Morning Report for Thursday 23 November 2017

8:58 AM.David Cassidy, a 1970s teen heartthrob has many people remembering their young days. He died on Wednesday, aged 67. RNZ asked some Wellington women how they felt about Cassidy. Audio

8:55 AM.The Tall Blacks road to the 2019 Basketball World Cup begins tonight night. In a rare home game for the national men's team, they host South Korea in Wellington as part of a new qualifying system for… Read more Audio

8:47 AM.The Qualifications Authority is cracking down on tertiary institutions that cram a week's teaching of foreign students into two or three days a week. The authority says the practice is inappropriate… Read more Audio

8:40 AM.One of Labour's election promises was to cut the number of new immigrants by up to 30,000 a year by tightening rules around student and work visas. The Minister of Immigration now plans to crack down… Read more Audio

8:26 AM.Russian President Vladamir Putin has met overnight with the leaders of Iran and Turkey to discuss Syria's future. It comes after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad made an unannounced visit to Russia to… Read more Audio

8:24 AM.Auckland Council is set to pick its preferred site for the 2021 America's Cup base on the city's waterfront. Officials who've been looking at options ranging in cost - from $120 million to $59 million… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.Zimbabwe's former Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa is expected to officially be sworn in as new President on Saturday. Zimbabwe human rights lawyer and activist Doug Coltart joins us to discuss what… Read more Audio

8:14 AM.Legal history will be made if the police can successfully argue the serial rapist Malcolm Rewa should be put on trial for a third time for the murder of Susan Burdett in 1992. Teina Pora was also… Read more Audio

8:10 AM.A New Zealand woman jailed in Australia six years ago for killing her abusive husband is fighting a deportation order so she can stay in Melbourne. Eileen Creamer was the first woman convicted of… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.A Hamilton city councillor says there's a 'culture' at the council that's not been dealt with despite complaints being made throughout the year. Councillor Mark Bunting faces a formal hearing on… Read more Audio

7:52 AM.There's been a lot of news about Aucklanders and their rates bills. But while they pay about $2,500 for a million dollar home, around the rest of the country owners of properties a fraction of the… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.As Auckland properies got revalued this week, there was a lot of concern around the impact those valuations would have on rates, but it turns out some people in other districts with homes worth just a… Read more Audio

7:44 AM.A Christchurch woman who had two family members die from Legionnaire's disease is warning people who heat their water with heat pumps to make sure they're not at risk. Ruth Nicholson says a system… Read more Audio

7:42 AM.One of serial rapist Malcolm Rewa's victims is welcoming a bid to put him on trial again for the murder of Susan Burdett. Ms Burdett was killed in 1992 and Rewa was tried twice for the crime. Neither… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.Here in New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has welcomed the resignation of Mr Mugabe. He said New Zealand supports the efforts of the Zimbabwean people to uphold democracy, end… Read more Audio

7:18 AM.Zimbabwe's president-in-waiting Emmerson Mnangagwa has spoken publicly for the first time since yesterday's resignation by Robert Mugabe. He is back in Harare after fleeing two weeks ago to South… Read more Audio

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

6:46 AM.A plumber is warning people they risk catching the potentially fatal legionnaires disease if they rely solely on heatpumps to heat their hot water. Water must be heated to at least 60 degrees to kill… Read more Audio

6:40 AM.The Fire Service has spent much of the night fighting a blaze in an abandoned house in Mangere's Robertson Rd, amid concerns there were children inside. The police have spoken to three young people… Read more Audio

6:35 AM.The man known as the Butcher of Bosnia, Ratko Mladic, has been jailed for life for genocide and crimes against humanity. The trial at the Hague found the former Bosnian Serb commander "significantly… Read more Audio