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Checkpoint for Thursday 26 November 2009
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Hope in fight against HIV AIDS
6:58 PM.There's growing hope that the global fight against AIDS has reached a turning point. Audio
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Sting concerned over impact of Amazon dam
6:58 PM.The performer Sting has used his latest visit to Brazil to urge the government there to listen to the Amazon Indians who oppose a new hydro-electric dam in the region. Audio
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Palermo's anti mafia holiday service
6:54 PM.Palermo in Sicily is famous as a mafia stronghold - but now a new tourist service there is offering to meet your holiday needs - hotel, restaurants and car hire - using only firms that refuse to pay… Read more Audio
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Aboriginal workers returning to cattle industry
6:51 PM.In Australia new job training programmes are underway to bring indigenous Australians back into the cattle industry in the Northern Territory. Audio
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Waatea news for Thursday 26 November 2009
6:46 PM.News from the Waatea team. Audio
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Fears over vast stockpile of nuclear material in Britain
6:43 PM.A group of leading nuclear experts have delivered a strong warning about how Britain is managing its vast stockpile of nuclear material. Audio
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Iraqi National Museum to be viewed via Google
6:41 PM.Much of the contents of the Iraqi national museum are to be made available online via Google from January next year. Audio
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Financial crisis forces many Australians into part time jobs
6:39 PM.A new report about the working lives of Australians has revealed thousands of workers have been forced into part time employment. Audio
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Sports news for Thursday 26 November 2009
6:33 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio
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Swiss court grants Roman Polanski bail
6:28 PM.The Swiss government has said it sees no reason to appeal against the decision of a Swiss court to grant bail to the film director Roman Polanski. Audio
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Couple gatecrash state dinner at the Whitehouse
6:26 PM.Questions are being asked about security at the Whitehouse after it was revealed that a couple gatecrashed a state dinner last night. Audio
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Evening business for Thursday 26 November 2009
6:23 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio
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Christchurch doctor awaits his fate
6:21 PM.A Christchurch doctor accused of having sex with a 16-year-old patient and giving her Class A drugs may have to wait until next month to learn his fate. Audio
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Mike Pero to let the dust settle over remembrance flight
6:18 PM.Businessman Mike Pero says he's letting the dust settle before deciding whether to go ahead with a remembrance flight to Mount Erebus in January. Audio
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Volcano forces more than 300 to leave their homes - Vanuatu
6:14 PM.Volcanic ash and gas is forcing more than 300 people to leave their homes on an island in the north of Vanuatu. Audio
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Manawatu River"among world's most polluted"
6:10 PM.The Manawatu River has been called one of the most polluted in the western world after new tests of its water. Audio
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Concern over private prisons in NZ
6:06 PM.The Prison officers union says any privatisation of prisons in New Zealand would be a national disgrace and end up costing the taxpayer more. Audio
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Legislative support needed to support healthy eating
5:57 PM.Healthy eating and exercise campaigns aimed at Pacific Islanders could be a waste of time and money according to one study. Audio
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Estimated possum numbers down from heady days of the 70-80's
5:54 PM.Efforts to control New Zealand's possum population appear to be working, with latest estimates putting the number of pests at 30-million - down from 70-million in the 1980s. Audio
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Mike Pero postpones plans for Erebus memorial flight
5:50 PM.The Christchurch businessman had intended to put on a charter flight to the mountain, for people, including the families of those who had lost loved ones in the disaster, which killed all 257 onboard… Read more Audio
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Waatea news for Thursday 26 November 2009
5:47 PM.News from the Waatea team. Audio
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MPs told ACC proposal on hearing-loss cover is callous
5:44 PM.MPs have been given a message - loud and clear - that a six percent threshold for hearing claims is callous and a breach of the ACC scheme. Audio
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Prison union: 'no rationale for private jail management'
5:39 PM.An Australian prison union says arguments that privately run jails bring greater efficiency and cost effectiveness are spurious and don't deliver better prisons for inmates or staff. Audio
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Pay deal reached in Auckland bus dispute
5:36 PM.Auckland's long-running bus dispute has ended with workers finally accepting a pay offer that's the same as one they rejected earlier this month. Audio
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India's PM vows to track down those behind Mumbai attacks
5:36 PM.Exactly a year ago, the Indian city of Mumbai was attacked by ten armed men in a raid that left more than 170 people dead including nine of the gunmen. Audio
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Sports news for Thursday 26 November 2009
5:33 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio
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Cane toad hops on plane to NZ
5:26 PM.One of Austalia's hideous cane toads which slipped through biosecurity at Queenstown Airport has been captured, contained and killed. Audio
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Evening business for Thursday 26 November 2009
5:22 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio
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Obama to go to climate change conference with proposed cuts
5:21 PM.President Obama has decided that he will go to the UN climate change conference-taking place in Copenhagen next month after all. Audio
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Manawatu River"among world's most polluted"
5:16 PM.The Manawatu River has been called one of the most polluted in the western world after new tests of its water. Audio
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Govt's job to organise memorial flight- son of Erebus victim
5:13 PM.Eric Houghton's whose father died in the crash thirty years ago says the January flight being organised by Christchurch businessman Mike Pero is badly thought out and should not go ahead. Audio
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Maori Party dismisses Goff's claims
5:11 PM.Both National and the Maori Party have been quick to dismiss Phil Goff's claims. Audio
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Goff warns New Zealanders about foreshore and seabed deal
5:06 PM.The Labour leader Phil Goff is telling New Zealanders they should be worried about what kind of deal the National-led government is stitching together with the Maori Party over the foreshore and… Read more Audio