Morning Report for Monday 24 May 2021

6:08 AM.New research shows a strong link between nitrates in drinking water and babies being born underweight or prematurely.

The Otago University analysis is of major overseas studies including one… Read more Audio

6:20 AM.A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio

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

6:37 AM.At least thirteen people have been killed after a cable car fell on a mountain near Lake Maggiore in northern Italy.

Two children are seriously injured after the accident, which happened on a service… Read more Audio

6:41 AM.The Child Poverty Action Group is questioning why the government isn't acting faster to remove a benefit sanction that isn't even being enforced.

Parents on the benefit have to meet several social… Read more Audio

6:51 AM.It's a big day in the music world - Bob Dylan turns 80 years old today.

The musician is often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, and in 2016, was awarded the Nobel prize in… Read more Audio

6:53 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Read more Audio

7:09 AM.New research shows a strong link between nitrates in drinking water and babies being born underweight or prematurely.

The findings are in an Otago University study released exclusively to RNZ.

They… Read more Audio

7:18 AM.A chaotic storm of last-minute legal manoeuvring and political posturing has worsened Samoa's constitutional crisis hours before the new parliament is due to be sworn in.

The Samoan parliament is set… Read more Audio

7:23 AM.Fijian authorities are investigating allegations that a crew member on a now sunken fishing boat in the waters off Fiji was beheaded.

Authorities are also searching for five crew members, who are… Read more Audio

7:27 AM.No one has ever had their benefit cut for failing to get their children to school, or into early education, or enrolled with a doctor.

That's despite the requirement for parents on the benefit to… Read more Audio

7:35 AM.The Waikato District Health Board is still working to recover its systems after last week's cyber attack.

As the effects wear on, some staff are worried they won't be paid properly for a second week.

7:41 AM.As the effects of a cyber attack on the Waikato District Health Board wear on, some staff are worried they won't be able to be paid properly.

A ransomware attack last Tuesday crashed the DHB's… Read more Audio

7:44 AM.Off the back of its best-ever election result, the ACT Party wants to double the number of MPs it has at Parliament to at least 20.

Hundreds of supporters gathered for the party's annual conference… Read more Audio

7:47 AM.It's been another tumultuous week for the Royal family, who have had to absorb some more unflattering insights from Prince Harry on American television.

Alongside that have come revelations about the… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.After waiting 433 days to see their team play at home Wellington Phoenix fans were treated to a spectacular performance on Saturday night.

Coming from all parts of the country, supporters were out in… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.Defending Indycar champion Scott Dixon will start on pole position in next week's Indianopolis 500 after posting the fastest average speed in qualifying. Read more Audio

8:11 AM.The government's budget centred on increases in the benefit in line with the recommendations of the government's Welfare Expert Advisory Group. 

The government said it would lift 30,000 children out… Read more Audio

8:20 AM.New research has identified a strong link between nitrates in drinking water and babies born underweight or prematurely, and suffering life-long health problems as a result.

As an analysis by the… Read more Audio

8:25 AM.There are reports the FAST party has moved onto Parliament's grounds in Apia The Samoan Observer says the party is calling on police to uphold the law.

This as a chaotic storm of last-minute legal… Read more Audio

8:26 AM.Historians warned the new school history curriculum could hurt and it has.

Moriori say they are pained that the draft curriculum for what will be a core subject from next year mentions them just… Read more Audio

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

8:36 AM.A young, up and coming mixed martial arts fighter, who was critically injured in an alleged assault in central Auckland has died.

Fau Vake, 25, was injured last weekend.

He died a week later, on… Read more Audio

8:43 AM.The Bank of New Zealand is warning people who send abusive and inappropriate messages in the reference fields of bank transfers that they are being watched.

The bank analysed data over the last six… Read more Audio

8:47 AM.Moriori want to be included in the new Aotearoa New Zealand Histories Curriculum.

The Hokotehi Moriori Trust says the draft curriculum mentions Moriori only once and that is not good enough.

… Read more Audio

8:51 AM.The only rest home in the North Canterbury town of Cheviot will close this week after twenty years.

The owner say there's a number of reasons but the key one is a broken funding system.

Reporter… Read more Audio

8:55 AM.Police in Ghana have arrested and detained 21 people who were attending a meeting to dicuss LGBTI rights.

The police claim the group were promoting an LGBT+ agenda at an unlawful assembly in the… Read more Audio

8:58 AM.To Europe now where diplomatic relations are set to be strained after Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was accused of ordering a Ryanair flight from Greece to Lithuania to land in Minsk.

The… Read more Audio