First Up for Friday 3 June 2022

5:53 AM.New Zealand Rugby yesterday signed a 200 million dollar deal with US private equity firm Silver Lake, giving it control of its revenue-generating assets. At a special general meeting yesterday the 26… Read more Audio

5:48 AM.A 26 year old sheep and beef farmer from Taumarunui won the STIHL World Timbersports trophy in Vienna over the weekend, defeating world champion Jason Lentz in the final in front of a crowd of 3500… Read more Audio

5:42 AM.The Pasifika Festival has been a looked forward to event that had to deal with cancellations these past few years. Organisers are putting on Taste of Pasifika, which will cram the best bits of the… Read more Video, Audio

5:24 AM.It's a loooooong weekend - and if you're eating fruit.. pineapple will be high on the list. Nathan Rarere was joined from the markets by our Minister of Fruit and Veggies, Glenn Forsyth. Audio

5:14 AM.To Africa we go - where Russia is on the hunt for friends and toe-selling is trending in Zimbabwe. Nathan Rarere asked our correspondent Nabil Ahmed, who's in Ghana about the US deploying troops to… Read more Audio

5:09 AM.To the USA - where Nathan Rarere is joined from New York by our correspondent Anna Burns-Francis. Audio