The winter storm is not giving up easily. Bitterly cold gales have lashed the south-east of both main islands, driving a 10m swell up the Canterbury coast. The snow has eased away. The numbing showers keep coming, but the school holidays have timed their arrival to perfection. Details coming up. 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 Simon Dallow and Wendy Petrie. A big development in the Dotcom case tonight ` a judge rules search warrants were illegal. We hear from the alleged internet pirate. Did he murder his brother-in-law? The closing arguments in the shooting of Scott Guy. He played a starring role; now a Baby Black reveals he's the one facing rape claims And the side-stepping duke ` did he shake hands with a man who wanted to kill his family? First tonight, a ruling in the past hour on the Kim Dotcom case as he fights FBI attempts to get him extradited to the United States. A High Court judge says search warrants of the internet entrepreneur's Auckland mansion were illegal. With the latest, Donna-Marie Lever is in our Auckland newsroom. Donna-Marie. THE HIGH COURT CHIEF JUDGE HAS JUST RELEASED THIS LENGTHY STATEMENT, RULING THE POLICE WARRANTS WERE INVALID AND THE SUBSEQUENT SEIZURE OF KIM DOTCOM'S ASSETS DURING THE RAID OF HIS MANSION IN JANUARY THIS YEAR WERE IN FACT ILLEGAL. HELEN WINKELMANN HAS FOUND THE WARRANTS DID NOT ADEQUATELY DESCRIBE THE OFFENCES TO WHICH THEY RELATED. IN FACT, THEY FELL WELL SHORT OF THAT. THEY WERE GENERAL WARRANTS, AND AS SUCH WERE INVALID. SHE HAS ALSO RULED IT WAS UNLAWFUL FOR COPIES OF COMPUTER DATA TO BE TAKEN OFFSHORE AND THAT THE ATTORNEY GENERAL RETURN ANY COPIES OR CLONES HELD BY THE POLICE TO KIM DOTCOM. A SPOKESMAN FOR KIM DOTCOM HAS TOLD US HE IS PLEASED, BUT WILL BE MAKING NO FURTHER COMMENT ON THE DECISION, AS APPEALS ARE LIKELY. WE PUT THAT TO THE CROWN LAWYERS REPRESENTING THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. THEY TELL US THE RULING HAS COME AS NO GREAT SURPRISE, AND THEIR LEGAL TEAM WILL BE DISCUSSING ITS OPTIONS, INCLUDING WHETHER AN APPEAL WILL BE LODGED. AND POLICE SAY THEY WILL BE TALKING TO CROWN LAW ABOUT THE DECISION TO DETERMINE IF FURTHER ACTION IS NEEDED. Thanks, Donna-Marie Lever, in our Auckland newsroom. And Dotcom has talked to ONE News about his growing fame. That story later in the news hour. Both sides have given their closing addresses as the Scott Guy murder trial reaches the final stages. The Crown says Ewen Macdonald killed his brother-in-law out of deep-seated resentment. But the defence argues the charge isn't backed up by evidence or common sense. Simon Bradwell joins us now from the High Court in Wellington. Simon. WE'VE HEARD FROM OVER 100 WITNESSES. WE JUST HEARD FROM TWO LAWYERS TODAY. A STUDY IN CONTRASTS. The Crown says Scott Guy's murder was intensely personal and what drove Ewen Macdonald to kill might have been in a paper Scott Guy wrote, saying he wanted to take over the family farm. That note may have been his own death warrant. The Crown says the most telling evidence comes from the accused himself. First, he told people at the crime scene that morning that Scott Guy had been shot when everyone thought his throat had been cut. He knew because he was the gunman. The Crown case says Scott Guy was shot after he opened his driveway gates wide. But Ewen Macdonald said when he arrived at the scene, he saw the ute's headlights shining through the gates. The only time, members of the jury, that he could have seen the lights through the bar of the gate was within a minute or less of when he killed Scott Guy. The Crown says Ewen Macdonald set fire to a Guy family property, vandalised another and wrote abusive graffiti about Scott Guy's wife, Kylee, to drive them from the farm. What's in his mind, members of the jury, is just wicked. He lied to police about doing the property damage in the same way he lied about stealing and killing two stags from a local property under the cover of darkness. That is not evidence! But what is evidence, the defence says, was witnesses hearing gunshots after 4.43am ` the time the Crown says Scott Guy was killed. If this killing could have taken place at 5am, as all four witnesses associated with, then there is no way in the world that my client could've done that. Because it's accepted Ewen Macdonald turned off a burglar alarm at his house at 5.03am. And there was another problem with the gunshots. Bang, bang, bang. Three shots, meaning it couldn't be the farm shotgun the Crown suggests, because it holds only two cartridges. And