Lately for Wednesday 2 March 2022

Photo: RNZ Andrew Robertson

10:18 Mandate protest 

Day 23 of the anti-mandate protest near Parliament was probably the most dramatic yet. Hundreds of police spent the day clearing the protest and dozens of arrest were made. Chris Roberts lives near Parliament overlooking the protest site. He's been up since 6am watching the days events unfold. 

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10:24 Ukraine

It's almost a week since Russia invaded Ukraine and it's feared the death toll among civilians and military personnel will continue to climb. The eastern city of Kharkiv has been hit hard by Russian artillery and a huge military convoy is bearing down on the capital, Kyiv. CNN's Correspondent in Moscow, Vasco Cotovio has the latest.
 

10:32 Great white shark targets teen surfer

A great white shark targeted a 14 year old surfer in the Bay of Plenty earlier this week and it's thought that it was only because he made a sudden turn of his board that potential tragedy was avoided. The boy was surfing off Matakana island on Monday when the shark launched itself out of the water, just missing him. The boy's father and a friend were surfing with him and the friend who witnessed the incident, described the shark as a "3.5 metre monster out for a kill." It comes off the back of other recent sightings of great whites in the Bay of Plenty.  Dr Riley Elliot is a shark scientist who last year put out a warning about the increase in great white sightings in the Bay of Plenty. 
 

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10:40 Media Watch