TONIGHT ` NEW INFORMATION AROUND THE DEATH OF A YOUNG KIWI LAWYER KILLED IN A SUSPECTED HIT-AND-RUN NEAR BONDI BEACH. THE PLEA FROM NEW SOUTH WALES POLICE. WHAT TWO NZ TOURISTS HAVE BEEN ACCUSED OF AND NOW POSSIBLY FACE, AFTER A TUSSLE WITH A POLICE OFFICER IN THAILAND. AND... OOOH I JUST SLAPPED YOU. ARE YOU ALL RIGHT? AN '80s CLASSIC GETS A MODERN REMAKE. WE SPEAK WITH JAKE GYLLENHAAL ON JUST HOW HE PREPARED TO STEP INTO THE SHOES OF PATRICK SWAYZE. CAPTIONS BY TUI TIPENE AND FAITH HAMBLYN. CAPTIONS WERE MADE WITH THE SUPPORT OF NZ ON AIR. WWW.ABLE.CO.NZ COPYRIGHT ABLE 2024 KIA ORA. GOOD EVENING. POLICE IN NEW SOUTH WALES HAVE NARROWED THEIR SEARCH FOR A CAR, WHICH THEY THINK IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF A YOUNG KIWI LAWYER, KILLED IN A HIT AND RUN NEAR SYDNEY'S BONDI. MITCH EAST HAD ONLY RECENTLY MOVED ACROSS THE TASMAN AND WAS KILLED JUST METRES FROM HIS FRONT DOOR. CHANNEL NINE'S MASSILIA AILI HAS DEVELOPMENTS. LAWYER MITCH EAST (28), NZ-BORN, HARVARD EDUCATED, WITH A CAREER ON THE RISE. BUT NOW HE'S DEAD, AND POLICE BELIEVE THE PERSON BEHIND THE WHEEL OF THIS CAR WAS RESPONSIBLE. IT'S SO TERRIBLE THAT IT'S HAPPENED SO EARLY IN WHAT WAS GONNA BE SUCH A PROMISING CAREER. HIS FAMILY TODAY WERE TOO DEVASTATED TO SPEAK PUBLICLY, BUT THE LAW FIRM ARNOLD BLOCH LEIBLER, WHERE MITCH WORKED FOR TWO YEARS, DESCRIBED HIM AS... FRIEND ANNABEL POSTING, 'WILL ADORE YOU FOREVER.' IT WAS 4 YESTERDAY MORNING, RETURNING FROM A NIGHT OUT, JUST METRES FROM THE FRONT DOOR OF HIS HOME, WHERE HE LIVED WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND, NATASHA, WHEN HE WAS STRUCK AND LEFT FOR DEAD. FOR THE LAST TWO DAYS, POLICE HAVE GONE FROM DOOR TO DOOR, CHECKING CCTV, AND WHILE THEY'VE BEEN ABLE TO FIND VISION OF THE VEHICLE, NOWHERE IN THEIR SEARCH HAVE THEY BEEN ABLE TO IDENTIFY THE REGISTRATION. THEY'VE NOW ESTABLISHED A STRIKE FORCE TO HELP WITH THE INVESTIGATION. MITCH HAD MADE HIS MARK AS A LAWYER IN 2020, WORKING ON THE ROYAL COMMISSION INTO THE CHRISTCHURCH TERRORIST ATTACK, AND WAS OFFERED FULL SCHOLARSHIPS FOR THREE OF THE WORLD'S MOST RESPECTED UNIVERSITIES ` CAMBRIDGE, NEW YORK AND HARVARD. THE THING ABOUT MITCH WAS HE WAS A REALLY NICE GUY. HE WAS REALLY SMART, BUT HE WASN'T ARROGANT. HE KNEW HIS POTENTIAL, BUT HE DIDN'T HOLD IT OVER ANYBODY. HE WAS JUST A REALLY, REALLY PLEASANT YOUNG MAN. LATE TODAY, FLOWERS WERE LEFT WHERE MITCH LOST HIS LIFE. TONIGHT, POLICE ARE CALLING ON THE PUBLIC TO SPEAK UP IF THEY KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. TWO NZERS ARE SET TO APPEAR IN A COURT IN THAILAND, AFTER