DUE TO THE LIVE NATURE OF MIDDAY, WE APOLOGISE FOR THE LACK OF CAPTIONS FOR SOME ITEMS. LABOUR'S LEADERSHIP UP FOR GRABS ` THE FORERUNNERS MARSHALL SUPPORT BEFORE DECLARING THEIR HANDS. THERE'S INTERNATIONAL OUTRAGE OVER THOSE HORRIFIC PICTURES FROM SYRIA. SO WHAT'S THE U.N. DOING ABOUT IT? AND THE SOLDIER WHO LEAKED STATE SECRETS REVEALS ANOTHER ONE, ABOUT HIS HOPES FOR LIFE AS A WOMAN. THERE MAY NOT BE ANYTHING OBVIOUS HAPPENING, BUT DON'T BE FOOLED ` LABOUR'S LEADERSHIP MANOEUVRING IS WELL UNDERWAY AFTER THE SUDDEN RESIGNATION OF DAVID SHEARER. THE WANNABES HAVE UNTIL MONDAY TO PUT THEIR NAMES FORWARD. THE LABOUR PARTY'S JUST WRAPPED UP A MEDIA CONFERENCE TO ANNOUNCE DETAILS OF HOW THE LEADERSHIP BATTLE WILL PLAY OUT NOW THAT DAVID SHEARER IS GONE. DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR JESSICA MUTCH HAS BEEN AT THE BRIEFING AND JOINS US NOW WITH THE LATEST. JESS. THE NOMINATIONS WILL CLOSE AT 10PM ON MONDAY. GRANT ROBERTSON, DAVID CUNLIFFE, ANDREW LITTLE STILL DECIDING. THEY'LL GO ON THREE WEEKS ROAD SHOW TO FIRM UP VOTES. CAUCUS MPS, PARTY MEMBERS, UNIONS GET TO HAVE A SAY. I SPOKE TO MOIRA COATSWORTH, WHO DENIES A SPLIT BETWEEN PARTY AND CAUCUS ` WHO THEY WANT. HERE'S WHAT SHE HAD TO SAY A SHORT TIME AGO. THERE HAVE BEEN A RANGE OF VIEWS IN CAUCUS, AND THERE'VE BEEN A RANGE OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE BEING SUPPORTED IN THE PARTY. AS DAVID PARKER SAID THIS MORNING, POLITICIANS ARE MATURE, AND I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE LOOKING AT WHAT'S BEST FOR THE COUNTRY AND WHAT'S BEST FOR THE PARTY, RATHER THAN WHO THEY MAY HAVE FRIENDSHIPS WITH. SO, JESS, DO YOU HAVE ANY MORE INFORMATION ON WHY DAVID SHEARER QUIT YESTERDAY? SOURCES CLOSE TO THE LABOUR PARTY HAVE TOLD ONE NEWS MPS WERE GOIGN TO VOTE NO CONFIDENCE NEXT TUESDAY LEAD BY SENIOR MP, FORMER PARTY PRESIDENT MARYANN STREET. IT DIDN'T COME TO THAT COS SHEARER STEPPED DOWN YESTERDAY. NOW IT'S GAME ON FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT THE JOB. WHEELING AND DEALING THIS AFTERNOON GO POLL POSITION. WE'LL KEEP YOU UPDATED. THANKS, JESS. JESSICA MUTCH LIVE FROM PARLIAMENT. FORMER LABOUR PARTY PRESIDENT MIKE WILLIAMS SAYS DAVID SHEARER'S RESIGNATION CAME AS A SURPRISE GIVEN LABOUR HAS RECENTLY ENJOYED A LIFT IN THE POLLS, BUT A LEADERSHIP CHANGE COULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED ANY LATER. IF YOU'RE GONNA DO IT, DO IT NOW. YOU'VE GOT OVER A YEAR RUN INTO THE NEXT ELECTION ` YOU'VE GOT TIME FOR A NEW LEADER TO GET ESTABLISHED, YOU'VE GOT TIME FOR THE DIVISIONS WHICH WILL BE GENERATED BY THE LEADERSHIP CONTEST TO HEAL. I THINK IT'S A GOOD