Due to the live nature of Tonight, we apologise for the lack of captions for some items. A nasty flu is coming. Hospitals brace for the onslaught of patients, but will there be enough beds? We have the latest from the Super 15 clash in Hamilton. And the price war over a popular spread. Why the Aussies are buying their own Vegemite off us. A new anticyclone's bringing more fine school-holiday weather, but typically the forecast has frost, fogs and showers for some. Details coming up. We begin tonight with warnings of a nasty winter flu strain that's doing the rounds. The parents of convicted murderer Elliot Turner are expected to be jailed tonight in England for their roles in covering up the crime of their son. Anita and Leigh Turner were found found guilty in May of perverting the course of justice. The pair helped destroy a written confession from Elliot Turner for the murder of his NZ girlfriend, Emily Longley (17). A virus is expected to hit the country hard in the next few weeks, but there's concern tonight over how hospitals will cope, with many already struggling to find bed space. Christchurch appears to be one of the cities struggling the most. Here's Joy Reid. Middlemore Hospital's bursting at the seams. We have had days this week of over 104%, um, occupancy, which is making things really busy for us. The flu a common complaint. It's actually very high numbers at the moment; much higher than usual. In Christchurch, cases have surged over the past two weeks. This room housing just some of the patients. We've got 17 patients in the hospital at the moment with influenza, and five of those are in ICU, and they're still coming in. Lab staff have found the main strain in Canterbury is influenza A. It's not a new one, but hasn't been seen much over the past six years and can be more severe. Overall, there was very little influenza activity last year. So this is one of reasons why, uh, the population-level immunity to this virus is probably low at the present time. It's mainly hitting those aged between 20 to 40. It was included in this year's flu vaccine, but young adults have been slower to get immunised. So far the outbreak is mainly around Canterbury and Auckland, where rates are higher than normal, but less severe strains are sprouting up elsewhere, and experts fear it's just the start. They start off explosively, in one or two centres, and, uh, then over the subsequent weeks, spread, uh, throughout the country. And that's the concern, especially as schools head back after the holidays. If we're this high now, it actually means we're going to be working even harder in the next couple of months. But there's no need for alarm just yet ` we are nowhere near levels of the flu pandemic in 2009 and '10, and it's hoped this winter we'll never get there. Joy Reid, ONE News. Most of us wouldn't see places like East Timor, Iran and Rwanda as hot tourist spots, more like danger zones. Well, Australians are now being given the same travel warnings they get for those places if they're heading to quake-damaged Christchurch and Lyttelton. This comes as Canterbury was hit by its biggest aftershock in six weeks ` A magnitude 4.8 quake centred 20km south-east of Darfield this afternoon. Daniel Faitaua has more. SIREN WAILS Fear and terror in East Timor ` innocent women and children in the line of fire. Angry defiance on Tehran's streets ` thousands protesting dictatorial rule. ALL CHANT: We want freedom! We want freedom! Both appear on a list of places where Australians should exercise a high degree of caution according to their government. It's been revealed that same group includes none other than Christchurch and Lyttelton. We think it's over the top. Um, you know, we've got lots of people coming into Christchurch. Um, you know, we've seen many nationalities return in good numbers. We think that warning is probably gonna keep a few Australians away. The travel advice is on this website run by Australia's Foreign Affairs and Trade Department. Travellers are warned to be vigilant around damaged buildings, public transport and essential services like hospitals. If they put out a warning like that last year, we would understand that, but for that still to be in place today, considering the progress we've made in the city and the degree to which we've mitigated a lot of the safety risks is really just not reasonable. An argument echoed by our prime minister, who's in Australia on a NZ marketing exercise. We've raised the issue with them. I'm pretty sure that they will address that. I mean, it wouldn't make any sense for NZ to have that sort of rating. No one from the Australian government would front on camera, but in a statement said it hasn't issued a warning. It's merely offering advice. While the number of Australians heading to our shores has dropped recently, those here are unfazed. They need to look after their own country first and get that into gear. I'm surprised. Yeah, I don't think it'll deter Aussies. Christchurch is safe. Come here and support the place. Support a city badly needs in its first stages of a massive rebuild. Daniel Faitaua, ONE News. Hundreds of damage claims have been filed after Tuesday's earthquake off Taranaki's coast, which was felt around a large area of the country. People have until early October to make