Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Gavin Grey: UK/ Europe Correspondent on the Pope Francis being dismissed from hopsital

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Gavin Grey: UK/ Europe Correspondent on the Pope Francis being dismissed from hopsital · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: He had a grave from the UK goot morning to
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  Speaker 1: hear hither Andrew great use. Pope Francis as out of
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  Speaker 1: hospital but needs two months off.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the eighty eight year old has been discharged. He
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  Speaker 2: was pictured and offered a blessing the window or on
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  Speaker 2: a very small sort of balcony at the Gamelli hospital
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  Speaker 2: in Rome where he's being treated. He was admitted there
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  Speaker 2: on the fourteenth of a long stage, some five weeks
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  Speaker 2: there and during that time we now know he had
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  Speaker 2: what's been described as two very critical episodes where according
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  Speaker 2: to doctors, his life was in danger, though we now
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  Speaker 2: understand he was never actually intubated that's the tube into
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  Speaker 2: the throat, but always remained alert and orientated. But nevertheless,
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  Speaker 2: I think this shows just how poorly the Pope has
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  Speaker 2: been And yeah, this couple of months off, the doctors
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  Speaker 2: are basically ordering because he he still sounded pretty pretty poor.
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  Speaker 2: Earlier this month there was an audio recording and his
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  Speaker 2: voice there was really pretty restless. So needs a lot
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  Speaker 2: of rest and recuperation. And there will be plenty around
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  Speaker 2: the world celebrating his release from hospital today.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, good luck with that. Though. Pope Francis
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  Speaker 1: is a man married to his job and he wants
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  Speaker 1: to work, but he should take two months off for
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  Speaker 1: his own health. Now every Uber driver in the UK
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  Speaker 1: will now be eligible for twenty hours of free child kit.
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  Speaker 2: Why well, it's meant to try and encourage and recruit
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  Speaker 2: more staff, particularly more female drivers. Now Here in the UK,
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  Speaker 2: childcare is incredibly expensive. In fact, it's so expensive that
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  Speaker 2: many mothers actually don't return to the workforce because they
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  Speaker 2: think they'll be worse off because the cost of childcare
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  Speaker 2: outweighs their net earnings for the job they're doing. And
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  Speaker 2: so this is an attempt by Uber to try and
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  Speaker 2: get more women in. And what they're saying is they
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  Speaker 2: will allow people to use an app which means they
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  Speaker 2: can book nannying and baby sitting. Now, twenty hours of
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  Speaker 2: free childcare doesn't sound like a lot, and I suppose
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  Speaker 2: it isn't, but it is something that they believe really
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  Speaker 2: will help steend. The tie up caught quite a few
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  Speaker 2: webs in and around London and it is always men,
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  Speaker 2: so Uber trying to attract more women drivers. There are
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  Speaker 2: one hundred thousand Uber drivers in the UK and their
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  Speaker 2: unions or at least a union which represents some of
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  Speaker 2: those drivers said this is really a cynical pr stunt.
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  Speaker 2: They said they should pay the drivers more, not fiddle
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  Speaker 2: around the edges with incentives like this, and say, according
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  Speaker 2: to some anyway, that their wages have fallen in the
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  Speaker 2: year despite prices being increased for customers. So yeah, the
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  Speaker 2: union really playing this down Uber saying it's a great scheme,
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  Speaker 2: and certainly one or two of the drivers that they
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  Speaker 2: put forward to speak of saying, yeah, it is going
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  Speaker 2: to make life much easier.
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  Speaker 1: Good stuff, Goan and I thank you for more. From
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  Speaker 1: earlier edition with Ryan Bridge.
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