TONIGHT ` JOHN KEY DECIDES THE BEST DEFENCE IS A GOOD OFFENCE AS THE WHALE OIL HEADACHE REFUSES TO GO AWAY. THE DRUMMER FOR AC/DC HOLDS COURT OUTSIDE COURT, WITH A BEMUSED ARRIVAL AND BIZARRE EXIT. FEARS GROW FOR SERIOUSLY INJURED CRICKETER PHIL HUGHES, WHO CONTINUES TO FIGHT FOR HIS LIFE. DUE TO THE LIVE NATURE OF TONIGHT, WE APOLOGISE FOR THE LACK OF CAPTIONS FOR SOME ITEMS. DIRTY POLITICS ` IT'S THE SAGA JOHN KEY JUST CAN'T SEEM TO SHAKE. AND TONIGHT THERE'S BEEN A WHOLE NEW TWIST THAT'S SEEN THE PRIME MINISTER FORCED TO CORRECT AN ANSWER HE GAVE IN PARLIAMENT ABOUT COMMUNICATION HE HAD WITH BLOGGER CAMERON SLATER. IT ALL COMES OUT OF THE RELEASE OF TWO REPORTS, ONE INTO THE SIS AND THE OTHER INTO JUDITH COLLINS. POLITICAL EDITOR CORIN DANN EXPLAINS. WHAT WE'VE SEEN TONIGHT IS A VERY RARE AND EXTRAORDINARY SITUATION WHERE THE PRIME MINISTER HAS HAD TO COME BACK AND MAKE A CLARIFICATION IN PARLIAMENT. IT'S A VERY SERIOUS MATTER TO MISLEAD PARLIAMENT IN ANY WAY. NOW, IT ALL UNFOLDED AFTER HE WAS QUESTIONED EARLIER IN THE DAY BY MEGAN WOODS ABOUT WHETHER HE HAD HAD TEXT OR COMMUNICATIONS WITH CAMERON SLATER. HERE IS WHAT HE WAS ASKED. DID HE HAVE COMMUNICATIONS WITH CAMERON SLATER BETWEEN THE 23RD AND 25TH OF NOVEMBER REGARDING THE CHISHOLM INQUIRY OR THE INSPECTOR GENERAL'S INQUIRY? MR SPEAKER, NO. SO, NOT LONG BEFORE 6 O'CLOCK, JOHN KEY CAME BACK TO PARLIAMENT TO MAKE THAT CLARIFICATION. NOW, HE SAYS HE MISINTERPRETED THE QUESTION. HE THOUGHT WHEN HE ANSWERED NO, HE WAS REFERRING TO THE COLLINS INQUIRY. REMEMBER THERE ARE TWO INQUIRIES THAT HAVE BEEN RELEASED OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS, ONE RELATING TO JUDITH COLLINS AND ONE WHICH IS THE SPY REPORT. HERE IS HIS CLARIFICATION. ON MONDAY THE 24TH OF NOVEMBER, I RECEIVED AN UNSOLICITED TEXT MESSAGE FROM MR SLATER WITH A REFERENCE TO THE IGIS REPORT. THERE WAS A VERY SHORT EXCHANGE WHERE I BRIEFLY ACKNOWLEDGED THAT TEXT MESSAGE. NOW, ALL THIS UNFOLDED PRETTY DRAMATICALLY LATE IN THE AFTERNOON HERE AT PARLIAMENT AFTER A SCREEN SHOT EMERGED OF COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN CAMERON SLATER AND ANOTHER BLOGGER, IN WHICH CAMERON SLATER WAS BRAGGING ABOUT KNOWING THE CONTENTS OF BOTH THAT COLLINS INQUIRY AND THE SPY INQUIRY. NOW, CAMERON SLATER SAYS, IN FACT, WHAT HE WAS DOING WITH THAT BLOGGER WAS TRYING TO TEST HIM. I MEAN, HE'S FAILED IT. HE'S PROMPTLY GONE AND LEFT THAT PROBABLY TO ANNETTE KING, WHO HE KEEPS IN CLOSE COMMUNICATIONS WITH, AND THEY'RE RUNNING THEIR OWN LITTLE DIRTY POLITICS SCAM THEMSELVES. NOW, CAMERON SLATER CONFIRMS THAT HE DID TEXT THE PRIME MINISTER, BUT SAYS HE ONLY TEXTED IN RELATION TO PHIL GOFF BEING BEHIND THE LEAK OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE SPY REPORT. NOW, LABOUR TONIGHT, ANDREW LITTLE, HE SAYS THIS IS A VERY WORRYING DEVELOPMENT THAT THE PRIME MINISTER HAS HAD TO COME BACK AND MAKE THIS CORRECTION. THE PRIME MINISTER GAVE AN ANSWER TO A QUESTION IN PARLIAMENT TODAY THAT WAS WRONG, AND I THINK PEOPLE WILL DRAW THEIR OWN CONCLUSIONS. SO, THIS ALL, OF COURSE, COMES AFTER WHAT HAS ALREADY BEEN, OR ALREADY WAS, A VERY FRAUGHT DAY IN PARLIAMENT FOR JOHN KEY. AND JUST BEFORE WE CAME ON AIR, THE GOVERNMENT'S CHIEF PRESS SECRETARY, SIA ASTON, RELEASED THE FULL TRANSCRIPT OF JOHN KEY'S TEXTS WITH BLOGGER CAMERON SLATER FROM MONDAY NIGHT WAS RELEASED. IN IT, SLATER WRITES THAT MR KEY RESPONDS WITH, 'IT'S A JOKE, ISN'T IT? 'THEY WILL ATTACK JASON FOR TALKING TO YOU' 'AND THEY BREAK THE CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT. CLASSIC LAB.' SLATER GOES ON TO SAY HOW ANGRY HE IS, ADDING WHO HE THINKS IS A HACKER. THE PRIME MINISTER TEXTS BACK, HOPEFULLY IT WILL ALL COME OUT IN TIME.' MR KEY DIDN'T REFER TO THE CONTENTS OF THE IGIS REPORT ONE PERSON'S DIED AND ANOTHER'S IN HOSPITAL AFTER A VAN COLLIDED WITH TWO MOTORCYCLES NEAR QUEENSTOWN. THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED ON STATE HIGHWAY 6, ALSO KNOWN AS KINGSTON ROAD, LATE THIS AFTERNOON. WITH THE ROAD CLOSED TO ALL TRAFFIC, POLICE SAY DRIVERS CAN EXPECT A LONG WAIT WHILE THE WRECKAGE IS BEING CLEARED. POLICE SERIOUS CRASH INVESTIGATORS ARE LOOKING INTO HOW THE CRASH HAPPENED. AND A MAN IS MISSING AFTER A BOAT WITH FIVE PASSENGERS ABOARD SANK ON LAKE ROTORUA THIS EVENING. POLICE AND COASTGUARD WERE ALERTED WHEN LOCALS CALLED TO TELL THEM THERE WAS A VESSEL IN TROUBLE. A LOCAL RESIDENT USED HIS OWN BOAT TO RESCUE FOUR OF THE MEN, BUT THE FIFTH MAN STILL HASN'T BEEN FOUND. THE SEARCH HAS BEEN SUSPENDED FOR THE NIGHT AND WILL RESUME TOMORROW MORNING. FROM A MEDIA POINT OF VIEW, IT WAS A COURT APPEARANCE WHICH ALMOST WROTE ITSELF, BUT AS FAR AS IMPRESSING THE JUDGE GOES, AC/DC DRUMMER PHIL RUDD MAY WANT TO RETHINK HIS APPROACH. THE 60-YEAR-OLD IS ACCUSED OF POSSESSING DRUGS AND THREATENING TO KILL, BUT FROM THE MINUTE HE ARRIVED AT TAURANGA COURT UNTIL HE LEFT, RUDD PROVIDED A SPECTACLE. RUTH WYNN-WILLIAMS WAS THERE. DO YOU THINK YOU'LL BE ENTERING A PLEA TODAY? I'M NOT SURE. I'M NOT A LAWYER. NO, NOT A LAWYER, BUT A ROCK STAR. WHICH WAY DO I GO? THIS WAY. THANKS. AND TODAY, SLIGHTLY CONFUSED. PHIL RUDD'S SECOND APPEARANCE IN COURT, AND THE VETERAN ROCKER PROVED ONE THING ` HE KNOWS HOW TO RUN THE SHOW. WHEN HE FOUND HIS WAY TO THE DOCK, THE AGING ROCK REBEL APPEARED TO BE UNDER STRICT ORDERS. BUT INSIDE, AT LEAST, THE PERFORMANCE WAS BRIEF. PHIL RUDD APPEARED BEFORE A HIGH-COURT JUDGE TODAY BUT SINCE THE MORE SERIOUS CHARGE OF ATTEMPTING TO GET