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Front Pages From Newspapers Overseas
Aired July 23, 2003 - 05:50 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: And we're going to try out something new this morning on DAYBREAK. We want to give you a look at some of the front pages from newspapers overseas.
So let's head live to London now and check in with Paul Hancocks. She's got the scoop -- good morning.
PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.
Yes, of course, the obvious thing that's on the front pages of all the papers across Europe is the death of the sons of, Saddam Hussein's sons. You can see that the deck of cards was a feature in quite a few of these papers, as well. Each of the different papers had a profile of the sons and examples, a myriad of examples of the atrocities they caused when they were alive.
"Liberacion," the French paper there, "Saddam Without Heirs," the headline for that one.
Now, British Airways is another story that's focusing quite heavily in these papers. More examples of passengers being stranded at Heathrow. This is after we had a walk out over the weekend. Five hundred flights canceled. A hundred thousand passengers affected and, of course, the talks between unions and British Airways broke down last night. So we've had a lot of examples of people annoyed at having to wait for four days just to get back to the States. A lot of those flights going to New York, going to Boston, going to Miami.
In fact, I was down there yesterday. One of the people I spoke to was trying to get to her son's wedding today and was still trying to get to Miami and then on to Hawaii. So a lot of disgruntled passengers down at Heathrow still.
Now, we have a flasher at the palace. This is a story which, unfortunately, we don't have pictures for. But to be honest, I probably couldn't show you anyway. We have more examples of flashers just on the right hand side of this piece of paper so I'll try and hide that and show you a picture of the queen.
This was during a garden party. Apparently one of the guests dropped his trousers, ran past the queen, smacked his behind and yelled, "Wahey! (ph)" Now, the son has marvelously described the reaction of the queen, saying, "Her Majesty is thought to have got an eyeful of the 17-year-old's crown jewels, but did not bat an eyelid." So it's all happening at the palace.
And, finally, a moment of light relief during Tony Blair's trip over to China. He had just been grilled for about an hour by students asking did you lie about weapons of mass destruction, is Britain the 51st state of America?
And then right at the end, as he had been grilled and was exhausted, someone shouted, "Give us a song."
So in true gallant style, he turned to his wife and said they want a song, you'd better do it, darling. And so she did.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
CHERIE BLAIR (SINGING): When I get older, losing my hair, many years from now, will you still be sending me a Valentine, birthday greetings, bottle of wine? When I get back at quarter to two, would you lock the door? Will you still need me...
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HANCOCKS: And as you can imagine, Carol, the papers have had a field day with that over here at the moment. "The Guardian," in fact, has actually got its own experts, a double page spread of what people thought of her singing. We have a Beatles biographer saying she sounds excellent. And, but I can imagine that Tony might be in a certain amount of trouble at the end of that, as he did completely pass the buck and put his wife in it somewhat -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Well, it would have been quite unseemly for the British prime minister to just break out into song. So maybe he did the right thing.
I wanted to ask you more about the headline on Uday and Qusay being killed. I just wondered if it was helping Tony Blair's cause at all with the British people.
HANCOCKS: Not really. I mean he is still under a tremendous amount of pressure. They haven't really related the two stories at the moment because, of course, Tony Blair is still under a tremendous amount of pressure over whether he misled the public on weapons of mass destruction. Even when he was in China they had to, he had quite a few questions about that. It seemed that the Chinese students wouldn't ask their own leader quite such a pertinent question because it was another country's leader. They felt quite comfortable in asking about that, and also about the tragic death of David Kelly, the BBC mole in the center of this controversy.
So, Tony Blair looked visibly uncomfortable, but, of course, then we did have this burst into song at the end to try and lift the mood somewhat. So I think Cherie Blair did a fair bit of good to try and take the focus off her husband.
COSTELLO: Yes, she did. A valiant effort.
Paula Hancocks, many thanks, live from London this morning.
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Aired July 23, 2003 - 05:50 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: And we're going to try out something new this morning on DAYBREAK. We want to give you a look at some of the front pages from newspapers overseas.
So let's head live to London now and check in with Paul Hancocks. She's got the scoop -- good morning.
PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.
Yes, of course, the obvious thing that's on the front pages of all the papers across Europe is the death of the sons of, Saddam Hussein's sons. You can see that the deck of cards was a feature in quite a few of these papers, as well. Each of the different papers had a profile of the sons and examples, a myriad of examples of the atrocities they caused when they were alive.
"Liberacion," the French paper there, "Saddam Without Heirs," the headline for that one.
Now, British Airways is another story that's focusing quite heavily in these papers. More examples of passengers being stranded at Heathrow. This is after we had a walk out over the weekend. Five hundred flights canceled. A hundred thousand passengers affected and, of course, the talks between unions and British Airways broke down last night. So we've had a lot of examples of people annoyed at having to wait for four days just to get back to the States. A lot of those flights going to New York, going to Boston, going to Miami.
In fact, I was down there yesterday. One of the people I spoke to was trying to get to her son's wedding today and was still trying to get to Miami and then on to Hawaii. So a lot of disgruntled passengers down at Heathrow still.
Now, we have a flasher at the palace. This is a story which, unfortunately, we don't have pictures for. But to be honest, I probably couldn't show you anyway. We have more examples of flashers just on the right hand side of this piece of paper so I'll try and hide that and show you a picture of the queen.
This was during a garden party. Apparently one of the guests dropped his trousers, ran past the queen, smacked his behind and yelled, "Wahey! (ph)" Now, the son has marvelously described the reaction of the queen, saying, "Her Majesty is thought to have got an eyeful of the 17-year-old's crown jewels, but did not bat an eyelid." So it's all happening at the palace.
And, finally, a moment of light relief during Tony Blair's trip over to China. He had just been grilled for about an hour by students asking did you lie about weapons of mass destruction, is Britain the 51st state of America?
And then right at the end, as he had been grilled and was exhausted, someone shouted, "Give us a song."
So in true gallant style, he turned to his wife and said they want a song, you'd better do it, darling. And so she did.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
CHERIE BLAIR (SINGING): When I get older, losing my hair, many years from now, will you still be sending me a Valentine, birthday greetings, bottle of wine? When I get back at quarter to two, would you lock the door? Will you still need me...
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HANCOCKS: And as you can imagine, Carol, the papers have had a field day with that over here at the moment. "The Guardian," in fact, has actually got its own experts, a double page spread of what people thought of her singing. We have a Beatles biographer saying she sounds excellent. And, but I can imagine that Tony might be in a certain amount of trouble at the end of that, as he did completely pass the buck and put his wife in it somewhat -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Well, it would have been quite unseemly for the British prime minister to just break out into song. So maybe he did the right thing.
I wanted to ask you more about the headline on Uday and Qusay being killed. I just wondered if it was helping Tony Blair's cause at all with the British people.
HANCOCKS: Not really. I mean he is still under a tremendous amount of pressure. They haven't really related the two stories at the moment because, of course, Tony Blair is still under a tremendous amount of pressure over whether he misled the public on weapons of mass destruction. Even when he was in China they had to, he had quite a few questions about that. It seemed that the Chinese students wouldn't ask their own leader quite such a pertinent question because it was another country's leader. They felt quite comfortable in asking about that, and also about the tragic death of David Kelly, the BBC mole in the center of this controversy.
So, Tony Blair looked visibly uncomfortable, but, of course, then we did have this burst into song at the end to try and lift the mood somewhat. So I think Cherie Blair did a fair bit of good to try and take the focus off her husband.
COSTELLO: Yes, she did. A valiant effort.
Paula Hancocks, many thanks, live from London this morning.
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