TONIGHT ` JACINDA ARDERN IN NEW YORK WITH BABY NEVE AT THE UNITED NATIONS, BUT IT'S A BUNGLE FROM BACK HOME THAT'S OVERSHADOWING HER AMERICAN VISIT. AND JUDGEMENT DAY LOOMS FOR BILL COSBY. THE DISGRACED ENTERTAINER AWAITS HIS SENTENCING AND WHETHER HE'LL GO TO JAIL. AND HE ADMITS HIS MISTAKE ` THE UNIVERSITY PROCTOR WHO ENTERED A STUDENT FLAT WITHOUT PERMISSION TO REMOVE DRUG PARAPHERNALIA. CAPTIONS BY SHRUTIKA GUNANAYAGAM AND CAMERON GRIGG. CAPTIONS WERE MADE WITH THE SUPPORT OF NZ ON AIR. COPYRIGHT ABLE 2018 IT WAS MEANT TO BE HER BIG UNITED NATIONS APPEARANCE, BUT IT WAS A DAMAGING SAGA HALF A WORLD AWAY THAT CAME BACK TO HAUNT JACINDA ARDERN ON HER NEW YORK VISIT. DEREK HANDLEY, THE MAN AT THE CENTRE OF THE CLARE CURRAN SACKING, RELEASED TEXTS BETWEEN HIM AND THE PRIME MINISTER. POLITICAL EDITOR JESSICA MUTCH MCKAY HAS THE DETAILS. THE PRIME MINISTER WALKS ON TO THE WORLD STAGE IN NEW YORK, BUT THE DISTRACTIONS OF DOMESTIC POLITICS HAVE FOLLOWED HER. SHE SAYS SHE'S BEEN OPEN AND HONEST ABOUT HER COMMUNICATION WITH ENTREPRENEUR DEREK HANDLEY. YOU DON'T BELIEVE THAT YOU'VE MISLED PARLIAMENT. NO, I DO NOT. IT COMES AFTER MR HANDLEY TOOK MATTERS INTO HIS OWN HANDS, RELEASING THE TEXTS AND EMAILS BETWEEN HIM AND THE GOVERNMENT HIMSELF. WE SHOULD BE OPERATING WITH OPEN AND TRANSPARENT GOVERNMENT, AND THE WAY IT'S BEEN HANDLED SO FAR HAS BEEN ANYTHING BUT. THESE ARE THE TEXTS. MR HANDLEY CONTACTED THE PRIME MINISTER ON APRIL 23RD. IN FIVE MESSAGES BACK AND FORWARD, THE PAIR CHAT. JACINDA ARDERN SAYS, 'LET'S CATCH UP WHEN YOU'RE BACK FOR GOOD PERHAPS?' HE MENTIONS, 'A NUMBER OF PEOPLE HAVE URGED ME TO CONSIDER THIS CTO THING,' REFERRING TO THE CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER ROLE. THE NEXT DAY HE FOLLOWS UP, ASKING FOR AN EMAIL ADDRESS. SHE REPLIES WITH HER EMAIL ADDRESS. THIS IS HOW THE PRIME MINISTER RESPONDED LAST WEEK. I CAN RULE OUT ANY DIRECT VERBAL COMMUNICATION. I HAVEN'T SPOKEN WITH MR HANDLEY IN AT LEAST A YEAR, MAYBE TWO. AS I SAY, MY BEST RECOLLECTION IS I RECEIVED A TEXT MESSAGE I DIDN'T DIRECTLY ENGAGE IN. DID SHE FLAT OUT IGNORE HIS TEXTS, NOT EVEN AN EMOJI? I DID NOT EVEN SEND AN EMOJI. SIMON BRIDGES SAYS THAT DOESN'T MATCH UP. THE PRIME MINISTER SAID THERE WAS, TO ME IN QUESTIONS, ONE TEXT. SHE SAID THAT SHE DIDN'T EVEN DIGNIFY IT WITH A RESPONSE. SHE MADE CLEAR A BUNCH OF OTHER THINGS, AND THE PICTURE PRESENTED BY THE TEXTS IS ANYTHING BUT THAT. I DID NOT DIRECTLY ENGAGE WITH HIM OVER THE CTO APPOINTMENT. CLARE CURRAN LOST HER JOB AFTER FAILING TO DECLARE A MEETING WITH MR HANDLEY. NOW THE JOB'S BEEN SCRAPPED ALTOGETHER. IT WAS JUST A CONTINUAL, SUSTAINED DISAPPOINTMENT. HE'S BEEN TREATED SHABBILY. IN ADDITION TO HIS $100,000 PAYOUT ` THAT HE'S DONATING ` MR HANDLEY FINALLY GOT AN APOLOGY FROM THE GOVERNMENT TODAY TOO. JESSICA MUTCH MCKAY, 1 NEWS. BEFORE