Due to the live nature of Tonight, we apologise for the lack of captions for some items. Tonight ` police inquiries continue after a baby triplet dies. Police say her injuries weren't accidental. The death toll rises tonight after the cruise ship disaster off Italy's coast. And tributes to Blanket man, the Wellington street identity who died at the weekend. Police are continuing their inquiries after the death of a tiny triplet in Wanganui. Tonight her sisters remain in the care of the authorities, as officers try to find out how she died. The 2-month-old baby's death has sparked calls for a commission of inquiry into violence against children in NZ. Rebecca Edwards reports. Hinekawa Topia, seen her with her sisters, was just 2 months old when she died. Her death the result of a head injury, which a post-mortem confirmed wasn't accidental. I just want this all to stop. I just want us to do something for our children, especially us ` our people. The baby was raced to hospital by her mother, Tiffany Topia, and father, Tom McGregor, after she stopped breathing, but efforts by both her father and hospital staff failed to resuscitate her. Police were called in after concerns staff at the clinic had about her head injury. We're just trying to work out where the children have been, and what they've been doing, who they've been with. Police have examined two houses in the region, and say the triplets' parents are being very co-operative with the inquiry. They say the babies had also been in contact with other members of the wider whanau. We've got to establish exactly what's happened to Hinekawa before we even decide whether there is someone that's responsible for this. The baby's death is now prompting calls for a commission of inquiry. We've had a commission in the Christchurch earthquake, and yet we haven't had a commission of inquiry into our greatest and ongoing tragedy of child abuse deaths. We think it deserves that priority and focus. The social development minister, Paula Bennett, says we don't need more inquiries, but solutions. Too many of NZ's children are being hurt, abused, neglected and broken. With police investigations and background interviews ongoing, Hinekawa Topia's sisters and a boy (5) remain in the interim custody of Child, Youth and Family. Rebecca Edwards, ONE News. The captain of the luxury cruise liner Costa Concordia has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after it capsized off the west Italian coast. The death toll now stands at six, with at least 14 people still unaccounted for. And tonight the frantic search continues for any passengers left on board the half-submerged ship. Brooke Dobson has more. It's a painstaking rescue mission. More than 48 hours on from the catastrophic capsizing of the Costa Concordia, divers continue to search for survivors. The ship hit underwater rocks, tearing a large gash through the hull and eventually capsizing. SCREAMING Many didn't make it out in time. Emergency teams discovered the bodies of two elderly men inside a flooded section of the ship, still with their life jackets on. An Italian crew member was winched from the wreckage with a badly broken leg, and a South Korean couple on their honeymoon made it out alive. It's the uncovering of the ship's black box that will answer questions. The finger's being pointed at the captain, who has been arrested and faces charges of manslaughter. Accused of abandoning the vessel before all his passengers were evacuated, he today defended his actions. TRANSLATOR: The ship wasn't heading forward, but sideways, as if underwater there was this rock projection. I don't know if it was detected or not, but on the nautical chart it was marked at about 100-150m from the rocks. We were about 300 metres from the shore, more or less. We shouldn't have hit it. TRANSLATOR: The captain is usually the last to abandon ship. What happened, Captain? We were the last to leave the ship. The ship's owners say the captain appears to have made 'serious errors of judgment' and didn't follow emergency procedures. He's accused of not giving an immediate order to abandon ship. Instead, this announcement was made. PA: Due to an electrical fault, which is under control, we're currently in a blackout. Our technicians are working to revolve the situation. There was Italian families trembling, handing me their children, telling me, you know, 'Take my child, put him on the boat.' We had to wait over an hour and a half before we could get on that boat. Tonight the ship is still balancing on rocks, with fears it could yet slip off. Brooke Dobson, ONE News. Back here, a team of divers is continuing to assess the state of the Rena wreck off the coast of Tauranga in an effort to figure out what to do next. Authorities say the amount of torn steel and debris throughout the broken structure makes it extremely dangerous work. Containers continue to wash ashore. More than 50 have so far been recovered, with 18 still to be removed from beaches or water. Police have named the man (34) swept away while swimming in the Whanganui River as Duane Kaka. The search for