Midday Report

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will be meeting with the Chinese President Xi Jinping in Bangkok this afternoon, ahead of the APEC summit.

She says it will be an upfront and frank conversation, and on the agenda are global security issues, climate change, and economic trade.

Xi Jinping has recently been re-annointed as head of the authoritarian country for an unprecedented third term.

Auckland University China Studies Centre senior lecturer and director Dr Stephen Noakes spoke to Max Towle.

In Egypt at the COP27 climate summit, talks on loss and damage have reached a key milestone.

That would mean vulnerable countries are a step closer to compensation for climate change-fuelled disasters essentially caused by developed nations.

This morning the European Union shifted its position, and diplomats finalised key parts of a negotiating text that politicians will now consider. 

The general counsel of Camco clean energy Karl Upston-Hooper spoke to Max Towle before the news came through.

MetService is warning of heavy localised downpours in thunderstorms across parts of the North Island this afternoon.

Max Towle got the forecast from meteorologist Lewis Ferris.

Groundswell has delivered a petition to stop the government's proposed agricultural emissions framework to MPs and ministers at parliament today.

Organiser Bryce McKenzie spoke to Max Towle.

News from the rural farming sector

Golfer Ryan Fox says "he doesn't know" how it would feel to be crowned the European Tour's top player for 2022.

News from the business sector

The government is spending a further half a billion dollars on roads and pipes, and upgrading transport and wastewater infrastructure - which it says will lay the groundwork for the development of thousands more homes.

Speaking in Hamilton, the Housing Minister Megan Woods says the city will benefit the most from the announcement - with $150 million to support 4000 new homes close to the CBD.

She told Max Towle more about the new spend.

Military academies and ankle bracelets on children as young as 10 are among the proposals National's touting today to crack down on serious young offenders.

It's pointing to the rise in ram raids, suggesting that some young people are getting off lightly, and on a National government's watch - there would be more serious consequences. 

The party leader Chris Luxon spoke to Max Towle.

Two people in Poland - near the border with Ukraine - have been killed when missiles hit a farm.

It's not entirely clear where the missiles came from - but there is serious speculation they were strays fired from Russia as part of a devastating barrage of attacks across Ukraine overnight.

International relations professor Robert Patman spoke to Max Towle.