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  • One News Tonight
Date Broadcast
  • Tuesday 14 February 2012
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  • 22 : 35
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  • 23 : 05
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  • 30:00
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  • TV One
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  • Television New Zealand
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  • The nation's leading team of journalists brings viewers the latest news and sport, plus the most comprehensive weather report.
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  • Chapman Archive
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  • English
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Live Broadcast
  • Yes
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  • Made for the University of Auckland's educational use as permitted by the Screenrights Licensing Agreement.
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  • News
Finally revealed ` the police secret recordings from deep within the Ureweras that sparked the so-called terror raids. Claims of discrimination as the country's first deaf MP battles to participate in Parliamentary debates. And it could fall down at any minute ` a tricky demolition job gets underway in Christchurch. Surveillance footage of masked fighters allegedly training for a revolutionary army have been revealed in the police video at the centre of the so-called terror raids. The controversial recordings are key evidence in the Crown case against the Urewera four, which includes well-known activist Tame Iti. They're accused of illegally possessing firearms and being part of a criminal group. Donna-Marie Lever is following the trial. They were training for armed combat, plotting sabotage, preparing for guerilla warfare, willing to kidnap, kill and go to war with an arsenal of weapons ` that's the Crown case. For the first time, it's revealed its evidence against the final four, Tame Iti, Emily Bailey, Urs Signer and Te Rangi-Kaiwhiria Kemara. All of these drills are aimed at, the Crown says, using these guns to shoot people, and shooting people is a serious criminal offence. It's alleged the group had a clear agenda. They include murder, kidnapping, arson and the use of firearms against police. And just listen... RAPID GUNSHOTS Gunshots recorded in the Urewera ranges of what the Crown says is the group in training. Police were able to hear gunshots ` numerous gunshots, around 180 to 200 gunshots at each of the camps ` plus commands being given, which were essentially military commands ` retreat, fire, that type of stuff. For just over a year, police watched and waited, hiding devices in the bush. These were tiny little cameras fixed where they couldn't be seen. Along with firearms, computers, diaries, training schedules and a recipe for a bomb were seized during raids in late 2007. The thermite bomb is something that you make by mixing metal and oxide together, and when it burns, it gives off so much heat it's capable of melting metal. The Crown says it was well-known activist Tame Iti who was at the centre of the group and that he had plans to self-govern the whole Tuhoe region. They say Mr Iti described the group as a revolutionary army. Text messages were also intercepted from late 2006. The Crown says a conversation between the late Tuhoe Lambert, who died awaiting trial, talks about recruiting cells and looking for people willing to give their lives for Tuhoe. But Ross Burns says it's the final four who were pivotal in the group. There's one pamphlet which you'll see, which it seems it's authored by Emily Bailey. It's strategising for a revolution, which suggested or which talked about, amongst other things, about blowing up communication systems as a revolutionary technique. More secret tape reveals what the Crown says is trainers from Baghdad teaching the group to evacuate a vehicle under gunfire. There is no lawful purpose in the way these people were using the guns. All four plan to fight the case, but first some 88 Crown witnesses will be called in the coming weeks. Donna-Marie Lever, ONE News. A search for a missing yachtsman has been called off for the night. The man's yacht was found abandoned this morning, with its motor still running, 20km east of Mayor Island in the Bay of Plenty. The boat's skipper left Tauranga for Paihia on Sunday in calm conditions. Richard Rusbatch (56) is a highly experienced charter boat operator. He spoke to a marina worker before heading out on the water on Sunday. He was aware that` and we spoke of it ` that it was a bit choppy out there, because it was a north-east breeze blowing, so, yeah, it wouldn't have been a flat trip, that's for sure. His boat is a 38ft single-masted yacht called Honfleur, which was found with the anchor down and the motor still running. Mr Jeanes believes the anchor accidentally came loose, sending the anchor out. If it hits the