TONIGHT ` WE'VE THE LATEST AS THE MAORI KING IS HOSPITALISED AFTER A HEART ATTACK. CALIFORNIA IS BRACED TONIGHT, AS AFTERSHOCKS CONTINUE IN THE WAKE OF A MAGNITUDE-6 QUAKE. AND GO, MUMMY! FROM INNOCENT WEE GUESTS TO THE NOT-SO-INNOCENT ` ALTHOUGH IT'S A SURPRISINGLY RESTRAINED OUTING FROM MILEY CYRUS, WHO IS BROUGHT TO TEARS BY HER OWN HOMAGE TO THE HOMELESS. THERE ARE GROWING CONCERNS TONIGHT FOR THE MAORI KING'S WELL-BEING AFTER HE SUFFERED A HEART ATTACK EARLIER TODAY. KING TUHEITIA PAKI WILL SPEND THE NIGHT IN WAIKATO HOSPITAL. DANIELLE STANBURY HAS THE LATEST. JUST YESTERDAY, A FRAIL-LOOKING KING TUHEITIA PAKI CELEBRATED HAMILTON'S 150TH BIRTHDAY. NOW THE 59-YEAR-OLD IS IN WAIKATO HOSPITAL RECOVERING FROM A HEART ATTACK. A SPOKESPERSON FOR TURANGAWAEWAE MARAE TOLD ONE NEWS HE'S IN A STABLE CONDITION AND THAT WELL-WISHERS WERE GATHERING AT THE MARAE FOR A SPECIAL CHURCH SERVICE. IN THE KING'S ANNUAL SPEECH LAST WEEK, HE ALLAYED CONCERNS ABOUT HIS DETERIORATING HEALTH. TUHEITIA PAKI RARELY ADDRESSES THE PUBLIC THESE DAYS, AFTER HANDING THE ROLE OVER TO HIS ELDEST SON LAST YEAR SO THAT HE COULD FOCUS ON HIS WELL-BEING. CALLS TO THE KING'S OFFICE HAVEN'T BEEN RETURNED AND HIS SPOKESMAN, TUKOROIRANGI MORGAN, WAS UNAVAILABLE FOR COMMENT. IN THE LAST FEW HOURS, THE POLICEMAN WHO GOT SHOT WHILE TACKLING A GUNMAN HAS BEEN DISCHARGED FROM WAIKATO HOSPITAL. THE ALLEGED SHOOTER WAS ALSO WOUNDED IN THE CONFRONTATION AT A BUSY SUPERMARKET CAR PARK IN HAMILTON. AND AS HELEN CASTLES REPORTS, THE GUNFIRE CAME AT THE END OF A DRAMATIC POLICE CHASE. THE WEAPON AT THE CENTRE OF A SHOOTING IN A BUSY HAMILTON CAR PARK. SHOPPERS LOOKED ON AS THREE POLICE TACKLED A GUNMAN TO THE GROUND, BEFORE ONE OFFICER AND THE GUNMAN WERE SHOT IN THE LEG WITH THE SAWN-OFF SHOT GUN. BOTH MYSELF AND THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE SIT IN AWE OF THE ABSOLUTE COURAGE AND DEDICATION TO DUTY OF OUR POLICE OFFICERS, WHO APPREHENDED A PERSON THAT WE BELIEVE IS AND WAS A SIGNIFICANT THREAT TO OUR COMMUNITIES. THE GUNMAN ARRIVED AT THIS MILL STREET PAK'N'SAVE IN A STOLEN VAN. POLICE WERE ABLE TO TRACK HIM DOWN THROUGH THE VEHICLE'S GPS UNIT. ONLOOKERS WATCHED AS HE THEN TRIED TO HIJACK AN ELDERLY WOMAN'S CAR. HE RAN TO A WOMAN IN A CAR, LOOKED LIKE A RAV 4, AND HE HAD THE SHOTGUN IN ONE HAND, AND HE HAD HER BY THE SCRUFF OF THE NECK IN THE OTHER, TRYING TO HAUL HER OUT OF HER CAR, OBVIOUSLY TO TAKE HER CAR. AND THEN PROBABLY THREE, FOUR, MAYBE FIVE POLICEMEN JUST PILED IN ON HIM. MARK AND LINDA STRONGMAN RELIEVED TO HAVE MADE IT HOME SAFELY WITH THEIR 9-MONTH-OLD GRANDDAUGHTER. THEY WERE STANDING JUST 50M FROM WHERE THE DRAMA UNFOLDED. WE HEARD A REALLY LOUD BANG. LINDA WENT A LITTLE BIT INTO PANIC MODE. I SAID, 'IT'S ALL RIGHT. IT'S A SHOTGUN. 