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Morning Report for Tuesday 13 February 2018
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Top Stories for Tuesday 13 February 2018
6:00 AM.Widespread damage in Tonga after Tropical Cyclone Gita wreaks havoc overnight, People in Nukualofa tell us of howling winds, flying debris and many buildings being destroyed or losing their roofs… Read more Audio
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Cyclone Gita hits Tonga: Emergency teams out before dawn
6:10 AM.Tropical Cyclone Gita has wreaked havoc in Tonga. On Tongatapu, winds of over 233km/h ripped roofs off houses, brought down trees, destroyed a Catholic church, and took the Tongan Met Office and the… Read more Audio
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Early Business News for 13 February 2018
6:20 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
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Cyclone Gita hits Tonga: Nuku'alofa faces major damage
6:39 AM.Tropical Cyclone Gita has wreaked havoc in Tonga overnight. Winds of over 233km/h ripped roofs off houses, brought down trees, destroyed a Catholic church, and took the Tongan Met Office and the… Read more Audio
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Cyclone Gita hits Tonga: 'Debris all over the place'
6:44 AM.Tropical Cyclone Gita has wreaked havoc in Tonga overnight. Winds of over 233km/h ripped roofs off houses, brought down trees, destroyed a Catholic church, and took the Tongan Met Office and the… Read more Audio
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Business News for 13 February 2018
6:49 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
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Cyclone Gita wreaks havoc, Tonga faces major damage
7:11 AM.Tropical cyclone Gita has wreaked havoc in Tonga hitting Tongatapu and the capital Nuku'alofa as a category 4 storm. American scientists monitoring the windspeed say it had sustained winds over… Read more Audio
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Cyclone Gita hits Tonga: Red Cross braces for clean up
7:18 AM.Hanna Butler is a New Zealander working for the Red Cross at its Pacific regional headquarters in Suva. She has been monitoring the situation in Tonga, and has colleagues on the ground there. She… Read more Audio
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Cyclone Gita should go south of Fiji - NIWA
7:20 AM.The last time a category 5 cyclone hit the Pacific was in February 2016 when Cyclone Winston killed 44 people in Fiji. Cyclone Gita did not reach category 5. With details of how it compares Guyon… Read more Audio
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Cyclone Gita: Jacinda Ardern pledges aid for Tonga
7:25 AM.The New Zealand government has pledged an initial $50,000 to assist rescue and relief operations in cyclone battered Tonga. New Zealand responded to Cyclone Winston two years ago with one of the… Read more Audio
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Ōpōtiki farmland flooded after heavy rain
7:29 AM.Floodwaters are covering large parts of the Eastern Bay of Plenty after 24 hours of heavy rain. Several larger rivers in the district appear to have spilled into surrounding farmland - around the… Read more Audio
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Heavy rain floods rivers, farmland near Opotiki
7:31 AM.Floodwaters are covering large parts of the Eastern Bay of Plenty after 24 hours of heavy rain. Several larger rivers in the district appear to have spilled into surrounding farmland - around the… Read more Audio
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Pre-school boss on hold for hour to report at-risk child
7:39 AM.A pre-school manager says she had to wait on the phone for a total of 51 minutes yesterday to report an at risk child to Oranga Tamariki. She says she's worried members of the public being made to… Read more Audio
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Toxic foam: Ohakea neighbours vent anger at meeting
7:43 AM.Residents near the Ohakea air force base expressed anger at a meeting last night about water contamination from toxic foam chemicals. Andy Russell owns a deer farm which is one of five properties near… Read more Audio
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Euthanasia advocate's assisted suicide trial continues
7:48 AM.A woman whose mother's death is at the centre of a High Court trial in Wellington wept in the witness box as she spoke of the last hours she spent with her.
Veronica Mansfield was giving evidence at… Read more Audio
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Priests 'probably fathered thousands' - Catholic sociologist
7:53 AM.A Catholic sociologist says priests alive today have probably fathered thousands of children worldwide - but that most of those children would already have been told. About six New Zealanders have… Read more Audio
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Makeup tutorials scrapped from Wellington school
7:56 AM.A Wellington school has abandoned plans to teach girls how to put on makeup after outrage from parents. Glitz and Glamour for Girls was one of the electives offered to 11 and 12-year-olds at Evans Bay… Read more Audio
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Cyclone Gita: Tonga locals wake to widespread damage
8:10 AM.There's been devastation in Tonga following Tropical Cyclone Gita. Winds just over 230km/h lashed the small Pacific country and people in Nuku'alofa have told us of flying debris and buildings being… Read more Audio
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Cyclone Gita: Power poles 'like matchsticks' in Tonga
8:18 AM.Melino Maka is the chairman of the Tongan Advisory Council, an organisation originally set up to get information to the Tongan community in the event of a cyclone. He tells Guyon Espiner about his… Read more Audio
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Fears heart surgey machines behind infections
8:22 AM.Thousands of people who've had open heart surgery in the past four years have been told to watch our for signs of bacterial infection. The warning comes after about 120 cases overseas that have been… Read more Audio
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PSA welcomes stronger oversight of CEO salaries
8:26 AM.The government's plans for a new law to give better oversight over the pay packets of top public servants has been welcomed by the Public Service Association. State Sevices Minister Chris Hipkins says… Read more Audio
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Markets Update for 13 February 2018
8:30 AM.A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio
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Cyclone Gita hits Tonga: 'Street like a swimming pool'
8:36 AM.Tonga has woken to widespread damage after being hit by category 4 Cyclone Gita overnight. Frenchwoman Virginie Dourlet lives in Tonga and tells Susie what she's seen on the devastated streets. Audio
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Port Hills fire: One year on, locals still recovering
8:40 AM.It's one year since Christchurch's devastating Port Hills Fires started. At about 5:45pm on February 13 last year a fire started on Early Valley Road in Lansdowne. Four hours later, another blaze… Read more Audio
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World's biggest radio telescope in NZ: Is it worth it?
8:50 AM.It will be the world's largest radio telescope, but some New Zealand scientists are asking whether it's worth this country spending millions to help build it. The Ministry of Business and Innovation… Read more Audio
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Disparaging cartoons of Polynesians 'not illegal' - High Court
8:54 AM.The Labour MP Louisa Wall has failed to have cartoons depicting Polynesian families in a disparaging light declared illegal. She took the case to the High Court after also failing before the Human… Read more Audio