It was a foggy start to the day over parts of the North Island. A real pea-souper in Auckland stranded planes, disrupting flights for much of the morning. Rain is now setting in over south-western parts of the South Island. MetService has issued warnings for heavy falls and severe gales. I'll have full details for you shortly. Right now, it's 6 o'clock. Due to the live nature of ONE News we apologise for the lack of captions for some items. This is ONE News with Peter Williams and Bernadine Oliver-Kerby. Tonight ` Kiwi bosses paying third-world wages ` workers who got as little as $8 an hour tell us their stories. Thousands of protesters hit the street in their battle to save Christchurch Cathedral. And is anybody out there? How the world's biggest telescope will explore a billion galaxies with help from NZ. Kia ora. Good evening. Immigrants come to NZ for a better life, but we've uncovered evidence that some are being exploited as part of a black economy. We've spoken to workers who told us they were paid as little as $8 an hour because they were desperate to get a job. Amy Kelley's been investigating, and joins us now live. Amy. NZ PURPORTS TO BE A COUNTRY THAT CARES ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS, BUT WE'VE DISCOVERED WHAT APPEARS TO BE AN UNDERBELLY OF IMMIGRANTS BEING PAID NEARLY HALF THE MINIMUM WAGE, ACCEPTING WHATEVER THEY CAN GET. Avtar Singh came from India to NZ hoping for a better future. I heard about a better pay rate for individuals to earn more money. Instead, he says, he ended up in an underclass of migrant workers, paid near third-world wages by employers promising to help meet residency requirements. They told me that they'd give me $8 per hour. Legally, the least anyone can pay an adult is $13.50 per hour. I fear that we are actually only seeing the tip of the iceberg in terms of how vulnerable members of our community are being exploited for work. And is it common for this to be tied up with issues around visas and immigration? Yes, yes. Under the Skilled Migrant Scheme, Mr Singh needed a job relevant to his management diploma. He approached a small South Auckland supermarket which took him on as a supervisor. For legal reasons, we're not identifying the supermarket. Mr Singh says he signed a contract at $14 an hour, but received nothing close to that. That shows us how many hours I did. He showed us rudimentary pay slips adding up to $8 an hour. It's not right, but you know, at that time, I need the work. We approached the supermarket for an interview. They declined. Instead, they sent us this computer print-out of Avtar Singh's hours and earnings, showing payments of $14 an hour. But when we asked for proof of those payments, they couldn't provide it, admitting they'd paid him in cash. That, in itself, is a breach of Mr Singh's contract, which states he'd be paid by bank transfer. And Avtar Singh isn't alone. This man says he was paid well below the minimum wage at a kebab shop. First, I started on $8, 64 hours a week, because I used to go to my uni. When I finished my uni, he said, 'Yeah, I'll give you the manager position. 'You have to work 84 hours ` like 12 hours a day and 7 days. He's now looking for a new job. Avtar Singh has already found one, managing another supermarket on more than the minimum wage. But the secret economy he's escaped still plays on his mind. I don't want any student to suffer these problems. He says he's speaking out so other immigrants can have a better future. Amy, how widespread is this problem? THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR IS CURRENTLY INVESTIGATING 95 COMPLAINTS OF PAYMENT BELOW MINIMUM WAGE. WE WILL BE SPEAKING TO THEM ABOUT THE ISSUE TOMORROW. Protests over the demolition of Christchurch Cathedral are heating up with a big rally this afternoon. Several thousand marchers took their outrage to the streets, determined to save the iconic building. Joy Reid was there. Thousands braved the bleak winter weather... ALL CHANT: Save our cathedral. ...to march with a message. The crowds want the demolition of the Christchurch Cathedral stopped. Look at my baby. She needs the cathedral. She needs to grow up and see the cathedral. This is what it looked like yesterday morning. This is all fresh from the 4.8 that we had on Sunday ` good crack. This rubble was once the tower. And these huge stones used to be the steeple steps. But a restoration expert who spoke at today's rally and has seen the damaged building up close still thinks it can be saved. I've rarely seen a building that's so savable. I've seen them far worse that this. The church doesn't agree. We believe we're making the correct the decision. It says the building needs to be reduced to 2m to 3m high. We will take a conservative approach ` that we will look after safety; that we will make the cathedral safe.. But that's not enough for these Cantabrians, including one who's great-great-grandfather helped build the icon. What do you think about it coming down? It's a disaster. This cathedral can be made safe. It can be restored, and the funding is available from right acros the world to do it. All we need is the Anglican church leadership to start listening to people. Despite the crowds here thinking otherwise, this is what