'IT CAN'T REACH US FROM HERE.' THE GUNMAN IS BELIEVED TO BE ZEB MCCALLION (35). POLICE HAD BEEN PURSUING HIM FOLLOWING A BURGLARY AND HOME INVASION IN KIHIKIHI YESTERDAY. HE'S A SIGNIFICANT THREAT. HE IS A VERY DANGEROUS CRIMINAL THAT HAD TO BE APPREHENDED. POLICE ARE YET TO LAY CHARGES. BOTH THE POLICEMAN AND THE ALLEGED OFFENDER ARE BEING TREATED IN HOSPITAL. THE STRONGMAN FAMILY SAY IT'S A WONDER MORE WEREN'T HURT. HELEN CASTLES, ONE NEWS. TO POLITICS, AND THE NEXT BOMBSHELL THAT COULD THREATEN TO DERAIL NATIONAL'S ELECTION CAMPAIGN. KIM DOTCOM HAS TODAY REVEALED TO ONE NEWS THAT WIKILEAKS COFOUNDER JULIAN ASSANGE WILL PLAY A ROLE IN HIS PRE-ELECTION ATTACK ON THE PRIME MINISTER. HE SPOKE TO DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR MICHAEL PARKIN. FROM THE ECUADOR'S LONDON EMBASSY TO THE AUCKLAND TOWN HALL. KIM DOTCOM REVEALING TO ONE NEWS THAT WIKILEAKS FOUNDER AND FUGITIVE JULIAN ASSANGE IS SET TO TAKE PART IN A PRE-ELECTION ATTACK ON JOHN KEY. I CAN GIVE YOU A HINT. SOMEONE WHO IS CURRENTLY LOCKED UP IN AN EMBASSY MIGHT BE ON A LIVE VIDEO LINK. KIM DOTCOM'S ALREADY HIRED JOURNALIST GLEN GREENWALD, WHO MADE PUBLIC THE EDWARD SNOWDON LEAKS. NOW THE ADDITION OF ASSANGE CONFIRMS THE SEPTEMBER 15 EVENT WILL BE ABOUT NZ'S SPYING. WILL SEPTEMBER 15 DO MORE DAMAGE TO JOHN KEY THAN DIRTY POLITICS HAS? I THINK SO. BUT KIM DOTCOM IS DOING DAMAGE CONTROL OF HIS OWN RIGHT NOW,... YOU PUFFED UP LITTLE <BLEEP>. ...FOLLOWING THIS TIRADE FROM INTERNET PARTY PRESS SECRETARY PAM CORKERY. YOU GLOVE PUPPET OF CAMERON SLATER. IS SHE SAFE IN HER JOB WITH THE PARTY AND WITH LAILA? WELL, SHE'S SAFE IN HER JOB. YOU KNOW, SHE APOLOGISED. I THINK SHE REALISED THAT SHE MADE A MISTAKE. I MADE A FUNNY TWEET ABOUT IT, SAYING THAT PAM'S OFFICE HAS DONE SOMETHING UNWISE AND THAT SHE IS ON HER FINAL, FINAL, FINAL WARNING. MS CORKERY'S ABUSE WAS THE RESULT OF MEDIA ATTEMPTS TO QUESTION DOTCOM ABOUT POTENTIAL LINKS TO THE WHALE DUMP HACKER AFTER THIS COMMENT. I HACKED OUR GERMAN CREDIT RATINGS SYSTEM AND PUT OUR PRIME MINISTER'S CREDIT RATING TO ZERO BECAUSE I DIDN'T LIKE THE GUY. AND YOU HAVE ALL FIGURED BY NOW THERE'S ANOTHER PRIME MINISTER I DON'T LIKE. THAT'S A MATTER FOR NZERS TO FORM THEIR ASSESSMENT ON ITS MEANING TO NZ POLITICS. DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH WHALE DUMP? ARE YOU ANY SORT OF HACKER? DO YOU HAVE ANY KNOWLEDGE OF WHO IT IS OR ANY AFFILIATION