a claim, but already 270 have applied for compensation. The Earthquake Commission says most are likely to be for small amounts. The 7-magnitude quake was centred south of Opunake and 230km deep. Two people have appeared at Hamilton District Court after being arrested as part of a major international investigation into child abuse and exploitation online. Ruth Wynn-Williams has the details. Italian authorities alerted police here to the alleged child abuse being carried out by a NZ couple. Court documents show the international investigation uncovered a large number of offensive images, all of them featuring children under 12 years old, and one of those children has been identified as a NZer. The woman appeared in court last month on her own. She faces a single charge, but her partner, who's been living under a false name faces a raft of serious charges. They've been charged with 69 offences pertaining to sexual abuse against very young children and a multitude of objectionable materials and further firearms-related offences. The woman was charged with one count of making an objectionable publication. As well as those charges, the couple face a number of drug charges, and police say they found range of different firearms when they raided the house. The man is remanded in custody, and he'll reappear back here at Hamilton Court next month. A teenager who was just 14 when she helped beat an elderly man to death in his bed has had a big reduction in the minimum non-parole period of her life sentence. Lori-Lea Te Wini, now 18, had faced a minimum non-parole period of 17 years. That was slashed to 10 years today in the Rotorua High Court. Te Wini and her cousin Courtney Churchward beat John Rowe (78) to death with his walking stick in 2008. We just try to provide her with, you know, the necessary, um, limits and boundaries, shall I call it, and, um, yeah, like, at the end of the day, they have` we have our own thoughts and our own actions and, yeah, that's just how it turned out. Te Wini and Churchward had broken into Mr Rowe's Opotiki home to steal money for drugs. John Rowe's children were in court today, but were too upset to comment. Calls from international marine scientists to ban fishing nets to save the endangered Maui's dolphins is proving unpopular among the fishing community here. The dolphins were a focus of the Whaling Commission's annual meeting in Panama City today. Helen Castles reports. With only 55 Mauis left, these are the world's rarest dolphin, and today the International Whaling Commission urged our government to take all possible measures to secure the animal's survival. Scientists say the dolphin's on it's way to extinction, but a recovery is possible if there's a total ban on all gill and trawling nets. But the fishing industry says that's too radical and argue there's no fishing in their habitat anyway. It is an anti-fishing campaign by a group of people who believe that the sea should be returned to some... some state of` of, you know, pre-colonisation or pre-fishing. Last month, the Government extended fishing restrictions along the Taranaki coastline. More than 300,000 dolphins and whales die in nets each year. There's one death every two minutes, and that's got conservationists calling for alternative fishing gear. But fishers say a net ban would spell the end for many in the industry. If the ministry banned set netting, uh, an-and trawling in this sort of 100m zone that these people talk about, it would knock out the vast majority of coastal fishing. Um, so we are talking about, you know, thousands of jobs. It's bad enough that we've had 20 or so jobs lost in Taranaki already. Meanwhile, at the Whaling Commission in Panama, South Korea continues to come under fire from governments, including NZ, over its plans to resume whale-hunting under a so-called scientific-research plan. Helen Castles, ONE News. The cost of coffee beans and milk has fallen recently, so you might expect that your caffeine fix may get cheaper, but that's probably not going to happen. Arrun Soma explains why. STEAM HISSES It starts your day... ...and keeps you going until the end. But is your flat white flat expensive? Internationally, coffee beans are coming down in price, so that should probably be reflected in the latte that you're drinking. International dairy prices like milk are dropping too. But the industry says the coffee you're drinking only makes up a small percentage of the price and that a $4 cuppa costs a little less than 80c. It's one ingredient of a number of ingredients that go into making coffee. There's many other factors such as, you know, rent, insurance, wages. Wellington-based chain Mojo says the cheaper the bean, the poorer the taste. That's gonna be some pretty cheap, nasty coffee. NZ coffee roasters in general buy really great boutique coffee, which is a hell of a lot more expensive than that. I think the, um, the baristas are talking up the price of coffee. So will the price drop? If a competitor down the road drops their price, then it will be interesting to see if people, um, change their loyalties. The chance of that happening could be slim. Industry insiders tell us the cost of flat whites, long blacks, espressos and the rest will be holding up for now. Arrun Soma, ONE News. Just ahead ` a terrorism scare