Due to the live nature of Tonight, we apologise for the lack of captions for some items. Tonight ` it is all about getting us back in the black, but smokers will be seeing red following Bill English's Budget. The man who was the face of the so-called terror raids is now spending his first night behind bars. And it may not have made the cast of Baywatch, but could this be the last word in life-saving? Finance minister Bill English delivered, as expected, his second zero Budget. He's hoping for a small budget surplus by 2014 to 2015 and says it's a sensible Budget for difficult times. That's meant shuffling more than $4b of existing spending into other areas over the next four years. The main target is science and innovation, where the government will be committing an extra $385m. But the biggest single area to benefit is health, which gets $1.5b more over the next four years. On the income side, the government's increasing its revenue with a 10% annual rise in the tobacco tax for the next four years. We've comprehensive coverage of today's Budget ` who's won out and who's lost and some angry reaction from students. In the first of our reports, here's Renee Graham on reaction to the Budget. Bill English handing out his second zero Budget as finance minister to Parliament. This Budget is about investing in our future. It shows the government is responsibly managing its finances. The Finance Minister is still promising to return the government to surplus in 2014-15, reduce government borrowing and boost our national savings. The government's a quarter of the entire economy. Three-quarters is the private sector. If you look at the things we've been doing to encourage them to get going, whether it's labour market reform, public-service reform, they are all about giving businesses in NZ the incentive to go and hire people. But the Opposition sees little in the Budget to promote economic growth. There is nothing in this Budget that will prevent or stop or deter people from going to departure lounges right across the country and going to Australia. They are terrible managers of the economy, so the one last straw they have to hold up to the public and say, 'We know what we're doing,' is if they can meet their surplus goal. The Finance Minister says the NZ economy has continued to grow despite a tough economic environment. He's forecasting growth of more than 3% by 2015. That's expected to bring in an extra 154,000 new jobs. I think we've got a very credible plan that's working, and my own view is we shouldn't be despondent about that. We're in the right part of the world, doing the right things. But critics aren't so sure the numbers stacks up. Well, it looks like a 21-year time warp. It's the very same thing that Ruth Richardson said and the National Party said back in 1991. And the consequence was a serious recession. There's nothing in there that poor children, poor families, poor workers, poor women, poor Maori, poor anybody can clap for. The Finance Minister predicts this'll be the last Budget he'll have to draw up with no extra money to spend. Renee Graham, ONE News. The government's trying to sell the Budget as one that's building growth through innovation. That includes cash for tertiary courses specialising in science and engineering. Political reporter Jessica Mutch explains. If you mix extra funding with science and innovation, it will create jobs. That's the promise from the Government and why it's pouring more than $320m into it. It takes a lot of science to create these paints, and Resene is welcoming the move. We're competing against massive overseas conglomerates, and if we don't research` if we don't have science, we die in the water. Colin Gooch says he'd like to see more money going direct to businesses rather than institutes. There's a lot of stuff which can be done by the companies themselves if they can afford it. The funding boost includes $166m to create a new advanced technology institute to work with the high-tech manufacturing sector. An extra $100m for science research and $60m for a national science challenge which helps find new inventions and innovations. The government will also spend nearly $60m on training more scientists and engineers. We're going to maintain the quality of scientists. We are gonna invest more in engineers. There's an expectation out of this that we'll get another 900 engineers over the next five or six years. But for Jackie Barber, who has just completed her chemistry PhD, it's too little too late. Myself and pretty much everyone I know who is graduating shortly is not planning on staying in the country, so it would be really great to see research being supported in NZ, cos there's very little out there right now. This spending means losses in other areas. It's a trade off. The government just hopes it will be a winning formula. Jessica Mutch, ONE News. Smokers will be paying much more to help the government balance the books. And farmers, children and those renting out their bachs will also be paying more tax. Political reporter Michael Parkin has more. About 650,000 Kiwis smoke, and the