TV3 NEWS. 19/05/2004

Petrol prices are at an all-time high and the effects are starting to flow throughout the country, with the public having to pick up all the additional cost. Don Naidoo (Wellington Taxi Driver); Tony Friedlander (Road Transport Forum); voxpop; David Russell (Consumers' Institute).

A Christchurch Polytech course called CoolIT, which has no teachers and no exams has been heavily criticised. Dean Snelling (Christchurch Polytechnic Acting CEO); Gerry Brownlee (Deputy National Leader); Winston Peters (NZ First Leader); Steve Maharey (Tertiary Education Minister).

Details of the design of the new Tomb of the Unknown warrior has been unveiled.

India is in political turmoil tonight after the leader of the Congress Party, Sonia Gandhi, turned down the post. Sonia Gandhi (Congress Leader).

Northland Health has launched an incentive programme offering holidays to Fiji if nurses take only two sick days off work each year. But should sick nurses be working? Mark Furey (PSA Northland); Glenda Alexander (Nurses' Organisation); Jane Holden (Surgical Services General Manager).

People who sit on juries are going to be paid more.

A massive military operation by Israel in the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza has been condemned across the world.

The court-martial of the first US soldier to face charges over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners has just begun in Baghdad. Reaction from his home town.

The Christchurch City Council is facing a ratepayer revolt over its plans to charge rural ratepayers the same as suburban property owners. John Hague (Rural Ratepayer); Luke Pickering (Rural Ratepayer); Jeff Barnes (Christchurch City Council).