today's paper says ` most want cathedral down. the press ran an independent poll which found 54% of Cantabrians wanted it demolished; 42% want to save it. Those 42% still vow to make their numbers count. ALL CHANT: We can we do it. Yes, we can. Joy Reid, ONE News. A class-action lawsuit against the owners of the cargo ship Rena is getting bigger by the day. It's been confirmed 60 Bay of Plenty businesses have now joined the push for compensation. And as Kim Vinnell reports, locals aren't impressed with the sentence given to two of the ship's officers for their part in the disaster. There was little reaction from the Rena's captain and navigation officer on hearing they'll spend seven months in jail. Bay of Plenty locals, on the other hand, have plenty to say. Seven months was way too light. For the damage that was done, they need a lot longer. Seeing as the judge was very considered in what he was doing, so I just gotta trust it to those people. Seven months? It does seem a bit light. The court heard Captain Mauro Balomaga and Second Officer Leonil Relon not only failed to plot the Rena's location, but then changed navigation charts to hide their mistakes, and lied to investigators. The judge credited the men for meeting with local iwi, but those images of oiled beaches and dead wildlife still loom large. He forgot about the hundreds of people who spent hundreds of hours digging that muck up. No amount of sentencing is going to undo what happened. And the worst thing for us is to have two foreigners in a NZ jail at the taxpayers' expense. The sentence, though, hasn't deterred a group of Bay of Plenty businesses and two separate iwi. They're about to take a class action suit against the Rena's owners. They are seeking compensation for their losses. Stuart Arnold from Dolphin Safaris is one of 60 businesses involved in the legal action. These people have got to take responsibility for their actions, and they've got to come here and sort out the businesses that have lost all this money. The law firm representing the group reckons they've got a strong case. I think we have a good chance of winning. We're well resourced. We have experts from both within NZ and abroad who are experienced in large oil pollution-related claims. They're talking to us about what the practice is outside NZ and what we can expect. The Rena's owners have a fight on their hands, and businesses say they won't be giving up. NZ has scored a part in one of the biggest scientific projects of this century. Along with Australia and South Africa, we'll help host an enormous radio telescope that could explain the evolution of the universe. Sophie Iacopini reports. This is what the biggest telescope ever built will look like ` 3000 satellite dishes connected across thousands of kilometres and three countries. South Africa and Australia will play host to the bulk of the dishes, while NZ will offer up the services of a satellite in Warkworth along with a more dominant role in design. We can work together. We can help each other for the best of humanity... and our countries. And this is the type of image they're hoping to see. The Square Kilometre Array will look at a billion galaxies, searching 10 times further into the universe than any other telescope. This is exactly what we will have with the Square Kilometre Array ` 100 times greater sensitivity than anything that we have now. And we expect a revolution similar to what we had 400 years ago with Galileo. A revolution that may answer some of the questions that have long baffled scientists. This is our nature. We are just curious. What is dark energy? We have no idea. What is dark matter? We have no idea. It might even go where science hasn't been able to go before and discover signs of alien life. It's possible that there are extraterrestrials out there that may be beaming messages towards us. With the power of the SKA, it may actually let us pick up the inadvertent signals they're sending to us. Construction is scheduled to start in four years and should be completed by 2024. The clock starts ticking. SKA will be built and this is the beginning, and we are a part of it. Helping leave our mark on the final frontier. Sophie Iacopini, One News. And while most of us were asleep last night, another team of Kiwi scientists was helping make space history. Around 2am this morning, the Dragon space capsule successfully docked with the International Space Station, becoming the first privately owned shuttle to make the journey. RT: Houston, it looks like we've got a dragon by the tail. APPLAUSE AUT scientists are playing a key role in monitoring the pioneering commercial flight from a centre in Warkworth, north of Auckland. A little boy rescued from a house fire in Invercargill has been transferred to Auckland's Middlemore Hospital where his condition's improved. Firefighters battled an intense blaze to reach the 3-year-old, who suffered severe smoke inhalation. He's now in a serious but stable condition. Three other people were treated for minor injuries. Five days after a birth that ended in tragedy, a mother and her baby have been laid to rest. Casey Nathan (20) died on Monday; her son, two days later. ONE News was invited to their tangi in Waikato. Sharon Fergusson has