SOMEONE TO MURDER TWO OTHER PEOPLE WAS DROPPED, HE'LL BE BACK BEFORE A DISTRICT COURT NEXT MONTH. AS AC/DC GO AHEAD WITHOUT HIM, RELEASING ROCK OR BUST,... ROCK MUSIC PLAYS ...PHIL RUDD HAS NO CHOICE. HE'S STILL ACCUSED OF POSSESSING DRUGS ` METHAMPHETAMINE AND CANNABIS ` AND THREATENING TO KILL. THE CHARGES COULD END LIFE ON TOUR, BUT FOR NOW, THE HARD ROCK HIGH LIFE SEEMS TO BE HIS WAY. DO YOU HAVE A MESSAGE FOR YOUR FANS? NO. I HAVEN'T GOT ANY FANS. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE ORIGINAL CHARGES THAT WERE LAID AGAINST YOU, MR RUDD? CAN I SAY BULL<BLEEP> ON TV? MR RUDD, WILL YOU BE TAKING ANY ACTION AGAINST POLICE? OH, WHAT POLICE? IN THE SPOTLIGHT, BUT BEFORE YOU THINK PHIL RUDD'S GETTING CARRIED AWAY,... HE IS SAID TO BE CONSIDERING A CASE AGAINST POLICE. # HIGHWAY TO HELL. # NOW, THOUGH, THE ONLY HIGHWAY HE'S TAKING IS HOME,... TRUCK HORN BLARES ...BAILED FOR ANOTHER WEEK. RUTH WYNN-WILLIAMS, ONE NEWS IN THE US ANGER CONTINUES TO GROW OVER THE DECISION NOT TO CHARGE A WHITE POLICE OFFICER FOR SHOOTING DEAD A BLACK TEENAGER. THESE ARE THE LIVE PICTURES COMING IN FROM FERGUSON, MISSOURI, WHERE WIDESPREAD VIOLENCE ERUPTED LAST NIGHT. MEANWHILE, THE OFFICER WHO FIRED THE FATAL SHOT HAS GIVEN HIS FIRST TV INTERVIEW AND SAYS HE WOULDN'T CHANGE A THING. HERE'S CHANNEL NINE'S CHRISTINE AHERN. AS PARTS OF FERGUSON STILL SMOULDER, THEY'RE TAKING NO CHANCES OF A REPEAT OF LAST NIGHT'S VIOLENCE. MAN: THEY HAVE SUCCEEDED IN OVERTURNING THAT POLICE CAR ON THIS STREET. LOOK OUT. LOOK OUT. LOOK OUT. CLAMOURING MORE THAN 200 NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS ARRIVED TO BACK UP POLICE. THEIR HUGE AND VERY VISUAL PRESENCE PREVIOUS CAPTION INCORRECT 2000 NATIONAL GUARDS KEPT A LID ON THE ANGER FOR MOST OF THE TIME. AFTER DISPERSING TEAR GAS, THEY'VE NOW BROUGHT IN THE ARMOURED VEHICLES ` HEAVILY ARMED ` TELLING EVERYBODY TO GET OFF THE STREET, OTHERWISE THEY WILL BE ARRESTED. PA: STOP DESTROYING PROPERTY HERE IN FERGUSON, MISSOURI. A FEW ARRESTS, BUT NOTHING LIKE YESTERDAY. BACK UP! THE FURY HAS SPREAD TO OTHER US CITIES, WITH THOUSANDS TAKING TO THE STREETS FROM LOS ANGELES RIGHT ACROSS TO NEW YORK. IN MINNEAPOLIS, A NEAR TRAGEDY WHEN A CAR DROVE INTO THE CROWD. CLAMOURING, THUDDING POLICE OFFICER DARREN WILSON, NOW CLEARED OF ANY CRIMES, SPEAKING PUBLICLY FOR THE FIRST TIME, TOLD HOW THE UNARMED MICHAEL BROWN (18) ATTACKED HIM AND TRIED TO GET HIS GUN. AT THAT TIME, I GAVE MYSELF ANOTHER MENTAL CHECK ` YOU KNOW, CAN I SHOOT THIS GUY? YOU KNOW, LEGALLY, CAN I? AND THE QUESTION THAT I ANSWERED MYSELF WAS, I HAVE TO. IF I DON'T, HE WILL KILL ME IF HE GETS TO ME. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DEMONSTRATION LAST NIGHT, THE VICTIM'S MOTHER, DEVASTATED THE POLICE OFFICER WHO KILLED HER SON WON'T BE CHARGED. AND THEN CAME THIS MOMENT. HER PARTNER, THE DEAD BOY'S STEPFATHER, SCREAMING TO BURN THE PLACE DOWN. THE RIOTING THAT FOLLOWED RESULTED IN MORE THAN A DOZEN BUSINESSES AND A CHURCH BEING BURNED TO THE GROUND. THE MAIN COMPLAINT WAS THAT JUSTICE WAS NOT DONE. IF THE 18-YEAR-OLD HAD BEEN WHITE, A WHITE POLICE OFFICER WOULD'VE BEEN LESS INCLINED TO SHOOT TO KILL. THAT POLICE OFFICER SAYS HE WAS ONLY DOING HIS DUTY. AND THE TENSION IN MISSOURI'S SPREAD ACROSS AMERICA, DEMONSTRATORS TURNING OUT IN 170 CITIES. CROWDS GATHERED FOR A SECOND NIGHT FOR A LARGELY PEACEFUL PROTEST IN NEW YORK. I HAVE SO MANY, LIKE, YOUNG MALE BLACK FRIENDS THAT OBVIOUSLY COULD GET SHOT AT ANY MOMENT. FOR WALKING IN THE WRONG NEIGHBOURHOOD. > FOR WALKING IN THE WRONG NEIGHBOURHOOD OR WEARING A HOODIE OR BEING THREATENING, PERCEIVED AS A THREAT. IN ATLANTA, FOUR PROTESTERS WERE ARRESTED AFTER A CROWD FORMED A HUMAN CHAIN TO BLOCK A MAJOR HIGHWAY. BUT POLICE LINING MOTORWAY RAMPS IN BOSTON WERE ABLE TO BLOCK PROTESTORS THERE. FANS, TEAMMATES AND CRICKETERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD ARE DESPERATELY HOPING FOR GOOD NEWS ON PHIL HUGHES' CONDITION. THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETER REMAINS IN AN INDUCED COMA TONIGHT, MORE THAN 24 HOURS AFTER A SICKENING BLOW TO THE HEAD. DANIELLE STANBURY HAS THE LATEST. FOR PHIL HUGHES' FAMILY AND TEAMMATES, TODAY'S BEEN A WAITING GAME. THEY ARE COMPLETELY GUTTED AND COMPLETELY SHATTERED. PHIL IS... PHIL IS A VERY LOVED AND RESPECTED AND ADMIRED PLAYER. HE'S JUST A TERRIFIC GUY. AS SOON AS THIS BOUNCER STRUCK THE BATSMAN, IT WAS OBVIOUS HE WAS IN TROUBLE. BUT TODAY IT'S BEEN REVEALED HE WOULDN'T HAVE MADE IT AT ALL IF THE TEAM DOCTOR HADN'T BROUGHT HIM BACK TO LIFE. HE WAS TREMENDOUS YESTERDAY, DID A WONDERFUL JOB. HE'S GOT US THIS FAR, AND WE'RE VERY GRATEFUL FOR HIM. IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE ACCIDENT, CONCERNS ARE INEVITABLY BEING RAISED ABOUT PLAYER PROTECTION. HUGHES WAS WEARING AN OLDER-STYLE HELMET, AND WHILE IT'S NOT KNOWN WHAT DIFFERENCE IT WOULD HAVE MADE IF HE WAS WEARING THE NEW HEAVIER, HARDER VERSION, THE ENGLISH MANUFACTURER SAYS IT'LL LOOK AT MAKING FURTHER CHANGES. QUESTIONS TOO ABOUT PRESSURE TO PERFORM AS INCREASINGLY BATSMEN PLAY SHOTS THAT COULD BE LEFT. IT'S PART OF THE ONE-DAY PSYCHE NOW, THE TWENTY20 PSYCHE. THERE'S ALWAYS A CHANCE OF GETTING A TOP EDGE IN TO YOUR HEAD, BUT THAT'S THE RISK THEY TAKE. THE MAJORITY OF THE CRICKET COMMUNITY, THOUGH, AGREE YOU CAN'T CHANGE THE GAME AND A SHORT DELIVERY IS PART OF IT. I KNOW FIRST HAND THAT NO ONE GOES OUT THERE TO TRY AND MAIM A BATSMAN. NO ONE GOES OUT THERE TO TRY AND HURT