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an attack by IS killed an elderly priest. What can a democratic state | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
actually do in this situation? Join me on | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Our top stories: Years of policies to help vulnerable people out | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
of poverty - so how come so many are still struggling? | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
Wales at the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
Tonight, why we won't be hosting it any time soon. | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
And lessons in chemotherapy - why patients are being encouraged | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
We've had years of policies to try to get people out | :00:23. | :00:47. | |
So how come so many people are still struggling? | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
Tonight, calls for the Welsh Government to be given | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
A report from the Bevan Foundation says current policies aren't | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
working, as nearly a quarter of the population are struggling | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
to make ends meet, a figure which hasn't gone down in a decade. | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
Here's our economics correspondent Sarah Dickins. | :01:07. | :01:16. | |
Looking for bargains. That's what so many households across Wales have to | :01:17. | :01:24. | |
do every week. Everything a pound a bag today. Outside of London, Wales | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
has the highest proportion of working age people living in | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
poverty, despite having lower unemployment than the UK as a whole. | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
In Wales, nearly one in three children live in poverty, as do one | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
in four working age adults, and around one in six pensioners. For 16 | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
years, the level of pensioners living in poverty fell, look for the | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
last three years, it has risen again. | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
People have lived off their savings. They always saved for a rainy day. | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
The rainy day came faster than they thought. | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
There has been a real shift from people being in poverty who are out | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
of work to in work poverty. In E.ON, Emma Turner is studying at | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
university and working all the hours she can to bring up her children. | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
The Department for Work and Pensions says a single parent with two | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
children needs to have ?291 a week after paying for household bills to | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
be above the poverty level. Emma has three children. | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
Minimum wage job, 40 hours a week, you're not even earning ?300 a week. | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
If you have rents to pay, the average house price rental around | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
here is about 500- ?600 per month for a three-bedroom house. Ever | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
since devolution, successive Welsh governments have made combating | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
poverty a priority, and many millions of pounds have been spent | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
on a range of schemes on, from free school breakfasts to attempt to get | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
unemployed young people into work. And of course, initiatives to | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
attract more investment and jobs into Wales. These figures suggest | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
that poverty really has not changed overall those years. The Bevan | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
Foundation is proposing one new radical approach, devolving | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
benefits. Such new ideas may gain momentum. | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
Housing benefit, we think, could make a huge difference. There is ?1 | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
billion coming into Wales and going straight into landlords' pockets. If | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
that money was used differently and better, we could be building more | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
houses and people could have more affordable, secure homes. | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
The Welsh government says is working hard to create jobs and improve | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
skills, but when Wales is enjoying its biggest increase in jobs but | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
still has this level of poverty, it suggests that this is about more | :03:44. | :03:44. | |
than getting people into work. 115 people who work | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
at Dow Corning Chemical plant in the Vale of Glamorgan have been | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
told they're losing their jobs. Workers were told last month that | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
some jobs at the Barry based factory Around 630 people currently | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
work at the plant. The MP for Aberavon, | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
Stephen Kinnock, has denied concealing details | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
about his daughter's private education when seeking selection | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
for the safe Labour seat. His eldest daughter Johanna | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
attended Atlantic College, near Llantwit Major, | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
in the Vale of Glamorgan He said her study was partly funded | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
by a standard Danish The death of a man from Bronygarth | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
near Oswestry who fell from a cliff while trekking in Peru has been | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
recorded as accidental by a coroner. Harry Greaves' body was found two | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
weeks after he was reported It's one of the biggest sports | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
events in the world, but the 2026 Commonwealth Games | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
will not be staged here. The Welsh Government has announced | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
that an all-Wales bid for the event will not go ahead due in part | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
to financial uncertainty following the Brexit vote. | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
Teleri Glyn Jones reports. Glasgow 2014, a record 36 Welsh | :04:49. | :05:05. | |
medals in what many say was the most successful staging of the | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
Commonwealth Games. But it is likely to be the closest Welsh athletes get | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
to a home games for sometime, with estimates suggesting the cost of an | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
all Wales bid for the 2026 games at up to ?1.54 billion. The Welsh | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
government has decided it is not feasible. Ideally, we would have | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
loved to be able to bid for the games, but in the current | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
circumstances, leaving Europe, and with ongoing austerity, the cost to | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
Wales was judged to be too great. An official report into Glasgow's | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
staging of the games to two-year great years ago and that it was | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
worth ?740 million to the Scottish economy, with the city itself | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
gaining close to 390 million. Across the world, around 690,000 people are | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
estimated to have visited Glasgow during the games. With cross-party | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
support Brigade, today's announcement has been met with | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
disappointment. What they have done is damage Wales' future in terms of | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
economic develop them, in my opinion, about getting is on the | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
world stage. It costs a lot of money to host these games, but you also | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
earn a lot of money, directly and indirectly, and you can buy | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
advertising like posting the Commonwealth Games. | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
The Welsh government's preferred it would have seen events staged right | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
across Wales, with, for example, bowls in wonder drug Wells, and | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
table tennis in Wrexham. However, with increased costs and greater | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
logistical challenges, it is believed it would not have gained | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
support among Commonwealth boating nations. The chair of the committee | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
leading the dead safe investment is needed. If we had those world-class | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
sporting facilities, like a number of people who have hosted games | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
before us, we would not be in this position. A lot of the cast is to | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
actually develop that, develop a huge cultural programme which would | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
develop every child and adult across Wales. With one football's biggest | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
