22/08/2014 BBC Wales Today

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Who is to blame for Muslims -- Muslims being radicalised. There is

something very sick in those communities. If that is part of a

generation that is being produced. I think there's a disenfranchised part

of our communities and who feel that they have to not accept it, being

demonised. Alleged offensive texts from Malky

Mackay were described as "banter". Now Cardiff City calls

for the head of the League Managers Targetting anti-social behaviour -

calls for Wales to learn from a scheme in England helping

troubled families. The right to our rivers - why

a row between anglers and canoeists And in sport, we take

the helm with Olympic star Sir Ben Ainslie as the Extreme Sailing

series comes to Wales this weekend. Plus a look ahead to the new season

in football's Welsh Premier League. Not enough is being done to prevent

Muslims from being radicalised here Former home office minister

Kim Howells has told us successive UK governments

and the muslim communities Meanwhile there are claims that

a strategy set up to counter extremist views is failing

in cities like Cardiff. This footage brought the issue of

radicalisation firmly to Wales. The propaganda video, thought to have

been filmed in Syria, apparently shows two Cardiff men is urging

others to join the Isis fight in the country. Today, Kim Howells told us

the problem needs to be tackled head-on. I don't any government,

whether the Labour governments or the coalition, have really addressed

the problem of why it is that so many people from young Muslim

communities in Britain are prepared to go out to Syria and Iraq and to

these appalling deeds. There is something sick in these communities

if that is part of the generation that is being produced. Muslim

leaders here in Cardiff have admitted they are struggling to

combat what they see as a new phenomenon. This is one of the

city's spiritual leaders, an imam at one of the mosques in Cardiff. There

is room for improvement at Al communities. We have to ask when --

why our communities feel more safe when they look inwards. Because the

larger community are being portrayed as being a threat, a harm, a

danger. It has produced this mentality. Mohammed is land, a

former councillor, told people fit -- people do feel let down by

government. In terms of the Mosque imams, they are not responsible and

they cannot control it. Same as any church, people will listen, but it

will depend on how many people are going to practice and follow his

dialogue. In this city park, where they were enjoying a game of

football after Friday prayers, they said the problem is not a failure to

integrate but a failure to deal with individuals. Some religions are

doing things bad and the lamb is just a religion. I think it is just

a few people taking it over the top. They need to be identified and

stopped because this is not what our religion is about. In London, this

youth Centre is at the heart of government attempts to tackle

radicalisation. Its strategy investor projects like the one here,

aimed at stopping young Muslim men from becoming radicalised. But

today, Lord Carlile said that when it came to parts of Wales, it was

failing. In some cities, in some London boroughs, it has been

implemented very well. In other places, and there is evidence that

this was the -- this was the case in Cardiff until recently, it was Mr

Gill, very little was being done in terms of project funding. -- it was

vestigial. Some people say the programme is behind the times. We

have seen high profile problems in Cardiff. I think there is a -- it is

a good idea to take a moment to see whether the strategy is tailored to

the problem we are facing now, not the problem we were facing a few

years ago. The suggestion that the beheading of the American journalist

James Foley was carried out by British man has caused leaders to

think again about whether the fight against radicalisation is working.

Cardiff City Football club has called for the boss of

the organisation which represents football managers - to resign.

The League Managers Association described offensive text messages

allegedly sent by former manager Malky Mackay as 'banter'.

The Association has apologised but the club says

it's 'reprehensible' and say Richard Bevan's position is untenable.

His apology has been wildly -- widely criticised. Offensive

comments were let off -- were described as banter. He was letting

off steam, according to the League Managers Association. Now the

association has apologised, saying it was not trying to trivialise the

issue. But Cardiff City Stadium the head of the LMA should now step

down. A former Wales striker has known known him for several years.

