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CNN Live At Daybreak
International News Desk
Aired November 13, 2003 - 05:35 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: We want to talk more about Iraq and the situation there.
Joining us now, our senior international editor, Eli Flournoy.
And bad news for the U.S. administration out of Japan.
ELI FLOURNOY, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL EDITOR: Yes, that's right, Japan and South Korea. The spin-off effect of the Nasiriyah attack is now being felt and we've got Japan announcing that they're going to postpone indefinitely their plans to send troops to Iraq. Now, these would have been non-combat troops. Their constitution prevents them from having troops involved in warfare. But this would have been a commitment of, expected of a couple thousand troops. And Nasiriyah was one of the places that they had been considering. It had been considered to be a so-called safe place, where they were going to have troops involved in a humanitarian mission.
COSTELLO: And what about South Korea?
FLOURNOY: South Korea also just, we just got word the South Korean president has announced that he's putting a cap of 3,000 troops. They had been expected to provide 5,000. They committed to provide 5,000 or more troops, South Korea. Now, this comes as secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, is on an Asian tour. He's in Guam right now. He's going to be heading to Japan tomorrow and he is going to be in South Korea after that. And it's looking to be a very tough trip for him.
But we've seen some pictures already yesterday. I think we have some pictures of a protest out there. You can see they're down, you know, burning his face in South Korea. Now, these type of protests are not expected in Japan, but in South Korea they're very upset about U.S. troops, about committing South Korean troops to Iraq and also about the long-term U.S. troop presence.
COSTELLO: Well, and by the same token, there are concerns about Italy, because there's increasing pressure for Italy to pull its troops out of Iraq.
FLOURNOY: Yes, absolutely. So far the Italian government is holding firm. They have a grim determination. They're upset. The nation's in mourning, obviously. We've heard Alessio Vinci reporting about that. But there is a lot of pressure there over the Italian troop commitment in Iraq.
Also, yes... COSTELLO: Oh, go ahead.
FLOURNOY: I also want to tell you about a series of pieces that we're doing on SARS, that's out of China and Hong Kong. We are heading into fall and then winter in China, as well, and this is the time of year when the SARS outbreak came before and there are great concerns that it could come again.
So we've got Mike Chinoy has gone to what's considered to be ground zero of the SARS outbreak, which is in southern China. And he went to a very, a disturbing location. It was an animal market where they fear -- I think we've got some pictures of this animal market where they kill the animals and they take them out to get them ready for...
COSTELLO: Well, this is obviously not the animal market.
FLOURNOY: Right.
COSTELLO: Those are -- those were people in the hospital. What were those pictures, do you know?
FLOURNOY: Yes, those are some of the pictures from the previous SARS outbreak that we had.
COSTELLO: I've got you.
FLOURNOY: But we have some -- this animal market in southern China is a place where they think the connection of SARS came from the animals to come in contact with people because of the conditions in the market.
COSTELLO: Yes, and my guess it's not sanitary in the animal market.
FLOURNOY: Unfortunately not, no. And you can see that in grim detail. That package is going to be coming out later today. So we'll look forward to seeing that.
COSTELLO: All right, Eli Flournoy, many thanks.
We'll let you get back to work.
We appreciate it.
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Aired November 13, 2003 - 05:35 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: We want to talk more about Iraq and the situation there.
Joining us now, our senior international editor, Eli Flournoy.
And bad news for the U.S. administration out of Japan.
ELI FLOURNOY, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL EDITOR: Yes, that's right, Japan and South Korea. The spin-off effect of the Nasiriyah attack is now being felt and we've got Japan announcing that they're going to postpone indefinitely their plans to send troops to Iraq. Now, these would have been non-combat troops. Their constitution prevents them from having troops involved in warfare. But this would have been a commitment of, expected of a couple thousand troops. And Nasiriyah was one of the places that they had been considering. It had been considered to be a so-called safe place, where they were going to have troops involved in a humanitarian mission.
COSTELLO: And what about South Korea?
FLOURNOY: South Korea also just, we just got word the South Korean president has announced that he's putting a cap of 3,000 troops. They had been expected to provide 5,000. They committed to provide 5,000 or more troops, South Korea. Now, this comes as secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, is on an Asian tour. He's in Guam right now. He's going to be heading to Japan tomorrow and he is going to be in South Korea after that. And it's looking to be a very tough trip for him.
But we've seen some pictures already yesterday. I think we have some pictures of a protest out there. You can see they're down, you know, burning his face in South Korea. Now, these type of protests are not expected in Japan, but in South Korea they're very upset about U.S. troops, about committing South Korean troops to Iraq and also about the long-term U.S. troop presence.
COSTELLO: Well, and by the same token, there are concerns about Italy, because there's increasing pressure for Italy to pull its troops out of Iraq.
FLOURNOY: Yes, absolutely. So far the Italian government is holding firm. They have a grim determination. They're upset. The nation's in mourning, obviously. We've heard Alessio Vinci reporting about that. But there is a lot of pressure there over the Italian troop commitment in Iraq.
Also, yes... COSTELLO: Oh, go ahead.
FLOURNOY: I also want to tell you about a series of pieces that we're doing on SARS, that's out of China and Hong Kong. We are heading into fall and then winter in China, as well, and this is the time of year when the SARS outbreak came before and there are great concerns that it could come again.
So we've got Mike Chinoy has gone to what's considered to be ground zero of the SARS outbreak, which is in southern China. And he went to a very, a disturbing location. It was an animal market where they fear -- I think we've got some pictures of this animal market where they kill the animals and they take them out to get them ready for...
COSTELLO: Well, this is obviously not the animal market.
FLOURNOY: Right.
COSTELLO: Those are -- those were people in the hospital. What were those pictures, do you know?
FLOURNOY: Yes, those are some of the pictures from the previous SARS outbreak that we had.
COSTELLO: I've got you.
FLOURNOY: But we have some -- this animal market in southern China is a place where they think the connection of SARS came from the animals to come in contact with people because of the conditions in the market.
COSTELLO: Yes, and my guess it's not sanitary in the animal market.
FLOURNOY: Unfortunately not, no. And you can see that in grim detail. That package is going to be coming out later today. So we'll look forward to seeing that.
COSTELLO: All right, Eli Flournoy, many thanks.
We'll let you get back to work.
We appreciate it.
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