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Checkpoint with Lisa Owen is RNZ’s weekday drive-time news programme, Our people, stories and breaking news and interviews from 4-6pm.
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Tuesday, 12 June 2018
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Farmers order forestry companies to pay for ‘one helluva mess’
12 Jun 2018Farmers in flood hit Tolaga Bay want forestry companies to put up $100m to help clean the damage done to their stock and properties by runaway slash. They're also considering legal action. Read more Video, Audio
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'Extraordinary' Trump, Kim Jong meeting a surreal event
12 Jun 2018Donald Trump said it was an "honour" to meet Kim Jong Un, when they met for a historical - yet surreal - summit in Singapore, CNN's Asia Pacific Editor Andrew Stevens says. Audio
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Checkpoint with Rowan Quinn, Tuesday 12th of June 2018
12 Jun 2018Watch Tuesday's full programme here. Video
Monday, 11 June 2018
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Actors, TV networks agree to end casting couch
The largest US actors' union and the four major US television networks have agreed to limit auditions in private hotel rooms and homes following the #MeToo movement. Video, Audio
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Government keeping close eye on East Coast
11 Jun 2018Meka Whaitiri, MP for Ikaroa-Rawhiti, and associate forestry minister, says a planned upgrade of last week's event in Tolaga Bay means the area will get more financial and technical support. Audio
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Trump, Kim Jong Un meeting 'a propoganda victory'
11 Jun 2018Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un prepare for tomorrow's historic summit in Singapore. Anna Fifield from the Washington Post is there. Video, Audio
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Gisborne area prepares for another deluge
11 Jun 2018The Gisborne area is bracing for more heavy rain just a week after flash flooding hit Tolaga Bay. Our reporter Anusha Bradley joins us live. Read more Video, Audio
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Three-strike law repeal called off after NZ First refused
Justice Minister Andrew Little has had to call off plans to repeal the 2010 three strikes law after New Zealand First refused to give its support. Video, Audio
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Guatemalan woman's family buried under volcanic ash
11 Jun 2018Eufemia Garcia watched in horror as the Fuego volcano sent scalding ash and gas surging over her home a week ago, burying her children and grandson among 50 of her extended family. Video, Audio
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Council could partly fund Kapiti Auckland flights
11 Jun 2018Kāpiti Coast District Council is considering putting up some money to help get local flights off the ground again, after Air New Zealand stopped its daily flight between Paraparaumu and Auckland in… Read more Audio
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Mum's crusade to name schools that used seclusion
A Southland mum has made it her mission to find out what schools used seclusion in the past, but the Ministry of Education says it simply doesn't know. Read more Audio
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Farmer blames 'fall from grace' on Mycoplasma bovis
Two years ago, Susan McEwan was running the biggest calf rearing operation in the South Island, but now she's cleaning in Palmerston. She says Mycoplasma bovis is to blame. You can hear more on… Read more Video, Audio
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About this programme
Checkpoint is RNZ's drive-time news and current affairs programme, tackling the national and international stories of the day.
The show airs weekdays fro4-6pm and is hosted by Lisa Owen.
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