WITH THEM? THE INTERNET PARTY WILL HOLD ITS FUNCTION IN THE CLOUD WITH JOHN KEY AND NATIONAL IN THE VIADUCT EVENT CENTRE MEANWHILE, JOHN KEY HIT THE STREETS OF WEST AUCKLAND TODAY TO TRY AND SELL NATIONAL'S HOUSING POLICY, SHOWING OFF ONE OF THE NEW HOBSONVILLE HOMES HE CLAIMS ARE NOW WITHIN REACH OF FIRST-HOME BUYERS. THE NEW POLICY BOOSTS HOME-BUYER GRANTS AND LIFTS THE PRICE CAP ON HOUSES IN AUCKLAND TO $550,000. UNDER OUR OLD POLICY, YOU COULDN'T BUY A THREE-BEDROOM HOME; IT WAS TOO EXPENSIVE. NOW YOU CAN HERE. MR KEY ALSO REITERATED THAT THERE WILL BE AN ANNOUNCEMENT ON TAX CUTS DURING THIS CAMPAIGN, DESPITE HIS FINANCE MINISTER STATING THERE'LL BE NO DECISIONS ON THE MATTER BEFORE THE ELECTION. LABOUR'S PROMISING TO BE RESPONSIBLE WITH THE COUNTRY'S MONEY IF IT GETS INTO POWER. THE PARTY'S RELEASED A REVISED FINANCIAL PLAN AFTER THE GOVERNMENT'S BOOKS LAST WEEK SHOWED A LOWER ECONOMIC FORECAST THAN EXPECTED. IT'S NOW CUT SPENDING PROMISES BY $300M A YEAR, DROPPED SIX POLICY ANNOUNCEMENTS AND DELAYED FREE MEDICAL CARE FOR OVER 65-YEAR-OLDS. THERE IS ALWAYS A TRADE-OFF BETWEEN WANTING TO DO MORE, AND WANTING TO BE A VERY ACTIVE GOVERNMENT, AND WANTING TO BE A FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE ONE. LABOUR'S PLANNED SPENDING NOW SITS AT JUST OVER $15.5B IN THE NEXT FOUR YEARS, WHICH COMPARES CLOSELY TO NATIONAL'S PLANS. AND A QUICK REMINDER, YOU CAN SEE JOHN KEY AND DAVID CUNLIFFE GO HEAD TO HEAD IN THEIR FIRST LIVE TELEVISED DEBATE THIS THURSDAY, RIGHT HERE ON TV ONE. YOU CAN ALSO GET INVOLVED. RECORD A VIDEO QUESTION FOR THE PARTY LEADERS AND UPLOAD IT ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE. THAT'S FACEBOOK.COM/ONENEWSNZ CARTERTON MAYOR RON MARK IS CHASING A SEAT IN PARLIAMENT AGAIN, STANDING AS WAIRARAPA CANDIDATE FOR NZ FIRST. HE REUNITED WITH PARTY LEADER WINSTON PETERS AT A PUBLIC MEETING IN MASTERTON TODAY. RON MARK WAS A NZ FIRST LIST MP FROM 1996, UNTIL THE PARTY WAS OUSTED FROM PARLIAMENT IN 2008. HE'LL STAND DOWN AS MAYOR IF HE WINS WAIRARAPA NEXT MONTH. AND WELL-KNOWN ACTIVIST TAME ITI IS STANDING AS A LIST CANDIDATE FOR THE MAORI PARTY. HE'S FACED OFF AGAINST THE CROWN MANY TIMES OVER THE YEARS. TAME ITI WAS JAILED AFTER BEING CONVICTED OF FIREARMS CHARGES ARISING FROM THE UREWERA RAIDS IN 2007. HE'S EXPECTED TO BE RANKED AT EIGHT OR NINE ON THE MAORI PARTY'S LIST. CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS ARE ON EDGE TONIGHT AS AFTERSHOCKS CONTINUE IN THE WAKE OF A MAGNITUDE 6 EARTHQUAKE. MORE THAN A HUNDRED PEOPLE WERE INJURED WHEN THE TREMORS HIT THE TOWN OF NAPA, TRIGGERING