Due to the live nature of Tonight, we apologise for the lack of captions for some items. Tonight ` devastated NZ grandparents head to Doha as triplets are killed in a shopping mall blaze. A fatal ride ` a hitch-hiking tourist is killed by a man with a horrific criminal history. And he is a free man again ` George Gwaze walks free from court for the second time. Kia ora, good evening. Members of a Wellington family are tonight making a heartbreaking journey to Doha following a fire which killed young triplets. Jackson, Lillie and Willsher Weekes (2) died in the blaze, which claimed 16 other lives. It's believed the blaze started inside a nursery inside a massive shopping complex. Renee Graham reports. Three toddlers, Jackson, Lillie and Willsher Weekes, just two years old, now lost forever after a fire ripped through this popular shopping mall, the Villagio. 19 people are dead, most of them small children attending a creche popular with expats. EMOTIONALLY: My boss` I'm sure that they are all inside, and also all of us outside, we know that our family is inside. Rescue workers cuts holes in the roof to try and get to the children trapped inside the creche. It was as if you had 30 steam trains pumping out the dirtiest darkest smoke you can imagine and that was engulfing half of this huge mall. There were major problems with the rescue attempt. There was no floor plan available and the centre's sprinkler system and some alarms failed to work. They're also going to have to work very hard to work past what's happened here and restore people's confidence. The Ministry for the Interior's launched an inquiry. The triplets' grandparents are on their way to Doha to comfort their daughter Jane and son-in-law Martin. Martin Weekes, the former CEO of the Eden Park Trust Board, and his wife had been in the Gulf state of Qatar for the last five years. The triplets have just celebrated their second birthday. The family are obviously are in fairly desperate circumstances, dealing with the grief of the situation. On their mother's BabyCentre profile page, Jane Weekes says she was happiest when her children sat around 'laughing like loons at each other'. Jane says, 'A mother's love is not divided amongst her children, but multiplied by each child.' Renee Graham, ONE News. At least eight people have been killed by a 5.8 magnitude earthquake in northern Italy. It struck 40km north of Bologna, centred on the Emilia region. The tremor was felt in Bologna and Milan, where office workers were evacuated. It's the second deadly quake to hit northern Italy in just over a week. Search and Rescue teams have found a group of schoolchildren that went missing on a school camp in the Bay of Plenty this afternoon. The 10 children from Tauranga Intermediate School had been at the Ngamuwahine Outdoor Education Lodge in the lower Kaimai Range. Police were alerted after the students, aged 10 and 11, failed to return from an orienteering exercise during a school camp. 10 Tauranga Intermediate children have been located safe and well by our land Search and Rescue teams. They will be walked out to State Highway 29 in the Kaimai Ranges by our Search and Rescue team where they'll be met and taken back through to Tauranga Intermediate. The children were found at around 8 o'clock tonight, around 10km from the lodge. Police are appealing for public help tonight in tracking the last known movements of a woman hitchhiker who was picked up and killed in a remote south Canterbury forest. The bodies of the tourist (31) from Czechoslovakia and her killer were found on a seldom-used forest trail on Sunday night. Max Bania has the latest from Waimate. Dagmar Pytlickova (31) had been in NZ just five months. The Czech vineyard worker, also known as Dasha, died in remote bush, killed by Jason Frandi (43). Police say the Waimate man picked up the hitchhiker on Saturday afternoon. Driven her up into this area, and then he has probably walked her up to where she is, which is where the assault and murder has taken place. It's also been revealed Frandi was being investigated for child molestation and he was convicted 12 years ago for abducting an Oamaru girl (19) for sex. He was jailed for three and a half years. What's occurred in this situation seems to be very similar to what occurred back there in 2000. Police tracing the pair's last movements believe Miss Pytlickova left Cromwell on Saturday morning, heading for Timaru. She was picked up by another driver before getting into a car with Frandi between Omarama and Kurow. Police have scoured Frandi's home and found no evidence Miss Pytlickova was brought back here. Neighbours we've spoken to describe him as a quiet, polite man who kept to himself. He's very quiet and worked all week and spent practically every weekend working on his vehicle in his garage. Never heard anything from over there. He lived on his own. Does as this come as a shock to you? > Yes, it does. A surprise, anyway. Police are still at the scene piecing together how the pair died. Certainly up at the scene there was alcohol located up there ` bottles of alcohol that would indicate it was taken up there, I would say, by Frandi. They still want to speak to anyone who saw Miss Pytlickova in the hours before she died. Max Bania, ONE News George Gwaze is savouring his freedom tonight, after a retrial jury finally cleared him of murdering his niece five years ago. After nearly three days of deliberations, the jury at the High Court in Christchurch returned its verdicts this afternoon. Joy Reid's been following the case. George Gwaze sat silently