THE POLITICAL DRAMA HIT, MS ARDERN WAS ENJOYING HER NEW YORK VISIT, MAKING A STAR TURN AS A GUEST ON BREAKFAST TV, AND TAKING HER BABY DAUGHTER TO THE UNITED NATIONS. OUR US CORRESPONDENT REBECCA WRIGHT REPORTS FROM NEW YORK. ON THE STREETS OF MANHATTAN THIS MORNING, THERE WAS NO SIGN YET OF TROUBLE BREWING FOR THE PRIME MINISTER. WE'RE BACK NOW, 7.30, WITH ONE VERY BUSY WOMAN. HER DAY BEGINNING WITH AN INTERVIEW ON THE TODAY SHOW,... MADAM PRIME MINISTER, GOOD MORNING. GOOD MORNING. IT'S GOOD TO HAVE YOU HERE. GOOD MORNING. THANK YOU. ...WHERE THE HOSTS WANTED TO KNOW ALL ABOUT HOW SHE'S MANAGING BEING A HEAD OF STATE AND A NEW MOTHER. WHAT IS HARDER ` RUNNING A COUNTRY OR TAKING A 3-MONTH-OLD ON A 17-HOUR FLIGHT TO GET HERE? (CHUCKLES) WE WERE JUST DISCUSSING SOME OF THAT. IT FELT AT THE TIME ON PAR, I HAVE TO SAY. BUT BETWEEN CLARKE AND I, WE MANAGED IT, AND SHE IS A GOOD BABY. AND ARDERN TALKING ABOUT GOVERNING WITH KINDNESS, PROBABLY THROWING THE CURRENT U.S. POLITICAL CLIMATE INTO SHARP RELIEF FOR VIEWERS. I REALLY REBEL AGAINST THIS IDEA THAT POLITICS HAS TO BE A PLACE FULL OF EGO AND WHERE YOU'RE CONSTANTLY FOCUSED ON SCORING HITS AGAINST ONE ANOTHER. YOU CAN BE STRONG, AND YOU CAN BE KIND. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS CURRENTLY THE YOUNGEST FEMALE ELECTED HEAD OF GOVERNMENT IN THE WORLD. OPENING CLIMATE WEEK, THE PM UPPING NEW ZEALAND'S CLIMATE-CHANGE ASSISTANCE BY $100M OVER THE NEXT FOUR YEARS, TO MOSTLY BE SPENT ON CLIMATE-RELATED DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE IN THE PACIFIC. THIS FUNDING ALLOCATION WILL FOCUS ON REALLY PRACTICAL ACTIONS, FOR EXAMPLE, PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR COASTAL ADAPTATION IN TOKELAU, CONTINUING OUR EFFORT TO STRENGTHEN WATER SECURITY ACROSS THE PACIFIC. THERE WERE MORE BILATERAL MEETINGS. IT'S VERY NICE TO MEET YOU. IT'S VERY NICE TO MEET YOU. AND A LITTLE HISTORY-MAKING, THE PM BECOMING THE FIRST LEADER TO BRING HER CHILD INTO A UNITED NATIONS MEETING, WHERE NEVE SWIFTLY STOLE THE SHOW. BUT AT THE SAME TIME A POLITICAL STORM WAS BLOWING INTO THE UN ` ALL THE WAY FROM NEW ZEALAND, DEREK HANDLEY'S RELEASE OF TEXT MESSAGES BETWEEN THE PAIR, BLINDSIDING THE PRIME MINISTER AND PUTTING HER ON THE DEFENSIVE. OBVIOUSLY, HE'S HUGELY DISAPPOINTED IN THE PROCESS, AND I ABSOLUTELY UNDERSTAND THAT. COULD YOU HAVE DONE BETTER IN THIS PROCESS AS WELL? OH, ABSOLUTELY. IT HAS NOT BEEN A GOOD PROCESS. AS THEY SAY IN THIS TOWN, THINGS CAN CHANGE IN A NEW YORK MINUTE. REBECCA WRIGHT, 1 NEWS, NEW YORK. HE WAS ONCE KNOWN AS AMERICA'S DAD, AND WAS ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL FIGURES IN HOLLYWOOD. BUT TOMORROW, BILL COSBY WILL FIND OUT IF HE'S GOING TO JAIL. AT HIS SENTENCING HEARING FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT, A JUDGE WAS TOLD HE HAS UNCONTROLLABLE