First Up - The Podcast, Thursday 5 March

On today's First Up pod with Melissa Chan-Green: the government has announced it's preparing for the possibility of evacuating New Zealanders in the Middle East, we continue our coverage on Iran with our correspondent in South Asia Anas Mallick who has spent a lot of time in that country; the Golden Shears competition has kicked off in Masterton, we talk to a man who's shorn over a million sheep and Labour's Willow Jean Prime on why no Labour MP has yet voted against the bill to designate English as an official language alongside te reo Maori. First Up - Voice of the Nathan.