TONIGHT ` THERE'S CHAOS ON THE STREETS OF MISSOURI AFTER NEWS A POLICEMAN WON'T BE CHARGED OVER THE DEATH OF A BLACK TEENAGER. SOME BIG REPORTS OUT TODAY. WE HAVE THEM ALL AS CALLS GO OUT FOR JOHN KEY'S RESIGNATION OVER DIRTY POLITICS. AND HE'S IN A FIERCE FIGHT FOR HIS LIFE ` AUSSIE CRICKETER PHIL HUGHES IS IN A CRITICAL CONDITION AFTER BEING HIT BY A CRICKET BALL. DUE TO THE LIVE NATURE OF TONIGHT, WE APOLOGISE FOR THE LACK OF CAPTIONS FOR SOME ITEMS. POLICE CARS AND BUILDINGS HAVE BEEN SET ON FIRE AND SHOOTING REPORTED IN THE STREETS OF MISSOURI, AFTER PROTESTORS REACTED WITH FURY OVER THE DECISION NOT TO PROSECUTE A WHITE POLICE OFFICER WHO SHOT DEAD AN UNARMED BLACK TEENAGER. THE NEWS ALSO SPARKED ANGRY DEMONSTRATIONS IN OTHER CITIES AROUND AMERICA. CHANNEL NINE'S CHRISTINE AHERN REPORTS. WITHIN MINUTES OF HEARING THE POLICE OFFICER WOULDN'T BE CHARGED, ANGER FLOWED OUT ON TO THE STREETS. SIREN LOOPS POLICE WERE WELL PREPARED AND FIRED TEAR GAS, JUST AS THEY DID DURING THE RIOTS WHICH TORE THIS SUBURB APART THREE MONTHS AGO. ANYTHING OTHER THAN A SERIOUS CHARGE BROUGHT AGAINST OFFICER DARREN WILSON WAS SURE TO INFURIATE A LARGE SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY. CHAOTIC CLAMOURING PA: STOP! YOU NEED TO STOP THROWING OBJECTS AT THE POLICE AND DISPERSE IMMEDIATELY. THE DECISION NOT TO CHARGE HIM WAS MADE BY A GRAND JURY, MADE UP OF THREE BLACK PEOPLE AND NINE WHITES. IT'S SIMILAR TO A COMMITTAL HEARING AND HEARD 70 HOURS OF EVIDENCE FROM 60 WITNESSES. ACCORDING TO THE PROSECUTOR, WITNESSES WHO CLAIMED IN TV INTERVIEWS TO HAVE SEEN MICHAEL BROWN GUNNED DOWN WITH HIS HANDS UP CHANGED THEIR STORIES WHEN THEY APPEARED IN FRONT OF THE JURORS. IN THE END, THE GRAND JURY FOUND BROWN, WHO WAS EARLIER INVOLVED IN A CONVENIENT STORE ROBBERY, CAME TOWARD THE OFFICER. AS MICHAEL BROWN MOVED TOWARD OFFICER WILSON, SEVERAL MORE SHOTS WERE FIRED BY THE OFFICER, AND MICHAEL BROWN WAS FATALLY WOUNDED. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA ADMITTED THE DEATH DEEPLY AFFECTED HIM, DESCRIBING HOW HE AS A YOUNG BLACK MAN OFTEN FELT THREATENED BY WHITE POLICE. HE STOPPED SHORT OF SAYING HE WAS DISAPPOINTED WITH THE DECISION. MICHAEL BROWN'S PARENTS HAVE LOST MORE THAN ANYONE. WE SHOULD BE HONOURING THEIR WISHES. MICHAEL BROWN'S PARENTS, WHO EXPECTED THE OFFICER TO BE CHARGED AT THE VERY LEAST WITH MANSLAUGHTER, SAID IN A STATEMENT ` THOUGH CLEARLY, THOSE PLEAS WEREN'T LISTENED TO. POLICE IN FERGUSON SAY AT LEAST 26 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED AROUND THE TOWN, AS CIVIL UNREST CONTINUES. JOHN