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The nation's leading team of journalists brings viewers the latest news and sport, plus the most comprehensive weather report on One News Tonight.

Primary Title
  • 1 News Tonight
Date Broadcast
  • Thursday 6 June 2019
Start Time
  • 22 : 30
Finish Time
  • 23 : 00
Duration
  • 30:00
Channel
  • TVNZ 1
Broadcaster
  • Television New Zealand
Programme Description
  • The nation's leading team of journalists brings viewers the latest news and sport, plus the most comprehensive weather report on One News Tonight.
Classification
  • Not Classified
Owning Collection
  • Chapman Archive
Broadcast Platform
  • Television
Languages
  • English
Captioning Languages
  • English
Captions
Live Broadcast
  • Yes
Rights Statement
  • Made for the University of Auckland's educational use as permitted by the Screenrights Licensing Agreement.
TONIGHT ` REMEMBERING THE INVASION WHICH TURNED THE TIDE OF HISTORY. WE REPORT FROM EUROPE AS WORLD LEADERS MARK 75 YEARS SINCE D-DAY. WE GET THE LATEST FROM THE SHOOTING IN DARWIN WHICH LEFT FOUR PEOPLE DEAD, INCLUDING A KIWI. AND THE MODERN DAY ROMEO AND JULIET. IT'S OPENING NIGHT OF WESTSIDE STORY IN WELLINGTON. WE TAKE A LOOK BEHIND THE CURTAIN. CAPTIONS BY ELLA WHEELER AND KRISTIN WILLIAMS. CAPTIONS WERE MADE WITH THE SUPPORT OF NZ ON AIR. WWW.ABLE.CO.NZ COPYRIGHT ABLE 2019 KIA ORA. GOOD EVENING. TEACHERS HAVE ANNOUNCED WITHIN THE PAST HOUR THAT THEY WON'T BE GOING AHEAD WITH THEIR PLANNED STRIKE NEXT WEEK. FOR MORE, LET'S GO LIVE TO ANDREW MACFARLANE IN WELLINGTON. ONE OF THE TEACHER UNIONS HAS ANNOUNCED THAT IT'S CALLING OFF THE STRIKE. WE UNDERSTAND THAT THIS WAS COMMUNICATED IN THE LAST HOUR FOLLOWING MEETINGS WITH CHRIS HIPKINS. THEY HAVE NOT EXPRESSED THAT THE DECISION IS BECAUSE OF THE MEETINGS. CHRIS HIPKINS HAS NOT CONFIRMED EITHER. WORLD LEADERS HAVE GATHERED IN EUROPE TO REMEMBER ONE OF THE MOST PIVOTAL INVASIONS IN MILITARY HISTORY, 75 YEARS AGO TODAY. KNOWN AS D-DAY, AROUND 156,000 AMERICAN, BRITISH AND CANADIAN TROOPS WERE TASKED WITH TAKING CONTROL OF NORTH WESTERN FRANCE. IT INVOLVED MORE THAN 6000 SHIPS CROSSING THE ENGLISH CHANNEL AND MORE THAN 11,000 AIRCRAFT DROPPING THOUSANDS OF PARATROOPERS BEHIND ENEMY LINES. THE NORMANDY LANDINGS IN 1944 LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR AN ALLIED VICTORY, PLAYING A HUGE PART IN ENDING WORLD WAR TWO. FROM LONDON, EUROPE CORRESPONDENT JOY REID. (FANFARE) THE SUCCESS AND SACRIFICE