Morning Report Essentials for Thursday 13 February 2025

On today's episode, the United States defence secretary Pete Hegseth says Ukraine cannot expect to return to its 2014 borders and has downplayed the chance of it becoming a member of NATO, the union representing 25,000 Health New Zealand workers has launched legal action to halt sweeping job cuts at the agency, a dispute between Israel and Hamas over the release of hostages has pushed the Gaza ceasefire deal closer to collapse, a raft of changes have been proposed for the Fisheries Act - including removing public access to on-boat camera footage through the Official Information Act, and McDonalds New Zealand is not ruling out appealing a decision from Commissioners, who decided not to grant consent to open a restaurant in Wanaka.