him continues, and police are also trying to locate another suspected drowning victim, Albert Alapati. He got into trouble at Wellington's Titahi Bay on Saturday afternoon. The 24-year-old was with three other people, who were rescued by a local boatie. Authorities continue to warn about the dangers this summer. There's still complacency, and it's still males, still getting out there when they're a little bit frustrated with bad weather, trying to make the most of the wrong opportunity, so, yeah, look, we've just gotta get rid of that macho can-do attitude. Searchers will continue looking for both men. Police in Wellington are awaiting the results of a post-mortem to provide clues as to how a body ended up in a stormwater drain. Police removed the body from the drain in the Chaffers Dock car park, near Te Papa, late last night. The area has been cordoned off since the body was found by three members of the public during a market on Sunday. Police say the post-mortem will determine whether the death was suspicious or accidental. A euthanasia activist is being forced out of his Dunedin home after receiving death threats. Sean Davison was sentenced to five months home detention in November for aiding the death of his terminally ill mother. Megan Martin met with a shocked, but determined, Dr Davison today. An anonymous message in the post. READS: 'An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth; 'a life for a life, you mother killer.' Serious stuff. Then, two nights later, another letter, via aggressive delivery. A brick came through the window, which was scary enough on its own. But when I untied the note attached and read the note, it was a direct death threat, because I was 'breaking God's laws'. Someone does not agree with Dr Sean Davison's campaign to reform euthanasia laws. It's a very sensitive moral issue, and some people do react quite extremely about it. I firmly believe that the law change I'm seeking is a choice issue; it is not a religious one. It's also a very personal one. Dr Davison is currently on home detention for aiding the death of his terminally ill mother. Police have declined to comment on camera. They're testing the second letter for prints. Dr Davison, a DNA expert, has also offered to help. My laboratory in South Africa specialises in what we call low copy number DNA. So the very minute amount of DNA on that letter ` we can retrieve that and obtain a DNA profile. He's now being forced from this home. I feel sorry for the person I'm living with. He is an innocent victim in this. I'm now going to move to another residence, which will be kept secret. Dr Davison's sentence ends in April. His passion for euthanasia law reform is ongoing. Megan Martin, ONE News. Details of the country's largest alleged white-collar crime have finally been revealed. The Serious Fraud Office has charged five people in relation to $1.7b worth of fraud involving South Canterbury Finance. We can't name the five accused, but our reporter Joy Reid was at the Timaru District Court to see exactly what they're accused of. South Canterbury Finance is in receivership. And today, for the first time, we learnt possible reasons why, with details of alleged large-scale fraud in the company, once run by Allan Hubbard, who died in a car crash in September. The charges allege: Company prospectuses were falsified over a six-year period in a bid to make South Canterbury Finance seem more attractive to investors than it actually was. The Serious Fraud Office says that in five prospectuses, it failed to mention it had lent more than $400m to other companies. It's also alleged that false entries were made on accounting documents. For example, the documents show South Canterbury Finance lent $10m to its subsidiary, Kelt Finances Limited, who then lent that $10m to South Canterbury Finance's parent company, Southbury Group Limited. The Serious Fraud Office alleges this was in a bid to hide the fact Southbury was being lent money by South Canterbury Finance. South Canterbury Finance allegedly did the same with $25m through a company called Hilltop Hotels. It's further alleged South Canterbury Finance didn't tell the Crown about the company's true financial position so that it would be accepted into the Crown's retail deposit guarantee scheme. It was accepted with a $1.6b taxpayer bailout. The company also allegedly breached guarantee scheme rules by lending millions from the bailout to related companies. The issue is so sensitive that all media were ushered into a small room and effectively put under lockdown while we took handwritten notes of the charges involved in this case. No documents were allowed to leave that room, not even photocopies. None of the accused appeared in court today, and name suppression was continued, though locals disagree with that decision. That's crook, I reckon. They should be made known. I would like to know. Why's that? Well, there's a lot of our money in there. The case is adjourned until February the 13th. Joy Reid, ONE News. Two women accused of assaulting supermarket staff in Rotorua can now be named. Cheryl-Lee