bottom and he's unaware of it, and then the anchor grabs, certainly it would swing the boat around. It could do anything. The rescue coordination centre says they are looking at widening their search are tomorrow. In a dubious NZ first, an Auckland man's been jailed for arranging a child sex tour. The 48-year-old nabbed in a police undercover operation can't be named for now, but a court heard he attempted to organise a tour to Thailand that promised sex with underage boys. Nicole Bremner has the story. Suppression means we can't show you who this man is. That's because he's facing other charges. But the judge sentencing the man over an unsuccessful attempt to take a sex tour to Thailand wasn't holding back. Organising sex tours with the intentions that the traveller will have sex with underage children is despicable. In jailing the 48-year-old for three years, Justice Wylie said the man's expressions of remorse were too little, too late. There is nothing to suggest that either then or now you have given any thought to the abuse of these children, or to their vulnerability. The man's plan to run sex tours to Thailand came unstuck in 2010, when he was taken in by an undercover police officer posing as a customer wanting sex with pubescent boys. Police built a case around recorded conversations and emails between the pair. This is the first prosecution of its type since laws prohibiting child sex tours came into force in 1995, but that doesn't mean the targeting of underage children for sex isn't big business and a huge problem. The impact on the child lasts a lifetime. Post-traumatic syndrome is a very real thing, and it just rips the innocence out of kids. Other child advocates say the sentence puts offenders on notice. This sentence will have been carefully watched by paedophile groups around the world. Police hope they'll get the message their behaviour will land them in jail. Nicole Bremner, ONE News. Parliament's first deaf MP will give her maiden speech tomorrow, amid a shouting match over who should pay for her support staff. Mojo Mathers says Parliament's bosses are discriminating against her by not paying for a note-taking service, which the speaker angrily denies. Simon Bradwell reports. Mojo Mathers campaigned for a richer NZ, but says Parliament's treating her poorly. The deaf MP and her Green Party colleagues are slamming parliamentary services for not paying for the note-taking service she needs to follow events in the House. It is clearly a breach on so many levels, not only on the law in the United Nations charter on the rights of people with disabilities, but it's also` I find it offensive as a Kiwi. But the Speaker of the House isn't having bar of that. I've had Parliamentary services putting huge resources into finding the appropriate technological equipment that is needed to enable Mojo Mather to take her place in the House effectively. Dr Smith says the Greens and other sympathetic MPs need to have a whip-round and dip into their own funding for support staff. We should do that first before we go to the taxpayer for more money. Taxpayers pay a lot of money supporting MPs. Support even from the other end of the political spectrum. They promise parliamentary services to provide a discrimination-free environment. This is seriously discriminatory. Lockwood Smith now says he'll talk to the Government about extra funding. Everyone has an equal right to be able to communicate and do their job properly, so we'd certainly have a look at that bid. Mojo Mathers delivers her maiden speech tomorrow. Simon Bradwell, ONE News. Emotions boiled over at the Pike River inquiry today after evidence was heard that a manager at the mine was sending emails about a new job just minutes after the explosion which killed 29 men. Doug White says he didn't realise there'd been an accident at the mine, but his timing has infuriated the dead miners' families. Lisa Davies is covering the hearing. 3.44pm, a deadly explosion at Pike River Mine. Just 18 minutes later, general manager Doug White sent this email about a job at Solid Energy, saying... A second email was sent at 4.03 to an employment consultant, saying he was free now. At the time I sent the emails, I had absolutely no idea at all there was a major incident at the mine. Doug White was told at 3.50 the mine had lost power and communications. He then went outside, commenting on an unusual smell. After questioning, he agreed he then sent the emails before visiting the control room and the mine portal. If you go out and smell gunpowder and the knowledge of things were down, well, I just can't accept that. So, you know, it's something he must live with. The timing of the email so upset Riki Keane's mother, she called out, 'This was while my boy was dying, Jesus Christ.' She left the room in tears. There was a major incident up there, and the knowledge he was doing what he was doing was just, well, on behalf of the families, unforgivable. Doug White's lawyer was concerned the timing of the email would be misconstrued. That somehow or other he's ignoring a potential catastrophe and making emails` firing off emails to get a job is not the reality. Four days before the explosion, a deeply unhappy Doug White wanted to leave Pike River Mine, claiming he was being made a scapegoat for a drop in the company share price, saying in an email... 