Due to the live nature of Tonight, we apologise for the lack of captions for some items. Tonight ` a young widow's disbelief as the man accused of killing her husband is found not guilty. The dramatic end to the Scott Guy murder trial. It's meant to cut travelling time in a car dramatically, but it'll cost billions. We look at Auckland's new underground rail link. And, why a Sydney petrol station has been giving away free fuel ` but there is a twist. Kia ora, good evening. The man who was acquitted of killing his brother-in-law is tonight still in custody facing sentence on other charges. But it was the murder charge Ewen Macdonald faced which captured so much attention. Today he was cleared of killing Feilding farmer Scott Guy two years ago. 11 jurors took 12� hours to reach their not guilty verdict. With more, we're joined now by Daniel Faitaua from the High Court in Wellington. GOOD EVENING EWEN MACDONALD REMAINS IN CUSTODY FOR VANDALISM After four weeks of evidence, it took the jury half a day to find Ewen Macdonald not guilty. 11 jurors acquitting the man of killing his brother-in-law. The verdict no surprise to one criminal lawyer who observed the trial. And so we got up to the point where, 'What are we doing here?' And it was the circumstantial evidence that they really spent a lot of time on. Over four weeks, the Crown claimed Macdonald killed Scott Guy out of resentment of his place on the family farm. But the defence argued they simply had the wrong man ` not a shred of evidence pointed to Ewen Macdonald. There's hardly anything they could hang their hat on literally, and that became very apprarent in the early stages of the case. A case that's attracted immense public interest involving two families torn apart by murder. Scott Guy's father, Bryan Guy, facing the media on behalf of the family. Our lives have been altered forever. At times the pain of our broken hearts is almost too much to bear. The verdict coming less than a week short of two years since his son was gunned down. While we're relieved the trial is over, we're obviously left wondering who is responsible for the death of our son. But the Crown said they did everything they could. Police are currently not pursuing anyone else in relation to this investigation, nor are there any other avenues of inquiry. However, I'd like to make it clear that if new evidence comes to light, the police will investigate it. Ushered out a side exit, Kylee Guy, seen here in green, clutching her husband's hat. She had screamed, 'He killed my husband' as the verdict was announced. Ewen Macdonald's parents, Kerry and Marlene, leaving without comment. As families look to rebuild their lives, there is support from their community. Respect them and give them plenty of space to be able to deal with this in the privacy in their own home. We must focus on what we have, not what we have lost, and we are determined to love and support our children and grandchildren in their future. A future that is going to take time for all families to rebuild. BRYAN GUY THANKED NZ PUBLIC EWEN MACDONALD WILL APPEAR AT PALMY COURT ON VANDALISM CHARGES THANK YOU, DANIEL FAITAUA IN WELLINGTON. Aucklanders are being urged to give their backing to the city's planned underground rail loop. The multi-billion dollar project is set to make travelling faster and more efficient. But more than 200 properties on some prime Auckland land will have to be knocked down to make way for it. Helen Castles explains. If all goes to plan, this ambitious inner-city rail link will make travelling a whole lot easier for these Auckland commuters. The route will run through the city, connecting Britomart with the existing western line. Auckland Transport will build three underground stations along the way ` the first near the Aotea Centre, the second at Karangahape Rd, and the third at Newton. It's just another one of those many steps on what will be a nine-year journey to completing this project, a project probably as transformational as building the Harbour Bridge. But to build the multi-billion dollar rail line, Auckland Transport will need to buy more than 200 properties. Those include Westfield Downtown shopping centre, across the road from Britomart, which will need to be demolished. When that's completed, that will probably be one of the most valuable pieces of real estate in NZ. It will be above a transport hub, at Britomart, where trains, buses and ferries meet on our waterfront. Honestly, when it's returned and put back into the market, offsetting those purchase prices of today is conservatively another $100m of sales coming back in. The rail loop will be built in two 3.5km long tunnels, up to 45m below the ground. Auckland Transport says it will try to do most of the work beneath the streets to reduce the effect on home owners and heritage buildings. But no matter how keen the Council is to push ahead with its rail plans, the project will all depend on whether or not it can persuade the Government to take on some of the costs. Helen Castles, ONE