as he heard for what he hopes is the last time the Crown case against him ` THIS IS A LANDMARK CASE. NEVER HAS SOMEONE BEEN ACQUITTED TWICE. POLICE HAVE RELEASED A STATEMENT ACKNOWLEDGING THE DIFFICULTIES FACED BY THE GWAZE FAMILY. For the past month we've told you that the George Gwaze murder trial was in fact a retrial, but up until now we haven't been able to tell you why or the significance of the court ruling that ordered it. Here's Joy Reid again. These were the scenes outside court almost four years ago to the day... ...when George Gwaze was acquitted of murdering Charlene Makaza (10). Well, I'm a free man. I mean, justice has been done, as I said. That relief was short-lived, though. For the first time in this country's legal history, the Crown appealed the verdict, protesting that the trial judge had allowed hearsay evidence to be presented to the jury. In that evidence, a South African paediatric surgeon was quoted as saying Charlene's symptoms were similar to those in AIDS victims. The appeal went all the way to the Supreme Court. It decided there was an error of law that led to a miscarriage of justice and ordered this month's retrial. Here I am. No surprise then that the retrial has centred heavily around whether HIV was responsible for Charlene's death. The defence case is it was. Charlene Makaza died from illness. She did not die from assault. Nobody murdered her. The Crown, though, argued that George Gwaze suffocated and sexually attacked his niece. She died with AIDS, not of AIDS. It can't be HIV. It can't be anything other than blunt force trauma. For the retrial, the defence called four new expert witnesses to say HIV could have killed the young orphan. Everything is medically explicable on the basis of chronic, overwhelming, untreated HIV disease. Also in the retrial, concession from the Crown's DNA expert, who found traces of Gwaze's semen on Charlene Makaza's underwear. Originally, she said it could not have been transferred in the wash. This time, she conceded it could. There is an opportunity for small numbers of sperm to transfer. The reason for this second trial was suppressed to let this jury make its decision without prejudice. Joy Reid, ONE News. The mum of a slain teenager's taken her call for tougher bail laws direct to the lawmakers. Tracey Marceau took a petition with 58,000 signatures to Parliament. It's been dubbed Christie's Law, after her daughter (18) was allegedly murdered on Auckland's North Shore by a man out on bail. The pain we endure every day cannot be described and at times it is unbearable. A true life sentence. Submissions will now be heard by the law and order select committee. Just ahead, Australia expels its Syrian diplomats after a civilian massacre. Plus fascist fans, would you go to a match where you'll confront a crowd like this? And he just wants to go home. Dotcom's back in court. So what did the judge do? 1 Australia has expelled two senior Syrian diplomats from Canberra. They've been given three days to get out of the country as part of an international retaliation to the massacre of 49 children and 60 adults in Houla. UN envoy Kofi Annan is to meet the Syrian president tonight at a time he calls 'a critical moment in the Syrian crisis'. The ABC's Anne Barker has more. CHILDREN SHOUT Children shout as they run for their lives. New amateur video posted online purportedly shows the panic from the massacre in Houla. PEOPLE SHOUT Residents rush to help the injured, but the explosion chases them away. BOOM! This young boy runs as dozens of other children are killed. (SPEAKS ARABIC) This boy, filmed by the opposition, says he escaped by playing dead. He saw the bodies of his sisters and mother in his home, After the soldiers left, he escaped to his uncle's house. United Nations peace envoy Kofi Annan will meet with president Bashar al-Assad in Damascus tonight, hoping to salvage his failed ceasefire plan. Russia has challenged the security council's claims that Syrian forces alone are to blame for the massacre in Houla. TRANSLATOR: Both sides evidently had a hand in the deaths of innocent people, including numerous children and woman. Britain's Foreign Secretary, William Hague, is in Moscow, urging Russia to put more pressure on the Assad regime. The alternatives are the Annan plan or ever-increasing chaos in Syria. BOOM! But as world leaders were debating what to do about the massacre in Houla, more Syrians were under attack nearby. Rebel fighters fought government troops in Hama and Homs. GUNFIRE Human-rights activists said Syrians tanks and infantry fighting vehicles opened fire on several neighbourhoods, killing more than 40 people. Racial taunts and violence at football matches in the host nations for next month's European football tournament have prompted calls for English fans to stay at home. Images of ugly violence on the terraces have prompted alarm over preparations for the tournament in Poland and Ukraine. Here's the BBC's Chris Rogers. ALL CHANT IN UKRAINIAN In Ukraine, extreme right-wing politics and football go hand in hand. We filmed mass ranks of fans using this Nazi-style salute in stadiums across Ukraine. ALL CHANT IN UKRAINIAN This is how some supporters react to rival black players and fans. IMITATE PRIMATE CALL Anti-racism campaigners claim some extreme right-wing organisations are hijacking football. One such group is Patriots of Ukraine. They claim to recruit members from football terraces, educate them with their ideology and train them to fight. It's one of the last matches of the season at the Metalist Stadium in