in London. A gigantic cocaine haul in Hong Kong ` the city's biggest ever. And the Vegemite price war spreading across the Tasman and we're somehow sandwiched in as well. 1 The Prime Minister's found an ally across the Tasman for his asset-sales programme. On a business-promoting visit, John Key got a boost from one of Australia's most successful prime ministers. Australia correspondent Steve Marshall with this exclusive story. Walking the centre-right path. The two Johns, Key and Howard, might be from different countries, but they share the same economic ideas. You need a balance. Uh, you need policies which look after people who deserve to be looked after, but none the less assume, that all things being equal, people will look after themselves. Howard's economic management was the foundation of his 11-year run as Australia's prime minister, and the Liberal stalwart backs Key's decision to sell stakes in NZ's SOEs. I am unashamedly a believer in the government not running business enterprises. Private enterprise always runs businesses more efficiently than public enterprises. That's a universal truth, whether it's NZ, Australia, the United Kingdom or anywhere else. Mr Howard invited our PM to brief Australian policy researchers on our government's strategy in a speech televised live around the nation. Throughout this time, we've been consistent and upfront with NZers about what we're doing and why we're doing it. John Key's final stop was Melbourne's CBD, where he met with representatives from Australia's top banks and mining companies. I caught up with Mr Key between meetings. Australian companies should consider locating more of their business in NZ. We've had quite a few of them saying they're going to do that or they're in the process of doing that. They're taking positive signals out of the way the country's being run in NZ. Mr Key returns at the weekend and back to the task of promoting the sale of key government assets at home. Steve Marshall, ONE News, Melbourne. Two former Argentine dictators have been found guilty of orchestrating the systematic theft of babies during the country's period of military rule more than 30 years ago. Jorge Videla (86) here on the left received a 50-year sentence, while Reynaldo Bignone got 15 years. They're already serving life for their brutal seven-year campaign which saw 30,000 people killed. At least 400 babies are thought to have been taken from political prisoners. A march by hundreds of union workers in Chile to demand a rise in the minimum wage has ended in chaos. Scuffles broke out between police and protesters as the workers tried to march to the presidential palace in the capital, Santiago. Police used water cannon and tear gas to break up the crowd, making a dozen arrests. The minimum wage in Chile is about $2.60 an hour. Just three weeks out from the Olympics police in London have made six arrests in anti-terror raids. Authorities say the operation targeted Islamist militants, but as ABC's Jeffrey Kofman reports, there are also signs of pre-Olympic security jitters. British police didn't knock on the door; they knocked it down, arresting three brothers and three others in what they say is a possible plot by Islamic extremists against potential targets here in the UK. There was a big bang. For a minute, I thought it was like a bomb. The house less than a mile from the Olympic site. Forbid the evil. One of the suspects, a British-born Muslim convert, Richard Dart, known to rail against the British military. No longer will the Muslims remain silent. A few hours after the raid, this dramatic scene on a highway north of London, when a passenger was spotted with a smoking bag. Counter-terrorism troops were called in. False alarm ` the passenger was taking secret puffs from an electronic cigarette. It's clear this city has a serious case of Olympic security jitters. Now the police intelligence services will act far earlier on in a plot. You can't miss the massive security being deployed for the Games. Emergency drills in the subways; anti-aircraft artillery on rooftops; SWAT teams practising on the River Thames. These Olympics will be the largest peacetime deployment of the British military ever, and the largest assembly of military hardware here in London since the Second World War, Customs officers in Hong Kong have made their biggest ever cocaine bust, seizing 649kg of the drug. Worth around a $120m, the huge haul was discovered in a shipping container from Ecuador. Officials believe most of the cocaine was destined for South-East Asia or China. The container was one of a batch that the US Drug Enforcement Administration had flagged to Hong Kong customs officials for further inspection. Well, another discovery, but this one's legal. Chinese officials are describing a new archaeological find as one of the most important in the country for decades. 