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'Euro Edition'

Aired July 31, 2003 - 05:44   ET

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THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Let's check now, though, on what is making headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition."
Back live to London and Hala Gorani. She's got the papers in front of her. What are the headlines saying?

HALA GORANI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: There's no clear consensus today, Carol, on what to lead with among the major newspapers.

I'll start with "The Times," though, and they have on their front page the aftermath of the forest fires in the south of France. You know they did arrest somebody that they suspected having started some of those -- having started some of those fires.

And this is very interesting because on the front page of "The Times," they show a picture of what this landscape looks like now near Frejus in the south of France. And they also show what the same scene painted by Paul Cezanne, the famous impressionist, looked like some 100 years ago. So that gives you an idea of the colorful Provence landscape the way it was and this lunar landscape the way it looks today.

But people tell us that all these things grow back quite quickly and that green shoots should be coming out of the ground there in the south of France pretty soon. And next year it might look very similar to what it did 100 years ago, hopefully.

Now, as I said, no clear consensus on the top story among newspapers. "The Guardian" newspaper is running a special survey on boardroom pay, what CEOs and executives are paid in the U.K. compared to what their employees are paid. The average earning per employee up 3 percent last year, boardroom pay up 23 percent just as share prices, as it says here, are down 24 percent. There is a whole list of which executives have earned most -- the most amount of money. One of them is Niall FitzGerald, the CEO of Unilever, who makes Lipton Tea and Dove soaps. He, according to "The Guardian," himself admits that this is creating a trust problem shareholders and their executives.

OK, a quick word on...

COSTELLO: And our countries are very similar, aren't they -- Hala?

GORANI: Right.

COSTELLO: Our countries are very similar.

GORANI: They are, although when...

COSTELLO: That sounds like it could be a headline here.

GORANI: It is, but you know that in the U.K. shareholder revolts are becoming more and more commonplace. GlaxoSmithKline, for instance, shareholders, revolted against their executives and said this is inadmissible, why are our pensions going down, why are the shares -- the prices of our shares going down and your salary is doubling and you are taking home three million pounds. That doesn't make any sense. So that's one of the things that this is creating as well.

Carol, a quick word on Venice. If you plan to visit Italy this year at all, well many clerics in the clergy there are complaining that tourists are trashing their churches, that they are leaving their trash, that they are leaving their sandwiches, that they are walking around topless. Well Venice is now fining tourists 35 pounds, there is about $50, if you infringe a list of 10 commandments. That includes bare torsos, eating on church steps, et cetera.

I'll finish off with a very heart-wrenching story because it really caught my eye today and we ran off to the newsagent to get a copy of "La Republica," the Italian newspaper, when we read this on the wire. And we have been hearing a lot of bad publicity surrounding some of the priests in the Catholic Church with -- in relations to some of the stories with regards to sexual abuse and that kind of thing.

Well it's really worth mentioning when a priest acts like a hero. This Father, Don Spifano Garzanio (ph), saved seven children from drowning. He had organized a trip in the Adriatic Sea coastal town, saved seven children from drowning and lost his life as a result. He jumped in the water, according to "La Republica," in his priestly robes, was able to save the seven children. Apparently all of them survived, though, that were trapped by an undercurrent there. And he, unfortunately, died as a result of that. So a really -- I mean a heart-wrenching story but worth mentioning because heroic acts like that, well, they deserve to make front page news and it has in "La Republica" in Italy.

Carol, back to you.

COSTELLO: Yes, you got that right. Hala Gorani, many thanks, live from London this morning.

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Aired July 31, 2003 - 05:44   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Let's check now, though, on what is making headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition."
Back live to London and Hala Gorani. She's got the papers in front of her. What are the headlines saying?

HALA GORANI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: There's no clear consensus today, Carol, on what to lead with among the major newspapers.

I'll start with "The Times," though, and they have on their front page the aftermath of the forest fires in the south of France. You know they did arrest somebody that they suspected having started some of those -- having started some of those fires.

And this is very interesting because on the front page of "The Times," they show a picture of what this landscape looks like now near Frejus in the south of France. And they also show what the same scene painted by Paul Cezanne, the famous impressionist, looked like some 100 years ago. So that gives you an idea of the colorful Provence landscape the way it was and this lunar landscape the way it looks today.

But people tell us that all these things grow back quite quickly and that green shoots should be coming out of the ground there in the south of France pretty soon. And next year it might look very similar to what it did 100 years ago, hopefully.

Now, as I said, no clear consensus on the top story among newspapers. "The Guardian" newspaper is running a special survey on boardroom pay, what CEOs and executives are paid in the U.K. compared to what their employees are paid. The average earning per employee up 3 percent last year, boardroom pay up 23 percent just as share prices, as it says here, are down 24 percent. There is a whole list of which executives have earned most -- the most amount of money. One of them is Niall FitzGerald, the CEO of Unilever, who makes Lipton Tea and Dove soaps. He, according to "The Guardian," himself admits that this is creating a trust problem shareholders and their executives.

OK, a quick word on...

COSTELLO: And our countries are very similar, aren't they -- Hala?

GORANI: Right.

COSTELLO: Our countries are very similar.

GORANI: They are, although when...

COSTELLO: That sounds like it could be a headline here.

GORANI: It is, but you know that in the U.K. shareholder revolts are becoming more and more commonplace. GlaxoSmithKline, for instance, shareholders, revolted against their executives and said this is inadmissible, why are our pensions going down, why are the shares -- the prices of our shares going down and your salary is doubling and you are taking home three million pounds. That doesn't make any sense. So that's one of the things that this is creating as well.

Carol, a quick word on Venice. If you plan to visit Italy this year at all, well many clerics in the clergy there are complaining that tourists are trashing their churches, that they are leaving their trash, that they are leaving their sandwiches, that they are walking around topless. Well Venice is now fining tourists 35 pounds, there is about $50, if you infringe a list of 10 commandments. That includes bare torsos, eating on church steps, et cetera.

I'll finish off with a very heart-wrenching story because it really caught my eye today and we ran off to the newsagent to get a copy of "La Republica," the Italian newspaper, when we read this on the wire. And we have been hearing a lot of bad publicity surrounding some of the priests in the Catholic Church with -- in relations to some of the stories with regards to sexual abuse and that kind of thing.

Well it's really worth mentioning when a priest acts like a hero. This Father, Don Spifano Garzanio (ph), saved seven children from drowning. He had organized a trip in the Adriatic Sea coastal town, saved seven children from drowning and lost his life as a result. He jumped in the water, according to "La Republica," in his priestly robes, was able to save the seven children. Apparently all of them survived, though, that were trapped by an undercurrent there. And he, unfortunately, died as a result of that. So a really -- I mean a heart-wrenching story but worth mentioning because heroic acts like that, well, they deserve to make front page news and it has in "La Republica" in Italy.

Carol, back to you.

COSTELLO: Yes, you got that right. Hala Gorani, many thanks, live from London this morning.

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