Campbell and Eve Campbell allegedly hit and screamed at Countdown Rotorua staff, who suspected the pair were shoplifting. The mother and daughter appeared in court today on assault and shoplifting charges. The younger of the two, Cheryl-Lee Campbell, has been remanded in custody. Both will reappear in court on January 26. Five people have been treated for minor injuries after a huge blaze at a factory in South Auckland. Workers from a textile products factory and surrounding businesses were evacuated as toxic smoke poured from the Onehunga building late this morning. Firefighters battling the blaze were washed down to avoid contamination from a neighbouring factory. Little bit of concern that there was some, um, tanks containing waste, as the premises next door, um, collect and store waste products. So we did actually have to keep those tanks cooled down ` that's all. Fire safety officers are now investigating the cause of the fire. Protesters have resumed their occupation of Dunedin's Octagon in a show of solidarity with anti-capitalist demonstrators both home and abroad. A handful of people moved back in last night to mark Martin Luther King Day in the US. They stayed today to support a fellow protester who was arrested after allegedly pitching a tent on the grass. Today was standing in solidarity with Auckland's court, as well as with Laurence, who got arrested here for` They're claiming wilful damage to the grass, and we thought that was pretty ridiculous, so we came back. Police are following up a request by the council to remove a new protest tent on the grass which has just been replanted at a cost of almost $4000. Wellington commuters have begun paying their respects to street character Ben Hana, who died at the weekend. Tributes have been scrawled across a Courtenay Place wall, near where Mr Hana, also known as Blanket Man, spent most of his days. Flowers and newspaper clippings are also being placed there. Details of a formal farewell for the 54-year-old have yet to be finalised. His lawyer and friend Maxine Dixon had a long association with Blanket Man. I think it will be a big loss to some of the people that he befriended on the street, and although one tends to think of the public taking him on, he was also quite a good friend to many of the people who ended up on the street. He gave them advice on how to look after themselves. He was totally opposed to domestic violence, and he would always talk to the younger chaps about, 'Don't beat up on the old lady. It's not a good thing to do.' Blanket Man died in Wellington Hospital yesterday afternoon. Still ahead on Tonight ` some good prospects for tomorrow's weather. But before that, the winners from the Golden Globes, as the Hollywood award season gets underway. And the driver in hot water after the phone proves too tempting while driving a full bus. 1 A NZer charged in connection with one of Australia's biggest fraud cases is now facing fresh allegations. Hohepa Morehu-Barlow now faces nine charges, including defrauding his employer of more than $20m. Appearing via videolink from prison, the former Queensland Health employee was also accused of falsifying records and possessing ecstasy and steroids. He's still coming to terms with everything. I don't think the penny's dropped entirely at this point. Mr Morehu-Barlow is due to face court again at the end of the month. Still across the Tasman, a Sydney bus driver has been caught on camera risking the lives of his passengers. A video recording shows him playing with his mobile phone while driving along a busy highway. Channel Nine's Ben Fordham has more. He's the bus driver who spends more time fiddling with his phone than watching the road. Welcome aboard the 610 service between's Sydney's CBD and The Hills District. It's the week before Christmas, and this bus driver has got both hands on his phone and none on the steering wheel. There's the occasional glance ahead, but his focus is fixed on the phone. My friend filmed the footage because he was so concerned with what he was seeing. He was absolutely gobsmacked. Watch. As the bus takes off, the driver doesn't even lift his eyes. If you analyse the two-minute recording, you discover he's only watching the road 25% of the time. that means he's staring at the screen of that smartphone 75% of the time. He was looking at the phone a lot more than he was looking at the road, and so my friend on the bus, he was genuinely concerned. There's the scrolling, the button pushing, the hands-free. In fact, he takes both hands off the steering wheel seven times in just two minutes. He even flips the phone on its side for a better view. This is actually` This is actually a full, um,... < This is a full bus. ...a full bus. Very poor behaviour. It's most unfortunate. The driver appears to have his eyes off the road for 70-80% of the time. This is the M2 in a very busy time of the day, and he's driving through the roadworks area. And it wasn't just once. The driver was filmed several times throughout the journey, more concerned with his phone than his passengers. And after seeing that