In today's episode, New Zealand's High Commissioner to Vanuatu says the hunt for survivors continues, after 93 people were evacuated via aircraft last night, Police are warning people to drive carefully this holiday season after four people have died on the roads in the past 24 hours, The University of Auckland's clinical trials centre studied seventy-four people and had half the participants dressing for a mock consultation wearing their own clothes and the other half put into those flimsy hospital gowns, and we talk to a rescue worker who described how the rescue operation is going in port Vila.

Medical and rescue teams have been working frantically in Vanuatu to search for survivors and help pull people from the rubble of collapsed buildings. New Zealander Shell Piercy spoke to Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira.

The University of Auckland's clinical trials centre studied seventy-four people and had half the participants dressing for a mock consultation wearing their own clothes and the other half put into those flimsy hospital gowns. One of the researchers, Elizabeth Broadbent, spoke to Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira.

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Liam Lawson intends learning as much as he can from Formula One world champion Max Verstappen rather than looking to challenge him on the track.

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Police are warning people to drive carefully this holiday season after four people have died on the roads in the past 24 hours. Senior sergeant Sam Oram spoke to Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira.

New Zealand's High Commissioner to Vanuatu says the hunt for survivors continues, after 93 people were evacuated via aircraft last night. High Commissioner Nicci Simmonds spoke to Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira.

In today's episode, the search continues for survivors two days after the devastating 7.3 earthquake in Vanuatu, residents of the small Far North town of Mangamuka are over the moon as State Highway 1 through the Mangamuka Gorge is set to reopen at midnight tonight, New Zealand is back in recession as new GDP data shows a sharp contraction in the economy in the September quarter, and airports across the country are preparing for another busy holiday period.

The defacto leader of Syria says his country is exhausted by war and isn't a threat to its neighbours or the west. Andrew McRae spoke to World Vision's Syria response director Emmanuel Isch.