event, the Champions League Final, being staged at the principal at the | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
Stadium next year, Wales is still on the map and tins of high-profile | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
sporting events. The Welsh government says it is ordering a | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
review into sporting facilities here to make sure it can bring other | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
big-ticket events here in future. Future nuclear power projects | :07:09. | :07:09. | |
in Wales need to show value That's the call from MPs | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
who sit on Westminster's A report published by them today | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
looks at the potential of developing new nuclear power stations at Wylfa | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
and Trawsfynydd in North Wales. Nuclear power is going to be... Is | :07:20. | :07:32. | |
already very important in North Wales. It is providing jobs at the | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
moment, not least in the decommissioning that is going on. It | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
could be used to provide even more highly skilled jobs, especially if | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
we go to continuous decommissioning, which is something our committee | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
would like, but also, in the future, we have the capacity to provide | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
thousands of well-paid jobs, firstly in the construction of the plant, | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
and secondly in the running and maintenance of it. | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
A new council-funded hydroelectric scheme has officially opened | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
At a cost of nearly ?4 million, the Radyr Weir hydro project | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
is expected to generate enough energy to power 550 homes. | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
The electricity will be sold to the National Grid. | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
The profits will help the council offset its annual | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
Cancer patients at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Denbighshire | :08:13. | :08:20. | |
are being offered question and answer sessions | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
The six-month trial is a joint venture by the North Wales health | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
Its aim is to reduce the anxiety some people feel before | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
starting their treatment. Matthew Richards reports. | :08:34. | :08:46. | |
Chris Dunning from Flintshire has just completed the second of three | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
chemotherapy sessions for cancer of the oesophagus. Having previously | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
attended a session with medical and support staff who told them what to | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
expect, he is speaking to patients about to undergo their own | :09:00. | :09:00. | |
treatment. You know what you're going to expect | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
when you come in here. It is actually not a horrible place, it is | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
quite a pleasant environment to sit while they give you an infusion with | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
the different drugs, and so as a consequence, I knew where I was | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
coming, what I was going to be doing, and what it might look like | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
for me, rather than this worry that I was kind of building up in my head | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
before that. Classes explain what chemotherapy | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
is, how it could affect people, and what steps they can take to stay as | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
healthy as possible during treatment. | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
Hospitals can be bewildering places at the best of times, which is why | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
there is a list of signs showing you where to go. Now, the hospital and | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
ten of us have teamed up to create a road map to guide people through the | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
cancer treatment. Patients and their families are able to ask about | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
anything that concerns them before chemotherapy begins. | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
One of the main questions was, will I lose my hair? My age, I am very | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
pleased with my bonnet. I was told I probably would not lose my hair, but | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
the hair would get thinner. I feel like a fraud, because I have | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
not had any symptoms or anything. And now, they are going to make me | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
unhealthy to make me look healthier, and that's just... I can't get my | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
head around that happening. But the advice and support extends | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
beyond the merely medical. We do our best to enable them to | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
have more information, to be more confident going home, having had | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
their first chemotherapy. We would like them to be able to seek help | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
and ask for attention, and advice, as they need to. | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
We are here to help people with any financial problems that they have. | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
They can join our choirs, they can speak to a nurse on our support | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
line, and we also have a cancer call-back service that we can speak | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
to patients regularly to see how they are doing throughout their | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
treatment. The six-month trial is halfway | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
through, and the vast majority of participants have found it useful. A | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
cancer diagnosis can be a journey into the unknown, but the classes | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
should help to eliminate at least part of it. | :11:01. | :11:01. | |
Seven Welsh Paralympians have been added to Team GB's track and field | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
They'll be joining discus and shotput athlete Aled Sion Davies | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
and javelin thrower Holly Arnold, who had already been included. | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
Cricket, and in the Royal London One Day at Chelmsford, | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
Glamorgan scored 324-8 from their 50 overs. | :11:15. | :11:16. | |
Their opponents - Essex - had reached 24 for no | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
Both sides could still qualify for the quarterfinals. | :11:22. | :11:33. | |
Let's see what the weather has in store. | :11:34. | :11:35. | |
This time last week, it was hot and humid. But this week, our weather is | :11:36. | :11:44. | |
coming from the Atlantic, so it is much cooler. There is more rain on | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
the way, followed by dry and brighter weather tomorrow afternoon. | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
In the meantime, some places are dry at the moment, but rain will spread | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
across the whole country after midnight, some heavy bursts of rain | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
and a mild, muggy night. Lowest temperatures, 14-16. A dull and damp | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
start tomorrow morning. Light rain, drizzle, mist and low cloud, but it | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
should dry up in the North data in the morning. Across the rest of the | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
UK, some light rain and drizzle in the South will gradually clear. One | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
or two sharp showers, perhaps the odd rumble of thunder in the south | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
tomorrow afternoon. Further north, dry Aaron brighter, some sunshine, | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
and if you showers for the North of Scotland. Top temperatures, 22 | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
Celsius in London. In Wales tomorrow afternoon, and improving story. Most | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
places become dry and brighter, with a little sunshine and cloud | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
breaking. The visibility will also improve. I is temperatures, up to | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
22, cooler in the north and on the West Coast. Dry for most of us | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
tomorrow evening. The odd shower in the south, and later in the night, | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
the next batch of rain will cross the Irish Sea, and on Thursday, we | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
will all season rain. It should stage I and brighter in the | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
afternoon, breezy on the Bristol Channel coast, a fuse showers in the | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
north. Friday, a better day. One or two showers here and there, | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
otherwise dry, some sunshine, and feeling fresher. The weekend, sunny | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
spells and a few showers. Temperatures not that high over the | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
weekend. Cool at night, pleasantly warm when the sun is out. I will see | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
you soon. More on all of our stories on our | :13:25. | :13:25. | |
website. That's Wales Today. | :13:26. | :13:27. | |
Thank you for watching. From all of us on the | :13:28. | :13:29. | |
programme, goodnight. | :13:30. | :13:33. |