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Euro Edition: Morning Papers

Aired August 12, 2003 - 05:45   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Right now though, let's 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.

Pretty much a broad consensus among major newspapers in the U.K. as to what to lead with. Yesterday was day one of the inquiry into the death of Dr. David Kelly, the government weapons expert who apparently killed himself after having been involved in the row over whether or not intelligence was exaggerated to justify the war against Iraq.

And many of the newspapers are saying basically that it was a bad day for Tony Blair. Iraq dossier blow for Blair as Ministry of Defense officials, it was recorded in the first day of testimony, and intelligence officials apparently said that they shared their concern as well, the concern that Dr. David Kelly allegedly expressed to the BBC reporter that perhaps some of the intelligence that was used in the dossier to justify the war against Iraq was exaggerated, namely the claim that Iraq could unleash weapons within 45 minutes of ordering those weapons to be sent.

Now Dr. David Kelly also in many of the newspapers portrayed as being a very serious scientist and somebody that was more involved than was previously thought in how much he contributed to that dossier. Here's "The Independent," the left leaning daily, the dossier is damned again. So those were two of the headlines in British papers.

The heat wave, and I was hearing you discuss that as well a bit earlier on your show this morning, very much a headline, at least in French papers. Because what's going on right now, according to (UNINTELLIGIBLE), is that the French government is being heavily criticized on the grill, they are saying, for their handling of the heat wave that so far has, according to some estimates, killed 50 people.

Hospitals, here are some numbers, hospitals are seeing their numbers of daily admissions in some neighborhoods go up double from 130 to 250. Fifty people dead just in the Paris region alone, as I said, according to some estimates. No breeze at all to alleviate the heat. And as well, power stations having to scale back on power. And the electricity company in France relying, in some cases, on coal fired generators and able to make up -- in order to make up for some of the cutbacks in other stations. Weakest drop like flies, according to "The Telegraph" in the U.K., as 50 die in Paris heat wave.

Now the front page of two of the newspapers in the U.K. are featuring this very interesting story, a pilot fixed his own plane in Minorca and then asked passengers, all right, I fixed it, would you like to still fly with me? Apparently out of 200 passengers, 13 said no thanks, but 200 said yes, fine, OK, we'll fly with you because we don't want to spend an extra night in Minorca after having been stranded on the boiling tarmac for hours.

Here's just the description of what he did. Covered in oil after resetting a sensor in the aircraft's nose wheel, the pilot stood on a chair in the terminal building and pleaded with the exhausted tourists to join him. So I don't know if I would have taken that particular flight. But if you ask me, I think I would have passed. But 13 said no, I think I'll take the next one, thank you very much.

Carol, back to you.

COSTELLO: I don't know, does anything happen in Minorca that would keep you there?

GORANI: Well, it's a holiday destination. But on my travel airplane after having spent seven hours on the tarmac and with the prospect of having to spend an extra night and book my own flight back the next morning, I don't know, I still think I would have stayed in Minorca though and probably enjoyed the sun one extra day.

COSTELLO: No, I think I'd leave -- I'd be leaving Minorca, too.

Hala Gorani, thanks, live from London this morning.

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Aired August 12, 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: Right now though, let's 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.

Pretty much a broad consensus among major newspapers in the U.K. as to what to lead with. Yesterday was day one of the inquiry into the death of Dr. David Kelly, the government weapons expert who apparently killed himself after having been involved in the row over whether or not intelligence was exaggerated to justify the war against Iraq.

And many of the newspapers are saying basically that it was a bad day for Tony Blair. Iraq dossier blow for Blair as Ministry of Defense officials, it was recorded in the first day of testimony, and intelligence officials apparently said that they shared their concern as well, the concern that Dr. David Kelly allegedly expressed to the BBC reporter that perhaps some of the intelligence that was used in the dossier to justify the war against Iraq was exaggerated, namely the claim that Iraq could unleash weapons within 45 minutes of ordering those weapons to be sent.

Now Dr. David Kelly also in many of the newspapers portrayed as being a very serious scientist and somebody that was more involved than was previously thought in how much he contributed to that dossier. Here's "The Independent," the left leaning daily, the dossier is damned again. So those were two of the headlines in British papers.

The heat wave, and I was hearing you discuss that as well a bit earlier on your show this morning, very much a headline, at least in French papers. Because what's going on right now, according to (UNINTELLIGIBLE), is that the French government is being heavily criticized on the grill, they are saying, for their handling of the heat wave that so far has, according to some estimates, killed 50 people.

Hospitals, here are some numbers, hospitals are seeing their numbers of daily admissions in some neighborhoods go up double from 130 to 250. Fifty people dead just in the Paris region alone, as I said, according to some estimates. No breeze at all to alleviate the heat. And as well, power stations having to scale back on power. And the electricity company in France relying, in some cases, on coal fired generators and able to make up -- in order to make up for some of the cutbacks in other stations. Weakest drop like flies, according to "The Telegraph" in the U.K., as 50 die in Paris heat wave.

Now the front page of two of the newspapers in the U.K. are featuring this very interesting story, a pilot fixed his own plane in Minorca and then asked passengers, all right, I fixed it, would you like to still fly with me? Apparently out of 200 passengers, 13 said no thanks, but 200 said yes, fine, OK, we'll fly with you because we don't want to spend an extra night in Minorca after having been stranded on the boiling tarmac for hours.

Here's just the description of what he did. Covered in oil after resetting a sensor in the aircraft's nose wheel, the pilot stood on a chair in the terminal building and pleaded with the exhausted tourists to join him. So I don't know if I would have taken that particular flight. But if you ask me, I think I would have passed. But 13 said no, I think I'll take the next one, thank you very much.

Carol, back to you.

COSTELLO: I don't know, does anything happen in Minorca that would keep you there?

GORANI: Well, it's a holiday destination. But on my travel airplane after having spent seven hours on the tarmac and with the prospect of having to spend an extra night and book my own flight back the next morning, I don't know, I still think I would have stayed in Minorca though and probably enjoyed the sun one extra day.

COSTELLO: No, I think I'd leave -- I'd be leaving Minorca, too.

Hala Gorani, thanks, live from London this morning.

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