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6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - we're in Poland where tensions are high after a missile killed two people near the border with Ukraine and Henry Riley has the UK's reaction; a new documentary explores when… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - a helter-skelter action packed programme for our Prime Minister as she heads to APEC in Thailand; the countdown is on.. NASA's Artemis rocket is set to blast into space for… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - US Republicans ponder their future; we ask National's deputy leader Nicola Willis why they're pledging to repeal the offshore oil and gas exploration ban, just as world… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - we're in the US as final votes from the mid-terms trickle in and control of the Senate is decided; burnt-out and at the end of their tether, we hear from AUT nursing students… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - we cross to the US where the "red wave" predicted by pollsters failed to occur in the mid-term elections; hospitality businesses tell us the post-lockdown boom they'd hoped… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - Russia appears to be pulling out of Kherson; results are trickling through for the US Midterms; we talk about the banks huge profits with the deputy prime minister and… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - we have the very latest on the US midterm elections; a computer algorithim may have solved the case of the missing Lord Lucan; why diagnosing ADHD in adults is difficult and… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - We're in Egypt as the UN Cop 27 Conference gets underway.. but will we see any real action on the climate emergency? There's a rare opportunity to see a blood moon tonight -… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - the midterm elections are about to get underway in the US - control of the the House and Senate is in the balance, and is Trump a factor again? The head of the Early… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - we're in Africa and America as well as Pakistan where former PM Imran Khan was shot; the director of the Women's Rugby World Cup tells us about its success as the Black Ferns… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - the Deputy PM Grant Robertson talks about the latest financial stability report warning of a rocky road ahead; we ask an expert about the "variant soup" that's leading to… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - a leading immunologist says we're "driving ourselves off a cliff" thanks to more a relaxed approach to Covid; the West Coast prepares for a month's worth of rain in just 36… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - Jair Bolsonaro has been ousted by Lula da Silva in the Brazlian elections; what are the implications for New Zealand after the world's richest man Elon Musk's purchase of… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - at least 150 people are killed in a crowd crush in Korea - we have the latest news from there and from our correspondents in the United States and in Europe; as Covid cases… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - more than 100 cases of Ebola have been identified as an outbreak in Uganda spreads - Nabil Ahmed tells us more; we head to Lyttelton where they've just had a cruise ship… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - In the UK a new Prime Minister has just taken over, the Australian Government is turning to the private sector to solve the country's affordable home crisis and Jacinda… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - the Australian Federal budget has been announced, Liz Truss has passed the baton to new UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Covid cases are on the rise again with over sixteen… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - Rishi Sunak is to be the new UK prime minister; Russia's latest rattling of the nuclear sabre in Ukraine; Rotorua has lost $17 million in tourism spending in three months… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - After 44 days Liz Truss has gone - a new prime minister will be elected within a week; the new mayor of Matamata joins us and we talk New Zealand pizza with one of the stars… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - get a dose of arts for your woes from the Art Chemist at the Nelson Arts Festival; Whanganui's new mayor gets up early for us; no prizes for guessing that inflation is the… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - Can Liz Truss hang on to the British Prime Minister-ship? A report into Middlemore Hospital's emergency department has described it as dysfunctional, overcrowded and unsafe -… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - new research shows kids who tell the blunt truth are often judged more harshly by grown-ups; as the country's mayors gather in the capital over the next couple of days, we… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - the Parkland mass-shooter Nikolas Cruz has been sentenced; the cost of building a home has reached a new record high; Christchurch is the epicentre of the arts and culture… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - we're in Ukraine and Russia as attacks on key infrastructures continue; we meet the 23-year-old who could become the youngest mayor in the country today; the deputy prime… Read more Audio

6:30 AM.On today's First Up pod - the government's proposed agricultural emissions scheme got the two repsonses you'd expect - some farmers say it could put them out of business, while environmentalists say… Read more Audio