OF THE INVASION WHICH CHANGED THE COURSE OF WWII, REMEMBERED BY ROYALTY, WORLD LEADERS AND MORE THAN 300 VETERANS WHO SURVIVED THE HORRORS OF THE NORMANDY LANDINGS. (APPLAUSE) I WAS TERRIFIED. I THINK EVERYONE WAS. YOU DON'T SHOW IT, BUT IT'S THERE. PORTSMOUTH'S WHERE THOUSANDS OF TROOPS LEFT FROM 75 YEARS AGO FILLED WITH FEAR AND ANTICIPATION. TRIBUTES AND STORIES OF THEIR BRAVERY AND COURAGE RETOLD BY WORLD LEADERS ` PRESIDENT TRUMP READING A PRAYER SAID ON D-DAY ITSELF BY HIS PREDECESSOR FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT. OUR SONS WILL TRIUMPH. SOME WILL NEVER RETURN. EMBRACE THESE, FATHER. THE HEROIC SURVIVORS HONOURED WITH AN IMPROMPTU STANDING OVATION EVEN BY THE QUEEN. IT IS WITH HUMILITY AND PLEASURE ON BEHALF OF THE ENTIRE COUNTRY ` INDEED THE WHOLE FREE WORLD ` THAT I SAY TO YOU ALL, 'THANK YOU.' # HE'S THE BOOGIE WOOGIE BUGLE BOY FROM COMPANY B. # THERE WERE EVEN TRIBUTES IN THE SKIES. THE AIRCRAFT FLYING TODAY ` A TRIBUTE TO THE 11,000 THAT FLEW ON D-DAY ITSELF, INCLUDING SOME FLOWN BY KIWIS IN THE 485TH SQUADRON TAKING PART IN WHAT'S BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN THE BIGGEST AIR`TO`AIR BATTLE OF D-DAY ITSELF. WE HAD AROUND 11,000 ENGAGED IN D-DAY. AFTER THE CEREMONY ` THE QUEEN MET SOME OF THE VETERANS. SO TOO DID NEW ZEALAND'S GOVERNOR GENERAL. SO WHAT WERE YOU DOING AT D-DAY? THE DAY UNLOCKING MEMORIES BURIED FOR MORE THAN SEVEN DECADES. WHAT DID YOU MAKE OF THE COMMEMORATIONS HERE TODAY? HERE TODAY? WONDERFUL. I MEAN, THE BRITISH LEGION, YES. (SIGHS) SORRY. I STILL REMEMBER THE PEOPLE THAT DIDN'T COME BACK. REFLECTING ON D-DAY WITH VETERANS ` MOST OF THEM NOW IN THEIR 90S ` SOON AN IMPOSSIBILITY. (HORN BLARES) THE MAJORITY SPENDING THE NIGHT TOGETHER AT SEA, BOUND FOR THE NORMANDY BEACHES THEY WOKE UP TO 75 YEARS AGO FOR A VERY DIFFERENT TYPE OF DAY. NOW ATTENTION NOW IS TURNING TO COMMEMORATIONS IN NORMANDY. EUROPE CORRESPONDENT JOY REID HAS MORE ON THAT. THE FOCUS TODAY REALLY HAS BEEN IN NORMANDY, IN FRANCE. WORLD LEADERS AND ROYALTY ARE ATTENDING VARIOUS EVENTS THERE, ALONG WITH HUNDREDS OF WORLD WAR TWO VETERANS. THERE HAVE BEEN RE-ENACTMENTS OF THOSE D-DAY LANDINGS, INCLUDING A LONE PIPER PLAYING AT THE VERY MOMENT 75 YEARS AGO THAT THOSE FIRST TROOPS WENT ASHORE. THERE'S ALSO BEEN A CEREMONY HELD IN THE FIRST CITY THAT THE TROOPS LIBERATED WITH THE INVASION. HERE IN BRITAIN THERE HAVE ALSO BEEN CEREMONIES HELD RIGHT AROUND THE COUNTRY, INCLUDING AN EVENT HERE ON THE HMS