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CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK
Euro Edition: Morning Papers
Aired September 29, 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: Now it is time to check on what's making headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition." Live to London again and Becky Anderson.
Good morning -- Becky.
BECKY ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol. Thank you very much indeed.
Right across Europe, the press doing the following story, a gust of wind, an uprooted tree and the lights go out in Italy. Fifty-seven million people losing their power. This a picture here of one of the major cities in Italy with its power out. Lots of questions now being asked as to exactly what happened and why. The sense being at present that an uprooted tree in Switzerland fell on a power line and you know it because you saw it in the States, here goes that domino effect once again and the lights go out.
COSTELLO: That sounds so familiar.
ANDERSON: They are all back on, but lots of questions being asked. How about that, Sweden, Denmark, the U.K., Italy, there are lots of conspiracy theories going on around Europe at present. It seems to have just been an uprooted tree, but who knows? Who knows?
COSTELLO: Yes, what else is making headlines?
ANDERSON: But the story making headlines.
OK, we got "The Sun" newspaper now. Now this is a Rupert Murdoch newspaper, and this is a paper that very much supported the Labor Party when it came into power in 1997 and again, of course, a couple of years ago. It's now saying this, next time it's a red. We're giving Mr. Blair, the Prime Minister, the yellow card. Don't know if you do this in football in the States, but in soccer here you get a yellow card for your first offense, you get a red card and then you get sent off the pitch.
Now what they are saying is at the beginning of the Labor Party conference this week that Tony Blair has to concentrate on a whole load of issues, and they are -- they are listed here on the yellow card. If he doesn't, they say, next time it's the red. Tony Blair not having a good time of it of late. It's been -- it's been a time of trouble, let's say, for Tony Blair.
And here's a man who is in deep water as well. This man is called Lloyd Scott. He is 41 years old and he's doing a marathon. But I don't know if you can see how he's dressed and where he is.
COSTELLO: He looks like an astronaut.
ANDERSON: He's at Loch Ness. Well you know what it -- this is a 200-year-old antique diving suit. Get it, OK. This is an underwater marathon. It's Loch Ness and it's going to take him two weeks.
COSTELLO: Why?
ANDERSON: He's doing it for cancer charities.
COSTELLO: OK.
ANDERSON: He says that if he meets Nellie (ph), he's happy that's he's probably in the best gear because he reckons he'll give the Loch Ness Monster a bit of a headache if she hits him in this antique diving suit. Apparently this weighs, in itself, about 150 pounds. But yes, that's what he's doing, he's doing a marathon underwater.
COSTELLO: You would think you wouldn't -- you wouldn't want to wear an antique diving suit. You would want to keep it and perhaps sell it for mondo (ph) dollars and then you could give that money to charity.
ANDERSON: Not a bad idea, actually. You should have told him before he started. It's been a horrible two weeks, isn't it?
COSTELLO: Thank you, Becky Anderson, live from London this morning.
ANDERSON: That's it for me.
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