Morning Report

Iwi have accused a cruise ship company of staging a "pantomime powhiri" for its passengers as they landed in Tauranga.

Footage of shirtless non-Maori staff of the ship with fake moko drawn on their faces performing a half-hearted welcoming ceremony circulated online yesterday.

The company - Princess Cruises Australia - has apologised for the incident.

But mana whenua have labelled it blatantly racist.

Paora Stanley is the Chief Executive of Ngai Te Rangi and speaks to Corin Dann.

Frustrated carers are taking to the picket line today to protest over what they say are zero hour contracts.

The workers at Woburn Masonic Village, in Lower Hutt, want certainty over their shifts.

But the company is demanding they be available 24/7 in case of roster changes. Jonathan Mitchell reports.

Animal welfare officers are investigating how nearly 200,000 chickens died early on Saturday morning at a chicken farm in Helensville.

The Ministry for Primary Industries says the deaths, which RNZ has been told occured at a Tegel farm, were due to a back-up generator failing to kick in when the power went out.

Animal rights group SAFE says the deaths are unacceptable, and that it was clear the birds were treated "as units of production rather than sentient animals that they are, who suffer".

Poultry Industry Association's executive director Michael Brooks speaks to Philippa Tolley.

A brief update of movements in the financial sector.

Some people in Dunedin are resorting to staying in violent relationships to keep a roof over their head.

Others are couch-surfing or living in overcrowded conditions as the city struggles with housing issues.

RNZ Otago-Southland reporter Timothy Brown reports.

Samoa's government will shut down on Thursday and Friday this week so all public sector workers can help with the country's mass measles vaccination campaign.

The death toll of the measles epidemic has risen to 53, and 183 people remain in hospital including 19 critically ill children and two pregnant women.

RNZ reporter Logan Church is in Samoa.

New rules for the use of physical restraint in schools are on the way.

Changes make it clear that physical force can be used, as a last resort, to keep students safe from harm. The measures are part of the Education and Training Bill 2019, introduced in Parliament yesterday.

Chris Hipkins is Minister of Education.

The latest round of global climate talks has opened in Spain with the head of the United Nations warning the world risks sleepwalking past a point of no return.

Political leaders, diplomats and negotiations are meeting for two weeks of talks amid a growing sense of crisis, bushfires, cyclones, fast retreating glaciers and a wave of student-led protests around the world.

RNZ Pacific's Jamie Tahana reports from Madrid.

The England cricket captain Joe Root has his fingers crossed that the rain forecast for Hamilton today stays away and that they can put the Black caps under some pressure on the final day of the second Test.

Global tech companies and international officials are meeting in Wellington today to test how fast they can take down a livestream like the Christchurch mosque attack video.

After the March 15 shootings, tech giants - including Google and Facebook - designed a protocol setting out what they'd do.

Over the next two days 120 people from around the world are seeing how well that protocol will work.

The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and the managing director of YouTube in the Asia Pacific, Gautam Anand, will be at the workshop.

Ross Young is the manager of Public Policy and Government Affairs at Google in New Zealand.