Checkpoint for Monday 1 February 2010

5:06 PM.The police investigating the killing of an Auckland taxi driver in what they're describing as a frenzied attack have found a knife at the scene. Audio

5:10 PM.Meanwhile the Taxi Federation is calling for the Government to set up a loan scheme to help taxi drivers install security cameras in their cabs. Audio

5:13 PM.On the eve of the introduction of national standards in primary schools the Associate Education Minister Pita Sharples appears to have changed his mind about the controversial policy saying it has big… Read more Audio

5:16 PM.The Prime Minister has announced the Government will meet the deadline in the Copenhagen Accord to provide a target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Audio

5:19 PM.A man and a woman have appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court charged with the murder of businessman Herman Rockefeller. Audio

5:22 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

5:25 PM.The agent for Rugby World Cup corporate sales says hospitality packages are running out the door on the first day of trading. Audio

5:28 PM.Ten Americans who have been arrested in Haiti and charged with child trafficking insist they've done nothing wrong. Audio

5:33 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

5:36 PM.The Corrections Department is being promised a fight over plans to build a probation centre in the impoverished Hasting's suburb of Flaxmere for criminals sentenced to community work. Audio

5:41 PM.There's no sign of the usual summer increase in the number of houses up for sale. Audio

5:44 PM.The Dunedin City Council has moved not to sting ratepayers for quite as much money after a meeting that's gone on for much of the day. Audio

5:47 PM.News from the Waatea team. Audio

5:49 PM.Restraint boards, spitting hoods and leg restraints will be added to the police arsenal in an attempt to protect officers from harm and prisoners from harming themselves. Audio

5:54 PM.The Somali pirates who kidnapped a British couple last October have allowed the release of new video footage of their hostages. Audio

5:58 PM.Big spenders were out in force on the first day of the annual yearling sales at Karaka, South of Auckland. Audio

6:08 PM.The Prime Minister has spoken with the Associate Education Minister Pita Sharples today, after Dr Sharples raised doubts about national standards for schools. Audio

6:11 PM.The credibility of the world's climate change authority has taken another hit today with accusations that it based a claim about disappearing forests on a report by environmental activists. Audio

6:15 PM.Ten Americans who have been arrested in Haiti and accused of child smuggling insist they've done nothing wrong. Audio

6:19 PM.A lawyer specialising in animal law says increasing the maximum penalties for willful cruelty won't be enough to tackle the problem - when the whole system is a"mess run by amateurs". Audio

6:22 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

6:24 PM.The first-ever account of UN civilians on the frontlines, co-written by New Zealand doctor Andrew Thomson is set to be made into an HBO tv series. Audio

6:28 PM.This year's World Economic Forum in the Swiss Mountain resort of Davos has finished and as Bridget Kendall reports discussion centred around whether or not the current global economic recovery will… Read more Audio

6:33 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:36 PM.Israel is preparing to build another massive fence, this one along its border with Egypt. Audio

6:40 PM.He was once the golden boy of American politics. Audio

6:43 PM.The latest news from Radio New Zealand's Japan correspondent in Tokyo, Robin Powell. Audio

6:47 PM.News from the Waatea team. Audio

6:50 PM.To Australia now, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's first election commitment of 2010 is to push ahead with its controversial national schools website - my school. Audio

6:55 PM.The mayor of New York is trying to push through a tough budget that eliminates thousands of jobs in an effort to deal with a projected five-billion dollar shortfall. Audio

6:57 PM.An appeals court in Libya's overturned a prison sentence for a Swiss businessman who was accused of overstaying his visa. Audio