Morning Report for Tuesday 4 April 2017

6:06 AM.A update from the team at RNZ sport. Audio

6:00 AM.Russian PM confirms train bomb blast in St Petersburg was a terror attack, PM accused of joining cover-up over Hit & Run, Hit & Run questions remain says former UN human rights investigator, Concerns… Read more Audio

6:09 AM.The entire metro system in St Petersburg has been shut down after a bomb exploded, killing 10 people and injuring 40 others. Audio

6:18 AM.The United Future leader Peter Dunne says Bill English's press conference yesterday has not allayed concerns over the NZSAS raid in Afghanistan in 2010. Audio

6:20 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

6:22 AM.News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

6:46 AM.The Employment Relations Authority says it was okay for Chinese workers who were fixing Kiwirail locomotives to get paid Chinese wages. But the Council of Trade Unions' Jeff Sissons insists the union… Read more Audio

6:49 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

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

7:16 AM.Prime Minister Bill English has extinguished any hopes of a formal inquiry into the 2010 Afghanistan raid, which has been the subject of allegations in the Hit and Run book. The Government has decided… Read more Audio

7:34 AM.An Auckland man who was discharged from court after posting half naked photos of his estranged wife on Facebook has been ordered to face a retrial after the High Court quashed the original… Read more Audio

7:44 AM.The Wellington building Revera House, which was damaged in the November earthquake, is to come down. Mark Crosswell, the General Manager of the Gunson Property Group says the ten storey building which… Read more Audio

7:56 AM.Political pressure is mounting on South African president Jacob Zuma after the collapse of the rand and the downgrading of the country's credit rating in the wake of his decision to sack his well… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

8:15 AM.The Employment Relations Authority has ruled in favour of allowing Chinese workers who were fixing Kiwirail locomotives to work for Chinese wages....and that's angered trade unions. They're now… Read more Audio

8:20 AM.An Environment Court ruling has outlined a number of failings by Horizons Regional Council....and the Environmental Defence Society says the judgment proves the council hasn't been following its own… Read more Audio

8:24 AM.91-year-old Earl Hagaman has just weeks to live but told the Wellington High Court the Labour leader Andrew Little defamed him last year, and he can't die with dignity until his name is cleared. Audio

8:28 AM.The latest National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement is out, having tested four thousand students at two areas of English - listening and viewing. The results show primary school children score… Read more Audio

8:29 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

8:38 AM.The Maori King's closest family members, the Kaahuiaariki, have arrived at Te Puea marae in Mangere where the mourning period of his older sister, Tomairangi Paki has begun. Audio

8:40 AM.Cyclone Debbie's death toll has risen to eight. Reporter Rob Morrison says tragic details are emerging of three deaths in a car that plunged into the Tweed River, though a nine-year-old girl escaped… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.Migration to New Zealand has been linked to Auckland's housing crisis. In election year it's a near inevitability that political parties will infuse their arguments and messaging with emotion, but… Read more Audio