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claims she's being held against her will by her | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
Now her MP calls for "immediate action" from the foreign secretary. | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
She has the right to do as she pleases and I am writing to Boris | :00:16. | :00:27. | |
Johnson, the Foreign Secretary, to ensure that our rights are protected | :00:28. | :00:37. | |
and she's brought back to Britain. where the Welsh Government set | :00:38. | :00:45. | |
an ambitious target to almost DOUBLE the number of Welsh speakers | :00:46. | :00:55. | |
to 1 million by 2050. Raise your hand and state who you | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
are. UKIP's leader in Wales faces | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
expulsion from the party because of concerns over him double | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
jobbing as an MEP and Assembly Drug addicts' needles - | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
in the middle of the town centre. Now Wrexham introduces tough | :01:06. | :01:13. | |
new powers to clamp down They're the stars | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
of real life Casualty. Tonight why nurses are taking | :01:16. | :01:23. | |
to the telly to boost their numbers. A Swansea MP has written to | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, The new targets for speakers of the | :01:32. | :01:52. | |
Welsh language have been announced tonight. Our reporter is at the | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
National Eisteddfod. Welcome to the National Eisteddfod | :01:56. | :02:08. | |
live from Abergavenny. It's been a wet day here | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
in Monmouthshire, so we've taken Its not traditionally | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
a Welsh-speaking area, but the last census did show | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
a slight rise in the numbers of people speaking | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
the language here, Well, today a new goal of reaching | :02:19. | :02:19. | |
one million Welsh speakers The Welsh government says it wants | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
the language to be a vibrant, Opponents have called | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
for action not words. With more, here's our political | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
reporter James Williams. It's one of the oldest languages in | :02:31. | :02:38. | |
Europe. A part of the cultural brew and everyday life in Wales. A living | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
language, but one in need of revitalisation. The Eisteddfod plays | :02:44. | :02:52. | |
its part. A celebration of the Welsh language for the fluid of time and | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
learner alike. Of course, many more people willing to learn Welsh, if | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
the Government is to reach its ambition of almost doubling the | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
number of Welsh speakers to 1 million by 2050, a figure not | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
reached since around the last time the Eisteddfod was in Monmouthshire | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
at the start of the last century. So today, ministers launched a fresh | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
consultation for a new language strategy. Focused on six key areas | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
including education, planning, and family life. This is a deliberately | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
ambitious target, because what we want to do is to move the | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
conversation that we have had about the Welsh language over the last few | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
years. In the past, we're been talking about the rights of Welsh | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
line which speakers, about the rights of those who use Welsh in our | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
daily lives, but what we're talking about today is the place of the | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
Welsh language in the future and the place of Welsh in our national life. | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
But the Government faces an uphill struggle. According to the last | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
census, 19% of the population said they could speak Welsh. A slight | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
fall from the decade before. The 22 council areas Wales, only two had | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
more than half the population now speaking Welsh. The lowest | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
percentage of Welsh speakers had only 7.8%. Hardly a cause for | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
celebration. But how do the people of the county feel about efforts to | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
boost the Welsh language? I would have got if there workforce people | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
speaking Welsh around this area it would encourage you to do it, but if | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
there is no one speaking if you're not going to do it yourself. I would | :04:24. | :04:32. | |
like to see it happen to be honest with you. But as I say, when we had | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
the last Eisteddfod in this area, the Welsh language took off. In | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
2013, in a different field, at a different Eisteddfod, the Welsh | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
Government launched its so-called national conversation about the | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
Welsh language. Fast forward two years and today's consultation | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
launch has drawn derision from Welsh line which campaigners. We have very | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
deep concerns that the Government have announced they are going to | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
hold another consultation and more talk, considering they helped the | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
last consultation two years ago and haven't acted upon that. Fragility, | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
crisis, turning point. It is not hard to find the words to describe | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
the Welsh language in its current situation, but campaigners say it is | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
actions, not words, that are needed. Carwyn Jones was not the only party | :05:25. | :05:26. | |
leader found on the Maes today. UKIP's leader in the assembly | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
Neil Hamilton was also following a vote of the party's | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
National Executive to expel leader in Wales Nathan | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
Gill. Mr Gill holds two jobs as both | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
an assembly member and a member He's been told he must | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
resign from one of them. I'm afraid we are only seven out of | :05:46. | :05:58. | |
the 60 members of the assembly. We can't afford part-time or half-time | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
ministers. He had a choice. You can't do too much jobs properly, so | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
he has to choose one or the other if he wants to stay as an MEP, fine. If | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
he wants to be a minister, fine. I need someone who is one of committed | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
to the assembly in Cardiff on to the interests of the people of Wales. | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
