25/01/2016 BBC Wales Today


25/01/2016

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Tonight, Asylum seekers in Cardiff will no longer have to wear

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And a week after the announcement, new details emerge of the major job

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losses at Tata Steel in Port Talbot.

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It's been compared to the branding of animals tonight.

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Asylum seekers living in temporary housing

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to wear wristbands in order to receive their meals.

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It comes after some residents claimed it singled them out

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The company that runs Lynx House, on behalf of the Home Office says

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they'll find alternative ways of providing food.

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They were still wearing the controversial wristband this

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morning. Without them, they told me they might be refused food. Links

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house is one of the places asylum seekers are sent to live while their

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status is being processed. Because people here are not allowed to work

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or to claim benefits, they are dependent on meals provided here and

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paid for by the Home Office. If you go to the hotel without the band,

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you will not eat for the day. If the staff recognise you, they have to

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send you back to the hotel room to look for your label or wait until

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there is a modicum of food left for them to give it to you. This is how

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militant they were in terms of implementing these banners. Today,

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the Welsh refugee Council said they had raised the issue for months ago

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and nothing was done. I was very angry about it and I compared it

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with the situation where you brand sheep, to go to the market. The

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group which runs the house has now said the wristbands scheme will be

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scrapped and they are looking for an alternative way of providing

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support. David Davis, the Conservative MP for Monmouth, has

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likened wearing these bands to the ones he wears on holiday. Perfectly

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reasonable system that allowed them to obtain three square meals

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everyday and it was reasonable for them to be identified. I go on

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holiday every year to an all-inclusive resort in Hungary

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where you have to wear wristbands in order to get free meals. I don't

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feel dehumanised by it. I'm wearing my ID pass you're in Council of

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Europe. This woman works for a voluntary organisation. She says

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such treatment is dehumanising but the problems facing the people she

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works with here are much wider. It is one aspect of a very worrying

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trend of dehumanising asylum seekers. It is particularly a

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problem because asylum seekers have been excluded from mainstream

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society for so long. There have been so many stories scapegoating them

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for various problems in society and a lot of myths have grown up. The

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Home Office has issued a statement saying it expects the highest

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standards from its contractors at all times.

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BBC Wales has discovered Tata hopes to make ?300 million of savings

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as the company is currently unsustainable, part of the money

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will come from cutting up to 750 jobs at its Port Talbot steelworks.

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Here's our business correspondent, Brian Meechan.

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A week after this company announced job losses at two sites, more

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details have emerged from a leaked document. Almost 400 of those being

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made redundant will be white-collar workers, essentially office and

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professional services staff. Around 330 blue-collar workers will also

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lose their jobs from the operations and industrial side of the business.

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The company says it must improve its performance and reduce costs to

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survive and be able to contemplate future viability as a business. Up

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to ?110 million will be saved from the job losses and the mothballing

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of part of this site. Engineering will see the most redundancies with

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almost 40% of the department going. Its contractors are also having to

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lose staff as a result of the company's plans. Cheap imports from

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China and high energy costs have been blamed for their problems. The

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union wants the European Union to take action against Chinese steel.

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UKIP's governing body has again failed

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to approve the party's assembly election candidate selections.

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Several Welsh party activists say the party will be damaged if it

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picks candidates deemed to be from outside Wales,

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including former Conservative MP Neil Hamilton.

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A senior UKIP source has told BBC Wales

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the National Executive Committee is defying the Welsh leader

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Nathan Gill by refusing to ratify the selections.

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UKIP says it wants to ensure that the best

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A man from Cardiff accused of helping a teenager travel

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to Syria to fight with Islamic terrorists has told a court

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Kristen Brekah, who's 20-years-old, is accused, with two other men,

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of assisting Aseel Muthana in committing an act of terrorism.

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There have been calls for the immediate release

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of a review into child abuse in North Wales.

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It comes after MPs expressed their concerns over delays

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to the publication of the MacCure review,

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which looked into the Waterhouse Report.

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In December, the Home Office promised to publish the findings

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as soon as possible but there's still no indication of a date.

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I think it is important it is published because we need to have

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public trust in our institutions. We need to be clear about what went

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wrong in North Wales. We need to understand whether the Waterhouse

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Tribunal did its job properly. Business leaders have been hearing

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the proposals that it's hoped Local authority representatives

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will put the plans to the Treasury next month and they say business

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leaders will be involved in developing the detail of the bid

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- especially when looking at what skills and industries

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they need to focus on. We need to be clear with businesses

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where we are coming from, what skills training they need, what the

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future demands are going to be and then we need to make sure that we

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give delivery of the right skills and training to meet those needs.

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A public meeting has been held to discuss the future

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Cwmcarn forest drive, a seven mile scenic road,

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closed to cars in 2014, so thousands of trees could be

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Campaigners say they're frustrated at the lack of information

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about the site but the owner, Natural Resources Wales,

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says it needs ideas and support from the public to re-open it.

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Rugby and Wales will face Japan at the Principality Stadium in

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Japan beat Wales for the first time ever in Tokyo three years ago.

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Wales will also face Australia, Argentina and South Africa

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That storm in the States is heading our way but its not snow

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Wind and rain in the forecast. Strong to gale force winds. Dry for

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much of a country tonight. Overnight, rain will reach Anglesey

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by the end of the night. Colder than last night. Temperatures falling as

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low as five Celsius. There is a Met Office weather warning in force.

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There could be two to four inches of rain. A dry start for most of us

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tomorrow but it will not last. Rain will spill across the whole country

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in the morning. Strong to gale force winds. Across the rest of the UK,

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south-east England should get away with a dry and bright morning but

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wet and windy weather will spread eastwards during the day. Some heavy

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rain, especially on high ground in the north and West with strong to

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fight gale force winds. Should turn dry in Northern Ireland during the

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afternoon with such hours in Scotland. A high of 12 Celsius in

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Liverpool. In Wales tomorrow afternoon, wet and windy sums it up.

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Some heavy rain, especially on higher ground, the hills and

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mountains, accompanied by gale force winds. Expect some pork travelling

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conditions. Temperatures above average but it will not feel that

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mild. Further outbreaks of rain tomorrow night with heavy rain for

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the Snowdonia Mountains. The wind will ease for a time but

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strengthening again later in the night. That takes us into a very

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windy start on Wednesday. The risk of severe gales. The wind will ease

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during the day, killing dryer and brighter with one or two showers.

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Thursday will start dry, bright and Chile. Some sunshine. The weather

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remains very changeable. More wet and with the weather expected on

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Friday, clearing on Saturday. Good night.

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Thank you for watching, from all of us on the programme

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Since then, things have perked up. Oh, my God!

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Not so long ago, you just beat a rug for a good time.

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After this, we can do the other carpet in the lounge.

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