A BATSMAN. TODAY CRICKET STADIUMS ACROSS AUSTRALIA WERE SILENT. IT'S REALLY A SADDENING INCIDENT, AND FINGERS CROSSED HE CAN SHOW THE SAME FIGHT AS HE SHOWED THROUGHOUT HIS WHOLE CAREER. SEAN ABBOTT, THE PLAYER WHO BOWLED THE BALL, HAS ALSO BEEN AT HUGHES' BEDSIDE. OVERNIGHT, PHIL HUGHES WILL UNDERGO BRAIN SCANS AS DOCTORS TRY TO UNDERSTAND THE EXTENT OF THE DAMAGE. ONE THING THEY'RE SURE OF ` THE NEXT 24 HOURS WILL BE CRUCIAL. DANIELLE STANBURY, ONE NEWS. BACK HERE, INTERNET MOGUL KIM DOTCOM SAYS HE UNDERESTIMATED THE THREAT OF LEGAL ACTION THAT'S LEFT HIM FIGHTING EXTRADITION FROM NZ. THE 40-YEAR-OLD'S TOLD AN ONLINE FORUM HE'S BROKE, FACING JAIL AND THAT ENTERING POLITICS TURNED THE COUNTRY AGAINST HIM. TODAY I'M A PARIAH. THE WITCH-HUNT WORKED, AND EVERYONE WANTS TO SEE ME BURN. AND NEXT THURSDAY I MIGHT GO TO JAIL BECAUSE OF THAT. AUTHORITIES WANT THE FLAMBOYANT GERMAN EXTRADITED TO THE UNITED STATES TO FACE COPYRIGHT CHARGES. DOTCOM'S DUE BACK IN COURT FOR ANOTHER BAIL HEARING TOMORROW. THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS BOSS AT THE CENTRE OF THE MALAYSIAN DIPLOMAT BOTCH-UP IS STEPPING DOWN. MFAT CHIEF EXECUTIVE JOHN ALLEN HAD TO APOLOGISE FOR HIS OFFICIALS ALLOWING MUHAMMAD RIZALMAN TO LEAVE NZ AFTER HE WAS CHARGED WITH SEXUAL ASSAULT. MR ALLEN'S THE FIRST NON-DIPLOMAT TO HEAD THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTRY AND PRESIDED OVER MAJOR RESTRUCTURING. HE LEAVES MFAT IN JANUARY TO BECOME CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE NZ RACING BOARD. OUR MOST ACCOMPLISHED SCIENTISTS HAVE BEEN RECOGNISED AT AN AWARDS CEREMONY IN WELLINGTON TONIGHT. THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF NZ GAVE ITS MOST PRESTIGIOUS HONOUR, THE RUTHERFORD MEDAL, TO MASSEY UNIVERSITY SCIENTIST PETER SCHWERDTFEGER FOR HIS WORLD-LEADING CONTRIBUTION TO FUNDAMENTAL CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS. OH, I'M ABSOLUTELY THRILLED. THE RUTHERFORD MEDAL, FOR ME, IS VERY SPECIAL, AND THE REASON IS BECAUSE I'VE ALWAYS ADMIRED RUTHERFORD'S WORK. FOR ME, RUTHERFORD IS A TRUE GIANT OF SCIENCE. RUTHERFORD IS IN THE SAME LEAGUE AS ALBERT EINSTEIN, HEISENBERG, SO FOR ME, RUTHERFORD IS UP THERE; I'M REALLY DOWN THERE. ALONG WITH THE TITLE, THE GERMAN-BORN PROFESSOR ALSO TAKES HOME $100,000. DUNEDIN'S BROADBAND CONNECTION IS ABOUT TO GET A WHOLE LOT SPEEDIER AFTER WINNING CHORUS' GIGATOWN COMPETITION. THAT MEANS THE CITY WILL HAVE ACCESS TO 1GB PER SECOND INTERNET FOR THREE YEARS, $200,000 TO SUPPORT ENTREPRENEURS AND $500,000 DOLLARS TO KICK-START COMMUNITY-RELATED DEVELOPMENTS. GIGATOWN NZ IS DUNEDIN. CHEERING, WHISTLING THIS IS JUST EXTRAORDINARY. IT'S THE CULMINATION OF NOT ONLY A LOT OF WORK BY THE DUNEDIN COMMUNITY, BUT A