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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, 29 January 2018
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Checkpoint weather: Monday, January 29
29 Jan 2018MetService meteorologist John Law with the latest weather forecast. Video, Audio
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Evening business for Monday 29 January
News from the business sector, including a market report. Video, Audio
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Central Otago farmers feeling drought 'mentally, financially, physically'
As the mercury keeps rising, farmers in the country's driest region say they expect a drought to be declared there within days. RNZ reporter Ian Telfer joins Checkpoint live from Alexandra. Video, Audio
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Kiwi man arrested in Cambodia for 'dancing pornographically'
29 Jan 2018New Zealander Paul Martin Brasch is among a group of 10 foreigners arrested for "singing and dancing pornographically" in Cambodia. John Campbell talks to his mum Vicky Malden. Video, Audio
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Couple died before fire at Dunedin flat
Anastasia Neve and David Clarke's bodies were found in a South Dunedin flat last week, after a fire in the building. Police said today the pair died before the blaze. Video, Audio
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EQC botches rebuild of quake-damaged Chch home - twice
29 Jan 2018Nikki Ross is still waiting on an insurance settlement almost seven years after her family home was damaged in the February, 2011 Christchurch earthquake. Trish Keith from EQC says they're hoping to… Read more Video, Audio
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Checkpoint with John Campbell for Monday, January 29
29 Jan 2018Watch Monday's full show here. Video
Friday, 26 January 2018
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Checkpoint Cafe Chat: Big Mama's, Taumarunui talks heat wave
People having lunch at Big Mama's cafe in Taumarunui - one of the hottest places in the country today - pass the phone around to talk to John Campbell about how they're coping with the heat. Audio
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Plastic bags to be banned in Vanuatu
26 Jan 2018A ban on single-use plastic bags and polystyrene takeaway boxes in Vanuatu is being billed as a benefit not only to the environment, but the local economy. Audio
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Whangarei youth welcome Govt focus on regional unemployment
26 Jan 2018Northland reporter Lois Williams called in at the city's Youth Space today to ask teenagers their opinion of the $13 million He Poutama Rangatahi project. Audio
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Regional youth unemployment scheme given $13 million
26 Jan 2018The He Poutama Rangatahi initiative was set up by the previous Government to target youth unemployment in the regions, and has received a $13 million backing by the new Government. Video, Audio
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Ewe auctions a rarity as sheep numbers dwindle
In 1982 there were 22 sheep per person in New Zealand. Now that number's around six, making events like the historic Harwarden ewe auction, held in North Canterbury today, less common. Video, Audio
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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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