URGES AND REMAINS A THREAT TO WOMEN. WITH DETAILS, HERE'S CHANNEL NINE'S LIZZIE PEARL. ON THE LAST WALK TO WHAT COULD BE HIS LAST NIGHT AT HOME, BILL COSBY ` HIS FALL FROM GRACE ALMOST COMPLETE. MAN: MR COSBY, DO YOU HAVE ANY REMORSE? IN APRIL, COSBY WAS FOUND GUILTY OF DRUGGING AND SEXUALLY ASSAULTING CANADIAN BASKETBALL STAR ANDREA CONSTAND AT HIS PENNSYLVANIA HOME 14 YEARS AGO. SHE FACED HER ATTACKER TODAY, AND TOLD THE JUDGE DECIDING BILL COSBY'S FATE... BILL COSBY WALKED WITH A CANE INTO COURT, WHERE HIS LAWYERS ARGUED HE IS TOO OLD AND TOO FRAIL TO SPEND ANY TIME BEHIND BARS. THE 81-YEAR-OLD DECLARED LEGALLY BLIND. BUT THE PROSECUTION IS CALLING FOR BETWEEN FIVE AND TEN YEARS JAIL, AND JUDGEMENT DAY WILL BE TOMORROW. MORE THAN 60 WOMEN HAVE COME FORWARD TO ACCUSE BILL COSBY OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT THROUGHOUT HIS LENGTHY CAREER, SPANNING MORE THAN 50 YEARS. AMONG THEM AND IN COURT TODAY, MODEL JANICE DICKINSON, AND ACTRESS LILY BERNARD. LILY WAS A GUEST STAR ON THE COSBY SHOW IN 1992. IS YOUR HUSBAND THERE? HE'S RUNNING ERRANDS, BUT I CAN LEAVE HIM A NOTE! WHEN SHE SHOT THIS SCENE, SHE SAYS SHE'D ALREADY FALLEN VICTIM TO BILL COSBY'S SEXUAL VIOLENCE. ONCE HE GAINED MY TOTAL TRUST, THEN HE DRUGGED ME AND RAPED ME. THEN WHEN I KEPT SCREAMING AND WAILING, HE PUSHED A PILLOW IN MY FACE TO SILENCE MY SCREAMS, AND I COULDN'T BREATHE. WHATEVER THE JUDGE HANDS DOWN TOMORROW, THE DEFENCE HAS SAID THERE WILL BE AN APPEAL. EMBATTLED US SUPREME COURT NOMINEE BRETT KAVANAUGH IS SPEAKING OUT TO SAVE HIS NOMINATION AND CLEAR HIS NAME AS MORE ACCUSATIONS OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT EMERGE. BRETT KAVANAUGH APPEARED ON FOX NEWS WITH HIS WIFE ASHLEY BESIDE HIM, SAYING HE WOULDN'T LET FALSE ACCUSATIONS DRIVE HIM FROM THE NOMINATION. I'VE NEVER SEXUALLY ASSAULTED ANYONE. I DID NOT HAVE SEXUAL INTERCOURSE OR ANYTHING CLOSE TO SEXUAL INTERCOURSE IN HIGH SCHOOL OR FOR MANY YEARS THEREAFTER. CALIFORNIA PROFESSOR CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD HAS SAID KAVANAUGH SEXUALLY ASSAULTED HER AT A PARTY WHEN BOTH WERE IN HIGH SCHOOL. ANOTHER WOMAN, DEBORAH RAMIREZ, SAYS HE EXPOSED HIMSELF TO HER AT A COLLEGE PARTY. HE HAS DENIED BOTH ACCUSATIONS. ALLEGATIONS INVOLVING A THIRD WOMAN ACCUSER ARE SAID TO BE IN THE PIPELINE. SOCIAL WORKERS ARE SET FOR A BIG PAY RISE, FOLLOWING A LARGE PAY EQUITY SETTLEMENT FROM THE GOVERNMENT. MORE THAN 1300 ORANGA TAMARIKI WORKERS WILL GET PAY RISES OF UP TO 30% OVER TWO YEARS IN THE $114M SETTLEMENT. IT'S HOPED IT'LL ATTRACT MORE PEOPLE TO THE SECTOR WHICH IS IN NEED OF WORKERS. I THINK IT WILL ATTRACT MORE PEOPLE TO SOCIAL WORK WHO HAVE THAT HEART FOR IT, BUT BECAUSE OF OTHER... OTHER THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON, OR OTHER FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS, THEY