2 Feb 2018

The Week In Review for week ending Fri Feb 2 2018

From The Week In Review, 6:00 pm on 2 February 2018

A review of the week's news including... bad weather hits, many victims from a Kiribati ferry sinking are likely to be high school children, the son of a medicinal marijuana campaigner says the government's medicinal cannabis bill is 'woefully inadequate' while the Green MP whose medicinal marijuana bill was heavily defeated this week says politicians have demonstrated how out of touch with the public they are, the refugee community is devastated following a terror attack in Afghanistan, a New Zealander is among a group of 10 foreigners arrested for "singing and dancing pornographically" in Cambodia, hundreds of Wellington commuters were stranded after an electrical fault stopped all Wellington's electric trains, a weather bomb hits mainly the south, the Prime Minister heads to Waitangi for a five day first visit, unhappiness at Fire & Emergency's dropping of an investigation into the devastating Port Hills fires, speculation mounts about the future of Bill English as National leader while his deputy says she's "feeling much better" since having gastric bypass surgery and a Kiwi singer-songwriter takes home her first ever Grammy.