government's latest revenue-gathering plan to increase the price of cigarettes by 10% a year for the next four years has them fired up. I think it is a little bit unfair just do smoking when alcohol is probably a bigger problem in terms of abuse in NZ. It's almost like you can condemn them and nobody minds. The government's increased the price of smokes by 10% annually since 2010 and says the additional tobacco tax hike between now and 2016 will push a pack of 20s to over $20, motivate around 25,000 people to quit and earn the government an extra $528m. A big increase this time would have been better, a 50% rise, but the government agreed to 10%. Those with boats, baches, and aircraft are also being targeted. The government says it can bring in $109m over four years by tightening tax loopholes that allow people to rent out their luxury items for just a few days a year and yet claim a deduction on 90% of the costs. Inland Revenue's also stopping farmers switching between two livestock valuation schemes to reap a tax break that the government says would cost it over $180m dollars by 2016 if allowed to continue. A few issues around the impact on young farmers getting into their first farm, but that's something we're gonna work through with the IRD. And young earners are getting hit too. Children will no longer be able to claim a refund for after-school jobs where they're taxed. Picking the pockets of paperboys and papergirls is- I just think is petty. The tax credits for childcare and housekeepers along with the credit for those earning under $10,000 will also be scrapped. The housekeeper rebate, that goes back to the '30s. The government says all these measures will save about $1.4b. Michael Parkin, ONE News. And the Budget provoked an angry reaction from students in Auckland. They went on the attack over budget cuts, as Amy Kelley reports. ALL CHANT: No ifs, no buts, no education cuts. Classes came to a standstill. These students set their own assignment ` to take over Symonds St. ALL CHANT: Whose street? Our street! They marched en masse and wheeled out rubbish skips, forcing buses to U-turn and traffic to jam up all over town. It's obviously a careful balance between people expressing their rights and vehicular traffic down the main arterial route. The students are outraged at moves to cut back on financial support,... They say cut back, we say fight back! ...like freezing the parental income threshold for receiving a student allowance, capping that student allowance at 200 weeks and increasing the repayment rate for student loans from 10% to 12%. Makes students want to go and get money where they can actually pay it back, and the best way they can do that is in Australia. ...where the repayment rate is 4%. I get $50 a week student allowance at the moment. That's money that I wouldn't get... If I went on to do my masters, I wouldn't get that at all. I'd have to pay back my student loan quicker, which would be like an extra tax on me when I start working. These protestors fear the changes will discourage students from lower-income families from doing long degrees or post-graduate study, restricting occupations in fields like medicine, law and engineering to a privileged few. Even the odd lecturer supported their cause. You guys are awesome, yeah? APPLAUSE Police watched from a distance, leaving the street to the students. Even now, with commuter traffic peaking, they're dancing in the intersection. Amy Kelley, ONE News. To other news now, and lawyers for Tame Iti and another of the so-called Urewera four are appealing against their sentences after being found guilty of firearms charges. Iti's been jailed for two and a half years. Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara also got the same. Urs Signer and Emily Bailey will be sentenced later, but the judge has signalled nine months' home detention. Donna-Marie Lever was in court. (CHANTS IN MAORI) Tame Iti staged a final fight in court as he learned his fate ` punishment in prison... Aue, aue, aue. ...along with co-accused Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara. The pair were led to the cells as the shock set in for their supporters. We're pretty disappointed with the sentencing today. Um, it's come as a bit of a shock. The judge labelled Tame Iti the main man in this case and Kemara the weapons man and Iti's lieutenant. But Iti's son says there's so much more to his dad. I would never change my father from the person he is. His moko need him the way he is right now, you know. And, so, um, I'm proud of him. The pair were found guilty of six firearms charges. The judge said the serious offending had taken its toll. I consider harm has been done to the community for which you should be held accountable. It marks another milestone in this long-running saga that's cost the country millions, but the Crown has no regrets. It's established a lot of important principles about the way that people behave in this country and about the way the law should be applied. So it's been a long journey, but it's been a worthwhile journey. And the journey is not over