ALLEGEDLY ASSAULTING A POLICE OFFICER AND TAKING HIS GUN. VIDEO OF THE ALLEGED INCIDENT, IN THE TOWN OF CHALONG, SHOWS A MAN STRUGGLING WITH A POLICE OFFICER OVER A PISTOL, BEFORE HE TAKES CONTROL OF THE WEAPON AND HANDS IT TO A SECOND MAN. LOCAL REPORTS SAY THE KIWI PAIR, NAMED AS OSCAR DAY (38) AND HAMISH DAY (36), WERE STOPPED FOR RIDING TOO FAST ON THEIR MOTORCYCLES. FOLLOWING THE INCIDENT, THE PAIR WERE REPORTEDLY DETAINED , CHARGED WITH ROBBERY, ASSAULT AND ATTEMPTED BRIBERY. KICKING OUT DISRUPTIVE TENANTS WILL BECOME EASIER UNDER NEW GOVERNMENT MEASURES TO CRACKDOWN ON BAD BEHAVIOUR AT KAINGA ORA HOUSING. AUTHORITIES WILL ALSO GET TOUGHER ON UNPAID RENT ` THE ANNOUNCEMENT MADE ON THE SAME DAY NZ PLAYS HOST TO CHINA'S FOREIGN MINISTER, BUT IT'S WINSTON PETERS' COMMENTS REFERENCING NAZI GERMANY WHICH ARE STILL CAUSING ISSUES. HERE'S SENIOR POLITICAL REPORTER BENEDICT COLLINS. ONE OF CHINA'S TOP POLITICIANS... NICE PLACE. IT IS. ...IN TOWN FOR TALKS. THE VISIT COINCIDES WITH THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE AGREEMENT THAT TURBOCHARGED OUR TRADE. CHINA'S HOPING THERE'S MORE TO COME. BOTH OF US FACED SOME HEADWINDS LAST YEAR, BUT I THINK OUR BILATERAL TRADE HELD UP QUITE STRONGLY. THERE'S HUGE POTENTIAL FOR THE TRADE BETWEEN US TO GROW FURTHER. BUT POTENTIAL FOR DISPUTES TOO. OH, WE DO HAVE OUR CONCERNS. LIKE OUR POTENTIAL INVOLVEMENT IN THE AUSTRALIA, UK AND U.S. MILITARY ALLIANCE. WE DON'T THINK AUKUS BELONGS TO THE CURRENT ERA, BECAUSE IT'S A REFLECTION OF THE COLD WAR MENTALITY. WE HAVE TO ENGAGE WITH CHINA. AT THE SAME TIME, CHINA KNOWS IT HAS TO ENGAGE WITH THE BROADER, UH, INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT, AND SO THESE ARE JUST THINGS THAT HAVE TO BE MANAGED ` THEY'RE NOT GONNA GO AWAY, IN OTHER WORDS. WHILE WINSTON PETERS WAS BUSY PLAYING HOST TODAY, YESTERDAY'S COMMENTS ON CO-GOVERNANCE ARE STILL CAUSING A STINK. I'VE SEEN THAT SORT OF PHILOSOPHY BEFORE ` I SAW IN IT NAZI GERMANY; WE ALL DID. LABOUR SAYS MR PETERS IS BEHAVING LIKE A DRUNK UNCLE AT A WEDDING. THE SORT OF COMMENTS THAT HE'S MADE ARE RACIST. I THINK CHRISTOPHER LUXON, AT THE VERY LEAST, NEEDS TO HAUL HIM IN AND SAY, 'STOP THIS ` 'THIS ISN'T ACCEPTABLE.' THE PM'S GOING TO TALK TO HIS DEPUTY. I DON'T AGREE WITH THOSE COMMENTS. IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT I WOULD EXPRESS. I'M JUST CALLING ON PEOPLE, FROM ALL POLITICAL PARTIES, TO MAINTAIN THE CIVILITY IN OUR POLITICS. ISN'T IT PROBLEMATIC, WHEN THIS IS YOUR FOREIGN MINISTER, YOU KNOW, IN A ROLE WHERE WORDS ARE SO IMPORTANT, THAT WINSTON PETERS IS USING