02/07/2014 BBC Wales Today

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A teenager believed to be one of three men

from Cardiff to have joined the terrorist group ISIS in Syria tells

Do you have any regrets about leaving the UK and how far are you

willing to go to your cause? His responses, no, I can say I am

willing to die. It comes

as anti-terror police arrest The Environment Minister who

breached the Ministerial Code. The First Minister comes under

pressure in the chamber but defends Joyce Baker is one of 50,000 people

here who live with Alzheimer?s. A charity warns many are

being left without support. If I had not had people around in

those first few weeks that I could talk to, I would have felt really

alone and high and dry, to be honest.

And after Aberystwth seafront was thrashed by the winter storms,

It's sunny here on the prom this evening but building work still

A teenager who's believed to be one of three men from Cardiff to

have joined the terrorist group ISIS has told BBC Wales he's

Aseel Muthana left home earlier this year to join his brother in Syria.

It comes as police investigate a possible link between the men

and an 18-year-old arrested in Cardiff under the terrorism act.

The interviewer for tonight's week in week programme from an online web

chat we believe to be with Aseel Muthana. We have asked him why he

left the UK and joint ISIS and does he plan to return home? He says, I

believe Jihad is obligatory and I never planned to return to the UK.

Do you have any regrets about leaving the UK and how far are you

willing to go for your cause? His response, no, I can say I am willing

to die. Aseel Muthana is not the only Cardiff man in Syria. His

brother Nasser Muthana and his friend left Cardiff last November

and appeared in a video recently promoting ISIS propaganda. The

programme discovered that despite using aliases and avoiding personal

details about their home life, they also appear to have been using

social media in which they described brutal killings by ISIS. A friend of

the family says they will be devastated by these latest

revelations. As soon as she sees that, she will be even more shocked

and hurt by it and it is going to be heartbreaking to accept and believe

that her own son has been influenced in that direction. ISIS is banned in

the UK and it is illegal for British citizens to fight for them in Syria

and yet three young men from the capital were willing to join them.

Some are now asking whether a multi-agency scheme called Prevent

is failing in south Wales. Prevent is not working. The big part is

about building resilience within communities so that when youngsters

are indoctrinated with messages that will take them down a particular

pathway, they have the resilience to push back. That is not being done.

South Wales Police says it is working and they are doing all they

can to combat radicalisation. Today, an 18-year-old man was

arrested in the Grangetown area of the city under the terrorism act.

The police confirmed they are investigating a possible link with

their three young men who travelled to Syria. Meanwhile, their families

have renewed their calls for them to come home to Wales.

You had this contact with someone who we believe is 17-year-old

Following those exchanges, what was your impression of him?

He was a young man who was very committed to the cause and we

communicated on a web forum so hours were not the only questions he was

being asked. He was clearly being supported from around the world,

from particularly area of the Muslim world. And he seemed to relish that.

He seemed to enjoy being asked questions and he knew we were BBC

journalists, we made that very clear, and he said he had no doubts

about the reason he was there. I put it to him, were you radicalised? He

said, 100% no, I have come here of my own volition. It is worth

pointing out his older brother had gone out to Syria in November. He

said he thought long and hard about the decision to leave because his

brother's departure had very much upset the family but he felt he had

a mission and off he well -- went. But talking to him was a surreal

experience because one minute he is talking about the effects of war,

seeing the bodies of supporters of ISIS who he said had been killed, he

called them martyrs, and yet he then goes on to talk about a kitten he

has found and rescued and he seemed to be a rather young man, possibly

full of hubris, who was very enthusiastic about his mission.

And there's much more from Tim on Week in Week out tonight

An elder in a Jehovah's Witness church in Barry

near Cardiff has been jailed for 14 years for sexually abusing women.

53-year-old Mark Sewell was convicted of eight sexual offences,

including one of rape, between 1987 and 1995.

Merthyr Crown Court heard Sewell was cleared of the complaints

by a Jehovah's Witness "judicial committee" after the women

Prime Minister David Cameron says he'll do everything he can to help

find Arthur Jones, the Denbigh pensioner who's missing in Crete.

Mr Jones, who's 73, has not been seen for almost two

weeks, since arriving on the Greek island for a walking holiday.