more. 2-day-old Kaimani lay in his mother's arms in their shared casket. Less than a week ago, Casey Nathan was excited about her son's arrival. She's now one of a small number of women who've died during childbirth in NZ. Even more rare is the death of both mother and child. She was a true friend, true cousin, true daughter, true aunty. She was all of that, and it was all real. Those who loved her are now struggling to comprehend the sudden turn from anticipating new life to mourning two deaths. ALL CHANT HAKA Casey's workmates at KFC remember their bright, happy colleague looking forward to maternity leave. She was always that little ray of sunshine for everyone. Always a good worker. Still biking to work when she had her big tummy out just about touching the handlebars. Post-mortems were done this week and the case is now with the coroner. His report is expected to take several weeks, and until it's complete, both Huntly Birthcare and the midwife who attended the birth have declined to comment. The casket containing mother and son was carried from Waingaro Marae to the small family burial plot nearby. The question of why they died is yet to be answered. Hundreds of travellers were left stranded in Auckland this morning as heavy fog stopped flights in and out of the airport. The pea-souper blanketed the city until late morning. More than 50 domestic flights were cancelled or delayed, while international flights had to be diverted to Wellington or Christchurch. Airlines have spent the day clearing the backlog. Some relief could be in sight for pet owners and farmers who're having trouble getting help for their sick animals. The Veterinarian Association estimates NZ is short of around 100 vets. Massey University's plans to expand its vet training programme should help if the graduates can be convinced to stay in the country. Sarah Batley explains. Any issues that you can tell clinically? It's a first time check-up for this 11-week-old puppy, and also a chance for vet students to learn the ropes. Massey University trains 100 vets a year, but it's announced plans to take an extra 40 students to keep up with the demand for graduates. There has been shortages of vets, particularly in the rural sector, over a number of years, and the veterinary profession has been on the long-term skills shortage register for a number of years. Experts say vets leave the industry at a high rate for varied reasons. Salary, workload, work-life balance. A number of our profession are female, and they take time out to have children. Providing the government agrees to fund the extra students, 20 will be from NZ and 20 will be international students. Around 80% of current vet students are female. There are also a number of international students who are unlikely to take jobs in NZ ` a trend that's likely to continue. Those in the industry say more needs to be done to keep vets here. The veterinary profession is not particularly well paid, despite what people may think. And the hours are very long, including after-hours, so we do need to increase pay rates in NZ. Like other medical professions, the main problem's in rural areas. There's already a scheme in place to encourage vets to take jobs in remote areas, but Massey says it's looking at other ways of getting graduates to where they're needed most. Sarah Batley, ONE News. Still to come on ONE News, surrounded by Syrian government forces, we take a look at life for rebels inside a besieged town. Gridlock on Everest. Why are so many people trying to climb the world's tallest mountain at the same time. And the feminine touch in the search for the country's top young farmer. There's been a day of bloodshed in Syria, the worst since a so-called truce began last month. In the restive Homs province, opposition forces say a massacre occurred with at least 50 people, including children, killed by shelling from government forces. Meanwhile, in the besieged town of Rastan held by rebels, dozens of people have also been killed after days of heavy fighting. The BBC's Paul Wood is there. Rastan's been fought over many times and bears the scars. The town is now defiantly in rebel hands. But they're bracing themselves for the next assault. This is the daily routine in Rastan. GUNSHOTS RING INDISTINCT RT CHATTER GUNSHOTS RING REPEATEDLY Just around the corner is this family. The father's too afraid of arrest to show his face as he tells me about living on a front line with children. < What is the effect on them do you think? (SPEAKS IN ARABIC) 'It's difficult,' he says. 'They're shelling day and night. 'We have nowhere else to go, so we submit ourselves to God.' The Free Syrian army took the last government post just over a week ago, killing dozens of soldiers. GUN FIRES REPEATEDLY All this is happening during a UN-sponsored truce. The government says Free Army attacks never stopped. The rebels say they're under constant pressure from the regime. In Rastan, they are surrounded. The rebels insists they back the UN peace plan, though it calls for halt to their insurgency. In Rastan you're always waiting for the next shell. BOOM! CRASH! This is the press centre. BOOM! The UN is sending ceasefire monitors to Syria,... CHILD CRIES ...but it does not so much have to monitor a truce as create one. CHILD SCREAMS IN PAIN And viewed from here, the odds of that are not good. And six NZ defence force personnel have landed in Syria to join the United Nations supervision mission. They've arrived as the violence in the country continues to spill over into neighbouring Lebanon. Clashes between supporters of the Syrian president, Bashar Assad, and those supporting the rebels, have resulted in running gun battles on the streets of Beirut and the northern city of Tripoli. The daughter of a millionaire who drove looters around during the London riots last August has been sentenced to two years in prison. 