The Wire with Joel

International Desk reports on Belarus forcing a Ryanair flight to land in its capital, Minsk, to arrest journalist Roman Protasevich, which led to condemnation from international civil aviation organisations and European governments. 

Barrister and Massey University adjunct lecturer Christopher Griggs talked to Justin Wong how Belarus could have broken international aviation laws and conventions.

Producer Louis Macalister spoke with the Society for Intellectually Handicapped Children's Director of Advocacy Trish Grant about their recent appeal to the Human Rights Tribunal over discrimination towards disabled students. 

This week Aneeka and Allan create a nickname (AA battery) before chatting science.

Allan the chemist discusses the credability of social sciences and they need to repeat experiments to solidify reliability.

James asks about COVID-19 detector dogs who can sniff out the virus in less than a second with high levels of accuracy.

Dear Science finishes off with noise sensitivity, and how chewing noises can potentially drive people to violence.

This week on The Wire, James covers the regualr segments while Aneeka brings us other pieces to tingle your fancy.

Dear Science with Allan takes twists and turns as always, with social sciences, COVID-19 sniffer dogs and noise sensitivity all on the table.

James talks to Brooke van Velden from the ACT part about the budget, teachers excellence and Palestine.

Aneeka talks to James McLaurin about AI moving us closer to 4 day working weeks.

Aneeka also talks to Tracey Hatton about earthquake resilience of buildings.