Morning Report for Wednesday 30 January 2019

6:00 AM.Top stories this morning... An Auckland mother says Middlemore Hospital staff broke her baby's arm the government promises to crack down on life insurance rip-offs Kiwirail promises Wellington… Read more Audio

6:06 AM.The White Ferns cricket captain Amy Satterthwaite has again voiced her frustrations after the side were beaten by India by eight wickets in the second One Dayer in Mt Maunganui. Audio

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

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

6:39 AM.About 8,500 Wellington commuters were left stranded during rush hour on Tuesday when train services were cancelled at peak rush hour. Unusually high temperatures caused a problem with the overhead… Read more Audio

6:45 AM.New Zealanders on hunger strike over their treatment in Australian immigration detention centres expect authorities to try to wait them out. A protest organiser, Alvin Tuala, says talks with managers… Read more Audio

6:49 AM.Govt and life insurance industry promise people before profits. Is NZ facing an Aussie style housing slide? Hawkes Bay council chair hoses down prospect of Napier port company listing on Australian… Read more Audio

7:06 AM.The Indian cricketers have heaped more misery on their New Zealand counterparts - this time the women - and the White Ferns captain Amy Satterthwaite concedes they haven't been able to handle the… Read more Audio

7:09 AM.An Auckland mother is blaming Middlemore Hospital staff for breaking her one-month old baby's arm. The woman, who does not want to be named, took her son to the hospital last Wednesday with suspected… Read more Audio

7:13 AM.The Government is promising to crackdown on life insurance companies with tougher regulations, after a review of the sector. The Financial Markets Authority and the Reserve Bank have accused some… Read more Audio

7:20 AM.As the country bakes in the blistering heat, spare a thought for those whose jobs are made just that much harder by the hotter than average temperatures. Our reporter Conan Young has been in search of… Read more Audio

7:24 AM.What temperatures can we expect on Wednesday? Weather commentator Richard Green tells Guyon Espiner it's "looking fairly toasty" for the whole country again. Audio

7:27 AM.Thousands of Wellington commuters were left stranded yesterday when train services were cancelled during rush hour. Unusually high temperatures in the region caused a problem with the wires that… Read more Audio

7:33 AM.MPs are voting on Wednesday morning on amendments to Theresa May's Brexit deal that could shape the course of the next stage of negotiations with the EU. Conservative MPs have been told to back a… Read more Audio

7:37 AM.The Minister responsibile for the government spy agency, Andrew Little, could exercise a veto against Spark if it goes ahead with a project using technology supplied by Chinese tech firm Huawei. New… Read more Audio

7:40 AM.Warring junior doctors and their bosses will meet next week for more talks to avert yet more strikes. The doctors are in the midst of their second 48 hour strike at public hospitals. The action is… Read more Audio

7:45 AM.The five-billion-dollar foreign student industry is facing another drop in enrolments from its single most important market, China. In the last six months 500 fewer Chinese students got new study… Read more Audio

7:48 AM.As the heat continues to batter the country, a complete ban on fires in the open is now in force across Northland. It comes as a Northland landowner could face prosecution and hundreds of thousands of… Read more Audio

7:55 AM.Wellington has been turned into a virtual reality game - where players can dive with whales, play the drums on Cuba Street, and admire the night sky at Matariki. In what's believed to be a… Read more Audio

8:06 AM.The White Ferns skipper Amy Satterthwaite has some sympathy for her bowlers who haven't really had a chance to impress in the one day series against India. Audio

8:10 AM.Life insurers admit they have work to do but insist they can still be trusted. The Financial Markets Authority and the Reserve Bank have accused insurers of a range of misconduct, including charging… Read more Audio

8:15 AM.New Zealanders in Australian immigration detention are vowing to keep up a hunger strike after negotiations yesterday with authorities failed. Scores of men at several centres have been refusing to… Read more Audio

8:18 AM.It's been revealed that FaceTime - the video calling app on iPhones - has a glitch that allows people to eavesdrop on the person they're calling - even if the recipient doesn't pick up. In some cases… Read more Audio

8:23 AM.Environmental lobbyists are criticising New Zealand for missing an opportunity to clamp down on fishing that trawls the bottom of the ocean and destroys vulnerable corals and other rare species.The… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.Labour MPs are escaping the Beehive to hold their first caucus meeting of the year in Wairarapa. It follows Cabinet's first meeting for 2019 on Tuesday and the announcement that the Prime Minister is… Read more Audio

8:38 AM.Toronto landscaper has admitted killing eight gay men between 2010-17. Bruce McArthur, 67, was arrested last January and charged in the deaths of two men, and police subsequently charged him in six… Read more Audio

8:46 AM.Some police officers aren't reporting when they've been injured by an offender while doing their job. The police says it's actively reviewing its injury reporting systems, while the police association… Read more Audio

8:50 AM.At least 8,500 Wellington commuters were left stranded on Tuesday when train services were cancelled during rush hour. Unusually high temperatures in the region caused a problem with the wires that… Read more Audio

8:55 AM.People keen to check out the biggest kapa haka festival in the country are being warned to beware of scalpers. About 60,000 people are expected in Wellington on February 21 for Te Matatini ki te Ao… Read more Audio