Checkpoint

United States correspondent Todd Zwillich spoke to Melissa Chan-Green about how Donald Trump has just signed an executive order around childhood vaccinations and how details have emerged of an elaborate misdirection operation to reportedly protect the president on a recent trip to Turkey.

Christopher Luxon has called for an 'urgent in-person meeting' on Wednesday at 9:30am. Any of his MPs who aren't in Wellington will need to travel back given it's a recess week at parliament. Citing media reports and conversations about increased speculation about his leadership, Luxon called it an 'unfair distraction'. Former National Party MP Maurice Williamson spoke to Melissa Chan-Green

United Kingdom correspondent Lucy Thomson spoke to Melissa Chan-Green about Prime Minister Andy Burnham who is set to announce he's going on tour this week, as well as Banksy's artwork proving costly for British taxpayers.

Clarification: The Free House was incorrectly called a former Anglican church in this audio. It is a former Reformed Church.

A popular Nelson pub in a 100-year-old church could face closure under one of the city council's options for a new library, community hub and civic centre. The Free House has become a regular meeting place for many groups including knitters, singers, domino players and mountain bikers. The council is asking people which of three options they prefer - redeveloping the existing council building, or new buildings in Collingwood Street or Church Street. Samantha Gee reports.

News from the business sector, including a market report.

Could former All Black coach Scott Robertson be in for a shock code switch? Robertson has been offered a four year deal to become the inaugural coach of the yet to be confirmed 20th NRL team - The Orcas. Sports reporter Jonty Dine spoke to Melissa Chan-Green.

With energy security and power bills front of mind for voters in the lead up to the election, Contact Energy has kicked off what will be a keenly watched reporting season. The first figure out is a net profit of $423 million, up 28 percent from $331 million the year earlier. However, 90 percent of customers received a price increase in the last 12 months. Contact Chief Executive Mike Fuge spoke to Melissa Chan-Green.

A union for St John ambulance workers says the record numbers of calls to the service in the last week is making an already stressful job harder. St John activated its major incident response over the weekend after receiving more than 2500 calls on Saturday, the most it has ever received in a single day. In the last week the ambulance service had just over 16,000 calls, breaking the record set just a week earlier. Rachel Graham reports.

Ohakune will be without tap water until Tuesday night, after council this afternoon confirmed the outage affecting the central North Island town would last longer than hoped. It was expected the supply would resume on Monday evening, but a fix has proven more complicated than expected. This means eateries and schools will spend another day with their doors closed. Field Correspondent Jimmy Ellingham reports from Ohakune.

In an announcement without warning, Labour's leader Chris Hipkins has finally ruled out working with New Zealand First in any government he leads. Deputy political editor Craig McCulloch spoke to Melissa Chan-Green.