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degrees. Thursday, more of the same. Is that is all from us. Now on | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Welcome to Wales Today - our top story: | :00:07. | :00:07. | |
Joshua fell from a bridge after being chased by bullies who targeted | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
Doctors say he'll never walk again - tonight we talk to his parents. | :00:11. | :00:28. | |
He is a young boy and doesn't deserve what has happened to him. I | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
wish I could take it away for him. The helicopters and warships are | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
in place for the summit - Welsh defence companies set out | :00:43. | :00:44. | |
their shop window to showcase to world leaders what they make | :00:45. | :00:52. | |
in Wales. Those winter storms smashing | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
our coast - why we should think twice about | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
restoring our disappearing beaches. And the movie of the unlikely bond | :01:00. | :01:07. | |
between striking miners and Gay The place was packed and there was a | :01:08. | :01:24. | |
lot of curiosity. We were overprotective to start with but | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
they fitted in and it was a brilliant evening. | :01:28. | :01:28. | |
A teenager has been told he will never walk again after falling | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
from a bridge while he was being chased by bullies. | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
Joshua Davies from Pontypridd has Asperger's | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
Syndrome, and was fleeing from boys who were throwing stones at him. | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
He fell 50 feet into the River Taff, breaking his spine in four places. | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
His mother believes he was bullied because of his disability. | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
Described by his mother as a boy with a positive attitude, | :01:47. | :01:54. | |
Joshua Davies is now facing months of intensive treatment | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
after the accident which almost cost him his life. | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
Joshua was crossing this bridge in Pontypridd when a group | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
He climbed onto the outside of the railings to escape under the bridge | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
Today his stepfather and mother were back at the scene. | :02:11. | :02:22. | |
They say he'd been bullied several times by the same gang | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
of boys because he has a form of autism called Asperger's Syndrome. | :02:28. | :02:35. | |
I feel terrible. I don't want him to be there. I want to take it all away | :02:36. | :02:45. | |
for him. He is a young boy and doesn't deserve what he has been | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
left with. I Jewish -- I just wish I could take it all away. I know he | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
has been bullied and there are other boys that have been ballroom -- | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
bullet. As much as he pretends everything is OK, if you are being | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
bullied, you need to tell someone, so someone can help you. His brother | :03:09. | :03:22. | |
and sister are very upset. My daughter broke down in tears because | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
she didn't like to see her brother in that situation. | :03:27. | :03:35. | |
Autism, and the charity which supports people with autism | :03:36. | :03:37. | |
So many people are affected by this situation. In relation to Strasbourg | :03:38. | :03:51. | |
syndrome, 90% of parents reported there would be a problem or has been | :03:52. | :03:53. | |
a problem bullying. Police say they've investigated | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
three allegations of assault against They're say there's no obvious | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
link with this latest incident. Three boys have been arrested | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
and released on police bail. Delegates have started arriving, | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
the navy has docked, There are warnings | :04:10. | :04:10. | |
of traffic disruption, roads between the Celtic Manor resort in Newport | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
and Cardiff - most likely affected. Our political correspondent | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
Daniel Davies has been If you needed a reminder that Wales | :04:18. | :04:32. | |
was going to be hosting some important guests, look behind me. | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
British warship HMS Duncan arriving in Cardiff Bay this afternoon. | :04:38. | :04:52. | |
It is here to provide protection and it will -- I have been finding out | :04:53. | :05:04. | |
what the Wales summit means for the region. | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
Months of preparations - now Nato is here. | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
British warship HMS Duncan arriving in Cardiff Bay this afternoon. | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
On shore and in the skies there's a huge police and military presence. | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
It is a big ship. There is .7 of a meter either side. Here she is and | :05:16. | :05:27. | |
many preparations are going on for a busy programme. From Thursday | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
evening, when the defence ministers have dinner on board in the hangar | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
where we are already starting to make preparations. | :05:39. | :05:48. | |
After the Second World War, and at the start of the cold war, 12 | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
European and north American allies banded together for mutual defence. | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
By the time of its last summit in Chicago two years ago, | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
So with no cold war to fight, what is NATO's role? | :05:59. | :06:08. | |
Under its founding Washington Treaty NATO members agreed that an armed | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
attack on one of them is considered an attack against them all. | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
65 years later, NATO now has 28 members. | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
It's expanded eastwards into former communist territory - Albania and | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
Croatia are the newest members, with more nations knocking on the door. | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
60 heads of state and governments will be at the Celtic Manor. | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
Behind the ring of steel they'll discuss | :06:37. | :06:37. | |
the future of Afghanistan, where NATO troops are preparing to pull | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
One man whose been on the inside in the past, is the UK's former | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
It is not for show, it is very serious. They have been working on | :06:49. | :07:08. | |
big issues but the key questions on what is going to happen in | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
Afghanistan after the withdrawal, NATO forces, what will happen to the | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