BELFAST, WHICH IS ONE OF ONLY THREE SURVIVING VESSELS OF THE MORE THAN 7000 THAT WENT TO D-DAY. VETERANS HERE HAVE BEEN HONOURED, AND THERE REALLY HAS BEEN A HUGE FOCUS ON THOSE VETERANS, MAKING SURE THAT THEIR EFFORTS ARE BEING REMEMBERED. AND SOME OF THE PARATROOPERS WHO JUMPED FROM PLANES IN THAT BATTLE HAVE RECREATED THEIR LEAPS OF FAITH BY LEAPING FROM PLANES ONTO THE NORMANDY COUNTRYSIDE ONCE AGAIN. THE BBC'S LUCY WILLIAMSON WITH THIS STORY. JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT, 75 YEARS AGO TONIGHT, A DARK CONSTELLATION APPEARED IN THE NIGHT SKY ABOVE NORMANDY. THOUSANDS OF ALLIED TROOPS DROPPED QUIETLY IN TO NAZI-OCCUPIED FRANCE. AMONG THEM WAS HARRY REID ` A SIGNALLER (20) WITH THE SIXTH AIRBORNE DIVISION, TOLD TO COMPLETE HIS MISSION WHATEVER THE COST. WE HAD A CONVICTION THAT WE HAD TO FIGHT. WE HAD THE MOST EVIL THINGS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD. WERE IT NOT FOR THE CHANNEL, WE WOULD HAVE BEEN CAUGHT UP WITH IT AS WELL. IT WAS A CASE OF NATIONAL SURVIVAL. TODAY, HE PARACHUTED IN TO FRANCE AGAIN AT THE AGE OF 95 TO MARK THE D-DAY ANNIVERSARY. THAT ONE UP THERE'S GOT A CROWN ON IT. AT THE LANDING SITE, CROWDS WATCHED FOR HIM AMONG THE PARATROOP DISPLAYS. (APPLAUSE) THIS TIME, HARRY MADE THE JUMP WITH A MEMBER OF THE PARACHUTE REGIMENT, LANDING NOT TO ENEMY GUNFIRE, BUT TO APPLAUSE AND A HUG FROM HIS DAUGHTER. AND A HUG FROM HIS DAUGHTER. MEMORIES OF THE MEN HE JUMPED HERE WITH 75 YEARS AGO BROUGHT TEARS TO HIS EYES. WHAT WOULD BE YOUR MESSAGE FOR THEM TODAY? THAT THEIR SACRIFICE WAS WORTHWHILE, THOUGH TRAGIC. LIKE ME, THEY WERE WILLING TO DIE FOR WHAT MAY NEED TO BE NECESSARY. FALL OUT! PARAS, HARRY TOLD ONE INTERVIEWER, LEARN TO KEEP GOING WHEN OTHER PEOPLE STOP. 75 YEARS AFTER HE FIRST DROPPED IN TO FRANCE, HE'S PROVED THAT AGAIN TODAY. THERE ARE CALLS FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO DO MORE TO HELP VULNERABLE KIWIS IN NEED OF GOOD HOUSING. TVNZ'S BREAKFAST PROGRAMME VISITED A CARAVAN PARK IN WEST AUCKLAND WHICH IS CHARGING TENANTS HIGH RENT FOR QUESTIONABLE FACILITIES. SQUALID, DAMP, AND IN SOME CASES, NO EASY ACCESS TO A BATHROOM. I DON'T THINK THE WESTERN PARK VILLAGE IS A GOOD PLACE FOR YOUNG FAMILIES, IN PARTICULAR YOUNG CHILDREN. YET HUNDREDS OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES DO LIVE AT THIS WEST AUCKLAND CAMPGROUND. SOCIAL AGENCIES HAVE BEEN RAISING CONCERNS ABOUT RANUI'S WESTERN PARK VILLAGE FOR DECADES. THOSE CHILDREN AE ALREADY