DUE TO THE LIVE NATURE OF MIDDAY, WE APOLOGISE FOR THE LACK OF CAPTIONS FOR SOME ITEMS. CELEBRATIONS AS EGYPT'S PRESIDENT IS DRAMATICALLY OUSTED BY THE ARMY. SO WHAT NEXT FOR A NATION RACKED BY UNREST? FAMILIES OF THE PIKE RIVER MINERS GIVE MOVING STATEMENTS AT THE MINE COMPANY'S SENTENCING. BRITAIN'S ANDY MURRAY THRILLS HIS HOME CROWD AS HE STAGES A DESPERATE COMEBACK AT WIMBLEDON. EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! AND PRINCE CHARLES MEETS THE DALEKS ON A VISIT TO THE DR WHO SET. THERE ARE EXTRAORDINARY SCENES IN EGYPT AFTER THE ARMY OUSTED THE COUNTRY'S EMBATTLED PRESIDENT, SAYING HE'S FAILED TO MEET THE DEMANDS OF THE PEOPLE. IT'S 2AM IN CAIRO RIGHT NOW, AND AS YOU CAN SEE, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ANTI-MORSI DEMONSTRATORS ARE CONTINUING TO CELEBRATE HIS DOWNFALL IN TAHRIR SQUARE. BUT ELSEWHERE IN CAIRO, THERE ARE ALREADY REPORTS OF CLASHES AND GUNFIRE. THE BBC'S JEREMY BOWEN REPORTS. IN TAHRIR SQUARE, IT WAS THE MOMENT THEY'D DREAMED ABOUT. CROWD CHEERS, FIREWORKS POP IN 2011, IT TOOK 18 DAYS OF PROTEST TO REMOVE PRESIDENT MUBARAK. CROWD CHEERS, FIREWORKS POP IT'S TAKEN THREE DAYS TO OUST PRESIDENT MORSI. SINCE SUNDAY, THEY'VE BEEN HERE AND OUTSIDE THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE IN HUGE NUMBERS, AGAINST A LEADER THEY BLAME FOR EGYPT'S NEAR ECONOMIC COLLAPSE AND POLITICAL TURMOIL. THIS IS THE MOMENT WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR FOR TWO YEARS AND A HALF. FOR EVERY SINGLE BLOOD THAT HAVE BEEN SHED IN THIS COUNTRY, WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT. BUT IT'S DIFFERENT TO WHEN MUBARAK WENT. THEN, EXPECTATIONS WERE SKY HIGH. NOW, BEHIND ALL THE JOY, THERE IS CONSIDERABLE ANXIETY. GENERAL SISI, THE HEAD OF THE ARMY AND MINISTER OF DEFENCE, WENT ON TV TO ANNOUNCE A MOVE THAT IS BITTERLY RESENTED BY THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD. HE CALLED FOR CALM AND WARNED THE MILITARY WOULD CONFRONT ANY FORCES THAT USED VIOLENCE. CROWD CHANTS IN THE HOURS BEFORE HE SPOKE, HIS MEN FANNED OUT ACROSS THE CITY. THE ARMY DENIES THIS IS A COUP, BUT THEY'RE STILL SEIZING POWER FROM A FREELY ELECTED PRESIDENT, WHICH FITS MOST DEFINITIONS OF THE WORD. THE ARMY STRUGGLED TO SEPARATE SUPPORTERS AND OPPONENTS OF THE PRESIDENT IN THE STREETS AROUND CAIRO UNIVERSITY. THE TENSION SHOWS THE DANGER THAT EGYPT FACES. AT LEAST 18 PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN STREET BATTLES HERE LAST NIGHT. THE BIG QUESTION FOR EGYPT NOW IS, HOW MUCH VIOLENCE WILL ACCOMPANY THESE EVENTS? THE COUNTRY'S EXPERIMENT WITH DEMOCRACY OVER THE LAST 12 MONTHS HAS BEEN DISASTROUS. AT BEST, THE ARMY CAN ENFORCE A PERIOD OF CALM. AT WORST, EGYPT'S LONG-RUNNING CRISIS IS ABOUT TO GET MUCH MORE SERIOUS. THE ELECTION THAT BROUGHT MOHAMED MORSI TO POWER JUST A YEAR AGO WAS EGYPT'S