Morning Report

Istanbul's chief prosecutor says Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was strangled as soon as he entered the Saudi consulate last month. He says it was a premedidated killing and Mr Khashoggi's body was… Read more Audio

National says the Immigration Minister should resign over his bungled handling of a decision to allow a convicted drug smuggler from the Czech Republic to stay in New Zealand. In an embarrassing turn… Read more Audio

Praise has been flooding in for the two mountain guides who were killed in an avalanche on Mount Hicks in Aoraki Mt Cook National park on Wednesday. Wolfgang Maier and Martin Hess died while returning… Read more Audio

Anne Braun-Elwert from the mountain guide company Alpine Recreation was a good friend of both Wolfgang Maier and Martin Hess. They'd both worked for her Tekapo-based business. She told RNZ Otago… Read more Audio

The Black Caps cricketers are chasing 149 to win the opening T20 against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi. Audio

News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

A former software engineer says responding to work emails at home is stressful and a new trial at the telecommunications company 2degrees to help staff to switch off, doesn't go far enough. The… Read more Audio

An embarrassed Immigration Minister is demanding his officials review all information provided him about a Czech man Karel Sroubek. Sroubek also known as Jan Antolik, was granted residency despite… Read more Audio

Philanthropist and adventurer Jo Morgan says she was lucky to survive the avalanche that killed her two guides on Mount Hicks in Aoraki Mount Cook National Park. Until the tragedy on Wednesday Ms… Read more Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

The Ngāti Hine chair Waihoroi Shortland says the Crown is setting Ngāpuhi up for war - with its new mandate model. The representation plan drawn up by a Ngāpuhi working group, crown officials and… Read more Audio