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A team of researchers is lucky to have escaped a massive volcano eruption
on New Zealand's North Island.
The group was carrying out avalanche tests near the summit
when the mountain unleashed its fury.
The warning signs began during the week.
At 5 o'clock yesterday, she blew.
Get ready to run, guys.
Uh-uh.
We've got a large eruption in progress here.
Can you get a helicopter up here? Over.
Oiling mud and rocks erupted through the snow, steam spewing 10 kilometres into the air.
Scores of skiers fled to the safety of a nearby village.
And lucky to escape, a party of seven doing an avalanche test
only a kilometre from the crater lake when it erupted.
Mount Ruapahu is the highest volcanic peak on New Zealand's North Island
and last erupted seven years ago.
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A man has been charged with the murder of a vagrant
whose body was found in an abandoned building in Brisbane.
Police discovered the dead man after an anonymous tip-off.
His name has not yet been released.
Meanwhile, a body found in a bush grave near Cairns
is believed to be that of nightclub bouncer Jason Tyler,
who disappeared five weeks ago.
New South Wales police are tonight guarding many of the state's prisons
after a snap strike by warders.
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They claim the move will cost jobs and could jeopardise security.
There have been no reports of trouble at the strike-hit jails.
Bosnian troops say they've discovered a mass grave in territory
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allegedly killed in ethnic cleansing in north-west Bosnia.
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The party is expected to go long into the night
as the Sydney Bulldogs celebrate today's Winfield Cup victory.
The Bulldogs were too good, defeating favourites Manly 17-4
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while Bulldogs fans took to the streets to show their joy.
While the defeated Manly players were also warmly received by their supporters.
Meanwhile, the Australian Rugby League has named a 25-man squad for the World Cup,
despite considering Super League players for selection,
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Finally tonight, the national weather outlook,
fine in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Hobart, Brisbane and Darwin,
showers for Canberra and rain in Sydney.
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Hello, welcome. Nice to have you all.
Can't believe all of you are watching us right around Australia.
Well, we've got a triple header on tonight.
The Formula One's followed by the Argentine 250cc Grand Prix,
then the 500cc, then the Super Tourer's.
Four and a half hours of real good motor racing coming away here on Nine Sports.
And congratulations to the network for taking the entire package there tonight live.
And of course, it's Cumbertozia time for most people in Sydney tonight.
It's been the Rugby League Grand Final on a big day.
And Canterbury, congratulations.
Fantastic game against the favourites, Manly and the Bulldogs.
They flogged the Eagles.
And how lucky were they weather-wise?
It's absolutely pouring right now.
So they missed that well, didn't they?
Absolutely bucketing down in Sydney.
It has been since around about 6 o'clock after they got the league over and done with.
And all too, congratulations to the Nova Castrians too.
In Newcastle and the Hunter Valley, they'd be absolutely over the moon.
The reserve-grade final won by the Knights.
Their local team, the first time ever in Newcastle, have won a major football trophy.
Terrific.
Alrighty, so football out of the way.
We're back to motor racing.
A real big night ahead of us.
Now, Formula One, there's been a lot of rumours about musical chairs.
You've had your ear to the phone.
Yeah, well, there's a bit going on.
A pretty reliable source has seen Johnny Herbert down at Ferrari.
And he looks like he could be a real good contender to back up Schumacher there.
They're talking to Coulthard.
Lorini's still in with a slight chance.
But the betting is that Herbert is in with a real good chance because he's been spending
a bit of time down there.
Ligier, apparently, from what I can gather, has been sold.
An Indian businessman's bought that.
And that'll be announced about mid-November.
Tom Wilkinshaw's getting out of it.
And they're going to have a new sponsor.
And I think it'll be Goulars.
I find that extraordinary that they would be going to a cigarette sponsorship, coming
out of a cigarette sponsorship, when the pressure of the world is to try and rid sport of cigarette
sponsorship.
Well, yeah, rid the world of sponsorship, period, I think.
But, you know, I mean, it seems to work everywhere else in the world.
And I think they probably think it's good value.
And that's the route they've decided to go from what I can gather.
OK.
But if you think about the Ferrari situation, Schumacher having worked so closely with Herbert,
that probably would make some sense.
Yes.
