Hello, everybody. It's been a crazy weather day. A slightly deranged low unleashed rain on Buller, Nelson and Marlborough and peppered the western North Island with showers. Frustrated air travellers were grounded in Queenstown with fog, and now the next manic low is manufacturing thunder for the west tomorrow. Stay tuned. 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 Wendy Petrie and Peter Williams. Tonight ` he says he's not a psycho killer. See Ewen Macdonald's reaction as the police put pressure on over the alleged murder of his brother-in-law. A community craving answers. We have developments in the puzzling death of a popular pizza man. (BREATHES TEARFULLY) Will she keep her job? We meet the casino worker in trouble for having a pocket bible. And our job laws were changed to help make movie magic. So why have Hobbit backers shut up shop here? We begin tonight with the farmer accused of murdering his brother-in-law telling police he'd never take someone's life. But Ewen MacDonald does admit vandalising a property belonging to Scott Guy and painting abusive graffiti about his wife. With the latest from the High Court in Wellington, here's Simon Bradwell. EWEN DENIED COMMITTING ANY CRIME BUT WHEN CONFRONTED, HE HAD TO CHANGE HIS TUNE The heat was on Ewen MacDonald as police questioned him about events leading up to July 8th 2010 He told detectives he would never take a life. Earlier, police put to Ewen MacDonald a theory of his father's` that whoever had set fire to an old house and badly damaged a new one belonging to Scott Guy would be the murderer. Detectives then revealed that a friend of Ewen MacDonald's had confessed the pair had committed the arson, the vandalism, and painted abusive graffiti on the house. Faced with that revelation, Ewen MacDonald admitted those crimes, starting with the arson. But while he said that wasn't an act of vengeance against Scott Guy, he admitted that vandalising the house was. The Crown says Ewen MacDonald killed his brother-in-law in a feud over the family farm, while the defence says the other crimes do not make him a murderer. in the interview, Ewen MacDonald also admitted stealing and killing two stags from a neighbour's farm. But he denied writing abusive notes the Crown says were left in the Guys' letterbox around the time of the property attacks. And while he accepted that his crimes suggested he was the killer, he repeatedly denied that. Detectives urged Ewen MacDonald to confess. The four-and-a-half-hour interview ended shortly afterwards. OK, Simon. What happened when that interview ended? HE TURNED TO THE DETECTIVES SAID HE WAS NOT GOING HOME Simon Bradwell, at the High Court in Wellington. Police have now confirmed a popular pizza man was killed, but they still won't say how Jordan Voudouris (55) died in the Waikato town of Paeroa. Donna-Marie Lever joins us from there with developments. END OF DAY TWO OF INVESTIGATION POLICE HAVE BEEN INSIDE SHOP LOCALS KEPT ON THE OUTSIDE BUT LEFT MEMENTOES MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS POLICE HAVE SAID THEY HAVE RULED OUT AN ACCIDENT NOT NATURAL CAUSES Tributes to Jordan Voudouris have swamped the Paeroa pizza man's small shop; from friends and customers to an entire community wanting to know the truth. Everybody wants to know how he died. What happened? Who was there? Who last saw him? Those are things that will help the community move forward ` whether or not we're looking for somebody, or whether it has just been an unfortunate accident. But it could still be some time. While police now know how the 55-year-old died, they won't say just yet. We've been in discussion with the coroner, and at this stage he's requested that we don't release the information. The case is still considered suspicious. Police say someone is involved in Jordan Voudouris' death, after his body was found in a pool of blood, slumped out the back of his shop, yesterday morning. He didn't have any enemies, but he would stick up for his business, and he wouldn't back down. Some shops have closed their doors in respect for the man who was considered everybody's friend. Inside the popular pizzeria, forensic teams have moved in, gathering clues for their case. Part of the 20-strong police team working on this case have again today been looking at whether there's a link between an armed robbery and an attempted robbery, both of which happened yesterday morning in nearby towns. This security footage revealing the same trio were involved in both hold-ups; caught on tape armed with a pistol and a hammer in the small towns of Waihi and Katikati. POLICE SAY THEY DON'T KNOW IF THERE IS A LINK KEEPING OPEN MIND MAYOR WILL MEET WITH BUSINESS LEADERS THIS CASE ON THE AGENDA MAYBE A LOCAL TRIBUTE TO MARK THE VICTIM'S LIFE A casino worker embroiled in a row of Biblical proportions has told ONE News she hopes to keep her job, and her Bible in her pocket. Tuni Parata faces a disciplinary hearing after being found with non-work literature while on a shift at Auckland's Skycity. She spoke with Lisa Owen. 