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Euro Edition: Morning Papers

Aired September 26, 2003 - 05:45   ET

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CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: But let's check what's making headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition." Liz George is live in London.
Liz, what are the front pages looking like this morning?

LIZ GEORGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Carol, it's a bit of mixed all bag on the front pages this morning across Europe. We are not seeing one headline grabbing all of those front pages. They are all sort of fairly local story by story, country by country.

Obviously in the U.K., we are still focusing very much on the Hutton inquiry. Yesterday was when we saw the five counsels for the five parties really involved in this doing their summing up. So you had five QCs really doing their summing up. So an awful lot of words to digest there. And of course Lord Hutton has now got to figure out what he is going to do with all of the information he has gathered from that and what judgement he is going to come to.

"The Independent" headline really sums it all up, one death, five versions. Now is the time for Lord Hutton to judge. And they've given you a little matrix picture really down here with some key quotes coming through from the evidence that was given, from the summing up on the various different issues that have come out in this inquiry. So you can compare who said what and how it differs across the board. And you really get a sense there of the difficult decisions that Lord Hutton has got to come to and the different information that he has really got to gather and sort out in that -- Carol.

LIN: Right. How is our David Blaine doing over the London Bridge?

GEORGE: David Blaine not doing too badly at all. A threat (ph) effectively that the police here may well charge him some money for the fact that they have had to step up security there. He is continuing to feature in the newspapers. He is not really grabbing the headlines today, little snippets here and there, but of course a lot of interest in that, especially if he ends up having to cut short his 44 days and 44 nights.

One other story I did want to bring you though, effectively was the fact of course this long awaited Bush visit to the U.K. That's been in our headlines in London or in England, certainly. Not unusual, we were expecting George Bush to actually come to the U.K. However, this is going to be called a State Visit. And it is the first time, really, that a presidential visit from the U.S. is actually being called a State Visit here. And it seems that he is actually going to be staying in Buckingham Palace, Buck House as we call it.

And obviously they are focusing very much on the huge security effort that is going to have to go along with all of that. And also, the worries that that is going to cause Mr. Blair as well, because again, it is going to raise the issue of the Iraq war. It is going to be a difficult one -- Carol.

LIN: All right, juggling a lot over there. Thank you very much, Liz George.

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Aired September 26, 2003 - 05:45   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: But let's check what's making headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition." Liz George is live in London.
Liz, what are the front pages looking like this morning?

LIZ GEORGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Carol, it's a bit of mixed all bag on the front pages this morning across Europe. We are not seeing one headline grabbing all of those front pages. They are all sort of fairly local story by story, country by country.

Obviously in the U.K., we are still focusing very much on the Hutton inquiry. Yesterday was when we saw the five counsels for the five parties really involved in this doing their summing up. So you had five QCs really doing their summing up. So an awful lot of words to digest there. And of course Lord Hutton has now got to figure out what he is going to do with all of the information he has gathered from that and what judgement he is going to come to.

"The Independent" headline really sums it all up, one death, five versions. Now is the time for Lord Hutton to judge. And they've given you a little matrix picture really down here with some key quotes coming through from the evidence that was given, from the summing up on the various different issues that have come out in this inquiry. So you can compare who said what and how it differs across the board. And you really get a sense there of the difficult decisions that Lord Hutton has got to come to and the different information that he has really got to gather and sort out in that -- Carol.

LIN: Right. How is our David Blaine doing over the London Bridge?

GEORGE: David Blaine not doing too badly at all. A threat (ph) effectively that the police here may well charge him some money for the fact that they have had to step up security there. He is continuing to feature in the newspapers. He is not really grabbing the headlines today, little snippets here and there, but of course a lot of interest in that, especially if he ends up having to cut short his 44 days and 44 nights.

One other story I did want to bring you though, effectively was the fact of course this long awaited Bush visit to the U.K. That's been in our headlines in London or in England, certainly. Not unusual, we were expecting George Bush to actually come to the U.K. However, this is going to be called a State Visit. And it is the first time, really, that a presidential visit from the U.S. is actually being called a State Visit here. And it seems that he is actually going to be staying in Buckingham Palace, Buck House as we call it.

And obviously they are focusing very much on the huge security effort that is going to have to go along with all of that. And also, the worries that that is going to cause Mr. Blair as well, because again, it is going to raise the issue of the Iraq war. It is going to be a difficult one -- Carol.

LIN: All right, juggling a lot over there. Thank you very much, Liz George.

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