Morning Report for Thursday 14 November 2019

6:00 AM.A major shake up of public broadcasting is on the cards. We have the leaked details.

MPs vote in favour of voluntary euthanasia - opening the door for a referendum at the next election.

Dozens of… Read more Audio

6:05 AM.The Australia netball coach Lisa Alexander wants the Constellation Cup against New Zealand restored to a five-Test series to make the most of the sport's fiercest international rivalry. Read more Audio

6:08 AM.The first public hearings in Donald Trump's impeachment inquiry are under way in Washington.

The president is accused of improperly seeking help from Ukraine to boost his chances of re-election next… Read more Audio

6:17 AM.More than 60 Otago University medical students are now caught up in an investigation into using overseas work placements to go on holiday.

The university has already found that 15 final year students… Read more Audio

6:19 AM.A brief update from the business sector. Read more Audio

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

6:40 AM.Legislation which would allow some terminally ill adults to request a medically assisted death will go to a public referendum at the 2020 election.

In Parliament on Wednesday, 69 MPs voted for the… Read more Audio

6:48 AM.Severe flooding in Venice that has left much of the Italian city under water.

The flooding is being blamed on climate change by the city's mayor. Mayor Luigi Brugnaro says it's the highest water… Read more Audio

6:49 AM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Read more Audio

7:05 AM.The Greymouth squash player Paul Coll says he's not finished yet after making the semi-finals of the men's world championships in Doha. Read more Audio

7:10 AM.The fate of RNZ and TVNZ may soon be in the hands of Cabinet ministers, as they consider a proposal to disestablish both broadcasters and create an entirely new public media entity.

The Government is… Read more Audio

7:17 AM.The right to choose to die is now in the hands of New Zealanders.

Last night Parliament voted 69 votes to 51 in favour of the End of Life Choice Bill that will make assisted dying legal for some… Read more Audio

7:21 AM.David Seymour's End of Life Choice Bill has passed its third reading, meaning the public will be asked to decide on whether to legalise euthanasia.

The Bill would allow people to seek a… Read more Audio

7:27 AM.The catastrophic fire conditions have eased over much of New South Wales, but there are still dozens of bushfires burning in both New South Wales and Queensland.

Residents in Noosa North Shore on… Read more Audio

7:37 AM.Hawke's Bay hapū are at loggerheads with Wairoa District Council over the closure of a bridge which forces them to carry bodies nearly a kilometre on foot for burial at their urupā.

Patangata Bridge… Read more Audio

7:40 AM.Facebook says by the end of September it had removed more than 4.5 million pieces of content related to the Christchurch mosque attacks.

In figures out today, it says 97 percent of the items were… Read more Audio

7:43 AM.Documents show a highly paid senior manager at the Transport Agency heads a team that has trebled in size by being filled with contractors. This comes at a time when government agencies have been… Read more Audio

7:51 AM.Immigration New Zealand is planning to contact almost 1200 people with arranged marriages who were refused visas to join their new husbands and wives in New Zealand.

In May, it issued guidance to… Read more Audio

7:56 AM.Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway says migrants will be able to navigate the new visa process for culturally arranged marriages.

A change at Immigration New Zealand in May made it harder for… Read more Audio

8:05 AM.The Greymouth squash player Paul Coll says he has his sights set on going further at the men's world championships in Doha. Read more Audio

8:10 AM.RNZ and TVNZ could be disestablished and replaced with a new public broadcaster under a new proposal that may be before Cabinet within weeks.

The government is looking at how best to shore up public… Read more Audio

8:17 AM.There was anger and tears from midwives at a public meeting last night as they vented their frustration at chronic staffing and equipment shortages at Hutt Valley DHB.

Around 90 midwives, parents and… Read more Audio

8:21 AM.A man whose wife died while fighting in the courts for the right to end her life is applauding a vote in Parliament last night that means euthanasia will now be decided by a public referendum. 

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8:25 AM.A vote on euthanasia will go before the public during the 2020 election, after David Seymour's End of Life Choice Bill passed its third reading.

The Bill allows for people suffering unbearably from a… Read more Audio

8:29 AM.Back to our story on the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.

The US House Intelligence Committee has called its first two witnesses - hoping to prove that Mr Trump attempted to bribe the… Read more Audio

8:35 AM.A brief update on the movements in the financial sector. Read more Audio

8:40 AM.Descendants of the Tūhoe prophet Rua Kēnana are backing proposed changes to the pardon Bill, which would see the Crown take greater responsibility for the unlawful conviction of their ancestor.

The… Read more Audio

8:45 AM.The Crown will close its case against the man accused of murdering the British backpacker Grace Millane on Thursday.

The jury has now watched CCTV footage of the 27-year-old buying cleaning products… Read more Audio

8:51 AM.Hundreds of farmers will be outside Parliament this morning for a protest organised by the environmental group '50 Shades of Green'.

The group says it is concerned that good pastoral land is being… Read more Audio

8:54 AM.Students on the audio engineering degree course that moulded Joel Little - producer of Lorde's Grammy award-winning hit 'Royals' - are fuming it's been closed without them even being told.

They… Read more Audio

8:57 AM.The New Zealand Music Awards are on tonight in Auckland.

The awards celebrate the the well-known musicians and the up and coming.

RNZ's Music 101 presenter, Charlotte Ryan, talks through her picks… Read more Audio