Is he a racist? There is no place for racism and sexism. I know that

the texts that have come out in the last couple of days, and they don't

look good, but hand on heart, he is not a racist. He has let himself and

his family down. The text messages came to light during an

investigation by the club. 10,000 messages were accessed. The League

Managers Association says that Mackay sent just a couple of

messages that were the rubber tree. But the club disputes this, saying

there are many more. -- that were derogatory. On Twitter, a former

city player accused his former manager of racist behaviour. He has

since deleted those posts. We asked Malky Mackay about the comments. He

has yet to respond. It all shows there is in unsavoury quality --

attitude in football, according to some people. It shows that senior

figures can get away with using banter as an excuse while we are

trying to educate young players to say that banter is not an excuse,

there is a line that you have to take. The charity says there were

284 incidents of abuse, up 269%. 66% whether racism, 20% for religious

abuse. 8% were homophobic. These incidents were of abuse and grounds.

This is not the first time that the Premier League has encountered these

problems. Richard Skidmore sends sexist e-mails but the football

Association decided against taking action. -- Richard Scudamore. There

is support for Malky Mackay. Malky Mackay has made a big mistake. What

he and the other lads have done is not right. But he is a fantastic

lad, a great, great fellow. A family man, a real football man. He has

made a big mistake. So it is another unwanted story surrounding Cardiff

city. Questions are also being asked about the wider culture in the game

and whether those involved can tackle prejudice and abuse behind

the scenes. Within the last few minutes, Malky Mackay has given his

first television interview since the row erupted. He said that the texts

sent were unacceptable and inappropriate. He went on to say

that there was no excuse for them and he said he was sincerely

apologetic. That within the last hour. And speaking of those

offensive messages, the BBC understands that officials here at

Cardiff city say they have more material of a similar nature. So it

is certain that this affair is far from finished.

Two men have been charged with child cruelty offences as a part

of the investigation into allegations of historical abuse

Keith Evans from Wrexham and Kelvin Horriban from Nottinghamshire

are accused of the offences involving a boy aged between 9 and

They're due to appear in court in October.

A woman from Cardiff who was quarantined with a suspected case of

Public Health Wales says the woman is not at risk from

the virus, which has killed more than 1,300 people in West Africa.

The woman voluntarily isolated herself after fears she may have

been exposed to Ebola, while visiting the continent.

Cardiff Airport's chief executive will stand down next month.

John Horne took up the role a week after the airport was bought

by the Welsh Government last year for ?52 million.

In a statement, he says a new perspective will be beneficial

It claims to have turned around the lives of more than 50

thousand families in England and save billions of pounds by reducing

Now there's a call for Wales to learn from

the so-called 'troubled families' initiative, to see if it could help

A year ago, Jackie Ryan's daughter was causing problems in their

Monmouth neighbourhood, causing fires and fighting. In trouble with

the police, being abusive. I went to a stage of drugs, anti-social

behaviour, taking overdoses, drinking leaf -- drinking bleach.

What about the effect it had on your mum and dad? I feel bad about that.

Social services were already working with the family, but things were not

improving. Emily is now much better. The anti-social behaviour

has stopped and she is back in education. Without help, Jackie says

it would be very different. She would be imprisoned. I am -- I would

have dropped out of school so I would not have had GCSEs. This

family got help It gives families a dedicated worker

to fight their corner, but also Only four councils

in Wales have paid for it so far, to help 20 families at a cost

of ?10,000 per family. It claims to save up to ?130,000

in reduced costs in other areas, from it is a way of breaking their

behaviour. Some argue we could learn lessons from across the border.

The "troubled families" initiative in England gives similar dedicated

support - it claims to have helped turn around 53,000 families so far.

It is a good single worker that the family can trust. There is no

problem at all from learning from England. If there is something next

door that is a good initiative, let's look at it and see if it will

work around here. When you look at individual projects, are similar...

Others suggest that the scheme in England has its own problems. It

ignores some of the bigger structural factors like poverty

which have an impact on the families' lives. Jackie and her

family want help and want others to benefit regardless of where it comes

from. That call to address crime

and antisocial behaviour comes as a scheme to reduce knife crime

is backed by the mother of a Wrexham man who was stabbed to

death last year. The family

of Craig Maddocks is supporting a knife amnesty which was launched

in Birmingham today and is heading Edna Maddocks has a very personal

reason to support efforts to reduce Her son, amateur boxer Craig, was

stabbed 52 times at a pub in Wrexham last year in what the judge called

a "brutal and ferocious attack". His killer Francesco Prevete was

jailed for a minimum of 23 years. Craig Maddocks' family say

the project is helping them deal We have come to back this up, to get

knives off the street. We felt we needed to do something. The lesson

eyes on the street, they're less chance there is of any family going

through this. It affected our lives a lot. We have not got over it

completely. It was horrendous, what happened to him. There is no need.