LANGUAGE LIKE THIS? AGAIN, ALL I CAN SAY IS IT'S NOT THE WORDS THAT I WOULD HAVE USED. HOSTING CHINA'S FOREIGN MINISTER TODAY QUITE THE CONTRAST FOR A MAN WHOSE PARTY HAS TAKEN AN ANTI-ASIAN LINE FOR DECADES. WE FLOOD THIS COUNTRY WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE OF A DIFFERENT CULTURE, DIFFERENT ATTITUDE. THEY GO AND LIVE IN THEIR OWN LITTLE COMMUNITIES ` MINI ASIA, MINI CHINA, MINI HONG KONG. A MILLION MORE PEOPLE IN THIS CITY SOON, AND THERE IS NO PRIZE FOR GUESSING WHERE MOST OF THEM WILL COME FROM. THEN THERE'S THE JOKES. AS THEY SAY IN BEIJING, TWO WONGS DON'T MAKE A WIGHT. BUT THIS CONDUCT NO A BARRIER TO BEING FOREIGN MINISTER,... THE UNFORTUNATE REALITY IS THAT WINSTON PETERS HAS A LOT OF BAGGAGE. ...UNDER BOTH LABOUR AND NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS. BENEDICT COLLINS, 1 NEWS. TWO PEOPLE ARE SPEAKING WITH POLICE AND CHARGES ARE BEING CONSIDERED, AFTER AN INCIDENT IN CENTRAL AUCKLAND FOLLOWING REPORTS OF A MAN BRANDISHING A HAND GUN. ARMED OFFICERS SURROUNDED THE ENTRANCE TO A HOTEL ON UPPER HOBSON STREET THIS MORNING. A WITNESS TOLD 1 NEWS HE SAW A MAN WITH A PISTOL CONFRONT ANOTHER MAN ON THE FOOTPATH BEFORE HEADING INSIDE. POLICE ENTERED THE BUILDING JUST AFTER 9, FOLLOWED BY THE ARMED OFFENDERS SQUAD AROUND 40 MINUTES LATER. A MAN WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY AS THEY LEFT THE BUILDING. WHILE CORDONS HAVE NOW BEEN REMOVED. POLICE HAVE REMAINED ON THE SCENE. AS PART OF THEIR ON-GOING INVESTIGATION INTO THE INCIDENT. VLADIMIR PUTIN'S DECLARED HIMSELF THE WINNER OF RUSSIA'S ELECTION, AMID PROTESTS AND DOZENS OF ARRESTS. IT WAS A LANDSLIDE VICTORY ` PUTIN WAS EFFECTIVELY THE ONLY CANDIDATE. AND NOW HE HAS A FIFTH TERM AS PRESIDENT. KIM BAKER WILSON REPORTS. ALL CHANT: SOLIDARITY! PROTESTS IN PARIS, IN LONDON AND BERLIN. IN RUSSIA, THEY WERE SUBDUED, BUT SYMBOLIC, THOUSANDS FLOODING POLLING STATIONS IN DISSENT. IT WAS CALLED NOON AGAINST PUTIN ` PEOPLE VOTING AGAINST HIM OR SPOILING THE BALLOTS. BUT PUTIN EMERGED WITH 87% OF THE VOTE, HIS NEARLY QUARTER-CENTURY RULE EXTENDED BY SIX YEARS. TRANSLATOR: WHOEVER MIGHT WANT TO INTIMIDATE US, WHOEVER MIGHT WANT TO SUPPRESS US, OUR WILL AND OUR CONSCIENCE, THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO DO IT AND NEVER WILL. THEN HIS FIRST PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE DEATH OF JAILED OPPOSITION LEADER ALEXEI NAVALNY. TRANSLATOR: YOU MAY BE SURPRISED, BUT A FEW DAYS BEFORE MR NAVALNY DIED, SOME COLLEAGUES OF MINE TOLD ME THERE WAS AN IDEA TO EXCHANGE HIM FOR CERTAIN PEOPLE IN PRISON IN THE WEST. YOU