Morning Report

Hawke's Bay police have stopped carrying arms as gang tensions ease, but a general arming order for Tairawhiti, covering the Gisborne area, is still in place.

All officers have been carrying arms since a fight erupted between Black Power and Mongrel Mob members in the Napier suburb of Taradale two weeks ago, which resulted in one person being shot.

RNZ Hawke's Bay reporter Anusha Bradley says that's no longer the case in Hawke's Bay and it's become apparent what led to the incident.

Fresh doubt has been cast on the strength and durability of the huge concrete basement at Auckland's highest skyscraper project.

An independent review also questions if the concrete walls around the 18-metre deep hole just off Queen Street, are up to the Building Code.

But the builder has protested about how the review was done.

Phil Pennington is looking into this.

Heavy rain has closed State Highway 6 south of Fox Glacier and caused power cuts in south Westland.

MetService is predicting further heavy rain to fall on the West Coast until Tuesday night.

The West Coast Emergency Management Group says the highway from Haast to Fox Glacier is closed at Thirsty Creek, until at least 10am on Monday.

Power is off to Fox Glacier and south to Paringa after a fault on the line from Franz Josef.

Westpower is arranging alternative supply options.

There will be an update on the road closure at at 10am.

The former Labour MP Clayton Cosgrove says he's mourning the death of his best mate, the former Prime Minister Mike Moore who died yesterday.

Moore, who was 71, entered Parliament for Labour in 1972 and was Prime Minister for just eight weeks in 1990.

He went on to lead the World Trade Organisation and was an ambassador to the United States.

Cosgrove speaks to Corin Dann.

A report published on Monday morning says 14 armed police were used to uplift a five-month-old Māori baby from a solo mother.

The report was published this morning as a result of a Māori-led national review of government agency Oranga Tamariki.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern listened to an interview with Whanau Ora Governance Group Chair Dame Naida Glavish.

She spoke to Susie Ferguson straight afterwards.

Fourteen armed police were used by Oranga Tamariki to uplift a five-month-old Māori baby from a solo mother.

That's a story in a report published this morning as a result of a Māori-led national review of government agency Oranga Tamariki.

Dame Naida Glavish, who chairs the Whānau Ora governance group, says the review  confirms systemic failure, discrimination and inexplicable breaches of human rights towards Māori.

The story of armed police descending on the home of a single mum is one of the disturbing cases revealed.

Dame Naida speaks to Susie Ferguson.

National Party leader Simon Bridges has made a high-stakes opening gambit in election year, attempting to knee-cap New Zealand First by ruling it out of any post-election deals.

But could the move designed to take out Winston Peters backfire and end up taking out Bridges instead?

Here's RNZ deputy political editor Craig McCulloch.

All foreign citizens who've travelled from or through China will be barred from entering the country from today. There are more than 14,500 confirmed cases of Novel Coronovirus, with many of of them are outside Wuhan.

A little over 300 people have died and 348 have recovered.

There are now ten countries, including New Zealand, who have denied entry to all foreign visitors who had recently been to China.

The other countries are the US and Australia, Russia, Japan, Pakistan, Iraq, Italy, Indonesia and Singapore.

New Zealand joins the US, Australia, Singapore, Japan and Vietnam in making the move in a bid to stop the spread of the deadly Wuhan Coronavirus.

Numerous countries have also suspended flights from China.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has raised its travel advice to New Zealanders for all of mainland China to "Do not travel", the highest level.

The Government also announced yesterday the New Zealanders it is planning to evacuate from Wuhan will be taken to a military base at Whangaparaoa where they will spend 14 days in isolation.

The Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield says there's still no departure time for the Air New Zealand-chartered evacuation flight but it's likely to be with days.

Health Minister David Clark speaks to Corin Dann.

The Black Caps batsman Ross Taylor admits they let another good chance slip against India.

News from the business sector, including a market report.