Morning Report for Tuesday 22 January 2019

6:00 AM.Britain promises New Zealand trade won't suffer when a Brexit deal is reached, A member of the Roast Busters gang is condemned after he breaks a five-year silence, and a woman sexually abused in the… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.The New Zealand Breakers are all but out of contention of making the Australian National Basketball League play-offs are losing 106-98 in overtime in Cairns. Audio

6:08 AM.The United Kingdom and New Zealand have signed a mutual recognition agreement, where the UK has pledged trade continuity following Brexit. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern met with her counterpart… Read more Audio

6:20 AM.A defence expert is putting the hard word on the government to provide details of the long-term needs of the military. Last year, the government announced $2.3 billion for new planes to replace the… Read more Audio

6:20 AM.An early look at the day's business news, and a catch up on overnight action on global finance markets.  Audio

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

6:40 AM.The United Kingdom and New Zealand have signed a mutual recognition agreement, where the UK has pledged trade continuity following Brexit. The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern met with the British Prime… Read more Audio

6:49 AM.Dunedin based firm Naylor Love says more building failures can be expected. Survey shows wide gender pay gap in blue collar industries, while weak wages may provoke industrial action. NZ wine industry… Read more Audio

7:06 AM.Serena Williams has continued her march towards a record 24th grand slam tennis title, beating world number one Simona Halep to advance to the quarter-finals at the Australian Open. Audio

7:11 AM.The United Kingdom and New Zealand have signed a mutual recognition agreement, where the UK has pledged trade continuity following Brexit at a meeting at 10 Downing Street. Ms Ardern has used the… Read more Audio

7:15 AM.A member of the notorious Roast Busters gang has been labelled - an entitled young man who epitomises rape culture - after speaking out publicly for the first time. Joseph Parker, a member of the… Read more Audio

7:19 AM.A woman who has been ordered to pay $28,000 to the man abused her says she is "extremely disappointed, even shocked", by the judge's decision. Mariya Taylor served in the New Zealand Defence Force… Read more Audio

7:23 AM.New Zealand's human rights record came under scrutiny overnight at the United Nations. Delegates repeatedly questioned the high rates of domestic violence, the increasing number of New Zealanders in… Read more Audio

7:36 AM.Inmates in more Australian detention centres, many of whom are New Zealanders, have joined hunger protests started by detainees at the Yongah Hill facility near Perth. Some detainees in Western… Read more Audio

7:39 AM.Two vehicles have been hijacked by groups of masked men in Northern Ireland overnight - just a day after a pizza van was stolen, turned into a car bomb and detonated outside a courthouse on Sunday… Read more Audio

7:43 AM.Government dithering has been blamed for the latest abysmal house affordability figures. The annual Demographia International Housing Affordability report shows that all of the country's major… Read more Video, Audio

7:49 AM.Most Aucklanders using public transport are about to be hit in the pocket. From February 10, bus, ferry and train fares will change, with some increasing by up to 50 cents. Auckland Transport says… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.From next month thousands of New Zealanders living under the shadow of the deadly Hepatitis C virus will finally be able to get lifesaving treatment. On February 1, Pharmac will begin funding the drug… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.Alexander Zverev took out his full frustration on his racquet during an explosive exit from the Australian Open, the German's latest grand slam flop. Audio

8:11 AM.Advocates for victims of sexual assault have condemned last night's interview with the roast buster Joseph Parker. Mr Parker was a member of the gang of teenage boys who boasted online about having… Read more Audio

8:18 AM.British Prime Minister Theresa May has gone back to the Parliament to set out her Plan B for Britain's exit from the European Union. Her initial plan was decisively rejected by MPs last week. Mrs May… Read more Audio

8:24 AM.Three royal babies arrived in Dunedin this week - at the Royal Albatross Colony. The first three chicks of the breeding season have hatched and DOC workers are hopeful this season will be the best yet… Read more Audio

8:27 AM.A criminal justice campaigner is putting the government on notice that it must dramatically improve prison conditions before it appears again before the United Nations in five years time. Overnight… Read more Audio

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

8:39 AM.More than two hundred people are thought to have sailed from the Kerala coast in India to try to reach New Zealand in a boat so packed that many of them had to leave their luggage behind. The police… Read more Audio

8:43 AM.Tougher lending restrictions and a more agile construction industry is why Australia's notoriously expensive housing market is now more affordable than New Zealand's. The annual Demographia… Read more Audio

8:46 AM.People in a small town in Tasmania's Central Plateau have been evacuated as a bush fire spreads through the area. The community of Miena was put on high alert yesterday after the fire became difficult… Read more Audio

8:49 AM.In recent years fecal transplants have become the unlikely hero for people suffering from nasty recurrent diarrheal infections. Now, new research from the Liggins Institute in Auckland has found that… Read more Audio

8:53 AM.Serena Williams has knocked out the world number one, Simona Halep of Romania, to reach the quarter-finals of the Australian Open. And Novac Djokovic, the top men's seed, has also secured his place in… Read more Audio

8:57 AM.Last night's full moon was bigger and brighter than usual - dubbed a supermoon, as it makes a closer than usual  approach to earth. For those on the other side of the world, the supermoon coincided… Read more Audio