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Checkpoint for Tuesday 19 July 2016
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Checkpoint with John Campbell, Tuesday 19 July2016
5:00 PM.Watch Tuesdays full programme here. It begins 5 minutes in. Video
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RBNZ announces new lending measures
5:09 PM.The Reserve Bank is targeting property investors with its announcement that new loan-to-value ratios will see investors requiring a 40 percent deposit. Audio
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Banana Republic: the ugly story behind New Zealand’s most popular fruit
5:12 PM.From the top of a rusting observation tower, the leaves stretch out in every direction: thick, glossy, utterly uniform, as far as the eye can see. Read more Video, Audio
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Akld property overpriced, says Brash
5:14 PM.Former RBNZ Governor Don Brash says the RBNZ should not focus on tackling inflation while the Auckland property market is seriously overpriced. Video, Audio
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Todd McClay aware of Zespri, China talks
5:19 PM.The Trade Minister now says he was made aware that Chinese officials had approached Zespri about trade retaliation and that the company was worried. Audio
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RNC held in Cleveland, Ohio
5:23 PM.Simon Marks reports from the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Audio
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Woman charged with mother's manslaughter
5:28 PM.An Auckland woman is charged with the manslaughter of her mother, who was found found dead in her bed with broken ribs, a broken breast bone, open sores and lying in her own waste. Audio
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Waikato children missing since last night
5:32 PM.Police say they are confident two children who went missing from a Waikato house are safe despite being missing since 10 o'clock last night. Video, Audio
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Evening Business for 19 July 2016
5:36 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio
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Where do NZ's bananas come from?
5:39 PM.An RNZ investigation into the conditions faced by the Philippine workers who pick bananas for New Zealand has uncovered an ugly picture of exploitation, violence and underpayment - with workers paid… Read more Video, Audio
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Russia facing total ban from Rio Olympics
5:43 PM.Calls are growing for Russia to be banned outright from next month's Olympic Games in Rio de Janiero after a damning report detailed widespread state-sponsored doping. Audio
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Serco under fire for treatment of sick inmate
5:53 PM.Serco is once again in the spotlight for the wrong reasons after a report revealed a sick prisoner had to get his cellmate at Mt Eden Prison to scrub his gangrenous toes with toilet paper. Audio
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'Tower of Terror' slide requires full-time security guard
5:55 PM.The Christchurch Crown company Otakaro Limited has a security guard onsite to monitor children on a slide at the Margaret Mahy Family playground. Video, Audio
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Don Brash says all solutions will be "politically damaging"
6:08 PM.The former Reserve Bank governer, Don Brash, says any solution to make housing more affordable in New Zealand will be politically damaging because prices simply have to fall. Audio
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Rising sea levels and Otago
6:12 PM.South Dunedin residents are expected to spend the coming months and even years discussing how to deal with the forecast effects of rising sea levels in their region. Audio
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New Zealander describes Nice experience
6:15 PM.In France, the shock and sadness that immediately followed the truck terror attack in Nice seems to have been replaced by anger and frustraton. Rebecca Whitlocke is a New Zealand expat living in Nice.
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Youth politicians hit parliament
6:21 PM.138 of New Zealand's future political leaders descended on Parliament today, to take part in the Youth Parliament and get a taste of politics. Audio
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Update from Indonesia with Deputy political editor
6:24 PM.We go to Indonesia where the Prime Minister John Key has just landed in Surabaya, the capital of East Java. Our deputy political editor Chris Bramwell is travelling with him and joins us by phone. Audio