video, Australian transport authorities have suspended the driver's licence. Last year he went to ground after pushing Hollywood's A list to the limit at the Golden Globe awards. At this year's ceremony, Ricky Gervais was back as host, and all eyes were on the comedian to see if he'd behave. Entertainment reporter Joanna Hunkin with the highlights. He offended, outraged and upset half of Hollywood last year. So of course, Ricky Gervais returned as host for the 2012 Golden Globes. Now, the Hollywood Foreign Press have warned me that if I insult any of you or any of them, they'll definitely invite me back next year as well. But he was definitely on better behaviour, taking soft shots at Hollywood's A-list. I want to ask you a question ` have you seen The Tourist yet? Uh, no. Outside, the red carpet was a sea of sparkles and fishtails. LADY GAGA'S 'EDGE OF GLORY' Inside, there was a changing of the guard in the TV categories as a host of new shows took out the top acting honours. And the Golden Globe goes to... Claire Danes. Kelsey Grammar ` Boss. Matt LeBlanc ` Episodes. But they couldn't topple Modern Family, which claimed Best Comedy. Silent film The Artist dominated the big-screen stakes, winning three awards, including Best Motion Picture and Best Actor in a Musical, bringing a little French flair to proceedings. Douglas Fairbanks would say... (MOUTHS) thank you, merci. The Adventures of Tintin claimed Best Animated Film for director Steven Spielberg and his Kiwi co-producer. I'd like to thank my partner, Peter Jackson. I'd like to thank two studios who proved the adage that Peter and I could make the telephone book if we wanted to. Martin Scorsese won Best Director for Hugo, while Meryl Streep won her eighth Golden Globe for The Iron Lady. Michelle Williams picked up Best Actress in a Comedy, playing Marilyn Monroe, while George Clooney was named Best Actor in a Drama. I would like to thank Michael Fassbender for taking over the frontal nudity responsibility that I had. Clooney's film The Descendents rounded out the night, picking up Best Drama and becoming a firm favourite for next month's Academy Awards. Joanna Hunkin, ONE News. To sport now, and former world number ones Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal are the biggest names in action tonight at the Australian tennis open. Current number three Nadal was first up, taking on America's Alex Kuznetzov. CHEERING, APPLAUSE So, Rafael Nadal, a pretty emphatic statement here to the rest of the tournament, saying, 'I'm fit, I'm healthy, I'm playing well, and I mean business.' Nadal took the match in straight sets ` 6-4, 6-1, 6-1. Federer was next on centre court. He's still playing Russia's Alexandre Kudryavtsev as we go to air. Federer won the first set 7-5 and is leading the second 5-2. Also in action tonight is Kiwi women's number one Marina Erakovic, playing France's Irena Pavlovic. They are still in the first set, and the Kiwi is leading 5-4. Earlier, Auckland tennis finalist Flavia Pennetta became the first high-profile women's player to make an exit on day one at the Aussie Open. And in the men's draw, there were high hopes for Australia's next big thing to upset the tournament's 22nd seed. Stephen Stuart has the action. There are huge wraps on Bernard Tomic. Oh, that's brilliant. The 19-year-old German-born Queenslander won last week's Kooyong exhibition tournament and kept pace with Spaniard Fernando Verdasco early in their first round match. Oh, another smooth shot. But last week's Auckland semi-finalist ` the 22nd seed ` edged ahead and took the first set 6-4. And he does break at his third attempt. Tomic, who's ranked 38 in the world, again started encouragingly in the second set, but he let the 28-year-old back into it. Verdasco was hardly convincing ` his hand was playing up ` and Tomic had three set points. He blew them meekly. Well, he won't get a better opportunity than that. And Verdasco took the tiebreaker to move two sets clear. But the Spaniard let the big local hope back in to the match,... And Verdasco ` he dropped serve. ...and Tomic took his chances this time. Then he simply took control of the fourth set. Just increasing the racket-head speed there. However, Verdasco holds the record for the longest ever five-set match at the Australian Open, when he lost in the semi-final to Rafael Nadal three years ago. Oh, what touch. He got down to that. Games going with serve so far in the deciding set. And he handled it well. Stephen Stuart, ONE News. Bernard Tomic won the match. 7-5 in the fifth set. Just ahead, I'll have tomorrow's weather prospects ` it's looking good for holidaymakers. Straight to the weather, and first, the big picture. In comes the high from the Tasman, increasing the pressure across the country, and it forms another high to the east of NZ tomorrow. A weak trough brushes the north-east of the North Island from the early hours of tomorrow. For weather, see tvnz.co.nz That's it from us here on Tonight. Thanks for watching. Goodnight. Captions by Kelsey Taylor and Richard Edmunds. Captions were made possible with funding from NZ On Air.