WE APOLOGISE FOR THE LACK OF CAPTIONS FOR SOME ITEMS. AN AFTERSHOCK KICKSTARTS A DAY OF REMEMBERING FOR QUAKE-WEARY CHRISTCHURCH. THE LATEST TWIST IN THE OSCAR PISTORIUS CASE. WHY THE LEAD DETECTIVE HAS BEEN DUMPED. AND LEFT TO GIVE BIRTH ALONE IN HOSPITAL. A NEW SYDNEY MUM'S HORROR DELIVERY. BUT FIRST IN BREAKING NEWS, THE COUNTRY'S BIGGEST PHONE COMPANY, TELECOM, SAYS IT'S GOING TO CUT HUNDREDS OF JOBS OVER THE NEXT 10 MONTHS. CHIEF EXECUTIVE SIMON MOUTTER FLAGGED THE CUTS DURING THE COMPANY'S PROFIT ANNOUNCEMENT THIS MORNING. HE WOULDN'T GIVE SPECIFIC NUMBERS, BUT SAID THE CUTS WOULD BE WELL INTO THE HUNDREDS. TELECOM CURRENTLY EMPLOYS MORE THAN 7000 WORKERS. THE COMPANY TODAY REPORTED ADJUSTED NET PROFIT OF $156M FOR THE SIX MONTHS TO DECEMBER, UP ALMOST 60% ON THE PREVIOUS YEAR. HOWEVER, LAST YEAR'S RESULT WAS AFFECTED BY THE COSTS OF SPLITTING FROM ITS INFRASTRUCTURE ARM, CHORUS. REVENUE FELL 8.5% TO $2.1B. COAL MINERS WORKING IN HUNTLY EAST WILL MEET THIS AFTERNOON TO DISCUSS THEIR FUTURE. SOLID ENERGY IS FACING SERIOUS CASH-FLOW PROBLEMS AND IS ALMOST $400M IN DEBT. THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT RULING OUT A BAILOUT. THE ENGINEERING, PRINTING AND MANUFACTURERS UNION SAYS THE PROSPECT OF ANOTHER RESTRUCTURE MEANS MORE WORRIES FOR WORKERS. WAIKATO DISTRICT MAYOR ALLAN SANSON SAYS IT COULD HAVE A MAJOR IMPACT ON THE COMMUNITY. IT IS POTENTIALLY DEVASTATING. THE PEOPLE OF HUNTLY AND THE COMPANIES THAT SUPPORT SOLID ENERGY HAVE ALL GOT TO WORRY AT THE MOMENT. MORE THAN 60 MINERS WERE MADE REDUNDANT LAST YEAR IN THIS REGION. IN THE WEST COAST MORE THAN 350 MINERS LOST THEIR JOBS LAST YEAR. THE COMPANY AND THE FINANCE MINISTER ARE IN TALKS WITH BANKS. LARGE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE HAVE GATHERED IN CHRISTCHURCH'S LATIMER SQUARE FOR A MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR THOSE WHO DIED IN THE CHRISTCHURCH EARTHQUAKE THAT STRUCK TWO YEARS AGO TODAY. IN A REMINDER OF THE JOLTS STILL RATTLING THE CITY, SOME RESIDENTS' DAYS BEGAN WITH A 3.8 MAGNITUDE AFTERSHOCK. ONE NEWS REPORTER LORELEI MASON JOINS US NOW LIVE FROM CHRISTCHURCH. LORELEI. IT'S NOT A GOOD WAY TO START. FAMILY MEMBERS ARE GATHERING ALSO WITH THEM ARE PEOPLE INJURED IN QUAKE DIGNITARIES ARE ARRIVING EMERGENCY WORKERS ARE HERE TO PAY RESPECT AND OFFER SUPPORT LATIMER SQUARE WAS ALWAYS GOING TO BE THE PLACE TO COME IT WAS THE ONLY PLACE IN THE CITY FOR PEOPLE TO FLEE TO ON THE DAY IT BECAME AND EMERGENCY TRIAGE PEOPLE CAME HERE WHO HAD FAMILY MEMBERS IN THE CTV BUILDING TO WAIT IT SEEMS LIKE JUST YESTERDAY THAT IT HAPPENED BOB PARKER SUMMED IT UP