20-year-old Laura Johnson had been convicted of burglary and handling of stolen goods. The judge says she'd taken advantage of an escalating situation. With just a day to go before the end of the Everest climbing season, a traffic jam's forming on the world's highest peak. Hundreds of climbers are making a last-minute attempt to reach the summit in Nepal. But as ABC's Ron Claiborne reports, the rush can prove deadly. These are images from high up on Everest. The path to the peak is clogged with climbers, as many as 200 gambling with their very lives. In this time-lapse video, you can see the headlamps of the climbers nearing the 29,000ft peak. The log jam has been caused by so many people rushing to get to the top on the last weekend of the climbing season. But the going is slow and the oxygen runs out quickly as they pass through the notorious death zone of thin air and sub-zero temperatures. National Geographic is documenting the ascent by one of the teams which today reached the summit where they took this photo. Some have made it to the top, including a 73-year-old Japanese woman, who is now the oldest person to ever climb Mt Everest. But four died this week, and an American climber collapsed on his way down, and an Israeli climber found him and abandoned his own summit attempt to carry him to safety. Both are now suffering severe frostbite. Everest dangers are well known. The single deadliest descent was when eight people perished in 1996. When things start going wrong and the clock starts ticking away, that's when things can go wrong in a big way and in a hurry. This year there are just too many people on the mountain, making the treacherous trek to the top of the world that much more dangerous. The onset of the monsoon season early next week will bring heavy snowstorms to the mountain, making it impossible to climb. The Olympic flame's blazed its way into Wales drawing crowds of thousands as it passed through a host of towns. On one of the hottest days this month, hundreds of people began lining the streets hours before the torch was due to arrive in order to get the best spot. The torch will travel through Wales for five days before heading back through England to Scotland. To the weather now, and the weather causing a few problems, Karen? hanging around to near lunch-time in parts of Auckland and delaying flights. Now there's heavy rain and gales in the forecast. Heavy falls for theses areas overnight and tomorrow. North-west winds are expected to rise to severe gale for a time tonight in Fiordland and in exposed parts of inland Canterbury and Otago tonight and tomorrow. North to north-west gales are likely from early Sunday morning in these areas with severe gusts of 120km/h in exposed places, especially the hilltops. For weather, see tvnz.co.NZ To our live weather cameras. I'll have the full Sunday forecast for you after sport. Still to come on ONE News ` the pain in Spain as a major bank asks for a bail-out. The search for rural royalty in the country's Young Farmer of the Year. And the cultural experience that's raising awareness for underage marriage and domestic abuse. 1 More bad news for the Eurozone with one of Spain's largest banks saying it needs 19 billion euros from its government to stay afloat. Bankia, the country's fourth largest bank, has suffered massive losses from a Spanish property slump, and it's already been bailed out before because of bad property loans. It's 40-hour famine time, now in its 37th year. In a sign of the times, children can also choose to go without technology, like mobile phones. But children from Auckland's Northcross Intermediate have gone a step further ` sleeping in a cardboard-box refugee camp. It says, you know, we can make a difference and we can show everybody what we can have an impact upon. The money raised this year will go to West Africa. There's just under 18 hours to go! In the next few hours, NZ's Young Farmer of the Year is set to be revealed at a ceremony in Dunedin. It's the culmination of a three-day competition that showcases the changing face of farming. Max Bania's been watching the action. The best of the best dropping into this year's Young Farmers finals. It's probably the pinnacle of rural life in NZ. Plenty of big boys' toys on show, but this year there's a female crashing the party ` just the third in the event's 44-year history. I don't really think about it too much cos I just do my thing and do the best I can. When they get here, everybody's on even footing, and it's not just about brute strength. Actually, it's about almost everything else, from saving car-crash victims, to building a