VULNERABLE AND PLACED AT GREATER RISK BY BEING IN A FACILITY LIKE THIS, BECAUSE THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO SCREENING. BREAKFAST'S JOHN CAMPBELL TOURED THE CAMPGROUND TO RAISE THE PLIGHT OF THOSE PEOPLE,... JOHN: EXCEPT WE HAVE` PLEASE LEAVE RIGHT NOW. ...BUT WAS TRESPASSED AS HE TRIED TO TELL THEIR STORY. MANY RECEIVE TAXPAYER-FUNDED ACCOMMODATION SUPPLEMENTS AND PAY UP TO $500 A WEEK FOR WHAT IS VERY BASIC ACCOMMODATION. THE FACILITIES YOU'VE SHOWN ARE UNACCEPTABLE FOR VULNERABLE FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS TO BE LIVING IN AND PAYING THE LEVEL OF RENT THEY ARE. THE CONDITIONS THAT PEOPLE ARE LIVING IN IN CAMPGROUNDS LIKE WESTERN PARK, AND BOARDING HOUSES AND CAMPGROUNDS AROUND NEW ZEALAND ARE UNSATISFACTORY. THAT'S THE PROBLEM WE'RE DEALING WITH. SANITATION ISSUES ARE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF AUCKLAND COUNCIL. NO ONE FROM THE COUNCIL WOULD APPEAR ON CAMERA TODAY, BUT IN A STATEMENT THEY SAID THERE WAS A PLANNED VISIT TO THE CAMPGROUND LAST WEEK. IT FOUND THE KITCHENS AND BATHROOMS TO BE IN A 'SATISFACTORY CONDITION'. THEY ALSO SAY THERE IS NO REQUIREMENT ON THEM TO CARRY OUT INSPECTIONS OF ACCOMMODATION LIKE MOTELS OR BOARDING HOUSES. THE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT MINISTRY SAYS IT DOESN'T USE WESTERN PARK FOR EMERGENCY HOUSING, BUT PEOPLE CAN USE THEIR PAYMENTS TO STAY WHERE THEY WISH, AND THE MINISTRY DOESN'T MONITOR THE STANDARDS OF THAT ACCOMMODATION. MONTE CECILIA RECEIVE 10 TO 15 HOUSING-RELATED INQUIRIES A WEEK, BUT THEY ARE FULL. THERE'S NO HOUSING PIPELINE. VARIOUS LABOUR MPS RAISED CONCERNS ABOUT THIS CAMPGROUND WHILE IN OPPOSITION. NOW IN GOVERNMENT, IT APPEARS NOT MUCH HAS CHANGED FOR THOSE LIVING HERE. KATIE BRADFORD, 1 NEWS. TO AUSTRALIA, WHERE IT'S BEEN REVEALED A NEW ZEALANDER WAS AMONGST THE FOUR MEN KILLED IN A SHOOTING RAMPAGE IN DARWIN OVERNIGHT. POLICE SAY NEW ZEALANDER ROB COURTNEY (52) MAY HAVE PREVENTED FURTHER DEATHS BY ATTACKING AND WOUNDING THE ALLEGED GUNMAN. CHANNEL NINES DAMIAN RYAN REPORTS. THREE PEOPLE ALREADY DEAD AND ALLEGED KILLER BEN HOFFMAN WITH A SHOTGUN IN HIS RIGHT HAND IS CAPTURED ON CCTV. SECURITY GUARD ROB COURTNEY (52) IS INSIDE THE COMPLEX. MOMENTS LATER, HE'S SHOT DEAD, BUT POLICE ALLEGE HE FOUGHT FOR HIS LIFE. HOFFMAN EMERGES SHIRTLESS, BLEEDING FROM A STAB WOUND, BUT STILL HOLDING HIS GUN AND A KNIFE. HE LATER CONTACTS POLICE AND IS STOPPED AND ARRESTED. THAT'S SPECULATING. HOFFMAN