Checkpoint
National Radio's one-hour news and current affairs programme.
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1UN HQ in Baghdad bombed. 17 confirmed dead. Envoy among the dead. Rescuers search for survivors in the rubble.
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2Business News.
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3Masterton residents told they will have to boil their drinking water till the end of September while council searches for the source of contamination of, and makes safe, the water supply.
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4Survey shows Manukau residents are most concerned about burglary, but that steps to counter the problem are proving hard to implement.
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5Alistair Campbell denies doctoring the "dodgy dossier" testifying at Hutton Inquiry into death of scientist.
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6Parliamentary parties except the Greens still support sending NZ Army engineers to Iraq. Greens say we should follow the Germans in sending civilians.
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7More on the bombing of the UN HQ in Baghdad. Comment from UN bureaucrat.
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8Ministry for the Environment says that if approval to clean up Mapua contamination site is not given it will spend the allocated money elsewhere. Greenpeace wants more testing of the new proposed technology.
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9Australian politician Pauline Hanson found guilty of electoral fraud and is likely to be imprisoned.
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10More on the bombing of the UN HQ in Baghdad. Comment from wife of NZ soldier injured in blast.
Primary Title
- Checkpoint
Date Broadcast
- Wednesday 20 August 2003
Start Time
- 17 : 00
Finish Time
- 18 : 00
Duration
- 60:00
Channel
- National Radio
Broadcaster
- Radio New Zealand
Programme Description
- National Radio's one-hour news and current affairs programme.
Classification
- Not Classified
Owning Collection
- Chapman Archive
Broadcast Platform
- Radio
Languages
- English
Captions
Live Broadcast
- Yes
Rights Statement
- Made for the University of Auckland's educational use as permitted by the Screenrights Licensing Agreement.
Genres
- Current affairs
- News
Speakers
- Barry Carbon (Ministry for the Environment)
- Bill Johnson (Hotel manager)
- Bob Francis (Mayor of Masterton)
- Carmen Gravitz (Greenpeace)
- Carol Dixon (Papakura Neighbourhood Support)
- Caroline Hoarley (BBC)
- Fred Eckhart (UN Spokesperson)
- George W Bush (POTUS)
- Helen Clark (Prime Minister)
- Helena Maxwell (Manukau City Council town planner)
- Jane Teriake (Manurewa resident)
- Jeff Moffatt (RNZ)
- Jennifer Dan (RNZ)
- Juan Carlos Brown (UN Director for Australia and the South Pacific)
- Keith Locke (Green: Foreign Affairs)
- Ken Shirley (ACT: Foreign Affairs)
- Kerri-Anne Walsh (RNZ)
- Michael Buchanan (BBC)
- Nicolas Mitchell (BBC)
- Pat Perry (Mapua resident)
- Patrick O'Mara (RNZ)
- Penny Hart (Partner of NZ soldier in Iraq)
- Rob Fulsher (NZ Police)
- Sergio Vierra de Mello (UN Envoy)
- Susanna Price (BBC)
- Unnamed survivors and US soldiers
- Wayne Mapp (National: Defence)