bridge, and getting over it, reflecting the range of skills today's farmers need. We're trying to represent and encourage young people to get into agriculture, and a lot of people think of agriculture, especially townies, they think of it as a dirty, shovelling poos, that kind of stuff. But to us, agriculture is everything from that level, right through to the plant breeder in the laboratory doing genetic engineering, and the financial side and everything in between. This year's event had been scheduled to take place in Christchurch, but was moved because of earthquake fears down here to Dunedin. It means it's the first time the entire practical event will take place indoors. There was to be no fairy-tale win for the underdog in this particular round. I'm knackered now. I'll be the year after if I don't win it this year. I plan to win it this year, though. Whether she does or not will be known in a couple of hours. And you can see the Young Farmer of the Year grand final tonight at 10.15 here on TV ONE. An Auckland community group inundated with migrant women needing help is preparing for a one-of-a-kind dance drama to help keep their service going. 'The Queen' follows a royal's journey to female empowerment and is performed by young migrant women who know how crucial it is to raise funds for their service called Shakti. What we want to do today is raise awareness about the great work that they do, and raise awareness about the issues that are prevalent in the community at the moment, like underage marriage and domestic abuse that are very prevalent in our ethnic communities. The show will be held at Auckland Girls Grammar tomorrow night. Looking at our top stories tonight ` a ONE News investigation's found immigrant workers in South Auckland alleging they were being paid only $8 an hour. The workers say they were underpaid following employer promises to help them meet residency requirements. Thousands of people have marched in protest against the demolition of the Christchurch Cathedral, but it's failed to sway the opinion of church officials who say the building will come down. The rally was also attended by experts who claim the iconic building can be saved. NZ will play a leading role in the development of the biggest radio telescope ever built, called the Square Kilometre Array. 3000 satellite dishes in South Africa, Australia and here will explore 10 times further into the universe than ever before. It's set to be completed in 12 years. The Hurricanes in action at the moment. Staying with Super rugby, the Chiefs unleash their own raging bull, claiming the competition's outright lead. The decision to rest Origin stars comes back to haunt the Broncos. And the virtual unknowns who've claimed a world record in Lucerne. We'll introduce you to them after the break. Kia ora. Welcome back. Last year, the Hurricanes never recovered from their shock loss to the Melbourne Rebels. Tonight their Super 15 play-off depended on them avenging that result in the capital. It was a dreadful start for the home side as former Warrior Cooper Vuna ran through some very flimsy defence to score the opening try. But TJ Perenara again confirmed he's the most exciting halfback in the country Oh, what a pass! Bateman, oh, magnificent! The wingers then got in on the act and the Hurricanes had the four-try bonus point in half an hour. Here is Barrett! Barrett turns it back on the inside and Savea. Now here's Smith. Savea. Here comes Savea, and he's got another one! The Hurricanes led 38-17 by half-time and wasted no time adding to that and lead with 52-17 with just over 25 minutes to play. A very mixed night for Sonny Bill Williams helping the Chiefs snap a four-match losing streak against the Bulls in their top-of-the-table clash. He discovered his home had been burgled while they were beating the African heavyweights 28-22 in front of more than 18,000 fans in Hamilton. Last man out, but first to 90 games for the Chiefs ` Liam Messam. But he was soon upstaged by the rookie lock, Brodie Retallick, fresh from his first All Black training camp. The Chiefs backs couldn't make any headway early,... Feeds it up to Sonny Bill again standing as first receiver. ...but in his return, prop Ben Afeaki was full of running. Displaying the full range of passing skills was Tawera Kerr Barlow. And brilliant hands from Aaron Cruden produced the opening try as the Bulls were forced into error and Andrew Horrell grabbed his first five-pointer in Super 15. But the Bulls' other winger was far more secure and slippery as they took an eight-point lead to the break. Cruden's pinpoint kicking and Horrell's chase put the Bulls under pressure, but I wonder what this bloke thought when they turned down a shot at goal for an attacking scrum. It was a slick a set piece as you'll ever see as an outrageous midfield misdirection saw Cruden put his winger away. And then just turned it in, took it away to him. He wasn't even looking at the hole before he got the ball! Morne Steyn nudged the Bulls back in front, but when his drop kick flew wide, he was filthy. The subtlety was simply too much for the Bulls as the Chiefs unleashed their own raging bull who found classic flanker support from Sam Cane as he capped off an already huge week. Mind