Due to the live nature of Tonight, we apologise for the lack of captions for some items. Tonight, a radiation scare involving a cargo plane at Auckland Airport. He once campaigned against it, now an embarrassing back-down for an MP who 'admitted' scalping. Peter Whittall's lawyer reacts to those personal emails at the Pike River Inquiry. And they're both leaders in their fields, so who will be the NZer of the year? The atmosphere over the north is still unstable. That is driving up big, menacing clouds, heavy showers and lightning strikes, but help is on the way with the next anticyclone moving in. Details coming up. Kia ora, good evening. We begin with breaking news, and a radiation scare tonight at Auckland International Airport. A Singapore Airlines freight plane at the airport was cordoned off after reports of a possible radiation leak. A 200m cordon was set up around the plane, and a hazardous materials unit was brought in to check the cargo hold. It's not known what the plane was carrying. Airport authorities describe the measures taken as precautionary. Flights and operations at the airport haven't been affected, and there've been no evacuations. The name-calling emails were damning against former Pike River boss Peter Whittall. Mine manager Doug White labelled the chief executive a 'liar' and a 'dodgy git'. Now Mr Whittall's lawyer is fighting back. Lisa Davies has more from the inquiry into the Pike Mine disaster. He called his boss, Peter Whittall, a dodgy git and a liar. Today Doug White wasn't backing down on the content of his controversial emails. Do you regret at least some of the language that you used in that email, Mr White? > I-I don't regret it. It was an email between myself and a personal friend. There's no way I would have expected that to be aired in public, but I don't regret having written that email, no. Peter Whittall is devastated by the name-calling, according to his lawyer. You never said any of those things to Mr Whittall's face, did you? > I did not, no. Now, I've spoken with him overnight, > and he's absolutely devastated to learn for the very first time in these hearings > that you felt that way. > The email was sent three days before the fatal explosion that killed 29 men. Stacey Shortall queried Mr White's use of the words, 'He tells lies, too.' Mr Whittall vehemently denies all of your email comments about him being dodgy or lying > or the other accusations you've made. > He may well do, but he did lie. Just one lie, he admitted, when Peter Whittall blamed him for a share price drop. Stacey Shortall also went over a police report in which Doug White described Peter Whittall as overbearing, dictatorial and a megalomaniac. She says it cut short his comment, which continued,... 'But to talk to the bloke on a one-to-one basis, he's the nicest bloke you'll meet in the world.' Doug White was in tears yesterday over issues with his job and his boss, but he says safety wasn't one of them. Especially, Mr White, when a man's reputation and career > is now subject to water-cooler discussion around this country, > you didn't intend to suggest in your personal email > that Mr Whittall was dodgy as to safety at Pike's mine, did you? > I would never have suggested that at all, no. And he agreed his personal emails shouldn't be given any weight by the Pike River Royal Commission. Lisa Davies, ONE News. The Crafar farms' saga has taken a new twist with suggestions the Chinese government might have lobbied the Overseas Investment Office over the deal. And there's also concerns about NZ's image in China. Simon Bradwell reports. At Southern Field Days near Gore, everyone had something to say about Crafar farms. We're just going to be a market garden for China. That's what it's coming down to, isn't it? Oh, it's a tricky one isn't it, I suppose, but, yeah, I think keep it Kiwi. But it's exactly that attitude that business leaders say sends a bad signal to China. This is about every overseas investor potentially coming to NZ in any investment, really, thinking, 'Gee, is NZ really serious about being open for business?' And while our farms are marketed around the world, some say the damage has in fact been done. It makes NZ look as if though it is racially selective in, um, the investors it welcomes into the country. The bid for 16 Crafar farms by China's Shanghai Pengxin hit a speed bump yesterday, after a High Court judge ruled the Overseas Investment Office and two ministers had 'overstated the economic benefit to NZ'. Now questions about a meeting involving Overseas Investment Office officials and a Chinese diplomat last year. We now have good evidence that, in fact, the Chinese government visited the Overseas Investment Office. We assume why they visited them was to lobby them about the Shanghai-Pengxin deal. Officials did not discuss the Shanghai-Pengxin bid for the Crafar farms. The Prime Minister believes advice on foreign investment now