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Euro Edition
Aired July 25, 2003 - 05:45 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Time now to check the headlines overseas. Liz George live from London with this morning's "Euro Edition."
Liz, Saddam's sons must still be on the front pages over there.
LIZ GEORGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It absolutely is. It's obviously the one story that is dominating all of the press across Europe again today. And their release of those pictures really is the one thing, the pictures are on the front pages of the media here.
It's quite interesting how some of these papers have dealt with it. About half have actually decided that they're going to put the pictures on the front pages and half the media have decided to be a little bit more discreet and actually put the pictures in the inside pages of the newspapers.
Let me show you "The Guardian," though, first off. There you are. "The Guardian" has gone that sort of compare and contrast route, if you like. In the editorial or in the report surrounding it, it reflects though that back in March when the dead U.S. soldiers were shown on Iraqi television and the Arab networks as well that Washington condemned those broadcasts. So it's raising that issue there. That's "The Guardian."
I'll show you "The Times" as well here. Again, this one, "The Times," showing a little bit of those photographs, not all of them at the moment. It has got an interview with the bodyguard of one of the sons which basically gives an account of the movements during and after the war and talks about them being holed up in Baghdad for a week after its fall. Also it talks about the fact that they escaped a restaurant which was bombed by 10 minutes. They escape that restaurant bombing by 10 minutes. And that sort of sense. It gives you an account of what their movements were and what they were doing.
"El Mundo," a Spanish newspaper for you there, just to give you an idea of what they are showing, again, they have put those pictures on the front pages.
One of the newspapers, however, that hasn't put the pictures on the front pages is "The Independent." And it's gone a sort of fairly interesting route, if you like. There's "The Independent." It has basically got comments from their reporter Robert Fisk there. And that's off effectively it talks about the squeamishness of the pictures, saying that Arabs have seen too much of death to be squeamish about the pictures in any way, unlike perhaps people in the West. So that's the comment coming through from "The Independent." It's not the only story in our pages, though, as well as in here in Britain the row goes on, the worry about Tony Blair. And we've got another poll looking into Tony Blair and whether he is deceitful or not and how much people actually trust him. This is a "Telegraph" poll. Basically now saying that 68 percent of the people believe that the government is now not honest. Sixty-three percent disapprove of the government's records to date. And 68 percent believe there is a culture of deceit at Labor's heart. However, it's quite interesting.
They continue to do that poll and look at other leaders and ask which other leaders would you like instead of Tony Blair and Tony Blair still comes out on top. So even though they think that, that's where it is with Tony Blair.
Move on to something a little bit, perhaps, more light hearted or nicer and this is an issue about the lottery. Everyone buys a lottery ticket faithfully on Saturdays and Wednesdays hoping to win the millions. And then, of course, that money goes to various different charities and good causes. And there's a massive row at the moment about some money from that lottery actually being given to one of the U.K.'s richest men.
Now this man is actually 108th in terms of the rich list of the richest men here in the U.K. He's a duke. And basically what the row is about is that he has had to sell this picture, it's a Raphael picture, and he wants to sell it to the Getty Museum in the U.S. And there was an uproar by the art world here saying we don't want it to go to the U.S., we want to keep it here. And so, hence, the lottery money has been put up to match that Getty bid -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Unbelievable.
I want to go back to the pictures of Saddam Hussein's sons for just a minute, though, talk about something serious for just a moment more. Videotape is now being taken of the bodies there. Do you think that videotape will be shown on the BBC? I know Reuters is in there with a camera.
GEORGE: I think it's going to be one of those big debates, which really everyone is going to be talking about. There's going to be an awful lot of discussion about taste and decency and the need to then show that videotape. To be honest with you, it will probably take a while before it actually gets shown on the network. I have no doubt whatsoever that that's going to be a decision taken at the very, very highest level, I suppose, across all the broadcast media effectively -- Carol.
COSTELLO: And you know you talk about the squeamishness of death you know as far as the Western world is concerned, but the movies that we see are so very graphic. So I guess that's kind of an ironic twist.
GEORGE: Absolutely. I mean effectively I think that what Robert Fisk was doing in that report in "The Independent" was pointing out that perhaps we shouldn't be so squeamish. And really, you know basically saying that the Arab world has seen so much death that these pictures aren't really going to shock them perhaps in the same way that they've shocked in the West.
COSTELLO: Well we are going to show the videotape. We've already made the decision here at CNN and, of course, at CNN International where you are right now. And as soon as we get those videotape pictures, we'll show them to the public, of course, with a warning.
Liz George, many thanks, live from London this morning.
