Morning Report for Thursday 25 January 2018

6:00 AM.Will the new TPP undermine treaty rights? Maori demand answers, Former U.S Gymnastics sports doctor Larry Nassar is sentenced to at least 175 years in prison, and Get ready for aheatwave… Read more Audio

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

6:15 AM.Brazil's former President Lula da Silva is on trial for corruption his sentencing is today. Despite being convicted of corruption and money-laundering Mr Lula is hoping to win another term as… Read more Audio

6:18 AM.The Blackcaps will be aiming for their fourteenth win on the trot when they play Pakistan in the second T20 match in Auckland on Thursday. After demolishing a woeful West Indies at the start of the… Read more Audio

6:39 AM.The Prime Minister is not committing to releasing details of the newly renegotiated Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, but says the government intends to be as transparent as possible. The… Read more Audio

6:47 AM.As cities around the world clamp down on home-sharing services, Airbnb is fighting against moves to do the same in New Zealand. Queenstown Lakes Council wants to restrict short term rentals in the… Read more Audio

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

7:11 AM.Some Māori are demanding greater clarity about how the revised Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will affect the government's Treaty of Waitangi obligations. Two years ago there were huge protests… Read more Audio

7:15 AM.Financial Times chief foreign affairs commentator Gidoen Rachman is in Davos. He tells Guyon Espiner it's too easy to say Donald Trump is an aberration in terms of trade agreements in the US. Elites… Read more Audio

7:21 AM.A swathe of the country is expected to blister in temperatures above 30degC on Thursday. And it is forecast to get still hotter in some places, with Wanaka braced for an official heatwave. New… Read more Audio

7:26 AM.Hot air from Australia has moved across the Tasman, crossed the Southern Alps, and blanketed Canterbury and Otago in high temperatures. RNZ reporter Tim Brown is up the 45th parallel track near… Read more Audio

7:46 AM.The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) - the revised TPP - has been reached, and has the support of Foreign Minister Winston Peters, who opposed the initial… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.Three quarters of New Zealanders believe commercial polluters should pay for the damage they're doing to the environment. That's one of the findings of new research published by Fish & Game. Chief… Read more Audio

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

8:10 AM.New Zealand's Trade Minister conceeds that the new CCPTA is much less significant than the initial TPP was, but is still welcoming the deal. David Parker is pretty confident the agreement will be… Read more Audio

8:14 AM.It was a tale of two powhiri at Rātana Pā as Government and opposition MPs turned up to take part in the annual celebrations on Wednesday. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was surrounded by fans… Read more Audio

8:29 AM.Farmers in the drought-hit Buller and Grey districts on the South Island's West Coast are preparing for things to get worse before they get better. February is usually the region's driest month - but… Read more Audio

8:30 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

8:44 AM.A water engineer says the treatment of drinking water isn't a local issue anymore and should be addressed - and paid for - at a national level. His call comes as Christchurch city council votes on… Read more Audio

8:56 AM.The unseeded American tennis player, Tennys Sandgren ended his dream run at the Australian Open, losing his quarter-final to another unseeded player, Hyeon Chung. The South Korean earlier knocked out… Read more Audio