DISCHARCHED FROM HOSPITAL. DRIVEN IN CONVOY TO BE CHARGED WITH MURDER. TWO OF THOSE VICTIMS WERE KNOWN. WHAT MOTIVATED THIS? WHY? WHY THEY LET HIM OUT? POLICE ALLEGE HE HAD A HIT LIST AND A PLAN. ABOUT AN HOUR LATER POLICE STOPPED HIM FOR SPEEDING. HIS CAR WAS NOT SEARCHED. HE WAS NOT DISPLAYING ADVERSE BEHAVIOUR. THEY'RE INVESTIGATING WHETHER IT WAS SPARKED BY DRUGS. THE ACTIONS BY POLICE ARE UNDER REVIEW. THE FAMILIES OF THOSE LOST WANT TO KNOW WHY THE ACCUSED WAS ON THE STREET. AUSTRALIA'S PRIME MINISTER IS TRYING TO DISTANCE HIS GOVERNMENT FROM A SERIES OF RAIDS CARRIED OUT ON THE MEDIA. THE AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE CONDUCTED AN EIGHT-HOUR SEARCH OF THE STATE BROADCASTER, THE ABC. IT WAS IN CONNECTION WITH A 2017 REPORT BASED ON LEAKED DOCUMENTS THAT REVEALED ALLEGATIONS OF UNLAWFUL KILLINGS BY AUSTRALIA'S SPECIAL FORCES. THE RAID FOLLOWS ANOTHER AT THE HOME OF A NEWS CORP JOURNALIST, WHO REPORTED ON SECRET PLANS TO ALLOW GOVERNMENT SPYING. AUSTRALIA IS A PLACE WHERE THE RULE OF LAW STANDS, AND NO ONE IS ABOVE IT. AND THE WAY THAT OUR LAWS ARE ENFORCED AND UPHELD IS BY THE ACTIONS OF INDEPENDENT LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES ACTING IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATUTES THAT GOVERN THEM. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS IN DEMOCRACIES. THE MEDIA, ENTERTAINMENT AND ARTS ALLIANCE SAYS THE RAIDS ARE 'DISTURBING', GIVEN THEY'VE HAPPENED SO SOON AFTER THE FEDERAL ELECTION. BACK HERE, AND ABOUT 70 APARTMENT OWNERS IN WELLINGTON HAVE BEEN MEETING TO DISCUSS THE HUGE COSTS THEY'RE FACING TO EARTHQUAKE STRENGTHEN THEIR BUILDINGS. THE INNER CITY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION PRESENTED A SURVEY WHICH FOUND THE AVERAGE COST OF STRENGTHENING WILL BE ABOUT $430,000 PER AN APARTMENT. THE GROUP SAYS IT'S THE FIRST TIME A REALISTIC ASSESSMENT HAS BEEN CALCULATED. ITS SPOKESWOMAN SAYS THE COSTS ARE NOT ECONOMICALLY VIABLE AND WILL CRIPPLE MANY HOUSEHOLDS. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE FULL COSTS THAT OWNERS ARE HAVING TO PAY TO COMPLETE THESE PROJECTS THAT IS ALMOST THE VALUE OF THEIR BUILDING, YOU KNOW, ON AVERAGE. YOU KNOW, THAT'S NOT REASONABLE. YOU KNOW, THE CHANCES OF THEM RECOVERING THAT IS, I THINK, UNLIKELY. GERALDINE MURPHY SAYS THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE CONTRIBUTING TO SOME OF THE COST. WELLINGTON HAS NEARLY 600 BUILDINGS IDENTIFIED AS VULNERABLE TO