30 bronze objects were found in an unearthed royal tomb in the north-west Shaanxi province. It's believed they date back to the Western Zhou Dynasty in the 11th century BC. There is some liquid in this square wine vessel. If it's proven to be some kind of liquor, it would be the world's oldest. American singer Rihanna is suing her former accountants for an undisclosed amount. She's suing under her real and very normal name of Robyn Fenty and alleges that two accountants drained tens of millions of dollars from her revenues while she was touring over a five-year period. Vegemite here has been caught up in a price war that's broken out between Australia's biggest supermarket chain, Woolworths, and some of the world's biggest food suppliers. But as Channel Nine's Ross Greenwood explains, it's the customers being left in the cold. Australia's biggest food producers claim Woolworths demanded they cut prices by 10-15% within two weeks or their products would be taken off the shelves. Their dominance does make a supplier feel vulnerable. Woolworths today hit back,... Nine News understands the company Woolworths cite is the world's second biggest food producer, Kraft, maker of Vegemite. The reason ` in Woolies online Australian supermarket, a 150g jar of Vegemite is $3.43. At it's NZ Countdown online store, the price is $3.19 or A$2.49. The difference? 27%. Vegemite is made in Port Melbourne in Victoria. Now, it should be cheaper here. But many Kraft products are actually cheaper in NZ. Now we've learned that Woolies started buying Vegemite off the Kiwis then shipping it back to Australia, and this is the reason for the price pressure. Today Kraft told Nine News,... But their local rival ` he certainly knows what's going on. How could it be shipped to NZ and then sold cheaper? They're ripping us off, and I'm glad that Woolworths and Coles have found this out. The ACCC is looking at the latest claims as part of its ongoing investigation. Just ahead ` the weather. Also a thrilling Super 15 clash between the Chiefs and the Crusaders. And the fizzer of all fireworks displays. We'll explain why. Welcome back, in sport there's been a tough battle tonight in Hamiltion between the country's two top teams in the Super 15. The top of the table Chiefs were 14 points behind the Crusaders at one stage before coming back with a hard fought try from Sonny-Bill Williams. But the Crusaders held on, enduring a barrage of pressure in their own 22 for the last 10 minutes of the game. Their defence stood strong for a stunning 28-21 win. It's only the Chiefs' third loss of the season. The Blackcaps' miserable run has continued in the West Indies, tumbling to their third straight loss. Here's Stephen Stuart. A lively Sabina Park pitch was simply too much for the brittle Blackcaps, who were having their first look at Jamaican Andre Russell. Edged and taken. Martin Guptill failing again while Daniel Flynn showed grit,... Magic sprain. ...but didn't last. And he dragged it on. Russell knocking over the top order. He swung that high. And then off-spinner Sunil Narine completely tied up the middle. There was no let-up as Dwayne Bravo worked over Kane Williamson, which probably explained the captain's pedestrian run rate. It was a superbly balanced Windies attack. Jake Oram brought some impetus at last,... Good hit. ...only to throw his wicket away. CROWD CHEERS Watching the implosions was BJ Watling, who ground out a half century with the help of all-rounder Andrew Ellis, who joined the injured list with a quad problem. 190 was never enough to defend as Chris Gayle returned to his home ground. Sixth time. And Dwayne Smith, who'd only averaged 15 in an eight-year ODI career, outscored him. And that's gone away. A two-hour rain break was the only threat to the home side, but even that couldn't save the Blackcaps. And that's it. And we certainly need to learn from the mistakes that we are making and perhaps take a look at them and learn from that. Three losses on the trot, and even with the reinforcements on the way, hard to see where a win will come from. Stephen Stuart, ONE News. Weather time now with Renee. Once again Kiwi rider Greg Henderson played his part, as German sprinter Andre Greipel won his second straight stage at the Tour de France. For the second day running, a crash within 3km from the finish knocked out some of the leading sprint contenders. Henderson doing his bit to keep Greipel out of trouble, though the big German still had plenty of work to do. And Cavendish is out of this now as he's challenged by Greipel. Greipel kicks again. It was a bit crazy, because I was behind the crash, 3 K's to go. Greg Henderson was waiting for me. He brought me back in the train. Swiss Fabian Cancellara hung on to the yellow jersey, but is expected to lose it on Sunday, Hi, everyone. The low moves out to the east, taking its fronts with it. A ridge builds over the South Island, and the combo of the low and high keep that southerly flow over the North Island going. Two weak troughs clear the top and bottom of the country tomorrow morning. The high enters the Tasman Sea Saturday night bringing settled conditions. For weather, see onenews.co.nz And that's your weather. Have a great weekend. Finally, a big fizzer. A crowd of 500,000 packed vantage points around San Diego Bay for a massive Independence Day fireworks display. But instead of lasting 20 minutes, $500,000 worth of fireworks went in just 20 seconds. FIREWORKS RUMBLE A computer glitch caused the whole lot to launch at once in three giant fireballs. 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 onenews.co.nz Thanks for watching. Goodnight. Captions by Hugo Snell and John Ling. Captions were made possible with funding from NZ On Air.