Midday Report

Kiwisaver provider Simplicity is dismissing suggestions it's bowing to political pressure after divesting its shares in three Israeli banks. 

Anan Zaki has the business news.

It's been 20 days since Lower Hutt toddler Ruthless-Empire Ahipene-Wall - also known as Baby Ru - died of massive head injuries, but no-one has yet been charged over his death. Police are now appealing for sightings of the car used to drive him and three adults to hospital. Reporter Ashleigh McC

It's been 20 days since Lower Hutt toddler Ruthless-Empire Ahipene-Wall - also known as Baby Ru - died of massive head injuries, but no-one has yet been charged over his death.

Police are now appealing for sightings of the car used to drive him and three adults to hospital.

Reporter Ashleigh McCaull was at the media conference. McCaull spoke to Charlotte Cook.

aull was at the media conference. McCaull spoke to Charlotte Cook.

Police have arrested and charged a 42-year old man with the murder of an Auckland couple.

Sixty-six-year-old Fuk-Fu Kwok was found dead at his home in Ellerslie on Monday evening having suffered violent injuries.

His wife Mei Han Chong had been missing, but Friday morning police announced her body had been discovered in the Auckland suburb of Greenhithe.

Reporter Amy Williams spoke to Charlotte Cook.

Police have been giving an update on the homicide investigation into the death of a man at a house in the Auckland suburb of Ellerslie.

The man has been named as 66-year-old Fuk Fu Joseph Kwok.

Police confirmed he was killed in a violent attack and have been trying to locate his 67-year-old wife Mei Han Chong who's been missing for several days.

Reporter Lucy Xia spoke to Charlie Dreaver.

Wellington City Council is meeting today to decide what might be cut or further delayed to ease its financial woes.

It comes as the council considers selling its airport shares valued at $278 million and making other cuts as it works out a way to pay for its long-term plan.

Reporter Ashleigh McCaull is at the council meeting and spoke to Charlie Dreaver.

Dairy giant Fonterra wants a 30 percent intensity reduction in on-farm emissions by 2030.

Monique Steele has the rural news.

The Chiefs, Highlanders and Moana Pasifika have unveiled their Super Rugby lineups for next season.

Felicity Reid has sports.

BNZ has posted a record full year profit of $1.5 billion, which it likens to a game of two halves .. with a bumper first half but tough going in the second.

Anan Zaki has the business news.

Israel's military says its troops are at the heart of Gaza City and that 50,000 Palestinians have fled the area by foot - raising the question of what Israel's post-war plans are.

At the G7 summit, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that Israel must not reoccupy the Gaza Strip after the war, but "there may be a need for some transition period at the end of the conflict."

Australian National University Middle East specialist and former Australian ambassador to Lebanon Ian Parmeter spoke to Charlie Dreaver.

Senior hospital doctors and dentists have reached a settlement in their long-running pay dispute with Te Whatu Ora.

More than 5,000 members of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists took unprecedented nationwide strike action over concerns about pay, short staffing and workload.

Two further planned strikes were called off and the dispute ended up in the Employment Relations Authority.

Association of Salaried Medical Specialists executive director Sarah Dalton spoke to Charlie Dreaver.