EARTHQUAKES, INCLUDING 191 APARTMENT BLOCKS. STILL TO COME ` THE FORMER MANAGER OF STAN LEE PLEADS 'NOT GUILTY' TO CHARGES HE STOLE FROM AND ABUSED THE COMIC LEGEND. COMIC LEGEND STAN LEE'S FORMER MANAGER'S PLEADED NOT GUILTY TO CHARGES OF ELDER ABUSE. KEYA MORGAN (43) IS ACCUSED OF STEALING OVER $100,000 IN GOODS AND PROPERTY FROM THE SUPERHERO CREATOR. THE NEW YORK-BASED MEMORABILIA COLLECTOR ALSO FACES FIVE COUNTS OF ELDER ABUSE, INCLUDING FALSE IMPRISONMENT, FRAUD AND FORGERY. MORGAN WAS ARRESTED LAST MONTH IN ARIZONA AND HAS DENIED ALL THE CHARGES. STAN LEE, WHO CO-CREATED SPIDERMAN, IRON MAN, X-MEN AND THE HULK, DIED IN NOVEMBER AT THE AGE OF 95. NOW, WE'VE HAD SOME DICEY WEATHER LATELY, BUT IMAGINE THIS BARRELLING TOWARDS YOU. THIS GIANT DUST STORM ENGULFED THE TEXAN CITY OF LUBBOCK ON WEDNESDAY, BRINGING WITH IT WIND GUSTS UP TO 100KM AN HOUR. THIS TIME-LAPSE VIDEO SHOWS THE COLOSSAL WALL OF DIRT ROLLING IN. RESIDENTS WERE WARNED TO STAY OFF ROADS AND STAY INDOORS. A MONTH-LONG CELEBRATION OF POLYNESIAN DANCE IS KICKING OFF IN AUCKLAND, AS PERFORMERS GEAR UP FOR THE PACIFIC DANCE FESTIVAL. SIMILAR TO POLYFEST, A NUMBER OF TRADITIONAL PACIFIKA PERFORMANCES WILL BE ON DISPLAY FOR THE PUBLIC. IT ALSO OFFERS WORKSHOPS AND FEATURES MORE CONTEMPORARY WORK FROM BOTH STUDENT PERFORMERS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS. DANCE IS ABOUT SOVEREIGNTY. AND SHARING CULTURE.. THAT'S OUR PURPOSE FOR THIS FESTIVAL. TO EDUCATE OUR YOUNG PEOPLE. THE FESTIVAL RUNS IN AUCKLAND AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS UNTIL THE END OF THE MONTH. WE'LL HAVE MORE DANCE AND MUSIC COMING UP. # I WANNA BE IN AMERICA. # THE SHOW THAT'S BRINGING THE BACK STREETS OF NEW YORK. TO WELLINGTON. THE MUSICAL HIT 'WEST SIDE STORY' OPENS IN WELLINGTON TONIGHT. WHILE IT MIGHT'VE BEEN PLAYING THEATRES FOR MORE THAN 60 YEARS, THE AUSTRALIAN CAST SAY ITS THEMES ARE STILL HOLDING TRUE IN 2019. ANDREW MACFARLANE TAKES A LOOK BEHIND THE CURTAIN. IT'S ONE OF THE MOST BELOVED STORIES TO BE TOLD ON STAGE. # I LIKE TO BE IN AMERICA. # THE MODERN TWIST ON ROMEO AND JULIET, WEST SIDE STORY HAS BEEN PERFORMED AROUND THE WORLD HUNDREDS OF TIMES. SET AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF NEW YORK CITY IN THE 1950S, IT FOCUSSES ON THE RIVALRY BETWEEN THE JETS AND THE SHARKS ` TWO TEENAGE STREET GANGS OF DIFFERENT ETHNIC BACKGROUNDS. AND JUST AS IN THE SHAKESPEAREAN VERSION, A FORBIDDEN LOVE QUICKLY EMERGES. RACIAL TENSIONS DRIVE THE MUSICAL'S