Well, our political reporter James Williams joins us now. James, what | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
is the issue here? He has been a member of the European Parliament | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
representing wealth since 2014. Since May, he has also been an | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
assembly member, representing North Wales. Before that election in May, | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
he said that if he were to be successful and win a seat, he would | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
give up his role in Brussels. But he has backtracked, saying that | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
following a vote to Louis -- leave the EU, the MEP job is a non-job by | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
now, and there are no viable UK candidates to take my place and | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
therefore it would lead to a costly by-election for the people of Wales, | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
so I don't want to do that, but there have been increasing calls | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
from within the party for him to step down from one of those rules | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
and that has reached a concerned up to date when the national executive | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
committee, that is the Rulli committee, the party's top brass, | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
voted and said that unless you step down from one of those rules, we | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
will expel you from the party. A rather extraordinary situation when | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
you at the leader in Wales being told he may be expelled from the | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
party. We have heard what Mr Hamilton has said. What does Nathan | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
Gill say? His representatives say he is extremely alarmed by this demand | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
and in the last few hours we have heard from Nathan Gill himself, who | :07:38. | :07:39. | |
has published an open letter, saying that the college both undemocratic | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
and baseless, and I will read this as well. After a decade of committed | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
service to the party, having run the campaign in Wales as the UK leader, | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
securing seven seats in the assembly, to seek to remove me from | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
the party would be extremely injurious to the reputation of you | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
get. We will find out whether his assembly members, his fellow | :08:00. | :08:07. | |
assembly members, agree with him because they're black members will | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
be meeting tomorrow and I have told this is very much on the agenda. | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
And we'll have more from the Maes later on in the programme, | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
A Swansea MP has written to the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, | :08:16. | :08:24. | |
demanding immediate action in the case of Amina Al-Jeffrey, | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
the 21-year-old woman from the city who says she's being kept | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
Miss al-Jeffrey says she's being imprisoned by her father | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
there, without food or water, allegations he denies. | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
Tonight, Geraint Davies MP says the UK Government must take action | :08:40. | :08:41. | |
He's been speaking to our reporter Ben Price. | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
This is 21-year-old Amina al-Jeffrey. She claims to have been | :08:48. | :08:56. | |
locked up against her will by her father in Saudi Arabia. Behind her, | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
the cage she says she has been kept in. The High Court in London has | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
heard evidence from Amina al-Jeffrey's lawyers and those | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
representing her father, who denies the allegations. But Swansea West MP | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
Mr Davies says he is writing to the Foreign Secretary calling for the UK | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
Government to do more to get her home. I'm asking the Foreign | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
Secretary to verify the evidence that she is being constrained | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
against her will, if that is the case, to ensure that as a | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
21-year-old British citizen, she is allowed to return back to Britain | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
and he takes all necessary steps to ensure the Saudi Government ensures | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
that. This was Amina al-Jeffrey aged 16, a former pupil at a school in | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
Swansea. It is understood she was taken to Saudi Arabia by her father | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
more than four years ago. He claims he took her here to Jeddah in order | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
to save her life. He claims her daughter was not doing well at | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
school and had been taking drugs and going to clubs and spending time | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
with older men. Last October, Amina al-Jeffrey got in touch with | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
friends, asking them to help her escape. In an interview with this | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
programme, one of those friends, who wished to remain anonymous, said she | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
had managed to get hold of her sister's phone. The French or MIDI | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
messages sent to them on Facebook. In them, she says she has been | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
locked up in solitary confinement and is clinging onto her sanity. She | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
said her family has her under constant surveillance. And that if | :10:33. | :10:34. | |
they get suspicious about seeking help, she fears she will be | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
tortured. Her friend told me she had asked them to contact the British | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
Embassy, but in December last year, the messages stopped. One expert on | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
race relations believes this case highlights the tension that can | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
arise between two very different cultural beliefs. These children | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
have every right to live in the United Kingdom, where they were | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
born, and to take them away from that situation is not going to help | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
the individual. The Foreign Office says it has been providing | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
assistance to Amina al-Jeffrey in Saudi Arabia as part of an ongoing | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
legal process and that it will respond to Mr Davies letter in due | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
course. It has been described in court as an important and difficult | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
case. Mr Justice Harman is expected to make a decision at the High Court | :11:31. | :11:32. | |
on Wednesday. An increase in reports | :11:33. | :11:33. | |
