Checkpoint for Tuesday 20 September 2011

6:55 PM.American Samoa's Public Defender says the territory needs a school for at-risk youth as Radio New Zealand International's Yosan Legaspi explains. Audio

6:50 PM.The Christchurch-based insurer, AMI, is confident it won't need to draw on the government's backstop support package despite posting a 705 million dollar annual loss. Audio

6:47 PM.A tribe made landless during the Tauranga Campaign of 1864 has signed a Deed of Settlement with the Crown; The head of the ministerial inquiry into the use of foreign fishing vessels in local waters… Read more Audio

6:39 PM.Samoan rugby officials have met with the International Rugby Board this afternoon over a Twitter tirade from one of their players comparing his team's limited down time to slavery and the Holocaust. Audio

6:35 PM.Three more men have appeared in court, charged over the fake pilot stunt at Auckland Airport. Audio

6:32 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:27 PM.Hundreds of thousands of students face higher costs next year as universities begin their annual round of setting fees. Audio

6:22 PM.Sir Michael Fay is heading a new bid for all of the Crafar dairy farms - after a previous offer he led, for nine of the 16, was rejected. Audio

6:18 PM.The Christchurch-based insurer, AMI, says it won't be until June next year before it knows the final cost of earthquake claims, though the company's confident it won't need to draw on the government's… Read more Audio

6:07 PM.The statutory manager of Pike River Coal says a plan by Mines Rescue to go back underground and walk to the rockfall is too risky, and he won't approve it. Audio

5:55 PM.The mortgage market is showing signs of increased competition. Audio

5:51 PM.A criminal defence lawyer says police are hugely exaggerating how many video surveillance cases they have, to twist the Government's arm into changing the law. Audio

5:48 PM.A tribe made landless during the Tauranga Campaign of 1864 has signed a Deed of Settlement with the Crown; The chair of two Maori land trusts in the King Country says taking a stake in Crafar Farms is… Read more Audio

5:44 PM.Rugby World Cup fever has hit Nelson ahead of the city's first game tonight at Trafalgar Park between Italy and Russia, starting at 7.30. Audio

5:40 PM.Auckland faces some major challenges in delivering the ambitious goals in its thirty year development plan. Audio

5:32 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

5:28 PM.Police have arrested three more men over the fake pilot stunt at Auckland airport at the weekend. Audio

5:24 PM.Multisport veteran Steve Gurney has escaped with little more than a scratch after a collision between his car and a train this morning in Rangiora. Audio

5:21 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

5:17 PM.The taxpayer bill to bail out the Christchurch based-insurer AMI has shrunk a little from half a billion to 337 million dollars. Audio

5:14 PM.National doesn't yet have the support it needs to pass a new law, under urgency, to allow police to keep using evidence filmed covertly. Audio

5:11 PM.Health officials are warning that Auckland is on the verge of a measles epidemic which will sweep the country. Audio

5:08 PM.The statutory manager of Pike River Coal says a plan by Mines Rescue to go back underground and walk to the rockfall is too risky, and he won't approve it. Audio

5:00 PM.Pike River Coal rules out a plan to re-enter the mine. A warning the country is on the verge of a measles epidemic and a lucky escape for multisport veteran Steve Gurney. Audio