Morning Report

US President Donald Trump has announced on Twitter that China will reduce and remove the 40 percent tariffs it's imposed on American cars. China has declined to confirm President Trump's announcement… Read more Audio

The Nurses Organisation says the Canterbury District Health Board isn't doing enough to protect nurses and the stabbing at the weekend is evidence of this. It's the third violent attack on a nurse… Read more Audio

An abuse survivor molested at a Catholic college says when he alerted the school, he was given five days to leave or be expelled. The Marist Brothers who ran the school say it's deeply regrettable -… Read more Audio

The Commerce Commission admits it will be under the pump getting a fuel market study done in twelve months. The government announced on Monday an investigation into the petrol industry was officially… Read more Audio

It's been dubbed the most important meeting on climate change since the 2015 Paris agreement. Delegates from 200 nations have begun talks in Poland on global warming amid dire warnings. The UN climate… Read more Audio

An American thinktank - Stanford University's Hoover Institution - has criticised New Zealand for not doing enough to counter Chinese influence in its internal affairs. A report from the institute… Read more Audio

The filmmaker Geoff Murphy has died aged 80. One of the pioneers of the modern New Zealand film industry, he's perhaps best remembered for the highly successful Utu and the road movie with a special… Read more Audio

New Zealand's under-17 women's football team have arrived home after winning bronze at the World Championship in Uruguay, the first time a New Zealand team has taken out an award at a FIFA event. Clay… Read more Audio

A woman who witnessed a decapitated head being thrown from down some stairs says she wants to move out of Petone. Bonnie Williams lives nearby and knew the 71-year-old man who was killed on Friday… Read more Audio

A new report has exposed abysmal results in science for children finishing primary school. The National Monitoring Study of Student Assessment shows just one in five Year 8 children are reaching the… Read more Audio

A Kiwi mother fighting a child cutody battle is unable to return to home despite the father of her children moving back to New Zealand. The mother was forced back to Australia under the Hague… Read more Audio

The Black Caps cricketers believe a first innings total of 250 would be enough to put Pakistan under pressure in the third and deciding test in Abu Dhabi. Audio