'In the last two days, I have seen the true colours of senior leadership here, 'and I don't like what I've seen.' Yet another criticism of the way Pike River was run. Lisa Davies, ONE News. Demolition has begun of a Christchurch apartment block severely damaged during the December aftershocks. Bulldozers moved in to take down the first two buildings in the Terrace on the Park complex today. The buildings are considered dangerous and could collapse at any time. One of the more damaged ones we've come across, and some of the other buildings still had some residual strength. In this case, too dangerous to put people in there to prop it, so we had to get on and demolish it. Demolition is expected to take about a week. Just ahead ` tomorrow's weather. Also, Whitney Houston's body begins the journey home, as images emerge from the hotel room where she died. And Athens cleans up after anti-austerity riots amid predictions the unrest will spread in Europe. 1 A teenage fisherman who scaled a burning hotel to save his sleeping friend says he never stopped to think about his own safety. The 19-year-old returned to Dunedin's Kingsgate Hotel last night to find the building engulfed in flames. Some of the 32 guests were still inside, including his mate, Braydon Duggan (17). Uh, I climbed up the side of the building on to the first` just above the first floor and threw him out of bed and told him there was a fire drill and he has to get out through the window. The fire is believed to have been started by a lamp burning through a pillow. The hotel is out of commission for now, although questions remains over its safety. Whitney Houston's body has been flown to her home in New Jersey, where it's expected her funeral will be held later this week. It comes as images emerge from inside the hotel room where she died on Sunday showing the singer's final meal. And there were chaotic scenes as her ex-husband, Bobby Brown, flew in to Los Angeles to be with the couple's daughter. Israel is blaming Iran for two bomb attacks on its diplomatic staff in India and the Caucasus. A car bombing in New Delhi badly injured the wife of the Israeli defence attache and her driver. A second device was discovered in Georgia, but it was diffused before it went off. The ABC's Anne Barker has more. HORNS AND SIRENS BLARE The New Delhi attack happened in the diplomatic quarter, just a stone's throw from the Indian prime minister's residence. The wife of Israel's defence attache was on her way to pick up their children from school. Police say she noticed a motorcyclist ride up and attach something to the embassy car. It was stuck to the rear side of the vehicle. And soon thereafter, there was a mild explosion, and the car caught fire. Two other people in a nearby vehicle were also injured. A second bomb was found by staff at Israel's embassy in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. An embassy driver noticed a package attached to the underside of his car. It turned out to contain a grenade, which was diffused and detonated. Israel was in no doubt who was responsible. (SPEAKS HEBREW) TRANSLATOR: The instigators behind these attacks are Iran and its proxy, Hizbollah. He's revealed that Israel had thwarted similar attacks in recent months in Thailand and Azerbaijan. Israeli embassies had also been on high alert for the fourth anniversary of the assassination of leading Hizbollah figure Imad Mughniyeh. Now Israeli leaders are threatening to retaliate. (SPEAKS HEBREW) TRANSLATOR: 'We can identify exactly who is responsible for these attacks and who ordered them. 'And if I can put it diplomatically, we will not stand idly by.' Iran has denied any involvement and says Israel is engaging in psychological warfare. The Greek government has called a snap election for April in the wake of nation-wide protest over austerity measures. The announcement casts fresh doubt on the future of the European bailout. The ABC's Philip Williams has more. As if the economy wasn't bad enough already, for dozens of shop owners, this was their future. Looted and burned, some businesses may not recover. It's awful. I mean, it's just a bunch of people that just destroy everything. They destroy Greece. And with around 40 buildings destroyed, that will only add to the growing unemployment queues. With the minimum wage set to be slashed below poverty levels and plans for another 150,000 public service sackings, the anger that triggered all of this is only going to build and, some warn, may be set to cross borders. If this is going to happen in Greece, for sure it's going to happen in Italy, in Portugal, in Spain. But in the other Europe ` the leaders who signed the bailout cheques ` there is a determination this