Best of First Up for Thursday 27 August

On the podcast today: women who've lost their jobs due to Covid-19 are being forced to retrain; a victim of the Christchurch mosque attacks says seeing the gunman in court made him realise how weak he really is; could the next covid cure be plasma from recovered patients; more than 20 young people escaped from Youth Justice residences since 2015 - a youth justice advocate says the residences are failing to provide young people with a supportive environment and we meet the Mayor of Matamata-Piako.