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Checkpoint for Tuesday 25 July 2017
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Kava drinking club - cool or cultural appropriation?
6:24 PM.A social kava-drinking club in Auckland has come under fire from some Pacific people. Read more Audio
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Farms on Taieri Plains still submerged four days after deluge
6:20 PM.Stress levels are high for Otago farmers with flood waters still yet to subside. RNZ reporter Tom Furley went to talk to some of them today. Audio
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Boris Johnson visits wildlife sanctuary after bilateral talks at Parliament
6:17 PM.The British Foreign Secretary got up close and personal with some of New Zealand's endangered fauna today - and we're not talking about the country's politicians. Audio
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Dunedin Hospital needs 18 beds - Labour
6:14 PM.Labour's health spokesperson David Clark says Dunedin hospital's intensive care unit needs at least 18 beds. It currently has only six. Audio
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Urgent surgery postponed 7 times due to bed shortage
6:08 PM.Southern DHB has postponed urgent surgeries for months, cancelled as patients have been wheeled into surgery, and in at least one case a patient died on the waiting list, familes say. Video, Audio
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Pig farming, like you've never seen before
5:51 PM.SAFE is calling for a national ban on farrowing crates, used in 70 percent of pig farming in New Zealand. Checkpoint has exclusive footage secretly filmed inside the crates. Jessie Chiang reports. Read more Video, Audio
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Manslaughter accused planned to throw gun in skip
5:46 PM.Gustav Otto Sanft says a sawn-off shotgun went off in his hands while he looked it over and tried to light a cigarette, killing his daughter Amokura Daniels-Sanft. Edward Gay has the latest on the… Read more Audio
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Nearly 60 flood-hit Christchurch households need to find temporary accommodation
5:43 PM.Nearly 60 flood-hit households in Christchurch are having to find somewhere else to live because their properties are potentially contaminated with raw sewerage. Conan Young visited some of those… Read more Video, Audio
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Councils vote in favour of getting more powers to control cats
5:39 PM.The country's councils are calling on the Government to give them extra powers to protect wildlife from cats including microchipping, de-sexing and registration. Audio
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Todd Barclay makes silent return to Parliament
5:36 PM.Embattled Clutha-Southland MP Todd Barclay has made a low key return to Parliament following allegations he secretly recorded one of his electorate staffers, but he is still refusing to speak to… Read more Video, Audio
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Evening Business for 25 July 2017
5:33 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio
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Boris Johnson says Britain looking outwards as it exits EU
5:27 PM.Boris Johnson says the UK wants to have control of its own borders, but loves Kiwis coming into the country. The British Foreign Secretary met with the Government today and toured Zealandia. Video, Audio
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Not enough ICU beds at Southern DHB, CEO says
5:21 PM.Southern District Health Board's CEO Chris Fleming says the DHB does not have enough ICU beds and patient care is being delayed as a result. Video, Audio
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Chronic bed shortage forces surgery delays in Dunedin
5:08 PM.Several Southern DHB patients have had surgeries delayed multiple times because of a bed shortage in the intensive care unit, with one man passing away while he waited. Read more Video, Audio