Ukraine, they are big issues and it will require heads to offer clear | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
opinions. The last time the UK hosted a NATO | :07:23. | :07:23. | |
summit was in 1990. The Berlin Wall had come down, and | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
reaching out to Russia was the goal. Thanks to the Ukraine crisis, | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
NATO is once again figuring out how Russia has acted very aggressively | :07:30. | :07:45. | |
and it has become a big concern to many of the Allies. That is not the | :07:46. | :07:53. | |
only concern. It is stability in North Africa and in the Middle East | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
which is a big concern for allies and they need to grapple with those | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
challenges as well. NATO's mission used to be so simple, | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
in the old days - Now, with complicated conflicts | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
smouldering on its borders, today's alliance is coming to Wales | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
to decide its modern mission. Some | :08:11. | :08:20. | |
of the biggest defence companies operating in Wales, including | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
General Dynamics and Airbus, will be showcasing their products for world | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
leaders at the NATO summit. The industry here employs thousands | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
of people here and it's hoping to use the event to | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
generate more business. Here's our business correspondent, | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
Brian Meechan. Defence is a significant industry | :08:38. | :08:52. | |
providing highly paid jobs. 5000 people are employed here in Wales | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
and the businesses involved generate ?1 billion in income according to a | :08:57. | :09:06. | |
trade group. Here, they are working on the British Army's next | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
generation of armoured vehicle. A prototype will be on display at the | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
summit. We supplied to the UK but also other NATO members. Having the | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
opportunity to showcase our technologies and expertise to that | :09:24. | :09:32. | |
group is fantastic for us. For production will begin in the next | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
three years and the company believes once it is in use by the British | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
Army, it will lead to demand from other countries boosting jobs in | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
South Wales. Kevin Connell says it is about ensuring maximum support | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
the troops in the field. When you think about the battlefield, it is | :09:52. | :10:00. | |
about information superiority. Trips like the 1st Battalion The Royal | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
Welsh, Britain's rapid reaction force which is likely to form part | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
of the discussion at the summit. The industry faces tough times as | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
countries around the world have cut their defence budgets. This is one | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
company operating in the country. Thousands of jobs are in South | :10:19. | :10:35. | |
Wales. The reason a military testing centre also in Wales. The summit has | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
already seen protests against the military is of NATO. We live in a | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
democracy and we have to look at the debate. What the facilities enable | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
us to do is to defend their freedom and democracy. This summit will hear | :10:54. | :11:05. | |
the increase in defence spending. Higher defence budgets means | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
potentially more contracts and jobs here in Wales if the Newport summit | :11:09. | :11:23. | |
can be capitalised on. Elsewhere in Cardiff and Newport, we know the | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
NATO summit is causing some disruption for travellers. There are | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
no plans to close the M4 between here and Cardiff and the Celtic | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
Manor isn't out in the summit. The authorities are hoping the worst of | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
the disruption will be concentrated to a fuel pinch points but the | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
message they are giving out to everyone driving in the region is | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
allow extra time and be ready for delays. | :11:51. | :11:52. | |
A soldier from Wrexham was killed during an attack by insurgents on | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
an army check point in Afghanistan in 2012 an inquest has heard. | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
Grenadier Guardsman Jamie Shadrake who was 20, | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
The coroner said, he was satisfied that the army had since | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
We believed in Jamie and what he was doing in Afghanistan. His selfless | :12:08. | :12:22. | |
sacrifice has helped the people of Afghanistan and I am so proud of my | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
son and what he has achieved in his short life. As a family, we are | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
grateful to the help and support that we have received from the | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
Grenadier Guards through this difficult time. | :12:36. | :12:37. | |
A Welsh country and western singer, who hosts a programme on | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
BBC Radio Cymru, has apologised for posting a comment | :12:41. | :12:42. | |
on Twitter, which was offensive about the Pakistani community. | :12:43. | :12:44. | |
John Jones later deleted the comment, which said there were | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
"too many of THEM in this country" and apologised. | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
BBC Wales said the original tweet was totally unacceptable. | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
It has written to him formally, outlining the high standards it | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
The mother of 12-year-old Isaac Nash, who was swept out to sea | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
off Anglesey on Friday, has thanked rescue teams | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
Isaac, from Huddersfield in Yorkshire, was on holiday with his | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
family when he got into difficulty in the water near Aberffraw. | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
The number of estranged couples having to represent themselves | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
in family courts because they have no solicitor has | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
Tonight it's claimed, it could result in a generation | :13:22. | :13:32. | |
A former family court judge, has told this programme - | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