to commit the murder in such an obvious fashion defied logic when Ewen MacDonald could've made the shooting look like a farm accident. Routinely, you have to put down a cow. Go out with him and, 'Oh, gee, I slipped.' The defence will continue tomorrow. Already they say the Crown's case is in tatters. Simon, this case is being followed by more people than any other story on our onenews.co.nz website. What more can you tell us about the public interest? THAT DOESN'T SURPRISE ME. WHEN I GOT HERE THIS MORNING, 100 PEOPLE WERE IN THE FOYER. PEOPLE WITH CHILDREN AND WHO HAD TAKEN LEAVE TO COME AND WATCH. I ASKED A VETERAN OF MANY HIGH-PROFILE CASES IF HE'D SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT. HE SAID NOT. THE LEVEL OF PUBLIC INTEREST IS INCREDIBLY HIGH. A man has been sent for a psychiatric assessment after being charged with murdering Dean Clark (36) in an Auckland home. A court order means we can't reveal the man's name. For the latest, let's go to Kate Lynch. I'M OUTSIDE THE HOME IN THE AUCKLAND SUBURB OF BALMORAL, WHERE IT'S ALLEGED 36-YEAR-OLD DEAN ANDREW CLARK DIED OF STAB WOUNDS AT THE HANDS OF HIS MENTALLY ILL FLATMATE. I SPOKE TO HIS PARENTS THIS AFTERNOON. THEY ARE DEVASTATED BY DEAN'S DEATH. IT CAME AT A TIME THEY HAD NEVER SEEN HIM HAPPIER. Dean Andrew Clark was in love and told his landlord he'd never been so happy. He told me about the course that he'd just passed and the courses he was looking forward to doing. The thing he didn't tell me was how scared he was. He'd gone to Finlay Smith for help when it became clear the new housemate he'd allowed to move into this Balmoral house was mentally ill. He'd only been there for five days. Dean thought he would be OK, but when Dean said to me when he came in, he noticed that he started yelling and type of stuff, and Dean told me he had tried to get him out. He started knocking on the door about 1.20 in the morning, and we were, like, 'Why are you knocking on our door?' And he started asking for a random girl that we didn't really, um` that wasn't even living there, and we kind of got a bit freaked out. And the next day no one stayed at the flat. After Mr Clark served him with an eviction notice, it's alleged the 38-year-old stabbed him. (INHALES) Yeah, devastating. You like to think... You like to think that you can help people and you can protect people and you can save people. Police and forensics spent the day at the house, trying to build a picture of what lead to the tragedy. The Auckland District Health Board has confirmed he was a mental health patient. All Finlay Smith is left with is guilt that he didn't see the signs, I just didn't realise that he was that bad, you know. But if there was somebody to call, like the police, and they would have done something about it, I would have rung the police, but, um,... I felt really` we felt powerless, you know. People like that shouldn't be on the street. The man's family were at court today. They were aware of his illness. Police say they called them after he turned up at their home. THE ACCUSED WAS GRANTED NAME SUPPRESSION AND IS BEING ADMITTED TO THE MASON CLINIC AFTER BEING ASSESSED BY A FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGIST AS BEING IN NEED OF 24-HOUR PSYCHIATRIC CARE. HE LOOKED DISHEVELLED AND WAS WEARING A WHITE BOILER SUIT. HE'LL BE ASSESSED FIT ` OR NOT ` TO STAND TRIAL AND REAPPEAR ON JULY 12 WHEN NAME SUPPRESSION WILL BE RECONSIDERED. Kate Lynch, thank you. There's been a significant admission at the Canterbury earthquake inquiry. Council inspectors now admit they lacked the expertise to adequately say if the CTV building was safe to work in after the jolts in September 2010. Lisa Davies is following the story. Lisa. TODAY THE COMMISSION LEARNED THAT INSPECTORS HAD NO ASSESSMENT TRAINING UNTIL AFTER THE SEPTEMBER QUAKE. AND THEY DIDN'T GET INTO THE TOP FLOORS OF THE CTV BUILDING, BUT STILL DECLARED IT SAFE. The September quake ` the city's first taste of the dramatic seismic events to come. The CTV building was still standing, but was there cause for concern? There was no reason, as far as I was concerned, after 7 September inspectio, for any alarm with the CTV building. After one quick training session, inspectors were sent out to do a brief internal inspection of the CTV building. They gave it a green sticker, deciding there was no sign of structural damage. If there was significant damage, I would have gone in and told them to get out. Given the chaos in Christchurch after the September quake, they were told if