LOT OF WORK BY COMMUNITIES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AND BY CHORUS. IT TURNED INTO SOMETHING I DON'T THINK ANYBODY ENVISAGED, AND IT'S JUST FABULOUS TO WIN. DUNEDIN TOOK OUT THE TROPHY AHEAD OF WANAKA, TIMARU, GISBORNE AND NELSON. THE COMPETITION INVOLVED CREATING A PLAN FOR HOW SUPER-FAST INTERNET WOULD BE USED IN THE CITY AND PROMOTING THE CONTEST ON SOCIAL MEDIA, AND ANYONE ON TWITTER CAN ATTEST TO JUST HOW WELL DUNEDIN DID THAT. SHE MAY HAVE LEFT THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS EMPTY HANDED, BUT LORDE'S STILL PLENTY POPULAR IN THE US. THE SINGER'S APPEARED ON THE AMERICAN CHAT PROGRAMME THE TONIGHT SHOW TO PERFORM HER SONG 'YELLOW FLICKER BEAT'. # I'M DONE WITH IT. OOH! THIS IS THE START... # IT'S A FAMILIAR COUCH FOR THE 18-YEAR-OLD. SHE MADE HER US TV DEBUT WITH JIMMY FALLON LAST YEAR. A LOT'S CHANGED SINCE THEN, THOUGH ` LORDE IS NOW ABLE TO SHARE TALES OF MISCHIEF WITH TAYLOR SWIFT, ADMITTING SHE ONCE PRETENDED TO BE HER BESTIE'S MANAGER. WE KIND OF GOT TO THE END OF THE CONVERSATION, AND HE SAID, 'SO, I'LL LEAVE MY CARD. IS THIS YOUR MANAGER?' AND HE POINTS AT ME. AND JUST NO BEAT PASSED, AND SHE'S, LIKE, 'YEP.' AND SHE'S REALLY JUST REALLY QUICK, 'OH YEAH, THAT'S HER, YEAH. THAT'S MY MANAGER, YEAH. AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, I WAS TAYLOR SWIFT'S MANAGER, THIS, LIKE, TINY, KIND OF GOTHY, LIKE, HUNCHED, LIKE, PERSON. I WAS, LIKE,... (GROANS) I JUST HAVE TO PRETEND TO BE HER. AND THE WORST PART IS` 'HOW BIG'S THE VENUE? YEAH, YEAH.' AND I PERFORMED THAT NIGHT ON THAT STAGE ABOUT HALF AN HOUR LATER. SO THAT GUY MUST'VE BEEN, LIKE, 'HER MANAGER'S REALLY TALENTED.' LAUGHTER LORDE ALSO TALKED ABOUT WHY SHE CHOSE HER NOW WORLD-FAMOUS STAGE NAME, SAYING SHE WANTED SOMETHING ARISTOCRATIC WITH A FEMININE TWIST. HARD QUESTIONS ABOUT WHY PRISON STAFF DIDN'T CALL DOCTORS OVER A DYING PRISONER. THAT'S COMING UP. AND HOW AN AUSTRALIAN WOMAN'S BIT OF MUNDANE HOUSEWORK TURNED INTO A RESCUE DRAMA. DESPITE A PRISONER BEING 'THE COLOUR OF A CORPSE', A CORONER'S BEEN TOLD OTAGO PRISON STAFF DID NOT CALL A DOCTOR. WITHIN 24 HOURS, HE WAS DEAD. THAT EVIDENCE TODAY FROM CORRECTIONS OFFICERS ON DUTY WHEN JAI DAVIS DIED. MEGAN MARTIN'S BEEN AT THE HEARING. CORRECTIONS OFFICER CHRISTOPHER DALTON DESCRIBES THE MOMENT HE KNEW JAI DAVIS WAS CONCEALING DRUGS. SCO O'GORMON SAW PRISONER DAVIS REACHING UNDER HIS SUICIDE GOWN. WHILE THE STAFF WERE SEARCHING THE PRISONER, I FOUND A SMALL PLASTIC ZIPLOCK BAG UNDER HIS MATTRESS, WHICH HAD THE REMAINS OF A GREEN LEAF-LIKE SUBSTANCE. DAVIS DIED IN 2011 WHILE IN A SPECIAL OBSERVATION CELL AT OTAGO CORRECTIONS FACILITY. STAFF HAD INTERCEPTED PHONE CALLS, SO KNEW HE WAS COMING INTO THE PRISON