'He is my refuge and my fortress. My God, in Him, I will trust.' (BREATHES TEARFULLY) Tuni Parata's supporters reckon it's a classic David and Goliath battle over a bible barely bigger than the palm of her hand. It gives me life. That's how important it is to me. Tuni Parata, who's been with the company 16 years, works in the tower. Sky City policy bans staff from carrying non-work related material, and she's been caught with her well-worn bible at work more than once. < Do you ever try to talk to customers about God? < Or do you ever read your bible in front of customers? No, not in front of customers. But she left this compact version of her God's Word on a bathroom vanity during a toilet stop. A staffer reported her. Normally it's in her pocket. Visible or not, Sky City's called Tuni Parata to a formal meeting to discuss her disregard for company policy. It warns disciplinary proceedings could follow. Sky City wouldn't appear on camera, but said in a statement, it said that it's a breach of uniform standards for staff to carry personal items like mobile phones and books or anything that might interfere with their full engagement with customers. If people are going to start, uh, being banned from carrying their bibles in their bags, uh, in their pockets, what next? Tuni Parata doesn't want to choose between two of her great loves, so she's looking to the book that landed her here to get her out of this mess. 'Be strong and be of good courage.' Lisa Owen, ONE News. You can see more of Lisa's interview with Tuni Parata on our website at onenews.co.nz Primary school principals and parents are uniting tonight against John Key's latest education plan. The Prime Minister says league tables that rank schools are inevitable. But some within his own party haven't always been keen on the system, as political reporter Jessica Mutch explains. League tables compare how schools are teaching reading, writing and maths, but the Government's miscalculated again according to the parents we talked to at Wellington's Island Bay Primary. I think it's a really bad idea, and it will just make things a bit more competitive. I think that you're going to end up with a lot of people looking to shift schools for not very good reasons. The principal says it's unfair to compare schools simply on numeracy and literacy. These standards are not as the public might perceive them ` a high jump bar that you can clearly see ` but rather they are like a blancmange. Uh, they are very, uh, imprecise. The education minister admits it will be complicated compiling the league table, but maintains it's needed. I'm saying parents are very keen to have, um, real-time, reliable information on how their child is doing in a school and how well their school is doing, um, within the nation's network of schools. National wasn't always keen on league tables. Listen to the former education minister two years ago. I think it's a sideshow to the National Standards. And now... Do you agree that is a change in policy for National, though? I think, uh, the education minister says she's going to work it through with the sector, which is pretty much where I was. The debate on league tables comes just two weeks after the education minister was forced to backtrack on the issue of class sizes. I'm not looking to buy a fight with anyone. John Key has just come out and started talking about it without even discussing it with, uh, his minister of education. And she'll have a hard job convincing these parents. Jessica Mutch, ONE News. ONE News can now confirm that people caught up in the Bronwyn Pullar ACC privacy scandal could be paid thousands in compensation. The corporation's abouit to send out letters with details of settlements. Heather du Plessis-Allan has more. What was an embarrassing error for ACC could become an expensive one for the rest of us. ONE News has learned the corporation's in the process of posting payment offers to some victims of the massive privacy breach. You may have some anxiety around the fact that you've had your personal information disclosed, This is now not only causing embarrassment to ACC and harm to all these people. It's actually costing you and me, the taxpayers and levy payers of NZ. Nearly 7000 ACC clients had their privacy