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Checkpoint for Tuesday 10 November 2009
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Maths student speaks out against Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
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
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Sesame Street turns forty
6:57 PM.The American children's television programme, Sesame Street, is celebrating its fortieth anniversary with an appearance by Michelle Obama. Audio
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Fort Hood shooting: suspect conscious and able to talk
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
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Tough stance urged on water theft in Australia
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
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Waatea News
6:50 PM.News from the Waatea team. Audio
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Sharing graves mooted in Sydney
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
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Ten nuclear sites win approval in UK
6:45 PM.Britain is about to embark on a new generation of nuclear-generated power stations. Audio
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Some East Berliners still adjusting after fall of Wall
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
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Sports News
6:35 PM.An update from the RNZ sports team. Audio
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October drowning stats - recreational incidents rise
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
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Closing arguments in Graeme Burton trial
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
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Business Update
6:20 PM.News from the business sector including a market update. Audio
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Tongans support proposals for political change
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
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Asia's pop princess is now also a convicted drug user
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
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Monkey King wins NZ Trotting Cup
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
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Harawira in hot water
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
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20th anniversary of fall of Berlin Wall
5:57 PM.World leaders have gathered in Berlin to mark the tearing-down of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago. Audio
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Father and daughter killed in Sydney
5:55 PM.Sydney police are hunting a suspect after a double homicide in the suburb of Randwick. Audio
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Court told of cellblock confessions
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
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Waatea News
5:45 PM.News from the Waatea team. Audio
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Smith defends subsidised international travel.
5:43 PM.Parliament's Speaker Lockwood Smith has defended subsidised international travel for MPs, saying it is part of their remuneration package. Audio
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Inquiry told ferry began to flood an hour before it sank
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
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Phil Goff : Harawira's latest outburst 'no apology'
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
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Sports News
5:35 PM.An update from the RNZ sports team. Audio
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Mayors and government talk about leaky homes deal
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
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Evening Business
5:20 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio
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Refugees unlikely to come to NZ
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
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Former police officer on trial over sex with prostitute
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
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Political analysis of Harawira's apology
5:10 PM.Political analysis of Harawira's apology. Audio
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Harawira fronts to apologise for use of language
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