10:00 am today

Morning Report Essentials for Wednesday 19 March 2025

From Morning Report, 10:00 am today

On today's episode, Foreign Minister Winston Peters and American counterpart, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, are meeting now in what Peters has described a "dramatically changed" American diplomatic scene, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have wrapped up their highly anticipated phone call on how to end to the war in Ukraine, the TAB offered a $150 million deal to the government in a bid to secure an online casino licence, Nottingham Forest star Chris Wood is back home which has local fans excited, but they're likely to be even more excited knowing that he would like to finish off his career playing back here, and it was once known as the "world's ugliest fish", but the blob fish fin-ished in first place in New Zealand's fish of the year competition earlier this week.