you, maybe they over did the counter-attack a wee bit, but with defence like this from the tireless Afeaki, they had their 10th win of the season and a four-point lead in the competition. Stephen Stuart, ONE News. It should have been a classic top-of-the-table match-up between two sides stacked with Queensland league stars. Instead, the Brisbane Broncos rested their Origin players and the Melbourne Storm made them pay. So much for the NRL brains trust attempting to grab some market share in AFL-mad Victoria. Two days on from the Origin game you couldn't even grab a radio commentary on this top-of-the-table match in Melbourne. Broncos coach Anthony Griffin stood by his decision ` resting Petero Civoniceva, Sam Thaiday and Justin Hodges. Simple stuff from Melbourne. It's equally obvious Storm supremo Craig Bellamy has no regrets, insisting the likes of Cameron Smith, Billy Slater and Cooper Cronk play. Cronk. First receiver. Little kick through to the in-goal area. Griffin would concede, though, this was the Broncos' worst performance of the season. The ball back away and straight through. Slater scoring two tries in the 34-10 rout. A third consecutive loss for the Broncos. The Storm is six points clear at the top of the NRL points table. The Ferrari slips into another gear and scores. The Rabbitohs haven't made the play-offs in five years. They look like they will this year, especially with Dave Taylor and Greg Inglis backing up after Origin. Ohhh, you don't want to be the number one. The 36-18 victory over the Raiders means they've recorded a fourth consecutive win. No wonder they're now fourth on the table. Mixed fortunes for the NZ cricketers involved in the IPL elimination match overnight. Ross Taylor couldn't save the Delhi Daredevils being knocked out by the Stephen Fleming-coached Chennai Super Kings, who now have the chance to defend their title. A day after NZ Cricket announced they're advertising worldwide for a new coach, perhaps their search should end here. While others have spluttered in recent times, former Blackcaps captain Stephen Fleming's fashioning quite a record as coach of the Chennai Super Kings in the IPL. Opener Murali Vijay was the star for Chennai, although Ross Taylor was 'oh, so close' to ending his knock in the most stunning way possible. Just wonder whether this foot gets down... Yeah, it does. It does. It will be six. Vijay was finally run out of the last ball for 113 off just 55 balls. Chasing, the Delhi Daredevils were never in the hunt. Ross Taylor clubbed a couple of sixes in a quickfire 24. But in the end, his team was beaten by 86 runs ` the biggest defeat of this year's tournament. Fleming's record with his team is now outstanding. If they can beat the Kolkata Knight Riders in the final on Monday morning, Chennai will have won three straight titles. Little wonder he's signed on for another season next year. In England meantime, for much of the opening day of the second Test against the West Indies at Trent Bridge, it was all England. The Windies looked down and out until Marlon Samuels and Darren Sammy fought back. The pair combined for a record 7th wicket partnership at Trent Bridge ` an unbeaten 167. Samuels finished 107 not out ` his third Test century. He and Sammy, who's on 88, really frustarted the England bowlers. At stumps, the Windies were 304/6. It could have been so much worse. Glen Larmer, ONE News. A former teammate of two England Test stars who turned his back on cricket for a career in golf is leading the BMW Championship at Wentworth at the half-way stage. James Morrison, who played in the England youth team with Alastair Cook and Tim Bresnan, shooting an eight-under 64 second round, with this at the 10th ` one of six birdies. The 27-year-old, who went from an 18 handicap to scratch in 10 months, stretched his lead with a second successive eagle at the 18th to be four shots clear. And it's a good roll. It's better than a good roll, it's straight in. By contrast, world number one Rory McIlory missed his second straight cut with a seven over-par, second round, leaving him 137th out of 150. The world's fastest man Usain Bolt's won another 100m title, but even he admits his performance was underwhelming. The Jamaican who entertained the fans with his usual pre-race antics, won the sprint race at the Golden Spike meet in the Czech Republic in a time of 10.4 seconds, failing to improve on his season best of 9.82. Bolt has another chance to lower his time in Rome and Oslo before returning to Jamaica for the national trials. You may have heard there's been more success today for Rowing NZ with the lightweight women's double claiming a new world record in Lucerne. Making the achievement all the more remarkable, it was the first international event they've ever competed in. So who are they? Here's Olympic reporter Craig Stanaway. This is your first glimpse of Julia Edward and Louise Ayling. We filmed them two weeks ago for an upcoming Olympic profile. We knew they were rising stars, and now the rest of the world does too. We're a new combination, so a lot of the other countries haven't seen what we've got to give, so we might be coming in as dark horses. They've had to work hard to get to London, only confirmed in the Olympic