KEY IS UNDER FIRE AS THE DIRTY POLITICS SCANDAL REIGNITED TODAY WITH AN INDEPENDENT REPORT CONFIRMING DISCLOSURES MADE BY THE PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE. LABOUR'S CALLING FOR MR KEY'S RESIGNATION AND AN APOLOGY, BUT THE PM IS DEFIANT. KRISTIN HALL REPORTS. AN EXPLOSIVE REACTION... THE PRIME MINISTER PRESIDED OVER THE DIRTIEST, FILTHIEST, GRUBBIEST OPERATIONS WE HAVE EVER SEEN IN NZ POLITICS TODAY. ...TO A DAMNING REPORT. I HAVE FOUND SIGNIFICANT FAILURES BY THE SIS TO MEET ITS OBLIGATIONS BOTH IN THE RELEASE OF INFORMATION AND IN UPHOLDING POLITICAL NEUTRALITY. IN AUGUST, NICKY HAGER RELEASED HIS BOOK 'DIRTY POLITICS', WITH CLAIMS THE PRIME MINISTER'S FORMER STAFFER JASON EDE HELPED BLOGGER CAMERON SLATER GET SIS INFORMATION TO EMBARRASS PHIL GOFF BACK IN 2011. THE INSPECTOR-GENERAL'S FINDINGS HAVE NOW BACKED UP THOSE CLAIMS. ANYONE WHO READS THE REPORT OR EVEN THE NEWS REPORTS WILL SEE THAT THE INFORMATION I HAD IN MY BOOK WAS COMPLETELY CORRECT. PHIL GOFF'S CALLING FOR JOHN KEY'S RESIGNATION AND AN APOLOGY FROM THE PM, WHO SAYS HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. I DIRECTED THE SIS. I WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE OIA PROCESS THAT I WAS UP TO MY EYEBALLS IN ALL THAT STUFF. ALL OF THAT HAS BEEN COMPLETELY CLEARED, AND I'VE BEEN FULLY EXONERATED. THE REPORT DIDN'T FIND COLLUSION BETWEEN THE SIS AND THE PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE. BUT CHERYL GWYN SAYS JASON EDE... THAT WAS AFTER BEING TOLD ABOUT IT BY JOHN KEY'S DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF, PHIL DE JOUX, WHO WAS ALSO MR KEY'S LIAISON WITH THE SIS. DOESN'T THE BUCK STOP AT THE TOP? WELL, IT CAN DO. WHY DOESN'T IT STOP AT THE TOP TONIGHT? BECAUSE IN THIS PARTICULAR INSTANCE, WHAT THE REPORT ACTUALLY SAYS IS THAT IT WAS THE SIS THAT FOLLOWED ITS OWN PROCEDURES. SIS BOSS REBECCA KITTERIDGE, HOWEVER, IS DEFENDING THE SIS, SAYING NZERS CAN HAVE FAITH IN THE ORGANISATION. THE PEOPLE WHO WORK HERE ARE ABSOLUTELY COMMITTED TO COMPLIANCE. BUT CHERYL GWYN'S REPORT PULLS NO PUNCHES, SAYING THE FORMER HEAD OF THE SIS, WARREN TUCKER, MADE A NUMBER OF SERIOUS ERRORS OF JUDGEMENT, THE PRINCIPAL REASON BEHIND THE RELEASE OF INCOMPLETE, INACCURATE AND MISLEADING INFORMATION THAT LED TO THE CRITICISM OF PHIL GOFF. I THINK WHAT IT REVEALS IS A POLITICISATION OF ONE OF OUR MOST IMPORTANT STATE AGENCIES. REBECCA KITTERIDGE HAS PROMISED TO IMPLEMENT ALL RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE REPORT AND IS ALSO SEEKING ADVICE TO FIND OUT WHETHER STAFF