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Euro Edition: Morning Papers
Aired January 08, 2004 - 05:44 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Right now we want to check on what's making headlines overseas in our favorite edition, our 'Euro Edition.' Hala Gorani live for us in London.
Is Princess Diana still on the front pages there?
HALA GORANI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: She is, but not all the front pages, Carol.
"The Guardian," which is one of the major left leaning broad sheets, or quality papers, as they call them here, is leading on an environmental story, and so is "The Independent." The same study there featured in both stories. One says how global warming will cause the extinction of a million species. The other one an unnatural disaster. This is a study led by a team of scientists from eight countries that has come to the conclusion that one million species and plants will be extinct from the face of the earth in the next 50 years and this is because of global warming and rising temperatures.
Now according to the study, in Australia, where you have 400 species of butterfly, for instance, because they have to migrate to cooler climate and some of them can't, 3 out of 400 will remain in the next five decades. Birds in Europe, reptiles in South America, you name it. Apparently even the most catastrophic worst-case scenario environmentalists probably got it right, according to this study, in terms of the impact of rising temperatures.
Of course we do have some Diana news and the aftermath and the follow up there on the opening of that inquest in the U.K. And I'll start with "The Daily Telegraph," which is the right leaning broad sheet, Diana death plot absurd say the French. So this is according to one of the lead investigators in 1999 in Paris that concluded that the accident in which the Princess of Wales died was an accident and blamed it on the chauffeur Henry Paul. So this is according and quoted by "The Daily Telegraph" according to the French investigators.
In terms of how the U.K. is handling it and on this side of the Channel, this is how the "Daily Express," which is a tabloid, is featuring this story, Charles admits that it's a difficult time. According to the "Daily Express," he said and verbally expressed to well-wishers that he is having trouble dealing with this, that it's going to be a hard time but that he will get through it. Of course, as you know, in a letter that was published by the "Daily Mirror" two days ago, Diana is said to have thought that Prince Charles was at the -- behind a plot to try to kill her in a car accident.
And one quick last story here, and this is on the cover of the "Daily Mail." The widow of George Harrison, the ex-Beatle, is suing an American cancer doctor, saying that he forced George Harrison, practically on his deathbed, to sign a guitar, to sign a guitar for his son, Ariel. The Doctor Lederman is being sued in a New York court by Olivia Harrison. And there you have a picture of the doctor's son holding the guitar that was autographed.
This is all, of course, before the trial. Nothing has been proved, but the widow of George Harrison feels that he shouldn't have asked George Harrison to sign autographs when he was, of course, living his last days and suffering with cancer.
So that's a quick look at what's happening in the U.K. papers this day. Back to you.
COSTELLO: All right, Hala, we appreciate it. Thank you.
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Aired January 8, 2004 - 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: Right now we want to check on what's making headlines overseas in our favorite edition, our 'Euro Edition.' Hala Gorani live for us in London.
Is Princess Diana still on the front pages there?
HALA GORANI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: She is, but not all the front pages, Carol.
"The Guardian," which is one of the major left leaning broad sheets, or quality papers, as they call them here, is leading on an environmental story, and so is "The Independent." The same study there featured in both stories. One says how global warming will cause the extinction of a million species. The other one an unnatural disaster. This is a study led by a team of scientists from eight countries that has come to the conclusion that one million species and plants will be extinct from the face of the earth in the next 50 years and this is because of global warming and rising temperatures.
Now according to the study, in Australia, where you have 400 species of butterfly, for instance, because they have to migrate to cooler climate and some of them can't, 3 out of 400 will remain in the next five decades. Birds in Europe, reptiles in South America, you name it. Apparently even the most catastrophic worst-case scenario environmentalists probably got it right, according to this study, in terms of the impact of rising temperatures.
Of course we do have some Diana news and the aftermath and the follow up there on the opening of that inquest in the U.K. And I'll start with "The Daily Telegraph," which is the right leaning broad sheet, Diana death plot absurd say the French. So this is according to one of the lead investigators in 1999 in Paris that concluded that the accident in which the Princess of Wales died was an accident and blamed it on the chauffeur Henry Paul. So this is according and quoted by "The Daily Telegraph" according to the French investigators.
In terms of how the U.K. is handling it and on this side of the Channel, this is how the "Daily Express," which is a tabloid, is featuring this story, Charles admits that it's a difficult time. According to the "Daily Express," he said and verbally expressed to well-wishers that he is having trouble dealing with this, that it's going to be a hard time but that he will get through it. Of course, as you know, in a letter that was published by the "Daily Mirror" two days ago, Diana is said to have thought that Prince Charles was at the -- behind a plot to try to kill her in a car accident.
And one quick last story here, and this is on the cover of the "Daily Mail." The widow of George Harrison, the ex-Beatle, is suing an American cancer doctor, saying that he forced George Harrison, practically on his deathbed, to sign a guitar, to sign a guitar for his son, Ariel. The Doctor Lederman is being sued in a New York court by Olivia Harrison. And there you have a picture of the doctor's son holding the guitar that was autographed.
This is all, of course, before the trial. Nothing has been proved, but the widow of George Harrison feels that he shouldn't have asked George Harrison to sign autographs when he was, of course, living his last days and suffering with cancer.
So that's a quick look at what's happening in the U.K. papers this day. Back to you.
COSTELLO: All right, Hala, we appreciate it. Thank you.
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