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Euro Edition: Morning Papers

Aired February 09, 2004 - 05:44   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: Now it's time to check on what's making headlines overseas in this morning's 'Euro Edition.' So let's head live to London and Hala Gorani.
Bet Prince Charles is on the front pages.

HALA GORANI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: He is on the front pages of "The Times," at least, with a big picture of Prince Charles in Tehran. First Royal visit in Iran since fall of Shah. Of course that's 1979. So it's almost 25 years since the last royal visit to Tehran. And this is seen by some as a political visit, even though palace officials are saying no, he's making this visit for humanitarian reasons. Of course Iran endured this devastating earthquake in Bam, 40,000 people dead. And he is expected to make a visit to Bam as well.

The interesting thing about what "The Times" is doing with this story is the coverage from Tehran, why now say some in Tehran? Why now Prince Charles in Iran when our democracy is under attack? Some Iranians are quoted in the article in "The Times" here by the reporter Ramida Nevall (ph) saying I came over because I heard Tony Blair was visiting, said one disappointed onlooker. What power does Prince Charles have, one of the things being said there. So, as you can see there, not everybody in Iran, according to "The Times," happy that Prince Charles is making that visit at this moment in time.

Of course this comes after a visit to Basra in southern Iraq, a surprise visit there in southern Iraq, to British troops by Prince Charles.

Another story making headlines and that was in the news a lot last week, Carol, these cockle picker deaths in northwest England. There an analysis page on exactly what this means with immigrants coming into England and the U.K. And gangmasters controlling some of these illegal workers who are paid a pittance who go back to slave houses. And many of those who died last week, 19 of them, well some of their friends and relatives and co-workers who worked with them scared, apparently, by their gangmasters, scared of coming forward and talking about those people who control their lives and make them work, essentially, in slave labor conditions.

And this is something and a hot topic here in the U.K. that a lot of people say will take on more and more significance as the E.U. is opened up. And it, perhaps, it becomes easier for some of these workers to make their way to the U.K. and other European countries. And here you have also in "The Guardian" an article on U.K. opens door to migrants. So all this feeding in sort of to the same topic. One quick last word now, Carol, I don't know if you eat your five portions of fruits and veggies every day?

COSTELLO: Definitely -- Hala.

GORANI: Of course. But if you do, you might have, according to the "Daily Mail," a problem. You might have to increase that. Because, according to a research published in the "Daily Mail," an apple today isn't as good as it used to be.

And what they mean by that is that 50 years ago nutrients in the soil made our fruits and vegetables more nutritious, more copper, more calcium and that kind of thing. And they are saying also that some of these fruits and vegetables have more sugar because of the way they are grown. And this is, of course, leading to an over consumption of sugar. So an interesting, maybe you are going to have to double your five fruits and veg portions a day to 10.

COSTELLO: I'm going to explode. That's a lot of fruits and vegetables.

Thank you. Hala Gorani live from London this morning.

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Aired February 9, 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: Now it's time to check on what's making headlines overseas in this morning's 'Euro Edition.' So let's head live to London and Hala Gorani.
Bet Prince Charles is on the front pages.

HALA GORANI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: He is on the front pages of "The Times," at least, with a big picture of Prince Charles in Tehran. First Royal visit in Iran since fall of Shah. Of course that's 1979. So it's almost 25 years since the last royal visit to Tehran. And this is seen by some as a political visit, even though palace officials are saying no, he's making this visit for humanitarian reasons. Of course Iran endured this devastating earthquake in Bam, 40,000 people dead. And he is expected to make a visit to Bam as well.

The interesting thing about what "The Times" is doing with this story is the coverage from Tehran, why now say some in Tehran? Why now Prince Charles in Iran when our democracy is under attack? Some Iranians are quoted in the article in "The Times" here by the reporter Ramida Nevall (ph) saying I came over because I heard Tony Blair was visiting, said one disappointed onlooker. What power does Prince Charles have, one of the things being said there. So, as you can see there, not everybody in Iran, according to "The Times," happy that Prince Charles is making that visit at this moment in time.

Of course this comes after a visit to Basra in southern Iraq, a surprise visit there in southern Iraq, to British troops by Prince Charles.

Another story making headlines and that was in the news a lot last week, Carol, these cockle picker deaths in northwest England. There an analysis page on exactly what this means with immigrants coming into England and the U.K. And gangmasters controlling some of these illegal workers who are paid a pittance who go back to slave houses. And many of those who died last week, 19 of them, well some of their friends and relatives and co-workers who worked with them scared, apparently, by their gangmasters, scared of coming forward and talking about those people who control their lives and make them work, essentially, in slave labor conditions.

And this is something and a hot topic here in the U.K. that a lot of people say will take on more and more significance as the E.U. is opened up. And it, perhaps, it becomes easier for some of these workers to make their way to the U.K. and other European countries. And here you have also in "The Guardian" an article on U.K. opens door to migrants. So all this feeding in sort of to the same topic. One quick last word now, Carol, I don't know if you eat your five portions of fruits and veggies every day?

COSTELLO: Definitely -- Hala.

GORANI: Of course. But if you do, you might have, according to the "Daily Mail," a problem. You might have to increase that. Because, according to a research published in the "Daily Mail," an apple today isn't as good as it used to be.

And what they mean by that is that 50 years ago nutrients in the soil made our fruits and vegetables more nutritious, more copper, more calcium and that kind of thing. And they are saying also that some of these fruits and vegetables have more sugar because of the way they are grown. And this is, of course, leading to an over consumption of sugar. So an interesting, maybe you are going to have to double your five fruits and veg portions a day to 10.

COSTELLO: I'm going to explode. That's a lot of fruits and vegetables.

Thank you. Hala Gorani live from London this morning.

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com