breached in August when an ACC staff member accidentally emailed their details to Bronwyn Pullar. ACC's repeatedly refused to tell us how many of those claimants are being offered payments or how much. But we can tell you what's happened in the past. One client expecting compensation from this breach also had his privacy breached last year. According to this letter from ACC, the corporation paid him $10,000 in compensation. Over the last seven and a half years, ACC has paid more than $185,000 in compensation for 32 privacy breaches. That's nearly $6000 per settlement on average. Those considered to have sensitive claims are most likely to be eligible for compo. If ACC made its average payment to every one of 250 sensitive claimants, the bill would amount to almost 1.5m. This is now not only causing embarrassment to ACC and harm to all these people. No, it's a matter for ACC. It's an operational matter. But it's a potentially very expensive operational matter. It may well be, but it's one that has the potential to cost taxpayers a huge sum of money. Heather du Plessis-Allan, ONE News. Two climbers have spoken for the first time about being swept 500m by an avalanche. Paul Bishop and Christian Hanson were on their way to the summit of Mt Taranaki on Sunday when the avalanche struck. Mr Bishop was buried in snow. I was struggling to try and get my mouth, uh, free, cos I was struggling for air, and luckily Christian was there and helped dig me out. It was almost like an out-of-body sort of experience. Yeah. And when it stopped, it was just, you know, I, um, just clicked into action. Both have been released from Taranaki Base Hospital with leg, arm and chest injuries. The full interview with the two climbers is on Close Up tonight, right after the news hour. Survival specialists say a 36-year-old lost in the Hunua Ranges could still be alive. Ronnie Fong went into the ranges near Auckland for a day walk on Saturday, and sent a text in the afternoon saying he was running late. He's now been lost more than 72 hours. Police say that apart from a below-zero first night in the bush, the weather's been mild. A food wrapper believed to be Mr Fong's has also been found. ONE News has learned the Hollywood giant behind the Hobbit movies has shut its NZ office. Now, remember, Warner Brothers was a major player in getting the Government to change employment laws and provide tax breaks. This exclusive story from political editor Corin Dann. Back in 2010, John Key's government rolled out the red carpet and the limos to ensure Warner Brothers made the Hobbit films here, and in December, the first of those films will be released to much fanfare. That's in stark contrast to Warner Brothers' decision to close its NZ office and outsource its DVD distribution arm. Warner Brothers Video won't say why they've left NZ or how many staff have lost their jobs, but they did send this statement. In it, they confirmed this office in Ponsonby closed at the end of last month. Warner Bros. says the Kiwi business would be outsourced to a local company, but reaffirmed its commitment to NZ. The Greens say the closure undermines that commitment, especially since they won't say why they've left. The Government forced through a law change for Warners, and Warners, in return, have closed down their office. So thanks very much, Warners (!) Labour agrees and says it's hugely embarrassing for the Government. Now that The Hobbit's finished, they're pulling out and heading to Australia, and you've got to ask yourself why that is. John Key was unaware Warner Brothers Video was leaving. Well, the Hobbit movies created 3000 jobs, and they were crucial for NZ, for our movie industry. I think, uh, it was a very positive step that the Government took. What they're doing in Auckland at the moment, I really don't know about that, but I wouldn't imagine it's very many jobs. According to the Companies Office, Warner Brothers has been operating in NZ since 1947. But lack of a physical office here does not worry Peter Jackson's production company, Wingnut. They say they continue to feel fully supported by Warner Brothers. Corin Dann, ONE News. A new market's opening up in Christchurch for tourists wanting to see the earthquake damage. A national bus tour company's putting the city back on its map because of the demand. Ali Pugh has more. A city's rubble and ruins, and now its rebuild, are being realised as a tourist magnet. They'll want to see what has happened to the cathedral and, um, some of the other historic buildings. So just seeing that devastation is of interest. Backpacker bus service Magic has just resurrected Christchurch on its circuit, its passengers themselves requesting the stopover. Typically, Magic's passengers are a little bit more adventurous. They want to see something different, so you've got quite a story there being told. It's a story that the city's promoters say needs to be shared. It's part of our history. It's the biggest thing to have happened in this city. We can't not talk about it, and we can't not share it. You know, it is very interesting to visitors. 