looks set to change. This is going to be a whole new way of` of every foreign purchaser having to be considered and the merits of whether they will be accepted or not. And determine who's in the driving seat on our farms. Simon Bradwell, ONE News. Labour MP Trevor Mallard is being urged to practice what he preaches, after being caught out selling concert tickets online for a tidy profit. When he was a government minister, Mr Mallard initiated an anti-scalping law, and his actions have got concert organisers describing him as foolish. Arrun Soma has spoken with the MP. Gearing up for a sell-out concert, Homegrown celebrates Kiwi musicians. Facing the music now is Labour MP Trevor Mallard, who bought four tickets and sold them online for a tidy profit. I've got a birthday to go to, you know? I didn't know until a couple of weeks ago that this birthday was going to clash with Homegrown. The tickets cost him $412. He sold them for $656, making about $250 dollars. Buyer Nick Potts is happy he won the auction; appalled an MP was profiting. It's very unethical and, uh, goes against morals, I think. When we picked up the tickets, we felt a bit dodgy. Annoyed too when they found out it was Trevor Mallard who introduced an anti-scalping law. Because the money that people could make out of this is, uh, is just enormous. The tickets Trevor Mallard was selling were for the Homegrown concert. The event doesn't fall under the anti-scalping law. That's for big international events like the Rugby World Cup. Even so, the event organisers say Mr Mallard's actions are foolish. Ultimately, I'm the one and my team are the ones that put the effort into running the festival, so, uh, they're making money out of my hard work. Mr Mallard admits trying to cash in. So you were trying to get more money? > I was trying to get what the, um, what the going rate was, yep. Is it wrong? > I`I don't think it's wrong. In fact, when asked online if he'd sell for a lesser fixed cost, he replied, 'I think your price is cheeky.' Mr Mallard's sold two sets of Homegrown tickets before, and Rugby Sevens tickets too, but can't recall if he made a profit on those. The issue's drawn slightly light-hearted attention in the House. I have received a report as late as this morning highlighting the problem of ongoing ticket scalping for upcoming events taking place, in this case, Mr Speaker, apparently, from a red-painted ticket-sales office in Naenae. ALL LAUGH You, uh, should practise what you preach. Trevor Mallard says next time he'll sell at face value. He's offered a full refund to Nick Potts and the other buyers, but Mr Potts says Trevor Mallard should donate the profits to charity. Arrun Soma, ONE News. A former high-profile businessman's received name suppression, after being arrested in a police raid on central Auckland apartments this morning. Amy Kelley reports. A rude awakening for a former high-profile businessman cuffed and carted away in this apartment-block raid. It's pretty rough. Uh, this is life in the fast lane in here, mate. 20 officers, including Armed Offenders staff, stormed in around 6 this morning, kicking down apartment doors. This was where they smashed it all in. This was all stripped upside down. Everything was everywhere. Officers also searched cars and took away imitation firearms and laptops. This resident was cuffed and questioned before being released. The whole building was surrounded in police, and they were breaking down 28 doors. So you could hear them going simultaneously from room to room, breaking down the doors. Aware of any illegal activity here? > No, no, no. People party here and there, around the place, but that's how it normally is, you know? During the raid, police made three arrests. A 33-year-old man is charged with unpaid fines, and a 16-year-old girl is charged with breaching bail. The businessman faces drugs and firearms charges. He has name suppression and will appear in court tomorrow. Amy Kelley, ONE News. Police believe they've busted NZ's biggest P lab near Taupo. Four people have been arrested, among them, a man police say was carrying a kilo of the drug and more than $150,000 cash. A kilo of P has a street value of up to a million dollars. A number of firearms were located, a loaded pistol was found secreted in a vehicle and a loaded military-style semi-automatic was also located adjacent to the methamphetamine laboratory. Police made the discovery at a property in Oruanui, north of Taupo. Two NZers are facing drug charges in America, accused of stashing cocaine in a suitcase. Along with an Australian, they were arrested on board the P & O cruise ship Aurora, when it docked in San Francisco. It's alleged the trio had more than 13kg of cocaine, with a street value of around $2m. The Foreign Affairs Ministry says it's offering assistance to the Kiwi pair. Just ahead, Hollywood star Angelina Jolie's most terrifying role ` directing a story set in war-torn Bosnia. And from war to weapon, to police search and rescue, the drones now flying in America's skies. 