Hamas
It's been described by one observer as a tsunami-sized event.
Overnight Palestinians threw out the only government they've ever
known and replaced it with the militant Islamic group Hamas. Hamas
will control the Palestinian parliament with 72 seats. The former
governing party Fatah could only muster 43. The landslide took even
Hamas officials by surprise. But it means trouble for the peace
process. Hamas is responsible for dozens of suicide bombings
against Israel and has been denounced by Washington as a terrorist
organisation. To make things more difficult the current Palestinian
president is a member of Fatah. He now has to deal with a party
opposed to his version of the peace process. We look at the
reaction from world leaders and cross live to Jerusalem to speak to
Arnon Regular, writer for Ha'aretz newspaper.
Charlize Theron
Theron's latest movie
North
Country
is inspired by a true story about a group of
women working in an iron mine in Northern Minnesota in 1989. The
men are not happy to have them taking the scarce jobs and their
treatment of the women is sometimes brutal. Susan Wood speaks to
Charlize and director Niki Caro about the movie, New Zealand and
living in the Hollywood bubble.
Shoe Sheriff
We often hear stories of the small person trying to resist the big
developer, and after putting up a valiant fight, eventually forced
to cave in. Some say it's inevitable, that progress will always get
its own way. But Rawdon Christie has a story where one man has
stood up to the big boys - and won. Peter Croad's better known as
the 'Shoe Sheriff' in Newmarket, Auckland. He's been running the
cobblers shop for over 25 years - his father ran it before him. The
shop's actually been in the same location, on Broadway, since the
war. So when the landowners told him it was time to go, he said
no.