of drunkeness, fighting and drug abuse in the last year - | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
now Wrexham council has introduced new powers to combat anti-social | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
behaviour in the town. Council leaders say they hope | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
the move will encourage people with problems to seek professional | :11:46. | :11:47. | |
help, rather than There was a marketing Wrexham today. | :11:48. | :11:59. | |
It was busy enough and there was little sign of the kind of behaviour | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
which is worrying the council. Not far away, though, Bellevue Park. | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
Popular with young families, but there have been reports of problems | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
here. It is included in the area covered by the restrictions. I found | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
Barry Roberts and his friend Samantha Adams, both homeless. They | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
stay in a night shelter when they can, they told me. You had to queue | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
up every night and it get picked out of a hat and if you get picked out, | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
you have two leaves so it is not guaranteed that you will get a | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
nightmare and the rest of the time you have been sleeping in bushes and | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
stuff. What have you been told about this new public order? That people | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
are getting moved on for drinking and things like that, but we don't | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
drink. Genuinely, we don't. We do get moved on anyway. They have two | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
help homeless people because there is nowhere for anybody to go. Where | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
are we supposed to go? We can't just walk the streets and hope that | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
someone will get as somewhere to live. That is not fair. But there | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
are not, some people do feel intimidated. Especially around kids. | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
It is not good for them to see, is it? So, yeah. I am all right on my | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
own, but when the kids around, it is not nice. I think it is just the | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
fact that you know they have been drinking or taking drugs or what | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
have you and then there are a group of them so if you are walking bass | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
and you are by yourself, it would be intimidating, I think. On the other | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
side of town, again within the area affected by the new powers, there | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
was this. It was clear people were sleeping out here. And just now, | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
there is evidence of a makeshift tent, but it isn't just rough | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
sleeping on the ground. There is evidence of drug-taking as well. | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
Used syringes and syringe wrappers and we are just yards from a | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
children's play area. The council hopes to create a no-go area for | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
what it considers anti-social behaviour. In the first instance, | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
people with problems will be pointed to agencies that can help them. | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
Fines of up to ?100 and the court or a last resort. It is about enabling | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
these people to improve their quality of life so that the people | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
who go about their law-abiding business in the town centre, the | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
visitors, the shoppers, can do that without fear of being intimidated by | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
people who are under substance misuse. The services in the middle | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
of Wrexham town centre and what this order does, basically, it puts | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
people out the periphery so I wouldn't agree that this does help | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
them to access the services. I think it makes them harder for them to | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
access the services. Wrexham council insists it doesn't simply want to | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
pose problems from one area to another. And according to the | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
Daugherty, these orders have been effective elsewhere. The way it is a | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
Limited is the key. -- implemented. Aled Sion Davies in Arizona | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
training in temperatures close to 50 Celsius, | :14:50. | :14:57. | |
preparing for the Paralympics. why Wrexham's Racecourse | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
is about to enter a new chapter. nurses to meet demand | :15:01. | :15:12. | |
and nursing graduates should be offered a guaranteed job | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
for at least a year. That's according to the Royal | :15:17. | :15:19. | |
College of Nursing here. The staffing crisis is affecting | :15:20. | :15:21. | |
the NHS right across the UK, and to help tackle the issue here - | :15:22. | :15:23. | |
one Health Board has launched a social media and TV campaign | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
to attract nursing staff. Hello. My name is Alex, the staff | :15:28. | :15:43. | |
nurse looking after you today. I'm just going to take your blood | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
pressure, if that's all right. On chip Prince Charles Hospital, | :15:49. | :15:50. | |
22-year-old Alex Lewis is an ambassador for her employer. You | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
have a different patient every single day. It is very rewarding. I | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
am helping them get better. She is one of nine nurses at the University | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
Health Board who is extolling the virtues of her profession and trying | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
to attract qualified nurses to South Wales. These figures show that | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
around 23,000 vacancies for nurses in Wales, Northern Ireland, and | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
England. That equates to about 9% of the workforce, so obviously, health | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
boards everywhere are desperate to recruit. This campaign aims to | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
highlight the benefits of the south Wales valleys, not just as a good | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
place to work, but a beautiful place to live. What we are able to offer, | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
though, is something that is uniquely cultural to this particular | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
area. A true sense of family, and ability to be part of an extended | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
team, the culture of caring and compassion that is unique to this | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
organisation, and life, life in the valleys. Here, they have about 80 | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
nursing vacancies, and most health boards are finding it difficult to | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