the emotional, mental and psychological wellbeing of children | :13:37. | :13:37. | |
This mother is fighting to see her children. Her ex-husband denies her | :13:38. | :13:57. | |
access. It is devastating and a shocked that someone can do this to | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
your kids. One minute the perfect relationship and then nothing at | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
all. I feel emotionally drained. No self-esteem, no-confidence, how such | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
a person can do this. There is nothing on paper to say why I can't | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
see my kids. Her ex-husband has breached a court order which says | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
she can have access to them. She has two represent herself but her | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
husband can afford one. Before you go to court, you can't sleep, I have | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
panic attacks and can't eat. You walk in there and I have no | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
confidence at all. I don't know much about the legal side of things, all | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
the words that they use and it is difficult to stand there and it is | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
difficult to stand there knowing his corner and I stood there on my own. | :14:50. | :15:00. | |
In April,, legal cover was halted unless prove you are a domestic | :15:01. | :15:12. | |
violence victim. 58% didn't have solicitors when fighting for a | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
residence orders or access to their children. Some say there could be | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
extremely damaging for the children involved. The welfare of the child | :15:21. | :15:27. | |
is paramount in these cases and that is a given. It also says that delay | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
is the enemy of a child's best interests. The resolution takes | :15:35. | :15:42. | |
longer and it must therefore be damaging to the child. Legal aid | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
costs taxpayers ?2 billion every year but Crispin insists money | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
should not have been cut from cases that involve children. A number of | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
ink -- organisations agree. It can't be in the child's best interests and | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
only time they tell that we have a generation of children who, through | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
no fault of their own, have not been well served by the system and their | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
best interests haven't been taken account of. The Ministry of Justice | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
says it has introduced major reforms to reduce delays and keep family | :16:24. | :16:25. | |
dispute out of court. Mediation doesn't work for everyone | :16:26. | :16:35. | |
as this mother knows. She says she will do all she came to see her | :16:36. | :16:37. | |
children again. Much more to come | :16:38. | :16:39. | |
before 7 o'clock Founded in the 1920s, to help improve the lives | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
of ex-servicemen, now the Royal British Legion is undergoing its | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
biggest transformation in 93 years. And the movie of the unlikely bond | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
between striking miners and gay Many of our beaches suffered | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
a decade's erosion in just a few weeks in the battering | :16:52. | :17:08. | |
of the storms last winter. The National Trust says up to 60% of | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
its beaches lost significant amounts of sand, but the organisation is | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
warning against what it calls hard We should let nature repair | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
the damage it says. Some of the damage was apparent that | :17:20. | :17:35. | |
there was a temptation to dwell on those things we had put them in the | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
first place. Here, a wrecked promenade and coastal defence. In | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
Aberystwyth, a public shelter that has been rebuilt. What about the | :17:46. | :18:09. | |
beaches? I lost 40 tonnes of sand. I have been coming here 37 years. I | :18:10. | :18:18. | |
have never known it this bad. Here, there is plenty of sand left on the | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
beach even if the steps have got a bit steep at this year. What about | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
the temptation to do something about this emotion? There should be | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
resisted according to some. The cliffs here have eroded and | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
according to The National Trust, there has been damaged to the beach. | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
It wasn't the waves going up the beach that was the problem, it was | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
the backwash. They were so big they were scouring away their sand and | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
taking it far out to sea. What about the temptation to intervene and | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
putting an engine niche in -- engineering solutions? We are | :19:00. | :19:08. | |
developing policies which are future proofing our coast using soft | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
approaches which are more easy to recover so we allow nature to do its | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
thing but to recover quickly after the storms have happened, then let | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
those natural processes bring back the sand as time goes by. In places | :19:21. | :19:29. | |
where property and infrastructure like roads and railway lines need | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
protecting, they met -- that may not be possible but nature will do its | :19:34. | :19:35. | |
work. Who looks after our soldiers | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
when they return from active duty? The Royal British Legion is | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
undergoing its biggest A new hub, or drop-in centre is | :19:41. | :19:41. | |
being opened in the capital to make it more accessible for veterans to | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
get the help they need. This is a charity eager to appeal to | :19:48. | :20:03. | |
a newer, younger audience. In sharp contrast to the faded pool halls of | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
the past, the new shop front is a drop-in centre in Cardiff on the | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
first in Wales. There has always been information available but it | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
has not been so easy to access and that is the biggest problem. People | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
here it is out there but where do you go to find it? Who do you speak | :20:23. | :20:29. | |
to? Who will answer your enquiry. That is what we haven't had before. | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
Founded in 1921 to improve the lives of ex-service personnel, the British | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