FEARS OF WHAT COULD COME NEXT. CHANNEL NINE'S ROBERT PENFOLD REPORTS. JUST AFTER 3 IN THE MORNING, THE BIGGEST TO HIT NORTHERN CALIFORNIA IN A QUARTER OF A CENTURY, ROCKING CARS AND BUILDINGS AND SENDING PEOPLE PANICKING INTO THE NIGHT. IT WAS SO SCARY. IT HIT HARD AND ROLLED. IT WAS SUPER LOUD, LIKE A TRAIN WAS IN MY ROOM. IT WAS CRAZY. IT BROUGHT LARGE SECTIONS OF THE MANY HISTORIC BUILDINGS IN THIS PRISTINE TOWN CRUMBLING DOWN, BRICKS AND TILES FALLING INTO THE STREET. THE QUAKE'S EPICENTRE WAS JUST OVER 10KM OUTSIDE NAPA, WHICH LIES 80KM NORTH-EAST OF SAN FRANCISCO. WHILE HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE ARE LIVING IN DAMAGED PROPERTIES, WHILE IT WAS SO MUCH WORSE FOR THE ELDERLY PEOPLE HERE IN NAPA RETIREMENT VILLAGE. A GAS MAIN BURST, THERE WAS A HUGE FIRE AND SIX OF THEIR PROPERTIES WERE BURNT DOWN. THEY HAVE LOST EVERYTHING. A BURST MAIN MEANT FIREFIGHTERS INITIALLY HAD NO WATER TO TACKLE THE BLAZE. OTHER HOMES WERE SHAKEN, FROM THEIR FOUNDATIONS UP. THE WHOLE HOUSE IS COMPLETELY CRACKED OPEN AND EXPOSED TO THE OUTSIDE. AROUND 120 PEOPLE WERE INJURED ` THREE CRITICALLY ` AMONG THEM A CHILD WHO WAS CRUSHED BY A BRICK FIREPLACE. ROADS WERE LEFT BUCKLED AND 20,000 HOMES WERE LEFT WITHOUT POWER. AT THIS, OF COURSE, IS NAPA VALLEY ` WORLD-FAMOUS WINE COUNTRY, WHERE BOTTLES WERE LEFT SCATTERED AND SHATTERED ON SHOPS' FLOORS. PEOPLE ARE GRATEFUL IT HAPPENED AT NIGHT; A DAYTIME TREMOR WOULD HAVE MEANT MANY MORE INJURED AND EVEN LIVES LOST. AND THIS IS A STATE ALL TOO FAMILIAR WITH EARTHQUAKES. 60 PEOPLE DIED WHEN A QUAKE STRUCK SAN FRANCISCO IN 1989. 57 DIED WITH LOS ANGELES WAS HIT IN 1994. NOW RESIDENTS HERE ARE AWARE ANOTHER ONE ` A BIGGER ONE ` COULD BE JUST AROUND THE CORNER. AND AS RESIDENTS COME TO GRIPS WITH THE CLEAN-UP JOB AHEAD OF THEM, THERE ARE CONCERNS TODAY'S QUAKE COULD BE A SIGN OF MORE TROUBLE TO COME. LET'S GO BACK TO CHANNEL NINE'S ROBERT PENFOLD. WE'VE HAD QUITE FEW AFTERSHOCKS HERE THIS AFTERNOON, AND PEOPLE ARE QUITE JITTERY HERE, BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN REMINDED YET AGAIN THAT THERE'S A ONE IN THREE CHANCE THAT A VERY LARGE AFTERSHOCK COULD HAPPEN IN THE NEXT WEEK OR SO, SO PEOPLE ARE REALLY ON EDGE, AND ONCE AGAIN, THE CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT IS REALLY REMINDING US WHAT COULD HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE, AND IT'S NOT GOOD NEWS. THEY POINT OUT THEY'VE GOT THESE FIGURES HERE AND THEY SAY THERE'S A 99% CHANCE OF A 6.7 QUAKE OR LARGER ` THAT'S A BIG ONE ` HITTING HERE IN CALIFORNIA SOME TIME IN THE NEXT 30 YEARS. FROM