FIRST DEMOCRATIC VOTE, TAKING PLACE IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE REVOLUTION THAT REMOVED HOSNI MUBARAK. BUT THE INCREASINGLY ISLAMIST TONE OF THE MORSI GOVERNMENT AND THE FAILURE TO TACKLE ECONOMIC PROBLEMS LED TO HUGE PROTESTS. THE BBC'S JAMES ROBBINS LOOKS AT WHAT WENT WRONG AND WHERE MORSI'S SUDDEN DEPARTURE LEAVES EGYPT. THE SPECTACULAR RISE AND FALL OF MOHAMED MORSI IS HUGELY IMPORTANT. THE LEADER OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST ARAB POPULATION PLAYS A KEY ROLE ACROSS THE MIDDLE EAST. BUT THE MAN WHO MET WORLD LEADERS AS EGYPT'S FIRST FREELY ELECTED PRESIDENT DIVIDED HIS OWN PEOPLE AND LOST THE CRUCIAL SUPPORT OF HIS MILITARY. THERE'S NO DOUBTING THE SCALE OF THE DANGEROUS DIVIDE ACROSS EGYPT. THESE RUNNING BATTLES IN ALEXANDRIA, THE COUNTRY'S SECOND CITY, ARE A STARK REMINDER PRESIDENT MORSI'S POPULARITY HAD PLUMMETED RECENTLY, PARTLY BECAUSE HE PUT RELIGION AHEAD OF A FAILING ECONOMY. WHATEVER ELSE YOU SAY ABOUT PRESIDENT MORSI, HE WAS ELECTED IN A FAIR ELECTION, AND THERE IS A GREAT DANGER THAT IF THE ARMY CAN TAKE THE VIEW THAT YOU CAN DEPOSE A PRESIDENT BECAUSE OF A BIG POPULAR UPRISING IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, WHY CAN IT NOT HAPPEN TO OTHER PRESIDENTS WHO ARE DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED IN THE FUTURE? SO JUST A YEAR AFTER WHAT LOOKED LIKE A TRIUMPH OF DEMOCRACY IN EGYPT, THE VICTOR HAS BEEN FORCED OUT. EGYPT IS NO STRANGER TO MILITARY COUPS, BUT PRESIDENT MORSI'S DOWNFALL IS DIFFERENT, AND IT WILL HAVE CONSEQUENCES FAR BEYOND EGYPT'S BORDERS. THE BBC'S MIDDLE EAST EDITOR, JEREMY BOWEN, HAS BEEN IN CAIRO SINCE THE PROTESTS BEGAN AND SAYS THERE'S A VERY REAL THREAT FACING EGYPT RIGHT NOW. PROBABLY THE RISK THAT PEOPLE ARE MOST WORRIED ABOUT IS THAT IT'S NOT FROM THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ITSELF, BUT FROM JIHADIST GROUPS WHO MIGHT WANT TO DO SOMETHING BAD TO MARK THEIR DISPLEASURE ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING AND TO HIT BACK. IN THE 1990S, THERE WAS VIRTUALLY A WAR GOING ON BETWEEN JIHADIST GROUPS AND THE MUBARAK GOVERNMENT, AND THE BIG FEAR IN THIS COUNTRY IS THAT SOMETHING LIKE THAT MIGHT BE A RISK IN THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE. BACK HOME, AND EMOTIONAL SCENES IN THE GREYMOUTH DISTRICT COURT TODAY AS THE FAMILIES OF THE 29 MEN LOST IN THE PIKE RIVER MINE DISASTER GET THE CHANCE TO TELL THE COURT ABOUT THE IMPACT THE TRAGEDY HAS HAD ON THEM. IT'S THE SENTENCING HEARING FOR PIKE RIVER COAL LTD, THE COMPANY THAT RAN THE MINE IN 2010, WHICH IS NOW IN RECEIVERSHIP AND HAS BEEN FOUND TO HAVE COMMITTED NINE HEALTH AND SAFETY BREACHES. 