Checkpoint for Monday 14 April 2014

6:53 PM.A study in Canterbury shows people who read racially prejudiced comments online such as in blogs, themselves become more prejudiced - at least for a short time. Audio

6:49 PM.The government expects to have a state representative sitting on the Kohanga National Trust Board in the future; Meanwhile...a Kohanga Reo kaimahi is relieved a working party's been set up to… Read more Audio

6:42 PM.To Australia, where a new study of job figures shows the number of long-term unemployed young people trebling since the global financial crisis began and growing fastest over the past year Audio

6:36 PM.Lamb exports to China have hit a new record, with nearly 13-thousand 5-hundred tonnes sent there last month. Audio

6:33 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:28 PM.The former chief financial officer of South Canterbury Finance has outlined a money trail he says shows the influence the firm had over some other companies. Audio

6:25 PM.Police are trying to boost the number of women in blue and with that in mind, they've commissioned a reality television series Audio

6:22 PM.The Crown says a lawyer and former mayor of Central Hawkes Bay was part of a scheme that deceived Belgrave Finance investors. Audio

6:19 PM.New Zealand's record on climate change is being criticised on two fronts. Audio

6:16 PM.Al Jazeera's correspondent Kim Vinnell is in Donetsk in Ukraine. Audio

6:15 PM.Russia and Ukraine have clashed at the United Nations accusing each other of terrorism. Audio

6:09 PM.Searchers have decided to send in a deepsea remote control sub to look for the missing Malaysian passenger plane. Audio

5:56 PM.The Green Party has accused the Government of leaning on State-owned Enterprises to help get its finances back into surplus next financial year. Audio

5:52 PM.The government expects to have a state representative sitting on the Kohanga National Trust Board in the future; Meanwhile...a Kohanga Reo kaimahi is relieved a working party's been set up to… Read more Audio

5:48 PM.A union says the receiver at a Christchurch yarns factory where 85 jobs are on the line doesn't have much time to find out if the business can survive or not. Audio

5:44 PM.Aid workers in Solomon Islands are starting to see children in evacuation centres getting sick from diseases spread by rats. Audio

5:41 PM.Anti-abortion campaigners are refusing to stop their weekly picket near Thames Hospital, despite protests from staff that the group is causing distress to the women it's targeting. Audio

5:36 PM.Hundreds of people who've been turned down for accident compensation may be able to challenge that after a ruling today from the Dunedin District Court Audio

5:33 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

5:27 PM.In Christchurch today the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge took time to talk to some of the families of those who died in the February 2011 earthquake. Audio

5:24 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

5:13 PM.A woman was wrongly diagnosed with cancer had part of her jaw removed and bone taken from her leg to fill the gap - all because a laboratory mixed up her results with someone else's. Audio

5:08 PM.A deepsea remote control submersible will be sent under the ocean within hours to look for the missing Malaysian passenger plane after searchers decided they have enough clues to go on. Audio

5:00 PM.A deepsea remote controlled sub is being sent in to look for the missing Malaysian plane. A woman wrongly diagnosed with cancer endures unnecessary surgery and royal couple meet with families of… Read more Audio