will not lead to contagion. And says Germany's Angela Merkel, there'll be no changes from the Greeks. A clear warning ` if there's backsliding, the deal's off. Besides, they say, the alternative would be much worse for the Greek people. A disorderly default of Greece would be a much worse outcome with devastating consequences for the Greek society, especially for the weakest members of the Greek society. Not a comforting choice for the Greeks, already living their nightmare, with the worst yet to come. The man once described as Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe has been freed The man once described as Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe has been freed after a British court ruled his detention without trial was unlawful. Extremist cleric Abu Qatada has spent six years in a British prison fighting extradition. Government ministers are demanding he still be deported to Jordan, where he's convicted of terrorism, but the European Court of Human Rights has blocked the move because of fears he may be tortured if he returns there. It cannot be right that a sovereign nation has someone who they think is an extremely dangerous individual. He cannot possibly be allowed to stay in this country just because of the risk of his human rights. What about the human rights of all our citizens? Our men, women and children? Abu Qatada has been released to his family home under virtual house arrest. The failure of the United Nations Security Council to take action in Syria has emboldened president Assad's regime to intensify its attacks on protesters. That's the view of UN human rights chief Navi Pillay, who has spoken of 'horrific levels of violence' inflicted by Syrian forces. Her claims come as more video emerges showing shelling in the city of Homs and tanks in a southern village. More than 400 people have been killed in Homs since Russia and China vetoed a UN resolution calling for Bashar al-Assad to step down. Just ahead ` Renee's here with wet weather for the north. And a Valentine's Day message for singles keen to get their ex out of sight. To sport now, and in typical T20 fashion, it's been a close game of cricket in Hamilton, as the Blackcaps fought to chase Zimbabwe. The visitors rewriting the history books, smashing the most sixes they've ever hit ` 10 of them ` finishing their innings 200/2. Blackcap Kane Williamson not batting an eyelid, though, just plenty of balls to even the score. He's hit it. Has he hit it? He has. He's hit it all the way for six! Kane Williamson, take bow, son! NZ winning by five wickets, taking it out 202/5. Now here's Renee with the weather. Thanks, Miri. Hi, everyone. The trough weakens somewhat over the next few days but is slow to move on. Tasman high pressure moves a little closer to us, pushing a ridge onto the south of the South Island. Jasmine looks likely to be downgraded to just a tropical low over the next day or so as it moves over cooler waters. For weather, see tvnz.co.nz And that's your weather. I'll see you tomorrow. Finally tonight, many of us will have given or received romantic gifts this Valentine's Day, but what about those who don't have a valentine? How can they enjoy a day traditionally for couples? Lacey Wilson with this. Valentine's Day, a chance to celebrate romance. And while some may still be waiting for that special person to come along or perhaps just don't know how special their someone really is, in Christchurch the declarations of love were very public. They can write a special message to their own Valentine, and we plan to scan the whole thing, put it online and then send that link to those customers who participated so they can then send that link to friends and family overseas. Measuring 4m high and 2m wide, it's an attention-grabber. You could always go for the traditional romantic gesture of flowers and, of course, chocolates. But this Valentine's Day, some are stepping out of the box. This Auckland restaurant is helping singletons forget old flames... We're celebrating Singles Awareness Day, so basically if you bring your old ex photo, we'll shred it in the shredder and we'll give you a complimentary cocktail. ...and a chance to find a future partner. We've got a whole group of girlfriends coming down tonight that are all singles, so if there are single men out there that want to meet single ladies, come down to Red Hummingbird tonight. For those a little more retiring, they could join thousands of NZers surfing the Net for love. As many as 25% have actually found their long-term partners online. Or just look a little closer to home. According to studies, we find love where we spend most of our time ` through friends or at work. Lacey Wilson, ONE News. That's it from us here on Tonight. Breakfast is back with updates from 6 tomorrow morning. You can stay up to date by logging on to our website at tvnz.co.nz Thanks for watching. Goodnight. Captions by Alecia Bland and Kelsey Taylor. Captions were made possible with funding from NZ On Air. Copyright TVNZ Access Services 2012