Checkpoint. 2008-04-21

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**** CKPT FOR MON 21 APRIL 2008
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1700 to 1707 NEWS
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STRIKE-PATIENT: An elderly cancer patient and his surgeon have spoken out about tomorrow's strike by junior hospital doctors saying the industrial action could well cost lives. Up to 2,400 junior doctors will walk off the job for 48 hours in a dispute with district health boards over pay. Here with the latest is our health correspondent Karen Brown LIVE
COURT-SILA: The trial has begun of a Christchurch man accused of killing two teenagers by running them over. 22-year-old Lipine Sila is charged with murdering Jane Young and Hannah Rossiter, both aged 16, when they were run over outside a party on Edgeware Road last May. Our reporter Charlotte Graham has been in the High Court today and joins us now. LIVE
TAX DEAL: Transpower says there's no risk to its ownership of the South Island electricity grid despite the financial crisis that's hit a US Bank it shares a controversial tax deal with. Transpower chief executive Patrick Strange says the troubles besetting the bank in question, Wachovia, are irrelevant because Transpower still owns the grid. PREREC
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BUSINESS NEWS
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SOMALIA: At least 50 people have been killed in the Somali capital, Mogadishu during two days of heavy fighting between insurgents and Ethiopian troops backing government forces. Somalia has had no effective government since warlords overthrew a dictator and then turned on each other. Somalis also have to contend with drought affecting large parts of the country as Robert Walker reports from the southern Somali town of Baidoa PKG
USA-POLITICS: The marathon United States Democratic Party presidential nominating race enters a crucial stage this week, with the Pennsylvania primary due to be held on Wednesday and after that there's just nine more contests to go. The ABC's Kim Landers reports : PKG
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17.30 HEADLINES
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POLITICS-WILLIAMS: The Labour Party President Mike Williams is under fire for denying that he said using government department pamphlets to get around the new election laws was "a damn good idea," A recording of Labour's Congress has revealed he did use those exact words. The prime minister has just held a media conference - our parlaimentary chief reporter Jane Patterson was there. LIVE
National's deputy leader Bill English says Mr Williams has got to go. He joins us now LIVE
CANYONNING-FUNERALS: More than a thousand mourners have attended separate funerals for three of the teenage victims of last week's canyonning tragedy. Elim Christian College students Portia McPhail, Tom Hsu and Natasha Bray were praised as leaders, role-models and inspirations. Lisa Thompson reports. PKG
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WAATEA NEWS
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COURT-KAHUI: The double murder accused, Chris Kahui has today been painted as a loving father who was tormented by the death of his twin boys. Mona Kahui has been the main witness today in the trial of her 23-year-old brother at the High Court in Auckland. Joy Reid has been in court...LIVE
CHCH MISSING: The Christchurch police investigating the homicide of Marie Davis want to hear of any sightings of a white vehicle seen on the banks of the Waimakariri River, the night the teenager disappeared. The 15 year old's body was found in the river on Thursday. Our reporter Katy Gosset joins me now. LIVE
POPE-NEWYORK: Pope Benedict is now on his way back to Rome after his first visit to the United States as Pontiff. He conducted his final open air mass at New York's Yankee Stadium after visiting Ground Zero where he prayed for those killed during the attacks of 2001. David Willey has been following the Pope. PKG
HEART-SWIM: People who think they may be at risk of heart attacks are being warned to take it easy when it comes to swimming. The call comes from Water Safety New Zealand after a 40-year-old man died yesterday, during an ocean swimming race off Takapuna in Auckland. And just last month a 59-year-old died during a Wellington triathlon. Matt Claridge from Water Safety New Zealand joins us now LIVE
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