Checkpoint

Friday 7 March 2014, with Mary Wilson

Audio from Friday 7 March 2014

Not all audio is available due to copyright restrictions.

  • Checkpoint Top Stories for Friday 7 March 2014 ( 23′ )

    17:00 Doctors describe girl's horrific injuries from a dog attack; Police find suspected meth lab in Wellington apartment; State Services Commissioner says TVNZ register inappropriate; Skipper fined for snagging and dragging runabout; Obama urges Russia to take diplomatic "off-ramp" with Ukraine.

  • Checkpoint Top Stories for Friday 7 March 2014 ( 23′ )

    17:00 Doctors describe girl's horrific injuries from a dog attack; Police find suspected meth lab in Wellington apartment; State Services Commissioner says TVNZ register inappropriate; Skipper fined for snagging and dragging runabout; Obama urges Russia to take diplomatic "off-ramp" with Ukraine.

  • Doctors describe girl's horrific injuries from a dog attack ( 6′ 14″ )

    17:07 Doctors treating seven year-old Sakurako Uehara who was mauled by a pack of dogs say she will need years of surgery to try to repair the damage caused by more than 100 bites to her face and body.

  • Police find suspected meth lab in Wellington apartment ( 4′ 24″ )

    17:14 A pot bubbling on a stove and a chemical smell were the first warning signs to armed police this morning that the inner city Wellington apartment they were searching for drugs could also be a meth lab.

  • State Services Commissioner says TVNZ register inappropriate ( 4′ 7″ )

    17:18 The State Services Commissioner, Iain Rennie, has told Television New Zealand that having a register of staff's political allegiances is a step too far.

  • Evening Business for 7 March 2014 ( 2′ 48″ )

    17:22 News from the business sector including a market report.

  • Skipper fined for snagging and dragging runabout ( 3′ 4″ )

    17:27 An American skipper's been fined for snagging a family's small fishing boat and dragging it along in the Waitemata Harbour. The father of the family of four was forced to cut the anchor line of his boat to free it from the 17 metre long US vessel, Karma which was on a round-the-world cruise.

  • Sports News for 7 March 2014 ( 3′ )

    17:32 An update from the team at RNZ Sport.

  • Obama urges Russia to take diplomatic "off-ramp" with Ukraine ( 4′ 56″ )

    17:37 President Obama has delivered a sharp riposte over Crimea's regional parliament voting to break away and join Russia. He's spoken again to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin urging him to take a diplomatic "off-ramp" to diffuse the crisis in Ukraine.

  • High Court rules Council has power to add fluoride to its water ( 2′ 51″ )

    17:43 The High Court has thrown out an attempt to take the power away from councils to add fluoride to drinking water. Anti fluoridation campaigners say the judge has got it wrong and they'll appeal.

  • Man sent to jail for bashing pigs with iron bar ( 2′ 51″ )

    17:45 A Canterbury man has been sentenced to four months jail for bashing pigs with an iron bar. 50-year-old Clayton Thomas Dovey was trying to load four of his pigs onto a trailer at a farm north of the Waimakariri River in April last year, to take them to slaughter.

  • Te Manu Korihi News for 7 March 2014 ( 3′ 16″ )

    17:48 The Bay of Plenty iwi of Ngai Tuhoe is set to open the country's first so-called living building, which utilises solar power and has its own natural air conditioning system; A group of five Maori business leaders are off to America to gain insight into its indigenous peoples' economic strategies; Ngai Tahu has bought almost 23-thousand hectares of pine trees from the Crown's West Coast Timberlands forest; The country's Maori Research Centre of Excellence could close down at the end of next year after missing out on government funding.

  • Christchurch homeowners take EQC to court ( 4′ 40″ )

    17:51 More than 120 disgruntled Christchurch homeowners are taking the Earthquake Commission to court for not doing enough to fix their homes. The law firm, Anthony Harper, has been looking for participants for the group action since last year and has confirmed today it has the numbers to proceed.

  • Church and community group at loggerheads over former convent ( 2′ 2″ )

    17:56 The Catholic church and a Hamilton community group are at loggerheads over an old convent the church is keen to demolish. The Catholic Diocese of Hamilton wants to pull down the landmark Euphrasie House and the city council has given resource consent, but it's been left up to the Environment Court to decide the outcome.

  • Family thank driver who got savaged daughter to doctor ( 3′ 49″ )

    18:08 The Japanese family of a girl savaged by dogs in the Bay of Plenty has thanked the driver of a red car who helped get her to a doctor. They had a statement read out at a news conference held at Middlemore hospital this afternoon to let people know how seven year-old Sakurako Uehara is doing.

  • Bid to strip military of prosecution power fails ( 5′ 32″ )

    18:17 A bid to remove the power of US military commanders to decide whether to prosecute sexual assault cases has failed with the Senate rejecting a controversial bill. The measure came just five votes short of success, failing even though it was championed by a Democrat with Republican support.

  • Evening Business for 7 March 2014 ( 3′ 34″ )

    18:22 The glass ceiling that stands in the way of women getting the top jobs appears to be getting thicker and more difficult to break.

  • Early Polynesians ate fish, turtles and bats instead of crops ( 2′ 48″ )

    18:29 Researchers have studied a 3-thousand year old skeleton and found that the ancestors of Polynesians, most likely ate fish, marine turtles and fruit bats instead of growing crops.

  • Sports News for 7 March 2014 ( 3′ 49″ )

    18:34 An update from the team at RNZ Sport.

  • Focus on Politics for 7 March 2014 ( 16′ 37″ )

    18:38 After being officially appointed as the new ACT leader, Jamie Whyte is now being heralded as the saviour of the party that's struggling to even register in political polls.

  • Te Manu Korihi News for 7 March 2014 ( 3′ 26″ )

    18:52 The Bay of Plenty iwi of Ngai Tuhoe is to open the country's first so-called living building, which utilises solar power and has its own natural air conditioning system; A group of five Maori business leaders are off to America to gain insight into its indigenous peoples' economic strategies; The country's Maori Research Centre of Excellence could close down at the end of next year after missing out on government funding; Ngai Tahu has bought almost 23-thousand hectares of pine trees from the Crown's West Coast Timberlands forest.

Checkpoint is Radio New Zealand’s award-winning drive-time news programme. Every weekday Mary Wilson presents the day’s major national and international stories, as well as business, sport and Māori news.

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