CAN BELIEVE IT OR NOT. I SAID, 'I AGREE,' EVEN BEFORE HE'D FINISHED TALKING, BUT WHAT HAPPENED, HAPPENED. NAVALNY'S WIFE WAS IN GERMANY, CASTING HER VOTE WITH HER LATE HUSBAND'S NAME ON THE BALLOT AND DEFIANT OF PUTIN. BECAUSE HE IS A KILLER, HE'S A GANGSTER, HE'S THE PERSON WHO BROUGHT MY COUNTRY THROUGH THE WAR, INTO EVERYTHING. AS OTHERS ABROAD CAST THEIR VOTES TOO. THERE IS NO ELECTION. WE ALL KNOW WHO'S GOING TO WIN. AND I, AS A CITIZEN OF RUSSIA, I DON'T ACCEPT THE RESULTS. RUSSIAN MEDIA DECLARED PUTIN WON BY A MILE AND A HALF, BUT VLADIMIR PUTIN WAS UNBEATABLE. THERE WERE OTHER CANDIDATES, BUT TOKEN ONES, WITH POTENTIAL RIVALS QUICKLY TAKEN OFF THE POLITICAL STAGE. THE KREMLIN TIGHTLY CONTROLS ELECTIONS. THEY'RE DESIGNED TO MAKE SURE PUTIN WINS AND BY A LOT. AT ALEXEI NAVALNY'S GRAVE, A MESSAGE FROM SUPPORTERS ` HE'S THE CANDIDATE WE WANTED. KIM BAKER WILSON, 1 NEWS. GANG LEADERS CONTINUE THEIR VIOLENT CONTROL OF HAITI'S CAPITAL, WITH THE UNITED NATIONS ESTIMATING 350,000 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DISPLACED DUE TO THE UNREST. MANY ARE FLEEING TO CAP-HAITIEN, IN THE NORTH. THE BBC's WILL GRANT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST REPORTERS TO GET INTO THE COUNTRY AND SENT THIS UPDATE FROM THERE. CAP-HAITIEN SUFFERS FROM ALMOST ALL OF HAITI'S DEEPEST PROBLEMS ` GRINDING POVERTY, CHAOS, DISORDER AND CORRUPTION, BUT CRUCIALLY, NOT GANG VIOLENCE, SO IT'S BECOMING THE MAIN SAFE HAVEN FOR PEOPLE FORCED TO LEAVE THE GANG CONTROLLED CAPITAL, PORT AU PRINCE. ANOTHER BUSLOAD ARRIVES, HAVING RUN THE GAUNTLET OF A DANGEROUS JOURNEY. TRANSLATOR: IT TOOK US HOURS LONGER THAN IT SHOULD, AS WE HAD TO REROUTE AROUND THE GANG CHECKPOINTS, AND THERE WAS GUNFIRE. PHANEL PIERRE MADE THE SAME JOURNEY SIX MONTHS AGO. IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO PULL YOURSELF FROM POVERTY IN HAITI ` PHANEL MANAGED IT. BUT BECOMING A MIDDLE-CLASS BUSINESSMAN MADE HIM A TARGET. THE GANGS DESTROYED HIS BUSINESS, RANSACKED HIS HOUSE AND TRIED TO KIDNAP HIM, AND IN THE PROCESS, PLUNGED HIM AND HIS FAMILY BACK INTO POVERTY. TRANSLATOR: THIS IS JUST 2% OF THE LIFE I USED TO LIVE. IN FACT, I'M NOT LIVING; I'M JUST EXISTING. THE LONGER THE POWER VACUUM IN HAITI CONTINUES, THE WORSE THE HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCY HERE BECOMES. IN TURN, MORE AND MORE DISPLACED PEOPLE WILL FLOCK TO THE CITY OF CAP-HAITIEN, IN SEARCH OF REFUGE FROM THE VIOLENT GANGS THAT HAVE SUCH A TIGHT GRIP ON THE CAPITAL. ONE OF HAITI'S MAIN GANGS HAS RELEASED A SLICKLY PRODUCED VIDEO CURRENTLY CIRCULATING ONLINE. IT SHOWS