fill posts. In Wales, we are about 3500 short. Some people would argue | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
that figure, but that 20% of those we train in Wales will go back to | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
England or go abroad. But if we were to offer them the opportunity of a | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
job for a year afterwards, they would become domiciled in Wales and | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
they would see exactly what Wales has to offer. The Welsh Government | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
say there are now more doctors, nurses, midwives working in the | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
Welsh NHS today than there were ten years ago, but with relatively low | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
pay levels, some health boards are hoping it is the lower cost of | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
living and higher quality -- quality-of-life year in Wales that | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
will attract nurses you to the valleys. | :17:38. | :17:38. | |
Tonight, sport and Derek's weather later. | :17:39. | :17:40. | |
First to Abergavenny and Kate Morgan at the National Eisteddfod. | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
Kate, a bit wet there today - it's put some visitors off. | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
He's Wales' highest profile Paralympian. | :17:47. | :17:54. | |
Aled Sion Davies is aiming to bring home gold at | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
He's among 24 Welsh athletes who'll be heading to Rio competing | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
Davies, who's one a gold and bronze medal in London, | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
told me how his life has been transformed since the Home Games. | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
All roads lead to Rio. Aled Sion Davies's preparations have taken him | :18:08. | :18:17. | |
all the way to Phoenix, Arizona. He is training in tempters approaching | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
50 Celsius. Working hard now so he has no regrets, competition town. I | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
think that Wales struggles to get the sun and because it is a summer | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
sport, in the winter months it can be quite hard. We go out there not | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
only for help but also for the facilities. They have world-class | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
facilities. Before 2012, you were not on the radar, but tell us how | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
life has changed over the past format years. I was given the | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
opportunity to go full-time. I was lucky enough to have lots of support | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
with different brands sponsorship and obviously that brought a lot of | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
pressure because everyone expects you to win everything now. I can | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
never lose. Aled Sion Davies has won the discus gold in 2012, but he | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
cannot defend his title because the event will not be held in Rio, so | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
the shot putt has been his main focus. People don't realise how | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
close it is between me and my rival. I have been training because I know | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
he will break the world record with that first round and it is how I | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
respond to that. He's going to be pushing me all the way. He almost | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
beat me in the World Championships last year so it is going to be a | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
good scrap. Let's talk about doping. Do you think any Russian athletes | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
should be taking part in Rio this summer? I like to think that if you | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
cheat and you get punished and made an example because it is not | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
acceptable and to the level that they did, they had an opportunity to | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
and they did not. He has won titles, broken world records. At just 25, | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
Aled Sion Davies says there is plenty more to come for him. I feel | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
I have only scratched the surface of what I'm capable of doing. I like to | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
think that I could do to match or maybe three games, but it all boils | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
down to help fund my enjoyment of it and whether or not I can afford it | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
because unfortunately we do not get football player's wages. Well, | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
before Aled Sion Davies competes, it is the Olympics. | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
Welsh swimmer Georgia Davies says she's come a long way | :20:12. | :20:13. | |
She admits she found the pressure of the Games "daunting." | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
The Commonwealth champion is one of four Welsh swimmers in the squad | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
and will compete in the 100m backstroke next Sunday. | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
London, for me, I was quite inexperienced on the big stage and I | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
think I let the pressure of the home games and the home crowd rather than | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
left me up and excite me, I actually found it quite daunting, whereas now | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
I feel like I have gained much more experience and I am just so excited | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
to watch out in front of a huge crowd and hopefully spot some | :20:46. | :20:46. | |
British flags waving. Wrexham Football Supporters' Trust | :20:47. | :20:47. | |
is taking back control of their historic ground - | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
The Racecourse. The Trust, which took | :20:50. | :20:51. | |
over the club in 2011, says signing the 99 year lease | :20:52. | :20:53. | |
is a significant milestone and is staging an open day for fans | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
to mark the occasion. Hi, Matthew. Welcome to the | :20:57. | :21:12. | |
racecourse. The open day is in full swing with fans getting a tour of | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
the ground and meeting the players. I spoke to the Director of the club | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
here. The university will still own this, but you will now lease it. | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
What difference will that make? We have a 99 year lease, which is | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
effective ownership for the next 100 years. What that means as we are | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
responsible for all of the running of the stadium and getting all the | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
income from the stadium, so that means we are open for business. We | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
will be putting on concerts and we have hospitality and Christmas | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
parties and anything like that, weddings, business meetings, what an | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
inspirational venue to have a business meeting, so everything that | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
