The latest RNZ Pacific news and sport.

Heather Keats from MetService takes a look ahead at this weekend's cyclone Vaianu

US correspondent Zach Montellaro set the scene around Washington as the US/Iran ceasefire looks to be on shakey ground

Associate Minister of Fruit and Veg Richard Warwick unveils his Fruit of the Week - the Packham Pear

Children's author and illustrator Ruth Paul tells Jimmy Ellingham about her new play HELP! A Monster Ate My Story

A CIA colleague, running a similar operation, is killed. Kit Bennetts has to decide whether he should carry on with his dead end technology play. Former Soviet diplomat Rouben Azizian says we may be at the beginning of World War Three.

An operation against the GRU, Soviet Military Intelligence, means getting right up close to a Russian. Former CIA Counterintelligence Chief Susan Miller talks us through recruitment processes and shows how CIA, the US Military, State Department and the White House work closely together on political warfare.

A 'permanent presence' on the moon is only a few years away, and Mars maybe a decade behind that - but that doesn't mean it's time to sell your house and make plans to relocate.

A wrap of the day's big stories

We find out about the life and work of Erima Maewa Kaihau.