A WELL-ARMED MILITIA, A GROUP PREPARED TO TAKE ON THE HAITIAN STATE AND ANY INTERNATIONAL FORCE WHICH MIGHT BE DEPLOYED HERE. WITH AID STILL ONLY TRICKLING IN, THERE ARE LONG TAILBACKS OF TRADERS AT THE BORDER WITH THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. AS HUNGER HERE WORSENS, HAITIANS ARE TRYING TO FIND THE SUPPLIES THEY SO URGENTLY NEED, EVEN IF THEY MUST CARRY THEM IN JUST ONE LOAD AT A TIME. NZ IS NOW ONE OF THE FEW COUNTRIES WHERE IT'S CHEAPER TO RUN YOUR HOME AND CAR ON ELECTRICITY, RATHER THAN FOSSIL FUELS ` THAT'S ACCORDING TO A NEW REPORT FROM THE NON-PROFIT 'REWIRING AOTEAROA', WHICH FOUND THE AVERAGE KIWI HOUSEHOLD COULD SAVE AROUND A THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR BY DITCHING GAS APPLIANCES AND PETROL CARS. THE REPORT'S AUTHORS SAY NZ WAS ONE OF THE FIRST TO REACH THE TIPPING POINT BECAUSE ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGIES ARE BECOMING MORE AFFORDABLE, WHILE FOSSIL FUEL PRICES HERE ARE AMONG THE HIGHEST IN THE WORLD. MORE KIWI ARE SET TO ROAM IN THE HILLS SURROUNDING WELLINGTON. IT'S BEEN A HUGE JOURNEY FOR THE FLIGHTLESS BIRD, WITH 100 BEING FLOWN IN FROM MT MAUNGATAUTARI INTO THE CAPITAL OVER THE NEXT THREE MONTHS, JOINING CLOSE TO 60 KIWI ALREADY THERE. ABBEY WAKEFIELD WENT ALONG FOR THE RIDE. WELL, THERE YOU HAVE IT, NEW ZEALAND ` THE YEAR IS 2024 AND OUR NATIONAL BIRD, THE KIWI, IS IN FLIGHT. ALL THE WAY FROM MT MAUNGATAUTARI, THE FIRST BATCH OF 100 KIWI TOUCHING DOWN IN THE CAPITAL. IT'S A VERY PROUD MOMENT FOR THE TEAM. WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS PROJECT NOW FOR FIVE OR SIX YEARS. WE'RE WELCOMING AROUND 20 KIWI TODAY, AND THEY'RE PART OF A TRANSLOCATION OF A HUNDRED BIRDS OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS, RETURNING OUR SYMBOL AND OUR ICON AND OUR TAONGA BACK TO THE HILLS OUT WEST OF WELLINGTON. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE ARE INVOLVED IN THIS MAMMOTH OPERATION, INCLUDING PILOTS FROM THE WELLINGTON AERO CLUB, WHO EVEN HELPED TO CATCH THE KIWI BEFORE TAKING THEM TO HAMILTON AIRPORT FOR TAKE-OFF. THEY ARE SO EXCITED, AND THERE'S A LONG LIST OF PEOPLE WHO WOULD LOVE TO HELP AND TO OFFER THEIR SERVICES. WHAT'S RADICAL ABOUT TODAY, AND OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS, IS THE PACE AND SCALE AT WHICH WE ARE RESTORING THESE POPULATIONS OF KIWI TO THE WILD. ONCE THE BIRDS ARRIVED... # WHAIA TE MARAMATANGA... ...IT WAS TIME TO PUT ON THE TRANSMITTERS. SO, WE'RE MONITORING APPROXIMATELY A QUARTER OF THE BIRDS. SO ULTIMATELY OUR GOAL IS TO NOT HAVE TO MONITOR ANY BIRDS WHATSOEVER