INVOLVED IN THE GOFF CASE SHOULD FACE CONSEQUENCES. JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE TREATED ABSOLUTELY FAIRLY. PHIL GOFF'S RECEIVED AN APOLOGY FROM THE SPY BOSS, BUT THAT WON'T STOP LABOUR PUSHING FOR ONE FROM THE MAN AT THE TOP. KRISTIN HALL, ONE NEWS. THE OTHER BIG POLITICAL STORY TODAY WAS THE OUTCOME OF AN INQUIRY INTO ALLEGATIONS JUDITH COLLINS WAS INVOLVED IN A SMEAR CAMPAIGN AGAINST FORMER SERIOUS FRAUD OFFICE BOSS ADAM FEELEY. HERE'S POLITICAL REPORTER KATIE BRADFORD. SHE'S IN THE CLEAR. AFTER A FULL AND THOROUGH INQUIRY, THE HONOURABLE LESTER CHISHOLM HAS FOUND THAT THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT I WAS INVOLVED IN OR UNDERTOOK ANY INAPPROPRIATE ACTIONS. THE FORMER JUSTICE MINISTER VOWED SHE'D BE CLEARED BACK DURING THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN WHEN SHE RESIGNED OVER ALLEGATIONS SHE'D COLLUDED WITH BLOGGER CAMERON SLATER TO UNDERMINE FORMER SERIOUS FRAUD OFFICE HEAD ADAM FEELEY. I LOOK FORWARD TO CLEARING MY NAME. AND TODAY... I'M A VERY HAPPY PERSON, KATIE. I DON'T WANT TO GET ANY HAPPIER. ALL THANKS TO THE TOP-LEVEL INQUIRY BY JUSTICE LESTER CHISHOLM, WHICH FOUND THERE WERE EFFORTS TO UNDERMINE ADAM FEELEY, NOT BY JUDITH COLLINS BUT BY CAMERON SLATER AND ASSOCIATES. JUSTICE CHISHOLM FOUND ALLEGATIONS IN CAMERON SLATER'S EMAILS WERE 'UNRELIABLE'. AND HE'S CRITICAL OF THE BLOGGER, SAYING HE WAS 'PRONE TO EXAGGERATION'. I ACTUALLY FEEL THAT THIS CHAPTER OF HAVING TO DEAL WITH THESE ALLEGATIONS IS NOW CLOSED. THE REPORT CONFIRMS THE CLOSE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN CAMERON SLATER AND JUDITH COLLINS, SHOWING THEY CHATTED ON THE PHONE REGULARLY ABOUT POLITICAL AND PERSONAL ISSUES. QUITE CLEARLY, I HAVE BEEN LET DOWN. MR SLATER'S APOLOGISED FOR THAT, BUT SHE WON'T SAY IF THEIR FRIENDSHIP'S STILL INTACT. FAMILY FRIENDS ARE FAMILY FRIENDS, AND WE DON'T ALWAYS KNOW WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT US, KATIE. JUSTICE CHISHOLM HAS COMPLETELY EXONERATED JUDITH COLLINS, BUT SHE'S ADMITTED HER DREAMS OF ONE DAY LEADING THE NATIONAL PARTY HAVE BEEN CRUSHED. OPPOSITION PARTIES, MEANWHILE, ARE CALLING THE REPORT A WHITEWASH. THERE ARE A LOT OF UNANSWERED QUESTIONS, AND IT DID RELY ON THEIR VERSION OF A VERY EXTENSIVE CONVERSATION. JOHN KEY'S INDICATING THERE'S A WAY BACK TO CABINET FOR JUDITH COLLINS. IT'S A MATTER FOR A) THERE BEING A SPACE, B) HER EARNING HER WAY BACK INTO CABINET. WE'VE GOT A VERY TALENTED CAUCUS, BUT THE REPORT COMPLETELY CLEARS HER. FOR NOW, THOUGH, MS COLLINS SAYS SHE'S HAPPY BEING THE