<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>0:37 good evening the government admits tonight it has considered proposals for a national identity card but claims it WON'T proceed with the scheme the prime minister's also launched an official inquiry to identify the person who told three national news about stage two of the kiwi card but there's more evidence tonight <&>1:00 that the foundations for a national identity information system are already in place and there seems to be a direct link between what's happening here and the philosophies of the massive international monetary fund <&>1:11 <&>four minutes forty five seconds not transcribed <&>5:56 the appeal court has given the go ahead for two <&>6:00 asbestos victims to sue the government for four million dollars two men claim their lung diseases were caused by exposure to asbestos while working for the government more than twenty years ago <&>6:11 <&>one minute twenty seven seconds not transcribed <&>7:38 auckland's six hundred resident doctors are meeting right now to consider joining colleagues around the country in a nation wide strike the junior doctors are angry at health board plans to replace their national award with regional employment contracts two prison escapers may be charged with kidnapping tonight <&>8:00 after being recaptured near dunedin airport lenin bennett and vincent morrell surrendered to the dunedin armed offenders squad after being on the run for three weeks <&>8:09 <&>fifty nine seconds not transcribed <&>9:08 an auckland english <&>pronounced as enguish language school has gone bankrupt owing overseas students hundreds of thousands of dollars while current students may be moved to another school others who've prepaid their fees overseas may lose their money <&>9:22 <&>one minute fifty one seconds not transcribed <&>11:13 the exchange of hostages held in the middle east has begun israel started the process today by releasing fifty one lebanese prisoners and also sent home the bodies of nine others <&>11:25 <&>one minute twelve seconds not transcribed <&>12:37 there's more to come on three national news iron mike tyson puts up a fight against a rape charge <,> and la toyah jackson's tell all book <&>12:50 <&>two minutes fifty nine seconds not transcribed advertisements <&>15:49 queenstown's rafting operators have lost their fight to stop mining in parts of the shotover river the planning tribunal there is <&>16:00 recommending l and m mining be allowed to dredge a section of the river for gold <&>16:03 <&>one minute twenty four seconds not transcribed <&>17:27 the soviet government is to strip communist cuba of most of its military and economic support president gorbachev has announced he'll bring home the soviet troops based there gorbachev made the concession when he met u s secretary of state james baker he said eleven thousand troops would be pulled out of cuba even though western experts thought there were only seven thousand there baker replied with a promise of direct aid to the soviet union more talks are about to begin in an effort to end <&>18:00 the fighting in yugoslavia but the ethnic violence is worsening amid reports several hundred croat fighters have died in the last two days <&>18:09 <&>one minute twenty seconds not transcribed <&>19:29 two sporting heavyweights were back in court today one winding up a love affair and the other appearing on rape charges former heavy weight boxing champ mike tyson has formally denied raping an eighteen year old beauty contestant <&>19:44 <&>one minute forty nine seconds not transcribed <&>21:33 the rugby union won't punish two new zealanders for <.>taking for playing in the same barbarians team as five south africans to tell us why and what else is big in sport here's eric young <&>21:45 <&>one minute thirty seven seconds not transcribed <&>23:22 next leighton smith talks to the opposition social welfare spokesman about the kiwi card <&>23:27 <&>three minutes thirteen seconds not transcribed advertisements <&>26:40 recapping our top stories tonight on three national news the appeal court has given the go ahead for two asbestos victims to sue the government for four million dollars israel has released fifty one lebanese prisoners in a move that may trigger the release of more western <&>27:00 hostages held in lebanon social welfare minister jenny shipley denies claims new zealanders could be required to carry i d cards with more on the kiwi card here's leighton smith <&>27:11 <&>rest of side one not transcribed continues on side two <&>side two <&>3:10 thanks leighton how a p r company spent the government's money to sell the budget that story when we come back <&>3:18 <&>one minute eleven seconds not transcribed advertisements <&>4:29 there's no result yet from the court case between air new zealand and catering unions one hundred and fifty six sacked workers have asked the auckland employment court to order the airline to reinstate them they argue air new zealand didn't give them enough notice and the sackings were wrong returning to our top stories this news hour asbestos victim robin mckenzie has won the right to sue the government for two million dollars the landmark appeal court ruling opens the door for other <&>5:00 former government employees to sue another english language school has shut down in auckland hundreds of overseas students had paid thousands of dollars to learn english and may have lost their money queenstown rafting operators are worried a new gold mining operation will damage the shotover river approval's been given for l and m mining to extract gold from a new stretch of the river in tonight's money matters a document out today shows the extent of the government's big public relations campaign to sell its budget it shows just how much influence a wellington p r company has had over cabinet ministers <&>5:36 <&>one minute eleven seconds not transcribed <&>6:47 elsewhere in business food prices went up by just a third of a percent last month the annual increase is just under half a percent the lowest increase in twenty five years the last <&>7:00 of the major retail lenders national australian bank has lowered its mortgage interest rates cell phones boost business and improve sex lives by reducing stress according to a british survey more controversial tee shirts from the christchurch business with the double barrel design team this time the company has come up with new tee shirts for bank tellers and the police the original shirt sparked cries of bad taste for its withdrawal analogy to bank robberies but others including cartoonists saw it as good ammunition now the shirt printer's designed the deposit tee shirt for police and he also wonders if bank tellers will be game enough to wear this item after business hours <,> looking at the money markets the dollar's up against the u s and the australian the sharemarket has continued to slip the barclays closing down eight points to close at thirteen hundred and seventy six the leaders were down but lion nathan went against the trend up ten cents <,> now eric's back with three national sport <&>8:00 <&>eleven minutes thirty two seconds not transcribed sports news and advertisements <&>19:32 thanks eric after the break neil waka with three national weather <&>19:34 <&>seven minutes seventeen seconds not transcribed advertisements and weather <&>26:51 and that's the way it was thursday september the twelfth join us for nightline at half past ten until then good evening <&>26:57 <&>end of sample