28,000 people took bus tours behind the cordon when they were run for a few weeks last year. And now Red Bus is exploring whether it can operate them as a commercial venture. Helicopter operators are being kept busy also ` still flying at least twice a day. We can fly right over the cordons, and people can see, basically, what's the demolition and all the work that's already starting in the city. Visitor numbers are still down 20% on pre-earthquake days. That's 100,000 fewer people visiting here than any other year. Tourism bodies say how the city is marketed overseas now will help restore confidence in overseas markets Christchurch is now a pretty interesting place. Interesting enough, they hope, to bring the tourist dollar back to town. Ali Pugh, ONE News. d Coming up on ONE News if thousands of asylum seekers arrived on our shores? The big exercise to find out. An Australian jury considers the fate of the man accused of killing a Kiwi musician. And our rarest kiwi goes wild in the North Island for the first time in two centuries. Then at 7.00 ` MPs gambling with the future. Can the sports clubs survive without the money from pokie machines? The Prime Minister says public support for the partial sale of state assets is increasing despite opinion polls showing most NZers are opposed. A final vote on the controversial sale legislation could happen this week. Political reporter Michael Parkin has more. Protesters claim millions in commission will go the way of merchant bankers with the partial sale of state assets. But the man pushing for it believes people are warming to the plan. My sense is that the mood, over time, in asset sales or the mixed-ownership model is slightly changing. In other words, it's slightly improving. It's a remarkable position given it's not been reflected in any public opinion poll. But Mr Key says a trip to the heartland at last week's National Fieldays backs him up. On Friday, I think a couple of the TV channels, both of them, ran stories on mixed-ownership. They came to the Fielddays and showed a couple of people saying, 'Yeah, I'm opposed.' Well, that's true. But about 400 or 500 came up to me and said, 'Hey, you're doing a great job. 'And, actually, we agree with what you're doing.' So today we tested public opinion in the super-safe National electorate of Tamaki. Do you support asset sales? I do. Yeah. No, I don't. Do you support it? No. I do, yes. Definitely not. I want something for my kids when they grow up. I think he's gone too far. I actually think I'm too ignorant to comment. I'd prefer not to It's Peter Dunne that holds the deciding vote on asset sales, but Labour says he can't vote for the partial sell-off because he's opposed to privatising the water rights that these power companies hold for hydro generation. No, they're being silly because I'm not. Because there are no water rights for sale in this, so their claim that I'm doing something that I'm not is just really facetious. Debate on the controversial legislation could be completed by the end of the week. Michael Parkin, ONE News. NZ's ability to cope with a mass arrival of asylum seekers has been tested and found to need improvement. The arrival of a boatload of refugees was simulated in Auckland in an exercise that cost $200,000 to stage. Nicole Bremner reports. The stage was set early; every vest taken as Devonport Naval Base became 'Processing Central' for a mock boatload of unwanted arrivals from Sri Lanka. CHEERS Sure, the refugees were actors, and their boat a sturdy Navy craft, but everyone onboard had a carefully prepared story to tell. I've been in jail for years because they thought I was helping the Tamils. All systems were on hand to sort out exactly who was who. They'll have to try and find contacts overseas in relation to me staying here any further. The new arrivals were photographed, fingerprinted and interviewed. Intelligence cross-checked information. A court ruled on who could stay and who couldn't. Progress was thorough, but very slow. It will be after midnight before all these so-called asylum seekers are processed, but officials say that if a boat carrying 500 people was to arrive on our shores processing them would take up to