PLOT ` A THEME THE LEAD ACTORS SAY IS JUST AS REAL NOW AS EVER. UNFORTUNATELY, WE'RE STILL FACING A LOT OF THOSE BATTLES. WHETHER IT'S RELIGIOUS, POLITICAL` PEOPLE ARE GONNA HAVE DIFFERENT OPINIONS, AND THERE'S GONNA BE HATE AND FIGHTING. SO IT'S BEEN IN HISTORY, AND IT'S STILL HAPPENING NOW. LIKE SOPHIE SAID, UNFORTUNATELY MORE RELEVANT IN 2019 THAN IT WAS IN 1957. AND WE'RE SEEING THIS KIND OF STUFF HAPPEN ALL OVER THE WORLD. COMING STRAIGHT TO THE CAPITAL FROM MELBOURNE, THE CAST HAVE HAD TO GRAPPLE WITH A MUCH SMALLER STAGE. WE'VE GONE FROM A` I BELIEVE IT WAS A 13-METRE PLAYING SPACE TO A 9-METRE PLAYING SPACE IN WELLINGTON. SO, WE'VE GOT QUITE A LARGE CAST OF 30, WE JUST HAD TO RENEGOTIATE WHOSE STANDING WHERE FOR CERTAIN SECTIONS. WEST SIDE STORY IS ONE OF THE MOST CHALLENGING PRODUCTIONS ON STAGE TODAY. WITH COMPLEX CHOREOGRAPHY AND WELL OVER 100 COSTUMES, PUTTING IT ON IS NO EASY FEAT. AND EVEN WITH, LIKE, WITH PITCHING, FOR ME, MARIA HAS TO GET THAT TOP C, BUT THEN SHE HAS TO GO RIGHT DOWN TO THE BOTTOM REGISTER OF A SOPRANO. SO, IT'S REALLY CHALLENGING EVERYWHERE. AFTER ITS WELLINGTON RUN, THE SHOW'S HEADING TO GERMANY. # TONIGHT. # ANDREW MACFARLANE, 1 NEWS. NOW TO LADIES IN MUSIC. AND WHO'S MAKING THE BIGGEST COIN? THE NUMBERS ARE OUT, AND WENDY PETRIE GIVES YOU THE LOWDOWN ON THE TOP FOUR. AND THE NUMBER ONE MIGHT JUST SURPRISE YOU. (RIHANNA'S 'DIAMOND') SHINING BRIGHT LIKE A DIAMOND ` RIHANNA IS THE RICHEST FEMALE SINGER OF THEM ALL, WORTH A WHOPPING 900M IN KIWI MONEY, ACCORDING TO THE LATEST FIGURES FROM FORBES. THAT WEALTH IS NOT JUST FROM MUSIC BUT ALSO BUSINESS VENTURES WITH SOME OF THE WORLD'S BIGGEST FASHION LABELS. # WE'RE BEAUTIFUL. LIKE DIAMONDS IN THE SKY. # (MADONNA'S 'MATERIAL GIRL') PROVING SHE'S STILL A MATERIAL GIRL, MADONNA IS AT NUMBER TWO, BUT STILL THE NUMBER ONE SELLING FEMALE ARTIST OF ALL TIME. # ...AND I AM A MATERIAL GIRL. # (CELINE DION'S 'POWER OF LOVE') ALSO STILL IN VOGUE, MONEY-WISE, ANOTHER GRAND DAME OF POP ` CELINE DION. THAT POWER OF LOVE IS STAYING STRONG. AND WHO RUN THE WORLD? GIRLS, OF COURSE. (BEYONCE'S 'RUN THE WORLD') QUEEN BEE ROUNDS OFF THE TOP FOUR WITH A FORTUNE OF JUST OVER 600M. NOW TO TOMORROW'S WEATHER WITH THE MUSIC INDUSTRY'S HIGHEST FEMALE EARNER, RHIANNA, AND 'FOUR TO FIVE SECONDS' WITH HER MATES YEEZY AND PAUL. THAT'S IT FROM US HERE ON TONIGHT. THANKS FOR WATCHING. GOODNIGHT. CAPTIONS BY ELLA WHEELER AND KRISTIN WILLIAMS. CAPTIONS WERE MADE WITH THE SUPPORT OF NZ ON AIR.