CALIFORNIA, THAT'S CHANNEL NINE'S ROBERT PENFOLD. A FORMER CATHOLIC BROTHER'S BEEN ORDERED TO RETURN TO AUSTRALIA TO FACE HUNDREDS OF CHILD SEX CHARGES. BERNARD McGRATH, WHOSE IMAGE IS STILL SUBJECT TO A COURT SUPPRESSION ORDER, IS ACCUSED OF OFFENDING AGAINST BOYS IN NEW SOUTH WALES FOR SEVERAL DECADES. HE'S NOW CHALLENGING JUSTICE MINISTER JUDITH COLLINS' DECISION TO SEND HIM BACK. THE CASE WILL BE HEARD IN THE HIGH COURT AT CHRISTCHURCH. OUR NEXT STORY IS SOMETHING TO RAISE A GLASS TO AND TOAST ` A CRAFT BEER BREWER, WHICH HAS TAPPED INTO $700,000. IN DOING SO, IT'S BECOME THE FIRST KIWI COMPANY TO ATTRACT INVESTORS THROUGH WHAT'S CALLED CROWDFUNDING. NADINE CHALMERS-ROSS EXPLAINS. I WANT TO SEE SOME MICHAEL JACKSON DANCE MOVES. CROWDFUNDING HELPED PAY FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF TAIKA WAITITI'S FILM 'BOY' ` THE KIND OF PROJECT FANS OF CROWDFUNDING ARE USED TO FINANCING. BUT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN NZ, CROWDFUNDING IS FINANCING BUSINESS AND CREATING INVESTORS. AROUND 250 PEOPLE HAVE GOT INVOLVED, AND THE CAPITAL WE'VE RAISED WILL LET US INVEST IN NEW PLANT AND EQUIPMENT, NEW TECHNOLOGY, ALSO IN MARKETING, AND JUST IN WORK IN PROGRESS SO WE CAN GET TO THAT NEXT LEVEL. THE $700,000 THE RENAISSANCE BREWING COMPANY HAS RAISED IS LIFEBLOOD FOR A SMALL, GROWING COMPANY. THEY RAISED IT VIA THE SNOWBALL EFFECT ` ONE OF TWO WEBSITES RECENTLY LICENSED BY OUR FINANCIAL REGULATOR TO CONDUCT EQUITY CROWDFUNDING. HUNDREDS OF OTHER COMPANIES HAVE BEEN IN TOUCH, KEEN ON FOLLOWING SUIT. IF YOU'RE MAKING A NORMAL ISSUE OF SHARES TO THE PUBLIC, IT CAN BE A VERY EXPENSIVE AND TIME-CONSUMING PROCESS. THIS MAKES IT A LOT FASTER, EASIER AND CHEAPER FOR A COMPANY TO DO. INVESTING THIS WAY COMES WITH HIGH RISK. COMPANIES AREN'T REQUIRED TO GIVE YOU AS MUCH INFORMATION AS THOSE ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE ARE, AND IT'S NOT A TRADING PLATFORM, SO IT MAY BE DIFFICULT TO SELL YOUR SHARES AND GET YOUR MONEY BACK. THE FINANCIAL REGULATOR SAYS WHILE INVESTORS SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS, EQUITY CROWDFUNDING HAS IT PLACE. ONE, FOR THE COMPANIES TO ENABLE SMALLER COMPANIES TO GROW, AND, SECONDLY, FOR PEOPLE WHO DO WANT TO PUT THEIR MONEY INTO HIGHER-RISK EARLY-STAGE COMPANIES TO SUPPORT THAT PART OF THE ECONOMY AND ALSO TO POTENTIALLY GENERATE SOME HIGHER RETURNS. BUT THE SAME RULE OF THUMB APPLIES TO ALL INVESTMENTS ` ONLY INVEST WHAT YOU CAN AFFORD TO LOSE. NADINE CHALMERS-ROSS, ONE NEWS. THE FILM INDUSTRY IS MOURNING A HUGE LOSS TONIGHT, BOTH IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA AND BEHIND THE SCENES. LORD RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH, BROTHER OF DOCUMENTARY MAKER DAVID, HAS DIED AFTER A LONG ILLNESS. CHANNEL NINE'S MIKE DALTON REPORTS. DESPITE HIS NAME AND CHARACTER BEING OMITTED FROM THE CREDITS, RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH'S ON-SCREEN PRESENCE IN HIS DEBUT ROLE AS A FEAR-STRUCK SAILOR WOULD INITIALLY TYPECAST HIM AS A BADDIE OF BRITISH FILM. BUT WHEN HOLLYWOOD CALLED TO JOIN THE ENSEMBLE CAST OF 'THE GREAT ESCAPE' IN 1963, RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH BECAME INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN. HOW MANY YOU TAKING OUT? 250. ATTENBOROUGH WOULD BALANCE LIFE IN FRONT OF AND BEHIND THE CAMERA, HIS DIRECTION EMBRACING THE EPIC THROUGH 'YOUNG WINSTON', 'A BRIDGE TOO FAR' AND FOR WHAT WOULD ARGUABLY BE HIS ZENITH ` 1982'S 'GANDHI'. MY NAME IS GANDHI. MOHANDAS K GANDHI. ATTENBOROUGH TOOK HOME THE OSCAR FOR BEST DIRECTOR, A MOVIE WINNING A TOTAL OF EIGHT, INCLUDING BEST FILM. YOU HONOUR MAHATMA GANDHI AND HIS PLEA TO ALL OF US TO LIVE IN PEACE. HIS NEXT APPEARANCE ON-SCREEN WOULD BE 'JURASSIC PARK', WHICH FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS WOULD BE THE HIGHEST-GROSSING MOVIE OF ALL TIME. WELCOME TO JURASSIC PARK. HIS SELF-CONFESSED LOWEST EBB WOULD BE THE LOSS OF HIS DAUGHTER JANE AND GRANDDAUGHTER LUCY IN 2004'S BOXING DAY TSUNAMI. ATTENBOROUGH'S FILMMAKING WOULD SLOWLY BE SUPERSEDED BY HIS INCREASING CHARITY WORK, UNTIL ASSAILED BY A STROKE IN 2008. TO BE ALLOWED TO EXPRESS MY FEELINGS AND MY HOPES AND MY ASPIRATIONS AND SO ON IN THE MOVIES, IN THE CINEMA, IS HEAVEN ON EARTH FOR ME. LORD RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH WAS 90. JUST AHEAD ` AUTHORITIES GET CLOSER TO IDENTIFYING THE KILLER OF JOURNALIST JAMES FOLEY. WAS IT THIS BRITISH RAPPER? AND FROM TWERKING IT TO WORKING IT ` ALL THE COLOUR AND DRAMA FROM ONE OF MUSIC'S BIGGEST NIGHTS. FUNKY MUSIC SHEEP BLEATS (REGGAE STYLE) RAPS: # Prup! Me doing this for all those hot, hot sheep out there. # Time for change. I know, man. SINGS: # Feeling shaggy, shaggy, gotta change, man; change, man. # Gotta get this wool off; get the dag off, dag off. # Boy, it feel good when you do that, do that. # Oh, it feel good when you shear that, shear that. # Whoop, whoop, whoop. # Watch that razor, man ` dangerous to a man. # Watch me dingleberries. Don't be a fool, man. # Oh, it feel good when you do that, do that. # Oh, it feel good when you shear that, shear that. Me feel strange! # Hey, where that fly