This Week’s Details: Floods, Eggs, and Carmel Ceproni

Ukraine’s Aid Operations: How Dangerous Is It?

When New Zealand aid worker Anne Bray knocked on the door of two elderly women living in a bombed-out apartment in Kyiv, she was overcome with bitter cold and darkness.

“It’s absolutely soul-destroying,” she says.

“I’m just sitting in the dark in the cold. I was cooking and there was a camping gas stove in the kitchen.”

She tells Sharon Brettkelly about her experience in Ukraine late last year. Kiwi aid worker Andrew Bagshaw disappears.

Carmel Ceproni: What does it take to be Deputy Prime Minister?

She’s popular in the Labor caucuses and seen as a safe hand, but Carmel Ceproni Deputy Prime Minister?

Sepuloni is the first Pasifika person to hold the position. For the past five and a half years, she has had a high-profile job as Minister of Social Development.

Tom Kitchen speaks FM today Host Toba O’Brien and former Labor MP Ruamanubao Dame Wynn Laban.

Flooding in Auckland: Titirangi Road teetering on the edge

first person – Residents of Titirangi days without electricity and water: Their road is blocked at one end by a giant fallen kauri, with a house teetering on the edge of the slip above. Other homes on this steep, bush-covered street are also at risk.

But there was a bigger problem on the other side of the road.

After passing a fire truck parked next to a no-traffic sign and turning a corner, there was a gaping hole exposing a huge pile of timber that had formed a retaining wall.

Sharon Brettkelly approaches the West Oakland Massacre.

Can Egg Deficiency Be Solved?

A shortage of egg supplies has thrown New Zealand into chaos.

Supermarket shelves are empty, the number of cartons you can buy is limited, Interest in buying hens I shot.

Matthew Scott found it to be the end result of several different things: a ten-year transition from a battery cage. The decision of a major supermarket chain to go completely cage-free. Supply chain problems resulting from the pandemic and the war in Ukraine.

Can sponge cities really prevent floods?

A full-scale cleanup is underway across Auckland after last week devastating floodpeople are starting to talk about throwing out old building rules, “Unengineering” our city – Helps deal with future catastrophic rainstorms.

Tim Welch, who teaches urban planning at the University of Auckland and is co-director of the Future Cities Research Hub, says it’s important to find natural streams sealed and paved with tar and replant them with water-absorbing native plants. says.

But it’s also about moving people and their homes out of the most dangerous places.

Sharon Brettkelly visits Te Auaunga Creek in Auckland’s Roskill Mountains to find out what a cave city is.

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