Checkpoint for Tuesday 22 March 2016

5:09 PM.Taxpayers won't be footing the bill to settle the Prime Minister's defamation case with a journalist, but only because he's prevented from doing so by Parliament's rules. Audio

5:14 PM.A drug-fueled high speed car chase from Auckland through the Waikato overnight led to a stranger being snatched from his bed at gunpoint. Carla Penman reports. Audio

5:27 PM.Neighbours of a proposed egg farm that would have housed 310,000 chickens say a court decision declining consent is a victory for the little guy. Audio

5:33 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

5:37 PM.It's now been discovered that twice as many New Zealand soldiers were sent to Gallipoli as previously thought. Teresa Cowie reports from Archives New Zealand. Audio

5:41 PM.The Australasian Certification Authority wants New Zealand to adopt Europe's stringent steel testing regime, a call backed by local engineers. Audio

5:44 PM.A woman accused of multiple stabbings in Wellington last year has been found not guilty by reason of insanity. Catherine Hutton reports. Audio

5:46 PM.A year and a half ago a two-bedroom hovel, on a small section in the central city Auckland suburb of Grey Lynn, sold for over a million dollars. Since being bought by developers in late 2014 the… Read more Audio

5:50 PM.Technology company Apple have released a smaller, cheaper iPhone model which targets customers in emerging markets. Audio

5:51 PM.The New Zealand mens cricket team can match the feats of their female counterparts and make it three from three at the T20 World Cup when they take on Pakistan overnight. We're joined by sports… Read more Audio

6:08 PM.Professor Jenny Webster-Brown is Director of the Waterways Centre for Freshwater Management a combined initiative of Cantebury and Lincoln Universities. Audio

6:12 PM.This afternoon Dame Patsy Reddy - the country's next Governor General - and her husband, former Judicial Conduct Commissioner Sir David Gascoigne, spoke to our political editor Jane Patterson about… Read more Audio

6:15 PM.The Christchurch City Council has come up with a budget for the next financial year that attempts to please everybody. Conan Young reports. Audio

6:20 PM.South Auckland opened the country's tenth, and largest, so-called Children's Team today, which aims to help 1400 of the region's most vulnerable children. Audio

6:24 PM.An apparently unliveable Grey Lynn house has undergone a dramatic transformation since its $1.075m sale in 2014. Alex Ashton reports from the auction. Audio

6:25 PM.Pacific Islanders doing seasonal work in New Zealand are becoming crucial to the survival of some industries. Audio