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Euro Edition: Morning Papers

Aired November 17, 2003 - 05:45   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: You know last week the British newspapers were abuzz with the news of the Royals and a brewing scandal. Well, we know what's grabbing headlines today.
Becky Anderson live in London for us.

And I'll bet President Bush is again on the front pages over there.

BECKY ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You got it right, Carol.

Let me give you one of the papers just from yesterday to give you a sense of what the Sundays are saying. And of the course the Sundays sort of setting the tone for what happens across the U.K. and of course across the U.S. with your papers as well.

"The Sunday Telegraph" this week, Queen is not amused by Britain's (ph) Buckingham Palace makeover. The point being the Queen rejected a request from George W. Bush's security advisors to boost the Buckingham Palace's structural defenses against a terrorist attack during the State Visit. What they wanted was some bomb and airborne assault proofing on Buckingham Palace, and the Queen apparently not particularly interested in that sort of security.

It's an unprecedented security operation, of course, across the U.K.,...

COSTELLO: You know, Becky,...

ANDERSON: ... particularly in London this week.

Yes, go on.

COSTELLO: Becky, in talking about the security around...

ANDERSON: I mean not what I say (ph).

COSTELLO: I know. Talking about the security around Buckingham Palace, the Secret Service also wanted a Black Hawk helicopter to hover above it, but the Queen said that would be too noisy.

ANDERSON: That's -- there are stories like that doing the rounds all over the place at the moment. We've had stories of what the president's car will look like and how well defended that is. Stories of airborne defenses, seaborne defense. I mean there are -- you know there are stories all over the place. Not sure how many of them have got a lot of mileage, to be honest. What we do know is that there will be 5,000 police officers on the streets of London. Scotland Yard, of course, the main headquarters of the Metropolitan Police in the U.K., will be coordinating the security around the president.

Let's take a look at some of the other papers and what they are saying today. "The Sun" apparently getting a world exclusive. This is a tabloid paper read by about seven million people. It's probably the biggest selling tabloid newspaper in the U.K. And Bush giving what they are calling a world exclusive to the paper today, your troops did not die in vain. President Bush sending a heartfelt message to the British people saying that your troops did not die in vain in Iraq. And the paper very much lording itself over the other papers today suggesting that they haven't got the story when he has.

So the opposing paper, "The Daily Mirror," says today chicken George. Bush pulls out of a speech to MPs. Apparently he's pulled out of making a statement to the Houses of Parliament this week because he is apparently frightened of being heckled by those who oppose the war.

We've also got Mike Moore (ph) in town, so let me just give you that as a final...

COSTELLO: No.

ANDERSON: ... gesture. You need to show that the people of Britain don't support Bush and a whole load as well. You can imagine what Mike Moore is saying about Bush. He's very much on a book tour of the U.K. at present, but perfect timing as far as Mike Moore and his sister are concerned. Apparently he travels with his sister. Doing Cambridge today and back in London on Tuesday in preparation for the marches, the stop-the-war protests against George Bush. He will be there, he tells us.

Back to you guys.

COSTELLO: My goodness, well it should be interesting. Becky Anderson, live from London, we appreciate it.

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Aired November 17, 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: You know last week the British newspapers were abuzz with the news of the Royals and a brewing scandal. Well, we know what's grabbing headlines today.
Becky Anderson live in London for us.

And I'll bet President Bush is again on the front pages over there.

BECKY ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You got it right, Carol.

Let me give you one of the papers just from yesterday to give you a sense of what the Sundays are saying. And of the course the Sundays sort of setting the tone for what happens across the U.K. and of course across the U.S. with your papers as well.

"The Sunday Telegraph" this week, Queen is not amused by Britain's (ph) Buckingham Palace makeover. The point being the Queen rejected a request from George W. Bush's security advisors to boost the Buckingham Palace's structural defenses against a terrorist attack during the State Visit. What they wanted was some bomb and airborne assault proofing on Buckingham Palace, and the Queen apparently not particularly interested in that sort of security.

It's an unprecedented security operation, of course, across the U.K.,...

COSTELLO: You know, Becky,...

ANDERSON: ... particularly in London this week.

Yes, go on.

COSTELLO: Becky, in talking about the security around...

ANDERSON: I mean not what I say (ph).

COSTELLO: I know. Talking about the security around Buckingham Palace, the Secret Service also wanted a Black Hawk helicopter to hover above it, but the Queen said that would be too noisy.

ANDERSON: That's -- there are stories like that doing the rounds all over the place at the moment. We've had stories of what the president's car will look like and how well defended that is. Stories of airborne defenses, seaborne defense. I mean there are -- you know there are stories all over the place. Not sure how many of them have got a lot of mileage, to be honest. What we do know is that there will be 5,000 police officers on the streets of London. Scotland Yard, of course, the main headquarters of the Metropolitan Police in the U.K., will be coordinating the security around the president.

Let's take a look at some of the other papers and what they are saying today. "The Sun" apparently getting a world exclusive. This is a tabloid paper read by about seven million people. It's probably the biggest selling tabloid newspaper in the U.K. And Bush giving what they are calling a world exclusive to the paper today, your troops did not die in vain. President Bush sending a heartfelt message to the British people saying that your troops did not die in vain in Iraq. And the paper very much lording itself over the other papers today suggesting that they haven't got the story when he has.

So the opposing paper, "The Daily Mirror," says today chicken George. Bush pulls out of a speech to MPs. Apparently he's pulled out of making a statement to the Houses of Parliament this week because he is apparently frightened of being heckled by those who oppose the war.

We've also got Mike Moore (ph) in town, so let me just give you that as a final...

COSTELLO: No.

ANDERSON: ... gesture. You need to show that the people of Britain don't support Bush and a whole load as well. You can imagine what Mike Moore is saying about Bush. He's very much on a book tour of the U.K. at present, but perfect timing as far as Mike Moore and his sister are concerned. Apparently he travels with his sister. Doing Cambridge today and back in London on Tuesday in preparation for the marches, the stop-the-war protests against George Bush. He will be there, he tells us.

Back to you guys.

COSTELLO: My goodness, well it should be interesting. Becky Anderson, live from London, we appreciate it.

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