MP FOR PAPAKURA. KATIE BRADFORD, ONE NEWS ONE NEWS POLITICAL EDITOR CORIN DANN HAS BEEN WATCHING TODAY'S POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND FILED THIS UPDATE. SO, VINDICATION FOR JUDITH COLLINS TODAY. THE QUESTION NOW IS CAN SHE MAKE IT BACK INTO CABINET. JOHN KEY'S NOT RULING IT OUT, AS WE HEARD. I WOULDN'T BE SURPRI` I WOULD BE SURPRISED IF WE SAW IT INSIDE A YEAR. BUT, LOOK, THERE'LL BE CASUALTIES IN A THREE-YEAR TERM. SO IF A VACANCY OPENS UP, SHE COULD COME BACK INTO THE PICTURE, PERHAPS IN A YEAR OR TWO. BUT LOOK, IT'S BEEN A BRUISING DAY FOR PRIME MINISTER JOHN KEY. HE'S ADAMANT THAT THIS REPORT INTO THE SIS HAS FOUND NOTHING TO IMPLICATE HIM, BUT CERTAINLY IT IS EMBARRASSING, GIVEN HE WAS OUT THERE ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL RUBBISHING THE CLAIMS BY NICKY HAGER, AND YET, THIS REPORT FROM CHERYL GWYN HAS BACKED UP THAT CLAIM AROUND THE SIS AND THE INFORMATION GIVEN TO BLOGGER CAMERON SLATER. WE SAW A PRETTY RESPONSE TOO FROM JOHN KEY TODAY. HE WAS RELEASING OTHER REPORTS AND VERY VERY ADAMANT THAT HE HAS DONE NOTHING WRONG AND TAKING IT BACK, IN FACT, TO THE OPPOSITION AND PHIL GOFF, ACCUSING HIM OF LEAKING THE REPORT EARLY. SO WE'VE SEEN A PRETTY BRUISING DAY, AND I'D EXPECT THIS TO CONTINUE AT PARLIAMENT FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS. AUSTRALIAN CRICKETER PHILLIP HUGHES IS TONIGHT FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE IN HOSPITAL AFTER BEING HIT BY A BOUNCER IN A PROVINCIAL MATCH IN SYDNEY. HE'S IN A CRITICAL CONDITION AND HAS BEEN PUT INTO AN INDUCED COMA. CHANNEL NINE'S DAMIAN RYAN REPORTS. THE CENTRE OF THE SYDNEY CRICKET GROUND AND ALARM AND FEAR FOR A FORMER TEAMMATE. PHIL HUGHES UNCONSCIOUS. DAVE WARNER AND OTHERS IN THE MIDDLE DISTRESSED AND DESPERATE TO TRY AND HELP HIM. MOMENTS BEFORE, HUGHES WAS AT THE CREASE FIGHTING FOR A TEST SPOT WHEN HE FACED UP TO A BOUNCER FROM NEW SOUTH WALES PACEMAN SEAN ABBOTT. THE HELMET WAS NO HELP, THE BALL SPEARING UP AND HITTING HIM SQUARE ON THE NECK. HUGHES REELED AWAY, STAGGERING FOR A FEW MOMENTS AND THEN COLLAPSING. THE FIRST PERSON TO REACH HIM WAS THE BOWLER, REALISING THE OPENING BATSMAN WAS IN REAL TROUBLE. SIREN WAILS STILL UNCONSCIOUS AND IN A CRITICAL CONDITION, HE WAS THEN RUSHED TO ST VINCENT'S HOSPITAL. STAFF WERE WAITING FOR HIM. PHIL HUGHES IMMEDIATELY UNDERWENT SCANS, AND NOW IS IN A FIERCE FIGHT FOR HIS LIFE. HE'S IN A CRITICAL CONDITION. HE ARRIVED IN A CRITICAL CONDITION, AND HE REMAINS IN A CRITICAL CONDITION. HE'S UNDERGOING SURGERY AS WE SPEAK. THE WORD HAD