First Up for Tuesday 5 April 2022

5:49 AM.And as you'll no doubt have heard, New Zealand will remain at the at the red traffic light setting for at least another nine days due to the stubbornly high number of Covid cases we're seeing in the… Read more Audio

5:35 AM.Unlike most suburbs, Te Atatu has its own weather guy - he is Philip Duncan and he talk cyclones, fires and warm weather with Nathan Rarere. Audio

5:27 AM.We head up to Northland now where it sounds like people are in for an unwelcomed rates rise ... first because of the closer of the Marsden Point oil refinery, and also the Three Waters Reforms. Susan… Read more Audio

5:18 AM.Horrifying reports continue to emerge from Ukraine of the bodies of civilians lining the streets of towns surrounding Kyiv, some of them apparently executed by Russian forces A few weeks ago we spoke… Read more Audio

5:11 AM.In Japan, the foreign minister is making headlines for his trip to Poland to discuss refugees. We discussed this with our correspondent Chris Gilbert in Tokyo, along with an update on the "flower… Read more Audio