<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>0:20 radio new zealand news i'm robert taylor good morning sky television says it will use its cash injection from four american multinational companies to speed up the introduction of more pay channels in new zealand an american consortium has paid around a hundred million dollars for control of the auckland based pay television company two of the companies ameritech and bell atlantic are the major share holders in telecom new zealand the other two time warner and telecommunications incorporated are respectively the biggest media and cable t v companies in the world sky's entertainment <&>1:00 director terry jarvis says sky will use the cash to expand into wellington and christchurch by september to take advantage of the rugby world cup we're showing every one of those games the thirty three games will be shown live on sky um and we want to be there before <.>that that and then we're going to be rolling into hawkes bay and palmerston and the rest of new zealand early in nineteen ninety two the sale is the first following the change in law this week to allow foreign companies free reign in controlling any broadcasting company in the country the wellington area health board is considering a previously secret plan to slash bed numbers and reduce all but one of the region's hospitals to community health clinics the board's chairman bob henare has confirmed details leaked to the media but stresses this is just one of up to nine options considered at different stages mister henare is angry this option has been released it's very clear that somebody has chosen to <&>2:00 release only that sheaf of documents but it seems to me to be um er unnecessary and um at this time and er only serves to um panic people into um reacting when at this stage there is absolutely no need to do so bob henare says the papers concerned were available only to board members and a small number of staff a big new zealand insurer urges home owners to install smoke detectors to save lives not premiums national insurance's underwriting assistant general manager roger warburton quoting american statistics says smoke detectors have cut the number of domestic fire deaths in half mister warburton says national insurance doesn't provide a rebate or any financial incentive to get people to install detectors we don't give any discounts on er smoke detectors <.>or or house insurance er they're mainly there to protect lives more than um than <&>3:00 <.>to to save the property <.>the <.>the <.>f the property will still burn unfortunately but er <.>they they're very important to get people out of the house in event of <.>a er in event of a fire roger warburton also urges consumers to get electric blankets and heaters checked before winter and exercise caution with open fires officials from soviet azerbaijan are blaming outlawed armed groups from neighbouring armenia for recent blood shed that has claimed at least thirty seven lives the officials say that the armenian armed groups banned by president mikhail gorbachev and outlawed by the republic's parliament last year continue to attack azeri villages the azeri officials say ethnic clashes with grenades missile launchers and rifles continued yesterday in the village of tauz near the border of the two republics one person was killed the armenian mission in moscow said earlier this week azeri forces and soviet troops killed thirty five people and <&>4:00 wounded more than a hundred when they seized the village of getashen near the disputed territory of nagornyy karabakh this area has been the scene of the worst ethnic fighting since mister gorbachev came to power in nineteen eighty five <,> a french international medical charity says that a hundred kurds at the turkish refugee camp of kucukkoy have been treated for cholera in the past week medecin sans frontieres doctor phillipe bibason says samples analysed in paris have confirmed the presence of cholera and doctors in the mountain camp are also treating several patients for suspected typhoid he said conditions in the camp home to an estimated seventy thousand refugees have deteriorated over the past two days as heavy rain swept mud and excrement across the slopes he said that armenian marines have been digging latrines and trying to improve sanitation at kucukkoy but he added it's no use the only solution is to move <&>5:00 the refugees the british foreign secretary douglas herd who's been visiting kuwait says he raised the issue of human rights and the need for greater democracy during his talks with kuwaiti leaders speaking in a b b c interview before leaving for saudi arabia mister herd noted that elections are to be held next year in kuwait and he said he thought the human rights situation was better than it had been immediately after the country's liberation from iraqi occupation i don't say it's perfect he said but i think it IS better auckland all black alan whetton is considering an appeal against his three week suspension from rugby whetton isn't commenting on the ruling by a rugby union committee over the alleged stomping incident at eden park a week ago but his lawyer says they hope to decide by the end of the weekend whether to challenge the finding that whetton played dangerously the union committee accepted that the incident which injured western samoa's steven bachop wasn't deliberate but that it WAS dangerous play <&>5:59