five days. The government has already introduced legislation to speed things up. Right now we would have a bottleneck processing through the District Court, and we want to streamline that aspect with a group warrant. Changes that would be vital if asylum seekers ever reached our shores en masse ` they've tried before. You've really got to view this like people living in big buildings do fire drills. You hope it never happens. But if it does, lessons learnt today will come in handy. Nicole Bremner, ONE News. An Australian jury is considering the fate of a man accused of murdering the cousin of Fielding farmer Scott Guy. Andrew Marshall died when he was pushied through a second-storey pub window in Perth last year. Australia correspondent Steve Marshall reports. This song goes out to a friend that we just lost recently. This is Solomon's Mines. Perth band Rich Widow dedicating a live radio performance to their late drummer Andrew Marshall. The 29-year-old grew up with his cousin, the murdered feilding farmer Scott Guy, before moving to Perth. He died just a few months after Scott when he crashed through this second-storey pub window, falling 5m on to a concrete path. Witnesses say Marshall was talking to two women when he was confronted by Stefan Schmidt. Schmidt admits he'd been drinking and had taken drugs before pushing Marshall, but maintains his death was a dreadful accident. The trained boxer told the court his push was not forceful, describing it more it like a rugby fend-off. The jury was shown security video of Mr Marshall's body falling out of the window, with Mr Schmidt walking away and punching another patron to the ground. The security vision also shows Schmidt leaving the hotel and glancing at Andrew Marshall's bloodied body lying on the footpath. He testified that he didn't stay to help because he was in shock and disbelief and just wanted to get home and process what had happened. The jury, Mr Schmidt and the lawyers have visited the bar where the altercation took place. A verdict is expected this week. Steve Marshall, ONE News, Sydney. Rioting inmates have lit a second fire at a Turkish prison where 13 people died at the weekend. No one was killed in the latest incident, although paramedics could be seen ferrying injured inmates to hospital. The fires have been lit in protest over conditions. The prison's designed to hold 300 people, but has more than 1000. China is celebrating its first manned space docking, an important milestone in its campaign to build a space station. The country's first female astronaut and her two collegues left their spacecraft, the Shenzhou 9, to enter an experimental orbiting module. The module was launched last year. The trio will live and work in it for the next few days as part of preparations for a permanent space station. To the day's weather now; the fog's been causing problems? It's closed Queenstown airport; disrupted Christchurch flights. For weather, see tvnz.co.nz Forecasts after Andrew's brought you sport. Get ready for some king hits in the North. Up next on ONE News ` post-election pressure for Greece to get its house in order. Plus a big flight to a new home for some of our most endangered flightless birds. And, she spent years in virtual exile ` now a famous dissident thanks an Irish superstar for the song that kept her going. Are MPs taking a gamble with our sports clubs? Tonight on Close Up ` will a proposed bill see some charities fold while others hit the jackpot? Plus ` is it information that parents have a right to know? Can league tables really tell us what makes a good school? 1 While Greek politicians haggle over forming a government, world leaders are warning they can't abandon tough austerity measures already agreed to. But the leader of the winning New Democracy party has indicated he will seek changes in the terms of the bailout. The BBC's Gavin Hewitt reports. Having won the most seats in the Greek election, 61-year-old Antonis Samaras spent the day trying to form a governing coalition. He has promised to anchor Greece in the euro. World leaders have been telling him, 'Move quickly.' I believe that a government should immediately be formed. It's something that, uh, is required and necessitated by the developments; by the economic situation. But Greece is a broken society. This is central Anthens, one street with over 40 shops closed. Thousands are living rough who need feeding. The new government will have to announce 11b euros of cuts this month to qualify for the next round of rescue funds. If the new government sticks to the terms of a bailout deal, there will be more hospital closures. There might be some room for