His disappearance was raised at Prime Minister's Questions by

Will the Prime Minister Corbridge with the Greek government to make

sure Arthur is found? -- cooperate. I will have discussions with the

Foreign Office about all the consular assistance they have

offered and everything they can do. In Cardiff Bay,

the First Minister has defended his decision not to sack the Environment

Minister Alun Davies over the way he lobbied race track developers

in his Blaenau Gwent constituency. A report published yesterday

revealed that he ignored advice from officials when he came out

in support of the project. Our Political Editor Nick

Servini is at the Senedd. So opposition parties are

maintaining the pressure on They don't agree on much, the

opposition parties, but I am told they agree on exactly that. This

revolves around plans for a motor racing circuit near Ebbw Vale. Alun

Davies is the local Assembly Member but also the Welsh government's

Environment Minister and he oversees an organisation called Natural

Resources Wales. He lobbied in support of the motor racing circuit,

something he is allowed to do as the local politician, but not as a

government minister. National resources Wales initially -- Natural

Resources Wales initially rejected this track but then changed its

views and said some of the concerns it had had been allayed by the

developers. People have questioned whether Alun Davies has unduly

influence the body. Yesterday, Carwyn Jones said there had been a

breach of the ministerial rules, a report which was published showing

that Alun Davies had ignored the advice from his officials, which was

basically not to talk publicly about this and come up with any ideas in

support or against it. Today, Carwyn Jones has faced questions from

opposition Assembly Members in which he set up by Mr Davies is going to

stay in the job but also saying what he should have done differently. In

my view, he might have made it clear he was acting as an Assembly Member,

not a minister. He might have made it clear he was acting on behalf of

constituents. He had received correspondence from constituents. He

might have made that clearer in terms of the correspondence he

sent. And I take full note of the fact that Natural Resources Wales

said his comments carried no weight. What is going to happen next? The

opposition parties will try to keep the pressure up, maybe a debate next

week. It is difficult to see where it goes. I am told Carwyn Jones had

to think very hard before this decision, which suggests it could

have gone either way. The crucial point is that Natural Resources

Wales insists that it was not influenced.

Almost 50,000 people in Wales are diagnosed with dementia.

But many patients here are left without support once

The Alzheimer's Society in Wales says services,

designed to help people cope, vary across the country.

Not being able to do the simple things like taking the dog for a

walk is what worried Joyce Baker six years ago. She was diagnosed with

Alzheimer's disease, one of 45,000 people living with dementia in

Wales. Given the facts about the disease and the right support, she

refuses to let and into rubble illness get her down. The brain has

not forgotten everything, it is because it has had a shock because

it has had Alzheimer's. I have a great life, I do, and I am very

lucky of the people that are with me. If I had not had people around

in those first few weeks that I could talk to, especially the

Alzheimer's Society, I would have felt really alone and high and dry,

to be honest. Ruth Tucker from Pontypool watched her father died of

Alzheimer's last year and often did not know how to help him. Her mother

has it now too. She says good information on what to expect was

not given to her or her family. You don't realise that this is something

that is going to kill that person. Mum is possibly going to go down the

same route as dad and that is so sad. You just need to have these

signposts so that the family or the carers or whoever is looking after

the person knows what to be looking out for. To do it on your own is

difficult but you have got to try. The Alzheimer's Society in Wales

says information packs have improved things but help still varies

widely. It is now calling for each person diagnosed with the illness to

have there own named individual to help them through a corrugated

system. It is a very frightening diagnosis and if people feel there

is nothing that can be offered in terms of care and support, that

makes it even more frightening. The Welsh government says it is funding

a 24-hour helpline and it is investing ?30 million in health --

mental health facilities across Wales.

An independent review of the way the Health Service in Wales deals

with complaints has made more than a hundred recommendations.

It aims to improve the system for patients and their families.

Steffan Messenger has been looking through the report for us.

Well, every year here in Wales, the Health Service is contacted some 20

million times by patients needing diagnosis, treatment or care.

More often than not, people are satisfied with their experience,

but the NHS also receives thousands of formal complaints.

The figure was around 9,000 in 2012-13.

Following concerns some patients felt ignored,

the Welsh government asked former Panasonic boss Keith Evans to review

He came up with 109 recommendations for change.

They include making the process easier to understand and

better promoted to the public, staff also need to be better trained.

More resources are also needed to cope with the level of complaints.

Now the man in charge of implementing these changes is

Andrew Goodall, the Welsh NHS's new chief executive,

He gave me his reaction to the report earlier today.