1 Frontline defence staff are bearing the brunt of budget cuts, with almost 300 uniformed personnel being made redundant in the past year. Labour says that breaks the government's promise that it would be office staff losing jobs. Political reporter Michael Parkin has the details. It's the war cry of the National government ` make back-office cuts to save costs. It wants the Defence Force to find over $350m in annual savings by 2015, but Labour says it's the front line that's suffering. Figures just released to ONE News show that the axe has fallen on 485 Defence Force positions in the last year, and almost 300 of those made redundant were wearing a uniform. But no one's been cut from the Ministry of Defence offices in Wellington. Now, what we've seen, of course, is front-line personnel having their jobs cut first while the back-office people in the ministry, uh, have been safe from the Government's razor. So that's not what National promised at all. In fact, it's exactly the opposite. I wouldn't say that the people in the ministry are not vital to the organisation because they are. Without those 70 people in the ministry, it would make it very hard for the NZDF, ultimately, to produce the outputs we need it to. Figures also show that, aside from the cuts, more than 1200 people quit the Defence Force in the last 12 months. Morale is measurably down. We've seen attrition rates, uh, increase. In fact, in the Air Force, attrition rates has doubled over the last year. You get that with any sort of change programme. There's no question about that. But you've got to remember you've got guys who've been in there for 25, 30 years. Uh, they've been used to that job for life culture. The reality is the NZDF has to come into line with the rest of the world. The 72 staff here at the Ministry of Defence will be hoping Jonathan Coleman's view that they are vital is shared by the Prime Minister, who's preparing to announce another round of state-sector cuts in the next fortnight. The NZDF expects to cut a further 150 uniformed positions this year. Michael Parkin, ONE News. Actress Angelina Jolie's controversial and gritty subject for her first film as director has won praise from the Bosnian people. 'In the Land of Blood and Honey' tells the story of a romance between a Bosnian Serb and a Muslim in the middle of the Bosnian war. But not everyone's convinced it tells a fair story. The BBC's Allan Little reports. For 40 months, these streets were besieged and bombarded. The memory is raw and ever present. 20 years on, Sarajevo still wants its story told. It's found an unlikely new champion. The demand for tickets was enormous, so they moved the screening to a former Olympic sports stadium. But this is not an easy film. It depicts, in bleak and chilling detail, the brutal forced removals of non-Serbs ` the so-called ethnic cleansing. Many left feeling that Bosnia's story had been told at last in unsparing honesty. Uh, the movie's very good, and I'm very glad that she made it. You know these people sitting here are going to be, um, reminded of the most painful time in their lives. And, um, you know, will they` will they feel comfortable with this? Will they embrace it? Will they be upset? I don't know, and, um, I was terrified. But the divisions war imposed remain. Go to the Serb half of the country, and you enter a parallel universe. Angelina Jolie is not welcome here. TRANSLATOR: This film yet again demonises the Serbs. Yet again, the Serbs are the bad guys. She rejects the charge that the film is not balanced. 'The war was not balanced,' she says. They don't, uh, want to see these atrocities. They don't want to be reminded of these atrocities that I... I, um... Th`They` some people want to deny it... it even happened. MUEZZIN CHANTS Bosnia's wounds have not healed. This film, for all its searing honesty, reveals a country still divided ` unreconciled to its own painful past. There's no set date for the release of the movie in NZ yet, although it's expected to come out later in the year. One of the stealth tools in the war against terror is being put to work in American skies. Unmanned drones are being used to fight crime locally as well as to help in search and rescue work. ABC reporter Jim Avila explains. ENGINE WHIRRS They are the terrorism-fighting robot heroes of Afghanistan and Iraq ` silent predators of Mideast skies, now launching a new American aerial assault at the hand of domestic law enforcement. This is a search for a child. Here in Grand Junction, Colorado, the Mesa County Sheriff's Department has one of the 300 FAA permits ` many of them issued to law enforcement to fly drones over US soil. Fixed-wing and rotary-style drones ` they carry cameras that track suspects and back up patrol officers. Lift off. They are easy to fly ` similar to a video game. These