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5:14 AM.To the Middle-East now, where Nick Truebridge was joined from Doha by our correspondent Alex Baird. Audio

5:06 AM.To Australia now where a school has discovered its students set up an online private chat room where young people from other schools posted violent and racist messages. Joining Nick Truebridge from… Read more Audio

5:49 AM.National is calling for action over claims emergency housing tenants in Rotorua have been mistreated by a Government funded organisation set up to help them. Visions of a Helping Hand has received… Read more Audio

5:44 AM.We return to the United Kingdom now where Liz Truss will be the country's new Prime Minister. Joining us is our correspondent Olly Barratt. Audio

5:35 AM.Aid agencies are warning Pakistan is in need of long-term assisatance as the death toll from the catastrophic floods continues to rise. The southern part of the country is worst-affected. Nathan… Read more Audio

5:26 AM.Time to check in with the Local Democracy Reporting programme and this morning we're in Rotorua with Voyager award-winning journalist Felix Desmarais. Audio

5:15 AM.To Japan now where the country is preparing to open its doors a little wider to tourists than has been the case since the start of the pandemic. Our Tokyo correspondent Chris Gilbert explains. Audio

5:05 AM.Well as you heard in the news, the biggest story out of the UK is the new Prime Minister and for more on this and the other top stories in the UK we're joined by our correspondent, Ellie Jay Audio

5:51 AM.An internet forum notorious for organising vicious online and real-world harrasment campaigns has been taken down due to escalating threats. Kiwi Farms also refused to cooperate with the New Zealand… Read more Audio

5:44 AM.An iwi in Taranaki are coming together with locals to do something about their depleting seafood stocks. A meeting took place recently with over 100 people in attendance. On the table.. discussing a… Read more Audio

5:23 AM.It's the first proper week of September so time to check in what's available in stores with our Minister of Fruit and Veges Glenn Forsyth. Audio

5:16 AM.It's Monday, so it must be time to cross to Europe for the latest from our correspondent Nita Blake-Persen. Audio

5:06 AM.It's Monday so we go Stateside and speak with our US correspondent, Anna Burns-Francis. She told Nathan Rarere about visit to the Big Apple for a certain New Zealand Prime Minister. Audio

5:52 AM.Australia has reduced its covid isolation period from seven to five days for asymptomatic people. And from next Friday, masks will also be scrapped on the country's domestic flights. It comes as Covid… Read more Audio

5:48 AM.Floods in pakistan, hail the size of melons. Meanwhile, NIWA is also dropping it's Winter summary today. Joining Nathan Rarere is meteorologist Tristan Meyers. Audio

5:25 AM.It's the first Friday of September, so no time better to catch up with our Minister of Fruit and Veggies Glenn Forsyth. Fruit of the Week: NEW ZEALAND AVOCADOS Audio

5:17 AM.To Africa now - where they're getting excited about the Football World Cup - and no one is more excited than our correspondent Nabil Ahmed. Audio

5:12 AM.Shocking satellite images from the Sindh province in Pakistan show a stretch of land that was once brown and arid has turned into a 100 kilometer-wide lake after the Indus River broke its banks… Read more Audio

5:05 AM.And it's Friday so that means it must be time talk to with Bevan Hurley in New York. Audio

5:50 AM.The government's taken an embarassing u-turn on the plans to charge GST on the fees on your KiwiSaver with Revenue Minister David Parker abandoning the idea less than 24 hours after first announcing… Read more Audio

5:43 AM.A worker at the Essity Paper Mill in Kawerau, who only joined the company recently, says his financial situation is desperate as he enters his third week with no pay. Brook Collier is one of 145 Mill… Read more Audio

5:35 AM.Normally when you think of India and Pakistan, the first thing that comes to mind is rivalry... but, they say nothing brings people together like a tragedy. With one-third of Pakistan submerged under… Read more Audio

5:23 AM.Our chance to catch up on news from regional New Zealand now and this morning we hear from mid-Canterbury with the Local Democracy Reporting Programme's Jonathan Leask. He told Nasthan Rarere local… Read more Audio

5:14 AM.Russia has once again shut off gas supplies to Europe, as Ukraine fights back, launching an offensive aimed at winning back some of the territory lost to Russia since the invaision began six months… Read more Audio

5:06 AM.We begin this morning in the UK - just before we came to air Nathan Rarere spoke with our UK correspondent Ellie Jay. Audio