Morning Report for Monday 8 October 2018

6:00 AM.'Pointless' heaters leaving state homes cold - tenants, Kavanaugh sworn in at US Supreme Court, Twenty killed in New York limo crash, Kiwi dollar puts further pressure on petrol price Audio

6:12 AM.About 147 million Brazilians are voting in a presidential election that's been described as the most polarising since the country returned to democracy three decades ago. The frontrunner was… Read more Audio

6:15 AM.Anti-water bottling campaigners are gobsmacked by revelations government officials were actively encouraging foreign bottlers to set up in New Zealand. New Zealand Trade and Enterprise has confirmed… Read more Audio

6:18 AM.Fears are growing over a missing Saudi journalist after Turkish officials suggested he was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Jahmahl Khashoggi is a critic of the Saudi Crown Prince… Read more Audio

6:20 AM.An early look at the day's business news, and how markets will start the week.  Audio

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

6:42 AM.State house tenants are resorting to bubble-wrapping windows and using ovens to heat their homes because they say the panel heaters installed by the landlord simply aren't suitable. Housing New… Read more Audio

6:45 AM.Leading international climate scientists will today outline whether they think global temperatures can be kept from rising by more than 1.5 degrees Celcius this century. Many low-lying countries say… Read more Audio

7:06 AM.All Black flanker Sam Cane's season is over after he fractured his next in yesterday's thrilling 32-30 win over the Springboks in Pretoria. Cane will undergo surgery today and will remain in South… Read more Audio

7:10 AM.State house tenants are resorting to bubble-wrapping windows and using ovens to heat their homes because they say the panel heaters installed by the landlord simply aren't suitable. The manufacturer… Read more Audio

7:14 AM.Brett Kavanaugh has been sworn in as a United States Supreme Court justice after being confirmed in the tightest vote in the Senate in more than a century. His appointment cements conservative control… Read more Audio

7:17 AM.Twenty people have been killed in a limousine crash in Schoharie (sko-hary) County in upstate New York. The crash happened outside the Apple Barrel Country Store - state police confirmed the death… Read more Audio

7:23 AM.The gvernment is being urged to consider dropping charges on petrol to prevent the economy from stalling. The Kiwi dollar is at a 30-month low and is adding to pressure on fuel costs. Derek Rankin is… Read more Audio

7:26 AM.Headlines over the weekend have not been kind to the leader of the National Party. Some examples: "Is Simon Bridges a dead man walking?" and "Simon Bridges in the last chance saloon" and "Bridges… Read more Audio

7:38 AM.Police are still searching for the person responsible for a shooting in Lower Hutt in the early hours of Sunday morning. A 21-year-old was was shot at from a passing vehicle in Stokes Valley. The… Read more Audio

7:42 AM.The American transport consultant behind Wellington's new bus network, Jarrett Walker, blames the capital's bus chaos on the implementation not the design. Bus passengers have frequently complained… Read more Audio

7:44 AM.The government of Nauru has ordered that Médecins Sans Frontières - or Doctors Without Borders - stop working in the country, effective immediately. The charity has been providing medical services to… Read more Video, Audio

7:44 AM.Scientists begin tests this week in Northland's Waipoua Forest to see how close kauri die-back has crept to Tane Mahuta. The pathogen is already killing trees within a hundred metres of Tane and other… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.Musical comedy duo the Topp Twins will celebrate their new status as dames at a ceremony in Auckland on Monday. Lynda and Jools Topp were recognised in the Queens Birthday Honours for their… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.The All Blacks coach Steve Hansen says Sam Cane will make a full recovery from a broken neck and he expects the flanker to be fighting for a place at next year's World Cup. Audio

8:10 AM.The leading international body of climate change researchers will today outline whether they think global temperatures can be kept from rising by more than 1.5 degrees this century. The report from… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.The Minister of Defence, Ron Mark is pinning his hopes on there being a final peace settlement with North Korea soon, so the remains of the only New Zealand serviceman to die in the Korean War whose… Read more Audio

8:23 AM.Brett Kavanaugh has been sworn in as a US Supreme Court judge after one of the most controversial appointment debates in the court's history. The 50 to 48 vote in the Senate was the closest in more… Read more Audio

8:26 AM.Former Prime Ministers Sir John Key and Helen Clark are pouring cold water on the hopes of those who'd love them to step up and sort out Auckland. Both say there's no way they'll put their hands up… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

8:36 AM.A Chinese firm has made an unsolicited four-hundred-million-dollar bid to pay for and build a four-lane toll road north of Auckland. The road would link the Whangaparoa Peninsula, north of Auckland… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Structural racism and colonialism are to blame for so many Māori ending up in prison, survey organisers and campaign organisation ActionStation says.

ActionStation and Otago University surveyed 900… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.Parents are signing up children younger than 10 years old at adult gyms to get them active. Exercise New Zealand says it's a new and positive trend. Audio

8:55 AM.Auckland's annual K-Pop competition is so popular it has to hold auditions to narrow down the number of entrants. The music and dance of K-Pop, or Korean Pop, is growing worldwide - and New Zealand's… Read more Audio