building inspectors didn't do the assessments without an engineer, they wouldn't get done at all. It was out of the ordinary to be instructed to carry out the assessment without an engineer. The families' lawyer questioned whether they were qualified to put a green sticker on the building. < You should have said, 'We're not engineers. < 'We don't have enough expertise or information to say that this building can be occupied.' In hindsight, maybe, yes. Another inspector conceding it would have been better to yellow sticker the building. We should've probably at least put a yellow sticker on the building. Meaning it couldn't be reoccupied until an engineer's check. The apparent lack of appropriate assessment has long been a concern for the families of the 115 victims. It just getting worse and worse. The council stickering process will come under closer scrutiny later in the hearing. There are many lessons to be learned from the CTV building, and this is certainly one of them. Lessons the Commission will analyse to ensure this never happens again. Lisa, what happened when the CTV building was assessed by an engineer? DESPITE ONE OF THE INSPECTORS SAYING THEY SHOULD HAVE YELLOW STICKERED THE BUILDING, WHEN AN ENGINEER WENT THROUGH IT, HE DECLARED IT STRUCTURALLY SOUND. A senior minister in John Key's government is now refusing to rule out selling KiwiRail. Major restructuring will set up KiwiRail as a state-owned enterprise. Under questioning in Parliament, Economic Development Minister Stephen Joyce was asked if there could be a sale or part sale in future. I wouldn't guarantee it, because the reality is` MPS HOWL No. The reality is you can't guarantee anything in this world. But I can tell the member it's a long, long time before we get back under any circumstances the money Labour Party wasted in KiwiRail. In making yesterday's announcement, Finance Minister Bill English said the government wasn't trying to sell KiwiRail. There's a promise tonight of pay rises for Navy sailors as they give up life at sea in favour of lucrative jobs in Australian mines. The Defence boss has told ONE News so many are quitting, we can't make full use of our fleet. This from political reporter Michael Parkin. Down an Australian mine is about as far away from a life at sea as a NZ sailor can get. But the Chief of Defence says Navy personnel are making that kind of career choice at such a rate that there aren't enough left to adequately crew the Navy's ships. The Australian mining is starting to target the Defence Force, and Navy, in particular, have been targeted. They work with large machinery. Last month ONE News revealed staffing shortages mean the Navy will not be able to use up to half of its four inshore patrol vessels over the next year. Figures just released to us under the Official Information Act show this time last year, there were more than 2100 uniformed personnel in the Navy. But that sank to fewer than 1900 by the start of this year. That's more than one in 10 in the service gone. The Chief of Defence says the Australian mines are actively recruiting around the Devonport naval base and offering big bucks when compared to their average Navy salary of around $60,000. The salary package is often twice, if not more, the salary that they're offered, and that's one of the reasons why we can't compete. At a select committee today, the Defence Minister was asked why members of our military haven't received a pay rise in four years. Intent to leave is way up, and morale has been dropping since the first quarter of 2009. What are you actually doing to turn that plummeting morale statistic around? There will be money there for wage adjustments. We're just working through that at the moment. But the rapid exits to Australian mines are leaving a big hole for our Navy to fill. Michael Parkin, ONE News. The rugby hooker at the centre of rape claims is insisting he's innocent. Bay of Plenty's Nathan Harris has revealed he's the Baby Black being investigated by South African police. Kim Vinnell has more. Harris. Harris! A standout moment for Nathan Harris that turned into a night he'd rather forget. The hooker admits taking a woman back to his hotel room after the Baby Blacks lost the world under-20 final to hosts South Africa. But he denies raping the 22-year-old in Johannesburg. On Tuesday, rugby bosses refused to say who was at the centre of the allegations. To name him and put all that pressure on him, we think, would be inappropriate. Two days later, Harris says he's outing himself to take