AND THEY'RE LIVING THEIR LIVES AS FREELY AS KIWI HAVE DONE FOR TENS OF MILLIONS OF YEARS OUT THERE. THE BIRDS' NEXT STOP IS WEST OF WELLINGTON, WHERE THEY WILL JOIN AROUND 60 OTHER KIWI IN THEIR NEW HOME. WHAT WE'RE COLLECTIVELY DOING TODAY ` SO, THE SANCTUARIES, THE PROJECTS, THE IWI, THE COMMUNITIES ` IS SUPERCHARGING KIWI CONSERVATION. IT'S GETTING TO GRIPS WITH WHAT IT MEANS TO BE GENUINE GUARDIANS OF OUR NATIONAL BIRD, AND IT'S SHIFTING THAT RELATIONSHIP, I GUESS, FROM BEING PASSIVELY PROUD TO BEING ACTIVE GUARDIANS OF OUR KIWI. MAKING HISTORY ONE FLIGHT AT A TIME. ABBEY WAKEFIELD, 1 NEWS. STILL TO COME ` YOU'LL BE HANGING ON FOR OUR NEXT STORY; THE EFFORTS THIS MAN WENT TO IN THE GOLD COAST TO EVADE POLICE. 1400 ATHLETES BATTLE IT OUT AT THE PREMIER SURF LIFESAVING EVENT AT MOUNT MAUNGANUI. WELCOME BACK. ICELAND AUTHORITIES SAY LAVA FLOWS ARE WEAKENING FROM A VOLCANO THAT'S ERUPTING FOR THE FOURTH TIME IN THREE MONTHS. BARRIERS ERECTED AROUND GRINDAVIK APPEAR TO BE REDIRECTING THE HOT MOLTEN ROCK AWAY FROM THE TOWN, WHERE RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN EVACUATED FROM. NO FLIGHTS HAVE BEEN DISRUPTED AND A STATE OF EMERGENCY REMAINS IN PLACE. RIDESHARE GIANT UBER IS TO PAY NEARLY 3 HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS, IN A WORLD-FIRST CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT IN AUSTRALIA. IT COMES AFTER MELBOURNE TAXI DRIVERS CLAIMED THEY'D LOST INCOME FROM THE U.S. COMPANY ENTERING THE AUSTRALIAN MARKET. IT'S THE FIFTH LARGEST CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT IN AUSTRALIAN HISTORY. IF YOU DON'T LIKE HEIGHTS, THIS NEXT STORY MIGHT GET YOUR HEART RACING. A MAN IN THE GOLD COAST HANGING OFF HIS FIFTH-STOREY BALCONY ALL IN AN EFFORT TO EVADE POLICE. AUTHORITIES, WHO WERE CALLED FOR A WELFARE CHECK, TRIED TO GET HIM TO CLIMB TO SAFETY, BUT THE MAN LET GO, PLUNGING INTO A POOL BELOW. AFTER HITTING THE WATER, HE CLIMBED OUT AND TOOK OFF RUNNING, CONTINUING HIS GREAT ESCAPE. POLICE LATER CAUGHT UP WITH HIM, BUT HE WASN'T CHARGED. THE PREMIER SURF LIFESAVING EVENT HAS JUST WRAPPED UP AT MOUNT MAUNGANUI. NEARLY 1400 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ATHLETES BATTLED IT OUT AT THE BEACH. OUR BAY OF PLENTY REPORTER SAM KELWAY SPOKE TO TWO KIWIS ABOUT THEIR SUCCESS. (PEOPLE SING WAIATA IN TE REO MAORI) A DAWN SERVICE TO OFFICIALLY WELCOME THESE ELITE ATHLETES. MOUNT MAUNGANUI'S MAIN BEACH LITTERED WITH EQUIPMENT AS SURF LIFESAVING CHAMPS ROLL IN. AMONG THEM, MORGAN FOSTER (48). SO I THINK I'VE BEEN TO A NUMBER OF NATIONALS ` MY FIRST ONE BEING 1992 IN