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Euro Edition: Morning Papers

Aired November 04, 2003 - 05:45   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: Time now, though, to check on what's making headlines overseas in this morning's 'Euro Edition,' one of our favorite features. Let's head live to London and Tony Campion.
Good morning -- Tony.

TONY CAMPION, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning to you, Carol. How are you doing?

Listen, we start with something which is pretty somber this morning. Front pages of all the major tabloids, see this is "The Sun," it says remember them here in London. This is Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, two 10-year-old girls, who August the 4th last year disappeared. Thirteen days later, their bodies were found in a ditch.

Well what's happening is that the trial is starting, and not even the British tabloids are having any fun on this. I mean, quite obviously, you know it's a horrendous business. Here we are, "The Daily Mail," face to face, the Soham trial begins. These two girls were from a place called Soham, which is in Cambridgeshire. Holly and Jessica's parents sit just feet from the man accused of their murder. It's the emotional stuff that's sort of dominating things. Such agony, such dignity for the parents, what kind of, you know, emotions are going through their minds.

I haven't got too much to say about it, just that the trial started. We're going to be keeping you up to date on this one because, obviously, it's a terrible story, two 10-year-old girls.

COSTELLO: Yes.

CAMPION: They just went out for a walk. They didn't come back. Thirteen days later they end up in a ditch. It's...

COSTELLO: What about the guy who allegedly...

CAMPION: ... so.

COSTELLO: What about the guy on trial, who is he, briefly?

CAMPION: Yes, well he -- he was -- he worked at the school where the two girls were pupils. He was a caretaker there. And he is pleading not guilty to the sort of central charges, although he has pled guilty to one charge of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

Now because of the way the rules on reporting ongoing trials work here in Britain, not too many details are known about exactly what those charges pertain to, and certainly we can't go into any evidence or anything like that. You know I mean that sort of applies more if the jury could possibly be watching, you know, what we're talking about on TV. But because of the fact those rules exist, actually very little is known about the extent of the evidence. So we don't know how this is going to play out. That's the bottom line.

There is -- there are two defendants. There's Ian Huntley, then there's his girlfriend Maxine Carr, who is kind of not accused of the murder, but she's accused of being associated with it. And she's pled not guilty to all of her charges.

COSTELLO: Give us an update on that cruise ship that wasn't allowed to go into port anywhere because there were so many sick people on board.

CAMPION: Now, absolutely, the sick ship has actually left Gibraltar. But as it -- as it rolled into Gibraltar, I don't know if you can just about make out, this is a shot of the side of the ship, and this guy here is holding up a sign that says help on it. Just kind of slightly ironic tongue and cheek sign let me off of this thing.

A guy called Paul Bremer (ph) and he -- you know he was saying it's like a holiday from hell. They have been living on a hospital ship. They can taste chemicals on their tongues all the time. It's coming through the air conditioning. They really had a bad time.

Another woman said they were sanitizing the ship wearing suits. They looked like the blokes from E.T., which was frightening the kids. I was trying to think back and work out exactly what the blokes from E.T. looked like and I couldn't remember that, but I think we get the point anyway that all this, you know, chemical sanitation stuff. They had a terrible, terrible time.

COSTELLO: So wait, hold on a second.

CAMPION: Some people even paying 5,000 pounds...

COSTELLO: So wait, just so we understand, they left the passengers on while they disinfected the ship?

CAMPION: Yes, well they were doing that all the while the ship was sort of trying to get permission to come into Gibraltar. They still had to try and sanitize it. And even when they got to Gibraltar, they weren't going to let the sick ones off. Anyone who had had any kind of symptoms since the Thursday, several days before, wasn't allowed off. And you know they are calling this a 24-hour bug, so they were being ultra-cautious. But the point really was that this virus is so contagious, you can just pick it up by like touching a lift button or something like that. So I guess you can kind of understand the panic.

COSTELLO: Well do we know what this virus is, because you know this has happened in the United States? We call it the Norwalk Virus, but this virus is different from that, right? CAMPION: Yes, I don't know. You're asking the wrong guy. I'm no medical expert, and I'm afraid I don't have a chemical breakdown of what that virus is. I just know I don't want it. I think that basically sums it up. Neither did the Spanish, remember, they closed the border. They wouldn't let -- Gibraltar, of course, got a land border with Spain and the Spanish did essentially an illegal thing, according to European Human Rights, well, they closed the border. They wouldn't let people out of Gibraltar and into Spain. I guess...

COSTELLO: So...

CAMPION: ... they were scared that they weren't going to get back on the boat again. That they...

COSTELLO: So are the -- are the...

CAMPION: ... land.

COSTELLO: Are the passengers off the ship now?

CAMPION: They came off the ship and then, would you believe, they had to get back on the ship to come home to Britain. So they are now actually en route. They're going to arrive back in Britain a bit later this week.

COSTELLO: I wouldn't be going on any cruises overseas at any time.

Tony Campion, live from London, thank you very much.