TIME TO DO IT. IN FACT, IF THEY'D LEFT IT ANY LATER, I THINK THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY DANGEROUS. THAT'S FORMER LABOUR PARTY PRESIDENT MIKE WILLIAMS. WELLINGTON POLICE HAVE LAUNCHED A HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION AFTER A YOUNG MAN'S BODY WAS FOUND NEAR A BLOCK OF FLATS IN LOWER HUTT LAST NIGHT. EMERGENCY SERVICES TRIED TO RESUSCITATE THE 25-YEAR-OLD WHEN HE WAS FOUND. THERE HAD BEEN REPORTS OF GUNSHOTS IN THE AREA. POLICE BELIEVE THE INCIDENT COULD BE LINKED TO ANOTHER CRIME SCENE 10KM AWAY IN NEWLANDS, WHERE POLICE HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATING SINCE AROUND MIDNIGHT. I WOKE UP, THERE WAS SCREAMING. I COULDN'T FIGURE OUT WHERE IT WAS COMING FROM, SO I LOOKED THROUGH MY BEDROOM WINDOW ` COULDN'T SEE ANYTHING. WENT UPSTAIRS, DID THE SAME THING ` COULDN'T SEE ANYTHING. SO I THOUGHT, 'OH WELL, I CAN'T WORRY TOO MUCH ABOUT IT.' BUT WHEN I WOKE UP THIS MORNING, I DISCOVERED THE TAPE DOWN THE ROAD FROM ME. AN 18-YEAR-OLD MAN IS IN CUSTODY CHARGED WITH UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF A FIREARM AND BURGLARY. A 43-YEAR-OLD MAN IS IN CUSTODY IN HOSPITAL WITH SERIOUS KNIFE WOUNDS. THE BROTHER OF RAPE AND MURDER VICTIM SUSAN BURDETT SAYS POLICE GOT THE WRONG MAN. JIM BURDETT SAYS TEINA PORA IS INNOCENT AND HE NOW WANTS A COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO THE POLICE HANDLING OF THE CASE. THEY FAILED TO FOLLOW UP ON VARIOUS MATTERS AROUND MALCOLM REWA'S OFFENDING. THEY FAILED IN THEIR DUTY TO PROTECT MY SISTER AND THE OTHER WOMEN WHO WERE RAPED. MR BURDETT SAYS IF POLICE HAD ACTED ON EARLIER INFORMATION IDENTIFYING RAPIST MALCOLM REWA, THINGS WOULD HAVE ENDED DIFFERENTLY. THE UNITED NATIONS IS MAKING A FORMAL REQUEST TO THE SYRIAN GOVERNMENT TO ALLOW UN INSPECTORS TO VISIT THE SITE OF A SUSPECTED CHEMICAL WEAPONS ATTACK. OPPOSITION ACTIVISTS SAY HUNDREDS OF CIVILIANS WERE GASSED BY GOVERNMENT FORCES IN REBEL-HELD SUBURBS NEAR DAMASCUS. THE BBC'S JAMES ROBBINS REPORTS. PICTURES COMING OUT OF SYRIA TODAY SUGGEST GOVERNMENT FORCES MAY STILL BE BOMBARDING REBEL-HELD AREAS OF DAMASCUS WHERE THE APPARENT CHEMICAL ATTACKS TOOK PLACE. IT HAPPENED YESTERDAY BEFORE DAWN, BUT STILL VERY LITTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT HOW THE CHEMICALS WHICH CAUSED ALL THIS SUFFERING AND DEATH WERE RELEASED AND BY WHOM. IT LOOKS LIKE A MAJOR WAR CRIME. BOTH SIDES DENY ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR ALL THIS. THE OPPOSITION REBELS HAVE NO DOUBT PRESIDENT ASSAD IS TO BLAME. THE OUTSIDE WORLD IS DIVIDED. TURKEY'S FOREIGN MINISTER, IN TALKS WITH GERMANY, IS CLEAR: