Tonight the National Party has selection Emma Mellow as their candidate to contest the Auckland Central seat at the election.

Audrey Tinline from the BBC speaks with Karyn about Russia and China's steps towards a vaccine for Covid-19, as well as Turkey's parliament voting this week to withdraw from a human rights treaty.

Businesses in the Cook Islands are worried about the delay to open the travel bubble with New Zealand. Karyn speaks with Fletcher Melvin - the chair of the Cook Islands Chamber of Commerce.

Six days since the devastating blast in Beirut left more than 200 people dead and more than 300-thousand people homeless.

Ninety percent of New Zealanders who have, so far, lost their jobs due to Covid-19, are women. The latest Jobs Report from Statistics New Zealand shows 10,000 women make up the 11,000 people who are now unemployed.

As lockdown continues in Victoria due to rising Covid cases, Queensland is shutting its borders to New South Wales and the ACT.

The 1985 NBL Final between Wellington Exchequer Saints and Auckland the is one of the most memorable games in New Zealand basketball.

Changes to the Residential Tenancies Act 1986 include banning rental bidding and 90-day no-cause terminations as well as changing the period for rental increases to 12 months. Karyn speaks with Robert Whittaker from Renters United.

Karyn speaks with Jackie Clark from The Aunties about the Chief Ombudsman's findings of his investigation into Oranga Tamariki's policies, procedures and practices when removing babies under interim custody orders.

It's early afternoon in the Lebanese capital Beirut where more than a hundred people have died and 4000 have been injured with many more believed trapped under the rubble of yesterday's massive explosion of a warehouse holding tonnes of ammonium nitrate.