08/07/2016 BBC Wales Today

An extraordinary homecoming for the Wales football

team from the Euros - thousands gather in the capital

And Tata stops the sale of parts of its UK steel operations,

We'll assess the implications for workers here.

More than 200,000 fans packed the streets of Cardiff this

afternoon to welcome home the Wales football team,

Chris Coleman's men had a heroes' welcome at Cardiff Airport,

before they embarked on an open-top bus tour, finishing with a concert

Nick Palit has been following the day's

They stormed through the castle gates like conquering heroes into a

sea of red. Thousands of fans had lined the streets to welcome them

home and say thanks. Players then joined the crowd

singing the now familiar song but they were now home and I couldn't

believe the welcome. To represent your country is one thing but to

have done it in a major tournament and got through to listen me finals

is fantastic. I think we are all very proud of what we have done. To

do what we have done and reached the semifinals, I never would have

dreamt of that. We are trying to sync it in as much as possible and

remember it forever. We want to say thank you for supporting us and

being there for us on the journey, amazing scenes we will never forget.

We never thought we would see this in our lifetime but it is a really

special occasion. It is incredible, they couldn't be better players to

deserve it, they have been outstanding, they have been a

credit, and we would never the work -- we would never have imagined the

welcome would be anything like this. Thousands of supporters lined the

streets for hours in anticipation and they want disappointed. This has

blown me away, I get so emotional, it is stupid. I decorated my house

with flags and they are not coming up down till Wednesday. The team

touched down on Welsh soil after their epic French adventure. As the

heroes emerged they chatted the fans young and old, signed autographs and

posed for photos. I got my shoe and my book signed! If you had said to

me in May that we would have got to the semifinals you would have

thought, another politician talking nonsense. Against Belgium it was the

best I have ever seen Wales play and against a quality team. The final

stop for the open top bus, Cardiff City Stadium. Tonight a crowd of

30,000 gathered. We would like to say thank you to Chris Coleman and

his boys for the best summer of our lives.

# So come on, Wales... With the Manic Street Preachers

relegated to a support act, the main act were taken on to rapturous

applause. When you have a team like that you don't have much to worry

about, they have been absolutely fantastic and they deserve all of

this, they deserve them and they deserve this lot. To get a welcome

like this was fantastic and it shows how amazing our fans are. The Welsh

team motto in Euro 2016 has been Together Stronger. They Have Been

Together With Their Fans And They Are Repairing For The World Cup

Qualifiers After a summer exceeding all expectations.

To other news, and Tata has stopped the sale of parts

of its UK operations, including Port Talbot

It's pursuing a partnership with the German steel

With more, here's our business correspondent, Brian Meechan.

Uncertainty continues for the workers at Port Talbot and Tata's

other plants. The UK -- it put its UK business up for sale in March. It

has decided to put its seven potential buyers a side to

concentrate on its preferred option, thyssenKrupp. We have had

discussions with thyssenKrupp and that is potentially a joint Venture

but the downside is that it prolongs the agony for our members. One of

the bidders was Liberty Stadium in Newport. It says... This is sad and

frustrating news for the UK steel industry because the sector needs a

fresh start and we think this will bring more uncertainties. Business

Secretary Sajid Javid held talks with tartar in move by -- in Mumbai.

