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Euro Edition: Morning Papers
Aired September 24, 2003 - 05:46 ET
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CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: In the meantime, what's making headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition?" Becky Anderson is back with us live from London.
Becky, what are the front pages looking like this morning?
BECKY ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Carol Lin, a couple of stories that I think are making news both in Europe here and in the U.S. We'll start with the Microsoft story. Microsoft closes chat rooms to curb pedophile threat, the headline in "The Independent." And while this story is being very much welcomed by the newspapers and by analysts and experts alike here in the U.K. and across Europe, the idea that these Internet chat rooms are being closed by MSN, there's a certain sense that this is not entirely altruistic.
And let me just read what "The Independent" says. It says the government in the U.K. is so concerned by the dangers of chat rooms that it's dropping legislation that will criminalize Internet grooming by creating a new offence for any adult to talk and meet to children under 16 with the intent to abuse sexually.
And there was a certain sense in these editorials in the U.K. here an on the front pages today that this is MSN getting and sorting a problem out before it's sorted out by these governments, by some sort of legislation which effectively would have closed them down. And that's certainly the talk in the editorials. But as I say, a story that's being welcomed by the newspapers and indeed by the "Daily Mail" today. Chat room crack down is on the front page of the "Daily Mail."
The other story, of course, leading the papers today, the story of the U.N. General Assembly yesterday. And no real surprise that the focus in the European editions is on the speech by Chirac, which of course followed the speech by President Bush yesterday. And indeed focusing on the fact that Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General of the U.N., also making some sort of plea to the United States effectively saying that unilateral activity going forward so far as U.S. forces are concerned and U.S. policies are concerned in Iraq probably not the best way to go.
So those are stories making the headlines, at least on the broad sheets and indeed on the tabloids today, in the U.K.
LIN: All right, Becky, well you know we Americans are just fascinated by your Royals, so anything in the tabloids today about them? ANDERSON: Well we talked yesterday about the fact that Prince Harry was on his way to Australia for a two-year gap period. And we were talking yesterday and debating the fact that Australians were quite cross about the fact that it was going to cost them some $600,000 in taxpayer's money for security for Prince Harry while he's there. Of course we talked about him becoming a jackaroo, working on a farm in the outback of Australia for some $150 a day, which isn't actually bad money when you're backpacking your way around Australia.
But here the picture today, ouch, Harry gets a prickly reception from the Aussies. He was at a zoo yesterday and this, an animal which is a bit like a porcupine, he didn't hold it properly. You're supposed to hold it under the tummy. And the zookeeper says if he'd only held it properly, he wouldn't have got prickled by it, but he did. And the looks of it, it's fairly painful.
LIN: Biggled (ph)? Biggled by it?
ANDERSON: Sorry?
LIN: I'm sorry, he got bit like biggled?
ANDERSON: Prickled. Prickled. Prickled.
LIN: I learned something today. Thank you very much, Becky. Becky Anderson in London.
ANDERSON: All right, Carol Lin.
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Aired September 24, 2003 - 05:46 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: In the meantime, what's making headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition?" Becky Anderson is back with us live from London.
Becky, what are the front pages looking like this morning?
BECKY ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Carol Lin, a couple of stories that I think are making news both in Europe here and in the U.S. We'll start with the Microsoft story. Microsoft closes chat rooms to curb pedophile threat, the headline in "The Independent." And while this story is being very much welcomed by the newspapers and by analysts and experts alike here in the U.K. and across Europe, the idea that these Internet chat rooms are being closed by MSN, there's a certain sense that this is not entirely altruistic.
And let me just read what "The Independent" says. It says the government in the U.K. is so concerned by the dangers of chat rooms that it's dropping legislation that will criminalize Internet grooming by creating a new offence for any adult to talk and meet to children under 16 with the intent to abuse sexually.
And there was a certain sense in these editorials in the U.K. here an on the front pages today that this is MSN getting and sorting a problem out before it's sorted out by these governments, by some sort of legislation which effectively would have closed them down. And that's certainly the talk in the editorials. But as I say, a story that's being welcomed by the newspapers and indeed by the "Daily Mail" today. Chat room crack down is on the front page of the "Daily Mail."
The other story, of course, leading the papers today, the story of the U.N. General Assembly yesterday. And no real surprise that the focus in the European editions is on the speech by Chirac, which of course followed the speech by President Bush yesterday. And indeed focusing on the fact that Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General of the U.N., also making some sort of plea to the United States effectively saying that unilateral activity going forward so far as U.S. forces are concerned and U.S. policies are concerned in Iraq probably not the best way to go.
So those are stories making the headlines, at least on the broad sheets and indeed on the tabloids today, in the U.K.
LIN: All right, Becky, well you know we Americans are just fascinated by your Royals, so anything in the tabloids today about them? ANDERSON: Well we talked yesterday about the fact that Prince Harry was on his way to Australia for a two-year gap period. And we were talking yesterday and debating the fact that Australians were quite cross about the fact that it was going to cost them some $600,000 in taxpayer's money for security for Prince Harry while he's there. Of course we talked about him becoming a jackaroo, working on a farm in the outback of Australia for some $150 a day, which isn't actually bad money when you're backpacking your way around Australia.
But here the picture today, ouch, Harry gets a prickly reception from the Aussies. He was at a zoo yesterday and this, an animal which is a bit like a porcupine, he didn't hold it properly. You're supposed to hold it under the tummy. And the zookeeper says if he'd only held it properly, he wouldn't have got prickled by it, but he did. And the looks of it, it's fairly painful.
LIN: Biggled (ph)? Biggled by it?
ANDERSON: Sorry?
LIN: I'm sorry, he got bit like biggled?
ANDERSON: Prickled. Prickled. Prickled.
LIN: I learned something today. Thank you very much, Becky. Becky Anderson in London.
ANDERSON: All right, Carol Lin.
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