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Euro Edition: Morning Papers

Aired October 09, 2003 - 05:44   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: It is time, though, to check on what is making headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition." Let's head live to London and Liz George.
How many headlines are there about Arnold?

LIZ GEORGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Pretty much all of them are about Arnold. He's definitely captured the imagination of these front pages across Europe today. I'm going to show you a couple of French newspapers. "Le Brasion (ph)" says le puva (ph) biceps. I think that's the right way of pronouncing it, the power of biceps. And there he is standing there holding a broom, presumably for a clean sweep.

And we've got "Le Figaro" who is actually not -- Galleono (ph) actually pushed him off the front page on this one, but he's up there in the middle headline and talking about the governator. So even the French papers are beginning to call him the governator. There's going to be lots of nicknames for him, aren't there, really?

And I thought I'd show you as well, even our most serious of serious newspapers, the pink pages of the "Financial Times" has got Arnold Schwarzenegger on that front page. A big photograph of him there saying Schwarzenegger seized off rivals and gets to work.

And then, of course, some of the tabloids here in the U.K. have had a bit of fun with it and have thought about well if you can get Arnold Schwarzenegger to be governor of California, what might happen next for Britain? And they are talking about perhaps Michael Caine could become prime minister.

COSTELLO: That's a good one -- Liz.

GEORGE: And that -- and that picture is what they think -- that's what they think he might look like if he actually got into No. 10. You never know. Worse things have happened -- Carol.

COSTELLO: Michael Caine. Who else could there be in Britain, who could...

GEORGE: I don't -- I don't know. I don't know. Well they are saying in that little article that every major politician owes something to the actor's art. And they go through a number of our old politicians and sort of pick out their personality traits that they have acted upon, you know. Of course Harold McMillan (ph) being the aristocrat. Harold Wilson being the plainspoken common man. And Tony Blair, moving from intense into juvenile lead to tense insincere middle aged star. So a little bit of tongue and cheek there I think.

COSTELLO: That's excellent. Any more headlines you want to share?

GEORGE: We've -- football, as we call it here, or soccer as you would know it there. It's one of the big ones that is hitting the front page of the tabloid pages here as well. And of course this all surrounds the goings on of the England squad and the fact that essentially they seem to be behaving in a manner not really beseeming of top football players.

This really surrounds the fact that they threatened to strike over not playing with Turkey. One of the members, one of the team players was kicked out of the squad because he failed to show up for a drugs test. And so we've got the pages here really sort of having a go at the football players. It's all kicking off in "The Sun" there. The "Daily Mail" says arrogant soccer stars humiliate England, the FA and their fans, so much for pride in your country. So they really are coming in for a bit of backlash these people.

COSTELLO: Well wait a second, why don't they want to play Turkey?

GEORGE: You know essentially they are heroes.

COSTELLO: I'm sorry, why don't they want to play Turkey?

GEORGE: Well basically this is one of the big matches that is coming up, essentially in the next couple of days. And what happened was one of the players was supposed to turn up for a drugs test and he didn't. He says that he forgot and that's all he was told that he couldn't play in the England squad. And so the England players then all sat down and had what was thought of as a secret ballot and said well we might well strike and not play Turkey, which is their big -- their first big game. Now of course they haven't gone on strike. They are off to play Turkey, but that's caused a huge row between them and also the bosses above them, the FA and the FEFA bosses...

COSTELLO: Interesting. I thought it was going to be some political thing, but no.

Liz George, we have to go.

GEORGE: (UNINTELLIGIBLE).

COSTELLO: Thank you so much, we appreciate it.

GEORGE: OK.

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Aired October 9, 2003 - 05:44   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: It is time, though, to check on what is making headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition." Let's head live to London and Liz George.
How many headlines are there about Arnold?

LIZ GEORGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Pretty much all of them are about Arnold. He's definitely captured the imagination of these front pages across Europe today. I'm going to show you a couple of French newspapers. "Le Brasion (ph)" says le puva (ph) biceps. I think that's the right way of pronouncing it, the power of biceps. And there he is standing there holding a broom, presumably for a clean sweep.

And we've got "Le Figaro" who is actually not -- Galleono (ph) actually pushed him off the front page on this one, but he's up there in the middle headline and talking about the governator. So even the French papers are beginning to call him the governator. There's going to be lots of nicknames for him, aren't there, really?

And I thought I'd show you as well, even our most serious of serious newspapers, the pink pages of the "Financial Times" has got Arnold Schwarzenegger on that front page. A big photograph of him there saying Schwarzenegger seized off rivals and gets to work.

And then, of course, some of the tabloids here in the U.K. have had a bit of fun with it and have thought about well if you can get Arnold Schwarzenegger to be governor of California, what might happen next for Britain? And they are talking about perhaps Michael Caine could become prime minister.

COSTELLO: That's a good one -- Liz.

GEORGE: And that -- and that picture is what they think -- that's what they think he might look like if he actually got into No. 10. You never know. Worse things have happened -- Carol.

COSTELLO: Michael Caine. Who else could there be in Britain, who could...

GEORGE: I don't -- I don't know. I don't know. Well they are saying in that little article that every major politician owes something to the actor's art. And they go through a number of our old politicians and sort of pick out their personality traits that they have acted upon, you know. Of course Harold McMillan (ph) being the aristocrat. Harold Wilson being the plainspoken common man. And Tony Blair, moving from intense into juvenile lead to tense insincere middle aged star. So a little bit of tongue and cheek there I think.

COSTELLO: That's excellent. Any more headlines you want to share?

GEORGE: We've -- football, as we call it here, or soccer as you would know it there. It's one of the big ones that is hitting the front page of the tabloid pages here as well. And of course this all surrounds the goings on of the England squad and the fact that essentially they seem to be behaving in a manner not really beseeming of top football players.

This really surrounds the fact that they threatened to strike over not playing with Turkey. One of the members, one of the team players was kicked out of the squad because he failed to show up for a drugs test. And so we've got the pages here really sort of having a go at the football players. It's all kicking off in "The Sun" there. The "Daily Mail" says arrogant soccer stars humiliate England, the FA and their fans, so much for pride in your country. So they really are coming in for a bit of backlash these people.

COSTELLO: Well wait a second, why don't they want to play Turkey?

GEORGE: You know essentially they are heroes.

COSTELLO: I'm sorry, why don't they want to play Turkey?

GEORGE: Well basically this is one of the big matches that is coming up, essentially in the next couple of days. And what happened was one of the players was supposed to turn up for a drugs test and he didn't. He says that he forgot and that's all he was told that he couldn't play in the England squad. And so the England players then all sat down and had what was thought of as a secret ballot and said well we might well strike and not play Turkey, which is their big -- their first big game. Now of course they haven't gone on strike. They are off to play Turkey, but that's caused a huge row between them and also the bosses above them, the FA and the FEFA bosses...

COSTELLO: Interesting. I thought it was going to be some political thing, but no.

Liz George, we have to go.

GEORGE: (UNINTELLIGIBLE).

COSTELLO: Thank you so much, we appreciate it.

GEORGE: OK.

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