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'Euro Edition'
Aired August 01, 2003 - 05:48 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: It's time to see what's making headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition," one of our favorite segments on DAYBREAK.
Let's head live to London and CNN's Hala Gorani.
Well, we know what is up this morning -- Hala.
HALA GORANI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely. We do have the beginning of the Hutton inquiry into the death of the government scientist Dr. David Kelly, but it's not what is making front page news in the U.K.
We know that in the United States there is the Kobe Bryant case accused of rape. In the U.K., we had something a little bit similar and it is what is making front page news on every single newspaper.
Now you probably don't know who this is, his name is John Leslie. He was a television presenter on ITV last year and he was accused of sexual assault. Now the charges were dropped. He lost his half-a- million-a-dollar-a-year job, his reputation was tattered. He was actually Catherine Zeta Jones' ex-boyfriend years back, of course before she married Michael Douglas.
In any case, the charges dropped. And now this is raising the big issue in the U.K., as you can see there, vows to take revenge. My hell by John Leslie. And now the big issue is should sex suspects be granted the same kind of anonymity as sex victims or presumed or alleged sex victims?
And this is something that is on the cover of and the front page even of very serious broad sheets, "The Guardian." And you see John Leslie there breaking into tears after it was announced that the charges were dropped and that he was going to be able to rebuild his life again. There he is again in tears with his girlfriend who stood by him. So this is something that many people in the U.K. are talking about.
"The Independent" did not choose to lead with that at all. It's the only broad sheet that didn't. Israel imposes racist -- quote, unquote -- "marriage law." This is something that "The Independent" chose to focus on on its front page saying that Israel's parliament has rushed a law, passed a law, that would prevent Palestinians marrying Israelis from gaining citizenship and residing within Israel. It says here "many on Israel's right fear that it will be impossible to maintain Israel's identity as an officially Jewish state if the Arab sector becomes too large." That's the take on that marriage law in Israel.
A quick last one here, and this is for anybody who has felt bullied by his or her boss, you might want to consider doing what this man did. His name is Steven Horkuak at Cantor Index, the spread betting firm. Won a lawsuit, $1.5 million, because he said he was reduced to tears by his bullying boss. He was reduced to crying and shaking uncontrollably. For all of you who feel like that might have happened to you as well, you could very well sue your boss.
A six-month bullying campaign had to leave his $1 million a year job. He got lots of earnings compensation and costs for his legal costs of about $300,000.
I have to say, though, if you read very carefully the account exactly of what happened to Steven Horkuak, Lee Amaitis, who is the head of Cantor in London, who still has his job, by the way, even though Cantor lost the lawsuit, you know a lot of verbal abuse, a lot of bullying around, a lot of calling Mr. Horkuak at home when he was trying just to have a quiet family day. So there you go, that's what happened. In the end, he won.
COSTELLO: And he just broke down into tears many times, unbelievable.
GORANI: Yes, and started shaking uncontrollably. Right now he's got another job. So he's being paid half a million dollars at a rival firm. So he's not doing too badly financially speaking.
COSTELLO: Well good for him.
Hala Gorani reporting live for us from London this morning.
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Aired August 1, 2003 - 05:48 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: It's time to see what's making headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition," one of our favorite segments on DAYBREAK.
Let's head live to London and CNN's Hala Gorani.
Well, we know what is up this morning -- Hala.
HALA GORANI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely. We do have the beginning of the Hutton inquiry into the death of the government scientist Dr. David Kelly, but it's not what is making front page news in the U.K.
We know that in the United States there is the Kobe Bryant case accused of rape. In the U.K., we had something a little bit similar and it is what is making front page news on every single newspaper.
Now you probably don't know who this is, his name is John Leslie. He was a television presenter on ITV last year and he was accused of sexual assault. Now the charges were dropped. He lost his half-a- million-a-dollar-a-year job, his reputation was tattered. He was actually Catherine Zeta Jones' ex-boyfriend years back, of course before she married Michael Douglas.
In any case, the charges dropped. And now this is raising the big issue in the U.K., as you can see there, vows to take revenge. My hell by John Leslie. And now the big issue is should sex suspects be granted the same kind of anonymity as sex victims or presumed or alleged sex victims?
And this is something that is on the cover of and the front page even of very serious broad sheets, "The Guardian." And you see John Leslie there breaking into tears after it was announced that the charges were dropped and that he was going to be able to rebuild his life again. There he is again in tears with his girlfriend who stood by him. So this is something that many people in the U.K. are talking about.
"The Independent" did not choose to lead with that at all. It's the only broad sheet that didn't. Israel imposes racist -- quote, unquote -- "marriage law." This is something that "The Independent" chose to focus on on its front page saying that Israel's parliament has rushed a law, passed a law, that would prevent Palestinians marrying Israelis from gaining citizenship and residing within Israel. It says here "many on Israel's right fear that it will be impossible to maintain Israel's identity as an officially Jewish state if the Arab sector becomes too large." That's the take on that marriage law in Israel.
A quick last one here, and this is for anybody who has felt bullied by his or her boss, you might want to consider doing what this man did. His name is Steven Horkuak at Cantor Index, the spread betting firm. Won a lawsuit, $1.5 million, because he said he was reduced to tears by his bullying boss. He was reduced to crying and shaking uncontrollably. For all of you who feel like that might have happened to you as well, you could very well sue your boss.
A six-month bullying campaign had to leave his $1 million a year job. He got lots of earnings compensation and costs for his legal costs of about $300,000.
I have to say, though, if you read very carefully the account exactly of what happened to Steven Horkuak, Lee Amaitis, who is the head of Cantor in London, who still has his job, by the way, even though Cantor lost the lawsuit, you know a lot of verbal abuse, a lot of bullying around, a lot of calling Mr. Horkuak at home when he was trying just to have a quiet family day. So there you go, that's what happened. In the end, he won.
COSTELLO: And he just broke down into tears many times, unbelievable.
GORANI: Yes, and started shaking uncontrollably. Right now he's got another job. So he's being paid half a million dollars at a rival firm. So he's not doing too badly financially speaking.
COSTELLO: Well good for him.
Hala Gorani reporting live for us from London this morning.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