SPREAD, AND THE CRICKET WORLD WAS NOW IN A STATE OF DISBELIEF. BACK AT THE GROUND, THE GAME WAS ABANDONED FOR THE DAY. PLAYERS AND FANS WERE SAID TO BE IN TEARS, WHILE CRICKET OFFICIALS LINED UP TO WISH HIM WELL. HE'S A REALLY POPULAR GUY, NOT JUST HERE IN AUSTRALIA BUT AROUND THE WORLD. I JUST HAD A MESSAGE FROM THE NZ CRICKETERS, WHO ARE IN THE UAE, SENDING THEIR BEST` CONCERNS AND BEST WISHES. AS A CRICKETER, PHIL HUGHES HAS ALWAYS BEEN A FIGHTER, NEVER GIVING UP ON HIS DREAM TO WEAR THE BAGGY GREEN. NOW HE NEEDS THAT SPIRIT TO STAY ALIVE. FOR THE FIRST TIME, WE CAN SHOW YOU A DRAMATIC IMAGE OF THE MOMENT AN ABANDONED BABY WAS RESCUED FROM A SYDNEY DRAIN. THE WEEK OLD BOY WAS BROUGHT TO THE SURFACE BY POLICE AFTER ALLEGEDLY BEING DUMPED IN THE PIT BY HIS MOTHER FIVE DAYS EARLIER. MANY BABIES HAVE AT LEAST FOUR TO SEVEN DAYS' WORTH OF FLUID FROM THE SECOND THEY'RE BORN. WE KNOW THAT THE MOTHER'S MILK DOESN'T COME IN UNTIL DAY FOUR, SO BABIES NEED NOT A LOT OF FLUID UNTIL DAY FOUR. THE MOTHER, WHO HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER, HAD KEPT HER PREGNANCY SECRET FROM HER FAMILY AND FORMER PARTNER. A TEENAGE SCHOOL GIRL WHO SAYS SHE WAS RAPED BY TWO MALE STUDENTS HAS TOLD THE HIGH COURT AT NEW PLYMOUTH SHE WAS SO DRUNK SHE DIDN'T KNOW IT HAD HAPPENED. THE ENCOUNTER, WHICH THE DEFENCE ARGUES THE YOUNG WOMAN AGREED TO, WAS FILMED AND POSTED ON FACEBOOK. HADYN JONES HAS BEEN IN COURT. THE GIRL (18) TOLD THE COURT SHE ONLY FOUND OUT SHE WAS ALLEGEDLY RAPED THE NEXT MORNING AFTER HAVING THIS TEXT CONVERSATION WITH A FRIEND. WHAT THE DEFENCE CLAIMS WAS A THREESOME, OR WHAT THE PROSECUTION ARGUES WAS SEXUAL ASSAULT, TOOK PLACE IN THIS BED AT THIS HOUSE IN OAKURA. TWO BOYS, THEN AGED 18, ARE FACING AN ASSORTMENT OF RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT CHARGES. IT WAS FILMED IN PART BY THIS MAN, JACK GREENSLADE. HE WAS CONVICTED IN JANUARY OF MAKING AND BROADCASTING AN INTIMATE RECORDING. THE GIRL, WHO WAS 17 AT THE TIME OF THE ALLEGED ASSAULT, TOLD THE COURT SHE HAD A TEXT CONVERSATION WITH ONE OF THE ACCUSED THE DAY AFTER THE INCIDENT. IT WENT LIKE THIS: LATER, SHE HAS ANOTHER TEXT CONVERSATION WITH THE ACCUSED. THE AFTERNOON AFTER THE PARTY, THE COMPLAINANT CAME HERE TO THE NEW PLYMOUTH POLICE STATION, WHERE SHE LAID A COMPLAINT. SHE WAS THEN MEDICALLY EXAMINED, AND LATER, IN TEXT MESSAGES TO FRIENDS, REMARKED: NAME SUPPRESSION FOR THE ACCUSED MAY BE LIFTED TOMORROW MORNING, SUBJECT TO A RULING FROM THE COURT OF APPEAL IN WELLINGTON. HADYN JONES, ONE NEWS. ONE NEWS UNDERSTANDS THE CAR AT THE CENTRE