Morning Report for Thursday 13 December 2018

6:00 AM.Union takes offer to Air NZ engineers, strike notice withdrawn, MPs vote on Theresa May's leadership as Brexit looms, Aboriginal man heads to court to fight deportation to NZ, Trump's former lawyer… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.Team Wellington are 20 minutes away from making a roaring start to football's FIFA club world cup in the United Arab Emirates. Audio

6:09 AM.The British Prime Minister, Theresa May, is fighting for her political life. Forty-eight of her Conservative Party colleagues have triggered a vote on whether to remove her as leader. Mrs May has… Read more Audio

6:09 AM.The father of Emily Longley - the young New Zealander who was murdered in Britain in 2011 - was among the speakers at the Auckland vigil for Grace Millane and other victims of violence last night… Read more Audio

6:14 AM.Thousands of New Zealanders gathered at vigils around the country on Wednesday night to remember Grace Millane. The body of the British backpacker was found in bushland in the Waitakere Ranges on… Read more Audio

6:16 AM.An Australian detainee, who has never lived in New Zealand and has an Aboriginal mother, is vowing to resist deportation here saying he cannot take his Aboriginal children away from their ancestral… Read more Audio

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

6:36 AM.Air New Zealand engineers have called off their three-day strike, which could have affected up to 120,000 travellers in the busy week before Christmas. The airline said late last night it had reached… Read more Audio

6:49 AM.Report shows financial services sector growing economic contribution worth $13.5 billion. Australian firms pounce on local funeral industry. Trade Me takeover battle not over. Finance markets rebound.

7:06 AM.Team Wellington are currently fighting in extra time to shake off local champions Al Ain in a 3 all deadlock in football's FIFA club world cup in the UAE. Audio

7:10 AM.There's an early Christmas present for the tens of thousands of people who feared their holiday plans were about to be shattered by an Air New Zealand strike. After hours of talks the airlines and the… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.MPs from the British Prime Minister's own party are voting in a secret ballot on whether to remove her as leader of the Conservative Party. Theresa May has faced stinging criticism over her Brexit… Read more Audio

7:25 AM.A New Zealand citizen locked in detention has gone to Australia's highest court to break new legal ground that would protect Aborigines from deportation. The detainee's lawyers says on top of the jail… Read more Audio

7:29 AM.US President Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, has been sentenced to spend three years in prison after pleading guilty to several charges including tax evasion. He's one of several members in… Read more Audio

7:35 AM.Thousands of people gathered at vigils last night for slain British backpacker Grace Millane and other victims of violence. The English tourist went missing from central Auckland at the start of… Read more Audio

7:48 AM.Hundreds of armed police in France are still searching for a gunman who killed three people and injured several others. The shooter, who was on a security watchlist, opened fire at a popular Christmas… Read more Audio

7:50 AM.A high profile social justice campaigner and former martial arts exponent who claims to be a friend of the Prime Minister sent her a text applauding the government on its decision to give Czech drug… Read more Audio

7:53 AM.After 30 years of talks and nearly 160 years of disagreement, a law's been passed to resolve the long dispute over leasehold land at Waitara. The Taranaki wars began at Waitara - six kilometres inland… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.Team Wellington have lost a thrilling opening match at football's FIFA club world cup in the UAE, going down in heartbreaking fashion to local champions Al Ain 4-3 in a penalty shootout. Audio

8:10 AM.The Air New Zealand engineers' strike has been called off, but just the threat of industrial action has had a big ripple effect through the tourism sector. Tourism operators have been scrambling to… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.An Aboriginal man facing deportation to New Zealand says Australian immigration authorities are ripping people away from their homeland. Brendan Thoms was born in New Zealand - he has a New Zealand… Read more Audio

8:23 AM.In the UK, Conservative MPs are voting right now on whether Theresa May should stay as their leader. She's made a last minute appeal that she should continue to be Prime Minister, to lead Britain out… Read more Audio

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

8:30 AM.More than 5000 young people in Northland have been vaccinated against the new W strain of meningococcal disease. That means the district health board has just ten days left to meet its target of… Read more Audio

8:37 AM.High costs have derailed an online voting trial for the 2019 local government elections. Nine councils banded together to run online voting - partly in a bid to improve voter turnout. Marguerite… Read more Audio

8:43 AM.Foreign Minister Winston Peters leaves today for a trip to the United States where he'll meet with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence. While in Washington, Mr Peters will… Read more Audio

8:46 AM.It's now summer, and that means trips to the beach, sun bathing at the local park and swims down at the river. But Consumer New Zealand is warning sun seekers not to believe everything they read when… Read more Audio

8:56 AM.Students at Otago University have a bit of a reputation when it comes to drinking, and soon they'll have a bar of their own. The Otago University Students' Association has bought Starters Bar on… Read more Audio