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'Euro Edition'
Aired September 18, 2003 - 05:39 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: We want to check on what's making headlines overseas in this morning's Euro Edition. So let's head live back to London and Becky Anderson -- Becky, what's on the front pages this morning?
BECKY ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Carol, front page of "The Independent" today, "Blix: Saddam Destroyed His Weapons of Mass Destruction A Decade Ago." And Hans Blix has been talking. He says that the war on Iraq was not justified by intelligence data. Washington and London, he said, over interpreted what was going on in Iraq at the time. One wishes he had said something before, I think, is what people here in Europe are saying.
Front page of "The Times," a picture of a ballerina who apparently is too fat and has been sacked by the Bolshoi Ballet. At 109 pounds and 101.67 meters they say she's too fat. She says she's keeping to a regular regime. She says she eats spinach laves and vegetables and she's given up on the ice cream. But that wasn't good enough, apparently, for the Bolshoi Ballet and they've sacked her. Let's hope that they'd have a certain weight (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
COSTELLO: Yes, well, I hear there are other problems with her, though, Becky. I hear she's not really a very nice person to work with.
ANDERSON: Well, she is a bit of a diva, they say. She's a bit of a star. But then which ballerinas aren't divas and aren't stars? That's part of the job, isn't it? I mean that's the deal.
COSTELLO: Man, 5'6"...
ANDERSON: So, you know, just hoping the television presents it then have a certain weight.
COSTELLO: ... and 109 pounds? That's skinny.
ANDERSON: That's not that bad. That's a kind of -- that's what we would all hope to be. The other thing just out there today --
COSTELLO: That's like anorexic.
ANDERSON: Yes, exactly. "Madam Sin" on the front of "The Daily Mirror" today. The ex-convent girl who ran a vice ring with 452 prostitutes and 30 gigolos, or taxi boys, as they're called in Paris. I didn't know this. This is a woman who is from Baksha (ph), which is a state, effectively, just outside of London, a suburb just outside of London. She was convent educated, moved to Paris, went to the Sorbonne, speaks eight languages and is apparently, allegedly, making money out of women and what are known as taxi boys. She's up in court for pimping charges in Paris. That all over the front pages of the tabloids, at least, today in England.
COSTELLO: Taxi boys, we've learned something new this morning.
Becky...
ANDERSON: One wonders where that term came from.
COSTELLO: Oh, you have another one for us?
ANDERSON: No, I don't.
COSTELLO: No? That's it. That was enough.
Becky Anderson live from London.
Many thanks to you.
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Aired September 18, 2003 - 05:39 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: We want to check on what's making headlines overseas in this morning's Euro Edition. So let's head live back to London and Becky Anderson -- Becky, what's on the front pages this morning?
BECKY ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Carol, front page of "The Independent" today, "Blix: Saddam Destroyed His Weapons of Mass Destruction A Decade Ago." And Hans Blix has been talking. He says that the war on Iraq was not justified by intelligence data. Washington and London, he said, over interpreted what was going on in Iraq at the time. One wishes he had said something before, I think, is what people here in Europe are saying.
Front page of "The Times," a picture of a ballerina who apparently is too fat and has been sacked by the Bolshoi Ballet. At 109 pounds and 101.67 meters they say she's too fat. She says she's keeping to a regular regime. She says she eats spinach laves and vegetables and she's given up on the ice cream. But that wasn't good enough, apparently, for the Bolshoi Ballet and they've sacked her. Let's hope that they'd have a certain weight (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
COSTELLO: Yes, well, I hear there are other problems with her, though, Becky. I hear she's not really a very nice person to work with.
ANDERSON: Well, she is a bit of a diva, they say. She's a bit of a star. But then which ballerinas aren't divas and aren't stars? That's part of the job, isn't it? I mean that's the deal.
COSTELLO: Man, 5'6"...
ANDERSON: So, you know, just hoping the television presents it then have a certain weight.
COSTELLO: ... and 109 pounds? That's skinny.
ANDERSON: That's not that bad. That's a kind of -- that's what we would all hope to be. The other thing just out there today --
COSTELLO: That's like anorexic.
ANDERSON: Yes, exactly. "Madam Sin" on the front of "The Daily Mirror" today. The ex-convent girl who ran a vice ring with 452 prostitutes and 30 gigolos, or taxi boys, as they're called in Paris. I didn't know this. This is a woman who is from Baksha (ph), which is a state, effectively, just outside of London, a suburb just outside of London. She was convent educated, moved to Paris, went to the Sorbonne, speaks eight languages and is apparently, allegedly, making money out of women and what are known as taxi boys. She's up in court for pimping charges in Paris. That all over the front pages of the tabloids, at least, today in England.
COSTELLO: Taxi boys, we've learned something new this morning.
Becky...
ANDERSON: One wonders where that term came from.
COSTELLO: Oh, you have another one for us?
ANDERSON: No, I don't.
COSTELLO: No? That's it. That was enough.
Becky Anderson live from London.
Many thanks to you.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