CAN'T COME AND DO THIS SORT OF WORK. THE AGREEMENT STILL NEEDS TO BE RATIFIED, BUT WORKERS HAVE NO DOUBT EVERYONE WILL SIGN UP TO IT. 14 CHILDREN HAVE HAD LIFESAVING HEART SURGERY IN FIJI THANKS TO A NEW ZEALAND MEDICAL TEAM. 30 MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS VOLUNTEERED TO PERFORM THE OPERATIONS WITH CHARITY GROUP HEARTS4KIDS. THE YOUNGEST CHILD WHO'S BEEN TREATED IS ONLY A FEW WEEKS OLD AND 2.2 KILOS. HOW CAN WE LET CHILDREN IN A NEIGHBOURING COUNTRY THAT'S ONLY THREE HOURS FLIGHT AWAY DIE OF A CONDITION WHERE, WITH ONE SURGERY, THEY WOULD SURVIVE? WE RUN THIS MISSION FOR ROUGHLY $80,000NZD. THAT'S ENOUGH MONEY TO FLY TWO CHILDREN TO STARSHIP AND HAVE SURGERY THERE, AND WE DO 14 WITH THAT AMOUNT. THE VOLUNTEER TEAM SAYS WITHIN TWO DAYS, THE CHILDREN SHOW A HUGE IMPROVEMENT. THE OTAGO UNIVERSITY PROCTOR'S APOLOGISED AFTER HE ENTERED A FLAT TO CONFISCATE DRUG-TAKING EQUIPMENT WITHOUT PERMISSION. THE FORMER POLICEMAN SAYS HE DOESN'T THINK HIS ACTIONS MAKE HIM A CRIMINAL BUT ADMITS HE MADE THE WRONG CALL. SEVEN SHARP'S MIKE THORPE REPORTS. (REGGAE MUSIC) SOMETHING'S OFF IN SCARFIE CENTRAL. DEFINITELY ANNOYED. A PROWLING PROCTOR HAS POKED HIS PROBOSCIS INTO PRIVATE PROPERTY. IT WAS TWO STEPS INTO THE FLAT ` IT WAS GRAB THE THREE ITEMS AND LEAVE. I WAS IN THE FLAT LESS THAN 5 SECONDS. THE ITEMS ` THERE'S CANNABIS BONGS SITTIN' IN PLAIN SIGHT. THE STUDENTS THAT LIVE THERE THOUGHT THEY'D BEEN BURGLED. BUT THE NEXT DAY, THE PROCTOR CAME ROUND AND SAID HE'D TAKEN THEM. HE'D WALKED PAST, DELIVERING PAMPHLETS, AND SEEN THEM THROUGH THE BACK DOOR, ENTERED THE FLAT AND CONFISCATED THEM. THAT'S WHEN IT CAME TO THE ATTENTION OF THE OTAGO UNIVERSITY STUDENT MAGAZINE. THE STUDENTS ` THE WORD THAT I KEPT HEARING WAS 'INTIMIDATED'. WE WANNA SEE A PUBLIC APOLOGY, FIRSTLY, AND FOR HIM TO ENSURE IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN. AT 3 O'CLOCK THIS AFTERNOON, THE MAN IN QUESTION SAT DOWN TO FACE A FEW. HE'S BEEN THE PROCTOR HERE FOR THE PAST TWO-AND-HALF YEARS. YOU KNOW, PARENTS ARE GIVING US THEIR KIDS SAYING, 'PLEASE GIVE THEM A WORLD-CLASS EDUCATION,' AND MY PART IN THAT IS, 'PLEASE KEEP THEM SAFE.' DAVE SEES HIS ROLE AS PASTORAL, ALMOST PARENTAL, AND THAT WAS HIS THINKING ON THE DAY THAT CAN'T BE UNDONE. YOU KNOW, THERE'S CANNABIS BONGS SITTIN' IN PLAIN SIGHT, AND IF THE POLICE CAME KNOCKING ON THIS DOOR AND BECAME INVOLVED, POTENTIALLY, THAT COULD LEAD TO A SEARCH OF THE FLAT, CHARGES IN COURT AND A CONVICTION, AND I DON'T WANT THAT FOR STUDENTS. ONE OF THE OTHER ALTERNATIVES WOULD BE TO DO NOTHING, TO TURN A BLIND EYE. BUT IS THAT WHAT A PARENT WOULD DO? SO WHO IS RIGHT AND WHO IS WRONG HERE? WELL, DAVE SCOTT IS PUTTING HIS HAND UP. I SHOULDN'T HAVE ENTERED THE ADDRESS. I GIVE AN ASSURANCE I WON'T DO THAT AGAIN. WHAT I SHOULD HAVE DONE IS CLOSE