First Up for Wednesday 31 August 2022

5:49 AM.The New Zealand charity Kiwi Kare is working in Ukraine to help locals - and they're after volunteers to help them. Tenby Powell, the former Mayor of Tauranga is in the war zone - he's the founder of… Read more Audio

5:44 AM.Pakistan's government says early estimates of the flood devastation are to the tune of at least 16 billion dollars One-third of the country has been completely submerged by the historic deluge. Roads… Read more Audio

5:35 AM.A network of over a thousand health professionals have released a set of guidelines to try and achieve consistency across the country for how skin cancer is treated. With more than 350 New Zealanders… Read more Audio

5:23 AM.This week on TradeMe Sir John Key's old house is up for sale - the Parnell mansion last sold for nearly 24 million dollars .. so good luck with mortgage repayments on this. Also up for grabs is a… Read more Audio

5:13 AM.To Australia now where a 30-year-old murder mystery has come to an end with a guilty verdict. Joining Nathan Rarere from Brisbane is our correspondent Pam Corkery. Audio

5:08 AM.To the Middle-East now, where Nathan Rarere was joined from Doha by our correspondent Alex Baird. Audio