We do need to make sure that we are always in a position to respond

personally and professionally and perhaps we have not able -- always

been able to do that, but there is a challenge that we operate with a

culture that is about no blame and make sure we focus on every

individual experience. What do you mean by no blame culture? Lots of

people would think when something goes wrong you need to find out who

is to blame in order to fix it. From any complaint, we need to learn

lessons, but we need to improve our services and one of the views is

that a complaint is a gift where you have an open opportunity to

understand things that have gone wrong. You are the new chief

executive of the NHS at a time when the NHS has had a bit of a

battering. Constant comparisons and criticisms from Westminster. How do

you go about starting to rebuild trust and faith in the organisation

as a whole? It goes back to what I was saying about delivering targets,

showing we are improving things but actually allowing our staff to

understand they can really make a difference. One of the

responsibilities of boards and leaders across Wales is to have a

confidence in the staff who come in Day by day to give a good service

and we need to go behind them and support them.

Well, the Welsh Health Minister has welcomed

Mark Drakeford has said that staff need to be empowered to deal with

concerns quickly and that needs to be the norm across the NHS.

Rebuilding Caerphilly Castle with the help of 3D technology.

And enjoying the sunshine on Aberystwyth prom,

but have the winter storms blighted the summer tourist trade?

A senior Welsh MP has written to the Home Secretary questioning

South Wales Police's choice of Assistant Chief Constable.

Elfyn Llwyd is asking whether it was appropriate that

Nikki Holland was given the job because an investigation she

led into the force's role in one of Britain's worst miscarriages of

Philip Saunders, a newsagent from Cardiff, was robbed and killed in

1987 after he arrived home with his date in takings. Three young men

were wrongly convicted of his murder. They were released on appeal

a decade later after a BBC Wales investigation. In response to

Michael O'Brien's allegation that evidence had been fabricated, the

IPCC setup Operation Resolute. Its report, which belongs to South Wales

Police, still has not been published.

South Wales please taking too long to publish a report into the way it

carried out a murder enquiry. The review was led for the IPCC by

Nikki Holland when she was a detective superintendent at

Merseyside police. In April, she was made assistant chief of South Wales

Police. An MP has written to the Home Secretary asking if that was

appropriate. For the compiler of that report, then and before the

report was published, to become one of the most senior officers in the

force, surely there is something odd about that. There is no suggestion

that Nikki Holland did anything other than a good job on Operation

Resolute, but Elfyn Llwyd says a problem could arise when South Wales

Police finally publish the report. He says that if Nikki Holland is

unhappy about the way the report is presented or any details left out,

she may not feel as free to speak out about it as she would have done

if she was still at a separate force. South Wales Police say

Operation Resolute was thorough Andrew Boff and Nikki Holland's work

on it finished about two years before she applied for the post. We

are told reporters in final stages of completion.

It's the first summer season for hoteliers, shops and bars in

Aberyswyth since the storms hit the seafront at the start of the year.

The town's promenade was battered by huge waves and strong winds

Now, after extensive repair work, the seaside town is hoping

holiday-makers won't be put off by the images that made news

Matt Murray is on the prom for us this evening.

It is a level evening in Aberystwyth and the sun has been beating down

all day on the promenade. It was a very different story six months ago

when the promenade took a beating from the wind and the waves. It has

been a costly rebuild but they are hoping for a good summer after a

hard winter. Aberystwyth getting back

in the swing of things. The town's brass band keeping

holidaymakers entertained A far cry from the images of the

seafront which made headlines across Broken pavement

and twisted metal railings littered the front after huge waves

and strong winds battered the town. Now, after months of hard work, the

promenade which first opened in 1820 Six months ago this was a scene of

complete devastation. Since then there has been ?1.7 million on the

coast as a whole repairing the damage. They have done the paddling

pool, the railings, the paving stones that were thrown around.

Richard Griffiths runs the Richmond Hotel.

He explained to me how it was one single giant wave that caused

Water came spilling into ground floor and basement

ruining his restaurant which has now been refurbished and he's positive

Aberystwyth has been lodged in people's memories. It has rekindled

their memories of Aberystwyth so they are coming to have a look and

it has given us a slight resurgence and at the right time as well.

The 1920s beach shelter which looked as if it was about to disappear into

And the ongoing work is evident along the front.

These university halls are being renovated but it is also getting

a new roof which was damaged by the high winds.

But the scaffolding is a concern for Alun Davies,

He says the extensive work is already damaging his trade.

The fact we are going into the summer, the school holidays, which

is busily our most important time of the year, that is what worries me is

how much impact it will have on July and August.

