Due to the live nature of Tonight, we apologise for the lack of captions for some items. The Official Cash Rate stays unchanged, but Alan Bollard warns that the government's books won't be in surplus in the next three years. Ewen Mcdonald's account is heard in court ` wondering if he, not Scott Guy, was the intended victim. And find out how two former Kiwi dancers are set to make Olympic history. Mortgage owners are happy, but the government's got less to smile about. While an unchanged Official Cash Rate please homebuyers, the Reserve Bank governor says there's no way John Key will get the books back in surplus in the next three years. Political editor Corin Dann looks at the conflicting economic predictions. In last month's Budget, the government proudly paraded Treasury forecasts showing a return to surplus in 2014-2015. But the Reserve Bank says its more up-to-date numbers tell a different story. A consequence of all of that is, actually, we do have a bit of a different fiscal track. We take another two years for the government to get back into surplus. Prime Minister John Key was out looking at a new youth retail training programme today,... 'Great coffee' ` that's a reference. Hire me. ...and the last thing he needed was a lesson from the Reserve Bank governor. The best we can do is accept that he's factoring in a tougher time for the rest of the world. We need to acknowledge that, but I think we've gotta continue with our programme. There's nothing different that we'd want to do at this time. Allan Bollard, in fact, listed a number of headwinds for the economy, including falling export prices, although Europe is the main worry. We don't think Eurozone issues are going to clear up on Sunday, after the Greek election, or for some time after that. Perhaps more problematic for the government, as it looks to balance the books and pay for superannuation and health, is Dr Bollard's suggestion the global financial crisis has scarred NZ and reduced the speed at which it can grow. It means that NZ will be growing at a third of the rate of our trading partners. So this is NZ's problem. It's not the fault of other countries. We are an export-dependent nation. We're doing nothing about fixing up that part, which is a major elemental problem in NZ's economy at the moment and has been for years. ENGINE STARTS If there is one glimmer of hope, it remains a rebuild in Christchurch, with the Reserve Bank forecasting it to play a big part in the country's recovery. Corin Dann, ONE News. Controversial legislation allowing asset sales has passed another stage in Parliament. But strong opposition continues, with protesters calling for the government to slow down and let people have their say. Political reporter Jessica Mutch was there. They don't want asset sales,... CROWD: Power to the people! ...so they're putting pressure on MPs and using a puppet to do it. They say Peter Dunne's one vote controls the fate of the bill and they want him to change his mind and stop assets sales going ahead. We've gotta fight these things right the way through. Opposition parties are still fighting ` they want a Citizens' Initiated Referendum... Gidday, will you sign the assets sales? ...and have thousands of signatures. The Greens are calling for an amendment to the legislation. They want to stop asset sales until after the referendum. We think it is important that the people of NZ are given the opportunity to give their voice on whether we should proceed with asset sales. John Key says they have ` it's called a general election. National won with the biggest result it's ever had in MMP history, and Labour had the worst result it's had in MMP history, so the people of NZ have spoken. John Key is accused of ramming the legislation through Parliament, and this afternoon the issue was thrashed out in the debating chamber. It's about treason, it's about treachery, it's about betrayal. Yes. That's right. The National-led government is committed to getting on top of debt, protecting and growing our economy. Once these assets are gone, they are gone. So there's opposition,... CHEERING ...but time's running out ` Mighty River Power is set to be partially sold later in the year. Jessica Mutch, ONE News. Actress Lucy Lawless and seven other activists have admitted illegally boarding an oil-drilling ship during a protest. They spent four days occupying the exploration vessel in Taranaki. Ruth Wynn-Williams was at court. Lucy Lawless arrived at court in Auckland with a supporting cast of activists. The eight Greenpeace protesters spent four days making a stand against deep sea drilling on board the Shell oil ship, The Noble Discoverer. Today, though, their appearance was only brief. I stand by what we did and our need to do it. They pleaded