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Euro Edition: Morning Papers

Aired September 23, 2003 - 05:45   ET

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

CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: It is time now, though, to check on what's making headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition." Becky Anderson live for us in London.
Good morning -- Becky.

BECKY ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Morning, Carol, thank you very much indeed. Three stories really dominating the papers across Europe today.

Let's start with the explosive nature of the Hutton inquiry in the U.K., the inquiry into events surrounding the death of weapons expert Dr. David Kelly. And diaries of the former Communications Director Alastair Campbell giving the Hutton inquiry an inside view into the thinking at the government at the time of David Kelly's death and before. And far from previous claims that no one in the government had pushed to get David Kelly's name into the open, Alastair Campbell's diaries suggest something very different.

Alastair Campbell, the former Communications Director, and indeed the current Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon were on the -- at the bench yesterday at the Hutton inquiry, and it hasn't been particularly good news for the government there. Which is the truth, Mr. Hoon? This is what Geoff Hoon says and what Campbell's diaries say. And as you can imagine, it is quite different.

COSTELLO: Yes, you know...

ANDERSON: Moving on to "La Liberasion (ph)" -- sorry.

COSTELLO: No, no, I was just going to question you about the inquiry and how long it's going to go on because...

ANDERSON: Right.

COSTELLO: ... you know once Tony Blair appeared, Americans I guess sort of lost interest in it.

ANDERSON: That's right. It will finish on Thursday and a report will come out at some point after that. And do remember this is just an inquiry into the events surrounding Dr. David Kelly's death. He was the source of a BBC story, which suggested that the government had sexed up a dossier on Iraq. But more than that, when this report by Hutton is actually published, there will be many more people talking about the idea of whether Britain actually sexed up those documents in order to justify going to war. So the parameters of this inquiry are actually quite close, but the surroundings of those parameters will actually be perhaps the more interesting side of the story.

COSTELLO: Understand. OK, carry on.

ANDERSON: The other story out there today -- OK. The other story out there today, of course, is the story that you've been carrying in your headline, events at the U.N. later today. And this is "La Liberasion" from France, and it describes the debate on Iraq at the U.N. today as a return match between Chirac and U.S. President George Bush. And an editorial in the paper noting that Mr. Chirac has, as the "La Liberasion" puts, and don't forget this is a French paper, provoked the White House by calling for an early return to Iraqi sovereignty. That the headline in "La Liberasion" today.

The other story out there today is a story of the Royal Family in the U.K. It's Prince Harry. He's arriving in Australia today to start a two-year gap year. I'm not sure if you call them gap years in the States. But these are years before you go on to university or indeed, as Prince Harry will do, into the services, into the Army. And a suggestion that the security surrounding Prince Harry's two-year gap year will cost some $600,000 and Australians are complaining that's way too much money. And they are going to have to foot the bill so far as their taxes are concerned. Can you imagine it? Doesn't stop the food tally (ph), really, does it?

COSTELLO: Well what's he doing there? I know he's going to be a jackaroo. He's just going to work on a ranch for two years?

ANDERSON: Well they say he's going to backpack around. But I mean the idea of backpacking around Australia when I was doing it at least was you and a couple of mates and you were staying in sort of B&Bs and hostels and things. I just can't see Prince Harry doing that somehow.

COSTELLO: I can't either.

ANDERSON: It's going to be a very different gap year from that which I did.

COSTELLO: That's true, but you can say you were a jackaroo, which means something, we don't know what.

Becky Anderson reporting live from London for us this morning.

ANDERSON: All right.

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