gone? # He gone, man; gone, man. # Hey, where that fly gone? # He gone, man; gone, man. # (BLEATS) Feels so good. What a nice change. Ewes ladies, check me rump! Whoop! A KEY SUSPECT IN THE EXECUTION OF JOURNALIST JAMES FOLEY IS BELIEVED TO BE A BRITISH RAPPER. AUTHORITIES AREN'T YET CONFIRMING IT, BUT BRITISH MEDIA HAVE IDENTIFIED L-JINNY AS THE KILLER OF THE AMERICAN. CHANNEL NINE'S PETER STEFANOVIC HAS THE STORY. MACHINE GUN FIRES RAPIDLY THE WAR ALMOST WITHOUT MERCY. ON THE GROUND AND FROM THE AIR BATTLING THE ISIS FORCES. THESE SHIITE GUNMEN ARE DEFENDING A PERILOUS GRIP ON THE BESIEGED TOWN OF AMERLI IN IRAQ, WHILE U.S. WAR JETS CONTINUE TO PICK OFF ISIS VEHICLES AND CHECKPOINTS. IT'S A CONFLICT FUELLED BY THE BLOODY ISIS VENDETTA AGAINST SHIITE, KURD AND CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES IN IRAQ AND SYRIA. BUT THERE SEEMED ONE SHRED OF DECENCY IN THE REGION ` THE RELEASE OF AMERICAN JOURNALIST PETER THEO CURTIS, HELD ALMOST TWO YEARS BY AN AL QAEDA-LINKED GROUP IN SYRIA. JUST WEEKS AGO, HE THOUGHT HE WAS DOOMED. IT'S A STARK CONTRAST TO THE BARBARIC MURDER OF FELLOW JOURNALIST, JAMES FOLEY. BRITISH INTELLIGENCE TEAMS SAY THEY'RE CLOSE TO IDENTIFYING HIS KILLER. ONE KEY SUSPECT IS LONDON RAPPER-TURNED-JIHADIST, ABDEL-MAJED BARY. FOLEY WAS REMEMBERED TODAY AT SERVICES IN HIS AMERICAN HOME TOWN AND BY FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES IN IRAQ. BRITAIN HAS PLEDGED INCREASED SUPPORT ` INTELLIGENCE, WEAPONS AND TRAINING FOR KURDISH FORCES BATTLING ISIS. BUT THE EXTREMIST GROUP IS STILL GAINING GROUND IN SYRIA, CLAIMING TO HAVE OVERRUN A GOVERNMENT MILITARY AIRSTRIP. RUSSIAN AND UKRAINIAN LEADERS ARE SET TO MEET FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MONTHS TO TRY TO SORT OUT A PEACE DEAL. BUT THE PLAN FOR TALKS COME AFTER RIVAL DISPLAYS OF MILITARY MIGHT, HIGHLIGHTING THE DEEP DIVISION BETWEEN BOTH SIDES. IN KIEV, UKRAINE CELEBRATED ITS INDEPENDENCE DAY WITH A PARADE THAT HAD ALL THE TRIMMINGS, TO WHICH PRO-RUSSIAN SEPARATISTS RESPONDED WITH A PARADE OF THEIR OWN, MARCHING CAPTURED UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS THROUGH THE CENTRE OF DONETSK, A MOVE THAT GOES AGAINST THE GENEVA CONVENTION. A BRITISH MAN INFECTED WITH EBOLA WHILE WORKING IN SIERRA LEONE IS NOW GETTING TREATMENT IN THE UK. HE'S THE FIRST BRITISH CITIZEN TO GET THE VIRUS AND WILL BE TREATED IN AN ISOLATION UNIT IN LONDON. MEANWHILE, THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO HAS CONFIRMED THAT EBOLA HAS BROKEN OUT IN THE NORTH OF THE COUNTRY, ALREADY KILLING 13 PEOPLE. BAD-BOY SINGER CHRIS