OF A POLICE CHASE LAST NIGHT WAS CARRYING A SUSPECTED DRUG MULE, WHO'D ALLEGEDLY JUST BROUGHT DRUGS INTO CHRISTCHURCH. POLICE SAY THE PURSUIT ENDED WHEN THE FLEEING CAR RAMMED INTO A POLICE VEHICLE. THREE ELDERLY PEOPLE IN AN ONCOMING CAR WERE SERIOUSLY INJURED, AND TWO OF THE PASSENGERS IN THE FLEEING CAR ARE ALSO IN HOSPITAL. A FEMALE PASSENGER (32) IS NOW UNDER POLICE GUARD AND FACING DRUGS CHARGES. THE DRIVER HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH THREE COUNTS OF RECKLESS DRIVING CAUSING INJURY AND ONE OF FAILING TO STOP FOR POLICE. THE SEARCH FOR AN ELDERLY MAN WHO FELL OVERBOARD FROM A CRUISE SHIP SAILING FROM AUCKLAND TO AUSTRALIA HAS BEEN CALLED OFF. THE AUSTRALIAN MARITIME AUTHORITY SAYS CCTV FOOTAGE FROM THE SUN PRINCESS SHOWS THE MAN FALLING 25M INTO THE WATER. THE 84-YEAR-OLD WAS REPORTED MISSING MORE THAN 24 HOURS AGO OFF THE COAST OF SYDNEY. THE SHIP RETRACED ITS PATH BUT FAILED TO FIND HIM. AUSTRALIAN SEARCHERS SAY THEY'VE RECEIVED MEDICAL ADVICE THAT THE MAN IS UNLIKELY TO HAVE SURVIVED IN THE ROUGH CONDITIONS. REMOTE CONTROLLED DRONES ARE BECOMING MORE AND MORE POPULAR IN THE SKIES AND ARE SEEN BY SOME AS THE ULTIMATE TOY. BUT FAR FROM BEING TOYS, THESE HIGH-TECH DEVICES CAN BE HIGHLY DANGEROUS. ERIN CONROY LOOKS AT PLANS FOR NEW SAFETY RULES. THIS SUMMER, YOU MIGHT HEAR A LOT MORE OF THIS... DRONE RUMBLES ...AND SEE A LOT MORE OF THIS. BOTH LAUGH STRANGE BEHAVIOUR, INDEED, BUT IT'S ALL PART OF THE KIT WHEN YOU'RE A DRONE ENTHUSIAST. YOU'RE ON A DRONE! I'M ON A DRONE. OK. I LOVE PHOTOGRAPHY. AND IT'S A SERIOUS EXTENSION OF PHOTOGRAPHY. SO YOU CAN FLY THEM DOWN A BEACH, AND YOU SHOW SOMEONE THE VIDEO, AND THEY GO, 'WOW. HOW DID YOU DO THAT?' THE PROBLEM IS, BECAUSE THEY'RE SO NEW, THERE ARE NO SPECIFIC RULES ABOUT USING THEM. BECAUSE THESE PEOPLE THAT ARE BUYING THESE AIRCRAFT HAVE NEVER BEEN INVOLVED IN AVIATION BEFORE, THEY DON'T ACTUALLY REALISE THAT THERE ARE RULES THAT ARE THERE TO PROTECT THEIR SAFETY. THE CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY RECEIVES DOZENS OF CALLS A WEEK ABOUT USING DRONES, BUT ALSO REPORTS OF PEOPLE NOT USING THEM PROPERLY. THE MAIN ONE IS PEOPLE FLYING TOO CLOSE TO AIRFIELDS, FLYING AROUND LARGE GROUPS OF PEOPLE, WHICH IF THEY LOSE CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT, COULD CAUSE INJURY OR EVEN WORSE. AFTER INCIDENTS LIKE THIS, AMERICA'S CHANGING ITS RULES, AND SO ARE WE. IT'S PROPOSED USERS WILL BE DIVIDED INTO HIGH AND LOW RISK. HIGH-RISK FLYERS WITH MORE SOPHISTICATED DRONES WILL NEED TO GET A QUALIFICATION, AND EVERYDAY USERS