20 FAMILIES ARE AT THE HEARING, WHICH HAS STARTED TODAY WITH THEM BEING INVITED TO READ THEIR VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENTS. WE ARE DISGUSTED THAT TO THIS DAY NO ONE FROM PIKE RIVER COAL HAS APOLOGISED PERSONALLY TO OUR FAMILY FOR THE LOSS OF MICHAEL. I LONG FOR THE RETURN OF MY HUSBAND'S REMAINS SO I CAN GIVE MY DARLING A PROPER BURIAL... (EMOTIONALLY) AND A FITTING FAREWELL HE SO RIGHTLY. AFTER THREE FAMILIES ADDRESSED THE COURT, CROWN LAWYER MARK ZARIFEH WENT ON TO READ MORE STATEMENTS FROM FAMILIES WHO DIDN'T FEEL ABLE READ THEM OUT THEMSELVES. THE HEARING IS SET DOWN FOR TWO DAYS. THE CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL IS SCHEDULED TO BEGIN A MEETING ON ITS BUILDING CONSENTS CRISIS IN ABOUT HALF AN HOUR. THE COUNCIL WILL BE CONSIDERING A RECOMMENDATION TO INVITE THE GOVERNMENT TO APPOINT A MANAGER TO TAKE OVER RUNNING ITS CONSENT OPERATION. IT WILL ALSO BE DISCUSSING THE FUTURE OF ITS CHIEF EXECUTIVE, TONY MARRYATT, WHO AS OF YESTERDAY IS ON LEAVE 'PENDING DISCUSSIONS'. SOME OF THIS AFTERNOON'S MEETINGS ARE EXPECTED TO BE CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC. A MAJOR AUT STUDY SPANNING MORE THAN A DECADE HAS FOUND ALARMING WEIGHT RESULTS FOR PACIFIC CHILDREN UP TO 10 YEARS OLD. THE RESEARCH MONITORED NEARLY 1400 PACIFIC CHILDREN AND FOUND THEY HAD A DRAMATIC AND RAPID WEIGHT GAIN. PROFESSOR ELAINE RUSH SAYS 80% OF THE CHILDREN WEIGH MORE THAN THE US MEDIAN. THERE'S LIKELIHOOD OF EARLIER DIABETES FOR SOME ` THOSE SORTS OF THINGS ` RHEUMATIC FEVER, AND IT'S A SYMPTOM OF THE ENVIRONMENT THAT THEY'RE LIVING IN. SHE SAYS ACCESS TO AND COST OF FOOD, ALONG WITH LIVING CONDITIONS, ARE CONTRIBUTING FACTORS. THE BITTER DISPUTE BETWEEN THE FAMILY OF NELSON MANDELA OVER THE BURIAL PLACE OF THREE OF HIS CHILDREN HAS INTENSIFIED. POLICE BROKE INTO A COMPOUND BELONGING TO HIS GRANDSON TO ENFORCE A COURT RULING ORDERING THE REMAINS TO BE EXHUMED. THE BBC'S ANDREW HARDING REPORTS FROM SOUTH AFRICA. SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE ON THE STRANGEST OF MISSIONS. THEY'VE COME TO FIND AND DIG UP THE GRAVES OF THREE OF NELSON MANDELA'S CHILDREN, HEARSE AT THE READY. THE BODIES WERE BROUGHT TO THIS COMPOUND BY MANDELA'S GRANDSON MANDLA TWO YEARS AGO, AGAINST THE WISHES OF THE FAMILY. THE GATES WERE LOCKED TODAY TO TRY TO KEEP THE POLICE OUT. INSIDE, THE SEARCH BEGINS. IT'S ALLEGED THAT MANDLA, SEEN HERE, MOVED THE GRAVES IN ORDER TO ENSURE THAT HIS GRANDFATHER IS ALSO BURIED WITH THEM, INSTEAD OF AT HIS HOME VILLAGE A FEW MILES AWAY. IN COURT EARLIER TODAY THE REST OF THE MANDELA FAMILY IMPLIED THAT MANDLA WAS LOOKING TO MAKE MONEY FROM TOURISTS. THEY ASKED FOR A QUICK DECISION, SAYING NELSON MANDELA'S HEALTH WAS PERILOUS AND THAT HE IS, OR HAS BEEN, ON A LIFE-SUPPORT MACHINE. THE JUDGE RULED THAT THE BODIES SHOULD BE RETURNED TO THIS VILLAGE, QUNU, WHERE NELSON MANDELA HAS ALWAYS SAID HE WANTS TO BE BURIED BESIDE HIS CHILDREN. POLICE SAY THE BITTERLY CONTESTED