team two months ago. When all the names were getting announced, I could just feel tears coming out of my eyes. So why are they so fast? Training every day alongside the women's pair, the double world champions help. We know that if we're up with them, then we're doing pretty good. The Olympic favourites took to Twitter this morning. When you line up at the starting blocks and you look alongside, everybody else is the exact same weight as you, and you've all got pretty much similar technique, and so that's the challenge, I guess, for you to train as hard as you can. In achieving the world record time this morning, Louise's heart will have hit 190 beats a minute; Julia's would've cracked 200. I even said to Mum when I was little` she was, like, 'What do you want to be when you're older?' And I said, 'I want to go to the Olympics.' And she said, 'What for?' And I said 'I don't know. I just want to go.' After this morning's effort, they are dark horses no more. A calculated gamble is paying off for Team NZ on leg seven of the Volvo Ocean Race. Camper rocketed from dead last to leader in under 48 hours. But can they stay there? Caught out in a tactical minefield and stranded 100 miles behind the leader, a flummoxed navigator makes the call for a drastic change of course. With 2800 to go, it was, I think, time to take our medicine and go <BLEEP> it, I don't think this is going to work. Can I use that F-word? (CHUCKLES) The dice are rolled. Camper heads north, looking for more wind and help from the gulf stream, hoping to climb up and over the fleet. Unfortunately or fortunately, we've split from the fleet. I'm starting to get a little concerned that we won't be able to really get through the way the others are planning as well. The skipper's concerns were unfounded, with Camper eating up the deficit, overtaking the back-markers and hauling in the front-runners. Looks like the door has shut to everyone down south. So we have made some big miles on everyone, really. This sked, we made 41 on Tele and 40 on Groupama, so we are very much back in the game. Back in the lead, in fact ` just ahead of Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing and Puma. It's certainly been an interesting leg ` more like a game of snakes and ladders, really, than a yacht race with the amount of ups and downs we've had. Let's hope we can keep it on the up from here. Lisbon is still 1900 miles away. Finally in sport ` if you've ever been taken for a ride by a pool shark, you're going to like this. The man in the make-up chair is the overwhelming winner of the NBA's Rookie of the Year award. At first, Kyrie Irving plays like an old man against this unsuspecting lot before handing them all a lesson. CROWD CHEERS CROWD WHOOPS And the lesson ` always treat your elders with respect. And the tries keep coming in the capital with the Hurricanes rounding up the Rebels 59-17 with 15 minutes to play. After the break, Karen has heavy rain and gales in the forecast for some. Hello again. Our high is pulling away, taking the settled weather with it. We've got wind and rain on the way in. Heavy rain is likely for these areas overnight and tomorrow. Up to 250mm possible on parts of the Westland ranges. North-west winds are expected to rise to severe gale for a time tonight in Fiordland and in exposed parts of inland Canterbury and Otago tonight and tomorrow. North to north-west gales are expected from early Sunday morning in these areas with severe gale gusts of 120k in exposed places, especially the hill tops. There's also a watch in place for heavy rain and severe gales for these places overnight and tomorrow ` just a watch at this stage. So what's going on? Quite a formidable-looking wall of cloud descending on us ` the high cloud swallowing up both islands today. There's that front on the rear edge of that cloud, reaching down to a low south of the South Island. Also lumpy shower and thunderstorm cloud in the wake of the front, marked by this trough line and another couple of cold fronts in behind. So this massive trough moves in to take control tomorrow along with its fronts. The leading band should deliver rain to most places with heavy thundery falls in the west of the South Island. Isobars also crunching up, producing north to north-west gales in exposed places. Colder westerly change in behind this front will drop the freezing level in the far south, allowing snow to fall above 600m at night. Rain for the north and west of the South Island with some heavy thundery falls. A few spits spreading over into Otago and Canterbury. Strong northerly winds, gale with severe gale gusts over inland parts of Canterbury and Otago. Then in the afternoon, a cool westerly change in the far south brings in some showers there. Also some snow flurries down to 600m. Cloudy skies over the North Island. Morning drizzle for Coromandel Peninsula and Bay of Plenty, then the incoming front delivers rain with some heavy falls to most places. It's just Gisborne and Hawkes Bay staying dry under a veil of high cloud. Strong northerly gale in the south with gusts of up to 120k For weather, see tvnz.co.nz That's all I have this evening. See you tomorrow And that's ONE News this Saturday. 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