CAMPION: Yes, I know.

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Aired November 4, 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: Time now, though, to check on what's making headlines overseas in this morning's 'Euro Edition,' one of our favorite features. Let's head live to London and Tony Campion.
Good morning -- Tony.

TONY CAMPION, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning to you, Carol. How are you doing?

Listen, we start with something which is pretty somber this morning. Front pages of all the major tabloids, see this is "The Sun," it says remember them here in London. This is Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, two 10-year-old girls, who August the 4th last year disappeared. Thirteen days later, their bodies were found in a ditch.

Well what's happening is that the trial is starting, and not even the British tabloids are having any fun on this. I mean, quite obviously, you know it's a horrendous business. Here we are, "The Daily Mail," face to face, the Soham trial begins. These two girls were from a place called Soham, which is in Cambridgeshire. Holly and Jessica's parents sit just feet from the man accused of their murder. It's the emotional stuff that's sort of dominating things. Such agony, such dignity for the parents, what kind of, you know, emotions are going through their minds.

I haven't got too much to say about it, just that the trial started. We're going to be keeping you up to date on this one because, obviously, it's a terrible story, two 10-year-old girls.

COSTELLO: Yes.

CAMPION: They just went out for a walk. They didn't come back. Thirteen days later they end up in a ditch. It's...

COSTELLO: What about the guy who allegedly...

CAMPION: ... so.

COSTELLO: What about the guy on trial, who is he, briefly?

CAMPION: Yes, well he -- he was -- he worked at the school where the two girls were pupils. He was a caretaker there. And he is pleading not guilty to the sort of central charges, although he has pled guilty to one charge of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

Now because of the way the rules on reporting ongoing trials work here in Britain, not too many details are known about exactly what those charges pertain to, and certainly we can't go into any evidence or anything like that. You know I mean that sort of applies more if the jury could possibly be watching, you know, what we're talking about on TV. But because of the fact those rules exist, actually very little is known about the extent of the evidence. So we don't know how this is going to play out. That's the bottom line.

There is -- there are two defendants. There's Ian Huntley, then there's his girlfriend Maxine Carr, who is kind of not accused of the murder, but she's accused of being associated with it. And she's pled not guilty to all of her charges.

COSTELLO: Give us an update on that cruise ship that wasn't allowed to go into port anywhere because there were so many sick people on board.

CAMPION: Now, absolutely, the sick ship has actually left Gibraltar. But as it -- as it rolled into Gibraltar, I don't know if you can just about make out, this is a shot of the side of the ship, and this guy here is holding up a sign that says help on it. Just kind of slightly ironic tongue and cheek sign let me off of this thing.

A guy called Paul Bremer (ph) and he -- you know he was saying it's like a holiday from hell. They have been living on a hospital ship. They can taste chemicals on their tongues all the time. It's coming through the air conditioning. They really had a bad time.

Another woman said they were sanitizing the ship wearing suits. They looked like the blokes from E.T., which was frightening the kids. I was trying to think back and work out exactly what the blokes from E.T. looked like and I couldn't remember that, but I think we get the point anyway that all this, you know, chemical sanitation stuff. They had a terrible, terrible time.

COSTELLO: So wait, hold on a second.

CAMPION: Some people even paying 5,000 pounds...

COSTELLO: So wait, just so we understand, they left the passengers on while they disinfected the ship?

CAMPION: Yes, well they were doing that all the while the ship was sort of trying to get permission to come into Gibraltar. They still had to try and sanitize it. And even when they got to Gibraltar, they weren't going to let the sick ones off. Anyone who had had any kind of symptoms since the Thursday, several days before, wasn't allowed off. And you know they are calling this a 24-hour bug, so they were being ultra-cautious. But the point really was that this virus is so contagious, you can just pick it up by like touching a lift button or something like that. So I guess you can kind of understand the panic.

COSTELLO: Well do we know what this virus is, because you know this has happened in the United States? We call it the Norwalk Virus, but this virus is different from that, right? CAMPION: Yes, I don't know. You're asking the wrong guy. I'm no medical expert, and I'm afraid I don't have a chemical breakdown of what that virus is. I just know I don't want it. I think that basically sums it up. Neither did the Spanish, remember, they closed the border. They wouldn't let -- Gibraltar, of course, got a land border with Spain and the Spanish did essentially an illegal thing, according to European Human Rights, well, they closed the border. They wouldn't let people out of Gibraltar and into Spain. I guess...

COSTELLO: So...

CAMPION: ... they were scared that they weren't going to get back on the boat again. That they...

COSTELLO: So are the -- are the...

CAMPION: ... land.

COSTELLO: Are the passengers off the ship now?

CAMPION: They came off the ship and then, would you believe, they had to get back on the ship to come home to Britain. So they are now actually en route. They're going to arrive back in Britain a bit later this week.

COSTELLO: I wouldn't be going on any cruises overseas at any time.

Tony Campion, live from London, thank you very much.

CAMPION: Yes, I know.

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