SYRIA'S GOVERNMENT HAS CROSSED RED LINES. TODAY FRANCE WENT FURTHER, URGING FORCE, ALTHOUGH STOPPING JUST SHORT OF SAYING MILITARY FORCE. BUT PRESIDENT ASSAD'S SUPPORTERS ARE ADAMANT THE OPPOSITION WAS TO BLAME. IN THE ABSENCE OF CLEAR EVIDENCE, WHO DID CARRY OUT THIS HORRIFIC ATTACK? THE UN WEAPONS INSPECTORS ALREADY IN DAMASCUS OUGHT, SURELY, TO BE WELL PLACED TO FIND OUT. BUT MAYBE NOT. THEY HAVE LIMITED RIGHTS NEGOTIATED OVER MANY MONTHS WITH PRESIDENT ASSAD'S GOVERNMENT, AND THEIR MANDATE IS TO ESTABLISH IF CHEMICAL ATTACKS HAVE TAKEN PLACE, NOT TO NAME THE GUILTY. IF THE GOVERNMENT REALLY HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT, WHY DIDN'T THEY GIVE PERMISSION TO THE INSPECTORS TO GO TO THE AFFECTED AREAS IN DAMASCUS IMMEDIATELY? THE UNITED STATES IS NOT TALKING OF ACTION, REFUSING TO DISCUSS RED LINES BEING CROSS. BRITAIN TOO IS SOUNDING CAUTIOUS, THE FOREIGN OFFICE REPEATING A POLITICAL SOLUTION IS STILL THE BEST WAY TO END THE BLOODSHED. CNN CORRESPONDENT FRED PLEITGEN IS BASED IN SYRIA. HE SAYS PRESSURE FOR TRANSPARENCY IS NOW BUILDING ON THE SYRIAN REGIME. IT'S INTERESTING. YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN HERE SO MANY TIMES IN SYRIA, AND I'VE NEVER EVEN BEEN ABLE TO SPEAK TO A MILITARY OFFICIAL SO FAR, YET THE SYRIAN MILITARY WAS VERY FAST TO PUT OUT A STATEMENT SAYING THEY WERE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ATTACK, IF INDEED THERE WAS AN ATTACK. OF COURSE, RIGHT, NOW THE BIG QUESTION HERE IS, WHETHER OR NOT THE U.N. CHEMICAL INSPECTORS WHO ARE HERE IN DAMASCUS, WHO I'VE SEEN TODAY, ARE GOING TO BE ALLOWED TO VISIT THE SITE, WHICH IS NOT FAR AWAY FROM WHERE THEY ARE STAYING, BUT STILL THE SYRIAN GOVERNMENT HAS TO ALLOW THEM TO GET THERE. THAT'S CNN CORRESPONDENT FRED PLEITGEN IN SYRIA. IN EGYPT, THERE'VE BEEN PROTESTS AND CELEBRATIONS AFTER THE RELEASE FROM PRISON OF FORMER PRESIDENT HOSNI MUBARAK. THE 85-YEAR-OLD DICTATOR, WHO WAS TOPPLED BY THE ARAB SPRING, STILL FACES CHARGES OF CORRUPTION AND COMPLICITY IN THE KILLING OF DEMONSTRATORS IN 2011. THE BBC'S JEREMY BOWEN REPORTS. MUBARAK LOYALISTS GATHERED OUTSIDE TORA PRISON, WHERE HE'S BEEN HELD, TO CELEBRATE THE TURNING BACK OF THE CLOCK. MILLIONS WELCOMED HIS REMOVAL IN 2011. BUT TWO AND A HALF YEARS OF TURMOIL SINCE THEN HAVE MADE MANY EGYPTIANS NOSTALGIC. AS HE WAS CHOPPERED AWAY TO RELATIVE FREEDOM, HE WAS STILL A SYMBOL ` OF HOW THINGS WENT WRONG FOR THE REVOLUTIONARIES. MUBARAK LEFT HIS TWO SONS BEHIND HIM AT THE PRISON AND MOST OF THE LEADERSHIP OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, INCLUDING HIS FREELY ELECTED SUCCESSOR AS PRESIDENT, ALL ARRESTED SINCE