WILL NEED TO STICK TO STRICT RULES, LIKE STAYING AT LEAST 4 K AWAY FROM AN AIRPORT AND FLYING NO HIGHER THAN 120M. YOU CAN HAVE FUN AND BE SAFE AT THE SAME TIME. SUBMISSIONS ON THE PROPOSED RULES ARE OPEN THIS WEEK. THEY'LL BE SET BY MID NEXT YEAR. UNTIL THEN,... HERE GOES. ...ALL USERS,... OOH! ...STAY SAFE. I'M JUST GOING TO SMOOTHLY LAND IT. ERIN CONROY, ONE NEWS. JUST AHEAD ` PRISON OFFICIALS ADMIT MAJOR MISTAKES AFTER A REVIEW OF A KILLER'S OVERSEAS ESCAPE. AND AFTER A SEASON TO FORGET, THE LOTUS FORMULA ONE TEAM FINALLY HAS SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE. CORRECTIONS HAS ADMITTED IT FAILED TO KEEP NZERS SAFE, AFTER ITS OWN REVIEW INTO HOW A CONVICTED MURDERER ESCAPED TO BRAZIL. THE CASE OF PHILLIP SMITH HAS PROMPTED A SCATHING REVIEW INTO THE HANDLING OF THE PAEDOPHILE'S CASE. ANDREW MORRISON REPORTS. CORRECTIONS' OWN REVIEW INTO HOW PHILIP SMITH ENDED UP HERE IN BRAZIL DOESN'T MINCE WORDS. IT DESCRIBES HIS TEMPORARY RELEASE FROM SPRINGHILL PRISON NEAR HAMILTON AS OVERLY AMBITIOUS AND MISINFORMED. HE'D RECEIVED TREATMENT FOR SEXUAL OFFENDING, BUT THE OTHER VIOLENT OFFENCES HAVEN'T BEEN TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION, AND I DON'T THINK HE SHOULD'VE BEEN ON TEMPORARY RELEASE. IT'S A SCATHING REPORT. IT SAYS THAT A PAEDOPHILE-MURDERER WAS BEING PREPARED FOR RELEASE, WHILE HE WAS ALSO BEING DESCRIBED AS DEVIOUS, MANIPULATIVE. THE DEPARTMENT'S PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICE IS ALSO UNDER FIRE. AN INQUIRY IS UNDERWAY INTO HOW A SENIOR SPECIALIST CLEARED SMITH FOR RELEASE. OH, NOBODY'S LOST THEIR JOB. WHAT WE'RE DOING IS INVESTIGATING THE CIRCUMSTANCES. THE CORRECTIONS BOSS HAS WRITTEN PERSONAL LETTERS APOLOGISING TO SMITH'S VICTIMS AND HOPES TO MEET WITH THEM. FOR NOW, 13 CHANGES ARE BEING INTRODUCED, INCLUDING ` RESTRICTING TEMPORARY RELEASES TO NO MORE THAN 12 HOURS; MULTI-AGENCY PANELS WILL REVIEW ALL CASES; NEARLY ALL ON RELEASE WILL BE FITTED WITH GPS TRACKING BRACELETS. THAT'LL COST AN EXTRA $1M A YEAR, AS 4700 PRISONERS ARE TEMPORARILY RELEASED ANNUALLY, AND SOME SAY THAT'S GOING TOO FAR. IF A PERSON IS ON TEMPORARY RELEASE AND NEEDS GPS MONITORING, THEY SHOULDN'T BE ON TEMPORARY RELEASE. THIS REVIEW WILL FEED INTO A WIDER GOVERNMENT INQUIRY, FOCUSING ON PEOPLE WITH DIFFERENT IDENTITIES IN PRISON AND THE ADEQUACY OF INFORMATION SHARING BETWEEN GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS. THAT IS EXPECTED TO TAKE SIX MONTHS TO COMPLETE. THE CORRECTIONS MINISTER IS ALSO SEEKING ADVICE ABOUT WHETHER YET ANOTHER INQUIRY ` A REVIEW OF THE