guilty to one charge each of unlawfully boarding the ship at Port Taranaki in February. Originally charged with burglary, the actress, who once featured in an advertisement for Shell,... # Change to Ultra. It's the way to go. # ...told reporters it's the oil company that's committing a crime. They are robbing our children of their birthright to a clean and healthy planet, and they know it. Shell oil would make no comment, simply saying it's a legal matter and one for police. It's understood The Noble Discoverer is set to continue its work, and is right now near Seattle. The actress-turned-activist also hopes the protest action won't affect her work. I don't believe so, but we'll see how that plays out. But she's got one appearance already booked ` in court for sentencing in September, when she'll be called by her married name, Lucy Tapert. No longer Lawless, but hoping to be discharged without conviction, and sticking with Greenpeace. I'm sure that my association with them will go on. I don't know what shape that will take. A guilty plea, but not turning her back on action. Ruth Wynn-Williams, ONE News. A report into last month's shopping-mall fire in Doha blames negligence for the blaze and the deaths of 19 people. The Qatar government's report found the fire was caused by faulty electrical wiring in a sports store, which quickly spread. But a number of errors led to the deaths. It took firefighters a half-hour to find out children were trapped, and the first person was rescued two hours after the fire started. The mall wasn't connected to any alarm systems. The Weekes triplets from NZ were among the dead. The accused's own account of what happened on the morning Feilding farmer Scott Guy was killed has been read in court. Ewen Macdonald says he dropped everything and rushed to the scene and thought he might've been the intended victim. Simon Bradwell is covering the trial. The man speaking is a police officer, but the words are Ewen MacDonald's in a statement to police shortly after Scott Guy's death. READS: I stopped behind the stock truck on the road, and I could see Scottie lying on the driveway in front of his ute. Within hours, Ewen MacDonald wondering... READS: Was it meant for me? He put his theory to police, who began casting a wide net for the killer. Drugs, burglaries; we were looking at any criminal associations, those sorts of things; extramarital affairs. As well as the possibility Scott Guy was a victim of mistaken identity. All of those inquiries found... Well, came to zero. Police compiling a list of 60 persons of interest, eventually focussing on just one ` Ewen MacDonald, accused of killing Scott Guy in a feud over the family farm. < The termination of the inquiry phase? G 8 < And the interview of Mr MacDonald on DVD, which we'll see in the next day or so. Yes. In another statement to police, Ewen MacDonald lied about vandalising and painting graffiti on a Scott Guy property, blaming kids when he had actually done it himself. The Crown has suggested the Guy farm shotgun was the murder weapon. But in cross-examination, police admitted several firearms ` including shotguns ` were stolen in the district in the months before the killing; one just a month earlier, 15km from the Guy farm. < Six < Six firearms, includ g two ^ semi-automatic shotgun Correct. < And 800 rounds of shotgun ammunition. Police unable to say if any of that's been recovered and unable to identify a mystery man, smelling of alcohol, who came looking for Scott Guy before he was killed, fitting the defence claim that another weapon and another man killed Scott Guy. Simon Bradwell, ONE News. National museum Te Papa has been saved from a major funding cut. The Wellington City Council's backed down from threats to slash its annual grant. The council originally proposed to reduce funding by more than $1m, but public protests like this 'Post-It note' board and business opposition have prompted the council to approve its full grant of $2.25m. A lack of blood can cost lives. Now there's renewed debate on World Blood Donor Day on whether people like gay men are being discriminated against. Arrun Soma explains. Tony Simpson is fighting for his own bloodlines. He's a gay man and wants people like him to be able to donate blood. You should not, as it were, tar everybody with the same brush. The rules are a man who's had sex with another man within five years can't give blood. Also banned are prostitutes, people who've lived in parts of Africa and those who have lived in Britain, France and Ireland in the '80s and '90s, when mad cow disease got into the food supply. They're precautions to protect people needing blood. Transfusion is the most effective way for a blood-borne virus like HIV to be passed on. With the Blood