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Morning Report for Monday 21 March 2011
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Phil Kafcaloudes with news from Australia
8:56 AM.The latest from the Lucky Country. Audio
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Football bosses try to weave Phoenix safety net
8:55 AM.New Zealand Football says it has no option but to sit on the sidelines as the future of the Wellington Phoenix team unfolds. Audio
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NZ Skeptics gather to mock so-called moon man
8:48 AM.The large aftershock rattled nerves in Christchurch last night but it was not the destructive earthquake that had been predicted by self-styled quake forecaster Ken Ring. Audio
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Waatea News for 21 March 2011
8:48 AM.News from the Waatea team. Audio
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Libya update
8:40 AM.In the past half hour the Libyan Government has ordered an immediate ceasefire, and called for all Libyan people to begin a march to Bengazi. Audio
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Fears new govt dept will bulldoze Cantabrians
8:40 AM.The Christchurch city councillor, Yani Johanson, is worried a proposed new government ministry to oversee the rebuilding of the city could ride roughshod over Cantabrians. Audio
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Sports News for 21 March 2011
8:35 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio
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Markets Update for 21 March 2011
8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
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Exhausted NZ searchers arrive back from Japan
8:26 AM.New Zealand search and rescue workers have returned from Japan saying they witnessed some horrible scenes. Audio
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Anti-government turmoil continues in Middle East
8:24 AM.Protests continue in Bahrain as new displays of anti-government sentiment foment in Syria. Audio
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Foreign Minister says NZ supports air strikes
8:19 AM.Minister of Foreign Affairs, Murray McCully, joins the programme straight from a briefing on the latest situation in Libya. Audio
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France and Britain orchestrating attacks on Libya
8:12 AM.Morning Report is joined by the BBC's Arab Affairs analyst, Magdi Abdelhadi, from London and our correspondent in Paris, Elaine Cobbe. Audio
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Libya update
8:09 AM.The BBC's Alan Little is in Tripoli and describes what he's witnessing. Audio
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Shooting of two Hobbit films to start today
7:57 AM.Getting to this point has been a tumultuous process including difficulty finding funding leading to the first director quitting the project. Audio
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Minister responds to criticism over broadband roll out
7:56 AM.The Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Stephen Joyce, says those complaining about the Commerce Commission being locked out of the broadband market for ten years have their facts… Read more Audio
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Telecommunication industry attacks Government's Broadband Bill
7:50 AM.Members of the telecommunication industry have launched a scathing attack on the Government's ultra fast broadband plans. Audio
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AMI stadium owner may not insure pitch against further damage
7:46 AM.The owner of Christchurch's AMI stadium is refusing to guarantee it will insure its playing field in future, despite taking a multimillion-dollar taxpayer handout to fix earthquake damage. Audio
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Sports News for 21 March 2011
7:43 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio
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Significant aftershocks hit Christchurch
7:37 AM.Christchurch is waking up to the prospect of more damage after a magnitude 5.1 aftershock last night rattled the city. Audio
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Reprisal and revenge feared for Taranaki wife-killer
7:36 AM.Mark Goodwin proposes to return to rural Taranaki where, in 1995, he kidnapped, drugged and killed his estranged wife and tried to do the same to her best friend. Audio
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Libya latest
7:35 AM.CNN journalist in Triploi describes the sustained heavy gun-fire he's been hearing in Tripoli. Audio
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Nuclear threat still present in Japan
7:27 AM.The Deputy Press Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office, Noriyuki Shikata, says testing has found high levels of radiation in milk and spinach from the 20-kilometre exclusion zone around the damaged… Read more Audio
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Japan govt responds to food contamination
7:22 AM.A spokesperson for the International Federation of the Red Cross in Tokyo, Francis Marcus, told Morning Report the situation for survivors of the earthquake and tsunami is bleak. Audio
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Opposition parties warn new ministry must consult
7:20 AM.With the Government poised to set up a new department to control the rebuilding of Christchurch, Opposition parties are warning that the community must still have its say. Audio
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Obama defends attacks on Libyan forces
7:15 AM.Our Washington correspondent, Daniel Ryntjes, joins us for the latest from the US including the White House position on Libya. Audio
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Correspondent in Tripoli on military action there
7:12 AM.Richard Spencer from Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper is in Tripoli and says war has definitely come to the Libyan capital. Audio
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Significant aftershocks hit Christchurch
7:09 AM.Christchurch is waking up to the prospect of more damage after a magnitude 5.1 aftershock last night rattled the city. Audio
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No fly zone being enforced in Libya
7:09 AM.The mission to enforce a sanctioned no-fly zone over Libya has continued overnight. Audio
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Birds Bird sanctuary with daytime bird life
6:59 AM.Listen to today's bird. Audio
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Morning Business for 21 March 2011
6:47 AM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio
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Japan on alert after radiation found in Tokyo water
6:43 AM.While the damaged nuclear plants at Fukushima have reported a drop in radiation levels, there have been increased radiation levels discovered in food and water as far away as Tokyo. Audio
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Opposition warning over possible Christchurch ministry
6:38 AM.Opposition parties fear a new department to control the rebuilding of Christchurch will be Wellington-centric and not allow the community to have its fair say in decisions. The Labour Party's… Read more Audio
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Waatea News for 21 March 2011
6:27 AM.News from the Waatea team. Audio
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Morning Rural News for 21 March 2011
6:22 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio
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Pacific News for 21 March 2011
6:18 AM.The latest from the Pacific region. Audio
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Libyan New Zealanders say coalition forces welcome
6:14 AM.But believe the international community should have acted sooner. Audio
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Christchurch quakes again
6:11 AM.Christchurch has been rocked by a series of aftershocks; the largest, a five point one magnitude quake, hit the city just before ten o'clock last night. Audio
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Top Stories for 21 March 2011
6:00 AM.The latest on Libya; aftershocks further rattle Christchurch; Japan woes continue. Audio