local bodies joining forces to fight move to scrap it. At least one power company has promised not to pass on increase to customers if differential goes. Comment from CH city councillot Margret Murray, Nelson mayor Philip Woollaston, Tasman Energy chair Ian Kearney. (Corinne Ambler)
0640 OVERSEAS NEWSPAPERS
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0651 BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL NEWS: AUSTRALIA - NZer Graeme Hart emerges as mmystery buyer of major stake in trouble food company Burns Philp. (Gyles Beckford) APPLEFIELDS expects to start trading in black as property developments come on market, posts after tax loss of $5.5 million, almost 3 times that of previous year. (Gyles Beckford) FINANCE/MARKETS ART OF TAURANGA to get major upgrade with development of container facilities. Chief exec Jon Maysonsays new facility will boost cargo volumes. NEW ZEALAND POST gets Commerce Commission go-ahead to buy Freightways courier business, provided it sells assets. (Gyles Beckford) AIR NZ CATERING service bought by US-based SC International Services. (Bronwen Evans) RUPERT MURDOCH's News Corporation sells satellite-television assets in US to gorup controlled by cable television operators, following collapse of planned deal to buy into small US satellite company Echoster. Is this the end of Murdoch's dream to ring world with satellites beaming pay television. Comment from Raymond Snoddie, "Financial Times". McDONALDS under attack in US home market, where attempt to fight back by cutting prices has flopped. (BBC) BUSINESS BRIEFS
0700 INTRO/NEWS TOBACCO/ALCOHOL ABUSE - new report by economist Brian Easton claims cost of abuse costs NZ more than $36 billion a year. (Mark Henderson); Beer Wine and Spirits Council says report is huge exaggeration and ignore health benefits of alcohol. Live i/v with exec director Hamish Riach and Brian Easton. ANSETT AIR CRASH - Court of Appeal ruling giving police access to cockpit voice recorder form 1995 crash angers pilots. Some warn pilots may interfere with so-called black boxes to prevent them recording cockpit conversations. I/v with Peter Quaintmere, International Airline Pilots' Assn. (Mng Rpt) SHARK ATTACK - CH woman Elizabeth Rogers attacked by shark off Fiji, loses part of leg. Husband applies makeshift tourniquet. Surgeons at AK's Middlemore Hospita have operated to try to save the leg. Live i/v with Gerard Lencen, group manager of surgical services.
0730 NEWS/WEATHER/SPORTS FINANCE UPDATE POWER PRICE - South Island local authorities to meet next week to discuss how they can unite to fight possible removal of price differential. Live i/v with David Close, chair of CH City Council's strategy ahd resources committee, and DN mayor Sukhi Turner. NORTHERN IRELAND - PM Tony Blair rules out all talks with Sinn Fein following shooting of 2 police officers by IRA gunmen. Som eMPs believe IRA trying to provoke Loyalist paramilitaries into retaliatory action. (Keith Chalkley) SEX ATTACK - South AK police warn parents to be on lookout for man who sexually attacked two 6 year old and a 9 year old girls in daylight in secluded area of Lendon. Live i/v with Det Sgt Dave Glossop. BUDGET - business leaders want Treasurer Winston Peters to restore flagging economic confidence. Comment from Finance minister Bill Birch, Barry Hellberg, Retail Merchants Association, investment analyst Don Turkington, and Roger Kerr, Business Round Table. (Bronwen Evans) EUROPEAN UNION - MONETARY UNION - EU leaders approve controversial budget stability pact and resolution on boosting employment and growth, putting back on trach the drive for single currency. I/v with BBC diplomatic correspondent Barnaby Mason. (Mng Rpt)
0800 NEWS/WEATHER TOBACCO/ALCOHOL ABUSE - report author Brian Easton calls for tougher penalties for those who drink and commit crimes, greater liability for those who provide alcohol at social functions and end to transTasman duty free liquor allowance. What's the likely fate of the report? Live i/v with Gillian Durham, director general of Public Health. ANSETT AIR CRASH - Transport Accident Investigation Commission chief exec John Briton says Appeal Court ruling sets good precedent for future inquiries. He's i/ved re why Commission sees cockpit voice recorder as so important. (Mng Rpt) INTERNATIONAL PAPERS COALITION GOVT partners to hold joint caucus meeting against backdrop of illegible popularity in polls and unresolved tensions about NZ First MP Tuku Morgan. Both parties say they're more interested in hearing about next week's Budget. Comment from John Delamere, Wyatt Creech, John Carter, and Ron Mark. (Stephen Harris) CAMBODIA - KHMER ROUGE LEADER Pol Pot on the run from northern Cambodia after most of remaining fighters desert him. Authorities celebrating what they regard as the end of the Khmer Rouge. Live i/v with VUW law lecturer Andrew Ladley, who's spent time in Cambodia with UN.
0830 NEWS/SPORTS FISHING PROTEST - fishermen in deep Bouth angry at Fisheries Ministry cost-recovery charges which they say leave some operators facing bankruptcy. Many refusing to pay charges and have had licences suspended, plan to catch fish as amateurs and give them away as protest. Live i/v with paua fisherman Paul Young, chair of Abalone Divers of NZ Southern Ltd;live i/v with Fishing Industry Board deputy chief exec Alistair McFarlane. TELEVISION SETS - Commerce ministry wants to boost manufacturing standards to make sets safer. Move coincides with investigation into fire in Huntly which killed 3 year old child. Investigators found Samsung television set probably started fire, but any brand could have been reponsible. (Karen Gregory-Hunt) INTERNET GAMBLING - Casino Control Authority wants to set up internet casinos and believes idea has support of many politicians. Gamblers would be able to call up Internet sites from home computers and use credit cards to place bets on versions of casino games. Live i/v with chair of NZ Internet Society Jim Higgins. RUPERT MURDOCH suffers set-back in attempt to ring world with satellites beaming pay television as bid to buy into small US satellite company falls through. What does that mean for global pay-television plans? Live i/v with Wayne Hope, ATI Communications lecturer. BRITAIN - CONSERVATIVE LEADERSHIP - 3 candidates left in race - William Hague, John Redwood, and Kenneth Clark. What are the chances of voting going to 3rd round? Live i/v with correspondent Des Fahy.