WELL ON BREAKFAST THIS MORNING. YOU CAN'T DRIVE DOWN A ROAD WITHOUT HAVING TO GO AROUND ROADWORKS. IF YOU COME INTO CENTRAL CITY AREA, YOU GET LOST, YOU TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHERE YOU ARE. THE CHANGES ARE IMMENSE. IF YOU GO INTO THE EAST OF THE CITY, AS WE OFTEN TAKE PEOPLE TO LOOK AND SEE THE SCALE OF THINGS OUT THERE, YOU JUST CAN'T BELIEVE IT. I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE PACK AWAY THE EMOTION, AND WHAT I'VE NOTICED IN THE LAST 24 HOURS IS INCREASINGLY PEOPLE STARTING TO TALK AGAIN ABOUT THE SENSE OF LOSS AND WHERE THEY WERE. THERE'S AN AWFUL LOT OF EMOTION THAT'S BEEN TAMPED DOWN, SO AS MUCH AS WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO AN UTTERLY EXTRAORDINARY FUTURE, I THINK ALSO ON THIS DAY WE JUST REMEMBER WHAT WE LOST. IT'S NTO JUST HERE PEOPLE IN CHRISTCHURCH ARE PAYING THEIR RESPECTS ACROSS THE CITY THERE IS A LAYING OF WREATHS AND ROAD CONES ACROSS THE CITY THERE ARE LOTS PEOPLE WHO CAN'T MAKE IT TODAY ARE DECORATING THEM AS A WAY OF MEMORY PEOPLE ARE ALSO GOING TO THE RIVER TO FLOW FLOWERS INTO TI THE CEREMONY WILL GET WAY IN 5 MINS TIME THERE WILL BE PRAYERS AND A LAYING OF A WREATH AT 12.50 TEHRE WILL BE A MINUTE'S SILENCE THANKS LORELEI, LIVE FROM CHRISTCHURCH. AND THE MEMORIAL SERVICE IS BEING STREAMED LIVE ON OUR WEBSITE, ONENEWS.CO.NZ. SERIAL SEX OFFENDER STUART MURRAY WILSON HAS APPEARED IN THE WANGANUI DISTRICT COURT AFTER BREACHING HIS PAROLE CONDITIONS. THE 65-YEAR-OLD WAS LIVING UNDER STRICT CONDITIONS THAT INCLUDED NOT CONTACTING HIS VICTIMS. BUT WILSON WAS RECALLED TO PRISON AFTER IT'S ALLEGED HE PHONED A PERSON HE'S BEEN BANNED FROM CONTACTING. IT'S GOOD THAT THE CORRECTIONS DEPT HAVE TAKEN THE STEPS THAT THEY HAVE, BUT ALSO TO BE EXPECTED, PEOPLE HAVE SAID, 'WELL, I'VE TOLD YOU THIS WILL HAPPEN.' SIX MONTHS AGO, THE NOTORIOUS SEX OFFENDER MOVED TO A SELF-CARE UNIT ON THE PRISON GROUNDS JUST OUTSIDE OF WANGANUI. IT'S NOW UP TO THE PAROLE BOARD TO DECIDE WHETHER TO EXTEND WILSON'S INTERIM RECALL TO JAIL. A HIGH-SPEED POLICE CHASE IN CHRISTCHURCH HAS ENDED WITH A 15-YEAR-OLD BOY'S DEATH. THE TEENAGER WAS IN A CAR WITH FOUR OTHERS WHEN IT CRASHED NEAR SEWAGE PONDS IN LINWOOD. THE TOYOTA SURF HAD BEEN REPORTED STOLEN FROM THE WAIMAKARIRI AREA EARLIER THAT NIGHT. POLICE APPREHENDED TWO OTHER PASSENGERS BUT ARE STILL SEARCHING FOR THE DRIVER. A MAN IS DEAD AND ANOTHER'S IN A CRITICAL CONDITION AFTER TWO SHOOTING INCIDENTS IN MATAMATA OVERNIGHT. A 20-YEAR-OLD MAN IS IN WAIKATO HOSPITAL'S INTENSIVE CARE UNIT AFTER HE WAS SHOT BY A GUNMAN WHO DROVE OFF FROM THE SCENE. POLICE SEARCHING FOR THE