Morning Report for Thursday 5 November 2015

6:00 AM.Immigration officials give up trying to deport a a 95-year-old widow. Chris Cairns faces tough cross examination in his trial in London and what's the Government doing to turn around the growing… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:09 AM.Unemployment has hit six percent and is forecast to keep rising as the economy slows. Audio

6:15 AM.The Volkswagon share price has plunged again overnight amid new revelations that its ongoing diesel emissions scandal has now widened to include some petrol cars. Audio

6:18 AM.Our business reporter Jonathan Mitchell is in, with what's happening in the financial world, and economic number yesterday perhaps tilt the odds a little closer to a rate cut in December. Audio

6:22 AM.The cricket test series between New Zealand and Australia, beginning in Brisbane today, is being portrayed as the good versus evil of the cricketing world. Audio

6:25 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

6:39 AM.Latest figures show the unemployment rate climbed to six percent in the September quarter. Audio

6:42 AM.The Maori Party Co-Leader Marama Fox has challenged the Government to highlight claims of abuse at Australian immigration detention centres when it speaks to the United Nations Human Rights Council… Read more Audio

6:49 AM.A flurry of economic numbers yesterday added some weight to the view that conditions have softened and the economy faces some headwinds. Audio

6:52 AM.The resins manufacturer, Nuplex, says it's confident it can deliver on its profit expectations, even though it will depend on how well China's economy performs. Audio

6:53 AM.A look at a local business that's looking to register on radar screens. A Nelson nutraceutical company, New Zealand Supreme Biotechnologies, specialises in the production of bioactive compounds from… Read more Audio

6:58 AM.Wall Street is weaker today after official data revealed the US trade deficit narrowed more sharply than expected in September, as imports shrank amid slowing growth in the US and global economy. Audio

7:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

7:10 AM.A 95-year-old widow has won her battle with imigration officials and now won't be deported to Britain, a country she left nearly 70 years ago. Audio

7:13 AM.The Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security has received complaints from at least three people who say they lost their jobs as a result of not being cleared by the SIS. Audio

7:17 AM.Chris Cairns faced tough questioning during cross examination at his perjury trial, including being accused of receiving wads of cash from Dubai diamond magnates for match fixing. Audio

7:23 AM.New Zealand's unemployment rate has cracked six percent and thousands of jobs have disappeared from the economy. Audio

7:28 AM.Christchurch will turn black - with probably a splash of Canterbury red - when the All Blacks go on a Rugby World Cup victory parade in the central city today. Audio

7:37 AM.Back to our lead story about 95-year-old widow Lilian Turner who has has been granted residence after an appeals tribunal found a decision to deport her was "hardly practical or reasonable". Audio

7:41 AM.More than 9-hundred people have signed a petition calling for the removal of one of New Zealand's best known firefighters from the Mangawhai Fire Brigade in Northland. Audio

7:51 AM.Prince Charles and his wife Camilla began their New Zealand visit yesterday amid the kind of spring weather Wellington is notorious for. Audio

7:54 AM.West Papuans say their survival as a people is increasingly threatened under Indonesian rule. Audio

7:58 AM.Twitter has fallen out of love with its 'favourite' button; instead opting for a heart-shaped 'like' option. Audio

8:07 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

8:11 AM.For the third year in a row the Russian President Vladimir Putin has topped Forbes' list of the world's most powerful people. Audio

8:14 AM.Immigration officials say they had to follow the law in their 13-year- battle to deport a 95-year-old widow. Audio

8:19 AM.The Maori Party has renewed its call for November the fifth to be recognised as Parihaka Day to commemorate the sacking of the pacifist settlement in Taranaki by government troops in 1881. Audio

8:23 AM.The Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt on Saturday after taking off from the resort of Sharm al-Sheikh might have been brought down by an explosive device the British Government says. Audio

8:26 AM.New Zealand's unemployment rate hit 6 per cent yesterday with economists warning it will head higher still in coming months. Audio

8:31 AM.Jonathan Mitchell Audio

8:37 AM.Six years after American intelligence services ended a controversial interrogation programme, a top government official is questioning what New Zealand knew about it. Audio

8:42 AM.The scene's set for a testy opening match of the Trans-Tasman test cricket series starting at the Gabba in Brisbane at one o'clock this afternoon. Audio

8:46 AM.A new weapon in the war on wasps is among the winners of this year's World Wide Fund for Nature Conservation Innovation Awards. Audio

8:50 AM.It's November 5th with councils organising public fireworks displays for either today or at the weekend. Sydney-based pyrotechnician Robert McDermott has been organising Wellington's event for the… Read more Audio

8:53 AM.Christchurch City Council is among those choosing to celebrate Guy Fawkes today, with a free public display scheduled for tonight at New Brighton Beach. Audio