Well, I think they get on reasonably well.
And Johnny Herbert now has had two Grand Prix wins under his belt.
He desperately wants to keep in a competitive car.
And as we'll see by tonight, he's qualified quite well for tonight's race.
So I think he'd be an excellent choice to go there, quite frankly.
All right.
Well, tonight, of course, is the Portuguese.
Now, the championship wide open, really, because Diamond Hill, I mean, can still do this.
We'll check the grid in a moment.
But it's very quickly, it's been a pretty sort of hectic week for you since the announcement
that we made at last Grand Prix that you're going out on your own to form a new Group
A team.
And, boy, oh, boy, mate, you've made some headlines around the place.
Well, we've been fairly busy.
We've got a big job in front of us.
People don't realise.
I don't think it's about 700 hours to build a Group A Falcon.
We've got to build two of them and we've got to have it ready for testing, you know, sort
of the end of December.
So we've got a lot of work in front of us, but it'll be a great challenge.
And I think the people around me, the Stone Brothers in particular, will do the job.
We'll do it well.
Every touring car fan in Australia wishes you well, I know that.
All right.
Let's have a look at the grid as I line up for this, the Portuguese Formula One Grand
Prix.
Well, there you are, David Kultart on pole, second time in a row from his team-mate, Diamond
Hill.
Third, Gerhard Berger, fourth, Ferrari, Hans-Harold Frentzen, a great effort from him to put the
Sauber up in fifth spot from Johnny Herbert in sixth and the other Benetton.
John O'Lacey, seventh place in the Ferrari, Baricello Brundle in the Ligier, Eddie Irvine,
Panis and Blundell, who's actually got a very bad back.
He hurt his back this morning in the warm-up, so we're hoping that that won't affect him
in the race.
Hacken in the McLaren, well down in 13th, but there's a story behind that.
Leon, 14th, Salo, 15th, Cateyama, 16th, Lahmi, 17th, Badoe in 18th.
Inouye, Pappas, Montemini, Dinez, Marino and Della Trez in 24th.
So there you go, the drivers' championship shoe marker is still not that far in front.
He can't relax.
He's only 15 points or so in front of David Hill.
Johnny Herbert, third, O'Lacey, fourth, Kultard, fifth and Gerhard Berger in sixth.
So that's how they go to line up.
You might get confused when you see Gerhard Berger driving this time around.
He's already changed the colours of his helmet to the colours of Benetton.
He's got the united colours of Benetton because with the Formula One drivers, they're pretty
well dictated as to what they've got to have on their overalls, but a lot of them have got
what they call a free helmet.
So obviously because he's going to Benetton next year, he's decided to repaint his helmet
in the united colours of Benetton.
It actually looks better as far as I'm concerned.
Okay, out on the track now.
We talk of Kultard.
What a terrific performance to put it on the pole for the second time round.
Last time of course, a disaster, but he did get a second chance.
He did indeed.
And it's going to be very interesting because I know for a fact that there's been arrangements
made that if he doesn't get that far in front of Damon Hill and Damon Hill is running second,
he's going to have to let Damon go through.
So he's going to be, if I was him, I'd be off like a scalded rat because if he can build
up a really big lead in front of Damon Hill, no one will then expect him to slow down and
pull over.
But if Damon can keep behind him very closely, he will then be expected to pull over and
let Damon go through to help Damon's championship position.
Two pronged problem there though.
If he goes like a jackrabbit, as you suggested, goes away, he's got to keep it on the island.
I mean he can't afford to do what's happened a couple of times this year.
Oh, no way.
It's a worldwide world and this is very difficult on tyres.
It's quite harsh on tyres.
I think we'll see the majority of cars make a three pit stop strategy.
The rest will obviously be on two.
I think the Ferraris will be on three because they're quite hard on their tyres.
I think the Williams will be on three.
I think Benetton will be on three.
Hacken and Storey?
Well McLaren went there with an absolute new front suspension, new aerodynamics, new everything,
new gearbox.
I mean virtually a brand new car and it didn't work.
So they basically wasted most of the practice session mucking around with this new car.
They've now gone back to the original set up and he was third quickest in this morning's
practice.
So he's starting from 13th position so he'll be very interesting to see come through.
Shoe marker has been added again, this time a shot at Berger.
