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Euro Edition: Morning Papers

Aired November 12, 2003 - 05:47   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Some interesting top stories across Europe, as well, today. Let's head live to London and Becky Anderson for our 'Euro Edition.'
Good morning, Becky, I'm sure Charles...

BECKY ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: A very good morning to you -- Carol.

COSTELLO: ... Prince Charles is off the front pages, hopefully.

ANDERSON: Yes, absolutely. It's very much a story of the security situation or the potential security situation in London next week for the visit of President George W. Bush. "The Times" of London this morning, al Qaeda poses a terrorist threat to the Bush visit. And the second headline here, immunity row over weapons carried by the president's secret agents.

And let me just explain the two sides to this story. Effectively, Bush is here between the 18th and the 21st of November. That's the beginning of next week. Now the problem is this that there is the potential for street protests. Protests, anti-war protests on the streets of London while Bush is here. And the problem with that, some people are saying, especially those quoted in "The Times" this morning, is that terrorists groups could infiltrate and take advantage of any street protest, any running battles that we have seen here in the past when we have had street protests in London. The terrorists could take advantage of those and put President Bush at risk.

In turn, the secret agents for President Bush, the 250 Men in Black, as they are called, who surround President Bush on all of these visits, effectively are saying that they want to close off most of London while Bush is here and indeed have immunity from prosecution if they use their arms against any protestor who effectively threatens President Bush.

What the security services in the U.K. are saying is that those security officers must keep to the letter of the law. And unless there is a direct or imminent threat to the life of the president, those arms mustn't be used. There's a real tussle going on in the U.K. at present between the security forces, as I say, who surround Bush, the police officers here in the U.K. and indeed the Home Secretary, the guy who effectively runs the domestic issues in the U.K. And this is set to really dissolve into a sort of U.S.-U.K. spat at present. It's a story that we'll be following here and I'm sure you guys will be following...

COSTELLO: Yes, and you know...

ANDERSON: ... over the next couple of days and go on.

COSTELLO: ... a couple of other things that I have heard, President Bush will not speak before Parliament because they don't want members of Parliament, you know, yelling at him, as is British tradition.

ANDERSON: Sure.

COSTELLO: And he will not meet with the Queen, either, right?

ANDERSON: That's -- I'm not sure about that. Now that's something that I'll have to check in on. I'll come back to you on that -- on that one. Certainly that was the idea. And the idea being that this State Visit, and quite unprecedented in just the year before an incumbent president is going back to the electorate, that in fact he would be speaking to the Queen, that was certainly something that was unprecedented in the past. I'm not completely sure of that, but I'll certainly come back to you tomorrow with more details on that.

Back to you guys.

COSTELLO: All right. We appreciate it. Thank you, Becky Anderson, live from London this morning.

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Aired November 12, 2003 - 05:47   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Some interesting top stories across Europe, as well, today. Let's head live to London and Becky Anderson for our 'Euro Edition.'
Good morning, Becky, I'm sure Charles...

BECKY ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: A very good morning to you -- Carol.

COSTELLO: ... Prince Charles is off the front pages, hopefully.

ANDERSON: Yes, absolutely. It's very much a story of the security situation or the potential security situation in London next week for the visit of President George W. Bush. "The Times" of London this morning, al Qaeda poses a terrorist threat to the Bush visit. And the second headline here, immunity row over weapons carried by the president's secret agents.

And let me just explain the two sides to this story. Effectively, Bush is here between the 18th and the 21st of November. That's the beginning of next week. Now the problem is this that there is the potential for street protests. Protests, anti-war protests on the streets of London while Bush is here. And the problem with that, some people are saying, especially those quoted in "The Times" this morning, is that terrorists groups could infiltrate and take advantage of any street protest, any running battles that we have seen here in the past when we have had street protests in London. The terrorists could take advantage of those and put President Bush at risk.

In turn, the secret agents for President Bush, the 250 Men in Black, as they are called, who surround President Bush on all of these visits, effectively are saying that they want to close off most of London while Bush is here and indeed have immunity from prosecution if they use their arms against any protestor who effectively threatens President Bush.

What the security services in the U.K. are saying is that those security officers must keep to the letter of the law. And unless there is a direct or imminent threat to the life of the president, those arms mustn't be used. There's a real tussle going on in the U.K. at present between the security forces, as I say, who surround Bush, the police officers here in the U.K. and indeed the Home Secretary, the guy who effectively runs the domestic issues in the U.K. And this is set to really dissolve into a sort of U.S.-U.K. spat at present. It's a story that we'll be following here and I'm sure you guys will be following...

COSTELLO: Yes, and you know...

ANDERSON: ... over the next couple of days and go on.

COSTELLO: ... a couple of other things that I have heard, President Bush will not speak before Parliament because they don't want members of Parliament, you know, yelling at him, as is British tradition.

ANDERSON: Sure.

COSTELLO: And he will not meet with the Queen, either, right?

ANDERSON: That's -- I'm not sure about that. Now that's something that I'll have to check in on. I'll come back to you on that -- on that one. Certainly that was the idea. And the idea being that this State Visit, and quite unprecedented in just the year before an incumbent president is going back to the electorate, that in fact he would be speaking to the Queen, that was certainly something that was unprecedented in the past. I'm not completely sure of that, but I'll certainly come back to you tomorrow with more details on that.

Back to you guys.

COSTELLO: All right. We appreciate it. Thank you, Becky Anderson, live from London this morning.

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