1The death toll is rising after an earthquake generated a series of tsunamis in the South Pacific. Close to 100-people have been killed including one New Zealander. Villages have been flattened, telecommunications are down and aid is being hindered by destroyed infrastructure. Checkpoint speaks to Sati Young, a Red Cross worker in the worst hit area of Samoa in a village near the tourist area Lalomanu.

2The death toll is rising after an earthquake generated a series of tsunamis in the South Pacific. Close to 100-people have been killed. Acting Prime Minister Bill English says there is a reliable but still unconfirmed report of one New Zealander dead in Samoa.

3The death toll is rising after an earthquake generated a series of tsunamis in the South Pacific. In American Samoa at least 22 people are dead and an unknown number are still missing. Barak Obama has called it the worst disaster ever experienced in American Samoa, and has made emergency federal funding available.

4The death toll is rising after an earthquake generated a series of tsunamis in the South Pacific. Close to 100-people have been killed including one New Zealander. Villages have been flattened, telecommunications are down and aid is being hindered by destroyed infrastructure.

5The death toll is rising after an earthquake generated a series of tsunamis in the South Pacific. Close to 100-people have been killed including one New Zealander. Villages have been flattened, telecommunications are down and aid is being hindered by destroyed infrastructure.

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7The Minister of Agriculture David Carter has ordered urgent inspections of all dairy farms owned by the controversial Crafar family. The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry is still deciding whether it will prosecute with charges of animal neglect after over 100-calves had to be shot on a farm in the Waikato.

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9The magnitude 8.0 quake which shook Samoa this morning triggered a tsunami warning for New Zealand with waves of up to a metre predicted.

10A 45-year-old truck driver has been found guilty of careless driving causing the death of high ranking police officer Steve Fitzgerald who was cycling home from work.

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12The government is putting parenting classes at the centre of a new action plan to tackle what schools say is the growing problem of violent and disruptive students. However, the Minister of Education Anne Tolley told a conference today that parents could not be compelled to attend programmes.

13More than 230 entries in a competition to design the $100-million redevelopment of Auckland's Queens Wharf have been whittled down to five.

14Telecommunications industry groups say plans to install a second trans-Tasman fibre-optic cable will benefit businesses and home internet users in New Zealand. The state owned company Kordia say's it's close to issuing it's final proposal for building the cable.

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16Officials in Samoa say the death toll from this morning's earthquake and tsunami is expected to rise to as high as one hundred. A few moments ago a second tsunami warning was issued in Apia.

17Officials in Samoa say the death toll from this morning's earthquake and tsunami is expected to rise to as high as one hundred. The magnitude 8.0 quake which shook Samoa this morning triggered a tsunami warning for New Zealand. The biggest waves to hit our shores were 75 centimetres high - in the Chatham Islands.

18Officials in Samoa say the death toll from this morning's earthquake and tsunami is expected to rise to as high as one hundred. The New Zealand Defence Force already has an aircraft on its way to assist Samoa with a sea-search for survivors.

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20A Northland seismologist says the information put out by authorities about today's tsunami was confusing and potentially dangerous.

21Officials in Samoa say the death toll from this morning's earthquake and tsunami is expected to rise to as high as one hundred. David Reid brings an update on the second confusing warning.

22Rescuers in the Philippines are still recovering bodies from floodwaters as funerals begin for nearly 250-people known to have been killed by Typhoon Ketsana.

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24A powerful typhoon has killed at least 31-people and forced 170-thousand to flee their homes in central Vietnam.

25Soldiers are continuing to terrorise civilians in the capital of Guinea after massacring more than 150-opposition protesters earlier this week.

26Revelations in Australia that a company executive who helps run a shipping container operation at one of the country's biggest ports is one of several figures who authorities have connected to waterfront crime.

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28Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown has urged his governing Labour party not to give up despite trailing badly in opinion polls. He made the comments in his last major speech to party faithful before next year's general election.

29The increasing bloodshed in Afghanistan has been the focus of talks at the White House between President Barack Obama and the head of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

30This week's meeting between Iran's leaders and United Nations Security Council members will be the first since the United States President Barack Obama took office.