Checkpoint for Wednesday 14 August 2024

5:46 PM.Africa correspondent Elna Schutz speaks to Lisa Owen about Sudan getting struck by severe weather, renewed talks over a territorial dispute bringing tensions between Ethiopia and Somalia back into the… Read more Audio

5:42 PM.Around a tenth of students from Wellington Girls' College turned up to Parliament grounds today saying they had nowhere else to go. All 1300 students were sent home on Monday after a main teaching… Read more Audio

5:36 PM.News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio

5:33 PM.Lydia Ko is not done yet, the kiwi is still coming to terms with the highlight of her esteemed career, Olympic gold, but our golfing GOAT has her sights set on achieving more greatness, sports… Read more Audio

5:28 PM.Maney and Stone are appealing their convictions for the 1989 murder of West Auckland man Deane Fuller-Sandys and Stone is additionally appealing his conviction for the rape and murder of Leah… Read more Audio

5:26 PM.The Prime Minister has made another flub when promoting his beneficiary crackdown, massively overstating his government's increase in case managers. It marks the second misstep this week after… Read more Audio

5:08 PM.A lucky escape for a mother and her three year old son after trying potentially lethal, meth, masquarding as lollies. A friend of the family is alarmed after she says she called police to collect the… Read more Audio

4:54 PM.The Olympians have landed. Team New Zealand returned triumphant after its most successful Olympic campaign ever, with twenty medals, ten of them gold. Felix Walton got amongst the good vibes and… Read more Audio

4:45 PM.It's an unfortunate title, but Auckland is New Zealand's Syphilis capital, and New Zealand is experiencing what's been described as an "alarming" increase in cases of the sexually transmitted disease… Read more Audio

4:42 PM.The Auckland City Mission is racing to contact hundreds of food parcel recipients, after chunks of methamphetamine disguised as pineapple lollies were found in food packs it distributed. Three people… Read more Audio

4:27 PM.Peace talks get underway in Geneva today between warring factions in Sudan, as the region faces an escalating humanitarian crisis with children already dying from malnutrion and hunger related… Read more Audio

4:24 PM.The job is only half done for Argentina. Having shocked the All Blacks in the first test in Wellington 38-30, the Pumas are looking to pounce on thier wounded opposition and break the greatest streak… Read more Audio

4:15 PM.Asia correspondent Erin Hale speaks to Lisa Owen about a former top spy chief in Pakistan being arrested, Japan still bracing itself for a potential 'megaquake' after the government issued it's first… Read more Audio

4:06 PM."It's darkest before the dawn and it's dawn now," that's according to Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr, after the Official Cash Rate was cut for the first time in more than four years. The 25 basis… Read more Audio