THAT DOOR AND COME BACK LATER IN THE DAY AND SPOKEN TO THE STUDENTS. SOME STUDENTS ARE CALLING FOR HIM TO STEP DOWN OR BE STOOD DOWN, BUT HE'S STANDING FIRM. I DON'T THINK THAT ONE MISTAKE OVER THE COURSE OF TWO-AND-A-HALF YEARS OVERSHADOWS ALL THE GOOD WORK THAT HAS GONE ON. MAYBE DON'T THROW THE BATHWATER OUT WITH THE BABY. YEAH. SORRY, THE OTHER WAY AROUND. (BOTH LAUGH) COMING UP ` WE MEET THE FIJIAN KIWI WHO IS ONE OF FOUR FINALISTS IN BRITAIN'S MOST COVETED ART PRIZE. FORMER AUCKLANDER LUKE WILLIS THOMPSON HAS BECOME JUST THE SECOND NZER TO MAKE THE FINALS OF BRITAIN'S MOST COVETED ART AWARD. JOY REID MET THE PHOTOGRAPHER AS HIS WORK GOES ON DISPLAY IN LONDON (PROJECTOR WHIRRS) IN A CORNER OF TATE BRITAIN, ONE THE MOST FAMOUS BRITISH MUSEUMS, A SILENT DIAMOND REYNOLDS BEAMS ON TO A GIANT SCREEN. SHE'S AN EXTRAORDINARY WOMAN, AND I REACHED OUT TO HER TO MAKE A FILM ABOUT HER. HIS FILM ` A STARK CONTRAST TO WHAT MADE HER FAMOUS. ...AND THE OFFICER JUST SHOT HIM IN HIS ARM. WE'RE WAITING FOR` (INDISTINCT SHOUTING) THIS FACEBOOK LIVE VIDEO SHE RECORDED IN 2016 JUST AFTER HER BOYFRIEND PHILANDO CASTILE WAS SHOT DEAD BY POLICE. IT WAS VIEWED MORE THAN 6 MILLION TIMES. OFFICER: I TOLD HIM NOT TO REACH FOR IT! I TOLD HIM TO GET HIS HAND OFF IT! WHAT COULD I DO AS AN ARTIST TO ASSIST HER? AND BECAUSE I'M INTERESTED IN MAKING IMAGES, I BECAME VERY INTERESTED IN THE, KIND OF, COUNTER-IMAGE ` A WAY TO PRESENT HER THAT WOULD MAKE HER FEEL VERY REAL TO AN AUDIENCE. HE SPENT NINE MONTHS LIAISING WITH HER AND HER LAWYER TO CREATE THIS PIECE HIGHLIGHTING RACIAL INEQUALITY. IT'S NOT A MESSAGE. I MEAN, I WANT THESE THINGS TO END, LIKE I HOPE EVERYONE DOES. THE JURY FELT VERY COMPELLED BY THIS ARTWORK, BECAUSE IT TOUCHES ON SUCH A UNIVERSALLY, UM, INJUSTICE STORY. LUKE WILLIS THOMPSON'S NAME ISN'T THE FIRST ON THIS WALL. IT FOLLOWS A LONG LIST OF TURNER PRIZE FINALISTS, LIKE WELL KNOWN ARTIST DAMIEN HIRST FOR HIS DIVIDED COW AND TRACEY EMIN FOR HER CONTROVERSIAL BED SCENE. THE TURNER PRIZE IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST WELL KNOWN VISUAL ARTS PRIZES. AND THIS YEAR, FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME, ALL FOUR OF THE FINALISTS ARE MOVING IMAGES PIECES. AND JUST HOW IMPORTANT IMAGES ARE IN A KIND OF, LIKE, POLITICAL SENSE. THAT'S BEEN THE KIND OF EXPLOSION THAT I THINK ARTISTS ARE JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT. AND THE JURY HAS TO FIGURE OUT WHICH OF THE FOUR WILL WIN THE TOP PRIZE, THAT HAS THE POWER TO TRANSFORM CAREERS IN EARLY DECEMBER. JOY REID, 1 NEWS, LONDON. NOW TO TOMORROW'S WEATHER, MUSIC FROM NOAH SLEE, WITH 'RADAR'. (NOAH SLEE'S 'RADAR') THAT'S IT FROM US HERE ON 'TONIGHT'. THANKS FOR WATCHING. GOODNIGHT. CAPTIONS BY SHRUTIKA GUNANAYAGAM AND CAMERON GRIGG. CAPTIONS WERE MADE WITH THE SUPPORT OF NZ ON AIR. COPYRIGHT ABLE 2018