Checkpoint. 2010-03-10. 17:00-18:00.

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Year
2010
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139914
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Audio
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Checkpoint, 1984-03-01, 1985-05-31, 1986-01-13--1998-10-30, 2000-05-08--2014
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01:00:00
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RNZ Collection
Wilson, Mary, News presenter
Radio New Zealand National, Broadcaster

Checkpoint FOR WEDNESDAY 10 MARCH 2010
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1700 to 1707 NEWS
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The Ministry of Education says jobs will go as it carves 25 million dollars off its budget but won't confirm how many or from where.
The Ministry's been instructed to find savings in its 441 million dollar annual funding and must have them in place by 2013. The Minister Anne Tolley wants less national office bureacracy and more frontline support for schools. The President of the Principals Federation, Ernie Buutveld (bootfeld) says the cut in spending is not unexpected. CUT The Ministry's Chief executive Karen Sewell says she employs three thousand one hundred staff including contractors and part-timers. PREREC

A Christchurch teenager will spend at least 15 and a half years behind bars after admitting he murdered a Christchurch taxi driver.
As Shannon Boyes-Warren was sentenced today, the judge said that while he had, what she called, a disturbing list of previous convictions, she was impressed by the man and felt there might yet be hope for him. Monique Devereux was at the High Court in Christchurch PKG

The country's purchasing power with the rest of the world has jumped by the largest amount in 35 years - but there's a warning we've still got a long way to go. The terms of trade - a measure of what a country can buy with what it produces - rose by 5-point-7 percent in the three months to December. The latest result follows six consecutive quarterly declines. BERL chief economist Ganesh Nana joins us now: LIVE

The Māori Party says it was not consulted over Government changes to tertiary education, which it fears could hurt Māori students the most. But the Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce says he has talked to the party's co-leader Pita Sharples this afternoon and reassured him that will not happen. Here's our political editor Brent Edwards. PKG

The sister of an intellectually disabled woman killed at the hands of her caregivers says she blames herself for her death. Here Teinakirai Heh-reh Tay-nuh KEY-rrye and Joseph Proude beat Patricia Joseph and left her lying injured on the bathroom floor where she eventually died some days later. They then dumped her body in Auckland's Wairoa River. Laura Davis reports. PKG
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1720 TRAILS AND BUSINESS WITH Naomi Mitchell
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The President of Indonesia has confirmed that a top fugitive wanted over the 2002 Bali bombings has been killed in a police raid near Jakarta. Indonesian police yesterday shot dead a man now identified as Dulmatin, (pron: Dool-martin) a 39-year-old Indonesian trained by al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. He was wanted for his role in the suicide bombings of two Bali nightclubs which killed 202 people. Freelance reporter Chris Holm joins us now from Jakarta. LIVE

Two police officers have been injured when a car crashed into the front doors and foyer of the Hamilton Central Police Station this afternoon. The car narrowly missed ten members of the public and staff working at the main counter. It's the second time a Hamilton police station has come off second best, with a bus hitting the Flagstaff staion in November. Andrew McRae reports. PKG
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17.30 HEADLINES
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Iran's president is about to meet with his Afghan counterpart, during his first trip to Afghanistan since he and Hamid Karzai were re-elected last year. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit coincides with that of US Defence Secretary Robert Gates. Mr Gates has said he's worried Tehran is playing what he called a double game in the country - being friendly to the Afghan government while looking to undermine the United States. The BBC's Quentin Sommerville is in Kabul, and joins us now: LIVE

A man who attacked the Waihopai spy station near Blenheim in 2008 has told a Jury he and his fellow activists invoked the name of Jesus as they slashed one of the station's satellite domes.
Adrian Leason is before the Wellington District Court, along with Father Peter Murnane and Sam Land charged with causing intentional damage and entering a property with intent to commit a crime. Our Court reporter Ann Marie May is following the trial. LIVE
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17.45 TRAILS
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WAATEA
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A new survey has found that most KiwiSavers are living with a false sense of security about their investments. More than one million New Zealanders are signed up for the retirement scheme but the lastest UMR national poll has found 48 percent wrongly believe their Kiwisaver fund has a government guarantee. A further 37 percent are unsure and only 15 percent know there is no such thing. The survey also found more than half don't know much or know hardly anything about the scheme their money is invested in.
We asked these people if they thought the Government would pick up the bill if their Kiwisaver fund fell short. CUT UMR's TIm Grafton says the level of ignorance about the lack of a government guarantee is a surprise. PREREC

In a world first, scientists have extracted DNA from the fossilised eggshells of extinct birds - including moa. The research involved samples from 13 locations in Australia, Madagascar and New Zealand. In each case just a tiny amount of DNA - less than a fraction of one per cent of the bird's genome - was extracted. It's hoped that the research will help scientists recreate what the birds looked like, and provide greater insight into how they became extinct. The work's come out of the lab of New Zealand scientist Dr Mike Bunce, who is currently based at Murdoch University in Perth.
He joins us now: LIVE

A stocktake of property at the the National Army Museum in Waiouru has finished in the red, revealing two sets of medals are missing. The loss of the decorations follows the theft of weapons by a curator last year and the burglary of 96 medals, including nine Victoria Crosses, in 2007. Will Hine reports. PKG

The sequel to one of the biggest phenomena in entertainment history The Phantom of the Opera has officially opened in London.
As the BBC's Arts Editor Will Gompertz reports Love Never Dies is Andrew Lloyd Webber's latest creation and one of the most eagerly awaited productions in years. PKG