Checkpoint for Friday 19 February 2016

5:09 PM.For some New Zealanders, it will now be easier to get Australian citizenship. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull made the announcement after a two-hour meeting in Sydney with Prime Minister… Read more Video, Audio

5:11 PM.South Pacific Meats, which, like AFFCO is part of the Talleys Group of companies, has been ordered to pay $144,000 to the Meatworkers union in penalties for repeatedly breaching the union's right of… Read more Audio

5:18 PM.In an era when your mobile phone can tell Facebook or Uber where you are with astounding accuracy, call 111 in an emergency and the operator may well be confused about your location. That's what… Read more Audio

5:21 PM.John Campbell speaks with Superintendent David Trappitt is the Assistant Police Commissioner for Prevention and Road Policing who is in charge of 111 calls nationwide. Audio

5:27 PM.Brazil's health authorities are using guppies, which eat mosquito larvae, to slow the spread of the Zika virus that is suspected of causing birth defects in thousands of babies. Audio

5:29 PM.The Black Caps captain, Brendon McCullum, will run out on Christchurch's Hagley Oval in his final match for New Zealand. The former Otago cricketer, John Cushen, was McCullum's first eleven coach at… Read more Audio

5:35 PM.News from the business sector. Audio

5:38 PM.One teacher has been de-registered and another censured by the Education Council for their relationship with a 13-year-old girl who is now dead. Audio

5:40 PM.A couple had to be rescued by tractor in Murupara after torrential rain flooded their home. The downpour overnight caused slips that closed roads around the rural township - and residents say they're… Read more Audio

5:53 PM.The Phoenix have been offered a 10-year licence extension by Football Federation Australia. The Warriors have announced they're staying at Mount Smart Stadium through until 2028. Audio

5:57 PM.The US Government and Apple remain in a legal standoff after a Californian court ordered Apple to provide "technical assistance" to the FBI to break into an iphone used by one of the gunmen of the San… Read more Audio

6:08 PM.Authorities in Fiji are bracing for the arrival of what many fear will be the strongest tropical cyclone to hit the country in years. Cyclone Winston is currently a category four with sustained winds… Read more Audio

6:11 PM.U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is hitting back after Pope Francis said his views on immigration are "not Christian". Audio

6:43 PM.The Government earmarked $2m for emergency housing in Auckland in September last year but that money still hasn't been spent. The funding is intended to provide an extra 120 emergency housing places a… Read more Audio