First Up Podcast

On today's First Up pod with Melissa Chan-Green: Gaza officials say 20 people were killed in Israeli strike on a hospital, including five journalists - Middle East correspondent Alex Baird has… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod: Shoplifting is on the rise in the UK - Henry Riley tell us what they're doing about it; David Seymour talks about a four year parliamentary term and in Japan, Chris Gilbert… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod: the Rugby World Cup has kicked off - the Black Ferns are playing Spain Nathan gives updates; staying with sport, our Europe correspondent tell us about stubby legged dog… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod: Anas Mallick tells us about the devastating floods in Pakistan; California's Govenor is taking Trump on at his own game, Bevan Hurley updates us from the USA; First Up… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod: teacher strikes and OCR cuts - we talk the week in politics with Labour MP Willow Jean Prime; Taupo and Turangi News editor Dan Hutchinson has news from the central Pleateau… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod: in the Middle East, Hamas has accepted a new ceasefire proposal for Gaza; we look back at the last country to eat their Prime Minister and here in Aotearoa, as teachers go on… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod: Trump's meeting with Putin was short, Katherine Firkin beams in from New York to tell us if it was sweet; we catch up with swim champ Lewis Clareburt after he made an… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod: Japanese scientists found out what happens when you strap a camera to a seabird - Chris Gilbert explains; the government's scrapping the building consents regime, Deputy Prime… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod: Bevan Hurley reports on some bombshell claims about the death of Lisa Marie Presley; the New Zealand Air Force Museum has an exhibition commemorating VJ Day 80 years ago and… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod: we get world news from the UK and Australia; Labour's education spokesperson Willow Jean Prime talks teachers pay, NCEA and the scrapping of te reo Maori in some school books… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod: Hayden Wilde came back from a hospital bed to do the impossible and taste triathlon victory on the weekend, we speak to the superstar medic who got him back on the bike… Read more Audio

On today's First Up pod: Australia's joining France, the UK and Canada in acknowledging Palestine as a state - we ask deputy PM David Seymour what it will take for our government to follow suit… Read more Audio