THE MILITARY COUP AT THE BEGINNING OF JULY. THE FORMER PRESIDENT WAS FLOWN TO A MILITARY HOSPITAL IN CAIRO. IN A FEW DAYS, HE'S EXPECTED TO GO INTO HOUSE ARREST AT HIS LAVISH COMPOUND IN THE RED SEA RESORT OF SHARM EL SHEIK. HE SEEMED TO BE DRESSED FOR AN EASIER LIFE, ALL THE WAY DOWN TO HIS WHITE LOAFERS. CHARGES RELATED TO WHAT HAPPENED HERE IN TAHRIR SQUARE COULD STILL LAND MUBARAK BACK IN COURT. HE'S FACING A RETRIAL ON CHARGES OF COMPLICITY IN THE DEATHS OF PROTESTERS. THE SQUARE, JUST BEFORE THE NIGHTLY CURFEW WITH PEOPLE RUSHING HOME, WAS FORLORN. ON THE NIGHT THAT PRESIDENT MUBARAK WAS OUSTED, THIS PLACE SHOOK WITH JOY. MILLIONS OF EGYPTIANS BELIEVED THAT THEY WERE GOING TO GET A NEW START, THAT THEY WERE GOING TO BUILD A NEW EGYPT. THAT SEEMS LIKE A LONG WHILE AGO NOW, AND FOR THOSE SAME EGYPTIANS IT IS DEPRESSINGLY SYMBOLIC THAT AT A TIME WHEN MUBARAK'S SECURITY STATE SEEMS TO BE REBORN, THE MAN WHO PRESIDED OVER IT HAS NOW BEEN RELEASED FROM PRISON. CLOSE BY, DEMONSTRATORS LAY IN THE GUTTER ON A BRIDGE OVER THE NILE WHERE ANTI-MUBARAK PROTESTERS WERE KILLED, REPRESENTING REVOLUTIONARY MARTYRS. MILITANTS IN LEBANON HAVE FIRED FOUR ROCKETS TOWARDS ISRAEL, SETTING OFF AIR RAID SIRENS AND STARTLING A NATION ALREADY ON EDGE OVER TURMOIL ALONG ITS NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN FRONTS. A MILITARY SPOKESMAN SAYS ONE ROCKET WAS SHOT DOWN BY ISRAEL'S IRON DOME DEFENCE SYSTEM. THERE ARE NO REPORTS OF INJURY, AND NO ONE HAS CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ATTACK. THE ROCKETS ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN FIRED FROM A LOCATION SOUTH OF THE LEBANESE PORT CITY OF TYRE. HUNDREDS OF CONSTRUCTION WORKERS AND THEIR FAMILIES HAVE BEEN EVACUATED FROM PREFABRICATED HOMES IN SOUTHEAST CHINA AFTER TYPHOON TRAMI HIT THE FUJIAN PROVINCE. TORRENTIAL RAIN LEFT HUNDREDS STRANDED, AND SOME WERE FORCED TO WALK THROUGH WAIST-HIGH WATER TO GET HELP. RESCUE TEAMS HAVE BEEN SENT TO THE AREA, BUT THE EVACUATION'S BEEN HAMPERED BY GALE-FORCE WINDS AND CONTINUING RAIN. AND 30 PEOPLE WERE INJURED WHEN THEY WERE HIT BY A MASSIVE WAVE ON CHINA'S QUANTANG RIVER. WATER LEVELS HAD RISEN IN THE WAKE OF TYPHOON TRAMI. WAVES AS HIGH AS 20M CRASHED ALONG THE BANKS OF THE RIVER NEAR THE CITY OF HAINING. MANY OF THOSE INJURED WERE HIT BY BRICKS FROM A PROTECTIVE WALL DESTROYED BY THE TIDE. THE AMERICAN ARMY PRIVATE WHO LEAKED SENSITIVE DOCUMENTS HAS REVEALED HE WANTS TO LIVE IN JAIL AS A WOMAN. PRIVATE BRADLEY MANNING CAME OUT WITH HIS DREAM AFTER BEING SENTENCED TO 35 YEARS BEHIND BARS. THE ABC'S JIM AVILA REPORTS. BRADLEY MANNING HAD ONE MORE SECRET TO TELL ` THE