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Euro Edition: Morning Papers

Aired September 08, 2003 - 05:45   ET

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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Well let's check on what's making headlines overseas this morning in our "Euro Edition." We bring back Becky Anderson in London.
And, Becky, what do the headlines say this morning in the papers?

BECKY ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well this is what the papers are doing this morning, some fairly chilling pictures. These are pictures of London's antiterrorist exercise yesterday, which turned the capital into a scene reminiscent of a disaster movie. Some of these papers headlining this Apocalypse Now.

And these are pictures of the emergency services who got together to show how prepared they are for any attack on the capital. Of course there have been warnings of attacks, particularly in the run up to the anniversary of 9/11, the second anniversary. So these papers very much doing the pictures which really brought London to a standstill yesterday.

Here are some pictures of the emergency services, these doctors going down to one of the tubes. So that's the story making the headlines, certainly the picture headlines, on the front of these pages today.

"The Independent" also leading with the line the U.S. woos Europe as costs force Iraq into the (UNINTELLIGIBLE). And that, of course, one of your headlines today that in Bush's address to the nation yesterday asking for some $87 billion to keep the security situation going in Iraq. And this story suggesting that he's turning to his European allies in an effort to get them to share the costs, of course, of that fight in Iraq.

An article in the "FT" today as well, Torries to press Hoon on security in Iraq. And this a story of the Defense Secretary in the U.K., Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon, who today is expected, it's about 9:30 Eastern Time, to ask Parliament to grant him access to 3,000 more troops who will be put to Iraq in an effort to help stabilize the situation there. The "FT" story today and the pictures on the front pages of the main newspapers of course that antiterrorist exercise.

WHITFIELD: And of course, Becky, the tabloids have really high readership as well. What are they saying this morning?

ANDERSON: That's right, six or seven million people read these papers, more than these other papers that I've just been watching here. And the headline today is this in "The Sun," Sven: fans will die. Sven-Goran Eriksson, of course, is the manager of the England football team.

And on the front of the "Daily Mirror," Sven: Turks could kill our fans. And this a warning for English football fans not to travel to Turkey next month for England's European championship qualifier. This after three years ago a number of fans were killed, Leads United fans were killed. And the suggestion being that there are Turkish fans ready wielding knives if indeed English fans turn up to that game.

Now the English Football Association has said that it will not sell tickets to English fans in an attempt to stop any trouble in Turkey, but the Turkish FA says it's happy to sell those tickets. So these two papers warning fans not to go. And as "The Sun" said, Sven says fans will die if they do. Not a particularly good story, I'm afraid, on the front pages of the tabloids there.

That's it for me.

WHITFIELD: All right, thanks a lot, Becky. Football all the rage. Soccer as we know it here in the States, football big business there. All right, thanks a lot.

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Aired September 8, 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: Well let's check on what's making headlines overseas this morning in our "Euro Edition." We bring back Becky Anderson in London.
And, Becky, what do the headlines say this morning in the papers?

BECKY ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well this is what the papers are doing this morning, some fairly chilling pictures. These are pictures of London's antiterrorist exercise yesterday, which turned the capital into a scene reminiscent of a disaster movie. Some of these papers headlining this Apocalypse Now.

And these are pictures of the emergency services who got together to show how prepared they are for any attack on the capital. Of course there have been warnings of attacks, particularly in the run up to the anniversary of 9/11, the second anniversary. So these papers very much doing the pictures which really brought London to a standstill yesterday.

Here are some pictures of the emergency services, these doctors going down to one of the tubes. So that's the story making the headlines, certainly the picture headlines, on the front of these pages today.

"The Independent" also leading with the line the U.S. woos Europe as costs force Iraq into the (UNINTELLIGIBLE). And that, of course, one of your headlines today that in Bush's address to the nation yesterday asking for some $87 billion to keep the security situation going in Iraq. And this story suggesting that he's turning to his European allies in an effort to get them to share the costs, of course, of that fight in Iraq.

An article in the "FT" today as well, Torries to press Hoon on security in Iraq. And this a story of the Defense Secretary in the U.K., Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon, who today is expected, it's about 9:30 Eastern Time, to ask Parliament to grant him access to 3,000 more troops who will be put to Iraq in an effort to help stabilize the situation there. The "FT" story today and the pictures on the front pages of the main newspapers of course that antiterrorist exercise.

WHITFIELD: And of course, Becky, the tabloids have really high readership as well. What are they saying this morning?

ANDERSON: That's right, six or seven million people read these papers, more than these other papers that I've just been watching here. And the headline today is this in "The Sun," Sven: fans will die. Sven-Goran Eriksson, of course, is the manager of the England football team.

And on the front of the "Daily Mirror," Sven: Turks could kill our fans. And this a warning for English football fans not to travel to Turkey next month for England's European championship qualifier. This after three years ago a number of fans were killed, Leads United fans were killed. And the suggestion being that there are Turkish fans ready wielding knives if indeed English fans turn up to that game.

Now the English Football Association has said that it will not sell tickets to English fans in an attempt to stop any trouble in Turkey, but the Turkish FA says it's happy to sell those tickets. So these two papers warning fans not to go. And as "The Sun" said, Sven says fans will die if they do. Not a particularly good story, I'm afraid, on the front pages of the tabloids there.

That's it for me.

WHITFIELD: All right, thanks a lot, Becky. Football all the rage. Soccer as we know it here in the States, football big business there. All right, thanks a lot.

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