suspicion away from his teammates. In a statement, the Bay of Plenty player says,... No one from the NZRU would appear on camera today. But a spokesperson told me the fact they put out Mr Harris's admission out on his behalf shows the union supports his decision. The 20-year-old gave South African police a statement and blood sample before returning to his home in Te Puke. Investigators say they're waiting for forensic evidence before deciding if they'll charge Harris. Kim Vinnell, ONE News. A man who was once a sworn enemy of the Queen has spoken to her in Irish, saying, 'Goodbye, and God speed.' Former IRA commander Martin McGuinness has revealed what he told Her Majesty during their historic handshake in Belfast. This from ABC's Nick Schifrin. This was the moment. The Queen reaches out to shake the hand of someone who once wanted to kill her family. She smiles warmly. He wishes her God speed, and she keeps her smile. But behind it, the searing pain of the past. That's Martin McGuinness, and that's Martin McGuinness in 1972, when he helped lead the mostly Catholic Irish Republican Army. In its decades-long war for Irish independence from Britain, it assassinated the Queen's beloved cousin Lord Mountbatten, blowing up his yacht. Mountbatten was as close to the royal family as anyone. He was Prince Charles' mentor and godfather. He was Prince Philip's surrogate father. Philip shook McGuinness' hand today too, but at one point seemed to try and avoid McGuinness. Forgiveness is not easy for either side. In response to the IRA's campaign, Protestant militias and the British Army fought back violently. The path to peace has been painful. And today both sides support the Queen. She never could've done this in Belfast just a few years ago. There's a great desire here to unite behind the Queen and try and reconcile communities that have been divided for so long. It was all over in a moment, but after so much pain, a handshake means the hatred of the past is receding. Martin McGuinness also says while the meeting went well, he's still a republican. Still to come on ONE News ` A government minister tells Christchurch homeless it's OK to go squatting in red zone houses. Thousands of families are on the run from out of control wildfires in Colorado. And there's plenty of snow, but also frustration for skiers at Mr Ruapehu. Then ` chilling threats made against a victim of the Beast of Blenheim as special arrangements are made for Stewart Murray Wilson's release. The government has released a three-year road map for rehabilitating the embattled Accident Compensation Corporation. The ACC Minister has ordered all staff to undergo privacy training and wants the corporation to work alongside trusted agencies like the police and IRD to improve its public image. Confidence in ACC dropped after a high-profile privacy breach in which client details were emailed to ACC claimant Bronwyn Pullar. Just this afternoon, the Privacy Commissioner announced the report into that leak will now not be released until late August. Mixed messages are coming from the government over housing issues in Christchurch. While the Earthquake Recovery Minister insists there's no crisis, fellow minister Pita Sharples is advising people to squat in abandoned red-zone houses if necessary. Here's political reporter Jessica Mutch. These homes are in the red zone and considered too dangerous to live in, but Maori Affairs Minister Pita Sharples is in trouble for saying people should squat there if they think it's safe. I said if there are houses that are not dangerous, then they should squat in there rather than die in the car. Pita Sharples says he's heard cases of terrible living conditions. < So you stand by that statement? Oh, I stand that it's the ethical, moral thing, really, about people, but I've tried to get hold of Minister Brownlee to apologise. Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee isn't impressed. He's says it's inappropriate for people to squat in the red zone and inappropriate for Pita Sharples to make these comments. Labour were quick to spot the difference. Who is right ` the Minister of Maori Affairs, Pita Sharples, who says he is shocked at the hardship and the housing crisis in Christchurch or Gerry Brownlee and himself, who has declared there is no housing crisis? I would prefer to take the advice from those two members than I would from anyone across the House. Figures released by Labour show there are nearly 800 vacant state houses in Christchurch. Many of them are waiting to be repaired