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The Bulletin: How the latest Covid-19 outbreak is being felt Good morning and welcome to The Bulletin. In today’s edition: How the latest Covid-19 outbreak is being felt, NZ woman captured on Syrian border on suspicion of being a terrorist, and bipartisan commitment to supporting Saudi war effort revealed. Yesterday was a day of significant developments in the Covid-19 outbreak and third lockdown, and I’ll try and get across them all. The biggest newsline was that no new community cases have so far been reported, over and above the three from the weekend. That’s good news, but it’s n...

John Kirk-Anderson/Stuff Mike Yardley was among the many Christchurch residents to find their way to Latimer Square shortly after the devastating earthquake on February 22, 2011. OPINION: February 22. It’s not just a date but a stake, a monumental marker that’s been driven deep and defining into the timeline of our lives. A date that elicits a heady spectrum of emotions and that reflexive sense of contorted discomfort in the pits of our stomachs. I’m not a big anniversary kind of guy. I don’t routinely binge on marking dates, but this year feels different because it is. The tenth a...

Yachting: Prada Cup Finals TVNZ 1, 3pm It’s crunch time for the Challengers in the finals of the Prada Cup. This week Luna Rossa and Ineos Team UK battle it out for a shot at wrestling the Auld Mug from the grasp of Team New Zealand when the America’s Cup begins in March. Continues Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. Watergate Prime, 8.30pm This acclaimed documentary explores the botched political plot that led to the downfall of US President Richard Nixon in 1972, and which also sparked the nonsensical practice of tacking ‘gate’ on to the end of anything vaguely scandalous. Sunday Febru...

Gerard Smyth never set out to make a follow-up to When A City Falls, his acclaimed documentary which told the story of the immediate aftermath of the February 22, 2011 Christchurch earthquake. “No, no, no, no” he says emphatically. “But I kept filming over the years. And I think I’d probably have 600 hours, but there’s probably heaps more footage and stories that we could go through. “And in those years it was in the back of my mind that one day these could be distilled and crystallised into one documentary.” Supplied That idea became When A City Rises, which chronicles Chr...