REMAINS OF THREE MANDELAS HAVE BEEN FOUND AND REMOVED. FRANCE HAS APOLOGISED TO BOLIVIA FOR REFUSING TO ALLOW ITS PRESIDENT'S JET INTO ITS AIRSPACE, BLAMING 'CONFLICTING INFORMATION'. BOLIVIA'S ACCUSED FRANCE, ITALY, SPAIN AND PORTUGAL OF BLOCKING THE PLANE AMID REPORTS US FUGITIVE EDWARD SNOWDEN WAS ON BOARD. DEMONSTRATORS BURNED FLAGS OUTSIDE THE FRENCH EMBASSY IN LA PAZ, DEMANDING THE EXPULSION OF THE AMBASSADOR TO BOLIVIA OVER WHAT THEY DEEMED TO BE AN 'ACT OF AGGRESSION'. THE PLANE WAS FLYING PRESIDENT EVO MORALES BACK TO BOLIVIA FROM MOSCOW, BUT IT WAS FORCED TO LAND IN AUSTRIA. ONCE GROUNDED THE JET WAS REPORTEDLY SEARCHED, BUT MR SNOWDEN WASN'T FOUND ON BOARD. RESCUE OPERATIONS ARE CONTINUING IN THE EARTHQUAKE-DAMAGED INDONESIAN PROVINCE ACEH, WITH THE DEATH TOLL RISING TO 24. SOLDIERS, POLICE AND VOLUNTEERS HAVE BEEN SCOURING THE DEBRIS FOR MORE VICTIMS OF THE 6.1-MAGNITUDE QUAKE. AT LEAST SEVEN CHILDREN WERE KILLED WHEN A MOSQUE COLLAPSED. RESCUE CREWS HAVE STRUGGLED TO ACCESS SOME AREAS, WITH ROADS BLOCKED BY LANDSLIDES, AND POWER OUTAGES MEAN COMMUNICATION IS UNRELIABLE. KIWIS TRAVELLING TO BRITAIN FOR THEIR OE COULD SOON BE CHARGED TO USE THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE THERE, IN A BID TO TACKLE SO-CALLED HEALTH TOURISM. THE GOVERNMENT WANTS THOSE WITH VISAS OF SIX MONTHS OR MORE TO PAY A HEALTH SERVICE FEE OF AROUND �200, OR JUST UNDER $400 A YEAR. IT SAYS THE BRITISH TAXPAYER SPENDS MILLIONS A YEAR ON TREATING FOREIGNERS. UNDER EXISTING RULES, VISITORS ALREADY HAVE TO PAY FOR HOSPITAL TREATMENT, BUT THE GOVERNMENT SAYS ONLY A FRACTION OF THOSE CHARGES ARE COLLECTED. BELGIUM'S KING ALBERT II HAS ANNOUNCED HE'S ABDICATING, LEAVING THE THRONE TO HIS SON PHILIPPE. RULING FOR TWO DECADES, THE 79-YEAR-OLD SAYS HE FEELS TOO OLD AND FRAIL TO CARRY OUT HIS DUTIES PROPERLY. HE SAYS HE'S COMFORTABLE HANDING OVER TO PHILIPPE (53), WHO IS A 'LOYAL' PRINCE, WILLING TO SERVE THE COUNTRY. THE FIRST 10 YEARS OF THIS CENTURY WERE THE HOTTEST SINCE RECORDS BEGAN. UN CLIMATE SCIENTISTS SAY THE AVERAGE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE RECORDED BETWEEN 2001 AND 2010 WAS 14.47 DEGREES CELSIUS. THAT'S NEARLY HALF A DEGREE HOTTER THAN THE AVERAGE IN THE PREVIOUS THREE DECADES. 56 COUNTRIES SET NEW TEMPERATURE RECORDS, AND THERE'S EVIDENCE THAT SOME OF THE WORLD'S HOTTEST PLACES ARE SEEING NEW EXTREMES. THE BBC'S DAVID SHUKMAN REPORTS. DAWN IN DEATH VALLEY. THE AIR IS BAKING EVEN AS THE SUN RISES. NO PART OF THE PLANET HAS EVER RECORDED GREATER HEAT. AND THERE'S A HEATWAVE RIGHT NOW, WITH THE CHANCE OF A NEW RECORD. AT THE DEATH VALLEY WEATHER STATION, A CHECK ON THE LATEST MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE. 52 DEGREES CELSIUS. THE WORRY HERE IS ABOUT LIFE IF IT GETS EVEN HOTTER. IT WOULD BE PRETTY TOUGH IF SYSTEMS START