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Euro Edition: Morning Papers
Aired February 11, 2004 - 05:47 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: It's time to check on what's making headlines overseas in this morning's 'Euro Edition.' Live to London now and Hala Gorani.
Any word of the American primaries in the papers overseas -- Hala?
HALA GORANI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: There are. I'm going to get to that in a second. Actually, an interesting little moment in history that perhaps some in the U.S. don't know about. I'll get to that in a minute.
First of all, the big headline in some of the newspapers, at least in the left leaning "Independent" broad sheet, Iraq, once again. A big headline there, terrorists spark fear of civil war in Iraq. Fifty die in a car bomb. And of course this was yesterday.
Today another tragedy in the Iraqi capital in the center of Baghdad with an Army recruit station bombed as well. "The Independent" going over this theory that perhaps al Qaeda has infiltrated the ranks of insurgents and is trying to foment a civil war, Shiites against Sunnis against Kurds, going over that. So tragic news out of Iraq, another day, another bombing.
In "The Guardian," however, at least some optimism, some hope. You have an American GI last year fell madly in love with a female Iraqi doctor, married her on the spot. Well that created some problems for him within the military. He was kicked out of the military all the way back to Florida, hasn't seen her since. But according to "The Guardian," these two newlyweds, really, are going to meet in Amman, Jordan. So a happy ending, perhaps, to an unlikely love story.
Now I know that Atkins big news in the U.S. there. That according to those -- to the autopsy report that was released by mistake, it seems that he was overweight, classified even as obese, when he died after that fall after a weeklong coma. Well it's also hitting the front pages of "The Times" here. There you go. Dr. Atkins saying he weighed in at 18 stones 6 pounds is, of course, the U.K. way of measuring weight. And here, classy fatkins, not very nice there. I'm sure that's not going to make many people happy.
Well that's the tabloids for you. They are not known for being nice and delicate.
COSTELLO: Well Hala.
GORANI: Now you mentioned the primaries.
COSTELLO: Hala, can I ask you -- can I ask you about the Atkins Diet and how popular -- how popular is it in Britain?
GORANI: It's extremely popular, and it's been a topic of discussion for the last few years. That was after, and I'm sure you'll remember, after some scientific reports suggested that in fact it wasn't bad for your health, that eating two-thirds fat and one- third carbohydrate, or whatever the proportion is in the Atkins Diet, that that wasn't so bad.
Now you feel that it's losing some of its popularity, but it is on everyone's lips. And the Atkins Diet is something that was in newsrooms across the U.K. I'm sure people talked about, and especially with regards to what's going on and the reaction that we are seeing out there in the scientific community. And now of course this is again igniting the flame of the Atkins debate.
A quick word and you mentioned the primaries. I know we're limited on time a bit today. Well, according to Andrew Marh (ph), who is writing in "The Daily Telegraph," and I'm not sure you can read this headline, but U.S. history was made over a few drinks in Soho. Andrew Marh is a very respected political editor of the BBC here in the U.K.
And he says that John Kerry was having a few drinks back in 2000 with Teddy Kennedy in Soho here in London. And according to this, this is when he shared his ambitions to run for president. So this would have been in 2000.
Also, according to this, that Teddy Kennedy discouraged him from leaving his Senate seat before actually running for president. And this is something that he discouraged him from doing and apparently that he ended up not doing. So it's funny, because if this in fact pans out and it is true, that means John Kerry in 2000 already had these ambitions to run for president in 2004. So we'll see if history is made all the way through then -- Carol.
COSTELLO: He's had ambitions to run for president for a very long time.
Hala Gorani live from London this morning.
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Aired February 11, 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: It's time to check on what's making headlines overseas in this morning's 'Euro Edition.' Live to London now and Hala Gorani.
Any word of the American primaries in the papers overseas -- Hala?
HALA GORANI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: There are. I'm going to get to that in a second. Actually, an interesting little moment in history that perhaps some in the U.S. don't know about. I'll get to that in a minute.
First of all, the big headline in some of the newspapers, at least in the left leaning "Independent" broad sheet, Iraq, once again. A big headline there, terrorists spark fear of civil war in Iraq. Fifty die in a car bomb. And of course this was yesterday.
Today another tragedy in the Iraqi capital in the center of Baghdad with an Army recruit station bombed as well. "The Independent" going over this theory that perhaps al Qaeda has infiltrated the ranks of insurgents and is trying to foment a civil war, Shiites against Sunnis against Kurds, going over that. So tragic news out of Iraq, another day, another bombing.
In "The Guardian," however, at least some optimism, some hope. You have an American GI last year fell madly in love with a female Iraqi doctor, married her on the spot. Well that created some problems for him within the military. He was kicked out of the military all the way back to Florida, hasn't seen her since. But according to "The Guardian," these two newlyweds, really, are going to meet in Amman, Jordan. So a happy ending, perhaps, to an unlikely love story.
Now I know that Atkins big news in the U.S. there. That according to those -- to the autopsy report that was released by mistake, it seems that he was overweight, classified even as obese, when he died after that fall after a weeklong coma. Well it's also hitting the front pages of "The Times" here. There you go. Dr. Atkins saying he weighed in at 18 stones 6 pounds is, of course, the U.K. way of measuring weight. And here, classy fatkins, not very nice there. I'm sure that's not going to make many people happy.
Well that's the tabloids for you. They are not known for being nice and delicate.
COSTELLO: Well Hala.
GORANI: Now you mentioned the primaries.
COSTELLO: Hala, can I ask you -- can I ask you about the Atkins Diet and how popular -- how popular is it in Britain?
GORANI: It's extremely popular, and it's been a topic of discussion for the last few years. That was after, and I'm sure you'll remember, after some scientific reports suggested that in fact it wasn't bad for your health, that eating two-thirds fat and one- third carbohydrate, or whatever the proportion is in the Atkins Diet, that that wasn't so bad.
Now you feel that it's losing some of its popularity, but it is on everyone's lips. And the Atkins Diet is something that was in newsrooms across the U.K. I'm sure people talked about, and especially with regards to what's going on and the reaction that we are seeing out there in the scientific community. And now of course this is again igniting the flame of the Atkins debate.
A quick word and you mentioned the primaries. I know we're limited on time a bit today. Well, according to Andrew Marh (ph), who is writing in "The Daily Telegraph," and I'm not sure you can read this headline, but U.S. history was made over a few drinks in Soho. Andrew Marh is a very respected political editor of the BBC here in the U.K.
And he says that John Kerry was having a few drinks back in 2000 with Teddy Kennedy in Soho here in London. And according to this, this is when he shared his ambitions to run for president. So this would have been in 2000.
Also, according to this, that Teddy Kennedy discouraged him from leaving his Senate seat before actually running for president. And this is something that he discouraged him from doing and apparently that he ended up not doing. So it's funny, because if this in fact pans out and it is true, that means John Kerry in 2000 already had these ambitions to run for president in 2004. So we'll see if history is made all the way through then -- Carol.
COSTELLO: He's had ambitions to run for president for a very long time.
Hala Gorani live from London this morning.
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