Newsable Stuff

Just how much influence is China trying to exert in New Zealand? Stuff's investigative journalist Paula Penfold talks about her new documentary, The Long Game, and the years it took to get made.
Tesla has a problem in the US with over production and the car parks full of excess vehicles are so big they can be seen from space.
We hear from the pen enthusiast in Gore who is looking for a home for her huge collection.
Plus ChatGT gets an update to stop it saying who won an election, before it's held.

We’re only just a couple of weeks in, but this year’s season of winter ills seems to have hit us full on. We talk to the Medical Director of New Zealand’s Royal College of GPs, Dr Luke Bradford .
The appeal by Scott Watson against his conviction for the Sounds killing of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope is coming to an end. We look back over what's happened in the past week.
Later today, the second part of season three of Bridgerton drops. Why has is it so seriously popular? We chat with Lorna Piatti-Farnell, a professor in pop culture at the Auckland University of Technology.

The father of a 10-month-old baby from Te Kūiti has admitted he may be responsible for some of the injuries his son suffered on the day he died, but says it was not intentional.
Stuff's senior journalist, Sam Sherwood, has ben speaking to the child's father and shares what he's been told with Newsable.

Could huhu grubs be the answer to future proofing New Zealand’s food sources? We speak to Dominic Agyei, a senior lecturer in food science at Otago University.
What does New Zealand hope to get out of a high-level meeting in Wellington with China’s Premier, Li Qiang? 
Plus, the government wants to nearly double the country’s solar power. But where will the panels go?

Police are offering an $80,000 reward for information leading to the location and safe return of missing children Jayda, Maverick and Ember Phillips.
At a media standup, Acting Detective Inspector Andrew Saunders from Waikato police said there would be more officers around Marokopa where the children are believed to be with their father, Tom Phillips.

501 deportations are set to resume in full swing, but did the so-called softening of the policy ever reduce the wave?
New Zealand prides itself on the goods it exports, but why are doubts being cast on our ability to pump it up? We speak to the Executive Director of the NZ International Business Forum, Stephen Jacobi.
Forget those worries about daycare, a new book says babies love being in groups. And scientists have discovered that a well-known animal species gives each other names.