BROWN COULD'VE BEEN THE TARGET OF A NIGHTCLUB SHOOTING IN AMERICA. GUESTS FLED INTO THE STREET AFTER THE INCIDENT AT BROWN'S PRE-PARTY FOR THE MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS. THREE PEOPLE SUSTAINED GUNSHOT WOUNDS, INCLUDING WELL-KNOWN MUSIC PRODUCER SUGE KNIGHT. BROWN (25) HAD BEEN DANCING AND CLAMBERED ON TO A TABLE WHEN THE SHOTS WERE FIRED. SO SOME BIG DRAMA EVEN BEFORE THE SHOW THAT'S FAMOUS FOR ITS SHOCK VALUE. AND ALTHOUGH THERE WASN'T ANY TWERKING OR TONGUE ACTION AT THIS YEAR'S MTV AWARDS, THERE WAS STILL PLENTY TO KEEP THE AUDIENCE THOROUGHLY ENTERTAINED. ERIN CONROY EXPLAINS. # NOW, THAT BANG, BANG, BANG. # IT STARTED WITH A BANG... # ...ALL NIGHT. # ...AND KEPT ON DELIVERING. # I'M JUST GONNA SHAKE, SHAKE, SHAKE, SHAKE, SHAKE. # THE BIGGEST ARTISTS IN THE WORLD COMPETING FOR RECOGNITION OF THEIR MUSIC VIDEOS. AND AMONG THOSE ACHIEVING IT... BOTH: LORDE, ROYALS! WINNING BEST ROCK VIDEO. IS THERE A SPECIFIC PLACE I'M SUPPOSED TO BE LOOKING? I DON'T KNOW. HI, OK. THIS IS REALLY CRAZY, AND I'M SUPER GRATEFUL. I WANNA THANK MY VIDEO DIRECTOR, JOEL KEFALI, AND MY FRIENDS FROM SCHOOL WHO WERE IN THE VIDEO. AND... <BLEEP> WHO VOTED. SORRY FOR SWEARING. THANK YOU SO MUCH! POTTY MOUTHED PERHAPS, BUT AT LEAST SHE REMEMBERED HER PANTS, UNLIKE HER BFF TAYLOR SWIFT. COS THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING CRAZY THAT HAPPENS. AND WHEN THE TOP AWARD, VIDEO OF THE YEAR WENT TO... MILEY CYRUS, WRECKING BALL. THE CROWD WAS POISED FOR SOMETHING PERVERSE. BUT INSTEAD... I'M ACCEPTING THIS AWARD ON BEHALF OF THE 1.6 MILLION RUNAWAYS AND HOMELESS YOUTH IN THE UNITED STATES COS I AM ONE OF THESE PEOPLE. THE QUESTION OF MILEY'S MYSTERIOUS DATE WAS ANSWERED. IN THE BEST FEMALE VIDEO CATEGORY, LORDE WAS BEATEN BY KATY PERRY'S 'DARK HORSE'. # COMING AT YOU LIKE A DARK HORSE. # FROM THE EVENT THAT IN THE PAST HAS DELIVERED THE INFAMOUS BEYONCE TUMMY RUB, SOME TONSIL TICKLING AND, OF COURSE, THE TWERKING, THIS YEAR WAS A TAD TAME. BUT WITH SOME TINY AUDIENCE MEMBERS, MAYBE FOR THE BEST. JUST AHEAD ` ALL YOUR WEATHER, WITH OUR DIRECTOR'S MUSIC PICK. AND HOT OR NOT SO MUCH? WE TAKE A GANDER AT THE RED CARPET HITS AND MISSES FROM THE MTV AWARDS. NOW TO THE WEATHER, WITH A BIT OF PHIL MADSEN. FOR WEATHER, SEE ONENEWS.CO.NZ THAT'S IT FROM US HERE ON TONIGHT. WE'RE GOING TO LEAVE YOU WITH SOME OF THE RED CARPET STUNNERS AND SHOCKERS FROM TODAY'S MTV MUSIC AWARDS. THANKS FOR WATCHING. POMARIE. CAPTIONS BY ASHLEE SCHOLEFIELD AND ANNA BRACEWELL-WORRALL. CAPTIONS WERE MADE POSSIBLE WITH FUNDING FROM NZ ON AIR. COPYRIGHT ABLE 2014