FAILING. WE'RE ALREADY HAVING SOME ELECTRICAL PROBLEMS WITH OUR IT MANAGEMENT, IN THAT THOSE ROOMS GET REALLY HOT. WE HAVE TO KEEP FANS ON THEM. THIS PART OF DEATH VALLEY IS KNOWN AS FURNACE CREEK, FOR GOOD REASON ` IT'S LIKE A FURNACE. AND IT HOLDS THE RECORD FOR THE HOTTEST TEMPERATURE ON EARTH. THAT WAS SET NEARLY A CENTURY AGO. BUT UNITED NATIONS WEATHER EXPERTS ARE NOW SAYING THAT MORE AND MORE PLACES AROUND THE WORLD ARE EXPERIENCING NEW EXTREMES OF HEAT. THIS NEW ASSESSMENT SHOWS GLOBAL TEMPERATURES DECADE BY DECADE SINCE RELIABLE MEASUREMENTS FIRST STARTED. AND THE MOST RECENT DECADE WAS THE HOTTEST. TODAY IN GENEVA, THE WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANISATION CALLED IT A DECADE OF EXTREMES. THE REPORT SAYS HEATWAVES LIKE THE ONE THAT GRIPPED RUSSIA THREE YEARS AGO ARE NOW KILLING MORE PEOPLE. BUT IT ALSO SAYS FLOODING, SUCH AS IN PAKISTAN IN 2010, IS CLAIMING FEWER LIVES BECAUSE OF BETTER EARLY WARNING. STILL, SCIENTISTS SAY THE CLIMATE IS CHANGING. WHATEVER THE CAUSE OF THOSE CHANGES, WE ARE LIVING IN A DIFFERENT WORLD. CONSEQUENTLY, WE HAVE TO TAKE ACTIONS AND WE HAVE TO DEVELOP POLICIES THAT ARE GONNA ADDRESS BEING IN THIS DIFFERENT WORLD THAN WHAT WE HAD IN PLACE, SAY, 100 YEARS AGO. THE NOTORIOUS HEAT DRAWS TOURISTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. GLOBALLY, THE RISE IN AVERAGE TEMPERATURES HAS STALLED. BUT IT'S EXTREMES THAT MATTER, AND THIS PLACE MAY SOON EXPERIENCE A NEW ONE. PRINCE CHARLES HAS COME FACE TO FACE WITH THE DALEKS. HE MET DR WHO'S MOST FAMOUS FOE ON A VISIT TO THE BBC STUDIOS IN CARDIFF. HE WAS EVEN GIVEN A TOUR OF THE TARDIS BY THE TIME LORD HIMSELF. THE BBC'S NICOLAS WITCHELL REPORTS. TO MARK THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PROGRAMME, THE PRINCE AND THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL WERE GIVEN A GUIDED TOUR OF THE TARDIS BY ITS CURRENT OCCUPANTS, THE ACTORS MATT SMITH AND JENNA-LOUISE COLEMAN. TARDIS WHIRRS THEN, BREAKING BRIEFLY THROUGH THE TIME AND SPACE CONTINUUM, THERE WAS A FACE-TO-FACE ENCOUNTER WITH THE DOCTOR'S NUMBER-ONE ENEMY. EMERGENCY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING ON OUR PLANET? LAUGHTER IT WAS ONE OF THOSE MOMENTS WHEN CHARLES COULD SAY WHAT ONE SUSPECTS HE HAS FREQUENTLY THOUGHT, CERTAINLY IN RESPECT OF US, THE MEDIA. EXTERMINATE. LAUGHTER EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! THAT'S VERY GOOD. LAUGHTER THERE WAS A CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH A CYBERMAN. MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD WERE EVIDENTLY BEING STIRRED. AND HE SAID HE FIRST WATCHED IT WHEN HE WAS 15, AND I THINK HE'S KEPT IN TOUCH WITH IT SINCE, SO HE KNEW ABOUT THE WORLD OF WHO, DEFINITELY. YEAH. SO DO YOU THINK HE HAS THE QUALITIES OF A TIME LORD? > WELL, WHO KNOWS? HE WOULD HAVE TO AUDITION, LIKE