Enda Brady: UK correspondent on King Charles paying tribute to the Pope

King Charles has spoken out after the death of Pope Francis - and says he touched the lives of so many through his care for both people and the planet. 

The monarch says he sends his most heartfelt condolences to the Church Francis served with such resolve, and to the countless people around the world who, inspired by his life, will be mourning his loss. 

UK correspondent Enda Brady says the pair got to have one last meeting before the Pope passed.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Brady is a UK correspondent this evening. Hey, hey, Heather,
speak again. And it's really not that long ago that
King Charles saw the Pope for the last time, was it, Yeah,
less than two weeks So his words today even more
poignant because you know, we were initially told that the
King would not be visiting the Pope when he was

(00:20):
in Italy on that state visit a fortnight ago. And
then Charles reached out privately and the invitation came, and
the feeling amongst Vatican officials was that Francis was well
enough and up for it, and they met privately, and
Charles brought him a gift and they spent some time together,
and obviously it was a very significant meeting because you
got the global head of the Roman Catholic Church meeting

(00:43):
the head of the Church of England, defender of the
faith as Charles now is, and they had a wonderful
time together. And Charles just saying that he learned the
news yesterday with a heavy heart. So I guess he
looks back on that meeting two weeks ago and probably
just thinks, I'm really glad I went. Yeah, hey, listen,
I'm on this business with the stand guns for the prisons.

(01:03):
What are the chances that these get issued? I would
say in the short term slim, but in the long
term it probably will happen. This oil has come about
as a result of an incident involving one prisoner last week,
very high profile guy. His brother was the Manchester bomber
who killed loads of young people at that concert a

(01:24):
few years back. This guy is called Hashim a baby.
He's in prison and he had boiling oil which he
threw on prison officers and then proceeded to stab people
with a knife that he had fashioned. That of plastic
disgusting behavior and a lot of people just asking the question,
why isn't this guy in solitary confinement? How has he

(01:45):
got access to boiling oil? A lot of very very
angry and rightly so prison officers. So the Prison Officers'
Association has come out today and said it immediately once
stun guns issued to all officers as it's in UK
prisons right now, you get an extendable baton and synthetic
pepper spray to defend yourself against some of the most

(02:07):
violent men in Europe. Yeah, it's a fair argument that
you just made now on this big Ukraine meeting in
London tomorrow. What are we expecting. Well, the hope is
for something that will convince Putin and Trump to push
forward with a thirty day seasfire plan that can actually
bring the fighting to a stop. What Starmer is trying

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to do is to make Europe look organized. So, following
on from the meeting in Paris last week, which we're
told was very constructive, Zelenski will be in town tomorrow.
We know Starmer is with your Prime Minister today and
tomorrow as well, so we will have the UK, Ukraine, France,
the United States. Marco Rubio is coming to town as well.

(02:48):
So this is a big, big day tomorrow for Ukraine
and it's badly needed. I mean I've just got off
a tube this morning in London and every morning I
share the same tube carried with the same young Ukrainian
guys heading off to work on building sites and what
have you. I mean, you look at the impact on
people's lives. A cease fire is badly, badly, badly needed. Yeah, Inda,

(03:10):
thank you so much, appreciate it made this into Brady,
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