Checkpoint

Reducing long term welfare dependency is the main aim of a Welfare Review Group set up by the Government which could lead to an overhaul of the benefit system. Audio

The Washington summit on nuclear security has opened with dire warnings about the consequences if nuclear weapons fall into the hands of terrorists. Audio

The former cabinet ministers Sir Douglas Graham and Bill Jefferies have been charged with misleading investors, following the collapse of Lombard Finance. Audio

The best of Checkpoint. Audio

Iraqi, Palestinian and Syrian refugee children have performed in a circus show after a six month training program by the United Nations and the Danish Cultural Institute in Damascus. Audio

An investigation's begun in Britain after it emerged that as many as eight hundred thousand people may have had their wishes to donate organs wrongly recorded because of a data handling error. Audio

Voting in Sudan's first multi-party election in two decades is not going smoothly. Audio

News from the Waatea team. Audio

The British prime minister Gordon Brown will launch the Labour party manifesto tonight. Audio

The World Health Organisation is beginning a review of its handling of swine flu. Audio

Senior members of the American government have declared their strong support for the Afghan president Hamid Karzai following a rocky period between the two allies. Audio

Unemployment has dropped for the second month in a row with four thousand people coming off the benefit. Audio