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Euro Edition: Morning Papers

Aired November 25, 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: Time now for some of the headlines from overseas in our 'Euro Edition.' Becky Anderson live in London.
And, Becky, I know you want to talk about this rugby stuff. Can you start with something else, though?

BECKY ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: But I do. I'm going to leave it until the end, though. I have got something else, see (ph). We are still crowing about the rugby. Give us a break, you know, it's the only thing we've won in 40 years so we are still crowing about it. But I'm going to come to that shortly.

First, let me do the main political story on the front pages. Tony Blair and the president of France, Jacques Chirac, clashing, once again, over Iraq. There had been an attempt when Chirac came to the U.K. yesterday to show that they had sort of made friends. But at the press conference, Chirac said the blueprint for Iraq would not hand over power to Iraqis quickly enough and he called for a greater role for the U.N., effectively sort of slagging off what's going on with the U.S., and indeed the U.K., with the coalition there.

They have been trying to put al cordiale (ph) back into On Tom (ph). Next year is the 100th year anniversary of what was called the On Tom's Cordiale (ph) when the U.K. and France resolved to put a whole bunch of sort of colonial issues onto the back burner, which regarded Africa. So everybody has been talking about this On Tom's Cordiale but putting the cordiale back into the On Tom really didn't happen yesterday.

One of these sketch writers actually describing the two leaders as former lovers. Just when you -- both trying to be just good friends, you say something that comes out all wrong, which I thought was absolutely fantastic. So it wasn't a good trip to the U.K. by the president of France.

And indeed a real gap by the president of France. This is a picture of the prime minister's little son. His name is Leo. And this is a picture that Tony Blair gave to President Jacques Chirac effectively last year when they were having a bit of a spat. Chirac said to Tony Blair, you know can you really look your young son in the eye and tell him you've done the right thing when it comes to Iraq. So in turn, Tony Blair gives him this photograph.

Well it's become a great security gap, because, effectively, Tony Blair doesn't want the media or anybody to know what his little son looks like. So despite the fact that Chirac was trying to play friends when he held up this picture to show that the two of them are friends and he had been given this picture, it's all turned into a great big spat. So it's all gone horribly wrong. So the president has left the country, and I think Tony Blair probably quite pleased that he has done.

The other story on the front pages today, across at least the U.K. and England, is this one. This is a picture of one of the English rugby players and Prince Harry. We've been talking about this, of course, for a couple of days. This was the Rugby World Cup final. England won, of course. And this is Prince Harry playing the bongos at the party to celebrate that victory. It says beam them. Harry hits bongos at England Cup bash.

And let me tell you, Carol, they are back in the country. You can't imagine the welcome that they had at Heathrow Airport this morning. There were thousands of people queuing up to see them as they came through into the arrival's land (ph). It was spilling out, apparently, into the car park. You are probably going to see pictures of it as you move through the day on CNN. It's been absolutely amazing.

And there are big calls, as I said yesterday, for knighthoods, for the coach of the rugby team now to run the British football team as well. I mean unbelievable scenes. And as I say,...

COSTELLO: Well, and see we,...

ANDERSON: ... we haven't won anything since 1966.

COSTELLO: ... as Americans, should not think that is ridiculous, because after a Super Bowl win, the president always calls like the quarterback. You know all the British here, Becky, were trying to look for an Australian just to like, you know, poke him, but I don't think there are any Australians in the house at this moment here at CNN.

ANDERSON: You couldn't find any because they were hiding.

COSTELLO: Yes, probably so.

ANDERSON: That's what they were doing, they were hiding. All the guys here in the office were hiding on Monday morning. It was wonderful stuff.

Back to you guys.

COSTELLO: I bet for you. Thank you. Becky Anderson live from London this morning.

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Aired November 25, 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: Time now for some of the headlines from overseas in our 'Euro Edition.' Becky Anderson live in London.
And, Becky, I know you want to talk about this rugby stuff. Can you start with something else, though?

BECKY ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: But I do. I'm going to leave it until the end, though. I have got something else, see (ph). We are still crowing about the rugby. Give us a break, you know, it's the only thing we've won in 40 years so we are still crowing about it. But I'm going to come to that shortly.

First, let me do the main political story on the front pages. Tony Blair and the president of France, Jacques Chirac, clashing, once again, over Iraq. There had been an attempt when Chirac came to the U.K. yesterday to show that they had sort of made friends. But at the press conference, Chirac said the blueprint for Iraq would not hand over power to Iraqis quickly enough and he called for a greater role for the U.N., effectively sort of slagging off what's going on with the U.S., and indeed the U.K., with the coalition there.

They have been trying to put al cordiale (ph) back into On Tom (ph). Next year is the 100th year anniversary of what was called the On Tom's Cordiale (ph) when the U.K. and France resolved to put a whole bunch of sort of colonial issues onto the back burner, which regarded Africa. So everybody has been talking about this On Tom's Cordiale but putting the cordiale back into the On Tom really didn't happen yesterday.

One of these sketch writers actually describing the two leaders as former lovers. Just when you -- both trying to be just good friends, you say something that comes out all wrong, which I thought was absolutely fantastic. So it wasn't a good trip to the U.K. by the president of France.

And indeed a real gap by the president of France. This is a picture of the prime minister's little son. His name is Leo. And this is a picture that Tony Blair gave to President Jacques Chirac effectively last year when they were having a bit of a spat. Chirac said to Tony Blair, you know can you really look your young son in the eye and tell him you've done the right thing when it comes to Iraq. So in turn, Tony Blair gives him this photograph.

Well it's become a great security gap, because, effectively, Tony Blair doesn't want the media or anybody to know what his little son looks like. So despite the fact that Chirac was trying to play friends when he held up this picture to show that the two of them are friends and he had been given this picture, it's all turned into a great big spat. So it's all gone horribly wrong. So the president has left the country, and I think Tony Blair probably quite pleased that he has done.

The other story on the front pages today, across at least the U.K. and England, is this one. This is a picture of one of the English rugby players and Prince Harry. We've been talking about this, of course, for a couple of days. This was the Rugby World Cup final. England won, of course. And this is Prince Harry playing the bongos at the party to celebrate that victory. It says beam them. Harry hits bongos at England Cup bash.

And let me tell you, Carol, they are back in the country. You can't imagine the welcome that they had at Heathrow Airport this morning. There were thousands of people queuing up to see them as they came through into the arrival's land (ph). It was spilling out, apparently, into the car park. You are probably going to see pictures of it as you move through the day on CNN. It's been absolutely amazing.

And there are big calls, as I said yesterday, for knighthoods, for the coach of the rugby team now to run the British football team as well. I mean unbelievable scenes. And as I say,...

COSTELLO: Well, and see we,...

ANDERSON: ... we haven't won anything since 1966.

COSTELLO: ... as Americans, should not think that is ridiculous, because after a Super Bowl win, the president always calls like the quarterback. You know all the British here, Becky, were trying to look for an Australian just to like, you know, poke him, but I don't think there are any Australians in the house at this moment here at CNN.

ANDERSON: You couldn't find any because they were hiding.

COSTELLO: Yes, probably so.

ANDERSON: That's what they were doing, they were hiding. All the guys here in the office were hiding on Monday morning. It was wonderful stuff.

Back to you guys.

COSTELLO: I bet for you. Thank you. Becky Anderson live from London this morning.

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