Ministers have moved to support the company, not least by proposing

changes to the law to cut the deficit in the pension scheme. This

news of a joint venture with thyssenKrupp can give an element of

confidence but no guarantees as yet because there are long way to go in

negotiations but communities around pulp Tolbert and other places can

take confidence from the discussions ongoing. -- Port Talbot. Uncertainty

over Brexit and the pension changes remain. Workers and their families

at Tata will have to wait for longer to be convinced that they have a

long-term future. An independent report into a boy

from Pembrokeshire who died of scurvy in 2011 has called

for the Welsh Government to introduce a compulsory register

of home-educated children. The Child Practice Review

into the death of eight-year-old Dylan Seabridge said

home-educated children should be Dylan Seabridge said home-educated

children should be registered Eight-year-old Dylan Seabridge

was educated at home here in A report into his death

said that he didn't have contact with any agencies

from the age of 13 months. Dylan died of scurvy four years ago

and the report claims that his physical

and emotional well-being was His parents, Julie and Glynn

Seabridge, had been charged with neglect but those charges

were dropped in 2014. At the inquest they disagreed that

Dylan died from scurvy. They were asked to engage

with this review but it was their strongly held view that it

shouldn't go ahead. The review said that current laws

on home education are in stark contrast to the Welsh

government's commitment to the UN Convention on the

Rights of the Child. We would like the Welsh government

to have another look at the legislation around

elective home education and consider whether it is

reasonable to take a view on children in those circumstances

having their rights acknowledged, to have a voice, to be

listened to and to be seen. However, a whistle-blower

who raised concerns about Dylan's family two years

before he died doesn't believe that monitoring home education is

the answer and that child protection Education officials did visit

the family but didn't It seems to me that this

is an agenda that people wanted to run

and it's a distraction from the real story,

the unfortunately common old story

of social services departments not working properly and children

suffering as a result. The report acknowledges

that parents have the right to educate their child at home

rather than at school and that home education in itself was not a risk

factor for abuse or neglect but it states that there was potential

for children to become invisible. Many families who home-educate

maintain that an unusual case

like this shouldn't lead Having a register wouldn't have made

any difference whatsoever Home education is about education,

children dying is about welfare. The people who have the power to

investigate these things should have investigated, it's nothing

to do with education. The report made three other

recommendations about safeguarding children

and the Welsh government says it will consider

all of the findings and look

at areas for improvement. In the Somme region of France events

have continued to mark the role of Welsh soldiers in the battle

there, a hundred years ago. 4000 from Wales were killed

or wounded in five days of fighting at Mametz Wood near

the town of Albert. Today there has been a service

at the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery,

closest to the Wood. A poppy specially

made in Wales and a dragon flag placed on the grave

of every Welsh soldier lying at 80 graves are here. Other headstones

simply say, a soldier of the Great War known unto God. Let's put some

names on these men, Joe Bannister was from Cardiff, William Godfrey

also from Cardiff and Thomas ted some from Massey. All of them in the

Cardiff City battalion and they all died on the same day advancing to

that field. It is the nearest you can get to

where they fell and I think it is important for now and for future

generations that we don't forget that sacrifice. We have a couple

here today of people whose relatives are buried here and it is important

that they see the whole thing is done with dignity and respect. Among

those taking part, cadets from the Wrexham area. We met them at their

camp a short distance away on the banks of the River Somme. They had

been here for several weeks working to prepare memorials across the

battle ground for centenary events and they took part in ceremonies

including yesterday's at the Mametz Wood. I am glad I am here and

grateful I have been given this opportunity to come here and we have

heard many stories about different soldiers and people have joined from

12-year-old and lied about their age. As members of the Army Cadet

Force it is our duty to make sure we instil in the cadets the debt of

gratitude that we owe those men who gave their lives in the First World

War from across the kingdom and the Commonwealth. During the centenary

we have been reminded of the horror of the Battle of the Somme and the

sacrifice made by those from Wales. Time for a look at the weekend

weather forecast now with Behnaz. The deep area of low as bringing

very unsettled weather through the weekend, looking wet and windy for

Saturday but also rather muggy through tonight and tomorrow. Dry

initially but rain starts spreading in the overnight period, initially

western parts drier. 12 to 15 Celsius, it could be rather

uncomfortable for sleeping. That low bringing the weather France

tomorrow, noticed the squalls on the isobars with some south-westerly

strong winds with it. Not for a nicer Saturday, heavy pulses of rain

possible, low-level cloud. Temperatures from 20 to 24 Celsius,

feeling muggy despite the lack of sunshine. Brisk winds coming in from

a south-westerly direction. Not a nice day to be out and about with

highs of 17 to 20. The rain band will gradually clear tomorrow night,

a few showers behind it, quite a bit of cloud and sticky in the

temperatures, rather uncomfortable for sleeping. On Sunday, some sunny

spells but also some blustery showers, some heavy and temperatures

getting up to 20 degrees. More showers merging into longer spells

of rain on Monday, brisk winds, becoming less humid for the start of

next week and hopefully things are settling down by the middle of the

week. I'll leave you tonight with a look

back at the extraordinary scenes in Cardiff today, welcoming home

the Wales football team, # So come on, Wales

at the Euros. # So come on, Wales

# With Gareth Bale... We never thought we would see this

in our lifetime. # With Ashley Williams we can win

any fight... Putting on the red T-shirt for Wales

and sharing it with all these fans today is