SMALL-STATURED MAN IN THE ARMY GREENS IS ACTUALLY A WOMAN INSIDE. THOSE PICTURES OF HIM CROSS-DRESSING SHOWN AT TRIAL WERE REAL AND NOT A DEFENCE TACTIC. IN A LETTER RELEASED TODAY, MANNING WROTE... MANNING WANTS TO BE CALLED 'SHE' AND BEGIN THE TRANSFORMATION IMMEDIATELY. THAT MAY BE DIFFICULT, BECAUSE AT FORT LEAVENWORTH, WHERE MANNING IS TO SERVE A 35-YEAR SENTENCE FOR RELEASING 700,000 DOCUMENTS TO WIKILEAKS, THE MILITARY DOES NOT OFFER THAT TYPE OF TREATMENT. BUT MANNING'S ATTORNEY VOWS TO FIGHT. I'M GONNA CHANGE THAT. MANNING'S ATTORNEYS FIRST DEMONSTRATED THEIR CLIENT'S FEELINGS ABOUT BEING A WOMAN DURING PRE-TRIAL HEARINGS. MANNING CALLED HIMSELF BRIANNA BACK THEN. TODAY THE SIGNATURE READS 'CHELSEA'. AN AMERICAN TREASURE IS UNDER THREAT FROM A HUGE WILDFIRE. THE BLAZE IS ONE OF AT LEAST 50 BURNING IN THE WESTERN US, AND IT'S INCHING CLOSER TO YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK. THE ABC'S NEIL KARLINSKY REPORTS. AT THE YOSEMITE ROSE BED AND BREAKFAST, BUILT FOR THE THOUSANDS WHO FLOCK TO YOSEMITE'S UNTOUCHED BEAUTY EACH YEAR, THEY'RE MAKING THEIR LAST STAND. THE FIRE IS COMING OVER THE HILL, STRAIGHT AT THEM, AND THE OWNER, IN HIS BULLDOZER TO HELP OUT, IS MAKING PLANS WITH A FIRE TEAM. YOU GIVE ME THE SIGNAL, AND I CAN MAKE LAPS AROUND THAT HOUSE. THE WIND HAS CAUSED RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS, AS WE FOUND OUT FIRST-HAND. IT SHOT UP AGAIN, THE FLAMES DID... WHILE SHOOTING THIS MATERIAL IN THE FIRE ZONE,... WHOA! ...A CHUNK OF FLAMING TREE, BIG ENOUGH TO SERIOUSLY HURT SOMEONE, FELL NEAR OUR CAR. IT IS UNUSUALLY BAD RIGHT NOW. EVEN THOUGH THE WILDFIRE NUMBERS ARE DOWN NATIONWIDE, THEY'RE WAY UP IN CALIFORNIA, WHERE THERE HAVE BEEN NEARLY 40% MORE FIRES THAN LAST YEAR, HUNDREDS MORE CAUSED BY LIGHTNING WITHIN JUST DAYS. WE FOUND HOME OWNERS PACKED UP, READY TO LEAVE IF THEY HAVE TO. AIR NZ IS PROPOSING TO CUT 180 JOBS FROM ITS ENGINEERING MAINTENANCE DIVISION. THE COMPANY SAYS THE CHANGES REFLECT A DROP IN DEMAND FOR WIDE-BODY MAINTENANCE SERVICES, BOTH WITHIN THE COMPANY AND FROM ITS MAINTENANCE CUSTOMERS, AS NEWER AIRCRAFT ARE INTRODUCED. THE ENGINEERING, PRINTING AND MANUFACTURING UNION SAYS IT'S ALSO A RESULT OF THE HIGH NZ DOLLAR. THE COMPANY WILL CONSULT STAFF ON THE CHANGES, WITH A FINAL DECISION DUE IN OCTOBER. A CONTROVERSIAL $75M FLEET OF CHINESE LOCOMOTIVES HAS BEEN UNVEILED IN AUCKLAND. THE ORDER FOR THE CNR DALIAN LOCOMOTIVES WAS PUT ON HOLD AFTER THE FIRST 20 TRAINS, WHICH ARRIVED TWO YEARS AGO, SUFFERED A NUMBER OF FAILURES. THE PROBLEMS WERE WIDESPREAD, INVOLVING WATER PUMPS, CONTROL SYSTEMS AND ALTERNATORS. HOWEVER, SINCE BEING