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Aired July 25, 2003 - 05:45 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Time now to check the headlines overseas. Liz George live from London with this morning's "Euro Edition."
Liz, Saddam's sons must still be on the front pages over there.
LIZ GEORGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It absolutely is. It's obviously the one story that is dominating all of the press across Europe again today. And their release of those pictures really is the one thing, the pictures are on the front pages of the media here.
It's quite interesting how some of these papers have dealt with it. About half have actually decided that they're going to put the pictures on the front pages and half the media have decided to be a little bit more discreet and actually put the pictures in the inside pages of the newspapers.
Let me show you "The Guardian," though, first off. There you are. "The Guardian" has gone that sort of compare and contrast route, if you like. In the editorial or in the report surrounding it, it reflects though that back in March when the dead U.S. soldiers were shown on Iraqi television and the Arab networks as well that Washington condemned those broadcasts. So it's raising that issue there. That's "The Guardian."
I'll show you "The Times" as well here. Again, this one, "The Times," showing a little bit of those photographs, not all of them at the moment. It has got an interview with the bodyguard of one of the sons which basically gives an account of the movements during and after the war and talks about them being holed up in Baghdad for a week after its fall. Also it talks about the fact that they escaped a restaurant which was bombed by 10 minutes. They escape that restaurant bombing by 10 minutes. And that sort of sense. It gives you an account of what their movements were and what they were doing.
"El Mundo," a Spanish newspaper for you there, just to give you an idea of what they are showing, again, they have put those pictures on the front pages.
One of the newspapers, however, that hasn't put the pictures on the front pages is "The Independent." And it's gone a sort of fairly interesting route, if you like. There's "The Independent." It has basically got comments from their reporter Robert Fisk there. And that's off effectively it talks about the squeamishness of the pictures, saying that Arabs have seen too much of death to be squeamish about the pictures in any way, unlike perhaps people in the West. So that's the comment coming through from "The Independent." It's not the only story in our pages, though, as well as in here in Britain the row goes on, the worry about Tony Blair. And we've got another poll looking into Tony Blair and whether he is deceitful or not and how much people actually trust him. This is a "Telegraph" poll. Basically now saying that 68 percent of the people believe that the government is now not honest. Sixty-three percent disapprove of the government's records to date. And 68 percent believe there is a culture of deceit at Labor's heart. However, it's quite interesting.
They continue to do that poll and look at other leaders and ask which other leaders would you like instead of Tony Blair and Tony Blair still comes out on top. So even though they think that, that's where it is with Tony Blair.
Move on to something a little bit, perhaps, more light hearted or nicer and this is an issue about the lottery. Everyone buys a lottery ticket faithfully on Saturdays and Wednesdays hoping to win the millions. And then, of course, that money goes to various different charities and good causes. And there's a massive row at the moment about some money from that lottery actually being given to one of the U.K.'s richest men.
Now this man is actually 108th in terms of the rich list of the richest men here in the U.K. He's a duke. And basically what the row is about is that he has had to sell this picture, it's a Raphael picture, and he wants to sell it to the Getty Museum in the U.S. And there was an uproar by the art world here saying we don't want it to go to the U.S., we want to keep it here. And so, hence, the lottery money has been put up to match that Getty bid -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Unbelievable.
I want to go back to the pictures of Saddam Hussein's sons for just a minute, though, talk about something serious for just a moment more. Videotape is now being taken of the bodies there. Do you think that videotape will be shown on the BBC? I know Reuters is in there with a camera.
GEORGE: I think it's going to be one of those big debates, which really everyone is going to be talking about. There's going to be an awful lot of discussion about taste and decency and the need to then show that videotape. To be honest with you, it will probably take a while before it actually gets shown on the network. I have no doubt whatsoever that that's going to be a decision taken at the very, very highest level, I suppose, across all the broadcast media effectively -- Carol.
COSTELLO: And you know you talk about the squeamishness of death you know as far as the Western world is concerned, but the movies that we see are so very graphic. So I guess that's kind of an ironic twist.
GEORGE: Absolutely. I mean effectively I think that what Robert Fisk was doing in that report in "The Independent" was pointing out that perhaps we shouldn't be so squeamish. And really, you know basically saying that the Arab world has seen so much death that these pictures aren't really going to shock them perhaps in the same way that they've shocked in the West.
COSTELLO: Well we are going to show the videotape. We've already made the decision here at CNN and, of course, at CNN International where you are right now. And as soon as we get those videotape pictures, we'll show them to the public, of course, with a warning.
Liz George, many thanks, live from London this morning.
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