Nine To Noon

Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about efforts by law enforcement to minimise the damage done by hackers who got the private health data of more than 9 million customers and started to release it on the dark web after a ransom was refused. PM Anthony Albanese is confident relations between his country and China are entering a new era after he and President Xi Jinping met on the sidelines of the G20. Flooding has again hit towns in central west New South Wales and anti-vax tennis champ Novak Djokovic will be allowed to play in the Australian Open despite his deportation and 3-year ban earlier this year.

A pilot programme set to run in Auckland is looking at how park and ride services could be adapted to scoot or bike and ride instead. The aim is to take the pressure off park and ride services which have become extremely popular and - at times - oversubscribed. Researchers at Auckland University's School of Architecture and Planning have received funding from Waka Kotahi to trial a six-month programme that will use the city's Panmure station to base a micro-mobility hub with e-scooters, e-bikes and powered bike racks to connect commuters with where they want to go. A series of mini-hubs will extend the reach of the hub network beyond the rail station area. Dr Tim Welch is the pilot's principal investigator and joins Kathryn to explain how it'll work - and why he believes any attempt to lure commuters from their cars brings benefits for the whole community.

Poland's government is holding an urgent meeting of its national security and defence committee after reports Russian missiles crossed into its territory, killing two people. It's believed two stray missiles hit a Polish village near the border of Ukraine. Local firefighters told Reuters two people had died in an explosion - a senior US intelligence official told the Associated Press the missiles had crossed into Poland, which is a member of NATO. Russia had been bombarding cities in Ukraine overnight New Zealand time - hitting cities including Kyiv and Lviv in the west, Kharkiv in the northeast and Odesa in the south. Ukraine's government says it's the heaviest wave of missile strikes in nearly nine months of war. Kathryn speaks with Warsaw-based Deutsche Welle correspondent Rafal Kiepuszewski.

The government is planning to ditch the Resource Management Act - promising a faster and more simple way to manage the built and natural environment. Two new bills replacing the RMA should become law next year, with the new system expected to take about a decade to bed-in. A third bill focussed on climate, will set out how managed retreat would work and who would pay for it, but that may not be passed before next year's election. The Environment Minister David Parker says the changes will free-up land and resources for more housing, and save developers, infrastructure providers and businesses hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

Steve Holloway is a sports reporter with NZME, former NZ national league footballer and co-host of the Between Two Beers podcast.

If you're interested in keeping healthy happy chickens, Dr Andrea Graves has written an ideal handbook to help you along the way. Using her knowledge from a PhD in animal behaviour and her practical experience with keeping chickens, Andrea describes how we can satisfy chickens' foraging obsessions, house them well and manage their interesting social lives. She also describes how to use them to grow healthy food. She joins Kathryn to share her chicken-whispering secrets.

Rebecca talks to Kathryn about yet another crypto washout, this time FTX. Can the last crypto exchange turn off the lights?. And all the things Elon Musk has done since he took over Twitter. Rebecca Stevenson is a senior writer at interest.co.nz

David Hill reviews The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy, published by Macmillan

A sweet gesture by Shaan Caskey's four-year-old daughter was the catalyst for the New Plymouth man to write a book for kids whose parents need a lot of rest – Daddy Needs to Sleep Today. Shaan has a traumatic brain injury (TBI) from a series of concussions he's undergone since childhood.

Ron takes an in depth look at the US mid-term election results. Republicans will have a slim majority in House of Representatives, not what they had expected at all. At least 20 seats fewer, maybe more like 25 fewer than forecast. The Senate will be 50-50 or possibly could have 51 Democrats, depending on a runoff in Georgia next month. If it's 50-50 it will be what it's been the past two years. Ron says there's been an unexpected boost for President Joe Biden, who is now more likely to run again, while heavy blows are raining down on Donald Trump, whose hand-picked candidates mostly lost in the important races. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis won re-election by 20 points and emerges as strong rival to Trump for 2024 .