ANYONE ELSE. ONE THING'S FOR SURE ` IF HE DID WANT THE JOB, WHICH, OF COURSE, IS SOON TO BECOME VACANT, HE'D NEED TO SHOW HIS WIFE HOW TO USE A SONIC SCREWDRIVER. CHARLES, IT TURNED OUT, WAS A NATURAL AT IT. MEMO TO BBC BOSSES ` THE NEW DR WHO MAY HAVE BEEN FOUND. STILL TO COME ON MIDDAY ` THE KIWI DOLLAR SOARS AGAINST ITS AUSTRALIAN COUNTERPART. AND IN SPORT ` WHY ANDY MURRAY'S TROUBLED QUARTER-FINAL WIN HAD THE HOME CROWD'S HEARTS IN THEIR MOUTHS. Buck Shelford. Buck Shelford. Hi. You're here for the heart and diabetes TV ad? You're here for the heart and diabetes TV ad? Yeah. Of course. Of course. What do you mean? Well, heart disease and diabetes kill more than 6000 Kiwis every year. I know. I know. So, I'm a woman ` fat and funny ` and you're a... ex-All Black ` not so funny. So? So? So we've got all of the demographics covered. Not all of them. Not all of them. Oh, hey, guys. Not all of them. Oh, hey, guys. Boom. PEOPLE CHATTER S WITH ME NOW IS MARTIN ALLISON FROM CRAIGS INVESTMENT PARTNERS. GOOD AFTERNOON, MARTIN. THIS ITEM WILL BE CAPTIONED LIVE. FOR MORE, GO TO ONENEWS.CO.NZ AND CLICK ON 'BUSINESS'. THE KIWI TOUCHING MULTI-YEAR HIGHS AGAINST THE AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR? It's an Australian story. One part as the slowdown in China. That has huge implications around the resource sector. Political uncertainty we all know what's going on there. The market sees Australia as being in need of structural change. They have a big labour and trade union movement that needS some re-engineering. WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH XERO? Everything they are making they are pulling back into the company. Users love the product. The market saying it's worth a lot. It was $13, it's now $17, and no one knows what it's worth. THANK YOU, MARTIN ALLISON FROM CRAIGS INVESTMENT PARTNERS. TO MIDDAY SPORT. TENNIS, AND ANDY MURRAY'S PREDICTED STROLL TO THE WIMBLEDON FINAL WENT A BIT OFF COURSE TODAY WHEN HE WAS FORCED TO CLAW HIS WAY BACK FROM A TWO-SET DEFICIT AGAINST SPANIARD FERNANDO VERDASCO. THE SECOND-SEED BRITON WILL NOW JOIN WORLD NUMBER ONE NOVAK DJOKOVIC IN THE FINAL FOUR. THE BBC'S ANDY SWISS REPORTS. SO MUCH HOPE, SO MUCH OPTIMISM, SO MUCH DRAMA. THE FAMOUS HILL WAS AWASH WITH BRITISH FANS EXPECTING ANOTHER ANDY MURRAY WIN. AFTER BREEZING TO THE QUARTER-FINALS, WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? WELL, PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING, AT FIRST. IN FERNANDO VERDASCO HE FACED A MAN WITH A TRULY CLOBBERING FOREHAND. MURRAY WAS MAINLY CLOBBERING THE NET. CROWD GASPS HE'S ALL OUT OF SORTS. IT SEEMS HE COULD DO NOTHING RIGHT; VERDASCO, NOTHING WRONG. IN A FLASH THE SPANIARD WAS TWO SETS UP, MURRAY IN MELTDOWN. BUT IN THE NICK OF TIME HE RELOCATED HIS FORM. AND FROM THE BRINK OF DEFEAT, THE COMEBACK