Morning Report

A brief update of movements in the financial sector. Audio

The UN's Human Rights Council hears about allegations of human rights abuses in West Papua. The Indonesia government says it's tackling the issue. RNZ International's Johnny Blades looks at both sides… Read more Audio

President Obama has suffered a setback in his plan to spare millions of people living illegally in the US from deportation. Audio

A legal expert thinks New Zealand's first prosecutions for owning and distributing violent Islamic State propaganda will not be the last. That expert, Waikato University law professor, Alexander… Read more Audio

An inquiry into the leak of information about restructuring at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has come back to bite top public servant Iain Rennie and prominent consultant Dame Paula… Read more Audio

The Australian government says it's doing all it can to help the kidnapped mine workers in Nigeria. But what's the best thing for it to do? We pose those questions to risk consultant Shannon Sedgwick.

An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

Road safety campaigners welcome the government's plan to spend six hundred million dollars to make black spots on rural roads safer. We talk to the head of the road safety charity Brake. Audio

A Los Angeles jury has found Led Zeppelin did not plagiarise the opening chords of the rock epic Stairway to Heaven from the US band Spirit. Audio

Polling in the European Union referendum closes in just over two hours. Our London correspondent reports that counting will go on all day. Audio

The head of the public service, Iain Rennie, will leave his job under a cloud after a critical report into leak investigation. A former MFAT head tell RNZ he's been disappointed by Mr Rennie's… Read more Audio

A critical report into Paula Rebstock's inquiry into a MFAT leak won't be a fatal blow to her continuing to work for the government. Our political reporter Benedict Collins has the story. Audio