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Euro Edition: Morning Papers

Aired February 19, 2004 - 05:47   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Time now, though, to check on what's making headlines overseas in this morning's 'Euro Edition.' Tony Campion live for us in London.
Good morning -- Tony.

TONY CAMPION, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning to you, Carol. How are you?

A couple of stories to bring you, one very serious one to start with. Look at this, it's "The Sun" newspaper. Inside pages, scream from hell is the headline. And this story comes out of Iraq. What the newspaper has done is found a soldier who has been serving in Basra. And he has been basically blowing the whistle on some of the practices that his colleagues have been carrying out on soldiers, on prisoners of war, I should say. And just how is this for a graphic quote, "you take a baby's cry, multiply it by 1,000 times and add hurt and anger and pain into it, that is what it's like."

And what he is saying is that there was a certain period of time when these soldiers had lost a colleague in a roadside bombing and they captured -- you know did a -- did a sweep and took in some suspects essentially on this. And before there was any proof that there was any involvement even in the killing of their colleague, even if that were justification in itself, they basically tortured these men over a period of some 48 hours. So the questions are where were their officers, how was this allowed to happen?

And you know further to that, one of these guys actually died. And you know it says -- the soldier says that they took the guy and just dumped him in a bathroom area where he was treated by a medical team, but only in a very haphazard and halfhearted way they left him. Checked on him briefly, they could see if he had passed away and he had. And that was essentially the end of it. So there is going to be an inquiry over that. The World Ministry Police are already investigating the soldiers of -- tales of brutality in British soldiers working in Basra.

Just move on quickly to give you another story closer to home. In "The Times" newspaper, you'll see the headline there briefly, junk food under attack by fat tax. We already have in this country value added tax, VAT. It's a sales tax. Now they are talking about FAT or fatty added tax, foods like burgers and so on, because of the incredible rise in obesity. It's a problem where you are. It's a problem where we are.

COSTELLO: True. Tony Campion, live from London, many thanks. 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 February 19, 2004 - 05:47   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, though, to check on what's making headlines overseas in this morning's 'Euro Edition.' Tony Campion live for us in London.
Good morning -- Tony.

TONY CAMPION, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning to you, Carol. How are you?

A couple of stories to bring you, one very serious one to start with. Look at this, it's "The Sun" newspaper. Inside pages, scream from hell is the headline. And this story comes out of Iraq. What the newspaper has done is found a soldier who has been serving in Basra. And he has been basically blowing the whistle on some of the practices that his colleagues have been carrying out on soldiers, on prisoners of war, I should say. And just how is this for a graphic quote, "you take a baby's cry, multiply it by 1,000 times and add hurt and anger and pain into it, that is what it's like."

And what he is saying is that there was a certain period of time when these soldiers had lost a colleague in a roadside bombing and they captured -- you know did a -- did a sweep and took in some suspects essentially on this. And before there was any proof that there was any involvement even in the killing of their colleague, even if that were justification in itself, they basically tortured these men over a period of some 48 hours. So the questions are where were their officers, how was this allowed to happen?

And you know further to that, one of these guys actually died. And you know it says -- the soldier says that they took the guy and just dumped him in a bathroom area where he was treated by a medical team, but only in a very haphazard and halfhearted way they left him. Checked on him briefly, they could see if he had passed away and he had. And that was essentially the end of it. So there is going to be an inquiry over that. The World Ministry Police are already investigating the soldiers of -- tales of brutality in British soldiers working in Basra.

Just move on quickly to give you another story closer to home. In "The Times" newspaper, you'll see the headline there briefly, junk food under attack by fat tax. We already have in this country value added tax, VAT. It's a sales tax. Now they are talking about FAT or fatty added tax, foods like burgers and so on, because of the incredible rise in obesity. It's a problem where you are. It's a problem where we are.

COSTELLO: True. Tony Campion, live from London, many thanks. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com