CULPRIT DISCOVERED THE BODY OF A 21-YEAR-OLD WHO'D DIED FROM A GUNSHOT WOUND. POLICE ARE NOT SEEKING ANYONE ELSE. THERE'S BEEN A DRAMATIC SWITCH AT THE TOP OF THE OSCAR PISTORIUS MURDER INVESTIGATION. THE LEAD DETECTIVE HAS BEEN PULLED OFF THE CASE AFTER IT WAS REVEALED HE'S FACING SEVEN CHARGES OF ATTEMPTED MURDER FOLLOWING AN INCIDENT IN 2011. THE BBC'S ANDREW HARDING REPORTS. CENTRE STAGE FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS TODAY. THIS IS THE DETECTIVE WHO HAS BEEN LEADING THE INVESTIGATION INTO OSCAR PISTORIUS. NOW HILTON BOTHA HAS HIMSELF BEEN CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER FOR A SHOOTING INCIDENT BACK IN 2011. YESTERDAY OSCAR PISTORIUS WEPT AS HE HEARD THE DETECTIVE DESCRIBE THE CRIME SCENE. BOTHA SAID IT WAS MURDER, AND BELIEVED THE ATHLETE SHOULD NOT GET BAIL. BUT TODAY BOTHA LEARNT HE WAS BEING DROPPED FROM THE CASE BECAUSE OF THE CHARGES AGAINST HIM. IT'S BAD NEWS FOR THE DETECTIVE, GOOD NEWS FOR OSCAR PISTORIUS. IT'S TOO EARLY TO TELL. THE ISSUE WAS HARDLY MENTIONED IN COURT TODAY. INSTEAD, WITH THE PARALYMPIC STAR'S FAMILY WATCHING CLOSELY, THE FOCUS RETURNED TO THE DEATH OF REEVA STEENKAMP. AGAIN THE COURT HEARD DETAILS OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THIS BEDROOM, AND WHY OSCAR PISTORIUS RUSHED DOWN THE CORRIDOR TO SHOOT HIS GIRLFRIEND BEHIND A LOCKED TOILET DOOR. THE DEFENCE SAID ALL THE EVIDENCE BACKED UP THE ATHLETE'S VERSION OF EVENTS ` THAT HE THOUGHT THERE WAS AN INTRUDER AND KILLED REEVA BY MISTAKE. BUT THE PROSECUTION DESCRIBED PISTORIUS AS A VIOLENT MAN WHOSE STORY DID NOT ADD UP. THE PROSECUTION ARGUED THAT EVEN IF IT WERE TO GIVE OSCAR PISTORIUS THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT, THAT HE DID BELIEVE THERE WAS A BURGLAR IN THE BATHROOM, HE STILL WENT THERE TO KILL, FIRING FOUR SHOTS. THAT MADE HIM A MURDERER WHO DOES NOT DESERVE BAIL. TODAY, THERE HAVE BEEN NEWS THAT THE BLADE RUNNER, A ONE-MAN GLOBAL BRAND, HAS BEEN DROPPED FROM A NUMBER OF HIGH-PROFILE ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. HARDLY A PRIORITY NOW FOR THE MAN IN THE DOCK. A MASSIVE CAR BOMB HAS KILLED AT LEAST 53 PEOPLE AND INJURED ANOTHER 200 PEOPLE IN THE SYRIAN CAPITAL, DAMASCUS. STATE TV HAS BLAMED TERRORISTS FOR THE BLAST WHICH HAPPENED NEAR THE HEADQUARTERS OF SYRIA'S RULING BAATH PARTY. THE EXPLOSION WAS FELT NEARLY 2KM AWAY AND LEFT A PIT ABOUT 2M DEEP. THE BLAST WAS FOLLOWED BY HEAVY GUNFIRE AS THE AUTHORITIES CORDONED OFF THE AREA. THE VIOLENCE COMES AS RUSSIA AND THE ARAB LEAGUE SAY THEY WANT TO BROKER DIRECT TALKS BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION TO END THE CIVIL WAR. AND 12 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED IN SOUTHERN INDIA AFTER BOMBS PLACED ON BIKES EXPLODED IN A BUSY MARKET PLACE IN HYDERABAD. SEVERAL BLASTS EXPLODED CLOSE TO EACH OTHER DURING RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC. MAJOR CITIES HAVE BEEN PUT ON ALERT AS POLICE INVESTIGATE WHO WAS BEHIND THE ATTACK. NO GROUP HAS CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY. THREE WOULD-BE SUICIDE BOMBERS WHO PLOTTED TO CARRY OUT AN ATTACK TO RIVAL THE 9/11 ATROCITY HAVE BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF TERRORISM CHARGES IN THE UK. JURORS WERE TOLD THEY PLANNED TO SET OFF UP TO EIGHT BOMBS IN RUCKSACKS, USING TIMERS TO DETONATE THEM. THE TRIO, ALL BRITISH-BORN, WERE ARRESTED IN 2011. THE BBC'S JUNE KELLY REPORTS. THE CLIMAX TO A MASSIVE COUNTER-TERRORISM INVESTIGATION. LATE NIGHT IN BIRMINGHAM, AND THE POLICE ARE ABOUT TO ARREST THREE MEN INVOLVED IN A PLOT TO BECOME SUICIDE BOMBERS AND COMMIT MASS MURDER ON THE STREETS OF BRITAIN. FIRST OUT OF THE CAR ` ASHLIK ALI, THEN IRFAN KHALID, AND FINALLY, THE KEY FIGURE IN THIS TERRORIST CELL ` IRFAN NASEER. BIRMINGHAM IS THE HOMETOWN TO ALL THREE. BUT ALTHOUGH THEY'VE BEEN BORN AND BROUGHT UP HERE, THE JURY HEARD THEY HAD COME TO DESPITE THE BRITISH. THESE MEN WERE THE REAL DEAL. THEY WERE COMMITTED, PASSIONATE EXTREMISTS. THEY HAD A REAL STATED INTENTION OF KILLING AND MAIMING AS MANY PEOPLE AS THEY POSSIBLY COULD. THEY WERE BEING MONITORED AND BUGS WERE PLANTED IN THEIR CARS. THEY WERE HEARD PLANNING TO DETONATE UP TO EIGHT RUCKSACK BOMBS. TO FINANCE THE PLOT, THE MEN PRETENDED TO BE COLLECTING FOR CHARITY. BUT THE CHARITY, MUSLIM AID, WAS CHEATED OUT OF MOST OF THE CASH. INSIDE ONE OF THEIR HOMES, THEY STARTED GATHERING COMPONENTS TO MAKE A BOMB. AND ON A NOTE, NASEER HAD SKETCHED OUT A BLUEPRINT FOR A DEVICE. THIS IS WHEN THE SURVEILLANCE STOPPED AND THE POLICE ARRESTED THESE THREE MEN, WHO PLANNED TO CAUSE MASS DEATHS AND CASUALTIES ON THE STREETS OF THE UK. IRAN HAS TAKEN ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT STEP IN ITS URANIUM ENRICHMENT PROGRAMME, A MOVE THAT WILL CONCERN WORLD POWERS. THE UN'S NUCLEAR WATCHDOG SAYS IRAN HAS BEGUN INSTALLING ADVANCED CENTRIFUGE MACHINES AT A NUCLEAR PLANT. THE WEST FEARS THIS WOULD ENABLE IRAN TO SPEED UP ACCUMULATION OF MATERIAL FOR A NUCLEAR WEAPON. TEHRAN INSISTS IT IS ONLY REFINING URANIUM FOR PEACEFUL ENERGY PURPOSES. THREE PEOPLE HAVE DIED AND AT LEAST THREE OTHERS HAVE BEEN INJURED IN A DRAMATIC GUNFIGHT OUTSIDE A LAS VEGAS CASINO. THE SHOOTOUT SET OFF A FIVE-CAR PILE UP AT A BUSY