flexibility, but the message from Germany today ` Greece must stick to its agreements. Fiscal discipline is necessary. The reforms are necessary, and they are supported by the people. Any new government will walk a tightrope ` having to implement tough austerity measures like increasing VAT on food whilst risking provoking protests. This election has eased fears that Greece would be forced out of the eurozone, but there are concerns that the new government will be fragile and will struggle to revive a collapsing economy. The Egyptian military is tightening its grip on power as both presidential candidates claim victory in the country's first free elections. The generals have given themselves the power to write laws and seize control of the constitution. They insist they'll hand over to the new president, but analysts say the could be insuring themselves against a win by the Muslim Brotherhood. They're saying that the President will even be able to name whoever he wants as defence minister. I don't believe that. I think that's impossible. I think that's goal one, is that the military will basically run itself. The official election results should be known by the end of the week. Myanmar democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi has met one of her biggest fans: Irish singer Bono, who once composed a song for her. The U2 frontman wrote Walk On to show support for Suu Kyi during her long years of house arrest. Now she's told a peace summit in Norway what the song meant to her. It's very close to how I feel ` that it's up to you to carry on. It's good if you have supporters, it's good if you have people who are sympathetic and understanding, but in the end it's your own two legs that have to carry you on. Bono has admitted he was completely star-struck after meeting the Nobel Prize winner. Some rare kiwi are settling into a new home tonight ` the first time their species has been back in the North Island in more than 200 years. Twenty rowi kiwi have been released into the wild on Mana Island near Wellington. Renee Graham has more. It's taken three years, more than $200,000 and a military escort, but finally, 20 boxed kiwi touch down in the North Island. It's an exciting day for the survival of the rowi. (CHANTS IN MAORI) Guided by a kaumatua, 10 male and 10 female rowi kiwi have journeyed from their birthplace in the South Island to Mana Island, near Wellington. It's already a predator-free breeding haven for native species like the kakariki parrot and now the rowi. They're going to thrive, basically. They'll, um, produce lots of chicks. Since the mid-'90s, a Department of Conservation-led programme has more than doubled the rowi population to nearly 400. They are the rarest of the five kiwi species. We need to get that to over 600 birds to make them safe, genetically. After a quick inspection of the 18-month-old birds,... Hello. ...they're released into the wild. This is the first time rowi will live in the North Island for two centuries. The original northern population died out around the time NZ was colonised. We'll definitely be keeping a check on them all the time, making sure that things over here are going well. If this colony is successful, there'll be more North Island havens set up for these critically endangered birds. Renee Graham, ONE News. Looking at our top stories tonight ` The man accused of murdering Fielding farmer Scott Guy told police he'd never take someone's life. But the High Court in Wellington heard Ewen MacDonald did admit vandalising a property belonging to Scott Guy, and painting abusive graffiti about his wife Kylee. Police have now confirmed a popular pizza man was killed in the Waikato town of Paeroa. They say someone was involved in the death of Jordan Voudouris (55) but still won't say exactly how he died. An Auckland casino worker faces a disciplinary hearing after being warned not to keep a Bible in her uniform pocket. Tuni Parata's worked at Skycity for 16 years. Skycity policy bars staff from carrying non-work-related material. Andrew's here with sport ` and a decision is imminent on a controversial Olympic selection? We have the latest on which way this is going to go. Also tonight ` where will Richie McCaw play in the third Test? Plus ` the Kiwis get set to lose another immense talent. The talented Italians finally start to shine at the Euro champs. And, hello, Pork Pie. The little car with the big attitude returns to Rally NZ At OPSM, we use precision technology to look deep in the eye, helping us better detect eye disease such as glaucoma ` just one of the ways we look deeper. Talk to OPSM about an eye-health check-up today. NZ tennis number one Marina Erakovic's long battle to be selected for the Olympic Games appears to have ended in a positive result. It's expected the world number 45 will be confirmed tomorrow as part of the Kiwi team for London. The announcement comes after more than six months of hot debate over whether she deserves to go. The 24-year-old has been waiting on a decision from the Olympic Committee's selection panel judging whether she's capable of finishing inside the top 16. Only one player from each country can be selected for the Games, which will help Erakovic's chances. As if the All Blacks didn't have enough injury worries already, Piri Weepu has thrown a fresh scare into the camp in Hamilton. The halfback didn't last the first full training session of the week. Here's Stephen Stuart. No sooner had the beefed-up security opened the gate than Piri Weepu was slowly making his way back through it, returning with a heavily strapped right leg. Just precaution, really. Um, tightened up just while I was jogging around out there. So thought I had better put some ice on it and get some treatment later on today. Number eight Kieran Read didn't train and looked to be getting his skipper up to speed if he has to cover for him again this week. Obviously that demands quite a bit. So, at the back of the scrum, you know, we've got to make sure that, uh, we work really hard; whoever takes on the number-eight jersey if Read's not fit. Much more encouraging was the way 92-Test hooker Keven Mealamu was throwing himself around on the crash pad after sitting out the first two Tests with a calf injury. His replacement Andrew Hore probably going easy on him today. As for rivalry, Weepu is sharing his vast experience with the youngster who's taken his spot, Aaron Smith. We always sit down and have a coffee together, uh, and chat over what we have to do, uh, as halfbacks during the week. Just itching for some game time is utility back Tamati Ellison, who played his solitary Test three years ago and is yet to make the bench. I think we've got put our strongest team, um, and get our attitude right. We've got focus on what happened last week and get better. While the outside backs were working on their catching skills, it was the forwards preparing to do some overtime behind closed doors. Stephen Stuart, ONE News. Rotorua-born rugby player Dylan Hartley will lead England against South Africa in their third Test this weekend in Port Elizabeth. The 26-year-old hooker captains the team, with new skipper Chris Robshaw ruled out of the match with injury. 41-test Hartley has a colourful past, dominated by visits to the judiciary. He's only just returned from a two-month ban for biting in a Six Nations test against Ireland. NZ league officials are still waiting to see whether Bulldogs prop Sam Kasiano has turned his back on the Kiwis to play State of Origin for Queensland. Just last month he declared himself a NZer in his three-year contract extension with the Bulldogs, but now he's having second thoughts after being sounded out by the Maroons. He's obviously a little bit confused, he's obviously getting pushed and pulled from a couple of places, but he's keen still to play with the Kiwis. I didn't want Tamo in a NSW side or wearing an Australian jersey either. I think the NZ guys should play for NZ, I think that's what they're born to do. Jim Doyle says they don't want to force anyone to play for the Kiwis if they're not 100% committed to the cause. NSW second rower Glenn Stewart is out of the Origin decider after twisting his knee in Manly's loss to the Storm. He's sidelined for two to four weeks with a strained medial ligament, meaning there's little chance of him playing game three. Gidley flick-passes, if you like, and... ooh, the left knee buckling under the tackle there. The Storm remain six points clear at the top of the points table after beating the Sea Eagles 26-22. Departing Blackcaps cricket coach John Wright is targeting his team's mental skills ahead of the upcoming tour of the West Indies. Wright, who was at Canterbury training today, says the Black Caps will go into the series relatively cold compared to the Windies who have just played Australia and England. The Kiwi bowlers have regrouped for a camp in Brisbane, but others have been scattered around the world playing in the IPL, county cricket and other competitions. The wickets look very, very slow, um, and actually take a lot of turn` they appeared to during the Australian series. So it's almost like a war of attrition. You have to get in and bat for long periods of time. And mentally, you can do quite a lot, cos you know, it's just the expectation of