Aberystwyth University says the work needs to be done during

the summer months when the building is not occupied by students.

So the storms have still left their mark on the town but in this fine

weather the seafront is returning to its old splendour and holiday-makers

Holiday-makers have been telling me they have come back to Aberystwyth

after not being here for years because they want to see how the

town is faring after the storm. It is a cue lots of the factor bringing

them back. As you can see, the building work is still going on.

Here is the beach shelter. It was almost lost to the storms and the

building work is still going on. The repair work is going to cost ?65,000

alone because it is protected so they are using new materials, but

also some of the original beams and woodwork. The council see this as

the last part of the jigsaw. They say it should be finished within two

weeks, in time for the height of the summer season.

It's one of Europe's finest Medieval fortresses -

But how would Caerphilly Castle have looked in the early 1300s

Computer animators have spent months rebuilding the 30-acre stronghold

stone by stone, using the latest 3D technology, and the finished film

reveals one of the most heavily fortified castles of its kind.

It was the ultimate display of power and might.

Built in 1268 by the nobleman Gilbert de Clare,

Caerphilly Castle was the most imposing stronghold of its age.

And it was vast - the second biggest fortress

This was like having an Exocet missile in your back garden. There

were 10,000 Welshmen surrounding this castle.

Looking at the castle today, it's hard to imagine just how

cutting edge its design was for the late 13th Century.

But this new film by the heritage body Cadw will change all that.

It transports the viewer back in time,

revealing elements of the castle that have long since disappeared.

The drawbridge and huge gatehouses, the series of heavy fortifications,

even the kitchen block - all are present and correct,

It is always possible for history to seem a little dry and dull to

people, particularly the younger generation, so anything that brings

it to life and using the new technology makes it more real for

people. To ensure the film was

as accurate as possible, animators relied on aerial footage

of the castle taken by a drone. They also used this painting

of the fortress, commissioned back in the 1980s, which reveals

the huge scale of the site. The rest was done

by 3D computer animation - a painstaking task, especially

when it came to recreating The leaning Tower was a particular

challenge. We thought it would be straightforward to create simply by

using the tower on the opposite corner of the castle as a visual

guide but unfortunately that our is not there. It has been completely

destroyed. Fortunately there were two other towers at the back of the

castle and essentially the leaning Tower is more or less the same.

The film is available online from today.

Throughout the summer, Cadw will be releasing more computer-generated

films of other historic sites across Wales, encouraging us to take

Cricket, and Glamorgan suffered a heavy defeat on the final day

of their Championship match against Worcestershire.

They were bowled out for just 105 in their second innings,

The result leaves Glamorgan in fourth place

Well, plenty of blue sky today, but not such a clear day tomorrow.

I have got some mixed news for you. There is some change on the way.

Less of this over the next few days and more of this. The cloud is

creeping into Wales. This is a weather front and you can see quite

a defined line thanks to low pressure to the North. It will be

cloudy tonight but remaining mainly dry for most of us. Parts of north

west Wales likely to see any rain. You can see the cloud is creeping in

across the map. Parts of south-east Wales seeing clear skies for a time

tonight. Temperatures overnight reaching 16 Celsius. It will feel

quite muddy but the wind will pick up along the West Coast. Tomorrow

morning, mainly dry across parts of south Wales. The North remaining

dry. Ceredigion and Powys seeing some rain. Anglesey, Gwyneth, most

likely to see most of any rainfall tomorrow morning, but it will feel

quite mild. Down to Pembrokeshire, a patch of rain here. 16 Celsius at

eight o'clock in the morning, quite warm, but we will not see very much

in the way of sunshine tomorrow. This weather front tracking along to

the east and it fizzles out so becoming drier across parts of

south-east Wales. Temperatures reaching 21 Celsius. Tomorrow

night, mostly dry, some showers creeping in from the west.

Temperatures tomorrow night between 14 and 16 Celsius. I mentioned this

area of low pressure which is responsible for the weather over the

next few days. Saturday quite wet but it is an improving picture on

Sunday and Monday. A teenager who's believed to be

one of three men from Cardiff to have joined the terrorist group

ISIS has told BBC Wales he's Aseel Muthana left home earlier this

year to join his brother in Syria. It comes as police investigate

a possible link between the men and an 18-year-old arrested

in Cardiff under the Terrorism Act. There's much more on this story

on tonight's Week in Week Out We'll have a quick update at 8pm

and more at 10.25pm. For now though, from all us on

the programme, have a good evening.