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Euro Edition: Morning Papers
Aired August 21, 2003 - 05:46 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Let's check on what's making headlines overseas in this morning's 'Euro Edition.' Charles Hodson live for us in London.
Good morning -- Charles.
CHARLES HODSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.
Well, I think very much the stories that have been dominating the headlines in Europe, and of course in fact internationally for the past few days, very much the aftermath of that terrible bombing attack in Iraq on the U.N. headquarters. World Bank staff to pull staff -- World Bank to pull staff out of Iraq. And a very telling picture there, I think, of Kofi Annan on the front page of the "Financial Times." Kofi Annan, the U.N. Secretary-General.
The Hutton inquiry still rumbling on in, of course, into the death of the U.K. government scientist David Kelly.
Meanwhile, again, what you were just mentioning, after the Baghdad bombing, pressure mounts on U.S. to expand the role of the U.N. That's on "The Independent."
And indeed also very much the headline story in "The Guardian." It says, for example, in "The Guardian," the Blair government is attempting to persuade a reluctant White House, it says, to give the international community a greater say in running Iraq in return for a U.N. endorsement of foreign troop contributions.
And again, the Kelly affair very much still on the front pages here.
A picture here of the family man who massacred the children. That is the suicide bomber who killed about 20 people in Jerusalem two days ago. Rhad Abdul Misk (ph) with his daughter and son.
In France, though, very, very much the political temperature rising following the heat wave which devastated the country in the first half of this month. Here "La Figuro" is saying the terrible toll of the heat wave. The picture here of caskets there lined up. And it's quoting the leading funeral parlor group in France as saying that there could be at least 10,400 additional deaths as a result of the heat wave. And there could be as many as 13,600. It -- the official government number that's been come up with so far has been only 5,000. But in fact the city of Paris is saying that...
COSTELLO: There could be -- I'm sorry to interrupt -- Charles. HODSON: ... in the Paris -- yes.
COSTELLO: Thirteen thousand people dead from the heat?
HODSON: Yes, that's right. That is -- that is what for the whole of the month of August, the number of additional deaths linked to the heat wave could, according to this leading funeral group, reach as high as 13,600. And this compares with 5,000, which is the latest government number, way up on the government number we had before that which was 3,000 just about 10 days ago. But now they are talking about 5,000 just, this is according to the city of Paris, just in the Paris region alone.
And here we have on the front page of (UNINTELLIGIBLE), Chirac, the French President Jacques Chirac, counts the days. There's been clearly a showdown at the presidential palace this morning which Jacques Chirac has called upon every minister to explain what happened as a result of the heat wave. Here we have Jacques Chirac pointing the finger of blame at his Prime Minister Mr. Raffarin who is pointing his the finger of blame at the Health Minister Mr. Mattei, whose political neck is very much on the block this morning.
Carol, back to you.
COSTELLO: And you can -- you can certainly imagine why. Charles Hodson, thanks, live from London this morning.
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Aired August 21, 2003 - 05:46 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 on what's making headlines overseas in this morning's 'Euro Edition.' Charles Hodson live for us in London.
Good morning -- Charles.
CHARLES HODSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.
Well, I think very much the stories that have been dominating the headlines in Europe, and of course in fact internationally for the past few days, very much the aftermath of that terrible bombing attack in Iraq on the U.N. headquarters. World Bank staff to pull staff -- World Bank to pull staff out of Iraq. And a very telling picture there, I think, of Kofi Annan on the front page of the "Financial Times." Kofi Annan, the U.N. Secretary-General.
The Hutton inquiry still rumbling on in, of course, into the death of the U.K. government scientist David Kelly.
Meanwhile, again, what you were just mentioning, after the Baghdad bombing, pressure mounts on U.S. to expand the role of the U.N. That's on "The Independent."
And indeed also very much the headline story in "The Guardian." It says, for example, in "The Guardian," the Blair government is attempting to persuade a reluctant White House, it says, to give the international community a greater say in running Iraq in return for a U.N. endorsement of foreign troop contributions.
And again, the Kelly affair very much still on the front pages here.
A picture here of the family man who massacred the children. That is the suicide bomber who killed about 20 people in Jerusalem two days ago. Rhad Abdul Misk (ph) with his daughter and son.
In France, though, very, very much the political temperature rising following the heat wave which devastated the country in the first half of this month. Here "La Figuro" is saying the terrible toll of the heat wave. The picture here of caskets there lined up. And it's quoting the leading funeral parlor group in France as saying that there could be at least 10,400 additional deaths as a result of the heat wave. And there could be as many as 13,600. It -- the official government number that's been come up with so far has been only 5,000. But in fact the city of Paris is saying that...
COSTELLO: There could be -- I'm sorry to interrupt -- Charles. HODSON: ... in the Paris -- yes.
COSTELLO: Thirteen thousand people dead from the heat?
HODSON: Yes, that's right. That is -- that is what for the whole of the month of August, the number of additional deaths linked to the heat wave could, according to this leading funeral group, reach as high as 13,600. And this compares with 5,000, which is the latest government number, way up on the government number we had before that which was 3,000 just about 10 days ago. But now they are talking about 5,000 just, this is according to the city of Paris, just in the Paris region alone.
And here we have on the front page of (UNINTELLIGIBLE), Chirac, the French President Jacques Chirac, counts the days. There's been clearly a showdown at the presidential palace this morning which Jacques Chirac has called upon every minister to explain what happened as a result of the heat wave. Here we have Jacques Chirac pointing the finger of blame at his Prime Minister Mr. Raffarin who is pointing his the finger of blame at the Health Minister Mr. Mattei, whose political neck is very much on the block this morning.
Carol, back to you.
COSTELLO: And you can -- you can certainly imagine why. Charles Hodson, thanks, live from London this morning.
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