Radio National Breakfast

Regional Australia is experiencing a surge in barista competitions, surprising many in the industry. 

Around the country, competitions such as the Barista Brawl have seen people trying their hand at pouring shots, making latte art, and sniffing out the best beans.

Those in the industry believe it's improving the standard of coffee across the nation and expanding speciality coffee options in regional Australia. 

• Guest: Craig Dickson, CEO of the Nomad Coffee Group, and former world barista championship judge

Nigeria's president says all 24 schoolgirls who were abducted by armed assailants from a government boarding school last week in Kebbi, in the country's north-west, have been rescued.

No details have been released about the rescue mission.

But it follows a series of violent attacks across the country, including the abduction of more than 300 students from a Catholic school in Niger State and a deadly assault on a church service.

• Guest: Madina Maishanu, BBC reporter in Niger State 
• Producer: Brooke Young

The United States adviser for African affairs has announced that the Sudanese army and paramilitary group, Rapid Support Forces, have failed to formally accept a proposed humanitarian truce.

Mediators from the US, UAE, Egypt and Saudi Arabia have been urging both sides to stop fighting, as famine spreads and millions remain displaced.Meanwhile, Amnesty International has released a report saying that atrocities committed by the RSF in North Darfur province constitute war crimes.

• Guest: Cameron Hudson, Senior Fellow in the Africa Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies 
• Producer: Anne Barker 

The Bureau of Meteorology is weathering a storm of its own over its controversial website redesign. 

It has revealed the cost is $96.5 million, after initially saying the redesign cost $4 million.

Then, Melissa Clarke wraps the reaction to One Nation leader Pauline Hanson wearing a burqa in the Senate, her latest parliamentary stunt. 

And we hear from Oscar-winning actor Russel Crowe about his latest film.

Recap the morning's news, politics and global affairs with the Breakfast Wrap.

Eighty years ago, the Nuremberg trials broke new ground in international law with the idea of individual criminal responsibility, holding Nazi generals accountable for atrocities committed during World War II.

Now, those events have been dramatised in the new movie 'Nuremberg' written and directed by James Vanderbilt staring Russell Crowe.  

So many of the things you buy today have likely been touched, handled or manufactured in some way by an industrial robot.  

The Bureau of Meteorology is weathering a storm over its controversial website redesign, after revealing the cost is $96.5 million, after initially costing the project at $4 million.

Gender, misogyny and extremist violence are inextricably linked, according to a new book by renowned extremism expert Cynthia Miller-Idriss.

She's currently visiting Australia to promote her book Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism — and meet with local community and government leaders.

• Guest: Professor Cynthia Miller-Idriss, sociologist and extremism expert from American University
• Producer: Oscar Coleman

The federal government has announced it will increase funding for the national domestic, family and sexual violence support service — 1800RESPECT — by almost 40 per cent.

The service has reported a 3,000 per cent increase in demand for its services since its inception 15 years ago.

• Guest: Tanya Plibersek, Minister for Social Services
• Producer: Isadora Bogle

If you're at risk or experiencing domestic violence or sexual assault you can call 1800 RESPECT on 1800 737 732.

For years doctors have prescribed Metformin - a cheap, 100-year-old drug - as standard therapy in Type 2 diabetes, to reduce insulin resistance and improve blood sugar. But no study had directly tested how Metformin affects insulin resistance in adults with Type 1 diabetes. Now, in a world-first clinical trial, researchers at the Garvan Institute in Sydney have shown, although Metformin does NOT counteract insulin resistance in Type 1 diabetes - it does reduce the amount of insulin people need, while maintaining similar blood glucose levels

Guest: Dr Jennifer Snaith, clinical researcher and endocrinologist at the Garvan Institute and St Vincent's clinical campus, Sydney

Producer: Anne Barker