getting your mind up to ready to play. Wright, who's still no closer to deciding his future, will leave with the team on Sunday before two Twenty20 matches against the Windies in Miami at the end of next week. There's heartbreak for Croatia in footballs Euro 2012, knocked out at the hands of World Cup champions Spain. The Croats had their chances, but Spanish keeper Iker Casillas was a one-man wall, keeping the scores locked at 0-0. Then two minutes from time came the death blow for Croatia. Iniesta, they've walked it in! Oh, he's offside surely? No. Jesus Navas with the tap-in. The 1-0 victory propels Spain into the quarterfinals. Italy are also into the top eight after they put away winless Ireland. Mario Balotelli's late goal sealed a 2-0 win for the Azzuri. And all eyes are now on the English as they prepare for their match against hosts Ukraine. Controversial striker Wayne Rooney is now available after serving a suspension for foul play from last year. His availability presents a headache for manager Roy Hodgson regarding who to play up front. The decision is made more difficult with Andy Carroll and Danny Welbeck both being in goal-scoring form. A draw in tomorrow morning's match will be enough for England to play either Spain or Italy in the quarterfinals. And the Wellington Phoenix have secured a proven goalscorer for next season. Benjamin Totori, the 26-year-old Solomon Islands international who embarrassed the All Whites in Honiara two weeks ago, has signed on a one-year contract with an option to extend a further year. It's taken over two months, but the Canterbury Tactix have finally won another game in the Trans-Tasman Netball Competition. Trailing the Southern Steel by four goals heading into the final quarter in Invercargill, the Tactix edged into the lead with just 10 seconds left. It's been such a long time coming, and I feel quite emotional about it. Um, yeah, it's huge. 62-61 to the Tactix, it's their first away win in three years, but they remain bottom of the table. This week's Rally NZ marks the return to the top flight of the biggest little name in motoring. 40 years after its famous victory here, the Mini is back. Martin Tasker reports. This is the story of a Scotsman, a NZer and a Mini ` in this case, a 1275 Clubman GT with Andrew Cowan at the wheel and Kiwi Jim Scott as navigator. The now 79-year-old recalled his driver's scary technique. He knew how to, uh, drive this` what they call the Scandinavian flick, which was you had the car turned the opposite way to the corner which you wanted to go around. What was it like? > After the first couple of corners, you understand that he knows what he was doing. It worked ` Cowan sharing the champagne and a 40-year friendship as enduring as Scott's connection to Minis. The sister to his winning car on display in Auckland during the Rally. It's a Morris 1000 engine, which has just turned sideways, and that drove the Mini, and it's fed by couple of SU carburetors, an inch and three quarters. They were state-of-the-art then? Th-That's it. State-of-the-art then meant 90 horsepower. The current Mini Countryman competing this week a rather different beast. This engine is 1.6l turbo engine. So a little bit bigger, let's say, than the old one, and it's 300 horsepower. It still looks like a Mini; continuing the legacy that's been an ever-present on our race tracks, our roads and our screens. Remember Goodbye Pork Pie? For more than 50 years, the spirit living on. It's like a dream. Being able to bring back the car and the glory will be, for us, really, really a dream. A podium place this week and another dream will come true. Martin Tasker, ONE News. If you're planning to watch the rally this weekend, choose your spot carefully. Somehow everyone escaped injury in this crash in Argentina. The driver and co-driver walked away unhurt. The panelbeaters couldn't save the car. After the break ` Jim's here with more weather action as things heat up in the Tasman. Next on Close Up ` MPs gambling with the future. Can the sports clubs survive without the one-armed bandits? The money will still be there. Plus ` the lowdown on the league tables. Will they really sort the good schools from the bad? And they were almost buried alive. We speak with the climbers who cheated death on Mt Taranaki. Close Up's here next, TV ONE. Howdy again. We're bogged down in a big broad trough, a swamp of showers, squalls and thunder. And there's more upstream ` one such squall line is tracking across the Taranaki upper south. For weather, see tvnz.co.nz Finally, a shot of Queenstown under this morning's fog closing the airport. And that's ONE News this Tuesday.