Every Monday night we cross to the BBC World Service in London and tonight Karyn will speak with Senior Journalist, Audrey Tinline, about the big stories she's following this week - the global rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine and the idea of a Covid passport to allow people to move around the work. Audrey will also spotlight a meeting of European Finance Ministers this week and how the EU is looking at how it can tax digital companies.

Team New Zealand has gone 5-3 up in the America's Cup after a dramatic win in the second race of the day on the Hauraki Gulf. Karyn speaks with RNZ National's America's Cup reporter, Felicity Reid, who's been at tonight's media conference and will share insights from today's racing and the schedule for the remaining races ahead.

The Prime Minister has asked for more information about a 15-year-old boy sent back to New Zealand by Australia on last week's flight of so-called 501 deportees. Karyn will speak with Children's Commissioner Judge Andrew Becroft who also has a number of questions about how this deportation aligns with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child which both New Zealand and Australia have ratified.

Wellington's intrepid music selector Finn Johansson joins Karyn for his fortnightly insights into new releases near and far. Tonight his highlights Elza Soares, Negative Nancies and Yukika.

Aucklanders are free to gather in large groups again with the shift back to alert level one at midday today. Karyn speaks with Auckland Arts Festival Kaihautu Maori, Ataahua Papa, about the impact of the alert level change on its programme which has been chopped and changed and delayed by more than a week.

Team New Zealand has won race four of the America's Cup to level the best of 13 series at two races all. The defenders crossed the line a minute and three seconds ahead of challengers Luna Rossa in the second and final race of the day after the Italians won the opening race by 37 seconds. Karyn speaks with Heather Burling, the mum of Team New Zealand skipper Peter Burling.

In 1994, the Church of England ordained its first women priests. The idea was first tentatively floated in 1920. But it took until 1975 for the General Synod to pass a motion saying it had "no fundamental objections" to the ordination of women to the priesthood. But it wasn't until 1985 that women could be lay clergy known as deacons, and it took til the mid 1990's to ordain 33 women priests. The story in New Zealand was vastly different. Jacynthia Murphy is an ordained priest. She talks to Karyn Hay about the patriarchy that wahine still battle even in New Zealand.

Day one of America's Cup racing between Emirates Team Zealand and Luna Rossa is behind us and another looms tomorrow. Just in time, NZ On Screen has launched a curated Sailing Collection, including 70 years of seafaring around Aotearoa. Content Director, and curator of the collection, Kathryn Quirk explains what it is and where to find it.

Calls today from the Maori Party for an Royal Commission of Inquiry into racial profiling of tangata whenua by police. It comes off the back of an RNZ investigation which found seven Maori whanau had rangatahi, some as young as 14, that were stopped by police and had their photograph taken. The Police Commissioner Andrew Coster denies the police are using facial recognition technology to profile young Maori. Karyn speaks with Associate Professor, Nessa Lynch, who led a New Zealand Law Foundation-funded research project into facial recognition technology.

Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Lately tonight - Colin Peacock will speak with Karyn Hay about the Prime Minister cancelling her Monday morning spot with Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB, NZME's banning of Dr Michael Bassett's column, and alarming accounts of Wellington after dark by a New Zealand Herald journalist.