Return to Transcripts main page
CNN Live At Daybreak
Euro Edition: Morning Papers
Aired January 26, 2004 - 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.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Well let's check what's making headlines overseas in this morning's 'Euro Edition.' Liz George is in London. She joins us live.
And what are the front pages looking like this morning -- Liz?
LIZ GEORGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Fredricka,...
WHITFIELD: Where are you? There you are.
GEORGE: ... fighting with those front pages at the moment.
I just want to start off with the main story that's really hit across all of the front pages and it's really hitting a chord here in the U.K. at the moment, and it is Blair's big week, his very difficult week that he has got ahead of him. And all the front pages really looking ahead to what's happening. Brown fuels doubts over Blair. That was an interview that took place over the weekend that Brown, Gordon Brown the Chancellor, was talking about Blair.
But this is really what everyone is sort of looking at, Blair's hazardous week. I don't know if you can see that OK. Basically he has got a number of challenges ahead of him. First of all, he's got a big vote in the Commons on an education bill where it's just been lots of controversy about that. And then, of course, he has got the findings of the Hutton inquiry into the death of the MOD scientist David Kelly, so two huge things for Blair.
And I think one of the tabloid papers summed it up in fact, where will Tony be next week? Here outside No. 10, he is there, or here, walking out of a way out sign. So that's how huge this week is going to be. And all of the papers really going through this timetable of the challenges in front of him -- Fredricka.
WHITFIELD: And isn't it interesting, Liz, those very two -- two very serious stories sharing the headlines now with the Golden Globes I saw in one of the newspapers you were picking up there with Nicole Kidman on the front. But really a lot of retro celebrating the Golden Globe for "The Office." That's a popular show.
GEORGE: As that was a hugely popular show here, but may be surprising that it won a Golden Globe, because I understand it's not very well known in the States at all. And Ricky Gervais has really become an absolute cult figure across here with this show, which basically it's all about office life. And it's done as if it's a documentary. And in fact, the first time I ever saw it, I was totally confused. I thought it was real. And I was sitting there cringing thinking can this be real, can there really be anyone like this, but it's absolutely hilarious. And once you start watching it, you are cooked.
WHITFIELD: Wow!
GEORGE: So you know, I suppose America, here comes "The Office."
WHITFIELD: Yes, well it caught the attention of the foreign press. So there you go, two Golden Globes.
All right, Liz, good to see you.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
Aired January 26, 2004 - 05:44 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Well let's check what's making headlines overseas in this morning's 'Euro Edition.' Liz George is in London. She joins us live.
And what are the front pages looking like this morning -- Liz?
LIZ GEORGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Fredricka,...
WHITFIELD: Where are you? There you are.
GEORGE: ... fighting with those front pages at the moment.
I just want to start off with the main story that's really hit across all of the front pages and it's really hitting a chord here in the U.K. at the moment, and it is Blair's big week, his very difficult week that he has got ahead of him. And all the front pages really looking ahead to what's happening. Brown fuels doubts over Blair. That was an interview that took place over the weekend that Brown, Gordon Brown the Chancellor, was talking about Blair.
But this is really what everyone is sort of looking at, Blair's hazardous week. I don't know if you can see that OK. Basically he has got a number of challenges ahead of him. First of all, he's got a big vote in the Commons on an education bill where it's just been lots of controversy about that. And then, of course, he has got the findings of the Hutton inquiry into the death of the MOD scientist David Kelly, so two huge things for Blair.
And I think one of the tabloid papers summed it up in fact, where will Tony be next week? Here outside No. 10, he is there, or here, walking out of a way out sign. So that's how huge this week is going to be. And all of the papers really going through this timetable of the challenges in front of him -- Fredricka.
WHITFIELD: And isn't it interesting, Liz, those very two -- two very serious stories sharing the headlines now with the Golden Globes I saw in one of the newspapers you were picking up there with Nicole Kidman on the front. But really a lot of retro celebrating the Golden Globe for "The Office." That's a popular show.
GEORGE: As that was a hugely popular show here, but may be surprising that it won a Golden Globe, because I understand it's not very well known in the States at all. And Ricky Gervais has really become an absolute cult figure across here with this show, which basically it's all about office life. And it's done as if it's a documentary. And in fact, the first time I ever saw it, I was totally confused. I thought it was real. And I was sitting there cringing thinking can this be real, can there really be anyone like this, but it's absolutely hilarious. And once you start watching it, you are cooked.
WHITFIELD: Wow!
GEORGE: So you know, I suppose America, here comes "The Office."
WHITFIELD: Yes, well it caught the attention of the foreign press. So there you go, two Golden Globes.
All right, Liz, good to see you.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