CONCEALING DRUGS INTERNALLY. WE HAD TO ASSUME THAT HE'D REINSERTED THE REMAINDER INTO HIS RECTUM, EATEN IT OR MANAGED TO GET IT INTO THE DRAIN BY THE DOOR IN THE CELL. A NURSE AND DALTON HAD PREVIOUSLY SPOKEN TO DAVIS ABOUT THE RISK OF HOLDING DRUGS INTERNALLY. IF HE HAD ANY CONCEALED INSIDE HIM, IT COULD BURST AND MAKE HIM SICK OR KILL HIM. I ASKED IF HE UNDERSTOOD WHAT I HAD TOLD HIM. HE SAID 'I HAVE TAKEN NOTHING,' AND, 'I HAD NOTHING ON ME.' ANN MATENGA, THE CUSTODIAL SERVICES MANAGER ON DUTY, TOLD THE INQUEST THAT DESPITE 22 YEARS IN THE DEPARTMENT, SHE DIDN'T KNOW A MEDICAL OFFICER WAS A DOCTOR, NOT A NURSE. ANOTHER CORRECTIONS OFFICER ASKED PRISON NURSES SEVERAL TIMES IF DAVIS WOULD BE SEEN BY A DOCTOR. THIS NEVER HAPPENED. A CORRECTIONS OFFICER TOLD THE COURT THAT BY DAVIS' THIRD DAY IN THE CELL, HE WAS GREY IN COLOUR, WAS SCRATCHING HIS ARMS, HAD SUNKEN EYES, SLURRED SPEECH AND BREATH THAT SMELT LIKE FAECES, BUT HE SAID THE NURSE ASSESSING HIM AT THE TIME SAID HE WAS FINE. BY THE NEXT MORNING, JAI DAVIS WAS DEAD. 60 WITNESSES WILL BE HEARD FOR THE CASE, WHICH IS EXPECTED TO LAST FOR TWO WEEKS. MEGAN MARTIN, ONE NEWS. TO OVERSEAS NEWS, A CROWDED MARKET'S BECOME THE LATEST TARGET OF A TERROR ATTACK IN NIGERIA. AT LEAST 44 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED AFTER TWO FEMALE SUICIDE BOMBERS BLEW THEMSELVES UP. THE SECOND BLAST CAME AS RESCUE WORKERS TRIED TO HELP VICTIMS INJURED BY THE FIRST. NO ONE'S CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY, BUT SUSPICION'S FALLEN ON ISLAMIST GROUP BOKO HARAM. RESCUERS ARE SEARCHING FOR MORE THAN A DOZEN PEOPLE AFTER A BLOCK OF FLATS COLLAPSED IN EGYPT'S CAPITAL. AT LEAST 17 RESIDENTS WERE KILLED AS THEY SLEPT WHEN THE EIGHT-STOREY BUILDING IN CAIRO CRUMBLED IN SECONDS. OFFICIALS SAY THE BUILDING OWNER ILLEGALLY BUILT SEVERAL EXTRA FLOORS ON TOP OF THE ORIGINAL FOUR-STOREY STRUCTURE. POPE FRANCIS HAS GIVEN EUROPEAN LEADERS A REAL DRESSING DOWN, ACCUSING THE EU OF LOSING ITS SOUL. HE DESCRIBED IT AS HAGGARD, SAYING IT'S OUT OF TOUCH WITH ITS ORDINARY CITIZENS. TRANSLATOR: THE GREAT IDEAS WHICH ONCE INSPIRED EUROPE SEEM TO HAVE LOST THEIR ATTRACTION, ONLY TO BE REPLACED BY THE BUREAUCRATIC TECHNICALITIES OF ITS INSTITUTIONS. HE RECEIVED A STANDING OVATION, BUT HIS WHISTLE-STOP VISIT TO STRASBOURG DISGRUNTLED SOME, WHO ACCUSED HIM OF NEGLECTING EUROPE. INVESTIGATORS SEARCHING FOR MISSING MALAYSIA AIRLINES FLIGHT MH-370 SAY FRAGMENTS OF THE JET COULD SOON BEGIN WASHING UP ALONG THE COAST OF INDONESIA. NO TRACE OF THE PLANE HAS BEEN FOUND NINE MONTHS SINCE IT VANISHED AFTER TAKING OFF FROM KUALA LUMPUR, BOUND FOR BEIJING. IT'S BELIEVED THE PLANE CRASHED IN A REMOTE AREA OF THE INDIAN OCEAN AFTER MYSTERIOUSLY CHANGING COURSE. AN