29/06/2016 BBC Wales Today

Tonight's headlines: A major rescue operation in the Brecon Beacons

after more than 20 school children went missing.

Emergency services and mountain rescue teams battled poor weather

And the First Minister says there should be a Labour leadership

contest, following the no confidence vote in Jeremy Corbyn.

A major operation has been underway in the Brecon Beacons after a group

Mountain rescue teams, emergency services and the Coastguard's rescue

helicopter were deployed, to find a group of 26 teenagers

who were doing their Duke of Edinburgh Award.

The 15-year-olds from London got lost in the poor weather

near Abercrave around lunchtime, but have since been rescued.

Extremely poor weather conditions across the Brecon Beacons

today triggered an emergency rescue operation after a large group of

schoolchildren from London raised the alarm.

The 26 teenagers from St Albans School in North London were doing

a Duke of Edinburgh Silver Award when it's understood two of them

became very ill whilst walking through low cloud

and heavy rain in a remote part of the mountains near Abercraf.

From this car park along the A4067 in Glyn Tawe

three mountain rescue teams and the emergency services

We used the rescue 189 helicopter came in and helped take

All of the groups have been located and

all of them are currently either off or being walked off the hill.

Rescuers then carried the children's equipment down off the mountain

before they were walked to nearby Ystradgynlais where they were

treated at a local hospital, having spent many hours exposed

They did as they were trained and they were told to

put their bothy bags up so they fed themselves and watered themselves

put warm kit on and as soon as they were ready

mountain rescue were happy that everything was OK

they were walked down by the safest, quickest way of the mountain.

All 26 children have since been checked over by the medical staff

here at the Community Hospital here in Ystradgynlais.

We understand that none of the children have been

They will spend the night at local accommodation before

The First Minister says Labour has no hope of winning a general

election if the in-fighting continues within the party.

Carwyn Jones was speaking after an overwhelming vote of no

confidence in Jeremy Corbyn by his own Labour MPs.

Mr Corbyn says quitting would betray the members that backed him

With the party in chaos, how is it playing out in Wales?

Here's Political Editor Nick Servini.

Is anyone listening to Jeremy Corbyn? This was the Labour leader

in Cardiff in the referendum campaign, and it is his role in that

that is at the centre of the crisis in the party. It is not exactly 180,

but it was 172 of his own MPs who refuse to back him in a secret

ballot. That was among MPs in Westminster but what about places

like this? Labour club in Port Talbot? I spoke to two Labour

councillors, one who wants Jeremy Corbyn to go, and one who wants him

to stay. Regrettably I think he should step down. Because he has

lost authority? I think so, yes, amongst his MPs. I am fearful that

any event or a subsequent general election when it takes place at the

core Labour vote will not come out in force. Surely there is something

missing here between the membership and the MPs. The vast majority of

the membership once Jeremy. Local councillors pride themselves with

being in touch with their party members but no one really knows what

would happen if there was another leadership contest. MPs believe much

of the support that previously existed for Jeremy Corbyn is on the

wane because the referendum was a game changer. Corbin loyalists say

that Brexit has caused upheaval everywhere and the last thing

neighbour needs to do is to throw things up in the air. -- Labour

needs to do. The First Minister has refused to criticise Jeremy Corbyn

but he has said that if he lost that level of support among his own am is

he would find it difficult to continue and he had this level of

assessment about the party prospects. The party is deeply

divided. We have no hope of winning if it continues like this. There

needs to be a resolution and that of course means a leadership contest.

At the start of the week eight of Labour's shadow team had resigned.

Three more have now followed, leaving one Welsh MP, Jo Stephens.

Chris Bryant, Nia Griffith and Owen Smith are among the more

prominent, with the shadow Welsh secretary role still vacant,

despite being offered to four MPs, all of whom declined.

Jeremy Corbyn supporters in Wales have warned that there could be

consequences for the MPs who have gone against him. I think that we

really do need to look at a more robust structure of accountability

for our MPs, including mandatory reselection. I think for those MPs

who have been consistently disloyal to the leadership then I think that

is what political parties need to be considering. The driver may all be

happening in Westminster at the moment but it looks increasingly

likely that it will be resolved by voters in heart lit areas around the

country. -- Hartland areas around the country.

The MP for Preseli Pembrokeshire, Stephen Crabb, has launched his

campaign to become the next Prime Minister.

The Work and Pensions Secretary dismissed claims he's too

inexperienced to replace David Cameron as Conservative leader

and said his background in negotiating further power

for Wales puts him in a good position to take Britain out

we did establish a cross-party agreement in the end. We got there.

We managed to blend all the different viewpoints, from the Welsh

nationalists to the Conservatives who were completely opposed to

devolution. I managed to do that, I brought together the people around

the table and we got a coherent position and we are taking forward a

bill to implement that. An inquest jury has concluded that

inadequate procedures and staff shortages probably contributed

to the death of a pensioner 88-year-old Gwilym Lumley died

after an incident with a fellow patient at the Heddfan unit in

Wrexham in 2014. His family were fighting to get him

transferred to a residential home 115 jobs are under threat

at a chemical plant in Barry. The Dow Corning factory

employs 630 people. The company says the decision has

nothing to do with the UK leaving Police were justified

in using a patrol car to kill a dog That's according to a review

for the North Wales force. The foxhound was deliberately run

over near Conwy in February after officers couldn't

bring it under control. The review says no action should be

taken against officers, but patrol vehicles should carry

slip leads and nets in future. To France and the Euros now,

and Friday's match against Belgium will be the biggest game since 1958,

that's What Gareth Bale thinks. Belgium are the favourites

but will be wary of the Wales team, as Bale and his team mates beat them

in qualification To know we can be the big teams give

you do a bit more confidence for the team and you know you can go to the

next level. Since beating Belgium we have gone up to another level and we

have taken our game on. Obviously we have played more games in our system

and jailing even more, it makes you even better as well.

A slight improvement in the weather tomorrow. Dry and bright start with

patchy rain by the time we get into the afternoon. Tonight we have quite

a bit of cloud around and some clear skies and where the skies do clear

there will be mist and fog patches with the isolated shower and lows of

around 9 degrees. Tomorrow high pressure is trying to build from the

south but a weather front is cheeky git from the West and bringing

patchy rain by the time we get to the afternoon. First thing tomorrow

morning for the rush hour it is a dry and bright start with a few

isolated showers. The winds pick up as we head into the afternoon and

patchy rain arrives as well. For the rest of the British Isles the

further east you are it is dry and brighter with brisk south-westerly

winds and share was further west with highs of 15 to about 20

degrees. Patchy rain continues in Wales with brightness in between and

brisk winds taking the edge of the temperatures, with highs of 15 to

18. The rain will continue into tomorrow night but the wind will

push the rain through pretty quickly and overnight it turns lighter and

the temperatures remain in double figures thanks to the breeze at its

lowest around 12 degrees. Friday is a day of sunshine and showers and

Saturday is the best day of the weekend with fewer showers, more

persistent rain to come by the time we get to Sunday.

From all of us on the programme, good night.