LAW UNDERPINNING THE PRISON SYSTEM ` IS NEEDED, AND BRUSHING OFF ANY BLAME. WELL, I HAVEN'T BOTCHED ANYTHING. I CAME INTO THIS ROLE SIX WEEKS AGO. I OBVIOUSLY HAVE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE PORTFOLIO. MEANWHILE, THERE IS NO WORD ON THE TIMING OF SMITH'S EXTRADITION. ANDREW MORRISON, ONE NEWS. A RELATIVE OF ONE OF SMITH'S VICTIMS SAYS THE APOLOGY FROM CORRECTIONS HAS DONE NOTHING TO EASE THE TRAUMA. SHE SAYS SINCE SMITH'S ESCAPE, THE VICTIM HASN'T BEEN COPING. HE SLIPPED BACKWARDS PROBABLY... TO 10 TO 15 YEARS AGO. ALL HIS FEARS ARE RIGHT BACK, RIGHT ON HIS FOREFRONT. HE'S HAVING TROUBLE COPING WITH LIFE ITSELF RIGHT NOW, AND THIS IS ALL BECAUSE OF THIS ONE PERSON. WE DON'T WANT HIM BACK IN THE COUNTRY. WE FIGURED IF HE WAS OUT OF THE COUNTRY, WE'RE OK. SO, YES, THEY ARE FEARFUL. THEY'RE FEARFUL OF WHAT HE CAN PLAN NEXT. LYNDA SAYS THE FAMILY WANT TO TAKE THE CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT UP ON THEIR OFFER FOR A MEETING. AN EIGHT-STOREY BUILDING HAS COLLAPSED IN THE EGYPTIAN CAPITAL CAIRO, KILLING AT LEAST 10 PEOPLE. SEVEN OTHER PEOPLE WERE INJURED AND RESCUE TEAMS ARE SEARCHING FOR SURVIVORS TRAPPED IN THE RUBBLE. LOCAL OFFICIALS SAY THE COLLAPSE MAY HAVE BEEN CAUSED BY THE UNAUTHORISED CONSTRUCTION OF SEVERAL EXTRA LEVELS ON THE BUILDING. EVER WONDERED WHAT FORMULA 1 TEAMS GET UP TO WHEN THEY'RE NOT RACING AROUND A TRACK? THE LOTUS TEAM HAD A SEASON TO FORGET BUT CAN NOW CLAIM A TRUCK JUMPING WORLD RECORD WITH THIS HAIR-RAISING STUNT, FILMED FOR A TV AD. DRIVEN BY A STUNTMAN WHO WORKED ON THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS FILMS, THE TEAM'S CAR TRANSPORTER JUMPED MORE THAN 26M, ALMOST DOUBLING THE PREVIOUS RECORD. JUST AHEAD ` WE'VE GOT ALL YOUR WEATHER. AND CHECK THIS OUT ` 70-YEAR-OLD HOLIDAY FOOTAGE. BUT FILMED BY WHOM? AND WILL YOU RECOGNISE ANYONE IN THE IMAGES? A 70-YEAR-OLD HOME VIDEO SHOT BY AN AMERICAN TOURIST ON HOLIDAY IN NZ HAS SPARKED SOMETHING OF A MANHUNT. THESE IMAGES OF LIFE IN 1940S NZ WERE DISCOVERED ON OLD FILM REELS AT A CALIFORNIA GARAGE SALE. AN AMERICAN HISTORIAN HAS HAD THE 16MM FILMS DIGITISED, HOPING IT'LL JOG SOMEONE'S MEMORY SO HE CAN TRY TO FIND OUT THE IDENTITY OF THE TOURIST. TIME NOW TO LOOK AT YOUR WEATHER. FOR WEATHER, SEE ONENEWS.CO.NZ 'TOO LATE FOR LOVERS', GIN WIGMORE. 'TOO LATE FOR LOVERS', GIN WIGMORE. AND IT'S CERTAINLY TOO LATE FOR THIS NEWSREADER. THANKS FOR KEEPING US COMPANY FROM THE TONIGHT TEAM. POMARIE ATU RA. CAPTIONS BY INGRID LAUDER AND AMY PARK. CAPTIONS WERE MADE POSSIBLE WITH FUNDING FROM NZ ON AIR.