This is Late Edition on RNZ national for Friday 16 June.

Beyond meat on Nine to Noon using paint to harness solar enegy and in Dateline Pacific - Australia compensates Manus Island detainees

Reducing the number of traffic accidents by teaching driving online. New Zealand and Israel - friends again. In Dateline Pacific - the kiwi catholic missionary deported from Papua New Guinea.

The author of a book about trying to write a book and not seeing the trees for the hedge..

you're listening to Nights on Radio New Zealand National this is Late Edition....in tonights programme: tourism infrastucture - do we have enough two tales about trees and in dateline pacific - the politics of obama care in Hawai'i

What the former head of the FBI said about Donald Trump Christchurch goes multi cultural and in Dateline Pacific reaction to Fiji's move to ban entire villages from working in New Zealand

More on the problems facing the Bluff Oyster industry and what's on the minds of the Australian people. In Dateline Pacific, the Pacific Games Council threatens legal action against Tonga.

Oysters under threat from a parasite that's been found at Stewart Island. The wonderful world of jellyfish and Doodling and daydreaming , and lack of focus, might be a good thing. In Dateline Pacific, the impact of the digital world is encouraging debate on the future of the Samoan language.

Tonight from Afternoons the further cracking of the Larsen C Ice Shelf, from Nine to Noon a New Zealand public health sociologist who is outraged that a 10 year old who was menstruating was excluded from primary school and The Shirley Rugby Club in Christchurch is having a meeting under urgency to discuss allegations that the grandmother of a player in a junior team was verbally abused.

Hotelliers respond to Auckland's bed tax getting through the holiday weekend without road rage and in Dateline Pacific, Samoans sweep the pacific music awards