Well he reckons that Berger's a slow coach and got on his way in practice and he reckons
that he probably lost about three or four tenths because he had to brake quite severely
and he flat spotted a tyre.
Berger was on a warm up lap, he was just getting some warmth into his tyres ready to have a
go and obviously was on the apex of one of these corners as shoe marker came through
and ruined his lap.
So shoe marker gave him a bit of a spray over that.
Circuit suits Ferrari, Benetton or Williams?
Oh Williams.
Williams do an enormous amount of testing down here.
Damon Hill's done an enormous amount of laps and they'll be very hard to beat.
71 laps, race distance 309.560 kilometres.
They form up now, some good pictures coming off the cast tonight, no doubt about that.
This should be a screamer, stay with us as we cake you now to Portugal and of course
Murray Walker, Dr Jonathan Palmer.
Behind Coulthard is shoe marker in the Benetton and then behind Hill is Gerhard Berger.
The next row is Heights Harold Frensen and Johnny Herbert.
They look to me as though they are almost all in position.
As usual you will see the man with the green flag cross across the back of the starting
grid which gives Roland Brunseride the start of the signal that everybody is in position
and ready to go and then Roland lights up the red light and then about four to seven
seconds later the green light for the start of the 1995 Portuguese Grand Prix.
Coulthard creeping a bit but away they go.
Has he incurred a jump start?
It's possible.
Coulthard is leading and squeezing Damon Hill who is second, shoe marker is third and off
goes Frensen and a tremendous pile up at the back of the grid.
I was watching the front of it so I missed the detail on that one but it looks to me
like it's Katayama's Tyrrell.
Katayama's Tyrrell which of course has been upended.
The race will be stopped absolutely no doubt about that.
It has already been stopped.
And now we must hope that Ukiyo Katayama is all right.
This extremely popular little Japanese driver who is of course and that's Luca Badua's
car.
There's been a coming together I presume between Katayama who was 16th on the grid and Badua
who was 18th on the grid.
Now the debris has got to be cleaned up but that is totally irrelevant.
What matters is how is Ukiyo Katayama.
You can be sure that the very best of medical facilities are right here.
That's Ronan Brunshairaider holding out the red flag to indicate that the race is being
stopped and drivers will be given flags around the circuit.
But there's a major problem there.
The Tyrrell as you can see for yourselves is upside down.
Katayama with his shoulder straps, his waist straps and his thigh straps will be very securely
in the car.
Let's have a look and see what happened.
Look at the back of the grid.
Yes let's see if we can see these cars.
They're all doing 0-150 in less than seven seconds but someone has touched.
I don't know whether they're going to get a clear vision.
There across looks like a Pacific.
It's difficult to see.
There's Katayama.
Look at him fly through the air.
That must be doing 130 miles an hour at the time.
It flips around.
Great strength in the chassis of these Formula One cars.
Back comes the Minardi of Luca Badua and then Roberto Moreno I think it is in the 40.
He is the one that comes into the back of Katayama whilst Diniz, his teammate, sorry
I beg your pardon whilst, yes there it is Diniz I think, he comes down leaving Moreno
in his 40 into the back of that chassis of Katayama.
We can see that Katayama is now out of the car.
The Tyrrell is back on its wheels.
You can see that the chassis looks like it's intact.
Let's just hope that the damage there that's around the front of the car has helped dissipate
the energy because these cars are designed in such a way that all of the peripheral parts
because every bit that can come off will help absorb some energy.
And we saw that Tyrrell go up in the air.
Now that would have been because the tyres touched each other.
One of the great hazards with single seaters is that when a tyre touches another car's
tyre it's almost sure to throw the car up in the air to some extent.
But that clearly was launched high up.
Let's have another look now and we can see the front of the field.
Now we're looking, there is Katayama.
It looked like it was a touch between Luca Badoa and Ukiyo Katayama.
The Tyrrell bouncing down, spending quite a bit of his time on that roll bar and again
it looked as if there's Luca Badoa in the Minardi.
Back on the armco, Diniz comes by in the yellow 40.
Moreno stops at the back of the Tyrrell of Katayama.
Katayama clearly getting all the expert attention.
