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CNN Live At Daybreak
International News Desk
Aired October 30, 2002 - 05:52 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: We're following many international stories here on CNN besides that one you know on the hairline. It's time to see what's going on in the world today other than that.
Our senior international editor David Clinch joins us now.
DAVID CLINCH, CNN INTERNATIONAL EDITOR: Yes. I don't have the coverage planned for the hair line story. But...
COSTELLO: No?
CLINCH: No, I don't. But Mount Etna, volcano, blew its top. We've been monitoring this for a few days, had a big debate yesterday about whether we should send a crew or not. And it's one of those situations where if we had all the money in the world, which we don't, we'd go and cover every volcano. And it's great, we're standing at the volcano, great live pictures. Well, we can't do that every time. The usual criteria are whether it's threatening human beings.
Well, yesterday major earthquake underneath the volcano scared the life out of everybody around there.
COSTELLO: Oh, yes.
CLINCH: There's a state of emergency in Sicily at the moment, so we're going. Hopefully there within the next couple of hours live via satellite and video phone from near the mountain, not too near, but near the mountain.
COSTELLO: Yes.
CLINCH: And we'll see. You know, it may not threaten too many people. But we're there anyway and it'll be cool.
COSTELLO: Yes.
CLINCH: So, you know, we win both ways so.
COSTELLO: Beautiful pictures.
CLINCH: Chris Burns on his...
COSTELLO: Beautiful pictures of a terrible thing.
CLINCH: Exactly.
COSTELLO: Chris Burns. CLINCH: Chris Burns on his way there.
Kyra Phillips, we talked about this yesterday and we just ran her piece there of the P3 Orion spy plane. She flew over the Gulf region in that plane. Today, she's out on the USS Lincoln, which is out in the Persian Gulf, another great location. We hope to have her live via video phone.
An interesting aspect on the story there, they're blocking what was a steady flow of illegal Iraqi oil coming out of the Gulf. That's now being shut down, putting more pressure on the Iraqis. An interesting aspect on the story. We hope to have her live shortly via video phone.
COSTELLO: Of course, a little bit about Israel.
CLINCH: Israel, yes. The vote, we're covering there today, it could potentially be the collapse of the coalition government there, which is in one way domestic politics, but it's never domestic politics when it's Israel. First of all, that's always been an uneasy alliance between Likud and Labor. We'll see if the government or the coalition, at least, collapses, there might have to be a new coalition or elections. We'll see. All of those things affect the long-term prospect of peace talks, if there are ever to be any more peace talks.
COSTELLO: And U.S. policy with Israel because Ariel Sharon might...
CLINCH: And Israel, exactly. And Labor, once freed from the coalition, if that's what happens, there may be a resurgence of sort of peace moves on their part. So, you know, you never know. And we have to cover that. It may not collapse. We're watching it closely.
COSTELLO: All right, thank you very much, David. We'll let you get back to work.
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Aired October 30, 2002 - 05:52 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: We're following many international stories here on CNN besides that one you know on the hairline. It's time to see what's going on in the world today other than that.
Our senior international editor David Clinch joins us now.
DAVID CLINCH, CNN INTERNATIONAL EDITOR: Yes. I don't have the coverage planned for the hair line story. But...
COSTELLO: No?
CLINCH: No, I don't. But Mount Etna, volcano, blew its top. We've been monitoring this for a few days, had a big debate yesterday about whether we should send a crew or not. And it's one of those situations where if we had all the money in the world, which we don't, we'd go and cover every volcano. And it's great, we're standing at the volcano, great live pictures. Well, we can't do that every time. The usual criteria are whether it's threatening human beings.
Well, yesterday major earthquake underneath the volcano scared the life out of everybody around there.
COSTELLO: Oh, yes.
CLINCH: There's a state of emergency in Sicily at the moment, so we're going. Hopefully there within the next couple of hours live via satellite and video phone from near the mountain, not too near, but near the mountain.
COSTELLO: Yes.
CLINCH: And we'll see. You know, it may not threaten too many people. But we're there anyway and it'll be cool.
COSTELLO: Yes.
CLINCH: So, you know, we win both ways so.
COSTELLO: Beautiful pictures.
CLINCH: Chris Burns on his...
COSTELLO: Beautiful pictures of a terrible thing.
CLINCH: Exactly.
COSTELLO: Chris Burns. CLINCH: Chris Burns on his way there.
Kyra Phillips, we talked about this yesterday and we just ran her piece there of the P3 Orion spy plane. She flew over the Gulf region in that plane. Today, she's out on the USS Lincoln, which is out in the Persian Gulf, another great location. We hope to have her live via video phone.
An interesting aspect on the story there, they're blocking what was a steady flow of illegal Iraqi oil coming out of the Gulf. That's now being shut down, putting more pressure on the Iraqis. An interesting aspect on the story. We hope to have her live shortly via video phone.
COSTELLO: Of course, a little bit about Israel.
CLINCH: Israel, yes. The vote, we're covering there today, it could potentially be the collapse of the coalition government there, which is in one way domestic politics, but it's never domestic politics when it's Israel. First of all, that's always been an uneasy alliance between Likud and Labor. We'll see if the government or the coalition, at least, collapses, there might have to be a new coalition or elections. We'll see. All of those things affect the long-term prospect of peace talks, if there are ever to be any more peace talks.
COSTELLO: And U.S. policy with Israel because Ariel Sharon might...
CLINCH: And Israel, exactly. And Labor, once freed from the coalition, if that's what happens, there may be a resurgence of sort of peace moves on their part. So, you know, you never know. And we have to cover that. It may not collapse. We're watching it closely.
COSTELLO: All right, thank you very much, David. We'll let you get back to work.
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