Checkpoint for Tuesday 10 November 2009

5:05 PM.Hone Harawira apologised today for his tirade of obscenities against white people but says Labour leader Phil Goff should be shot for suggesting he be kicked out of the Maori Party. Audio

5:10 PM.Political analysis of Harawira's apology. Audio

5:15 PM.A former police officer accused of using his position on the force to get free sex from a prostitute is on trial in Christchurch. Audio

5:18 PM.The Prime Minister says Sri Lankan boat people engaged in a standoff with Australian and Indonesian authorities are unlikely to be given a home in New Zealand. Audio

5:20 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

5:25 PM.A meeting between Auckland mayors and the Building and Construction Minister Maurice Williamson about a deal to take leaky homes out of the courts has just finished. Audio

5:35 PM.An update from the RNZ sports team. Audio

5:37 PM.Phil Goff says Hone Harawira's latest controversial outburst, ' that the Labour leader should be lined up against the wall and shot"is a poor excuse for a public apology over racist language and for… Read more Audio

5:40 PM.The first survivor to give evidence at the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the sinking of Tonga's doomed passenger ferry, has spoken of seeing water flooding the ship an hour before it went down… Read more Audio

5:43 PM.Parliament's Speaker Lockwood Smith has defended subsidised international travel for MPs, saying it is part of their remuneration package. Audio

5:45 PM.News from the Waatea team. Audio

5:50 PM.Two convicted murderers have given evidence about cellblock confessions they say were made by the man accused of killing a Palmerston North drug dealer. Audio

5:55 PM.Sydney police are hunting a suspect after a double homicide in the suburb of Randwick. Audio

5:57 PM.World leaders have gathered in Berlin to mark the tearing-down of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago. Audio

6:05 PM.The Maori Party MP Hone Harawira is in hot water again, this time for suggesting that Labour leader Phil Goff should be shot. Audio

6:10 PM.The country's richest harness race has just been run at Addington Raceway with Monkey King winning the New Zealand Trotting Cup and the one million dollar tote. Audio

6:15 PM.In the most publicised drugs case in Japanese history, the normally straitlaced singer and actress Neriko Sakai has been sentenced to 18 months jail for using methamphetamine, or P. Audio

6:18 PM.Members of New Zealand's Tongan community say the country is ready to be run by an elected parliament and for the constitutional monarch to have less power. Audio

6:20 PM.News from the business sector including a market update. Audio

6:23 PM.The defence lawyer for the high profile inmate, Graeme Burton, says the Crown has failed to prove his client tried to kill a fellow prisoner. Audio

6:25 PM.Water Safety New Zealand says 14 of the 15 people who drowned in October were men - and boats were a factor in nearly half the deaths. Audio

6:35 PM.An update from the RNZ sports team. Audio

6:40 PM.The German city of Berlin has been party central today as world leaders joined thousands of ordinary Germans marking 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Audio

6:45 PM.A shortage of cemetery space in Sydney has lead to a discussion about bodies being dug up after 50 years and re-buried in shared plots. Audio

6:45 PM.Britain is about to embark on a new generation of nuclear-generated power stations. Audio

6:50 PM.News from the Waatea team. Audio

6:53 PM.Australia's Federal Water Minister, Penny Wong, says stronger laws are needed to combat water theft in the Murray-Darling Basin. Audio

6:55 PM.US government officials say army major Nadal Malik Hassan will be charged in a military court over last week's shooting of 13 people at the Fort Hood military base, in Texas. Audio

6:57 PM.The American children's television programme, Sesame Street, is celebrating its fortieth anniversary with an appearance by Michelle Obama. Audio

6:58 PM.Iran's opposition movement has found an unlikely hero in a maths student who publicly challenged the country's supreme leader. Audio