News. A bit of simple advice tonight for a potentially deadly teenage thrill ` a poisons expert has warned against the dangers of 'huffing', or inhaling LPG, after two Dunedin teens were seriously injured after a gas bottle exploded. Megan Martin reports. Shirley Larson's anguish is clear. I'll always remember it. His hair was all burnt, and his hands were` the skin was dripping off the end of his fingers, and there was all just blood, and he says, 'Help me, lady! Help me!' And I says, 'I can't do nothing. There's nothing I can do.' She had no idea what the loud explosion was from next door. A young fella was running, and crying, 'Somebody help me! Somebody help me!' And just as he got right there, he just burst into flames. It's believed the teenagers had been 'huffing' or inhaling gas from LPG cylinders. The results are not surprising. Um, uh, releasing LPG into a house ` there's a ignition source. It was inevitable that there was going to be an explosion. In fact, three gas bottles exploded. This twisted canister shows the brutal force behind the blasts. Blew the front windows out across the road. Um, blew some glass` large glass ornaments across the road. One of them ended up inside a car parked on the other side of the road. This is the size of the gas bottles the boys were apparently inhaling from. To get the high that they were after, the gas levels, clearly, reached the point of flammability. But the dangers don't end there. There's a risk of sudden death, there's a risk of frostbite, there's a risk of asphyxia. This is a dangerous, uh, chemical, and people should not use it. From those that saved the teenagers, the message is loud and clear. Just don't do it. Megan Martin, ONE News. An admission from the Christchurch City Council on day six of the Royal Commission hearing into the collapse of the CTV building ` it concedes it needs to review the way it assesses earthquake-damaged buildings. Lisa Davies is covering the inquiry. The CTV building stood its ground through two major quakes. After September and Boxing Day, it was given a green sticker. Today those assessments went under the microscope. We were in a state of emergency. We needed to resolve issues, dangers as quickly as possible. The commission heard that meant sending a team of inspectors to assess the CTV building on September the 7th without an engineer. I had confidence in the team that I was deploying. Under intense questioning, he maintained sending them without an engineer was a 'one-off'. So this one occasion was unique? To my knowledge. The council manager claimed he didn't know they would be conducting a detailed interior assessment of the CTV building, whilst highlighting it isn't just the council who must ensure a building's safety. The owner has that primary responsibility for making sure that the tenants of the building are safe. The stickering of the building, which saw staff return immediately after the September and Boxing Day quakes, has been a major cause for concern to the families of the 115 who died. Just because it's green, it's not all go. And acknowledgment today of the confusion around the sticker process. It certainly needs to be reviewed. The families were firm in their view the commission is dealing with the issues that concern them most. I have absolute faith in that team in there. Tomorrow the commission will hear from the engineer who assessed the building three weeks after the September quake. Lisa Davies, ONE News. On the surface, NZ's relationship with the United States is amicable, even friendly. But apparently that's still not the case when it comes to military matters. Our ongoing nuclear-free stance has led to the banning of our Navy ships form Hawaii's famous Pearl Harbour. Political reporter Michael Parkin has more. 42 ships from 22 nations have gathered in Hawaii for the world's largest naval exercise, including NZ ` invited after a 28-year absence that stems from our nuclear-free stance. But while the Japanese military, which infamously bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, can now dock its ships there, our two vessels have been denied entry, making NZ's the only navy relegated to a tourist marina near Honolulu. Early in the process, we started to see if we could go into Pearl Harbor, but the Americans just reiterated, no, the standing policy would, uh, be there. They were never rejected. So they weren't turned away. They were never going to the military part. The Prime Minister's playing it down, but this is an embarrassment for the Government, which apparently only found out entry to Pearl Harbor wasn't an option when it was reported in a Hawaiian newspaper last week. It was only raised with the minister as it became a media issue. We expected that position to be in place. It's been there ever since the anti-nuclear legislation was adopted by NZ back in 1987. But this Pearl Harbor snub follows a series of events this year designed to show the military relationship between NZ and the US is thawing. United States Marines from