TARANAKI, SO YOU CAN DO THE MATH. HE'S FROM SOUTH BRIGHTON, A NIPPER SOME FOUR DECADES AGO. SINCE THEN HE'S WON 11 NATIONAL BEACH FLAG TITLES, FOUR NATIONAL SPRINT TITLES, AND COLLECTED 24 SILVER AND BRONZE MEDALS. HE COULD CONTINUE TO DOMINATE HIS AGE GRADE, BUT PREFERS TO COMPETE IN THE OPEN DIVISION. MOST OF THE GUYS THAT I'M COMPETING AGAINST HERE WEREN'T BORN WHEN I WON MY FIRST OPEN TITLE IN '95. HE'S NOW A FIREFIGHTER WHO LIVES IN LANDLOCKED HAMILTON. I HEAD DOWN TO THE BEACH VOLLEYBALL COURTS IN TE RAPA, OPEN THE GATES UP AND GET IN THERE AND DO MY PLYOMETRICS, MY SAND WORK AND MY TECHNIQUE FOR MY BEACH FLAG STARTS. AND THE START OF THIS YEAR COULDN'T HAVE BEEN ANY SWEETER FOR OLIVIA CORRIN. SHE'S THE FIRST NEW ZEALAND WOMAN TO WIN A ROUND AT THE PRESTIGIOUS NUTRI-GRAIN IRON SERIES IN AUSTRALIA. I HAD A REALLY CONSISTENT SERIES, SO THAT ENABLED ME TO FINISH THIRD OVERALL ON THE PODIUM NEXT TO LANA ROGERS AND GEORGIA MILLER ` SOME OF THE WOMEN I'VE LOOKED UP TO MY WHOLE LIFE THROUGHOUT MY CAREER. THE GISBORNE LOCAL CLAIMING FIVE GOLDS AT THIS YEAR'S EVENT. THE SPORT IS THRIVING AT THE MOMENT, ESPECIALLY AT OCEANS AND THE YOUNG UNDER-15S, UNDER-17 HERE. IT'S AWESOME TO SEE SUCH BIG NUMBERS GROWING. MORE MEDALS FOR MORGAN FOSTER TOO... IT WAS A GOOD HIT OUT WITH THE BOYS, ONE DOWN AND ONE MEDAL, I GUESS. ...PROVING AGE IS NO BARRIER TO SUCCESS ON THE SAND. SAM KELWAY, 1 NEWS. CALLING ALL ACTION FILM ENTHUSIASTS ` THE '80S CULT CLASSIC 'ROAD HOUSE' HAS BEEN REIMAGINED. AUSTRALIA CORRESPONDENT AZIZ AL SA'AFIN SAT DOWN EXCLUSIVELY WITH THE STARS JAKE GYLLENHAAL AND DANIELA MELCHIOR. MIXED MARTIAL ARTS, CHEESY ONE-LINERS AND EPIC FIGHTS ` ALL ESSENTIAL INGREDIENTS TO A GREAT ACTION FLICK. (GRUNTS) I JUST SLAPPED YOU. ARE YOU ALL RIGHT? (GRUNTING) ADD IN A MUSCULAR ACTOR, A UFC FIGHTER AND A MASTERMIND DIRECTOR LIKE DOUG LIMAN, AND YOU HAVE A RECIPE FOR SOMETHING BRUTAL AND BRILLIANT. DALTON! WE'VE KNOWN EACH OTHER, DOUG AND I, FOR 15-PLUS YEARS AND HAVE BEEN FRIENDS FOR SO LONG AND LOOKED FOR PROJECTS THROUGHOUT THAT TIME AND, LIKE, HAVEN'T REALLY FOUND ANYTHING THAT MATCHED. AND THEN IN PASSING, HE SAID, 'I ALSO JUST READ THIS, SORT OF, 'REIMAGINING OF ROAD HOUSE, THAT MOVIE,' AND JUST IMMEDIATELY, IT KIND CAME OUT OF ME LIKE SOME SORT OF SPIRIT. IT WAS, LIKE, SAID, 'THAT SOUNDS CRAZY. LET'S DO IT'. THE ROAD HOUSE REMAKE, FROM THE ORIGINAL 1989 FILM, FOLLOWS ELWOOD DALTON, A FORMER UFC FIGHTER WHO TAKES A JOB AS A BOUNCER AT A ROADSIDE BAR IN THE FLORIDA KEYS. THE ROLE WAS INITIALLY PLAYED BY THE LATE PATRICK SWAYZE, WHO GYLLENHAAL FIRST STARRED ON-SCREEN