Service crying out for donors, Rainbow Wellington argues not all active gay men have HIV. It's taking a category of persons and effectively stigmatise them for being a member of that category. Whereas, in fact, this is a question of individual behaviour. In the past five years, the Human Rights Commission says it's received nine complaints from men denied the opportunity to donate blood because of their sexual orientation. We don't consider it discrimination, because the most important thing around the blood supply is that it's 100% safe. The Aids Foundation says gay men are 44 times more at risk of having HIV and testing won't always pick up the virus. At this time, we do not have robust systems available to do that. And hence, pending their development, we need to continue with this exclusion of all men who've had sex with other men. While Rainbow Wellington says it's discrimination, all agree blood safety comes first. Arrun Soma, ONE News. The Australian government's just announced the creation of the world's largest marine reserve. More than a third of the coastline will be protected ` an area of 3,000,000km2. However, not everyone's happy about it. Channel Nine's Peter Harvey has more. The scale of the ocean grab is breathtaking. What we announce today becomes the largest marine protected area in the world. Combined with the existing Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, the Coral Sea Conservation Zone alone will be the largest in the world. A further 44 areas will be added, protecting 3m km2 of Australian waters. This is a massive step forward in ocean protection. But not everyone's happy. The announcement doesn't go as far as we would like to see. The boundaries have been very strongly determined on oil and gas prospectivity and clearly determined by lobbying from the oil and gas sector. The fishing industry says it won't force up the price of fish, but it wants to know how authorities will stop foreign trawlers from breaking the law. Putting a dotted line around a piece of ocean doesn't actually do anything to protect the marine environment. The threat is real enough, and keeping even more stretches of ocean secure will almost certainly require air and sea patrols from a navy that's already overstretched. Just ahead ` the British Prime Minister takes the stand in the phone-hacking inquiry. We'll have the latest. And cycling champ or drugs cheat? Lance Armstrong could be stripped of all his tour titles. 1 The debate on whether Lance Armstrong's a drug cheat has intensified, and a NZer who was once his teammate says it's about time. The champion cyclist has been charged by America's anti-doping agency and immediately banned from competing in triathlons. This from our US correspondent Jack Tame. He beat cancer for seven victories in the toughest cycling race on earth. Drug cheat or not, Lance Armstrong's Tour de France feats seemed nothing short of superhuman. Like I said, if we all come to the start line butt naked, he's got something extra there, there's no doubt about it. Did you see Lance Armstrong receiving transfusions? Yes. More than once? Yes, multiple times. And you saw him using EPO? I had, yeah. I also received some from him. Compelling comments from two who rode alongside Armstrong. Now the US anti-doping agency is charging the cycling champ-turned multisport star. It says testing shows Armstrong used blood transfusions, growth hormones and drug-masking agents, and it has witnesses. Absolutely not. Never. Not once? > Not once. Armstrong's always denied doping. Now he's saying the charges are... It could yet be months before any evidence is heard. Well, I suspect this case will tease out a lot of information about other cyclists, and it may be that that's sufficient to take cases against them as well. A guilty verdict could see him stripped of the seven titles, and it could cost Armstrong even more. We've just had a look in this Nike flagship store. Inside there are dozens of products from Lance Armstrong's official brand. And as well as Nike, he boasts 10 other major sponsors. Remember, the last American superstar to fall very publicly from grace lost millions in sponsors' contracts. For a man so often at the peak of the podium, a tumble from the top could be even greater. Jack Tame, ONE News, New York. Prepare for a glimpse 40 years into the future and how we'll be working very differently. A new report has studied industry in Australia and revealed the effect high-speed broadband will have on our working lives. The ABC's Karen Tan has the story. While Gen Y have been born into it, the baby boomers are slower in the uptake. One thing is certain ` technology will continue to have an increasing impact in our lives at work and at home. A new report provides a snapshot of