'No longer tenable'. The country's top cop has renewed calls for protesters to move their vehicles off the roads blocking central Wellington streets, to bring to an end the major disruption.
They've been there for more than a week and pleas to move them to free parking nearby have been ignored.
Police Commissioner Andrew Coster says tow companies have so far been reluctant to help.
He has asked the Defence Force to help tow the vehicles away, and is waiting to hear back, but doesn't have a time frame for when they'll be gone.
Meanwhile patience towards the protestors appears to be wearing thin. The so-called anti-mandate protest is now in its eighth day and the crowd has only grown since it started.
Reporter Jake McKee and cameraman Angus Dreaver have the latest.