The facilities here are quite superb at Grand Prix these days and that Professor Sid Watkins
who heads the medical side of Grand Prix motor racing has had a huge amount of experience.
But saying that these chassis are designed, the cars are designed for the peripheral parts
to progressively come off, that absorbs the energy and the central survival cell chassis
and it looked very much as if it was completely intact there, designed to keep the driver
in first class condition without any injuries.
But of course the head is exposed and as ever a Grand Prix sport like Grand Prix racing
can never be entirely free of danger.
And Andrea Montemini was involved in that crash.
He managed to jink his Pacific to the side having started from 21st on the grid and end
up in the pit lane.
Here it is again.
You'll see Katayama's car.
There it is, absolutely cartwheeling through the air.
I must say it looked rather to me on that bit of footage we saw that Katayama had moved
across to the left and moved his Tyrrell into the path of Luca Badoa's Minardi.
You know these cars accelerate so very quickly that the speeds are up to 100 miles an hour
in less than four seconds.
It's about 3.8 seconds.
Another look now then.
Look at Katayama in the centre of your picture.
He moves across to the left.
Don't quite know why.
Luca Badoa maintains his line down the left hand side of the circuit.
The Tyrrell comes up onto his right hand side of the wheels.
Then you've got Diniz in the 40 going to the left leaving Moreno to slow up.
People at the back of the field have got time to see what goes on.
The real hazard from these situations is for the immediately following cars.
We saw an incident at that dreadful San Marino Grand Prix last year on the first start when
Pedro Lamy in the Lotus impelled his car against the back of the Benetton when again he was
unsighted.
This is the real danger.
What happens now is that because the race had lasted less than two lengths it is as
though it had not happened, two laps, it is as though it had not started at all.
The grid will be reformed.
Competitors will be able to go out in their spare cars if they have them.
And this is the situation further round the track after the start where as you can see
Coulthard is leading hill with Schumacher third with the Ferrari and Johnny Herbert
and off goes.
It's one of the Jordans.
It looks like Rubens Barrichello to me who went off in which case he may well be back
for his spare car although a clean up job on that one.
He just went off.
It was Rubens Barrichello.
So the drivers who have spare cars which is most of them and Luca Bada is certainly one
of them, the very unfortunate Italian who had so many problems in Italy.
He crashed badly in qualifying and then again in the warm up and that's Damon Hill out of
the car ready for the restart.
His team mate David Coulthard exactly the same situation.
Both of their cars will be perfectly all right.
Of course the Williams with the previous rear suspension and those are the cars that they
will be restarting.
David Coulthard talking to his girlfriend Andrea Murray.
Always such a difficult time for a driver in these situations.
I can remember back at Imola when Gerhard Berger had his big accident, the car caught
fire, it was clearly a huge accident and I was driving for Tyrol at the time.
The race was stopped.
Drivers all formed back up on the grid as indeed has happened now and as a driver you
desperately try and focus on exactly what you have to do for the future and just try
and put the accident out of your mind and just focus on the race that's bound to restart.
Well you can see the situation but Tony Jardine has been down there and we'd all certainly
like to know what he's found out.
I'm at the side of the crash scene at the moment and Ukyo Katayama is on a stretcher.
He's out of the car.
Unfortunately at the moment he's still unconscious.
He's on a drip and I can see Professor Sid Watkins is overseeing the operations and Ukyo
Katayama is just being put into the ambulance at the moment.
So everybody's got their fingers crossed and let's hope it's not too bad.
Yes as I said earlier on if something like that certainly does happen at least the consolation
that we've all got is the medical facilities at every Grand Prix circuit and certainly
here in Portugal are absolutely superb.
And now we just have to wait while the grid is reformed while the spare cars are ready
for the race while the cars that were not spare cars the original cars are also prepared.
That's Jion Villadel-Proud the Benetton team manager who just walked through the picture
and you see the Williams in the second position on the grid of Damon Hill.
Down the field now that is Michael Schumacher's car number one the world champion with his
helmet resting on the front of the car.
Michael's taken it off.
It's very warm here indeed it's coming up to about 24 degrees now.
Fourth on the grid is on the reformed grid is the Ferrari of Gerhard Berger who is to
leave the team at the end of this season and go to Michael Schumacher's team Benetton.
To catch a fall.