1Capital Punishment Supporters of capital punishment believe it encourages others not to commit the same crimes. The hanging in malaysia of two Australian drug traffickers focused attention in the question of whether taking another human life is a seemly sort of penalty in a civilised society. Murder is the ultimate crime, but is the execution of a human being by the State any less appalling? How can murder be justified as a penalty for murder? Some argue that a community that allows capital punishment holds life in no greater respect than those it convicts for murder. However, others believe that capital punishment must be carried out to make its threat effective and that the punishment must fit the crime. Discussion and viewer talkback with Barry Wilson, the Vice President of the Auckland Council for Civil Liberties.

2Deputy Prime Minister and Attorney General Geoffrey Palmer has responded to the widespread criticism the Government is receiving over the impending release of French agents Alain Mafart and Dominique Prieur.

3London police have raided the home of pop star Boy George about his alleged use of heroin.

4A brief listing of the New Zealand news headlines.

5The first colour television pictures taken inside the sunken luxury liner Titanic have been promised by an American expedition which leaves tomorrow.

6Relations between Australia and Malaysia have rapidly cooled as a result of the execution in Malaysia of Australian drug traffickers Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers. The debate over capital punishment is also raging in the United States. A report looking into how executions are carried out in the United States and at the cases of two mass murderers. One of them, Ted Bundy, has been on death row for seven years.

7Capital Punishment Supporters of capital punishment believe it encourages others not to commit the same crimes. The hanging in malaysia of two Australian drug traffickers focused attention in the question of whether taking another human life is a seemly sort of penalty in a civilised society. Murder is the ultimate crime, but is the execution of a human being by the State any less appalling? How can murder be justified as a penalty for murder? Some argue that a community that allows capital punishment holds life in no greater respect than those it convicts for murder. However, others believe that capital punishment must be carried out to make its threat effective and that the punishment must fit the crime. Discussion and viewer talkback with Barry Wilson, the Vice President of the Auckland Council for Civil Liberties.

8A brief listing of the national and international news headlines.

9Capital Punishment Supporters of capital punishment believe it encourages others not to commit the same crimes. The hanging in malaysia of two Australian drug traffickers focused attention in the question of whether taking another human life is a seemly sort of penalty in a civilised society. Murder is the ultimate crime, but is the execution of a human being by the State any less appalling? How can murder be justified as a penalty for murder? Some argue that a community that allows capital punishment holds life in no greater respect than those it convicts for murder. However, others believe that capital punishment must be carried out to make its threat effective and that the punishment must fit the crime. Discussion and viewer talkback with Barry Wilson, the Vice President of the Auckland Council for Civil Liberties.

10A brief listing of the New Zealand news headlines.

11The United States Justice Department and United States Customs Department have launched a major investigation into allegations that Israel smuggled American technology to build cluster bombs.

12The former head of Israel's Internal Security Service has officially confessed that he ordered the killing of two Palestinians held for the bombing of a bus in 1984.

13Twenty-five office of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) in Jordan have been ordered to close down and Yasser Arafat's deputy has been given 48 hours to leave the country. The action is a reprisal by the Jordanian Government to a PLO statement last month which linked Jordan with Israeli and American actions against the Palestinian Revolution.

14In Moscow, French President Francois MItterrand is reviewing international affairs with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. However, he denies that he is acting as a go-between for Gorbachev and United States President Ronald Reagan.

15South African President PW Botha and anti apartheid activist Bishop Desmond Tutu are to have another urgent meeting to discuss the state of emergency in South Africa. British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey has rescheduled his visit to South Africa, following an indication from President PW Botha that he is prepared to meet with him.

16A look at the latest work from New York artist Andy Warhol in a new exhibition in London. Is he a creative genius or a peddler of overpriced rubbish?