Hawaii have been exercising in Waiouru. They also get to utilise some of the equipment that that they don't ever pull out in Hawaii. You know, their cold weather gear. And NZ soldiers resumed training on American soil. Earlier, Jonathan Coleman met with his US counterpart and signed the Washington Declaration to improve cooperation. But, clearly, Pearl Harbor's not the place to test the depth of that friendship. Michael Parkin, ONE News. BREAKING NEWS EARTHQUAKE IN WELLINGTON REPORTS COMING IN SIZABLE QUAKE IN KAPITI COAST, BLENHEIM AND WELLINGTON WE SAW ONE EMPLOYER RUNNING OUT, SCARED OF WINDOW PANES FALLING An SAS trooper who lost his life in the line of duty last year has been awarded the Charles Upham award for bravery. Lance Corporal Leon Smith of Wellington, an SAS medic, was posthumously decorated for his bid, one month before his death, to save Corporal Douglas Grant, who was shot and killed in a firefight in Kabul. He got a ballistic shield, so he could move under fire, and move forward ` being fired at by the opponents ` to where Doug Grant was going. And he had to negotiate a few small obstacles to get there, so his life was at considerable personal risk, for his own injury or death. Darrell Smith accepted the award on his brother's behalf. Lance Corporal Smith is the 24th recipient of the Charles Upham award and the fourth member of the NZ Defence Force. He was allegedly killed by a mentally ill flatmate, and his family want answers. Dean Clark was buried today, allegedly killed by a man who had been in the mental health system for 20 years. Kate Lynch has more. Brett Whitcombe's searching to find the right words to farewell his dearest friend. I'm angry and shocked. I'm devastated. Dean Clark was killed in his home in Balmoral a week ago. Before that, his alleged attacker, his flatmate, told Mr Whitcombe he'd been hearing voices. I said, 'Look, what voices are they? Are they friendly voices?' He responded in saying that they were people ` random people in society ` and that they belittled him. It was at that point Mr Whitcombe says his dead friend asked his flatmate to leave. When the 38-year-old appeared here in court, he was assessed by a forensic psychologist as needing 24-hour psychiatric care. Dean Clark's friends and family want to know why mental-health experts didn't see the signs. Surely it didn't have to get to this point for them to see that he was, um, not quite right. Graeme Moyle's brother Colin was murdered by a paranoid schizophrenic five years ago. He says the Clark family face a long road ahead. Secrecy an-and smokescreens and, uh, mental health authorities ducking for cover. They'll be in the dark until it finally gets to court, which I imagine will be in the long distant future. Dean was my best friend, and I only owe it to him to not give up and to try and make sure this doesn't happen to anyone else. For today, though, the focus is on giving Dean Clark the goodbye he deserves, with or without the right words. Kate Lynch, ONE News. For today, though, the focus is on giving Dean Clark the goodbye he deserves, with or without the right words. Kate Lynch, ONE News. MORE DETAILS ON THE SHAKE ON THE LOWER NORTH ISLAND Auckland felt the full force of the wild weather for a few hours this afternoon, with heavy wind and rain bringing down trees and power lines and blocking roads. Torrential rain caused widespread flooding, leaving major roads submerged. Some motorists had to pull over because of dangerous driving conditions. Power has been restored to all 9000 properties that were affected. Just ahead ` one of Britain's highest paid bankers quits after a scandal over interest-rate fixing. And freedom for an Aussie lawyer held captive for a month in Libya. RETURNING TO WELLINGTON MORE DETAILS SIZABLE QUAKE FELT GISBORNE, BLENHEIM 30KM DEEP POLICE REPORTED 6.5 NO DAMAGE REPORTED I FELT IT ROLLING KIND OF QUAKE FIVE TO SEVEN SECONDS WE WILL UPDATE ON OUR WEBSITE TVNZ.CO.NZ AS REPORTS CONTINUE TO COME IN, THE QUAKE WAS ACTUALLY A 7 MORE DETAILS In Britain, less than a week after Barclays Bank was fined $560m for trying to manipulate inter-bank interest rates, Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond has resigned as chief executive. Mr Diamond, who was one of Britain's highest-paid CEOs, denies knowledge of interest rates being rigged at the bank. He'll be questioned about the scandal by British Mps later this week. One of the drugs at the centre of the biggest healthcare fraud settlement in US history is used in NZ, but with a warning. Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline will pay almost $4bn in fines for promoting drugs for unapproved uses and without disclosing major side effects. Our US correspondent Jack Tame reports from New York. # Y'all ready for this? # It looks like a rock concert. But these men aren't superstars. They're drug-company senior management. Who wants to be a millionaire? The audience, the GlaxoSmithKline sales team, being aggressively encouraged to step up drug sales... There are people in this room who are going to make an ungodly sum of money. ...at what US prosecutors say was the expense of public safety. GSK's sales force bribed physicians to prescribe GSK products. Hawaiian holidays, European pheasant hunts, even Madonna tickets were all used to woo doctors. But some of the drug promotions were misleading. In the US, the diabetes drug Avandia was promoted without the disclosure it might cause heart failure. The drug was sold in NZ with the warning until being removed from the market last year. This drug hurt a lot of people. There was fraud too with the antidepressant drug Paxil. In NZ the same drug is called Aropax. It has a warning saying it shouldn't be taken by people under 18. That's because there's evidence it might lead to suicidal thoughts in young people. But in the US, the drug was marketed for teenagers. To get consumers requesting brand-name drugs here, US pharmaceutical companies spend $5b a year here. In this magazine alone, I've found ads for four different prescription drugs. And there are only two countries on earth that allow this sort of advertising ` the US and NZ. GlaxoSmithKline says it regrets the mistakes and has changed company policy. Jack Tame, ONE News, New York. And in case you don't remember the Glaxo name, it once belonged to a milk powder company turned pharmaceutical manufacturer founded here in the Manawatu way back in 1904. Mexicans appear to have returned to power the party that ruled the country for decades. With almost all votes counted, Enrique Pena Nieto from the institutional Revolutionary Party has declared himself winner of the presidential election. He's thanked voters for giving his party another chance, but vowed it doesn't signal a return to the past. Pena Nieto has promised to reinvigorate the economy and reduce drug-related violence. After nearly a month detained in Libya, an Australian lawyer has been reunited with her husband and young daughter in the Netherlands. Melinda Taylor and three colleagues from the International Criminal Court were being held on suspicion of spying. The ABC's Lisa Millar reports. This was the first glimpse of the Australian lawyer, free at last from Libyan detention, but not yet out of the country. It had taken weeks of intense international lobbying on her behalf to get this far. I was very glad to find that she was in good spirit and, uh, good health. She boarded an Italian military jet to roam and then a charter flight home to the Hague. Her family thrilled she was free. We're feeling very elated. (CHUCKLES) Yep. Melinda Taylor had gone to Libya with three other colleagues from the International Criminal Court to offer legal advice to the son of Muammar Gaddafi, but she was accused of spying and breaching national security. ALL CHANT The ICC wants to see a fair trial for Saif al-Islam for charges of crimes against humanity But this stand-off has made some Libyans even more determined to deliver their own justice. TRANSLATOR: It's the role of the government ` a public prosecution. The Republic of Libya has put forward this case before the Libyan judiciary. The ICC will hold an internal investigation, but it's waiting for more information from the Libyans about the accusations against its staff. Melinda Taylor hasn't spoken yet herself. As she reached her final destination shortly before 1am, she was whisked away for a long-awaited reunion with her family. Free petrol ` it's something Kiwi drivers can only dream of. But across the Tasman, a Sydney service station was giving away free ethanol-blended petrol as part of a promotion to persuade motorists ethanol is the way to go. For an hour, things were pumping. I still can't believe it. I'm on empty too, so... (CHUCKLES) it's perfect, yeah. The Australian government wants to double the sale of ethanol-blended petrol to 60% of all petrol sold. RETURNING TO WELLINGTON LATEST UPDATE SIZABLE QUAKE WAS CENTRED IN SOUTH TARANAKI FRIENDS IN FEILDING SAY IT'S MASSIVE DAMAGE DONE CHRISTCHURCH, KAPITI COAST AND GISBORNE GETTING REPORTS IT'S A 7 QUAKE FELT LIKE A WAVE AROUND FIVE TO SEVEN SECONDS Just ahead, I'll have your weather outlook. And our eventing team for the Olympics is announced. Will our grand old man of equestrian make it to London? Nah, I'm good, mate. I'm good. Ohhh. Ohhh. May I help you, sir? Ohhh. May I help you, sir? Hey, bro. I'm Tim. From NZ. I won the, uh... the MasterCard prize, where you get to tour with the All Blacks. Fellas! Oh! Danny C! Oh yeah! Nonu, Nonu, Nonu! Boom! Richie. Bring it in, mate. Register and use your MasterCard before September 15 and you could go on tour with the All Blacks. Good to see ya. Good to see ya. Yeah, you too. So, who am I rooming with? Olympic veterans Mark Todd and Andrew Nicholson have been selected for their seventh Games just a few hours ago in Berkshire in the UK. Todd will be chasing a third gold medal since his first outing, at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984. The team's newest cap was only three years old at the time.