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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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Monday, 18 June 2018
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Benjamin Fall’s red card cancelled
18 Jun 2018An Independent Judicial Committee appointed by World Rugby has decided French fullback Benjamin Fall was treated too harshly when he was sent off in Saturday night's second test against the All Blacks… Read more Video, Audio
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Evening business for Mon 18 June
News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio
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US immigration detention centres described as 'jails'
18 Jun 2018Anne Chandler is the Executive Director of Tahirih Justice Centre in Houston, and is representing parents separated from their children, then detained in immigration centres on the border. She talks… Read more Video, Audio
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US Congress given surprise access to detention centres
18 Jun 2018US members of Congress have made a tense, surprise visit to a New Jersey detention centre where they've met with arrested immigrants separated from their children. There have been demonstrations… Read more Video, Audio
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Winston Peters warms up for top job but still as deputy PM
18 Jun 2018Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters is warming up for his stint in the top job. He chaired Cabinet today and hosted Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's weekly post-cabinet media conference for the first… Read more Video, Audio
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David Clark: No more money for nurses
Health Minister David Clark joins Checkpoint live to respond to the nurses' decision to reject the DHBs' pay offer and why he offered Counties Manukau dhb acting chair Rabin Rabindran what he said was… Read more Video, Audio
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Nurses vote to reject DHB pay offer
Thousands of nurses are poised to walk off the job next month for the first time in nearly 30 years after rejecting a new pay offer from district health boards. But DHBs say there is simply no more… Read more Video, Audio
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RNZ Checkpoint with John Campbell, Monday 18th June 2018
18 Jun 2018Watch Monday's full programme here. Video
Friday, 15 June 2018
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Ancient Christopher Colombus letter returned to Vatican
15 Jun 2018A 525-year-old copy of a letter by Christopher Columbus mysteriously stolen from the Vatican was returned on Thursday after joint sleuthing by US Homeland Security agents and Holy See antiquity… Read more Video, Audio
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Life as a prominent politician's child
15 Jun 2018Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her partner Clarke Gayford will be welcoming their first child any day now. Following the birth, the new parents are expected to pose for photographs outside the… Read more Video, Audio
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Another hard winter for some Kaikōura businesses
15 Jun 2018A second hard winter is on its way for some Kaikōura businesses, after a summer season interrupted by cyclones and other wild weather. Some are wondering how they will keep their doors open. Logan… Read more Video, Audio
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Farmer’s second herd infected with Mycoplasma bovis
Two more cases of Mycoplasma bovis have been confirmed, one near Hastings, and another managed by Waikato farmer Henk Smit near Cambridge, who has already lost one of his herds to the disease. That… Read more 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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