and developed. Since September 2010, more than 27,000 urgent repairs have been carried out. But when it comes to housing, it seems National is having to battle its own ministers as well as the Opposition. Jessica Mutch, ONE News. Finance Minister Bill English has raised the idea of drug testing people on the unemployment benefit. He told a Federated Farmers conference in Auckland that many unemployed people in his own electorate would be able to work in forestry or the freezing works if they could pass drug tests. BUT THEY CAN'T, WHICH MAKES YOU WONDER WHETHER WE SHOULD HAVE DRUGS TESTS FOR PEOPLE ON THE BENEFIT. The government wants to reduce the number of long-term unemployed by 20,000 by 2017. Firefighters in America are struggling to contain a huge wildfire burning out of control in Colorado. More than 36,000 people have been forced to flee their homes as teams race to stop the flames reaching the city of Colorado Springs. From there, ABC's Alex Perez reports. In a matter of hours, these Colorado suburbs became a raging inferno ` dozens of homes consumed by flames; hundreds of families tonight desperate for answers. Mindy Levinson, like thousands of others, got a text message from authorities saying she had minutes to evacuate. Through the choking smoke, she grabbed her son, dog and ran out. It hurts a lot just to think of going back to myself and finding it in ruins and charred. Some 32,000 horrified residents stuffed belongings into their cars and scrambled to get to safety, including 700 cadets and personnel from the air force academy, which was partially evacuated. The fire doubled in size overnight, scorching more than 15,000 acres and the evacuation zone mapping the path of the flames at times moving at a rate of three football fields a minute. Yesterday 65mph winds fuelled the blaze out of control, lifting an explosion of red-hot embers, some as heavy as a pound, carrying them as far as a half mile away, where they showered down on nearby homes. Those with wooden shingle shake roofs didn't stand a chance. It's virtually started hundreds, if not thousands, of little fires in front of itself as it goes. Jason Hopper and his wife and four young kids just wish they knew when they could go back home. Right now we're in a limbo state more than anything else, trying to figure out what's the next step. More than a thousand firefighters from across the country are battling this blaze ` the top firefighting priority in the nation right now. Military C-130 planes are dropping retardant from above. It's still too early to say just how many homes were lost. American president Barack Obama is due to visit the Colorado area on Saturday. Strong winds are easing across the country after reports of gales up to 120km/h in Dunedin, Clutha and the Catlins. Almost all the 6000 homes in Otago and Southland which lost power due to snow and high winds are now back on the grid. And as the school holidays begin, most of the country can expect a cold, fine weekend. Wind and snow also caused problems in the Central North Island, forcing the closure of Whakapapa ski field on Mt Ruapehu. Arrun Soma went up for a look. On a murky mountain, Whakapapa. This week's storm has coated it with snow, but it's not that useful even for the skiers right now. Had enough. Getting up isn't a given. Some cars are turned away. Chains or four-wheel drives are a must. The roads are just too dangerous. Cabin fever is setting in. Been in Turangi for a couple of days... in the rain. Couldn't get up the mountain. They settled for boarding on the side of the road. Up top, people who've been staying in the lodges found their cars lodged. How long have you been digging your car out for? About an hour. (CHUCKLES) One man's taken two days to unpack his vehicle. I can't really get it up to the lodge, cos the snow is too deep to walk through. So just taking it little bits at a time. The storm comes just days out from the start of school holiday. Business-wise, it's a bit of a hassle. You can't get the people up there. The Whakapapa and Turoa ski fields usually see 200,000 snow-goers each every season, but numbers have dropped off in recent years. There's lots of other activities now ` sporting, holidays overseas. Things are lot cheaper, easier to access. Business is picking up again. Storms like this, though, are unpredictable, but the prospects are improving. The silver lining up here on the Whakapapa ski field is that the storm's brought 60cm of new snow. It's looking to be a bumper weekend. For now, the digging, attaching