10/07/2016 BBC Wales Today

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Potential Labour leadership challenger, Owen Smith,

has claimed Jeremy Corbyn and his allies are prepared

to see the party split.

The Pontypridd MP has asked to meet with the Labour leader,

to try to heal divisions, as our Political Correspondent,

Arwyn Jones reports.

His visits to Wales may have been fairly few and far between.

One of the rare exceptions was this visit to Swansea

University last year.

During May's Assembly elections, First Minister

and leader of Labour in Wales, Carwyn Jones, kept Jeremy Corbyn at

arms length, suggesting he didn't think the UK Labour leader was much

of an electoral asset.

Now, with challenges to his leadership again

making the headlines, senior Welsh MPs have been calling

on the UK Labour leader to resign.

Here's a fear of a snap general election and

a worry that voters in the party's heartlands, trying to make ends

meet, just aren't listening to Jeremy Corbyn.

My real fear is that they won't see Jeremy as the leader

that can really deliver that for them and that they would not

therefore then vote Labour and I think we could have a catastrophic

election result.

Would it be fair to say that Jeremy Corbyn then could

be the Labour leader that lost the Valleys?

Well, he certainly could do that.

I think we've already seen a huge haemorrhaging of support for

him in some of our heartland areas.

There's a very different tone when you're on the doorstep in many of

our valleys and our heartland Labour areas than perhaps some of the more

middle-class areas of Cardiff.

This morning a challenge has been made to

Jeremy Corbyn's leadership by a former member of his front bench

team.

But there are still questions about what the Pontypridd MP,

another frontbencher, Owen Smith, might do.

This morning he took to social media to say he'd asked Mr Corbyn if

he'd be willing to see the party split but said he wasn't given an

answer.

Mr Smith insisted he wasn't willing to see a split within the party.

I've no idea why Owen should say such a thing.

I had a quite interesting almost philosophical

political discussion with Owen a week ago.

But he didn't say that?

Absolutely not.

I'm slightly surprised he would go out and say

that.

In the event of a leadership contest some say Mr Corbyn needs the

support of MPs to enter the contest.

Allies insist he should get on the ballot automatically.

As the existing leader of the Labour Party

he should automatically be on the list.

Now if it takes a court to

make that decision that's where unfortunately you'll have to go.

It could lead to a split in the party

as Len McCluskey said yesterday very clearly.

Do you think it could lead to a split in the party?

Well, it would be a real shame.

I mean, I personally think that now is the

time to come together.

It's less than a year since Jeremy Corbyn was

elected leader of the Labour Party but when the Conservatives go about

choosing their next leader, for Labour the battle ahead could well

lead to the party splitting in two.

The UK government has rejected proposals that could have meant

the Ministry of Defence facing prosecution over deaths

during hazardous training exercises.

Reservists Craig Roberts, from Penrhyn Bay, Edward Mayer

and James Dunsby died as a result of neglect,

while on an SAS exercise in the Brecon Beacons.

The Defence Select Committee had called to scrap the current military

exemption to prosecution, over such tragedies.

Plaid Cymru politicians say Tony Blair should appear before MPs,

and possibly face sanctions, in the wake of last week's Chilcot

report into the Iraq war.

They're calling for the former Prime Minister to be held

to account, as Nicola Smith reports.

It was a war that claimed the lives of 14

young men from Wales.

But the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was

launched, according to the Chilcot report, on the basis

of flawed intelligence.

We have concluded that the UK chose to join

the invasion of Iraq before the peaceful options

for disarmament had been exhausted.

Military action at that time was not a last resort.

The report was highly critical of Tony

Blair's conduct while making the case for the invasion.

At the time, in the spring of 2003, Plaid Cymru

Assembly member, Adam Price, who was then an MP, led the charge of

impeaching Mr Blair.

That's a process where Parliament can

prosecute and try individuals who are normally holders of public

office.

Mr Price has now renewed those claims and he's not the only

one from Plaid Cymru who thinks that action needs to be taken.

The evidence in the Chilcot report is

quite damning and we want MPs to have the opportunity to debate what

sort of sanctions we should take against Mr Blair and hopefully to

bring him before the bar of the house so that he can hear the

verdict.

Possibly also be stripped of some of his titles, some sort of

symbolic punishment for him for what he did.

The calls come as a cross-party group of senior MPs plan

to table a Commons motion on Thursday to declare the former Prime

Minister in contempt for misleading the House.

Tony Blair said last week that he made mistakes in the run-up

to the invasion but insisted that British servicemen killed in Iraq

had not died in vain.

The Chief Executive of the Football Association

of Wales, Jonathan Ford, says he thinks Wales' manager,

Chris Coleman, WILL see out his contract until 2018.

But that it could be difficult to keep him,

if he decides he wants to move to a club side.

Coleman has already said the 2018 World Cup campaign

will be his last as Wales boss.

A quick look at the weather and a wet start to Monday morning

but the showers should clear to leave some sunny spells

by afternoon.

Highs of 19C.

And that's Wales Today, more at the later time of 10.50pm.

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