INTERSECTION. THE OCCUPANTS OF A MASERATI AND AN SUV WERE FIRING AT EACH OTHER BEFORE THE MASERATI HIT A TAXI, WHICH BURST INTO FLAMES AND EXPLODED. THOSE WHO DIED WERE THE DRIVER OF THE MASERATI, THE TAXI DRIVER AND A TAXI PASSENGER. POLICE ARE STILL SEARCHING FOR THE SUV WHICH HAD MADE A GETAWAY BEFORE THE POLICE ARRIVED. A SYDNEY WOMAN HAS EXPOSED A NEW LOW POINT FOR CROWDED AUSTRALIAN HOSPITALS. SHE WAS LEFT ALONE IN A BED AND FORCED TO DELIVER HER OWN BABY, WITH JUST SOME LAST-MINUTE HELP FROM ANOTHER PATIENT. WHEN KRISTY JONES WALKED INTO BLACKTOWN HOSPITAL TO HAVE HER BABY GIRL, SHE EXPECTED TO BE LOOKED AFTER. INSTEAD, SHE WAS ALL BUT IGNORED. KRISTY ARRIVED AT THE HOSPITAL WITH WHAT SHE SAYS WERE LABOUR PAINS AT 8.30 ON TUESDAY MORNING. SHE WENT STRAIGHT TO THE BIRTHING UNIT, BUT AT LUNCHTIME THEY TRIED TO SEND HER HOME. WHEN SHE REFUSED TO LEAVE AT 2.30, THEY FOUND HER A BED IN THE MATERNITY WARD. JUST AFTER 11PM, HER FAMILY WAS TOLD TO LEAVE. KRISTY WAS NOW ON HER OWN. AS HER LABOUR INTENSIFIED, STAFF TOLD KRISTY TO TIME HER OWN CONTRACTIONS. SCREAMING OUT, LIKE, 'THE BABY'S COMING.' SO IT WAS, 'WHERE ARE YOUSE? THE BABY'S COMING.' NEXT MINUTE, SHE WAS BORN ON THE BED. EXPECTANT MUM DANIELLE WAS JUST ACROSS FROM KRISTY. I COULD HEAR HER MOANING, AND IT BECAME QUITE LOUD I COULD HEAR HER MOANING, AND IT BECAME QUITE LOUD AND DIDN'T SOUND RIGHT TO ME. AND THE BABY APPEARED TO BE IN A BREACH POSITION, AND IN A FACE-DOWN POSITION ON THE BED IN THE AMNIOTIC FLUID. IT WAS BETWEEN FIVE AND 10 MINUTES LATER THAT STAFF FINALLY ENTERED THE ROOM. THE NURSES' STATION IS JUST 20 STEPS FROM HER BED. THERE WAS NO INDICATION THAT THE PATIENT IN QUESTION WAS IN ESTABLISHED LABOUR WHEN THE BIRTH OCCURRED. NO MOTHER SHOULD BE LEFT TO GIVE BIRTH ON HER OWN. STILL TO COME ON MIDDAY ` IN BUSINESS NEWS, WE LOOK AT WHETHER GAMES CONSOLES' DAYS ARE NUMBERED. AND IN SPORT ` OH SO CLOSE. NZ'S SPRINT CYCLISTS HAVE TO SETTLE FOR AN AGONISING SECOND AT THE WORLD CHAMPS. 1 WITH ME NOW IS ANNE HARE FROM CRAIGS INVESTMENT PARTNERS. THIS ITEM WILL BE CAPTIONED LIVE. FOR MORE, GO TO ONENEWS.CO.NZ AND CLICK ON 'BUSINESS'. GOOD AFTERNOON, ANNE. TELECOM RESULT ` YOUR ASSESSMENT? PART OF IT WILL BE THE DEMERGER FROM CHORUS HAS AN EFFECT ON NET PROFIT RESULT TAKE OFF THE DEMERGER SKY TV ` COMPANY OUSTED FROM THE TOP 10 IN FAVOUR OF TRADEME. THEY'VE CONVINCED MORE SUBSCRIBERS TO MOVE TO MYSKY. HOW HAS THAT AFFECTED THEIR HALF-YEARLY PROFIT? IT'S UP 7.4% ON A NET BASIS INCREASED MYSKY SUBSCRIBERS BY 20% INCREASED DIVIDEND BY 1 CENT METLIFECARE IS BENEFITTING FROM REVENUE FROM ITS LATEST ACQUISITION. BUT IS THE CORE