Checkpoint for Tuesday 2 June 2020

5:08 PM.President Trump has threatened to mobilise the military to silence protesters who have been demonstrating for a seventh night in cities across the United States.

George Floyd's death has sent… Read more Video, Audio

5:17 PM.An activist from Black Lives Matter says riots across the United States following the death of George Floyd are an "uprising" born out of 400 years of oppression - and white Americans would not stay… Read more Video, Audio

5:19 PM.Nationwide protests attended by hundreds of people here over the weekend have drawn political condemnation for flouting level 2 rules, but there's little appetite for prosecutions.

Deputy Prime… Read more Audio

5:22 PM.And New Zealand could leap to Alert Level One as early as next week - with the Prime Minister bringing forward the date at which Ministers will make that crucial call.

On Monday, Cabinet will look at… Read more Audio

5:25 PM.Countdown is giving staff a $10 million stake in the company. The supermarket giant announced on Tuesday more than 14,000 staff would receive Woolworths Group shares as a thank you for working through… Read more Video, Audio

5:40 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

5:48 PM.A Māori law expert says the police minister is off the mark in saying the police is not a systemically racist organisation. Stuart Nash says while the police may have issues with unconscious bias… Read more Audio

5:51 PM.Campers, trampers and Coromandel residents were all wringing out their mops today after a deluge of prolonged heavy rain over the long weekend.

More than half a metre of rain lashed the region over… Read more Audio

5:55 PM.There are calls for a thorough investigation into the contractors supposed to recover the bodies of pets killed on Auckland roads, after revelations a worker threw a dead cat into a ditch instead of… Read more Video, Audio

6:07 PM.In the United States now where US President Donald Trump has today declared himself a "President of Law and Order", and threatened to deploy the military to cities across the country to end a week of… Read more Video, Audio

6:10 PM.CNN corespondent Darryl Forges is in Minneapolis - ground zero for the protests.

A few days ago his colleague Omar Jimenez and his camera crew were arrested by riot police, while reporting live on… Read more Video, Audio

6:14 PM.An organiser of the Black Lives Matter protest in Christchurch is standing by his decision to help create the event, despite social distancing rules not being followed.

It was one of several events… Read more Audio

6:17 PM.Talk of returning the country to a "new normal" has been welcomed with cautious optimism, but those who are eagerly awaiting a change warn the devil is in the detail.

The Prime Minister this morning… Read more Audio

6:30 PM.A short phasing traffic light at road works is being blamed for causing hundreds of holidaymakers to get caught in gridlocked traffic in the Awakino Gorge in Taranaki yesterday.

But the Transport… Read more Audio