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Euro Edition: Morning Papers

Aired October 01, 2003 - 05:45   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Now it's time to check on what's making headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition." Becky Anderson live for us in London.
Good morning -- Becky.

BECKY ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol. Thank you very much, indeed.

And Tony Blair all over the front pages both in the U.K. and in Europe today. An historic speech, a rousing speech, some might say, at the Labor Party conference yesterday. And the headlines are full of it today.

This a classic reference to his political nemesis Margaret Thatcher in 1987 I believe he said, this lady is not for turning in arguments with her own conservative peers. And yesterday, Tony Blair, interestingly enough, using Margaret Thatcher's line, some might say this man or the man is not for turning. And he suggested that he'd do exactly the same as he had done in Iraq again if asked or if pushed into the same position. Trust me, trust me, trust me, said Tony Blair. The man is not for turning. I can only go one way. I'm not going to reverse gear, says the battered Blair.

Well it was a rousing speech. A seven-minute ovation at the end, which is a sort of a normal thing, really, at the end of the day for party leaders at their -- at their conferences. And many people time these applause in order to see how it was received. And it seems to have been received fairly well, lots of sort of moist eyes in the house, apparently. It seems as if he's sort of back on track so far as the party is concerned, but he will have his foreign policy picked over during the rest of the week at the Tory Party conference.

Some interesting pictures. I'm just going to show you some of them. So what do we do, give up on it, get on with it, that's the question. That's what he asked the conference yesterday, and he got a huge applause when he said he was just going to get on with it. And another nice little picture here on the front of "The Daily Telegraph" today. This in fact is Euan Blair. Tony Blair's oldest son holding hands with his girlfriend as they arrived at the Labor Party conference yesterday. We like a bit of that, wouldn't we?

COSTELLO: It's very interesting.

ANDERSON: There's a story...

COSTELLO: You know he's such -- he's such a gifted speaker that Tony Blair.

ANDERSON: Yes. No, he is, absolutely. And a lot of people suggesting that you know there wasn't necessarily an awful lot in the speech yesterday.

What there wasn't in the speech, of course, which was interesting, was any reference to his Finance Minister Gordon Brown. He is very much a leading contender for the leadership of the Labor Party if indeed Tony Blair were persuaded that his time has come. He's been prime minister, of course, for six years, leading the party for just over that period of time, and the Finance Minister Gordon Brown speaking the day before and a fairly well received speech.

But lots of pictures in the paper today of Gordon Brown. And there's one just here, I don't know if you can see this. One just here with everybody else cheering and clapping away. There's Jack Straw, the Foreign Minister, Cherie Blair, obviously his wife, and Gordon Brown, sitting, looking fairly demure.

COSTELLO: With his eye on the prize.

ANDERSON: The other story in the papers today, of course...

COSTELLO: Go ahead. More, you have more for us?

ANDERSON: There's more. You didn't look very happy.

Yes, just one other -- one other story today, which is in the papers, pray for the ailing Pope. The cardinal tells of faith (ph) from one of the cardinals, one of the most powerful figures in the Vatican urging Roman Catholics to pray for the Pope yesterday, saying that he was in a bad way.

COSTELLO: Yes.

ANDERSON: And that's one of the other stories across the European press today.

COSTELLO: Yes, in fact, we're going to talk to our Alessio Vinci just about that in the next hour of DAYBREAK. Apparently he did appear at his weekly...

ANDERSON: Good.

COSTELLO: ... prayer service. He was in a Jeep. He was waiving to the crowd.

ANDERSON: That's right.

COSTELLO: So, we'll have much more on that.

ANDERSON: That's right. And that was cancelled, of course, last week, which was -- which raised speculation about his...

COSTELLO: Yes.

ANDERSON: ... health. So at least he's been there today. Good.

COSTELLO: Definitely so. Becky Anderson, many thanks, interesting and fun as usual.

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Aired October 1, 2003 - 05:45   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Now it's time to check on what's making headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition." Becky Anderson live for us in London.
Good morning -- Becky.

BECKY ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol. Thank you very much, indeed.

And Tony Blair all over the front pages both in the U.K. and in Europe today. An historic speech, a rousing speech, some might say, at the Labor Party conference yesterday. And the headlines are full of it today.

This a classic reference to his political nemesis Margaret Thatcher in 1987 I believe he said, this lady is not for turning in arguments with her own conservative peers. And yesterday, Tony Blair, interestingly enough, using Margaret Thatcher's line, some might say this man or the man is not for turning. And he suggested that he'd do exactly the same as he had done in Iraq again if asked or if pushed into the same position. Trust me, trust me, trust me, said Tony Blair. The man is not for turning. I can only go one way. I'm not going to reverse gear, says the battered Blair.

Well it was a rousing speech. A seven-minute ovation at the end, which is a sort of a normal thing, really, at the end of the day for party leaders at their -- at their conferences. And many people time these applause in order to see how it was received. And it seems to have been received fairly well, lots of sort of moist eyes in the house, apparently. It seems as if he's sort of back on track so far as the party is concerned, but he will have his foreign policy picked over during the rest of the week at the Tory Party conference.

Some interesting pictures. I'm just going to show you some of them. So what do we do, give up on it, get on with it, that's the question. That's what he asked the conference yesterday, and he got a huge applause when he said he was just going to get on with it. And another nice little picture here on the front of "The Daily Telegraph" today. This in fact is Euan Blair. Tony Blair's oldest son holding hands with his girlfriend as they arrived at the Labor Party conference yesterday. We like a bit of that, wouldn't we?

COSTELLO: It's very interesting.

ANDERSON: There's a story...

COSTELLO: You know he's such -- he's such a gifted speaker that Tony Blair.

ANDERSON: Yes. No, he is, absolutely. And a lot of people suggesting that you know there wasn't necessarily an awful lot in the speech yesterday.

What there wasn't in the speech, of course, which was interesting, was any reference to his Finance Minister Gordon Brown. He is very much a leading contender for the leadership of the Labor Party if indeed Tony Blair were persuaded that his time has come. He's been prime minister, of course, for six years, leading the party for just over that period of time, and the Finance Minister Gordon Brown speaking the day before and a fairly well received speech.

But lots of pictures in the paper today of Gordon Brown. And there's one just here, I don't know if you can see this. One just here with everybody else cheering and clapping away. There's Jack Straw, the Foreign Minister, Cherie Blair, obviously his wife, and Gordon Brown, sitting, looking fairly demure.

COSTELLO: With his eye on the prize.

ANDERSON: The other story in the papers today, of course...

COSTELLO: Go ahead. More, you have more for us?

ANDERSON: There's more. You didn't look very happy.

Yes, just one other -- one other story today, which is in the papers, pray for the ailing Pope. The cardinal tells of faith (ph) from one of the cardinals, one of the most powerful figures in the Vatican urging Roman Catholics to pray for the Pope yesterday, saying that he was in a bad way.

COSTELLO: Yes.

ANDERSON: And that's one of the other stories across the European press today.

COSTELLO: Yes, in fact, we're going to talk to our Alessio Vinci just about that in the next hour of DAYBREAK. Apparently he did appear at his weekly...

ANDERSON: Good.

COSTELLO: ... prayer service. He was in a Jeep. He was waiving to the crowd.

ANDERSON: That's right.

COSTELLO: So, we'll have much more on that.

ANDERSON: That's right. And that was cancelled, of course, last week, which was -- which raised speculation about his...

COSTELLO: Yes.

ANDERSON: ... health. So at least he's been there today. Good.

COSTELLO: Definitely so. Becky Anderson, many thanks, interesting and fun as usual.

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