COMPANY DOING WELL? IT'S QUITE MARKED THE DIFFERENCE THEIR NET PROFIT IS UP EARNINGS PER SHARE IS UP EIGHT TIMES PREVIOUS PERIOD REINTRODUCING DIVIDEND AND REINVESTMENT PROGRAMME OUTLOOK TO INCREASE EARNINGS WITH NEW NET UNIT SALES THANK YOU, ANNE HARE FROM CRAIGS INVESTMENT PARTNERS. JUST A DAY AFTER SONY UNVEILED ITS NEXT GENERATION GAMING CONSOLE, THE PLAYSTATION 4, THERE ARE QUESTIONS ABOUT WHETHER THE GAMES CONSOLE HAS IN FACT HAD ITS DAY. GAMING HAS BECOME INCREASINGLY POPULAR ON SMARTPHONES AND TABLETS, BUT WILL THAT MAKE THE CONSOLE REDUNDANT? THE BBC'S RORY CELLAN-JONES REPORTS. IT'S EVOLVED OVER FOUR DECADES INTO A PRODUCTS THAT'S WON A PLACE IN MILLIONS OF LIVING ROOMS. NOW THE VIDEO GAMES CONSOLE IS AT THE HEART OF AN ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY THAT RIVALS HOLLYWOOD. BUT WHERE DOES IT GO NEXT? ACCORDING TO SONY, THE PLAYSTATION 4 IS THE FUTURE OF GAMING, THOUGH LAST NIGHT ALL IT WAS SHOWING WAS THE NEW CONTROLLER RATHER THAN THE CONSOLE ITSELF. HERE'S SOMEWHERE YOU'LL FIND PLENTY OF EXCITEMENT ABOUT NEW CONSOLES ` A RETRO GAMES EVENT IN MARGATE. OH, WHAT A JUMP. MORE PEOPLE OF ALL AGES ARE PLAYING GAMES THAN EVER BEFORE, BUT THEY'RE FINDING DIFFERENT AND CHEAPER WAYS OF PLAYING ` ON SMART PHONES AND TABLET COMPUTERS, FOR INSTANCE ` AND THAT COULD SPELL TROUBLE FOR THE CONSOLE. WE'VE GOT CONSOLES ALL THE WAY BACK TO BOOGIE BOY AND THE COMMODORE 64 FROM 1987. THE MAN WHO SUPPLIED THIS EVENT WITH HUNDREDS OF GAMES AND MACHINES HAS DETECTED A SHIFT IN THE INDUSTRY. THE SMART PHONE AND TABLET MARKET HAS DRASTICALLY CHANGED THINGS, AND PEOPLE ARE LESS LIKELY TO SPEND �50 ON THE NEW FIFA IF THEY CAN PICK UP A FOOTBALL GAME ON A MOBILE. SONY AND ITS RIVALS ARE BETTING THAT THE CONSOLE WILL HAVE A NEW FUTURE AS AN ALL-PURPOSE ENTERTAINMENT DEVICE. BUT MAKING MONEY FROM GAMING JUST KEEPS GETTING HARDER. TO MIDDAY SPORT, AND NZ'S MISSED OUT ON GOLD BY LESS THAN A HUNDREDTH OF A SECOND AT THE WORLD CYCLING CHAMPIONSHIPS IN BELARUS. THE MEN'S SPRINT TEAM HAD BEEN TIPPED TO WIN THE CHAMPS AFTER QUALIFYING WITH THE FASTEST TIME. TRIO SAM WEBSTER, EDDIE DAWKINS AND ETHAN MITCHELL LED AT THE SECOND SPLIT BUT WERE JUST PIPPED BY GERMANY. CAN THEY TAKE THE GOLD? RACING ROUND THE TRACK, THE FINAL 250. IS IT GOING TO BE NZ? IS IT GOING TO BE GERMANY. OH, SO CLOSE ON THE LINE. IT IS A GOLD MEDAL FOR GERMANY. FRANCE WON THE BRONZE MEDAL AHEAD OF AUSTRALIA. THE BLACKCAPS HAVE LOST MARTIN GUPTILL FOR THE REST OF THE ENGLAND TOUR HERE BECAUSE OF A THUMB INJURY. GUPTILL MISSED THE LAST ONE-DAY INTERNATIONAL AGAINST ENGLAND WITH A HAMSTRING INJURY, AND HAS NOW DAMAGED