The Wire with Caeden

Kelly Enright talked to Nicole Wedding from Radio Adelaide about the latest in Australian News: 

An Australian Academy of Science report has found the climate science workforce needs to grow by 77 employees over the next four years, as Australia has a critical shortage of climate scientists, leaving it at serious risk of not delivering essential climate and weather services to groups like farmers, coastal communities and international organisations.

A Landmark Survey by the Human Rights Commission has found that more than half of all Australian university students were sexually harassed on at least one occasion last year. And the report found women experienced harassment and assaults at disproportionately higher rates than men.

The latest NAPLAN results show students' performance has only improved marginally since tests that were introduced a decade ago. Federal Education Minister Simon Birmingham said, "The writing results are really a worry and I'll be talking to state and territory ministers about how we can turn that around." 

BBC reporter Kate Adie was on duty when the Iranian Embassy siege took place in London in 1980. As the SAS stormed the building to rescue hostages cooped up inside, Adie described the events unfolding in front of her to an audience of millions while crouched behind a car door. Her coverage of the event broke new ground for television reporting, and she went on to report from war zones around the world. Ahead of the New Zealand International Film Festival screenings of 6 Days, a film depicting what went down at the Iranian embassy, Adie came up to the 95bFM studio to have a chat with our news director Ximena about her experiences during the siege and about what she thinks of the state of the media today.

With a study by the NZIER into the potential benefits of reducing congestion, producer Ben speaks with senior economist, Christina Leung.

Crispr is a gene editing technology that is revolutionising science at an incredibly fast pace.

Some of its most exciting applications are the ability to tweak genes of eggs, sperm or embryos to alter human life - cosmetically, or more importantly to eradicate disease causing genetic mutations that parents can pass on, such as cystic fibrosis, breast or ovarian cancer.. A group of US Scientists at the Oregon Health and Science University have published a report where CRISPR has been used to correct a genetic mutation linked to a heart disorder called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in human embryos. This understandably has a huge range of implications and raises a number of questions of ethics and law. Harry spoke with Dr Jeanne Snelling, research fellow in bioethics and health Law at the University of Otago, on these potential implications and just whether this kind of procedure would succeed or at all be possible in New Zealand.