Legion is best known for its annual Poppy Appeal but it has struggled to | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
get its message of advice and financial support across to the | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
Germans from recent conflicts. Its membership of 16,000 is ageing and | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
declining. Local branches are in danger of folding. Normandy veteran | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
Gordon prime who we've featured on the 70th anniversary of the D-Day | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
linings -- landings, is President of one branch. There is no new members | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
can forward and we try to get hold of ex-service people but they don't | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
seem interested. We are losing our secretary and we may fold if we | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
don't get one. New centres are due to open soon in Swansea and Wrexham. | :21:26. | :21:32. | |
It is practical support that many men and women need. Neal Adams was | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
given a grant to set up his personal fitness business. I wasn't sure | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
which avenue to go down. I needed funding as well. The British Legion | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
put me on track and May Day few phone calls and waved a magic wand. | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
There are now several charities hope to help ex-service men and women. | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
They hope to fill the gap. Cricket and at the close on day 3 of | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
Glamorgan's Championship match with Kent in Canterbury, Glamorgan were | :22:05. | :22:08. | |
150 for 3 in the second innings. Earlier the home side made 387 | :22:09. | :22:10. | |
in their first innings It was a clash of cultures that | :22:11. | :22:18. | |
led to an unlikely friendship. In 1984 a group of gay | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
and lesbian activists from London arrived in the South Wales valleys | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
to support striking miners. It's a largely forgotten moment | :22:27. | :22:28. | |
in Welsh history that's inspired Pride, starring Bill Nighy | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
and Imelda Staunton, has its UK premiere tonight and is being tipped | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
as the feel good hit of the year. When you are in a battle against the | :22:35. | :22:53. | |
enemy, find out you have a friend that you never knew existed, that is | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
the best feeling in the world. Set in Wales chewing the miners strike, | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
it tells the story of two different communities that form an unexpected | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
bond. The story of how gay and lesbian activists joined forces with | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
minors sounds like pure fiction but it actually happened, faxback took | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
the cast members by surprise. I was amazed that I hadn't known the story | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
because it is such an amazing story and something that I think every | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
Welsh person should know about. Much of the film was shot on location and | :23:32. | :23:40. | |
it was here in the autumn of 84, that the two different cultures met | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
for the first time. The gay and lesbian movement had been raising | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
money for the striking miners and they saw them as another group who | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
were being ostracised by society at the time. They decided to present | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
their donations in person to the miners of the Dulais Valley but they | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
were not sure what reception they would get as they told the BBC. 27 | :24:01. | :24:15. | |
years -- we went down and we were nervous and we didn't know what to | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
expect. Christine Powell was there that night. The place was packed | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
because there was a lot of curiosity. We were overly protective | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
but they fitted in and it was a brilliant evening. Real friendships | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
were formed. Miners put the campaigners are up during this time. | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
Philip and Marilyn were one couple who did that. They thought we were | :24:41. | :24:48. | |
victimised like they were. They came to help us and we were helping their | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
cause as well. In 1985, 70 miners from South Wales forbid their way to | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
London to take pride in the annual Gay pride march. It was a display of | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
solidarity fought two unlikely groups that had found common ground. | :25:06. | :25:13. | |
It is one part that has been recreated in the film, Pride. From | :25:14. | :25:22. | |
feel-good news to feel good weather. Cloud is increasing overnight and it | :25:23. | :25:46. | |
could be thick enough to produce the odd spot of drizzle. Temperatures | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
around 15 Celsius. A cloudy start tomorrow. Fog patches will lift to | :25:52. | :26:01. | |
leave a dry day. With sunny spells developing, feeling quite warm in | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
the sunshine with temperatures creeping up into the low 20s. 22 | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
Celsius is possible in Cardiff. Tomorrow evening is clearer for a | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
time. We have variable cloud over night and not to Chile. A similar | :26:16. | :26:29. | |
story for Thursday. West should be rest. I pressure is keeping things | :26:30. | :26:41. | |
settled. These low pressure systems to the south and west try to push in | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
but the high pressure could hold out and keep them at bay. We have a | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
greater chance of rain pushing in on Sunday. It could still change. A lot | :26:52. | :26:58. | |
of dry and unsettled weather to come. | :26:59. | :27:00. | |
It's coming up to seven o'clock, the main news again. | :27:01. | :27:02. | |
Joshua Davies has been told he will never walk again after falling | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
He says he was being chased by bullies who were throwing stones | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
His mother believes he was bullied because of his disability. | :27:10. | :27:21. | |
HMS Duncan has arrived in Cardiff Bay ahead of the NATO summit in | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
Newport and stop delegates will be discussing the crisis in the Ukraine | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
and Afghanistan's future. Motorists are being warned to expect | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
disruption while the summit is in Newport. I will have an update at | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
eight o'clock and at 10:25pm. Thank you for watching. Goodbye. | :27:45. | :27:47. |