chains and sheltering from the elements continues. Arrun Soma, ONE News. To weather conditions elsewhere now. What's the latest on the storm? The storm's unravelling. The snow has eased in Southland and the Desert Road and retreated to above 600m. Whakapapa's looking good for the weekend. Severe south-west gales between Southland and Central Hawkes Bay have eased back, but not off, and the situation is slowly settling down. Look at the southerly gales blasting the snow off the Pisa range today. Gusting upwards of 120km/h there. For weather, see onenews.co.nz The Milford Road's been closed, with snow blocking the Homer Tunnel, so the locals have had the stunning vistas all to themselves. See you again after sport. Up next on ONE News ` Kim Dotcom's a big trender on Twitter. We ask him about becoming a celebrity. And we have a taste of the rock anthem chosen for the Olympics. Tonight on Close Up ` Chilling threats made against a victim of the Beast of Blenheim as special arrangements are made for Stewart Murray Wilson's release. I didn't think, honestly, that 21 years was long enough. Her message of courage and caution. There are other victims out there. Plus ` could saving this dolphin make our fisheries extinct? 1 An attempt by iwi groups to buy back three Crafar dairy farms has stalled over the asking price. Iwi have been negotiating to buy the properties which are among 16 sold to Shanghai Pengxin in January. They had until tomorrow to sign a deal, but say the Chinese owner's $66.5m price tag is ridiculous. The way things are starting to shape up within this country ` if you want to speak to the workers on the farms, get out there and learn Spanish; but if you want to communicate with the bosses, go out there and learn Mandarin. The iwi, who have links to the land, are part of a consortium which is back in court on Monday to appeal the sale of the farms. There's been a huge surprise for an Auckland schoolgirl who's found out she'll be a part of our Olympic history. It comes 29 days out from the Games as the fever builds. Charlotte Whale reports. APPLAUSE, CHEERING A defining moment in the lead-up to the Games. The Olympic rings are now hanging from London Bridge a month out from the opening ceremony. On the other side of the world at Auckland's Rangitoto College, Tayla Young was the focus of another Olympic moment, but she didn't have a clue. < Is Tayla Young here today? Tayla bet 16,000 others after entering an ANZ competition to deliver the NZ flag to London. And with just a bit of suspense,... < I'm just making sure I got the name right. < Oh, yes, there you are. Tayla Young, why don't you come up here? ...she took her first steps towards the trip of a lifetime. You're going to London with the NZ flag, and you're going to the Olympic team function, and you'll literally hand the flag to the NZ Olympic team from NZ in London. What do have you got to say? I-I'm speechless right now. Speechless, but straight into the limelight. Tayla will pick up the flag in Wellington tomorrow and heads off to the UK on the 24th of July ` plenty of time to get used to the idea. I just kind of looked at my friends, and I just had my jaw to the floor. Hey, that rhymed. But for now... I'm going to skype my friends in Whangarei and go, 'I'm going to London!' And she says she'll be packing her bags this evening. Charlotte Whale, ONE News. The official Olympic anthem has been released. It'll be played as the athletes enter the venues and at medal ceremonies. It's called Survival ` the word of British band Muse. # It's a race. # And I'm gonna win. # Yes, I'm gonna win. # I will light the fuse. # I'll never lose. # And I choose to survive, # whatever it takes,... # And we're live at the official uniform launch for the NZ Olympic team later in sport. Looking at our top stories tonight ` Both sides have given their closing arguments in the Scott Guy murder trial. The Crown says Ewen MacDonald killed his brother-in-law out of deep-seated resentment, but the defence argues the charge isn't backed up by evidence or common sense. Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has won a significant court battle. The chief High Court Judge has ruled police warrants to search his Auckland mansion were invalid. It's not clear what the ruling means for extradition proceedings being taken by the United States. As the alleged internet pirate battles to clear his name, he's also becoming something of a celebrity. Helen Castles talked to him about his growing fame. RAPS: # Nothing to fear. Nothing to hide. # Kim Dotcom's larger-than-life persona seems to be striking a chord with the public as he battles the justice system here and in the United States. After signing up to social media site Twitter just over a week ago, the German multimillionaire has gained more than 40,000 followers. I think it's just a crazy story. You know, it's just unbelievable what happened ` this, you know, Osama bin Laden-style raid on my house, and you know, locking me up, seizing all my assets. Mr Dotcom's Coatesville mansion was raided by armed police in January. His property was taken, and he was arrested, going from virtual unknown to a celebrity. I would say Peter Jackson is probably the most famous NZer in the world, and he will stay at that rank for quite some time, especially with his new movies coming out. You're number two? > I think John Key is still more famous than me, yeah. Number three? > I think, maybe. (LAUGHS) He'll be back in court here in Auckland later this week fighting a decision that prevents him from being able to see all the evidence authorities have against him. While he may have won a court victory today, his lawyers will also try to have the charges against Megaupload thrown out of court in the States this weekend and its global assets unfrozen. Helen Castles, ONE News. Jenny-May's here with sport. The lone Aussie crashes out of Wimbledon. IT'S ALL GONE WRONG AUSTRALIA'S WORST PERFORMANCE IN 45 YEARS Most of the top seeds managed to get through on what was a rain-affected day. Also on the way ` were Ronaldo's prayers answered at Euro 2012? Talented 'Canes footballer TJ Perenara returns home hoping for a lucky break. I'M LIVE FROM THE VIADUCT WHERE ONE MONTH TO GO TO THE OLY Kia ora. Welcome back. It is exactly a month to the London Games, and the NZ Olympic committee is hosting a gala dinner at Auckland's Viaduct Events Centre. They've invited some of the biggest names in sport, including Sir Colin Meads, Rob Waddell and Sarah Ulmer. Also there is our very own Craig Stanaway. THERE'S A FEW PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIKE TO ADMIT THEY WATCH THE E CHANNEL BUT WE CAN SEE SOME THE FASHION HERE THERE IS A STRONG CONNECTION TO LATE '40S AND '50S. LAST OLYMPIC GAMES WAS BACK THEN. PEOPLE WILL SAY IT'S OUTDATED DOESN'T MATTER. IT'S WHAT ATHLETES THINK. Thanks, Craig. We'll come back to you later in the bulletin. Spain has continued its remarkable run in major football tournaments, reaching the final of Euro 2012. But it took another penalty shoot-out before the defending champions got past neighbours Portugal in today's semi-final in the Ukraine. Here's Stephen Stuart. The Real Madrid clubmates turned rival leaders. World champion Spain was more aggressive than in its quarter-final. Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo was desperate to make his mark and continue his side's impressive recent record against Spain. But he was a marked man, constantly demanding penalties as he sought Spaniards to crash into. Nine yellow cards were dished out. Although, goals seemed impossible to come by. Surely practice would make perfect for Ronaldo. No, and the sides went to extra time. Spain should have sealed it there, but Iniesta was denied by Patricio, and his skipper was demanding more of the same as another penalty shoot-out was played out. It's a wonderful save by Rui Patricio. Portugal failed to ram home the early advantage. Spain edged ahead. No sign of Ronaldo, but Nani delivered. Here comes Nani. Right into the roof of the net. However, when the woodwork denied Bruno Alvez, Spain was just one goal away. Up stepped Cesc Fabregas as the titleholders won 4-2 on penalties. Ronaldo didn't even get a shot. The Spanish will now face the winner of tomorrow's Italy-Germany semi-final. Stephen Stuart, ONE News. Life on the other side of the fence ` TJ Perenara's place for the next four months after breaking his ankle. Yeah, I knew it was broken straight away. You know, I sort of heard it, felt it, and... Was just hoping my foot wasn't sideways, actually, but it wasn't, so... Yeah, it was all good. Yep, all good. The 19-year-old's optimism is boosted by cousin and former league player Henry Perenara. Perenara! He just said there's so much more to life than footy. It's only going to be here 10, 15 years maybe, so you can't just let it ruin your life. It's footy, at the end of the day. It's a game. As his Hurricanes teammates prepare for their next game, Perenara is doing some blue sky thinking, and a dabble in media could be a bright side of the