Morning Report for Friday 16 June 2017

6:00 AM.London fire death toll has risen to 17, Call to suspend cladding certification following London fire, New emails show how Kiwirail caved in to Minister's pressure, Lorde's second album Melodrama… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.A update from the team at RNZ sport. Audio

6:17 AM."I'm an old man now" Liam Messam has confirmed that Saturday night's game against the British and Irish Lions will be his final match in the Maori All Blacks jersey. He talked to RNZ Sport's Joe… Read more Audio

6:20 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

6:22 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

6:41 AM.A building consultant says the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment is not giving clear guidelines on the safe design and installation of aluminium panels. Audio

6:47 AM.The Prime Minister Bill English has told Cook Islands leaders that their 60,000 citizens who call New Zealand home make the country a different place and a better place. Cook Islands was the first… Read more Audio

6:49 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

7:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

7:18 AM.In the wake of the fatal tower fire in London an Auckland building consultant is demanding the Government suspend certification of a type of cladding used in this country. Audio

7:35 AM.Police have located a car involved in an abduction in Newmarket on Tuesday morning. A woman who was forced into the car is still missing. Audio

7:42 AM.The strength of the economy has been called into question, following a second quarter of soft growth. Audio

7:43 AM.It's a bumper weekend of rugby action in New Zealand with three international test matches taking place around the country as the British and Irish Lions series rolls on. Audio

7:48 AM.More people are swapping the nine to five office job for something a bit more flexible.According to figures from Statistics New Zealand, more people are working from home and the number of people in… Read more Audio

7:53 AM.Todd Niall joins us from Bermuda to preview Sunday's America's Cup race against defenders Oracle Team USA Audio

7:56 AM.A ship bound for New Zealand with 54 thousand tonnes of phosphate will have to stay in South Africa while activists sue for compensation. The Chief Executive of Ballance Agri-Nutrients Mark Wynne says… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

8:10 AM.New Zealand building experts say there's little chance of a Grenfell Towers type disaster happening here, as our regulations significantly reduce the risk of such fires. Kerry Gregory is the Deputy… Read more Audio

8:25 AM.A Waikato doctor says about half the young Maori children being admitted to hospital are returning within six months of being sent home. Audio

8:28 AM.RNZ's rugby reporter Joe Porter is in Rotorua ahead of the match between the New Zealand Maori and the Lions. He said an intense match is expected. Audio

8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

8:38 AM.One of the country's leading psychiatrists who assessed Akshay Chand before he was released on bail and murdered Christy Marceau has told an inquest Chand is extraordinarily deceptive. Audio

8:45 AM.It's being called an Apollo Walk by the Conservation Minister and impossible by others. Predator Free 2050 aims to rid the country of rats cats, stoats ferrets and possums in the next 34 years, and… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.Researchers studying how paua have been impacted by the Kaikoura earthquake say it's not yet clear how long it will take the species to recover. Last year the government announced a two million dollar… Read more Audio

8:53 AM.New Zealand's favourite sports could die off if they don't connect better with the growing Asian community. Audio

8:55 AM.A Dunedin artist and digital media designer brings a few more hours of sunlight to Dunedin with the help of digital technology, NASA and the Radebeul Observatory in Dresden, Germany. An image of the… Read more Audio

8:56 AM.It's Friday so we cross the ditch to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh. Audio