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Euro Edition: Morning Papers
Aired December 30, 2003 - 05:46 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Airline security also topping the headlines overseas.
Hala Gorani joins us again live from London with our 'Euro Edition.'
What are the front pages looking like this morning -- Hala?
HALA GORANI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Carol, I will start with airline security, since that was the story you just mentioned there. Now the U.K. papers headlined this yesterday. However, we're seeing other European papers headline this story today.
Now this is the French "Le Brashion (ph)." There is a sheriff in the plane is the headline of the French paper. And what this paper is saying is that France has accepted the request of the United States to provide undercover armed guards on flights that are considered sensitive to the U.S. And they are saying that possibly this started happening on December 23. So in other words that France and French airlines have accepted the U.S.' request.
And what the paper is saying is that if they don't, that the United States would probably ban them from landing at U.S. airports. And so that in other words, this is something that they need to do if they would like to fly transatlantic flights in the direction toward America.
Now in the U.K., however, what you are seeing on the front pages is this story. This man is suspected of killing a police officer. He is an American, a U.S. citizen from Florida, and there's a big manhunt going now in the -- going on now in the U.K. He is suspected of having shot a U.K. police officer on Boxing Day, which is December 26.
What this is doing in the U.K. is re-igniting this big debate on whether or not armed -- whether or not police officers should be routinely armed. As you know, in the U.K., bobbies, as they are known, are not routinely armed with handguns. And so this is making -- this is -- this is creating a big debate, once again, on whether or not they should be.
Now "The Daily Telegraph," which is also headlining this story, Britain's most wanted man, is saying no, they shouldn't be. Armed officer or police officers should be on the street. They should be within the community. If you arm them, that will disengage them even further from the public they are supposed to serve and it will create a rift that will allow gun culture to proliferate even more.
A quick last, if I have 10 seconds, last one for you,...
COSTELLO: You do.
GORANI: ... and you're going to like this one, Carol, I think. In a survey published by the "Daily Mail," it says that a third of employers admit that they are more likely to give a job to a woman who wears makeup rather than a woman who wears no makeup.
COSTELLO: Why?
GORANI: Which is perhaps bad news for -- well, they are saying that if she looks more professional, she looks better groomed like she cares about her job and her appearance and that therefore she conveys this air of professionalism that women with no makeup. Good news for television presenters, bad news, perhaps, for the cause of women out there who would like to be judged on their performance and not on their appearance.
Carol, back to you.
COSTELLO: Exactly.
Hala Gorani, many thanks live from London this morning.
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Aired December 30, 2003 - 05:46 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Airline security also topping the headlines overseas.
Hala Gorani joins us again live from London with our 'Euro Edition.'
What are the front pages looking like this morning -- Hala?
HALA GORANI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Carol, I will start with airline security, since that was the story you just mentioned there. Now the U.K. papers headlined this yesterday. However, we're seeing other European papers headline this story today.
Now this is the French "Le Brashion (ph)." There is a sheriff in the plane is the headline of the French paper. And what this paper is saying is that France has accepted the request of the United States to provide undercover armed guards on flights that are considered sensitive to the U.S. And they are saying that possibly this started happening on December 23. So in other words that France and French airlines have accepted the U.S.' request.
And what the paper is saying is that if they don't, that the United States would probably ban them from landing at U.S. airports. And so that in other words, this is something that they need to do if they would like to fly transatlantic flights in the direction toward America.
Now in the U.K., however, what you are seeing on the front pages is this story. This man is suspected of killing a police officer. He is an American, a U.S. citizen from Florida, and there's a big manhunt going now in the -- going on now in the U.K. He is suspected of having shot a U.K. police officer on Boxing Day, which is December 26.
What this is doing in the U.K. is re-igniting this big debate on whether or not armed -- whether or not police officers should be routinely armed. As you know, in the U.K., bobbies, as they are known, are not routinely armed with handguns. And so this is making -- this is -- this is creating a big debate, once again, on whether or not they should be.
Now "The Daily Telegraph," which is also headlining this story, Britain's most wanted man, is saying no, they shouldn't be. Armed officer or police officers should be on the street. They should be within the community. If you arm them, that will disengage them even further from the public they are supposed to serve and it will create a rift that will allow gun culture to proliferate even more.
A quick last, if I have 10 seconds, last one for you,...
COSTELLO: You do.
GORANI: ... and you're going to like this one, Carol, I think. In a survey published by the "Daily Mail," it says that a third of employers admit that they are more likely to give a job to a woman who wears makeup rather than a woman who wears no makeup.
COSTELLO: Why?
GORANI: Which is perhaps bad news for -- well, they are saying that if she looks more professional, she looks better groomed like she cares about her job and her appearance and that therefore she conveys this air of professionalism that women with no makeup. Good news for television presenters, bad news, perhaps, for the cause of women out there who would like to be judged on their performance and not on their appearance.
Carol, back to you.
COSTELLO: Exactly.
Hala Gorani, many thanks live from London this morning.
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