Midday Report for Thursday 6 August 2020

12:52 PM.Questions are being raised over how food will be bought into Lebanon, after the main port was destroyed in a devastating explosion.

The country has no trade across its borders with Israel and Syria… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.A leading Pacific health expert says problems with accessing health services are rife at all levels. It comes after a coroner found a doctor failed to realise two-year-old Hineihana Mausii was… Read more Audio

12:41 PM.Māori doctors have joined calls for the Ministry of Health to reconsider postponing a self-swabbing cervical cancer programme, saying the delays are unacceptable.

The programme was due to be rolled… Read more Audio

12:35 PM.The rural sector has mixed feelings over new water reforms.

Eric Frykberg has the rural news. Read more Audio

12:28 PM.The America's Cup is set to lose another challenger.

Barry Guy has sport. Read more Audio

12:20 PM.The telco industry says New Zealanders do not know how good a deal they are getting when it comes to infrastructure.

Logan Church has business. Read more Audio

12:18 PM.The Court of Appeal is today hearing the appeal for the man who murdered British backpacker, Grace Millane, in his CityLife apartment in 2018.

The 28-year-old strangled Ms Millane, before watching… Read more Audio

12:13 PM.The minister in charge of managed isolation facilities says people breaking in poses as much of a risk to public health as those breaking out.

A woman has been charged with unlawfully being on the… Read more Audio

12:11 PM.Two homemade explosive devices were detonated outside a Hamilton shopping mall early this morning in what police believe was an attempt to break into an ATM.

Residents told RNZ they were woken by a… Read more Audio

12:00 PM.A bomb scare in Hamilton; an attempt to break into an isolation facility.

Nicola Wright has the news. Read more Audio