sheriff's deputies who learn to fly them at a two-day seminar, now deploy them from the trunk of their squad car. REMOTE CONTROL BEEPS That means you have the control. You have control, yep. Even a novice like me can keep it aloft with two joysticks. This helicopter, using a heat-seeking camera, can search for a warm body when a child is missing in a big field. A very cold day with a young child with disabilities, and you have a large aread to search. One of the strong points about the drones is that it can find people ` people who are missing, people who are hiding. Even though you can't see me on the ground, to the drone, I'm purely visible. You see me? You see me now? Some worry about privacy issues. We don't want a situation where every time you walk outside your front door, you have to look up and wonder if, you know, some eye in the sky is tracking your every move. Hey, this is Ed Kaminsky... The use of drones is already expanding beyond law enforcement. This realtor in LA uses a helicopter drone to video tape majestic properties. NOAA uses its to monitor glaciers. But the Airline Pilots Association fears it's chaotic, dangerous skies if drone operators learn their craft in just days. So they're lobbying for full pilot training and radars so that commercial pilots can see them. Without that, the airspace is not as safe. Without that, there is a potential to have a drone run into an airplane. But police agencies across the country are raring to fly ` convinced that technology that takes out Al Qaeda will soon track American criminals. Just ahead, the Young NZer of the Year. The fairytale rise of America's newest sporting hero ` the first Asian-American to make it in the NBA. And I'll be back after the break with the latest on the unstable situation over the north. Multi-Oscar Award winner and the man behind WETA Workshop, Sir Richard Taylor, has been crowned NZer of the Year in Auckland tonight. Most famous for his special effects work on the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, Sir Richard is no stranger to honours, having won a staggering five Oscars and four BAFTA awards. Sam Johnson (23) the face of the Canterbury Student Volunteer Army, has also been honoured. He's been crowned the Young NZer of the Year. Now to sport and the fairytale rise of basketballer Jeremy Lin. A few weeks ago he was teamless and homeless. Now Lin's a superstar for the famous New York Knicks. Toni Street has the latest in this great American tale. New York is going nuts. Linsanity. All I do is Lin. Linsane Asylum, baby. Go, Jeremy Lin. Linderella story. Stay tuned. The attention is both a blessing and a curse at the same time. Me and my family are pretty low-key. So sometimes, it can be a little overwhelming, but I recognise this as a unique opportunity. Everything about 23-year-old Jeremy Lin is unique. The NBA's only Asian-American, only Harvard graduate, undrafted from college, the subject of racial abuse from fans and players, he was cut twice by other teams in the NBA pre-season. Then two weeks ago, he got a call from the injury-plagued Knicks. The peak of his five-game rise was last night. Lin puts it up. Bang! Jeremy Lin from downtown. Three seconds. Lin sizes him up. Straight away, three buries it! 0.5 remaining! Today he got the chance to be a hero again, pushing the limits of Linsanity against the Sacramento Kings. He managed a career-high 13 assists and 10 points, helping the Knicks to their seventh consecutive win. It's the greatest story in sports right now. Tickets to Knicks games are now going for twice the price. Shares in the franchise are at an all-time high. Even the Super Bowl-winning giants have been kicked off the back page. As for Lin himself, he's gone from living on his teammate's couch to this ` the Trump Tower. Nike is launching a campaign around him in Asia. He really came out of nowhere, and that's not normal. Everyone's kind of overlooked him for the last 20 years. Even President Barack Obama is a fan. The old song goes: 'New York, if you make it there, you can make it anywhere.' Jeremy Lin has made it. Toni Street, ONE News. Weather now, and here's Renee. Just the low cloud in our vicinity, trapped beneath the high pressure - weak trough of low pressure remains over the North Island, with a couple of fronts or surface troughs. The fronts weaken away tomorrow afternoon, leaving the trough over the northern half. Meanwhile the ridge drifts slowly northeast, allowing the fronts over the southwest Tasman Sea to moves close, arriving in the far south early on Saturday. For weather, see tvnz.co.nz And that's your weather. I'll see you tomorrow. That's it from us here on Tonight. Breakfast is back with updates from 6 tomorrow morning. And you can stay up to date by logging on to our website at tvnz.co.nz Thanks for watching. Goodnight. Captions by Glenna Casalme and Diana Beeby. Captions were made possible with funding from NZ On Air.