REPAIRED, FREIGHT VOLUMES HAVE INCREASED SIGNIFICANTLY. SUBMISSIONS ON THE GOVERNMENT'S UNPOPULAR SNAPPER LIMIT PROPOSAL CLOSE THIS AFTERNOON. THE CONTROVERSIAL PLAN TO CUT THE RECREATIONAL DAILY QUOTA FROM NINE TO THREE HAS ALREADY DRAWN ABOUT 30,000 SUBMISSIONS. THOSE IN FAVOUR OF THE PROPOSAL SAY IT'S VITAL TO PROTECT SNAPPER STOCKS. SUBMISSIONS CLOSE AT 4 O'CLOCK THIS AFTERNOON. HOLLYWOOD ACTOR KEVIN SPACEY IS CHALLENGING TV PRODUCERS TO GIVE AUDIENCES FAR MORE CONTROL OVER WHAT THEY WATCH AND WHEN THEY WATCH IT. IN A SPEECH AT THE TELEVISION FESTIVAL IN EDINBURGH, THE OSCAR WINNER SAID TELEVISION NEEDED TO MOVE WITH THE TIMES OR RISK LOSING VIEWERS. THE BBC'S DAVID SILLITO REPORTS. AS THE YEARS PASS WE DO IT MORE AND MORE. APPLAUSE, CHEERING AND TONIGHT HOLLYWOOD CAME TO EDINBURGH TO TALK TELEVISION. 15 YEARS AGO, KEVIN SPACEY SAYS, HE WOULDN'T HAVE EVEN BEEN ALLOWED BY HIS AGENT TO TALK TO SUCH A GATHERING OF THE TV INDUSTRY. NOW, HE SAYS, IT'S COMPLETELY CHANGED. THE FILM INDUSTRY DIDN'T BELIEVE THAT TELEVISION COULD EVER BECOME ITS BIGGEST COMPETITOR. AND I DO NOT THINK THAT ANYONE TODAY, 15 YEARS LATER, IN TERMS OF CHARACTER-DRIVEN DRAMA, CAN ARGUE THAT TELEVISION HAS NOT, INDEED, TAKEN OVER. COS I'M A TAD BUSY RUNNING THE COUNTRY. AND HIS CONVERSION TO THE SMALL SCREEN IS HIS $100M 26-EPISODE VERSION OF THE OLD BBC TV SERIES HOUSE OF CARDS. AND WHAT'S MORE, HE SAYS, IF SOMEONE WANTS TO WATCH ALL 26 EPISODES, WHY SHOULD THEY WAIT? WE MAY TALK ABOUT TABLETS AND PHONES, BUT THIS IS ALSO THE ERA OF BINGE-WATCHING, THE LOST TV WEEKEND. I HAVE SPENT A WHOLE WEEKEND WATCHING E.R., BACK TO BACK. < SIX, SEVEN HOURS AT A GO? ENTOURAGE, DEFINITELY, YEAH. WEREN'T ATTENTION SPANS SUPPOSED TO BE IN DECLINE? PEOPLE ARE LOOKING TO TELEVISION TO DO THE JOB THAT NOVELS HAVE DONE IN THEIR LIVES, WHERE YOU SPEND HOURS AND HOURS IN A NOVEL, OR THE THEATRE. IN THAT SENSE, I THINK STANDARDS ARE GOING UP. THE SPACEY MESSAGE, THEN, IS THAT IF THE STORIES ARE GOOD, WE'LL WATCH AND WATCH AND WATCH. STILL TO COME ON MIDDAY ` IN BUSINESS NEWS, A GLITCH HALTS TRADE ON WALL STREET. AND WE'VE A REVEALING LOOK AT DAVID BECKHAM'S LATEST MODELLING ASSIGNMENT. S WITH ME NOW IS DAVID CHEAPE FROM CRAIGS INVESTMENT PARTNERS. THIS ITEM WILL BE CAPTIONED LIVE. FOR MORE, GO TO ONENEWS.CO.NZ AND CLICK ON 'BUSINESS'. THE NASDAQ HAS BEEN SUSPENDED FROM TRADING FOR THREE HOURS? There was a three hour trading stop on the NASDAQ exchange, which is unusual and undesirable. Eventually after that technology glitch, the NASDAQ ended up 1% on the day. TELECOM ` EARNINGS ARE DECLINING. HOW BAD IS IT? Not too bad. Telecom is in the transition stage after