WITH IN DONNIE DARKO IN 2001. GYLLENHAAL SAYS IT FELT SERENDIPITOUS, AND CLEARLY, HE UNDERSTOOD THE ASSIGNMENT. IS THERE ONE IN FRONT OF YOURS? NO, I JUST BROKE HIS ARM. GYLLENHAAL IS JOINED BY PORTUGUESE ACTRESS DANIELA MELCHIOR, WHO PLAYS DALTON'S LOVE INTEREST. WHAT WAS IT LIKE FOR YOU TO BE ON-SCREEN, CO-STARRING WITH JAKE? YOU CAN'T ASK HER THAT WHILE SHE'S SITTING RIGHT NEXT TO ME. (BOTH LAUGH) HE'S JUST A SIMPLE PERSON, SUPER-KIND, A GREAT ACTOR, BUT, YEAH, JUST TO STARE THAT IT WAS REALLY THE FIRST TIME WE MET, I WAS STARSTRUCK. THE FILM'S SET TO BE RELEASED ON PRIME VIDEO THIS THURSDAY. AZIZ AL SA'AFIN, 1 NEWS, SYDNEY. JUST AHEAD ` WHO'S IN LINE FOR A NIGHT, 9 DEGREES COLDER THAN AVERAGE THIS WEEK, PLUS ` WAVES OF GREEN AND GUINNESS RIGHT ACROSS THE GLOBE, AS THE WORLD CELEBRATES ST PATRICKS DAY. WELCOME BACK. THERE'S BEEN GREEN GALORE RIGHT ACROSS THE GLOBE, AS REVELLERS CELEBRATED ST PATRICK'S DAY. IN DUBLIN, HALF A MILLION SPECTATORS WATCHED, AS THOUSANDS OF STREET PERFORMERS, PAGEANT GROUPS AND BANDS MARCHED THROUGH THE STREETS IN THE LARGEST ST PATRICK'S DAY PARADE THE CITY HAS EVER HOSTED. OTHER COUNTRIES ALSO EMBRACING THE IRISH SPIRIT, INCLUDING THE U.S., WHERE THE CHICAGO RIVER IN ILLINOIS WAS DYED GREEN AHEAD OF FESTIVITIES. WHILE ST PATRICK'S DAY OFFICIALLY OBSERVES THE DEATH OF THE PATRON SAINT OF IRELAND, THE DAY HAS EVOLVED INTO A CELEBRATION OF ALL THINGS IRISH CULTURE. NOW TO TOMORROW'S WEATHER WITH THIN LIZZY AND 'BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN'. (ROCK MUSIC) # GUESS WHO JUST GOT BACK TODAY? # THEM WILD-EYED BOYS THAT HAD BEEN AWAY. # HAVEN'T CHANGED, HAD MUCH TO SAY, # BUT, MAN, I STILL THINK THEM CATS ARE CRAZY. # THEY WERE ASKIN' IF YOU WERE AROUND, # HOW YOU WAS, WHERE YOU COULD BE FOUND. # I TOLD 'EM YOU WERE LIVIN' DOWNTOWN, # DRIVIN' ALL THE OLD MEN CRAZY. # THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN. # THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN. # I SAID... # ...THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN. # THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN. # THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN. # THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN. # THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN. # THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN. (GUITAR SOLO) # YOU KNOW THAT CHICK THAT USED TO DANCE A LOT? # EVERY NIGHT, SHE'D BE ON THE FLOOR, SHAKIN' WHAT SHE'S GOT. THAT'S IT FROM US HERE ON TONIGHT. THANKS FOR WATCHING. PO MANAHAU, GOODNIGHT. 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