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Euro Edition: Morning Papers

Aired September 05, 2003 - 05:45   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Let's check what's making headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition." Liz George is back with us now from London.
What are the front pages looking like this morning -- Liz?

LIZ GEORGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Most of the big nationals are leading on the story about the U.S. sponsored resolution at the U.N. and the fact that there was a press conference yesterday from those European leaders. Basically it was France and Germany, Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroeder, most of them giving a very, very cool reception to this. This is what "The Independent" says. The U.S. isolated as Europe scorns plea for more troops in Iraq. It's a similar sort of headline across most of the big nationals.

And really, of course, don't forget that it was France and Germany who were very against sending troops into Iraq in the first place. They blocked that resolution, the first resolution at the U.N. causing a huge rift within Europe in terms of the European Union. So it looks like that story is certainly going to bubble on across Europe. Worries that that rift will once again raise its ugly head here in Europe.

WHITFIELD: I understand you have got a little sports headline, so to speak, too, involving one of your national pastimes of cricket.

GEORGE: Absolutely. You know I have to say this in my best English accent. Gad, sir, this flare (ph) on croquet just isn't cricket. Now this is one of the heinous crimes that you can perform here in England, it's comparing croquet and cricket. And it was the former boss of English cricket, a man called Lord McCloran (ph), who basically said that cricket is going the same way as croquet. And shock, horror, he said that croquet was a game that wasn't really played very much anymore. Very worried that cricket was doing the same thing.

Of course that sparked a huge row between the two associations. The Cricket Association saying absolutely rubbish, we're the most popular we've ever been and don't say that we are a game that's passed it. And cricket, they have come out and they have basically said comparing us to croquet is going a bit far. Which effectively in English speak or cricket speak is saying the unspeakable. So a big row going on there on those two.

WHITFIELD: What an insult.

GEORGE: Absolutely. It's terrible. WHITFIELD: All right. Well right there in London I understand illusionist or magician David Blaine, whatever you want to call him these days, he's going to be carrying out quite the stunt. Are people really paying attention to it?

GEORGE: You know what, people are paying attention to it. I mean it's one of those things which are just fascinating, 44 days and 44 nights in a glass box suspended above the Thames. And the tabloids love this story. They've been all over it since the beginning.

And he's done one or two stunts. This is one of the headlines, just sort of a big center page spread on it. And going back to all his other stunts that he did of course in the icebox in New York he was and where he pretended to rip out his heart. They're sort of going back and showing all the various stunts he's done.

But in the U.K. here, he started off, poor man, by trying to get some publicity by standing on the London Eye, which is that big Ferris wheel of glass balls that goes around by the Thames. He tried to get publicity from that, but then the tabloid photographers noticed he was actually tethered on by his ankle. But, you know, it wasn't really a particularly great stunt. And then we had the power cut as well, so you know effectively that was overtaken a bit. But it's all going to be eyes on him tonight when he gets in that box.

WHITFIELD: So it is just an illusion. All right, thanks a lot, Liz.

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Aired September 5, 2003 - 05:45   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Let's check what's making headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition." Liz George is back with us now from London.
What are the front pages looking like this morning -- Liz?

LIZ GEORGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Most of the big nationals are leading on the story about the U.S. sponsored resolution at the U.N. and the fact that there was a press conference yesterday from those European leaders. Basically it was France and Germany, Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroeder, most of them giving a very, very cool reception to this. This is what "The Independent" says. The U.S. isolated as Europe scorns plea for more troops in Iraq. It's a similar sort of headline across most of the big nationals.

And really, of course, don't forget that it was France and Germany who were very against sending troops into Iraq in the first place. They blocked that resolution, the first resolution at the U.N. causing a huge rift within Europe in terms of the European Union. So it looks like that story is certainly going to bubble on across Europe. Worries that that rift will once again raise its ugly head here in Europe.

WHITFIELD: I understand you have got a little sports headline, so to speak, too, involving one of your national pastimes of cricket.

GEORGE: Absolutely. You know I have to say this in my best English accent. Gad, sir, this flare (ph) on croquet just isn't cricket. Now this is one of the heinous crimes that you can perform here in England, it's comparing croquet and cricket. And it was the former boss of English cricket, a man called Lord McCloran (ph), who basically said that cricket is going the same way as croquet. And shock, horror, he said that croquet was a game that wasn't really played very much anymore. Very worried that cricket was doing the same thing.

Of course that sparked a huge row between the two associations. The Cricket Association saying absolutely rubbish, we're the most popular we've ever been and don't say that we are a game that's passed it. And cricket, they have come out and they have basically said comparing us to croquet is going a bit far. Which effectively in English speak or cricket speak is saying the unspeakable. So a big row going on there on those two.

WHITFIELD: What an insult.

GEORGE: Absolutely. It's terrible. WHITFIELD: All right. Well right there in London I understand illusionist or magician David Blaine, whatever you want to call him these days, he's going to be carrying out quite the stunt. Are people really paying attention to it?

GEORGE: You know what, people are paying attention to it. I mean it's one of those things which are just fascinating, 44 days and 44 nights in a glass box suspended above the Thames. And the tabloids love this story. They've been all over it since the beginning.

And he's done one or two stunts. This is one of the headlines, just sort of a big center page spread on it. And going back to all his other stunts that he did of course in the icebox in New York he was and where he pretended to rip out his heart. They're sort of going back and showing all the various stunts he's done.

But in the U.K. here, he started off, poor man, by trying to get some publicity by standing on the London Eye, which is that big Ferris wheel of glass balls that goes around by the Thames. He tried to get publicity from that, but then the tabloid photographers noticed he was actually tethered on by his ankle. But, you know, it wasn't really a particularly great stunt. And then we had the power cut as well, so you know effectively that was overtaken a bit. But it's all going to be eyes on him tonight when he gets in that box.

WHITFIELD: So it is just an illusion. All right, thanks a lot, Liz.

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