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Euro Edition: Morning Papers

Aired August 11, 2003 - 05:44   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Time now though to check on what's making headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition."
Hala Gorani live in London for us.

Good morning -- Hala.

HALA GORANI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.

Well it's heat, heat and more heat, 100 degrees Fahrenheit. That was the level that was reached in Britain, 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Britain's hottest day, that's what every single newspaper is leading on, or at least every single newspaper in some way, shape or form has this story on its front page. Britain's hottest day, you can see people trying to cool off with water, people cooling off by buying ice cream, people trying to cool off by just jumping into fountains. Standing room only on beaches.

And it's not all nice and pleasant for some of these individuals out there because you have got animals suffering. Apparently 25,000 chickens have died in the U.K. from heat exhaustion. The Pope is urging people to pray for rain. France faces electricity rationing and the rest of it.

So of course when you reach these kind of temperatures and the country that these temperatures are registered in are not equipped in terms of infrastructure or air conditioning and that kind of thing, you get shortages.

And in other news today in the front pages of the papers you have got the Hutton inquiry. And that is the inquiry into the death of the government scientist Dr. David Kelly who was outed by the BBC and others as the main source for a report that alleged that the government in the U.K. sexed up its intelligence to justify a war in Iraq. It's the test of Blair's trust, which begins today. That's according to the left leaning "Guardian."

And tomorrow we'll have the big day in the Hutton inquiry where Andrew Gilligan, the BBC journalist who used Dr. David Kelly's information to write his report, will be heard by the inquiry and Lord Hutton who is chairing it.

A quick other story that caught my attention for you, Carol, this morning, it's the baby brainwave story. I found this to be very interesting because apparently scientists didn't know before if a baby was able to register when an object or a person was out of his or her sight or if out of sight meant out of mind for the baby because apparently baby's do not reach for objects they can't see. So it was thought before, perhaps, that baby's therefore didn't realize that the object was gone, that it was there but taken away.

So what scientists did is that they put some brainwave patches on a baby. Sixty-two sensors to monitor electrical activity. And it was found by the scientists that the baby does realize when an object that is taken away from him or her was there. And it's the same for individuals as well. So the baby realizes even when an adult, for instance, or another individual is out of the room that that individual is still in his or her mind. I just find this really fascinating, sensors on the baby, there it is. I'm an infant scientist. A 12-month old was used.

COSTELLO: That poor baby. It's amazing the baby stayed still for that.

GORANI: Yes, amazing. I think just for the picture. I just -- I just think that it's really interesting to see that they are able with electrical wires, I don't know, probably some other study will come out and disprove this one in about three months, but just to be able to measure those electrical waves that show scientists that the baby is able to think and they are able to measure that. So that was kind of an interesting story. And this is in "The Telegraph" in the U.K.

Carol, back to you.

COSTELLO: Got you. OK. Thank you. Hala Gorani live from London for us this morning.

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Aired August 11, 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: Time now though to check on what's making headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition."
Hala Gorani live in London for us.

Good morning -- Hala.

HALA GORANI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.

Well it's heat, heat and more heat, 100 degrees Fahrenheit. That was the level that was reached in Britain, 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Britain's hottest day, that's what every single newspaper is leading on, or at least every single newspaper in some way, shape or form has this story on its front page. Britain's hottest day, you can see people trying to cool off with water, people cooling off by buying ice cream, people trying to cool off by just jumping into fountains. Standing room only on beaches.

And it's not all nice and pleasant for some of these individuals out there because you have got animals suffering. Apparently 25,000 chickens have died in the U.K. from heat exhaustion. The Pope is urging people to pray for rain. France faces electricity rationing and the rest of it.

So of course when you reach these kind of temperatures and the country that these temperatures are registered in are not equipped in terms of infrastructure or air conditioning and that kind of thing, you get shortages.

And in other news today in the front pages of the papers you have got the Hutton inquiry. And that is the inquiry into the death of the government scientist Dr. David Kelly who was outed by the BBC and others as the main source for a report that alleged that the government in the U.K. sexed up its intelligence to justify a war in Iraq. It's the test of Blair's trust, which begins today. That's according to the left leaning "Guardian."

And tomorrow we'll have the big day in the Hutton inquiry where Andrew Gilligan, the BBC journalist who used Dr. David Kelly's information to write his report, will be heard by the inquiry and Lord Hutton who is chairing it.

A quick other story that caught my attention for you, Carol, this morning, it's the baby brainwave story. I found this to be very interesting because apparently scientists didn't know before if a baby was able to register when an object or a person was out of his or her sight or if out of sight meant out of mind for the baby because apparently baby's do not reach for objects they can't see. So it was thought before, perhaps, that baby's therefore didn't realize that the object was gone, that it was there but taken away.

So what scientists did is that they put some brainwave patches on a baby. Sixty-two sensors to monitor electrical activity. And it was found by the scientists that the baby does realize when an object that is taken away from him or her was there. And it's the same for individuals as well. So the baby realizes even when an adult, for instance, or another individual is out of the room that that individual is still in his or her mind. I just find this really fascinating, sensors on the baby, there it is. I'm an infant scientist. A 12-month old was used.

COSTELLO: That poor baby. It's amazing the baby stayed still for that.

GORANI: Yes, amazing. I think just for the picture. I just -- I just think that it's really interesting to see that they are able with electrical wires, I don't know, probably some other study will come out and disprove this one in about three months, but just to be able to measure those electrical waves that show scientists that the baby is able to think and they are able to measure that. So that was kind of an interesting story. And this is in "The Telegraph" in the U.K.

Carol, back to you.

COSTELLO: Got you. OK. Thank you. Hala Gorani live from London for us this morning.

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