AUSTRALIAN WOMAN HAD TO BE RESCUED BY FIREFIGHTERS AFTER FALLING INTO A 3M-DEEP SINKHOLE. THE 45-YEAR-OLD WAS HANGING OUT THE WASHING IN HER MELBOURNE HOME WHEN THE GROUND OPENED UP BENEATH HER. THE WOMAN WAS FORCED TO TREAD IN WAIST-HIGH WATER FOR 20 MINUTES BEFORE FIREFIGHTERS PULLED HER TO SAFETY. THE ISSUE IS THE HOLE IN THE GROUND IS ONLY 500 DEEP` UH, 500 WIDE, BUT ACTUALLY OPENS UP VERY BIG INSIDE, SO THERE WAS NOTHING FOR HER TO GRAB ON TO TO TRY AND GET HERSELF OUT. THAT WAS INITIAL ACTION WAS TRYING TO GET OUT, AND SHE REALISED THERE WAS NOTHING TO GRAB ON TO. THERE WAS ONLY DIRT THERE, AND EVERY TIME SHE PUT HER HANDS UP, THE DIRT DISAPPEARED, SO THERE WAS NOTHING SHE COULD DO TO HELP HERSELF. ACCORDING TO LOCAL MEDIA, THE SINKHOLE FORMED ON THE SITE OF AN OLD WELL, WHICH HADN'T BEEN PROPERLY FILLED IN. JUST AHEAD ` YOUR THURSDAY WEATHER AND ALL IT WILL BRING. AND THE STRAY WHO GOT FED, THEN REFUSED TO LEAVE A GRUELLING TRIP. NOW TO A STORY THAT'S REALLY RATHER SWEET. IT'S ABOUT ARTHUR THE STRAY WHO JUST HAPPENED TO CATCH UP WITH SWEDISH ADVENTURERS ON A 700KM TREK THOUGH SOUTH AMERICA. THE BBC'S FIONA BRUCE WITH ARTHUR'S JOURNEY. WE'RE DOING OUR ACCLIMATION FOR THE WORLD CUP, AND, UH, GETTING READY FOR THE START. HIGH IN THE MOUNTAINS OF ECUADOR, TEAM PEAK PERFORMANCE WERE PREPARING FOR A GRUELLING RACE. WHAT NONE OF THEM KNEW WAS THEY'D PICK UP ANOTHER TEAMMATE ALONG THE WAY. THEY MET HIM SOMEWHERE IN THE AMAZON, RAGGED AND HUNGRY. THEY GAVE HIM A MEATBALL AND SHOOED HIM AWAY. BUT THE DOG HAD OTHER IDEAS. AS THEY CONTINUED THEIR 440-MILE RACE, HE NEVER LEFT THEIR SIDE. THE DEFINITION OF DOGGED. STRUCK BY HIS FEARLESSNESS, THEY NAMED HIM AFTER KING ARTHUR. ON THE KAYAK STAGE, HE STRUGGLED TO SWIM ALONGSIDE HIS NEW TEAMMATES, UNTIL THEY LIFTED HIM ON TO THE BOAT. WHERE THEY SLEPT, HE SLEPT. AND WHEN THEY FINALLY REACHED THE FINISH LINE TWO DAYS LATER, ARTHUR WAS WITH THEM. I THINK HE WAS THINKING THAT, 'OK, THIS IS MY CHANCE. THESE GUYS HAVE BEEN KIND TO ME. 'AND THAT MEANS SOMETHING. I'LL GO WITH THESE GUYS.' NEXT STOP, THE VET ` FOR PROBABLY THE FIRST TIME IN HIS LIFE. AND FOR THE TEAM, THE REALISATION THEY COULDN'T LEAVE HIM BEHIND. BY NOW HIS FAME HAD SPREAD, AND HE ARRIVED IN SWEDEN TO A HERO'S WELCOME. A SOUTH AMERICAN STRAY WHO'D WON HIS TEAMMATES' HEARTS AND TRAVELLED 6000 MILES TO A FIND A HOME WITH ONE OF THEM. NOW TO THE WEATHER. BIRTHDAY GIRL TINA TURNER PROVIDES THE BACKING MUSIC FOR WEATHER, SEE ONENEWS.CO.NZ THAT'S IT FROM US HERE ON TONIGHT. HERE ARE OUR SOCIAL MEDIA DETAILS IF YOU WANT TO GET IN TOUCH. THANKS FOR WATCHING. GOODNIGHT. CAPTIONS BY INGRID LAUDER AND ASHLEE SCHOLEFIELD. CAPTIONS WERE MADE POSSIBLE WITH FUNDING FROM NZ ON AIR. COPYRIGHT ABLE 2014