First Up for Tuesday 16 August 2022

5:49 AM.Politics now and the Labour caucus is due to meet this week to deal with the allegations of bullying levelled by Hamilton West MP Gaurav Sharma against his own party. As Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern… Read more Audio

5:44 AM.The University of Auckland say their latest trial is likely to have a direct impact on future treatment of tinnitus. The results were positive, with the majority of trialists in citing improvements in… Read more Audio

5:35 AM.The upper South Island is on high alert this morning with some areas forecast to receive more than 500mm of rain over the next couple of days. There's an orange rain warning in force for Buller… Read more Audio

5:27 AM.We head to Taranaki now and Nick Truebridge spoke with Local Democracy Reporting Programme journalist Craig Ashworth who's been looking at how the fight is shaping up for the new Maori seats at… Read more Audio

5:25 AM.A new documentary series about young queer New Zealanders with disabilities will start streaming today on AttitudeLive.com and via Tahi. Justin Scott is one of the producers of the series called… Read more Audio

5:16 AM.To Europe now, where it's still hot - wildfires are continuing to cause destruction on a massive scale and Russian tourists are rushing to apply for visas as calls grow to ban them from the EU… Read more Audio

5:06 AM.To the UK now where weeks of hot weather are set to break into thunderstorms but first - there are calls for a freeze of a non-weather kind. Our correspondent Ellie Jay with us. Audio