Morning Report for Friday 10 November 2017

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

6:00 AM.TPP APEC talks 'tough going' - Ardern, Winston Peters comments on legal action for first time, Gareth Morgan expels TOP candidate over cat comment, Refugee sex offender's release raises alarm bells Audio

6:00 AM.TPP APEC talks 'tough going' - Ardern, Winston Peters comments on legal action for first time, Gareth Morgan expels TOP candidate over cat comment, Refugee sex offender's release raises alarm bells. Audio

6:09 AM.The Lord of the Rings producer Barrie Osborne is warning a rewrite of the so-called Hobbit Law could mean big budget films due to be made in New Zealand will end up overseas. Mr Osborne is part of an… Read more Audio

6:22 AM.The family of a man killed at a motocross event wants sweeping changes to trackside safety to prevent other spectators being killed. Bruce Honore's daughter says trained staff should stop people from… Read more Audio

6:43 AM.Jacinda Adern says the Trans Pacific Partnership talks are going down to the wire. The trade ministers of the 11 countries involved, including New Zealand's David Parker, have been meeting on the… Read more Audio

6:45 AM.Media freedom advocates say Winston Peters' attempt to obtain the emails and phone records of two journalists is outrageous and will have a chilling effect on democracy if successful. The deputy Prime… Read more Audio

6:46 AM.The mining industry says it is shocked at plans to block new mining projects on conservation land. The new Government says New Zealand's scenic wilderness should not be dug up by bulldozers, but left… Read more Audio

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

7:09 AM.Jacinda Ardern says there is only a fifty-fifty chance of a Trans pacific trade deal being reached. New Zealand is trying to get the 10 other countries to drop the provisions that allow foreign… Read more Audio

7:14 AM.Reporters in Vietnam tried to ask Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters about his legal moves to find out who leaked his pension overpayments. He's served papers on four National MPs, their staff and a… Read more Audio

7:15 AM.A South American wave is descending on Wellington with Peruvian football fans arriving for tomorrow's World Cup playoff game against the All Whites. As RNZ reporter Emile Donovan found out, they're… Read more Audio

7:18 AM.A TOP party candidate was effectively expelled yesterday for questioning the party leader, Gareth Morgan. Jenny Condie was troubled by Mr Morgan's reaction to the death of Jacinda Ardern's cat… Read more Audio

7:29 AM.Somalis living in Wellington are worried a man with a long history of sexual offending is being allowed to walk free from a psychiatric hospital, with someone who knows him well calling him a ticking… Read more Audio

7:37 AM.Canada has had concerns about the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has hinted at his concerns over the TPP en route to the APEC Summit in Vietnam. Speaking in Hanoi… Read more Audio

7:52 AM.Tourism leaders are being urged to step up and train more of their own workforce in the face of likely cut backs in the flow of workers from overseas. Tourism has become the country's top foreign… Read more Audio

7:53 AM.A suspect in a police cold case involving the disappearance of a Te Puke mother 25 years ago is being named for the first time. Judith Yorke, aged 25, was last seen at an orchard shed in Matapihi… Read more Audio

7:54 AM.The remote and wind-swept beaches inside Farewell Spit, at the north-west tip of the South Island, have long been a whale death-trap. In February this year, it was the scene of mainland New Zealand's… Read more Audio

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

8:20 AM.Since the very first Parliament in 1854, MPs have begun proceedings with a daily prayer. But to everything there is a season - and with a new government comes a new approach; the Speaker - Labour's… Read more Audio

8:23 AM.It's been a shaky start for some of the new Labour Party ministers this week, with the Leader of the House Chris Hipkins admitting the first day of the 52nd Parliament, including the eventual election… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.It's been weeks of waiting, but tomorrow night, one of the most anticipated matches of the Rugby League World Cup kicks off. New Zealand takes on Tonga, hot on the heals of last weekend's Samoa versus… Read more Audio

8:34 AM.As the new Labour-led government begins its tenure in Parliament, we have been hearing a number of new MPs make their maiden speeches. Kiri Allan, Willow-Jean Prime and Greg O'Connor all shared… Read more Audio

8:38 AM.Campaigning is heating up a week out from the snap election in the kingdom. In August the King dissolved the parliament amid concerns the government was acting unconstitutionally and gathering power… Read more Audio

8:42 AM.Football World Cup qualifying fever has hit the streets of Wellington ahead of the All Whites v Peru match tomorrow night. But the NZ side first has to overcom a team ranked 112 places than it, if… Read more Audio

8:44 AM.As the new Labour-led government begins its tenure in Parliament, we have been hearing a number of new MPs make their maiden speeches. Kiri Allan, Willow-Jean Prime and Greg O'Connor all shared… Read more Audio

8:53 AM.The American actor Kevin Spacey is to be edited out of a completed Hollywood film six weeks before it's due to be released. It follows allegations of predatory sexual behaviour against him. His role… 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