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Checkpoint for Thursday 5 June 2008
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Obama and McCain Campaigns Start Now
6:57 PM.Now that the two main parties seem to have their candidates, what happens next and what issues will dominate? Audio
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Chinese Earthquake Investigation
6:53 PM.Chinese officials seem to be dragging their heels over promised investigations into the why so many schools collapsed. Audio
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Waatea News
6:50 PM.News from the Waatea team. Audio
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World Food Summit
6:47 PM.There are calls at the World Food Summit in Rome for a second Green Revolution. Audio
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World Environment Day
6:43 PM.Hundreds of people in Hamilton marked World Environment Day and Arbour Day together. Audio
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Government Needs Scientists Help
6:40 PM.About 40 scientists gathered at Parliament this morning as part of World Environment Day. Audio
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Court of Appeal
6:37 PM.The Court of Appeal has taken four years jail time off the sentence for a Lower Hutt man who repeatedly stabbed his children. Audio
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Sports News
6:31 PM.An update from the RNZ sports team. Audio
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Zimbabwe's Opposition Leader Questioned
6:27 PM.The Mugabe regime has drawn the condemnation of the international community for its treatment of Morgan Tsvangirai. Audio
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Evening Business
6:25 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio
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Prime TV Billboards Removed
6:20 PM.Prime TV billboards in Wellington and Auckland have raised the ire of the Jewish community. Audio
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Central Plains Water Scheme
6:17 PM.The project's resource consent application is being heard in Christchurch, as Shanna Crispin reports. Audio
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Insulation For Northland
6:13 PM.Celebration in Kaitaia this afternoon, with plans to insulate 4,000 homes - free of charge, for families in the region. Audio
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Reserve Bank Predictions (Part 2)
6:06 PM.With Council of Trade Unions economist, Peter Conway and the chief executive of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, Charles Finny. Audio
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US Ships Depart Myanmar
5:57 PM.Myanmar's military regime has refused to allow the aid to be delivered for the past three weeks. Audio
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Humpback Whale Encounter
5:55 PM.The whales annually migrate off the coast, but this is the first recorded humpback sighting so close to the Napier shoreline. Audio
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Rudd Lobbies For Regional Alliance
5:52 PM.Australia's Prime Minister hopes the body will help govern security and trade in the region. Audio
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Waatea News
5:50 PM.News from the Waatea team. Audio
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Wave Power
5:47 PM.Officials have been shown an energy device designed to generate electricity using the rise and fall of ocean waves. Audio
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Otahuhu B Offline (Part 2)
5:43 PM.Contact's chief executive David Baldwin explains what's gone wrong at the plant. Audio
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Clinton To Bow Out - But When?
5:37 PM.Our correspondent in Washington Ollie Barratt has the latest on Hillary Clinton's next move. Audio
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Sports News
5:34 PM.An update from the RNZ sports team. Audio
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Child Pornography Arrests
5:27 PM.One of the biggest cases in Australia's history has seen police arrest 70 people and remove 4 children from their homes. Audio
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Evening Business
5:24 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio
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Police Launch Homicide
5:21 PM.A young woman was killed when a vehicle collided head-on with the car she was driving in South Auckland. Audio
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Otahuhu B Offline
5:18 PM.The country's second biggest thermal power plant has been closed for repairs but the government says there's no cause for alarm. Audio
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Real Estate Prices
5:10 PM.The Real Estate Institute says there's no need for homebuyers to panic at the Reserve Bank's predictions. Audio
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Reserve Bank Predictions
5:06 PM.The Reserve Bank is predicting hard times ahead - with house prices falling, and unemployment rising. Audio