yet. Lawyers plan to appeal both the convictions and the jail terms handed down today. They tell me that papers for that will be filed in Wellington by Monday. And the case returns here to the High Court in Auckland next month where the remaining two will officially be sentenced. (CHANTS IN MAORI) The judge has already indicated Urs Signer and his partner Emily Bailey are likely to be given nine months' home detention for their part. I can't talk cos we're still to be sentenced. The pair, who have a young child, were shown strong support by the Parihaka community where they live. Police still face heavy criticism for how they handled the execution of the operation in 2007. To people who were distressed as a result of the police being present, doing what they had to do, or who were inconvenienced, we say sorry to them. An apology that doesn't appear to wash with Tame Iti, still vowing to fight on till the bitter end. And supporters of Iti and Kemara staged a noisy protest in Auckland this evening. A hundred demonstrators gathered outside Mt Eden Prison in protest against the jail sentences handed down to the pair. They're describing them as a gross injustice. We never expected to be here tonight. This was completely out of the blue. It was an outrageous decision by a judge who retried these defendants for no good reason other than he wanted to defend the police action. The demonstrators say they're planning more protests later this week. The 18-year-old whose partner and baby have died in a Waikato Hospital has spoken to ONE News about the delivery of his son. Kate Lynch has been back at the marae where family members are preparing to farewell Casey Nathan and her son Kymani. Hayden Tukiri has been through more in the past few days than most 18-year-olds go through in a lifetime. On Monday, he lost his girlfriend Casey Nathan after childbirth. Last night, he lost his son, Kymani. Casey wanted the name, so we stuck with that name. Hayden didn't leave his partner's side during the birth. He says Casey told him she was in excruciating pain. We should have just taken her straight to the hospital. And did you discuss that with the midwife? > Yeah, we told her, but she said she'll be right. Casey's mother has only just learned the midwife had less than 18 months' experience. That's what I want to know ` what did go wrong? We contacted the midwife; she refused to comment, but it's understood she's had to leave town because of threats made against her. One of her colleagues, who didn't want to be named, told ONE News she understood Casey Nathan's care had been exemplary. The Midwifery Council says that maternal deaths in NZ are rare. It released this statement saying... The family says preliminary post-mortem results show Casey had haemorrhaged. The report says that there are some suspicious circumstances around the blood-clotting. The Nathan family say they want answers, but for now their focus is Casey and Kymani's tangi. Kate Lynch, ONE News. Just ahead ` find out what Amnesty has to say about the treatment of Aborigines. And it's not Baywatch, but you might still be pleased to see this lifesaver. TV PLAYS SCREWDRIVER WHIRRS SCREWDRIVER WHIRRS Is that the last one, Daddy? Yes, precious. That's the last one. SAD MUSIC Could you live with yourself? 1 A jury in Christchurch deciding whether George Gwaze killed his niece has heard the final word from the Crown and the defence. Both sides closed their cases in the Zimbabwean's retrial. Joy Reid was in court. A warning ` some of the evidence is graphic. George Gwaze sat silently as he heard, for what he hopes is the last time, the Crown's case against him ` that he sexually attacked and murdered Charlene Makaza in 2007. It wasn't an easy listen. He held her head or chest down, penetrated her anus. An attempt to penetrate her vagina followed, in the course of which seminal traces were left. The Crown dismissed the defence experts and the entire defence theory that the girl died of complications with an HIV infection. She died with Aids, not of Aids. The Crown told the jury that it's as likely that she died of HIV as Martians are to land in Hagley Park. It can't be HIV. It can't be anything other than blunt force trauma. The defence followed up with their lengthy closing statement, portraying George Gwaze as someone incapable of harming his niece. He is a good, kind, loving family man, someone who would never ever have hurt Charlene Makaza. The defence also rubbished the Crown's experts. Charlene Makaza died from illness. She did not die from assault. Nobody murdered her. It also retold the jury that traces of George Gwaze's semen, which was found on Charlene's underpants, skirt and bed sheet, could have been transferred there in the wash. The DNA is not anywhere near strong enough to prove George Gwaze is an offender. The jury will start deliberating tomorrow about whether a murder has or hasn't occurred. Joy Reid, ONE News. The Chinese millionaire at the centre of a political storm that's led to the suspension of Labour MP Shane Jones has been found not guilty of five fraud-related charges. William