Morning Report Essentials for Thursday 8 May 2025

In today's episode, smoke has billowed out of the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, and it is black showing no Pope has been chosen, dozens of Indian and Pakistani civilians have been killed after hostilities erupted between the two nations in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, the government has been told the police need greater powers to properly clamp down on transnational and organised criminal groups, the search is on for families of nearly 2000 mental health patients who were buried in unmarked graves in Porirua, the New Zealand Film Commission is working to strengthen ties with India and Europe as the United States threatens to slap a 100 percent tariff on any films made here, and a meteor shower, which is actually a brightly burning trail of space debris left behind by Halleys Comet, will be visible in our skies over the next few days.