<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side two <&>20:12 radio new zealand news leading the news armed police look for bank robbery suspect the law society warns against a return to accident victims suing for compensation and the way is cleared for australia's first war crimes trial to go ahead i'm yvonne densem it's twelve oclock <,> police say a four hour armed offenders operation tonight was connected with yesterday's armed holdup of a te kauwhata <&>pronounced as te kawhauta bank during which a shot was fired by one of the robbers earlier the head of the squad investigating the thirty five thousand dollar hold up said they were following a strong lead and were looking for a specific man at about six oclock tonight armed police sealed off a road in drury south of papakura as the armed offender squad executed a search warrant on a house the operation lasted four hours there were no arrests police say the <&>21:00 warrant related to yesterday's armed holdup of the te kauwhata bank of the <.>bra branch of the bank of new zealand <,> the law society says a c c should be compensating accident victims for the health care costs the convenor of the society's a c c committee david carden says most lawyers wouldn't like to see a return to accident victims suing for compensation but he says it's important the victim can claim for expenses for hospital care then that should be something that they that person is compensated for from the accident compensation scheme if they otherwise qualify and if it's a matter of funding to to ensure that that happens well i'm sure that that has to be done david carden says it's dangerous to slowly erode the original compensation scheme because there's no single point at which it can be said to no longer work <,> a suspected nazi war criminal facing charges in australia's first war crimes prosecution lost a legal battle in the high court today and the case will go ahead a seven member bench of the high court ruled four to three against an application by the <&>21:00 accused that the government's first war crimes legislation passed in nineteen eighty nine was invalid seventy five year old ivan poliokavich is accused of murdering twenty five people and of having been knowingly concerned with the death of up to eight hundred and fifty others in the ukraine between nineteen forty two and nineteen forty three poliokavich shot himself in the stomach a year ago the day before his trial was to begin forcing a postponement until now <,> oil salvagers have started pumping tonnes of crude oil out of the hulk of the wrecked tanker kirki off the western australian coast a second vessel is finally brought alongside the hulk today and maritime safety authorities spokesman david grey says the major pump out operation has begun <&>22:42 <&>ineligible speaker <&>22:58 late last month the kirki spilled twenty thousand tonnes of crude oil into the ocean north of perth when its bow broke off but an emergency mop up operation dispersed the oil and stopped pollution of the coastline <,> the mayor of honolulu wants japanese officials to attend ceremonies marking the fiftieth anniversary of the attack on pearl harbour AND he also wants them to apologise for it mayor frank farzi has written to president bush saying it'll be a big mistake if the u s administration excludes the japanese from the december seven observance the americans have said they don't plan to invite foreign dignitaries to the ceremonies <,> in sport attention may now switch to other top contenders for all black honours after the all black selectors tonight twice put off the naming of the new zealand team to play australia in the second bledisloe cup test the team will now be named on sunday morning our rugby expert says the sELectors are obviously undecided over one or more of the team that lost the first test they could include half back graeme bachop prop richard lowe and winger john timu and possibly captain gary whetton <&>24:00 rugby news with national mutual sponsors of provincial rugby and i'm yvonne densem for radio new zealand news and sport <&>24:07