our digital future till 2050. The first time that anybody's attempted to go out to the middle of this century very seriously, without just blue-skying, and to have a look at the impact of fast broadband on every single industry in Australia, and there's 509 of them. Author Phil Ruthven predicts the industries that will thrive include... While those that are likely to topple include a range of media and entertainment sectors such as... There are also predictions 15 industries will disappear completely. The whole notion of 'employee' will change too, as more and more people become their own bosses, with the increase of contract work. I think that for employees facing that degree of freedom, they are gonna need minders, mentors or brokers to help them strike the best deal they can for the next season of their life. And he says the challenge for a sustainable future in this brave new world will be to embrace rather than resist this high-tech era. Cos we all say we're resisting it a little bit, but we're all walking around with smartphones now, and the smartphones actually enable us to do all sorts of things we couldn't do before. The message for business is get on board for a $1-trillion boost from the broadband superhighway. The British Prime Minister is the latest high-profile politician to appear before the phone-hacking inquiry in London. David Cameron faces criticism over his close relationship to senior figures in Rupert Murdoch's media empire and accusations he manipulated policy favourable to Rupert Murdoch. And I remember obviously being pleased that the Conservative Party was going to get the Sun's support, and I think we had a conversation about other, you know, policy issues at the time. David Cameron ordered the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics after News Corporation was accused of hacking the phone of a murdered schoolgirl. The mobster whose whistle-blowing memoirs inspired the movie Goodfellas has died. Henry Hill led a life of crime before becoming a star FBI informant. But he was later kicked out of the witness protection programme for returning to crime. Years later he described the consequences of living life as a criminal. No, I don't think I'll ever stop looking over my shoulder, but I don't worry as much today. You know, I` I'm careful. I'm still careful. Hill was 69 and died after a long illness. Just ahead, from glamour to slammer: meet the boxers who'll be fighting for NZ at the Olympics. Two former dancers will make Olympic history after being confirmed as the only NZ boxers heading to London. They'll be among the first women to fight at the games. Stephen Stuart reports. TRADITIONAL INDIAN MUSIC PLAYS Siona Fernandes breaking out her classical Indian dance moves, which have helped get her to the Olympics as a flyweight boxer. You could term her an exotic dancer ` Portuguese parents, but raised in India and arriving in NZ with a degree in performance dance. The fitness instructor only took up boxing two and a half years ago and found her previous background helped her balance in her new sport. A lot of speed comes from dancing, because you practise everything in three different speeds. Right from slow to the fastest, you can go in the same movement. So, absolutely, it does transfer to boxing. The 29-year-old is in the 51kg class, and while it might sound cliched, she does punch above her weight. She's got a lot of spark. She's very strong for her weight. For a 51kg girl, she's really got some pop. Her Olympic teammate, South African-born Alexis Pritchard, also has a dancing background. But now the 28-year-old cake-decorating physiotherapist is dishing out tap in the 60kg division. If I can get my feet moving and my range going, then, you know, shorter people effectively can't get to me. And they won't rattle Fernandes either. Discipline is, like, the big word; commitment. And I seem to be that sort ` like, I like a little bit of, 'Hey, tame me,' you know? With no men qualifying, the pair of smiling assassins will carry NZ's boxing Olympic hopes. I have been known to state publicly that I was against female boxing. What about now? No, I'm not against it at all. And they can't wait to put their best foot forward. Stephen Stuart, ONE News. Weather time now with Renee. Hi, everyone. These are the roads and passes to keep an eye on over the next couple of days. The low continues east as the high fills up more of the Tasman. We're still stuck with the frigid southerly surging up over us on the leading edge of the ridge, several little features riding along in that flow. This is the one to watch, though. There's a very cold and wintry air mass in behind it, bringing the snow flurries. For weather, see tvnz.co.nz And that's your weather. I'll see you tomorrow.