Kharkiv, which will host Euro 2012 matches. With no segregation, scuffles break out between rival fans. Suddenly, the hooligans spot a new target ` a small group of Asian students. It appears they are singled out because of the colour of their skin. European Football's governing body, UEFA, say they have zero tolerance of racism. Look at that. That is absolutely disgusting. We showed our footage to former England captain Sol Campbell. Would you recommend families to travel to Euro 2012? No chance. Stay at home and watch it on TV. Don't even risk it. You could end up coming back in a coffin. In Ukraine where some fans are searching for a national identity, questions remain over whether the safety of supporters can be guaranteed. Ukraine officials maintain fans will be safe, saying the incidents are isolated. A British mother of two could face the death penalty after being arrested in Bali for drug smuggling. Lindsey Sandiford was caught with nearly 5kg of cocaine stuffed into the lining of a suitcase. The drugs have an estimated street value of more than $3m. After her arrest she agreed to take part in a sting operation which resulted in the arrests of three others, believed to be major figures in a drug smuggling syndicate. MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom is set to move back into his $30m Coatesville mansion after a judge allowed further relaxation of his bail conditions. The electronic monitoring of Dotcom and his three co-accused has also been lifted because they're no longer considered a flight risk. The four men must surrender their passports, not obtain travel documents, and must regularly report to police. The alleged Internet pirate's bail conditions were altered last week to allow him to spend more time recording a music album at an Auckland studio. A former president of the Returned Services Association has been fined $500 for wearing medals he wasn't entitled to. Don Moselen admitted wearing four Vietnam War medals when he was head of the Otaki RSA, despite never being in the armed services. The fine was the maximum the judge could impose, but it disappointed veterans at Levin District Court. It's hopelessly out of date. It's just one example, I suppose you could say, in the Ministry of Justice's favour that this is the first time this has happened, so probably it's gone under the radar, but it needs adjustment. Moselen left without commenting on the sentence. He's pleaded not guilty to a charge of using an RSA cheque to have the medals mounted. It rarely happends, but foul-mouthed chef Gordon Ramsay was left speechless after taking a heavy knock in an annual London charity football match. As he was laying on the field, the culprit gave Ramsay a gentle facial massage. A visit to hospital followed for observation, but predictably there was very little sympathy for Ramsay. Just ahead ` the wounded warriors marking Memorial Day in America with man's best friend at their side. And I'll be back with a frosty but fine forecast. Hi everyone. A weak ridge spreads over the North Island tonight, with the remains of a cold front moving off to the East. A trough lingering over western parts of the country, marking an increase in shower activity, is expected to move over northern NZ tomorrow afternoon. A strong westerly flow over the Southern Ocean drags a couple of fronts over southern NZ during the morning, and then tilts the flow southwesterly behind a cold front moving northwards during the afternoon. For weather, see tvnz.co.nz For weather, see tvnz.co.nz And that's your weather. See you tomorrow. Finally tonight ` a group of disabled US military veterans have taken on an important mission training service dogs to help other wounded warriors on the road to recovery. The ABC's Jake Tapper has the story. Irvine the retriever is not just man's best friend. He can open doors, Good boy! turn on lights, and pick up your wallet, a dollar bill, or a credit card. Irvine and other dogs such as four-month-old puppy Cadence are part of a three-year training course to help wounded warriors ` troops back from Iraq or Afghanistan with debilitating injuries. That in itself is not new. What is new is who's training these service dogs ` other wounded warriors, such as Sgt Brian Bradley from St Marys, Ohio, who lost his arm in battle in Afghanistan in 2010. He says it helps for the dogs to be trained by actual amputees with prosthetic limbs, to get used to them. I can do a lot of things with this, and when I first got to the programme last year some of the puppies were like, 'What is that?' They see the hook moving around and stuff. Pvt First Class Cory Doane from Vancouver, Washington lost his leg to an IED in Afghanistan in July 2011. He says training these dogs has been a lifeline. It's gonna be kinda depressing to be sitting in a hospital bed, and recuperating. For sure, and you know, it takes the man out of you. But it was nice to actually go out and do something again instead of just sitting in bed healing or doing physical therapy. Bradley says the service dogs can help combat post-traumatic stress disorder. It kicks in every time I put on my new prosthetic that I got that looks identical to my other arm. It's like an instant memory of me actually losing my arm that day. But Irvine helps? Oh yeah. It's a great day. That's it from us here on Tonight. You can stay up to date by logging on to our website at tvnz.co.nz Thanks for watching. Goodnight. Captions by Sam Bradford and Hannah Reynolds. Captions were made possible with funding from NZ On Air. Copyright TVNZ Access Services 2012