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CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK

Euro Edition: Morning Papers

Aired November 14, 2003 - 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: Time now, though, to check on what's making headlines overseas in this morning's 'Euro Edition.' Becky Anderson live for us in London.
And I bet President Bush is on the front pages again over there.

BECKY ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: He's all over the front pages, particularly of the U.K. press. Conciliatory words from President Bush ahead of his visit to the U.K., which, of course, starts on Tuesday next week. He says he won't be phased by protests.

He is conducting interviews and making friends with U.K. journalists. And he has done an interview -- an interview with "The Daily Telegraph." He says we are at war for freedom. And one of the things that he says today is that the last choice on any American president's mind, of course, was to go to war. He says he did not expect everyone to agree with him and he understood the dislike of war.

But interestingly enough, as I say, he is sort of making friends with journalists ahead of the visit here. And there's been some quite interesting words that came out in some of these interviews. For example, with "The Daily Telegraph" he asked towards the end of the interview, do you pump iron to the interviewer. We didn't get the answer from "The Daily Telegraph" interviewer.

COSTELLO: What?

ANDERSON: Interesting stuff. This is sort of -- this sort of engaging charm that President Bush apparently does have.

COSTELLO: Some male bonding going on, how nice.

ANDERSON: A couple of the other things he says.

Yes, a bit of male bonding going on, exactly.

He is visiting the constituency of Tony Blair, which is in the north of England. It's a constituency called Sedgefield. And he said my jotty (ph) is probably not -- is probably just about as good as my English, in a now characteristic self-deprecating play on his critic's charge that he is a mangler of syntax. And he also says I never dreamed when I was living in Midland, Texas that I would be staying in Buckingham Palace. He says I've got my tails set and I am ready to go. He said he had to rent them, and that's of course alluding to the fact you have to wear black tie and tails on your suit when you visit Buckingham Palace. COSTELLO: Well, Becky, one second, because I'm interested...

ANDERSON: Some fairly interesting words from...

COSTELLO: ... I'm interested -- I know you can't speak for all Britains, but how do people in general feel about President Bush?

ANDERSON: Yes, about President Bush, difficult to say, really. I mean about President Bush's visit to the U.K. there is a significant amount of not bad feeling, necessarily, but need to protest. And we'll see this over the coming days. Of course the visit starts on Tuesday evening next week, and the Bush's expected to stay at Buckingham Palace for two days.

There's a certain sense of well what will be, will be. Not a lot of people here really enjoying the relationship that Tony Blair had with President Bush during the war. And as we've said many times on this show, 67 percent disapproval rating with many U.K. citizens, really mistrusting Tony Blair at present. So there's a certain sort of sense of disregard for President Bush in the U.K. But we'll find out more, of course, when this visit starts on Tuesday next week.

Let me just bring you one more story in the papers today. We've got Anglo-French relations very much coming to a head there at speed of pitch at present. I'm not talking about politics. I'm talking about the big match, the big rugby match this weekend. It's the semi- finals of the World Cup Rugby. That's in Australia and it's happened to be a semi-final which pits England's rugby team up against the French.

And head of that, the French have had some photos taken of the big boys in their team. They are called the front row. And some pictures of these guys who are pretty tough, but in sort of classic French style. They have written some charming little references for themselves on the back of these pictures. Pretentious, me, they say, how French players see themselves. And just let me read you one, and he says I look like a small child who is sulking but one also does not enter into the realms of aesthetics he says. Insufferable pretentiousness or perceptive (UNINTELLIGIBLE) I think.

COSTELLO: Well, I could just hear many in our American audience, you know, muttering what they really feel about French men, but we won't get in to that.

ANDERSON: Yes. OK, we probably shouldn't even (UNINTELLIGIBLE).

COSTELLO: Thank you. Becky Anderson live from London. Yes.

ANDERSON: OK, Carol.

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