Late Edition

Australasia takes Japan to the world court over whaling; making a film about the Russian punk band Pussy Riot and in Dateline Pacific why some of the region's best female farmers are in Jamaica. Audio

A man shot dead during a gun fight with police was a former soldier; Canada's prime minister describes a freight-train crash site as a "war zone" and in Dateline Pacific the environmental threat posed… Read more Audio

The Maori language in the West Island, mapping Tuatara DNA and in Dateline Pacific, why Samoa can treat more of it's seriously ill at home. Audio

Calls for compensation for people caught up in the Mururoa atomic tests; a kiwi community project gets international recognition; and in Dateline Pacific, what Solomon Islands need after the… Read more Audio

Mr Dotcom goes to Parliament and having got into debt building a new stadium, Dunedin City loses more selling the old one. Audio

Pita Sharples resigns as co-leader of the Maori Party; music legend Bill Sevesi looks back on his life; and in Dateline Pacific newly declassified documents show nuclear fallout in Tahiti is far worse… Read more Audio

In the programme tonight, a call for more resources to fight the increasingly extreme crime of child sex abuse; both the mens and womens rugby sevens sides triumph in Moscow; and in Dateline Pacific… Read more Audio

A kiwi basketballer breaks into the big time in the US, police are not convinced of new evidence surrounding David Bain, and in Dateline Pacific, Fiji's first capital becomes a world heritage area. Audio

In the programme tonight, second time round for Australia's new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, tracing Phar Lapp's DNA, and in Dateline Pacific there are calls for a united front on seabed mining. Audio

NZ Post cuts its workforce; Australia has a new Prime Minister; US announces new measures to reduce greenhouse gas emmissions. In Dateline Pacific, a call in the Cook Islands for a Royal Commission of… Read more Audio

Russia and the US enjoy a cold war flashback over a missing US security employee, Two hundred years since the first pakeha settlement in New Zealand, and in dateline guaranteed seats for women in… Read more Audio

Will the government get enough votes to allow the GCSB to spy on New Zealand? and the Wellington city council looks at the new measures to get beggars off the streets. Audio