WAS ON. BOLDLY, AND SOMETIMES BRILLIANTLY, HE CLAWED HIS WAY BACK. TWO SETS ALL, BUT NOW MURRAY HAD THE MOMENTUM. AND AFTER THREE AND A HALF HOURS OF NERVE-SHREDDING TENSION, AT LAST. CROWD ROARS RARELY HAS RELIEF BEEN QUITE SO DEAFENING. BEEN A LOT OF MATCHES WHERE I'VE BEEN BEHIND AND MANAGED TO TURN THEM ROUND, AND THERE'S ALSO BEEN SOME WHERE I'VE BEEN AHEAD AND IT'S GONE THE OTHER WAY, SO I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S THE MOST EMOTIONAL MATCH I'VE PLAYED IN, BUT TOWARDS THE END, UNBELIEVABLE ATMOSPHERE. MURRAY'S NEXT OPPONENT IS 6'8" JERZY JANOWICZ. HE BEAT LUKASZ KUBOT IN AN ALL-POLISH TUSSLE, WHILE THE OTHER SEMI-FINAL FEATURES NOVAK DJOKOVIC AND JUAN MARTIN DEL POTRO, WHO OVERCAME A KNEE INJURY AND DAVID FERRER. ANOTHER REMARKABLE PERFORMANCE, ANOTHER ENTHRALLING DAY. HE'S DONE IT! THE SPECTRE OF PROTEST CONTINUES TO HANG OVER THE AMERICA'S CUP, WITH THE SCHEDULED START TO RACING JUST DAYS AWAY. REGATTA DIRECTOR IAIN MURRAY CALLED A MEETING TODAY, CRITICISING TEAM NZ AND ITALIAN SYNDICATE LUNA ROSSA FOR THEIR PLANNED PROTEST ACTION OVER SAFETY RECOMMENDATIONS. THESE WERE AGREED TO IN THE WAKE OF THE ARTEMIS CAPSIZE THAT CLAIMED THE LIFE OF SAILOR ANDREW SIMPSON. THE CHALLENGERS ARE SET TO TAKE THEIR PROTEST TO A JURY ON TUESDAY AFTER THE FIRST RACE. AT THIS STAGE BOTH HAVE ADOPTED THE RECOMMENDATIONS, INCLUDING ADDING THE CONTENTIOUS RUDDER ELEVATORS, UNTIL THEIR PROTEST IS HEARD. BRITISH CYCLIST MARK CAVENDISH HAS WON STAGE FIVE OF THE TOUR DE FRANCE THIS MORNING. THE BRITISH SPRINTER FINISHED AHEAD OF NORWEGIAN EDVALD BOASSON HAGEN AND SLOVAKIAN PETER SAGAN. THE RACE WASN'T WITHOUT HICCUPS, THOUGH, AS A LAST-MINUTE CRASH KNOCKED SOME RIDERS OUT OF THE RACE. AND AUSTRALIAN VETERAN SIMON GERRANS RETAINS THE YELLOW LEADER'S JERSEY INTO DAY SIX. STILL TO COME ON MIDDAY, I'LL BE BACK WITH THE AFTERNOON WEATHER. NOW TO THE WEATHER. THE LOW OVER THE NORTH HEADS INTO THE PACIFIC, ALLOWING A RIDGE FROM THE TASMAN TO MOVE IN. GUSTY NORTHWESTERLIES STRENGTHEN OVER THE SOUTH ISLAND AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING FRONT. FOR WEATHER, SEE ONENEWS.CO.NZ TO THE TOP STORIES ON OUR WEBSITE. AT LEAST 18 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED AS OPPONENTS AND SUPPORTERS OF EGYPT'S DEPOSED PRESIDENT MOHAMED MORSI CLASHED. THE PARENTS OF ONE OF THE 29 MEN KILLED IN THE PIKE RIVER EXPLOSIONS SAY THEY ARE 'DISGUSTED' THAT NO ONE FROM THE COMPANY THAT OWNED THE MINE HAS APOLOGISED FOR THE LOSS OF THEIR SON. AND A YEAR AFTER MUSIC FANS SUPPOSEDLY FAREWELLED THE FESTIVAL FOR GOOD, A NEW-LOOK BIG DAY OUT HAS BEEN GRANTED RESOURCE CONSENT BY AUCKLAND COUNCIL. THANKS FOR JOINING US. THE ONE NEWS HOUR WILL BE HERE AT 6. GOOD AFTERNOON. CAPTIONS BY FAITH HAMBLYN AND TRACEY DAWSON. CAPTIONS WERE MADE POSSIBLE WITH FUNDING FROM NZ ON AIR.