We need to stop it. We do need to stop it.

Knife bins like this one launched in Birmingham today will be put

in Wrexham, Cardiff and Swansea to encourage weapons to be handed in.

The blades will then be melted down and turned into a sculpture to

pay tribute to those who have died as a result of knife crime.

This statue will require maybe as many as 100,000 knives. So it is a

huge project. If we get every city on board, we will be successful and

we will create the statue that we want to create.

In Wales, the number of incidents involving

knives or sharp blades fell slightly last year in all police force areas,

But there were still more than 500 cases.

Across England and Wales there were 200

stabbing-related deaths - slightly more than the previous year.

But Craig Maddocks was more than just a statistic.

His family say he loved life and to make people smile.

They are determined that his death here will prompt those who

carry knives to hand them over to save more lives being lost.

You are watching Wales Today. Still to come, the qualification race for

European qualification starts as the Welsh Premier League kicks off. And

Olympic legend Sir Ben Ainslie comes to Wales to compete in the extreme

sailing series this weekend. A long-running dispute

about the right to use our rivers Anglers have issued

a legal challenge in a bid to curtail what they call

"unlawful canoeing" in Wales. The Angling Trust says it wants

the law clarified and claims canoeists have been misled into

thinking they have a public right We've had the right to roam -

now we have On tidal waters like this stretch

of the Teifi near Cardigan there is a public right of navigation -

but once you get further upstream, it's a battleground where

the waters are far murkier. To an angler - who pays for

a licence and a permit to fish - a If you have paid a lot of money to

go fishing there, travelled across the country to go fishing, and you

have a group of canoeists coming through, it can completely wipe out

your sport for the evening and make the whole thing pointless.

Anglers argue you need to get a landowner's permission to use

stretches of river running through private property and they say

Canoe Wales said they put out a statement support -- supporting the

right of their members to Qunu wherever they want to. But that is

misleading because people do not have that right. -- two can you down

the river. The Angling Trust say there's been

an upsurge in unlawful canoeing as they call it - and have sent canoe

bodies a legal letter demanding they stop publishing information

on a general right of navigation. The land is privately owned and the

riverbed to halfway across. As far as the water flows across -- flowing

over that, it belongs to everyone. For many years there has been talk

of voluntary access agreements - but both sides have accused the

other of being unwilling to engage. It should be the government sorting

it out. It has got close to that but there was a green paper meant to be

released in March. But it was stopped.

If the case does come to court it could

prove an interesting test case, but unless an agreement is negotiated,

The bank holiday weather forecast is coming up

The Premier League and the Football League have a huge following here,

but strictly speaking, the official top division in Wales

And the new season gets under way this evening.