you can think of the running of a football stadium, we are now | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
responsible for. We will be launching our own lager at the | :22:00. | :22:08. | |
weekend. And we have a tie-up with local companies such as the Village | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
Baker, who will be supplying all the pies, so we are all sharing pies | :22:14. | :22:23. | |
here. What could be better? What has been happening here this evening? We | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
have an open evening for fans. The players are all here and everyone is | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
just enjoying it apart from the weather. Tell us what difference it | :22:32. | :22:35. | |
will make from a supporter's point of view? There will be a lot more | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
for them. We are looking into hospitality areas where we can | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
increase revenue. And also the -- they will be able to make the | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
players a lot more easily do. Good luck with the newly reseeded pitch, | :22:51. | :22:52. | |
ready to the new season. First to Abergavenny and Kate Morgan | :22:53. | :23:01. | |
at the National Eisteddfod. Kate, a bit wet there today - | :23:02. | :23:03. | |
it's put some visitors off. Just over 14,000 people | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
came along to the Maes in Abergavenny today - | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
that's down more than But among those who made the trip | :23:11. | :23:11. | |
was a group of refugees Some have only recently | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
arrived here in Wales, and they were welcomed earlier | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
with a special reception But one charity says more needs | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
to be done to speed up the process of finding homes for those fleeing | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
war and persecution. A useful start to a day at the | :23:26. | :23:35. | |
Eisteddfod. Brushing up on their Welsh skills. Some of them seem to | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
be getting the hang of it. These refugees have come from places such | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
as the Ivory Coast, Pakistan, and Syria, and they are hoping to build | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
their future here in Wales. This woman, her husband and two children | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
left Syria three months ago. She has been given an offer to study | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
architecture at Cardiff University and hopes Wales will get her and her | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
family the security to prosper. I was in danger there. There is a lot | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
of danger because a lot of barns and I was worried for the kids to go to | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
school. So I didn't let him go to school. And when I came here, I find | :24:11. | :24:18. | |
that is my dream will be true. We'll be real year. In education for me | :24:19. | :24:26. | |
are for children. In an official reception, Carwyn Jones, the First | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
Minister, said Wales had a proud history of offering a welcome to | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
asylum seekers and refugees, and he said he was pleased to continue this | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
tradition. But according to Oxfam country, who has according today's | :24:39. | :24:48. | |
event, more needs to be done. More need to make a commitment to welcome | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
Syrian refugees. It has been slow progress but we are pleased that the | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
First Minister is showing great leadership in this matter. We would | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
really like that process to speed up and Wales should be doing more. The | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
Welsh Local Govenment Association, which represents all of Wales | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
councils, says steady progress is being made, but it is important to | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
have a suitable environment, housing, and cultural facilities in | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
place before families get here. It says it is not a process they want | :25:17. | :25:17. | |
to rush. Earlier this afternoon, | :25:18. | :25:18. | |
one of the festival's most important events took place - | :25:19. | :25:20. | |
the crowning of the bard. for who grew up in both | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
Carmarthen and Cardiff. The theme of the competition this | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
year was 'Llwybrau' - in English "Paths"- | :25:31. | :25:32. | |
she beat 32 other entries That's all from the Eisteddfod | :25:33. | :25:34. | |
here in Abergavenny tonight. We'll have more on tomorrow | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
evening's programme - but now let's go back | :25:39. | :25:40. | |
to Jamie Owen in Cardiff. It will be one tomorrow. The high of | :25:41. | :25:59. | |
20 Celsius. Today started bright, but here comes the rain, spreading | :26:00. | :26:04. | |
across much of the country this afternoon. Tomorrow, parts of south | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
Wales will have more rain than during the whole of delight. Most | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
places where this evening. We are looking at over an inch of rain in | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
parts of the South and West. Less wrinkle on the north coast and | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
late-night comedy brain will start to ease off. A milder night than | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
last night,. 13-16dC. Here's the picture them for 8pm -- 8am in the | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
morning. Not great. The North and East may be dry, but for most of | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
those, Dell and dampest sums it up. Lots of mist and hail fog. Poor | :26:36. | :26:42. | |
village -- visibility. 16 Celsius. During the day, further spots of | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
drizzle. Places to the north and east have high ground and should be | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
dry and bright with glimpses of sunshine. Western areas may improve | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
during the afternoon. 17-21dC. Peeling humid. Breezy on the south | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
and west coast. Looking ahead to Wednesday, we have low pressure near | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
Ireland, which means unsettled weather and stronger winds. Breezy | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
on Wednesday and strong and gusty winds in the north-west and feeling | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
fresher. Some dry and bright weather, some sunshine and showers | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
as well, especially in the afternoon. Thursday, less windy. | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
Some sunshine and scattered showers. Heavy in places, and if you are | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
lucky, you may stay dry. Friday will be the best day of the week. Drier | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
and more settled and more sunshine, so a better end to the week. First | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
week of August. I'll have an update for you here | :27:36. | :27:36. | |
at 8 o'clock and again From all of us on the | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
programme, good evening. Tonight, on a special holiday | :27:40. | :27:54. | |
X-Ray, | :27:55. | :27:56. |