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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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Thursday, 20 July 2023
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Work colleague describes moment father found 3 daughters dead
20 Jul 2023A warning, this story contains distressing content. A work colleague of Graham Dickason has described finding a distraught father moments after he found his three daughters dead. Lauren Dickason has… Read more Video, Audio
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Evening business for 20 July 2023
News from the business sector, including a market report. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6331514963112 Video, Audio
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Police Minister fronts on fatal Auckland CBD shooting
20 Jul 2023Police minister Ginny Anderson spoke to Lisa Owen live in the Checkpoint studio. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6331516496112 Read more Video, Audio
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Some World Cup teams in police cordon during Auckland shooting
20 Jul 2023Despite the events of today, the Women's Football World Cup gets underway in just over an hour. Some of the teams here for the tournament were inside the cordon police set up around the downtown… Read more Video, Audio
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'Thoughts & condolences': Deputy mayor on tragic Auckland shooting
20 Jul 2023Auckland's Deputy Mayor has described today as one of deep contrast, with an unthinkable tragedy on what should be a time of celebration with the city hosting the opening match of the FIFA world cup… Read more Video, Audio
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'Shocking & traumatic': 3 dead in Auckland CBD shooting including gunman
20 Jul 2023[embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6331513001112
"Shocking and traumatic." That's the police commissioner's description of the Auckland CBD… Read more Video, Audio
Wednesday, 19 July 2023
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Football Fans out in force to welcome Netherlands to Tauranga
19 Jul 2023Fans have come out in force to welcome the Netherlands football team to the Bay of Plenty just days before the FIFA Woman's World Cup kicks off. The squad chose Tauranga as its base of operations… Read more Video, Audio
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Govt creating new offence aimed at charging young ram raiders
19 Jul 2023The government's creating a new ram raid offence that could see children as young as twelve charged, and facing a maximum ten year jail sentence. Right now burglary charges can cover ram raid… Read more Video, Audio
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Abuse survivor let down by govt's response to questions on torture
19 Jul 2023A survivor of abuse at Lake Alice psychiatric hospital says he feels fobbed off by the New Zealand government's response to questions by the United Nations Committee Against Torture. New Zealand… Read more Video, Audio
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Final countdown on for first match of FIFA Women's World Cup
19 Jul 2023It's the final countdown for the first match of the FIFA women's football world cup. In just over 24 hours time, the first match will kick off, the Football Ferns versus Norway. Our reporter Louise… Read more Video, Audio
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Mystery portraits: Effort begins to identify early indian immigrants
Putting names to faces is exactly what Te papa and the Wellington Indian Association is hoping to do with a series of mystery portraits. About 4000 photographic negatives were discovered in a cupboard… Read more Video, Audio
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Whakaari eruption hard to predict, but there were warning signs - volcanologist
19 Jul 2023A leading volcanologist says the exact time and day of an eruption cannot be predicted, but volcanic activity had picked up in the months leading to the deadly Whakaari White Island eruption. Dr Gill… 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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