Yan, who's known by several different names, was accused of supplying false documents in his citizenship application. The judge ruled the Crown failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt. A former Labour MP endorsed Mr Yan's citizenship and also supported him at court. He's had enough. He's been vindicated. A judge has found him not guilty. And there should be a lot of apologies coming from all corners, including David Shearer. Mr Yan says he's pleased the case is over and he deserves to be a NZ citizen. Amnesty International is again criticising the Australian Government over its treatment of Aborigines. It's singled out new legislation which it claims will continue policies of control and discrimination against indigenous people in the Northern Territory. The ABC's Geoff Waters explains. If the Labor Party has its way in the senate, Dr Djiniyini Gondarra and his community will be locked into federal government control they don't want for another 10 years. It's the same across the Northern Territory, where the so-called Stronger Futures legislation will apply. They call it a simple rebranding of the Howard-era intervention. It's the same approach, same control, same ways of trying to dehumanise aboriginal people. The Uniting Church minister isn't alone in his opinion. Amnesty International is making a global complaint about Australian indigenous policy in its annual report. And it's singling out the new laws. If passed, we will see another 10 years of policies that stigmatise people, that don't meet people's needs and are not proving to be effective. Our lives have always been shame, control. But a spokeswoman for the Indigenous Affairs Minister, Jenny Macklin, says the report is wrong, because more than $200m has been committed specifically to support homelands and out-stations. She said the new legislation would help end disadvantage and that the Racial Discrimination Act overturned in the intervention will apply. The Stronger Futures legislation has stripped out the discriminatory aspects that sat in there as a result of the Brough and Howard government intervention. A new invention is hitting the water in the United States, replacing surf life guards with robots. At six times faster, it's easy to see why the remote-controlled floating device is safer in dangerous rips. The ABC's Ginger Zee checked it out. You're in the water, gasping for air, when suddenly a boogie board-sized device heads your way, racing six times faster than a lifeguard can swim. You grab on to it, and it keeps you afloat. It is Emily ` remote-controlled by a lifeguard and showing up fro duty at beaches this summer. Zipping 24m/h, it can even be dropped from a helicopter. It's a very good tool. You can use Emily to go out and, uh, get someone. But as these robo-lifesavers are slowly rolled out, here's what you need to know now to survive a rip current. Surrounded by San Diego's best in safety, above and below, we set out to get a real feel inside a rip current. I suited up and hit the frigid water. Here we go. (GASPS) Now I am really in a rip current. In less than a minute I was pulled almost 100 yards from shore, travelling 1-2 feet every second. When you turn around, you can see how far we are from the shore. From above, you can clearly see it. These are real images. The rip current is like a river flowing from the shore. Most people panic as soon as they get caught in one, and then they try to swim straight back against the current. I tried that. My swimming is very laboured. It's definitely not easy. And I made absolutely no progress. So here is what you should do. Relax, find the shore and start swimming parallel to it. Do not swim back the way you came. This is what you face head-on ` the full power of the current. Rip currents aren't that wide ` a few yards to 50 yards at best ` so you can get out quickly. Just ahead ` flying 700m without a parachute ` find out what happens to this stuntman. And back after the break with a brief shot of rain breaking up a fine spell. If you're scared of skydiving, how about doing it without a parachute to set a world record? Check this out ` stuntman Gary Connery jumping from a helicopter wearing a wingsuit. The former British soldier fall more than 700m in less than a minute. His landing was cushioned by 18,000 cardboard boxes. Weather time now, with Renee. Thanks, Greg. Good evening, everyone. The ridge hangs on over the North Island. The front to the south-west moves on to the south island late tonight, reaching Cook Strait tomorrow afternoon. And this front is followed by some more ridging, with another high centre-east of the South Island by tomorrow evening. Most of the action with the front passes to the east, and also there is a pre-frontal trough ahead of the front, which is more noticeable in the west of the South Island. For weather, see tvnz.co.nz And that's your weather. See you tomorrow. That's it from us here on Tonight. Thanks for watching. Goodnight. Captions by Jessica Boell and Angela Alice. Captions were made possible with funding from NZ On Air. Copyright TVNZ Access Services 2012