Top Stories for Friday 2 June 2017

There are reports the US will withdraw from the Paris climate change agreement. Simon Marks is covering this from Washington and says the signs suggest that President Donald Trump will make the call to pull out of the agreement. A longtime social worker says she's deeply concerned about what will happen to youth in Auckland as three million dollars of spending on crime and gang prevention comes to an end this month. Chief executive of the Strive Community Trust Sharon Wilson Davis told our reporter Rowan Quinn she was devistated her organisation will not be able to continue its vision. Accommodation providers vow to fight back against Auckland council's targetted rate. But they say they can't afford the rate, but neither can they afford to take the council to court. New Zealand's climate change minister says the government will not follow suit and pull out of the Paris Agreement, as the U-S has done. Paula Bennett is the Minister for Climate Change and says it's very disappointing and so much of what he says is wrong. The British and Irish Lions kick off their tour of New Zealand against a provincial barbarians side in Whangarei tomorrow, as they seek to write their names into rugby folklore. But is it too tall a task for the team? The sector says it'll fight the targetted rate and may take legal action. The Mayor Phil Goff says the proceeds from the rate will help fund work to market Auckland to visitors. One in four crew members on commercial fishing vessels have suffered a significant injury during work which has prompted a campaign to address the sector's alarming workplace safety record. The Green Party has condemned Trump's decision to pull the US out of the Paris climate change deal. The Party's co-leader James Shaw says it's a leap backwards, but thinks the rest of the world will "keep calm and carry on."