First Up Podcast

On today's First Up pod - Boris Johnson appears infront of the UK's inquiry into covid-19; Labour MP and shadow leader of the House Kieran McAnulty talks politics; an Auckland man who got so sick of… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - UN officials say there's nowhere safe to go in Gaza; we talk to a former chair of climate change negotiations who says COP28 doesn't seem to be focussed on its primary goal -… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - the latest on Gaza with ABC journalist Riley Stuart; we hear how the Far North District Council is using maramataka - the Maori lunar calendar - to schedule its meetings… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - a slip has closed State Highway 2 north of Napier - we catch up with Wairoa mayor Craig Little as the northern Hawke's Bay town is still cut off from the south; we hear the… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - the truce between Israel and Hamas gets extended again, but it's hanging in the balance; a new study says patients who should've gone elsewhere aren't to blame for… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - prisoner exchanges continue as the Israel-Hamas truce is extended; in India, all 41 trapped tunnel workers have been rescued; eight truck loads full of free fencing is about… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - we're in the Middle East as the four day truce enters its final day; finance minister Nicola Willis on the timeline for the mini mini budget and why smokers will pay for tax… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - there's a temporary truce in the Israel-Hamas war - we get the latest on the hostage deal and we go to West Auckland, where flood-hit homeowners are now dealing with the… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - we get the latest news out of the BIG APPLE with Bevan Hurley; Nabil joins us from Africa, as lions and hyena's are being rescued from the war zone in Sudan; it looks like… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - there is to be a four day pause in fighting in Gaza, and a hostage exchange - we'll have more on that soon have reaction from the UK; we talk with the 22 year old man riding… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - a potential truce and hostage deal in the Middle East, we get the latest from Tel Aviv; Kalafi Moala reports on the Pacific Games in the Solomon Islands; we have a list of… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod - the UK's chief science official fronts up to the Covid-19 inquiry; Japan is to buy missiles from the US and North Korea isn't overly impressed; Woolworths is asking for a bit… Read more Audio