unlucky break. We've been, you know, doing a little bit of radio stuff like that, and hopefully get into some on-air stuff. Just trying things and getting involved with people who know more about the media than I do, and just picking their brains and stuff like that. His absence will be a big loss for the Hurricanes. And one who's benefited from Perenara's brilliance has concerns the break for the Test window has taken the wind out of the Hurricanes' sails. I think it's a bit of an upset, to be honest. You know, the boys were just getting on a bit of a roll before the break, and it can sort of throw` throw the team off a bit. Disruption from breaks aside, Taylor says the Hurricanes are ready to get up and avenge their loss to the Crusaders two months ago. Mark Hathaway, ONE News. We're barely into the third round of Wimbledon, and already it's Australia's worst grand slam performance in the 45-year open era. First, the country's two top male hopes ` Lleyton Hewitt and Bernard Tomic ` crashed out in the opening round. Now their leading female is gone too. Toni Street has the story. It had already been a weary start to Wimbledon for Aussie fans. Sam Stosur was supposed to show the Aussie men how it's done. Australia's best hope ` world number five and US Open champion. That's how she began against Arantxa Rus, winning 10 of the first 11 points. But Stosur has never been suited to grass. Rus, who'd stunned Kim Clijsters in Paris last year, was ready to cash in. The 21-year-old won six straight games and the opening set in 38 minutes. Stosur surged again in the second, but faded in the third. She's the highest seed to drop out of the tournament so far, and it means there are now no Australians left in either the men's or women's draw ` the country's worst major ever. Seventh seed Caroline Wozniaki's gone too. The Dane, who started the year as world number one, wasted two match points in the second set against Austria's Tamira Paszek, eventually losing in three. Later, she was left to field questions about whether her relationship with golf champion Rory McIlroy was getting in the way. Those results meant good news for Maria Sharapova, but she also struggled in her first set against Tsvetana Pironkova. Sharapova, who's fresh from winning the French Open, eventually won the set in a tiebreak, before bad light stopped play. Just as well the royals chose to watch the men's draw, where results were far more predictable. Third seed Roger Federer conceded six games, beating Italy's Fabio Fognini in just over an hour. And top seed Novak Djokovic cruised past Ryan Harrison in straight sets. Toni Street, ONE News. Heavyweight boxer Shane Cameron has arrived back in NZ to scoff at the claims made by Monte Barrett on ONE News last night. Far from appearing beaten up by sparring former heavyweight champion David Haye, the man dubbed 'the mountain warrior' appears surprisingly fresh. No, he didn't beat me up. He didn't beat me up. He's certainly a good fighter. I'll give him that. But he didn't` You know, we had about eight sparring sessions, and he kept me sharp every time. So in terms of getting beaten up, there was no getting beaten up at all. Cameron says the sessions were harder than when he sparred with Mike Tyson and he's come back a better fighter. Let's go back now to the official uniform launch for the NZ Olympic team in Auckland and Olympic reporter Craig Stanaway. WE'RE BACK HERE LIVE AT THE VIADUCT AND JOINING US IS GEMMA FLYNN. I AM SPORTING THE SHOES, TRAINING SINGLET AND SHORTS VERY COMFORTABLE. COME HERE, JAMES. YOU LOOK LIKE YOU'RE OUT OF THE 1946 GAMES. IT'S A REAL HONOUR TO WEAR THIS. VERY COMFORTABLE. I KNOW THEY WORE IT IN 1948. Thanks, Craig. Thanks, Craig ` our own Mr Olympia. After the break ` the storm might have passed, but Jim reckons the polar surge could still bite. Next ` extraordinary threats have put a victim of the Beast of Blenheim through hell again. I have to live with this for the rest of my life. And will she ever feel safe with the new electronic monitoring system? I didn't think, honestly, that 21 years was long enough. And it's powered up, but never taken off ` can we learn to love the electric car? It's not a myth. You've got to get in these, to try them, to actually understand how good they really are. The snow's gone, the gales are decelerating, but we're still sucking oxygen out of a very cold pool. The snow might be gone, but it's not forgotten. This is the Cardrona Valley, between Wanaka and Queenstown, today. For weather, see onenews.co.nz