Despite a rebrand, the old League of Wales still finds it hard to compete

for coverage and sponsorship, with so much attention focused on clubs

But league bosses says it is on the up as clubs innovate to

The rivalry will be will sent it but this pitch is artificial. The Latham

Park turf was ripped up and replaced with a 3G service which is being put

to good use by club and community. 25 youth teams as well as the first

and women's squad will be training on it. It costs just about ?400,000

to put the new pigeon. Most of it came from a grant. -- to put the new

pitch in. They think this model is a good one for many Welsh clubs

providing new income streams and a better service to play on. We have

already had lots of offers -- lots of responses to our offers to play

on it and play matches. We should be able to make a profit and keep the

club on an even keel. Money is still tight, the only full-time

professionals are the champions. But the other size and think the gap is

closing with a wide-open race for the European places which can earn a

club more than ?100,000. Being full-time, that is what every really

needs to do to improve Wales football. That will attract

sponsors. And being more organised and having time with their players

will attract people. The proponents of the Welsh league say that their

product is better than it has been given credit for. The capture of one

Welsh striker by Dagenham and Redbridge is proof of improving

standards. The average crowd last season was 300 people. And teams are

increasingly concentrated in north, west and mid Wales. The cost of

travelling around the country is just too much for many clubs who

might want to join. You can guarantee every Saturday is ?1000

for a coach and maybe ?500 for a hotel. A club has to find ?1500 even

before any playing budget. So a big amount of money spent. The chance to

compete in Europe remains a bigger sensor for all clubs but as

Aberystwyth town found to their cost this summer, they are still behind

other leagues in other countries. But that will not prevent other

people trying to get there. Another Welsh athlete has won

a medal for Great Britain at the IPC European Athletics

Championships in Swansea. Josie Pearson from Hay-on-Wye -

who's the reigning Paralaympic discus champion -

won silver in the club throw, missing out on gold to fellow

British athlete Joanna Butterfield. It was the tenth medal won by Welsh

competitors at the Championships. In the last ten minutes, Jemma Lowe

has missed out on a medal in the swimming.

She was racing in the final of the 100 metres butterly, and had been

hoping to emulate her team-mates Jazz Carlin and Georgia Davies who

Davies took bronze in the 100 metrres backstroke, while Carlin won

gold, as she did in the Commonwealth Games, in the 800 metres freestyle.

I knew it would be quite tough. But to do a PD like that, it was a great

race. To come out on top, I am so happy, I can't believe it. When you

come here, when you have overcome the lows and the hard times, and you

get a medal. The world's top sailors are

in the Welsh capital this weekend for the British leg of the

Extreme Sailing Series. Olympic and America's Cup legend,

Sir Ben Ainslie, The competition sees elite teams

from around the world battle it out The organisers promise adrenalin

fuelled race action - as these 40-foot vessels compete

around a tight marine circuit. The carbon-hulled catamarans reach

speeds normally only seen Skippering the British team

the most successful sailor in Olympic history,

Sir Ben Ainslie - who believes the sport is a real spectacle

for those watching on dry land. It is a great venue for this type of

venue. It's very tight for the spectators. When the sun is out,

come down and watch. They are very fast, extreme physical boats. So the

spectators get a chance to see that close the action, a lot of crashes.

Hopefully involving arson! -- not involving our boats.

With up to eight races a day - the organisers promise plenty

of action during the four-day event - which is the centrepiece

There are several boats taking part in this which began in Singapore and

will end in Sydney. On the British crew is a young Welsh

sailor who's delighted to be I started off saying on my local

beach. 40 foot catamarans are a lot more extreme. It is a great series

for people to come down and watch. It is always special to be in front

of a home crowd. The British team start this

series in sixth position. When the event's over here

in Cardiff they hope to have climbed the rankings for the start

of the next leg in Istanbul. The weather looks great for sailing.

Most of us were looking forward to the bank holiday weekend.

It is looking good, no heatwaves but fine conditions especially in the

first half of the weekend. Fine and dry but Chile by night. Wet and

windy conditions heading our way on Monday. Plenty of dry weather, just

a few showers coming in the Irish Sea to parts of the north and west.

It will be a cold night. High pressure is building bringing a

settled day and a fine start to the weekend. Then low-pressure takes

charge as we go into Sunday night and Monday as well. For the start of

the weekend tomorrow morning, quite chilly, but we can look forward to

some sunshine. By the afternoon, just the odd isolated shower across

parts of the north and east. For the majority of us, a fine day. Feeling

cool. If you are going to this event, it is looking fine and dry.

Sunny spells in the afternoon. A fine evening which will become very

chilly indeed. We could see a touch of frost in some spots in the early

hours of Sunday morning. Then it will start a cloud over in the

evening and Weatherford approaches and with that comes a little bit of

range. -- a weather front approaches. That band of rain will

go eastwards on Monday. There will be some dry interludes. At least it

is looking good for Saturday and Sunday. So make the most of it.

Sunday night, a little bit of rain. Monday, sunshine and showers by the

time we get to Tuesday. As well. The main news, not enough is being

done to prevent Muslims being radicalised here and in the UK --

and across the UK. Kim Howells has said successive UK governments and

the communities themselves are partly to blame.

That is Wales Today. Have a great bank holiday weekend.