the separation of the network business into chorus. It's a changing and challenging technology world out there, so their revenues and profits were in line with expectations. They saw increase in mobile and broadband numbers. SKY TV HAS RECORD SUBSCRIBER NUMBERS. HOW DID THAT AFFECT ITS PROFIT? The subscribers were up about 8000, so sky is In 49% of all the houses in New Zealand. People are using my sky decoders in their houses, and they had some price rises across their services. THANK YOU, DAVID CHEAPE FROM CRAIGS INVESTMENT PARTNERS. TO SPORT, AND KIWI AMATEUR GOLFING SENSATION LYDIA KO HAS MADE A SUPERB START IN HER BID TO DEFEND HER CANADIAN OPEN TITLE IN EDMONTON. KO WAS ON FORM, WITH FOUR BIRDIES UNDER HER BELT BEFORE THIS. AND A PUTT TO GO FIVE UNDER PAR. DIALLED. THE 17-YEAR-OLD IS TIED FOR THE LEAD AFTER SHOOTING FIVE UNDER PAR 65 IN THE FIRST ROUND. ENGLAND HAVE LAUNCHED THEIR RUN CHASE AFTER AUSTRALIA DECLARED THEIR INNINGS CLOSED ON DAY TWO OF THE FIFTH ASHES TEST AT THE OVAL. AUSTRALIA RESUMED PLAY ON 307/4 AFTER WET WEATHER SET BACK THE START BY MORE THAN THREE HOURS. HOWEVER, PLAY WAS BARELY UNDERWAY BEFORE THE FIFTH WICKET FELL. OH, BOWLED HIM. STRAIGHT THIS TIME. BRAD HADDIN WAS THE NEXT TO GO, OUT ON 30. JAMES FAULKNER WAS CAUGHT ON 19. AUSTRALIA DECLARED THEIR INNINGS CLOSED ON 493/9. ENGLAND ENDED THE DAY ON 32/0. AND A PEEK NOW AT FOOTBALL STAR DAVID BECKHAM'S LATEST MODELLING VENTURE. HE'S STRIPPED DOWN TO HIS UNDERWEAR FOR A BRITISH RETAIL GIANT. THE 38-YEAR-OLD IS THE FACE OF H & M'S NEW COLLECTION, DAVID BECKHAM BODYWEAR. THE AUTUMN RANGE IS FOCUSED ON UNDERWEAR, LOUNGEWEAR, PYJAMA BOTTOMS AND DRAWSTRING SHORTS. BECKHAM ANNOUNCED HIS RETIREMENT FROM SPORT IN MAY AND IS NOW CONCENTRATING ON HIS MODELLING CAREER. STILL TO COME ON MIDDAY, I'LL BE BACK WITH THE AFTERNOON WEATHER. AND FORGET PRICKLES ` MEET THE HEDGEHOGS WITH REGAL NAMES AND A HOME TO MATCH. NOW TO THE WEATHER. THOSE ACTIVE TROUGHS MOVE ACROSS THE COUNTRY THIS AFTERNOON. THE NEXT LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM EDGES CLOSER, BRINGING WITH IT WET FRONTS. FOR WEATHER, SEE ONENEWS.CO.NZ AND FINALLY, THREE RARE ALBINO HEDGEHOGS, BORN ON THE SAME DAY AS BRITAIN'S NEW PRINCE, HAVE MOVED INTO A LUXURIOUS NEW HOME. GEORGE, ALEXANDER AND LOUIS LIVE LIKE ROYALTY AT MOSCOW ZOO IN A WOODEN CASTLE, COMPLETE WITH VELVET CURTAINS AND PLUSH BEDDING. A RIBBON WAS CUT AND RED CARPET ROLLED OUT TO WELCOME THE HEDGEHOG FAMILY. THE TRIPLETS WILL STAY WITH THEIR MOTHER FOR A MONTH, AND WILL THEN BE ABLE TO LIVE INDEPENDENTLY. 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. COPYRIGHT TVNZ ACCESS SERVICES 2013