1Inland Revenue Minister Trevor De Cleene has called for Labour's controversial policy of compulsory superannuation to be resurrected. Interview with De Cleene.

2The Waitemata City Council has passed a bylaw that will ban smoking in some public places.

3A man has been arrested in Tauranga and charged with GST fraud totaling $130,000.

4Dairy farmers may earn an additional $1600 each year, thanks to an international decision to lift the minimum prices for their products.

5The United States and the Soviet Union have agreed on a date for a fourth Summit between United States President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader MIkhail Gorbachev. The two men will discuss the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and United States policy in Central America.

6British television networks BBC and ITN have handed all the video footage they had of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) funeral, at which two British soldiers were lynched, over to the police. The bodies of the two soldiers have been returned to England today. Both Catholics and Protestants have turned out in their thousands in Northern Ireland for memorial services soldiers. Their central message was peace between all people in Northern Ireland.

7The big boat New Zealand, the new challenger for the America's Cup, made its debut on the Waitemata Harbour today.

8Canberra talks between the Australia and New Zealand Defence Ministers have concentrated on the joint plan to build 12 frigates in Australian shipyards and impart them to New Zealand. However, New Zealand is concerned at the potential cost. How serious in the New Zealand Navy's need for new ships?

9The Waitemata City Council has passed a bylaw that will ban smoking in some public places. From next months, cigarettes will be unable to be sold to children under the age of sixteen. Studio interview with Waitemata City Councillor Jim Heyder.

10Worldwatch The United States and the Soviet Union have agreed on a date for a fourth Summit between United States President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader MIkhail Gorbachev. The two men will discuss the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and United States policy in Central America. But Moscow will also want to address the United States' planned Star Wars missile defence system, which has proved the stumbling block in previous treaty negotiations.

11Worldwatch The Kremlin has today announced that it will crackdown if demonstrations continue in Armenia and Azerbaijan.

12Worldwatch The Soviet Union has now committed to a withdrawal from Afghanistan, However, leaving poses almost as many problems as the invasion itself. The Mujaheddin could drive Afghanistan to civil war once the Soviets leave. A look at the situation in Afghanistan from the Mujaheddin rebels' perspective.

13Worldwatch There has been international condemnation today of the use of chemical weapons in the long-running Iran-Iraq War. The use of chemical weapons was banned by international agreement more than sixty years. Nevertheless, they are still being produced in up to twenty countries.

14Worldwatch The political bitterness and sectarian violence in Northern Ireland has been brought into sharp focus lately. But the trouble region also has to contend with some of the worst housing conditions in Europe as well as high unemployment rates. In such an environment, how are the youths of Belfast trying to forge a future?

15Worldwatch A Black South African family and a White family of Afrikaner heritage are living together, in defiance of South Africa's apartheid laws.