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Euro Edition: Morning Papers
Aired August 22, 2003 - 05:44 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Time now to go to check what's making headlines overseas in this morning's 'Euro Edition.' Charles Hodson live in London for us.
Good morning -- Charles.
CHARLES HODSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.
Well, as you'd imagine, events in the Middle East are very much dominating the international headlines; but still, in Britain and France, there are two stories which are mainly of national interest which are really kicking those events really off the front page.
For example, the Hutton inquiry into the death of the U.K. government scientist Dr. David Kelly, that rolls on with the most startling enigmatic revelation yesterday, I will probably be found dead in the woods, Kelly predicted. He said this back in February. He was found dead in the woods in July. I asked Kelly, this from a senior British diplomat reporting a conversation back in February with Dr. David Kelly, I asked Dr. Kelly what would happen if Iraq was invaded. And he replied, in a throwaway line, that he would probably be found dead in the woods. And again, that story on the front page of "The Guardian." Kelly's chilling words, I'll be found dead in the woods.
Of course in France it's the story that of the heat wave and its deadly effect, causing now, the government says, at least 10,000 extra deaths. Funeral groups are saying as many as 13,600 extra deaths, as we were discussing yesterday. "The Independent" calls it the holocaust of the elderly. Death toll in French heat wave rises to 10,000 with a very telling picture there of caskets.
Of course the political temperature is what's high now in France. It's cooled off, but President Chirac is back. He held a cabinet meeting, an emergency cabinet meeting at his palace yesterday, then had a press conference, which we see here on the front page of the left wing newspaper "Lali Valiso (ph)." And Chirac, it says, it's the French, it's their fault rather than that of his government. That's how they summarize that. And in fact here in "La Nord (ph)," we see the cabinet meeting, not round a table but round a coffin.
The e-mail virus SoBig.F, that is again causing chaos all the way around the world. That's on the front page of "The Mirror."
But a subject close to my own heart, Carol, Network Rail, which runs the rail tracks here in Britain since the demise of rail track, they're having enormous works on various major sections of track just as Britain prepares for its big Bank Holiday as we call it. Public holiday over here. Monday is a Bank Holiday. Most British people are taking to the trains.
Chaos as Britain grinds to halt. And here we are, closed for the Bank Holiday. As millions prepare to travel on the busiest weekend of the year, what do rail chiefs do, asks the "Daily Mail," they shut down half of the network. And I have to say it is a subject close to my heart, because I live in the southwest of England, and when I go home, it's going to take me about two hours longer this evening.
Carol, back to you.
COSTELLO: You're kidding. You know you'd think they'd plan differently, wouldn't you?
HODSON: It's amazing, but they say they didn't want to do it during the working week. There you go.
COSTELLO: So we'll mess up your holiday, who cares. Thank you, Charles, we appreciate it. Charles Hodson live from London this morning.
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Aired August 22, 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 to go to check what's making headlines overseas in this morning's 'Euro Edition.' Charles Hodson live in London for us.
Good morning -- Charles.
CHARLES HODSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.
Well, as you'd imagine, events in the Middle East are very much dominating the international headlines; but still, in Britain and France, there are two stories which are mainly of national interest which are really kicking those events really off the front page.
For example, the Hutton inquiry into the death of the U.K. government scientist Dr. David Kelly, that rolls on with the most startling enigmatic revelation yesterday, I will probably be found dead in the woods, Kelly predicted. He said this back in February. He was found dead in the woods in July. I asked Kelly, this from a senior British diplomat reporting a conversation back in February with Dr. David Kelly, I asked Dr. Kelly what would happen if Iraq was invaded. And he replied, in a throwaway line, that he would probably be found dead in the woods. And again, that story on the front page of "The Guardian." Kelly's chilling words, I'll be found dead in the woods.
Of course in France it's the story that of the heat wave and its deadly effect, causing now, the government says, at least 10,000 extra deaths. Funeral groups are saying as many as 13,600 extra deaths, as we were discussing yesterday. "The Independent" calls it the holocaust of the elderly. Death toll in French heat wave rises to 10,000 with a very telling picture there of caskets.
Of course the political temperature is what's high now in France. It's cooled off, but President Chirac is back. He held a cabinet meeting, an emergency cabinet meeting at his palace yesterday, then had a press conference, which we see here on the front page of the left wing newspaper "Lali Valiso (ph)." And Chirac, it says, it's the French, it's their fault rather than that of his government. That's how they summarize that. And in fact here in "La Nord (ph)," we see the cabinet meeting, not round a table but round a coffin.
The e-mail virus SoBig.F, that is again causing chaos all the way around the world. That's on the front page of "The Mirror."
But a subject close to my own heart, Carol, Network Rail, which runs the rail tracks here in Britain since the demise of rail track, they're having enormous works on various major sections of track just as Britain prepares for its big Bank Holiday as we call it. Public holiday over here. Monday is a Bank Holiday. Most British people are taking to the trains.
Chaos as Britain grinds to halt. And here we are, closed for the Bank Holiday. As millions prepare to travel on the busiest weekend of the year, what do rail chiefs do, asks the "Daily Mail," they shut down half of the network. And I have to say it is a subject close to my heart, because I live in the southwest of England, and when I go home, it's going to take me about two hours longer this evening.
Carol, back to you.
COSTELLO: You're kidding. You know you'd think they'd plan differently, wouldn't you?
HODSON: It's amazing, but they say they didn't want to do it during the working week. There you go.
COSTELLO: So we'll mess up your holiday, who cares. Thank you, Charles, we appreciate it. Charles Hodson live from London this morning.
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