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Euro Edition: Morning Papers
Aired August 13, 2003 - 05:45 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." Live to London and Hala Gorani.
Good morning -- Hala.
HALA GORANI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.
Well many of the British newspapers are featuring on their front page the story of that British man who was arrested in the plot, the alleged plot, to smuggle a shoulder-held surface-to-air missile into the United States. And some of the newspapers, such as "The Guardian," are actually featuring full-page specials on the black market missiles and the kind of terrorism fears they raise.
In "The Independent" they cite that in '90 to '92 Russian experts said that tens of thousands of these egla (ph) missiles, and those are the missiles that allegedly this individual and two of the people arrested with him wanted to smuggle in to sell to that undercover FBI agent, had been leaked into circulation. And one report even says that the Ministry of Defense of Russia, this is all quoted by "The Independent," had lost track of 260,000 light weapons from one region alone.
So some of these newspapers in the U.K., "The Guardian," "The Independent," raising issues and concerns and questions about these light missiles, those especially in the ex-Soviet republics in that region and where they might be now.
Now on the front pages of other newspapers and "The Independent" as well as talking about this Briton arrested, it's talking about the Hutton inquiry. This has been an ongoing front-page story here in the U.K. Andrew Gilligan, you'll remember, a quick recap, alleges that the government exaggerated the weapons threat in Iraq, that he spoke to Dr. David Kelly who then apparently committed suicide.
Well, two reporters are now testifying that Alistair Campbell (ph), who is the government spokesman, exaggerated the threat, was desperate for information that would lead to a justification to that war in Iraq. Although Andrew Gilligan did admit that perhaps he, in a live report, used the wrong terminology to describe the information he got from Dr. Kelly.
Two quick other stories. I'm going to go through these quickly because I found interesting the fact that the "Daily Mail," one of the -- one of the highest sellers, "Daily Mail" is headlining the Atkins Diet. This just goes to show you how incredibly popular it is. If the "Daily Mail," which is really read by millions of people is headlining this Atkins Diet dangerous. A government funded medical research council is saying kidney problems and the rest of it. We've heard the concerns before, but this is on the front page of the "Daily Mail."
And one last story and this is in the "Daily Telegraph," a broad sheet daily in the U.K., grandparents who raise children when their mothers go back to work, well the children are slower learners than when the mother raises them or professional child minders raise them. And this is a study that was released yesterday.
And one of the reasons, apparently, is that grandparents, as opposed to professional paid child minders, don't have the kind of stimulating environment or don't procure the kind of stimulating environment that a child under the age of three, or I can't remember the age, needs apparently to grow, to learn how to read and the rest of it. So this is an interesting study and one of the many studies that sort of raises the issue really about mothers when they go back to work and where to put their children, who should care for them -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Yes, just more guilt for working mothers. A little guilt for you this morning.
Hala Gorani, many thanks, live from London.
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Aired August 13, 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 though to check on what's making headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition." Live to London and Hala Gorani.
Good morning -- Hala.
HALA GORANI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.
Well many of the British newspapers are featuring on their front page the story of that British man who was arrested in the plot, the alleged plot, to smuggle a shoulder-held surface-to-air missile into the United States. And some of the newspapers, such as "The Guardian," are actually featuring full-page specials on the black market missiles and the kind of terrorism fears they raise.
In "The Independent" they cite that in '90 to '92 Russian experts said that tens of thousands of these egla (ph) missiles, and those are the missiles that allegedly this individual and two of the people arrested with him wanted to smuggle in to sell to that undercover FBI agent, had been leaked into circulation. And one report even says that the Ministry of Defense of Russia, this is all quoted by "The Independent," had lost track of 260,000 light weapons from one region alone.
So some of these newspapers in the U.K., "The Guardian," "The Independent," raising issues and concerns and questions about these light missiles, those especially in the ex-Soviet republics in that region and where they might be now.
Now on the front pages of other newspapers and "The Independent" as well as talking about this Briton arrested, it's talking about the Hutton inquiry. This has been an ongoing front-page story here in the U.K. Andrew Gilligan, you'll remember, a quick recap, alleges that the government exaggerated the weapons threat in Iraq, that he spoke to Dr. David Kelly who then apparently committed suicide.
Well, two reporters are now testifying that Alistair Campbell (ph), who is the government spokesman, exaggerated the threat, was desperate for information that would lead to a justification to that war in Iraq. Although Andrew Gilligan did admit that perhaps he, in a live report, used the wrong terminology to describe the information he got from Dr. Kelly.
Two quick other stories. I'm going to go through these quickly because I found interesting the fact that the "Daily Mail," one of the -- one of the highest sellers, "Daily Mail" is headlining the Atkins Diet. This just goes to show you how incredibly popular it is. If the "Daily Mail," which is really read by millions of people is headlining this Atkins Diet dangerous. A government funded medical research council is saying kidney problems and the rest of it. We've heard the concerns before, but this is on the front page of the "Daily Mail."
And one last story and this is in the "Daily Telegraph," a broad sheet daily in the U.K., grandparents who raise children when their mothers go back to work, well the children are slower learners than when the mother raises them or professional child minders raise them. And this is a study that was released yesterday.
And one of the reasons, apparently, is that grandparents, as opposed to professional paid child minders, don't have the kind of stimulating environment or don't procure the kind of stimulating environment that a child under the age of three, or I can't remember the age, needs apparently to grow, to learn how to read and the rest of it. So this is an interesting study and one of the many studies that sort of raises the issue really about mothers when they go back to work and where to put their children, who should care for them -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Yes, just more guilt for working mothers. A little guilt for you this morning.
Hala Gorani, many thanks, live from London.
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