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Euro Edition: Morning Papers
Aired August 27, 2003 - 05:45 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Now, though, let's check on what's making headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition." Hala Gorani live in London.
Hala, is Mars on the front pages over there?
HALA GORANI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It is, actually, but the NASA report that was published yesterday is actually on all the front pages of the major broad sheets in the U.K., especially "The Independent." And look at the size of this headline and the strong words used to describe the report, the shaming of NASA, how safety was sacrificed and seven astronauts died. And, as I said, it's on all the major broad sheet front pages. NASA managers missed at least eight opportunities to evaluate damage to the shuttle. So an account of that report featuring very high up on the news agenda in the U.K.
Now this is day nine of that inquiry into the death of the civil servant, the government scientist David Kelly, and it is also featuring on the front pages of many of the newspapers today. A big name, Geoff Hoon, the Defense Secretary, is testifying. He arrived at the Royal Courts of Justice a few minutes ago.
Yesterday it was the intelligence chief, a high-ranking intelligence chief who participated in the dossier in September and defended the 45-minute claim that Iraq could unleash weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes. And said that he suffered absolutely no pressure from Downing Street to include that in the Dossier.
Tomorrow, of course, the biggest fish of all, Tony Blair, the Prime Minister of the U.K., testifying at that Hutton inquiry, featuring, of course, on the front pages.
Two interesting stories in the back pages for you, Carol. Here is one, Pink, the pop star, apparently wrote a letter to Prince William of the U.K. Now Prince William, apparently unreportedly, is a big fan of Pink and would have loved for her to sing at his 21st birthday party. She didn't.
But she was flattered by that but then learned he apparently killed an antelope in Kenya on a hunting trip and said here, let me just -- here's the letter that Buckingham Palace acknowledged was sent to the Prince. I was happy to hear that I was your first choice to play at your 21st birthday and then disgusted to learn that you hunt and kill animals for fun. Was it some kind of trying to prove you're a man trip? So apparently that's what Pink sent him.
Now Buckingham Palace did say Prince William did not kill that antelope. And an insider quoted by the "Daily Star" said, "He laughed when he got the letter and he said it was harsh but it was fair of her and it's a good thing she speaks her mind."
COSTELLO: Wait a minute, did he kill the antelope or didn't he?
GORANI: Well the Royal spokespeople who are responding to this are saying no, he didn't kill the antelope, but he does go fox hunting. So if you have something against hunting, you have something to sort of bring Prince William to task on.
A quick last one, and this is sort of in the form of a questionnaire, an answer-question (ph). "The Daily Mail" conducted an experiment, hired four actors and asked them to pose as beggars on the streets of London. One was an old man, one was a girl runaway, one was a man and a dog and the other one was a bongo player. And who do you think, Carol, made the most money in six hours of the four?
COSTELLO: The young girl.
GORANI: No, it was the old man, $520 in six hours. The young girl made $90, the man and his dog made $45 and the bongo player, poor bongo player, I think people are irritated when -- the bongo player is the only one actually working for money and he only made $16.
COSTELLO: Maybe he was a terrible bongo player.
GORANI: The tabulation is that (ph) the old man -- we don't know. We don't -- we didn't have that part of the story. But the old man, $30,000 a year tax-free if he chose to work five days a week. That's what the "Daily Mail" is featuring in one of its sort of color spreads there.
That's a quick look of what's happening in the papers.
COSTELLO: Well thank you. Well thank you for brightening our mood. We appreciate that. Hala Gorani live from London this morning.
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Aired August 27, 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: Now, though, let's check on what's making headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition." Hala Gorani live in London.
Hala, is Mars on the front pages over there?
HALA GORANI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It is, actually, but the NASA report that was published yesterday is actually on all the front pages of the major broad sheets in the U.K., especially "The Independent." And look at the size of this headline and the strong words used to describe the report, the shaming of NASA, how safety was sacrificed and seven astronauts died. And, as I said, it's on all the major broad sheet front pages. NASA managers missed at least eight opportunities to evaluate damage to the shuttle. So an account of that report featuring very high up on the news agenda in the U.K.
Now this is day nine of that inquiry into the death of the civil servant, the government scientist David Kelly, and it is also featuring on the front pages of many of the newspapers today. A big name, Geoff Hoon, the Defense Secretary, is testifying. He arrived at the Royal Courts of Justice a few minutes ago.
Yesterday it was the intelligence chief, a high-ranking intelligence chief who participated in the dossier in September and defended the 45-minute claim that Iraq could unleash weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes. And said that he suffered absolutely no pressure from Downing Street to include that in the Dossier.
Tomorrow, of course, the biggest fish of all, Tony Blair, the Prime Minister of the U.K., testifying at that Hutton inquiry, featuring, of course, on the front pages.
Two interesting stories in the back pages for you, Carol. Here is one, Pink, the pop star, apparently wrote a letter to Prince William of the U.K. Now Prince William, apparently unreportedly, is a big fan of Pink and would have loved for her to sing at his 21st birthday party. She didn't.
But she was flattered by that but then learned he apparently killed an antelope in Kenya on a hunting trip and said here, let me just -- here's the letter that Buckingham Palace acknowledged was sent to the Prince. I was happy to hear that I was your first choice to play at your 21st birthday and then disgusted to learn that you hunt and kill animals for fun. Was it some kind of trying to prove you're a man trip? So apparently that's what Pink sent him.
Now Buckingham Palace did say Prince William did not kill that antelope. And an insider quoted by the "Daily Star" said, "He laughed when he got the letter and he said it was harsh but it was fair of her and it's a good thing she speaks her mind."
COSTELLO: Wait a minute, did he kill the antelope or didn't he?
GORANI: Well the Royal spokespeople who are responding to this are saying no, he didn't kill the antelope, but he does go fox hunting. So if you have something against hunting, you have something to sort of bring Prince William to task on.
A quick last one, and this is sort of in the form of a questionnaire, an answer-question (ph). "The Daily Mail" conducted an experiment, hired four actors and asked them to pose as beggars on the streets of London. One was an old man, one was a girl runaway, one was a man and a dog and the other one was a bongo player. And who do you think, Carol, made the most money in six hours of the four?
COSTELLO: The young girl.
GORANI: No, it was the old man, $520 in six hours. The young girl made $90, the man and his dog made $45 and the bongo player, poor bongo player, I think people are irritated when -- the bongo player is the only one actually working for money and he only made $16.
COSTELLO: Maybe he was a terrible bongo player.
GORANI: The tabulation is that (ph) the old man -- we don't know. We don't -- we didn't have that part of the story. But the old man, $30,000 a year tax-free if he chose to work five days a week. That's what the "Daily Mail" is featuring in one of its sort of color spreads there.
That's a quick look of what's happening in the papers.
COSTELLO: Well thank you. Well thank you for brightening our mood. We appreciate that. Hala Gorani live from London this morning.
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