Checkpoint for Tuesday 29 March 2016

5:08 PM.500 New Zealand Post workers are expected to lose their jobs by the end of June, as part of its larger plan to cut up to 2000 positions. Audio

5:14 PM.Senior Cabinet Minister, Paula Bennett, says she does not want to see MPs and ministers made less accessible despite receiving death threats. Audio

5:22 PM.Gates owner Eastland Group declined to be interviewed by Checkpoint and released a statement. Audio

5:25 PM.After two deaths in less than a fortnight at Hunua Falls, near Auckland, locals and the council are questioning whether it should remain open for swimming. Audio

5:28 PM.Security forces have been raiding homes in Pakistan believed to be connected with Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, the Taliban splinter group responsible for the recent suicide bombing in Lahore. Audio

5:34 PM.News from the business sector including a market report. Audio

5:37 PM.Auckland's police force are assigning 20 extra officers purely to solving burglaries - which currently go unresolved 95% of the time. Audio

5:43 PM.Water New Zealand estimates 9-thousand kilometres of asbestos cement pipes will need to be replaced in the next two to three decades. Audio

5:45 PM.Bunnings is under fire from its staff members after reportedly removing staff-financed defibrillators from its stores. Audio

5:51 PM.The FBI has dropped its legal case against Apple. It says it has now successfully unlocked an encrypted iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino gunmen. Audio

5:55 PM.Acclaimed, award-winning Pakistani journalist and writer Bina Shah wrote in British newspaper The Guardian that religious extremists would never succesed in taking over the country. She joins us now… Read more Audio

6:05 PM.An update from the team at RNZ Sport. Audio

6:08 PM.The Wellington City Council has announced an ambitious plan to reduce emissions in the capital city. Audio

6:08 PM.The parents of three babies born to two surrogate mothers in Mexico say they are stranded in Central America and need $15,000 to return home to New Zealand. Audio

6:14 PM.A junior doctor, who gave the wrong drug and the wrong dosage to an elderly stroke patient who later died, has escaped punishment. Audio

6:19 PM.A gunman has sparked panic at the heart of the US Capitol grounds, wounding a visitor in a stand-off with police before being shot himself. Reuters' Linda So reports. Audio

6:21 PM.New York Correspondent Mimi Chiahemen joins Checkpoint to discuss the apprehension of the gunman on Capitol Hill. Audio

6:50 PM.Deputy Prime Minister, Finance Minister and Minister in Charge of the Flag Referendums, Bill English was the inevitable fall guy when the Opposition used Question Time to extract maximum political… Read more Audio