A LIGAMENT IN HIS LEFT THUMB WHICH NEEDS SURGERY. HE'LL HAVE THE SURGERY NEXT WEEK, IN ORDER TO BE READY FOR THE BLACKCAPS' TOUR TO ENGLAND IN MAY. MEANWHILE, THE DECIDING THIRD MATCH IN THE ODI SERIES AGAINST ENGLAND WILL BE PLAYED AT EDEN PARK IN AUCKLAND TOMORROW. FORMER HIGHLANDERS FLANKER AND ALL BLACK ADAM THOMSON IS THE LATEST HIGH PROFILE RUGBY PLAYER TO MAKE A MOVE TO JAPAN. THE 30-YEAR-OLD HAS SIGNED A TWO-YEAR CONTRACT WITH THE CANON EAGLES IN TOKYO. NZ'S TEENAGE GOLF SENSATION LYDIA KO HAS PUT HERSELF IN CONTENTION AT THE THAILAND OPEN. KO HAS OPENED WITH A THREE-UNDER 69 TO BE TIED FOR 10TH. SHE'S SIX SHOTS BEHIND OUTRIGHT LEADER, STACEY LEWIS OF THE US. AFTER THIS TOURNAMENT, THE 15-YEAR-OLD WILL RETURN TO NZ TO RESUME HER SCHOOLING. STILL TO COME ON MIDDAY ` I'LL BE BACK WITH THE AFTERNOON WEATHER. NOW TO THE WEATHER. THERE'S A BIG HIGH COMING IN FROM THE TASMAN THAT'LL TRAVEL OVER THE COUNTRY AND WILL STICK AROUND FOR THE WEEKEND. FOR WEATHER, SEE ONENEWS.CO.NZ AS THE DRY WEATHER CONTINUES OVER NZ, OFFICIALS IN THE WAIKATO ARE MEETING THIS AFTERNOON TO DISCUSS WHETHER TO DECLARE A LOCAL DROUGHT. TOP FARMING AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ARE ATTENDING THE MEETING IN HAMILTON. THE REGIONAL COUNCIL SAYS IT'LL CONSIDER DECLARING A LOCAL DROUGHT IF THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T DECIDE THE REGION'S REACHED THE OFFICIAL THRESHOLD. THE COUNCIL SAYS A DECLARATION IS IMPORTANT AS IT TRIGGERS FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR FARMERS THROUGH RURAL SUPPORT TRUSTS. THE ROYAL PENGUIN DUBBED 'HAPPY FEET JR' HAS DIED IN WELLINGTON ZOO OVERNIGHT. THE BIRD WAS FOUND DEHYDRATED AND CRITICALLY ILL AT TORA BEACH, NORTH OF WELLINGTON, AND HAD BEEN CARED FOR BY ZOO STAFF SINCE MONDAY. THE ZOO SAYS IT DIED OF MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE. ROYAL PENGUINS NORMALLY LIVE ON MACQUARIE ISLAND, MORE THAN 2000KM SOUTH OF WHERE THE BIRD WAS FOUND. FINALLY, NOW HERE'S SOMETHING FOR PET OWNERS FEELING GUILTY ABOUT LEAVING THEIR POOCH HOME ALONE WHEN THEY HEAD OUT TO WORK. A NEW DOG CHANNEL HAS GONE TO AIR IN ISRAEL, AND IT'S GOT A VERY SPECIAL TARGET AUDIENCE. DOG TV IS DESIGNED TO KEEP DOGS CALM AND ANXIETY-FREE WHILE THEIR OWNERS ARE AWAY. BECAUSE DOGS ARE COLOUR BLIND, THE CONTRAST AND BRIGHTNESS HAVE BEEN CHANGED, SO HAS THE SOUND. AND ACCORDING TO SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE, THE DOGS REALLY DO WATCH. THANKS FOR JOINING US. THE ONE NEWS HOUR WILL BE HERE AT 6. GOOD AFTERNOON. CAPTIONS BY DESNEY SHAW AND AMY PARK. CAPTIONS WERE MADE POSSIBLE WITH FUNDING FROM NZ ON AIR.