Checkpoint for Tuesday 25 January 2011

6:46 PM.News from the Waatea team. Audio

6:35 PM.Tropical Cyclone Wilma hit Tonga's outer islands this morning with the Ha'apai group worst affected. Audio

6:32 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:26 PM.Three Indonesian fishermen have appeared in court in Perth on charges of reckless people smuggling in relation to last month's Christmas Island boat tragedy when up to 50 asylum seekers died . Audio

6:20 PM.Despite consumers curbing their spending, the BNZ-Business New Zealand Performance of Services Index rose just marginally in the month. Audio

6:16 PM.An international study of 1,000 New Zealanders has found people with low levels of self-control at the age of three are more likely to have health and money problems and a criminal record by the time… Read more Audio

6:08 PM.The Revenue Minister is dismissing Labour's pledge to make the first $5,000 earned tax free, as a rehashed bad idea. Audio

5:57 PM.An 81-year-old Christchurch woman who saved her neighbour from being attacked with an immitation samurai sword is being praised for her bravery. Audio

5:52 PM.Tennis correspondent Dave Luddy reports from Melbourne where he is watching the first day of quarter-final action. Audio

5:46 PM.News from the Waatea team. Audio

5:43 PM.The Department of Conservation is laying charges against two men accused of attacking a baby fur seal in Henderson Creek in West Auckland last night. DoC's Phil Brown joins the programme. Audio

5:40 PM.The President will lay out the case for more investments to help spur the US economy and to take time to introduce cuts. Daniel Ryntjes reports from the US Capitol. Audio

5:36 PM.In his State of the Nation address in Auckland today, Labour's leader, Phil Goff, says the party would make the first few thousand dollars of earnings tax-free. Radio NZ's political editor Brent… Read more Audio

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

5:27 PM.A study of five cities has found fast-food and convenience stores are five and a half times more likely to be nearer to schools than in other areas. Now secondary principals and obesity campaigners… Read more Audio

5:24 PM.The Category Three storm passed by the eastern side of Vava'u, before directly hitting the Ha'apai group of islands this morning. Audio

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

5:16 PM.Karen Percy is in Moscow and joins Checkpoint with the latest. Audio

5:10 PM.The Labour Party has fired its opening election year shot with a proposal to make the first five-thousand dollars of personal income tax free. Labour leader Phil Goff joins the programme. Audio

5:08 PM.The police in New Zealand are meeting tonight to discuss what steps can next be taken now that the husband of a woman burned alive last week has been tracked down in Fiji with his 4-year old son… Read more Audio

5:00 PM.Fiji police question husband of of woman burnt alive in Auckland; Labour's low-income tax incentives and its leader's state-of-the-nation address; the latest on the Moscow airport bombing; Tonga's… Read more Audio