Morning Report for Friday 9 March 2018

6:00 AM.Church pressures council to act over risk of building collapse; NZ to sign CPTPP in Chile; Trump expected to soften on tariffs plan; 11 child sex offenders on one street, Corrections confirms; shallow… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:39 AM.An Auckland engineer is urging city officials to act quickly to ensure a derelict church hall is made safe and not a risk to the public. The historic hall in Mt Eden is owned by the Presybterian… Read more Audio

6:45 AM.Unicef says broken communication lines in Vanuatu mean the extent of the damage wrought by Cyclone Hola on the islands of Malekula, Ambrym and Ambae remains unknown. The head of Unicef in Vanuatu says… Read more Audio

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

7:11 AM.A church has called for the immediate evacuation of neighbours around a large and dangerous old hall it owns in Mt Eden and for the footpath and road next to it to be closed. Audio

7:36 AM.Another magnitude 7-plus earthquake has hit Papua New Guinea. The 7.1 quake struck 135 km east of Rabaul. Ten days ago a magnitude 7.5 quake struck the rugged highlands of the country. RNZ Pacific's… Read more Audio

7:37 AM.The police are urging the family of a group of teenagers suspected of killing a Flaxmere man to dob them in, in order to keep the rest of the community safe. Forty-year-old Kelly Alex Donner died of… Read more Audio

7:49 AM.Jacinda Ardern has spent the week on a whirlwind Pacific Mission trip, stopping in Samoa, Niue, Tonga and the Cook Islands. It was her first trip to the Pacific as Prime Minister and she took the… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.The 2018 Auckland Arts Festival is kicking off, and RNZ reviewer Justin Gregory is eagerly anticipating several shows over the weekend. He tells Susie Ferguson what he's most looking forward to. Audio

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

8:22 AM.The first national commemoration of the New Zealand Wars takes place this weekend in the Bay of Islands. It's a special occasion for a group of Otorohanga High School students who played a pivotal… Read more Audio

8:44 AM.An ambitious mission to lower two sub-seafloor observatories into the Hikurangi subduction zone gets underway next week. The Hikurangi subduction zone off the east coast is New Zealand's largest… Read more Audio

8:48 AM.A report suggests Uber's business model in Australia would collapse if its drivers were paid even the minimum wage. The research by the Centre for Future Work at the Australia Institute think tank… Read more Audio

8:52 AM.China's president Xi Jinping is this weekend expected to get National People's Congress approval to change to the country's constitution to allow him to remain in power indefinitely. Currently there… Read more Audio

8:55 AM.It was the high point of Sir John Walker's record breaking career and the picture of the long haired runner, both hands reaching high as he crossed the line to win gold, flashed around the world's… Read more Audio