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Vladimir Putin has confirmed that Russia's barrage of missile attacks across Ukraine was in retaliation for Saturday's destructive explosion on the only bridge to Russian-occupied Crimea.

President Putin says the strikes targeted energy, military and communications facilities.

But the missiles actually took out children's playgrounds and civilian areas during rush hour.

Associate professor of Russian and history at the University of Canterbury, Evgeny Pavlov, spoke to Charlotte Cook.

The government wants farmers to pay for agricultural emissions for carbon dioxide and methane from 2025.

It will be a farm-level split gas approach, but the industry is not happy with the proposal.

Federated Farmers says it will rip the guts out of small-town New Zealand.

The agriculture minister Damien O'Connor refuted that, saying the scheme was close to what the farmers' group He Waka Eke Noa had proposed and the government was now asking for feedback.

He spoke to Charlotte Cook.

Some of the players taking to the field at Rugby World Cup are equipped with smart mouthguards - measuring the force of each hit they take.

It's part of a study by World Rugby and of Univetrsity of Otago - which has so far measured over 38-thousand head impacts from over 700 people.

It's being lead by Professor Melanie Bussey who joined Māni Dunlop.

A prison advocacy group says an indefinite ban on face-to-face visits in some prisons is unconscionable and will have catastrophic impacts on inmates and their whanau.

Seven jails have banned visitors with no clear end date - citing safety - as Corrections scrambles to fill nearly 500 job vacancies.

Pillars supports children and whanau of prisoners - Māni Dunlop spoke to the General manager Maxine Gay

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At least 40 percent of the elected mayors are new, after the elections reveal a lean to the centre right candidates.

University of Auckland politics professor Lara Greaves told Morning Report it follows the polling trends where labour and independent candidates aren't pulling in the support.

And the Far North Mayoralty is proving to be one of those really close races.

Former deputy mayor Ann Court was initially announced winner from preliminary results.

But after special votes were counted 31-year-old former councillor Moko Tepania took the lead.

Sam Olley is in Te Tai Tokerau and spoke to Māni Dunlop.

Sensitive patient data that was stolen in a cyber attack has been published on the internet by what the company is calling "malicious actors".

Data from Pinnacle Midlands Health Network was hacked on the 28th of September and has over the weekend been released publicly online.

The stolen records cover more than 450,000 patients from Waikato, Lakes, Taranaki and Tairawhiti districts.

Chief executive Justin Butcher spoke to Māni Dunlop.