0:00:00 > 0:00:00There's more throughout the evening on the BBC News Channel,
0:00:14 > 0:00:15Good evening.
0:00:15 > 0:00:16Potential Labour leadership challenger, Owen Smith,
0:00:16 > 0:00:19has claimed Jeremy Corbyn and his allies are prepared
0:00:19 > 0:00:21to see the party split.
0:00:21 > 0:00:23The Pontypridd MP has asked to meet with the Labour leader,
0:00:23 > 0:00:26to try to heal divisions, as our Political Correspondent,
0:00:26 > 0:00:29Arwyn Jones reports.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32His visits to Wales may have been fairly few and far between.
0:00:32 > 0:00:35One of the rare exceptions was this visit to Swansea
0:00:35 > 0:00:37University last year.
0:00:37 > 0:00:39During May's Assembly elections, First Minister
0:00:39 > 0:00:42and leader of Labour in Wales, Carwyn Jones, kept Jeremy Corbyn at
0:00:42 > 0:00:47arms length, suggesting he didn't think the UK Labour leader was much
0:00:47 > 0:00:49of an electoral asset.
0:00:49 > 0:00:51Now, with challenges to his leadership again
0:00:51 > 0:00:54making the headlines, senior Welsh MPs have been calling
0:00:54 > 0:00:57on the UK Labour leader to resign.
0:00:57 > 0:01:00Here's a fear of a snap general election and
0:01:00 > 0:01:03a worry that voters in the party's heartlands, trying to make ends
0:01:03 > 0:01:06meet, just aren't listening to Jeremy Corbyn.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09My real fear is that they won't see Jeremy as the leader
0:01:09 > 0:01:12that can really deliver that for them and that they would not
0:01:12 > 0:01:16therefore then vote Labour and I think we could have a catastrophic
0:01:16 > 0:01:18election result.
0:01:18 > 0:01:21Would it be fair to say that Jeremy Corbyn then could
0:01:21 > 0:01:22be the Labour leader that lost the Valleys?
0:01:22 > 0:01:24Well, he certainly could do that.
0:01:24 > 0:01:26I think we've already seen a huge haemorrhaging of support for
0:01:26 > 0:01:28him in some of our heartland areas.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31There's a very different tone when you're on the doorstep in many of
0:01:31 > 0:01:34our valleys and our heartland Labour areas than perhaps some of the more
0:01:34 > 0:01:37middle-class areas of Cardiff.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39This morning a challenge has been made to
0:01:39 > 0:01:41Jeremy Corbyn's leadership by a former member of his front bench
0:01:41 > 0:01:42team.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45But there are still questions about what the Pontypridd MP,
0:01:45 > 0:01:47another frontbencher, Owen Smith, might do.
0:01:47 > 0:01:51This morning he took to social media to say he'd asked Mr Corbyn if
0:01:51 > 0:01:55he'd be willing to see the party split but said he wasn't given an
0:01:55 > 0:01:57answer.
0:01:57 > 0:02:01Mr Smith insisted he wasn't willing to see a split within the party.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04I've no idea why Owen should say such a thing.
0:02:04 > 0:02:07I had a quite interesting almost philosophical
0:02:07 > 0:02:10political discussion with Owen a week ago.
0:02:10 > 0:02:12But he didn't say that?
0:02:12 > 0:02:14Absolutely not.
0:02:14 > 0:02:16I'm slightly surprised he would go out and say
0:02:16 > 0:02:17that.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20In the event of a leadership contest some say Mr Corbyn needs the
0:02:20 > 0:02:23support of MPs to enter the contest.
0:02:23 > 0:02:27Allies insist he should get on the ballot automatically.
0:02:27 > 0:02:28As the existing leader of the Labour Party
0:02:28 > 0:02:31he should automatically be on the list.
0:02:31 > 0:02:34Now if it takes a court to
0:02:34 > 0:02:36make that decision that's where unfortunately you'll have to go.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39It could lead to a split in the party
0:02:39 > 0:02:41as Len McCluskey said yesterday very clearly.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43Do you think it could lead to a split in the party?
0:02:43 > 0:02:45Well, it would be a real shame.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48I mean, I personally think that now is the
0:02:48 > 0:02:49time to come together.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52It's less than a year since Jeremy Corbyn was
0:02:52 > 0:02:55elected leader of the Labour Party but when the Conservatives go about
0:02:55 > 0:02:58choosing their next leader, for Labour the battle ahead could well
0:02:58 > 0:03:02lead to the party splitting in two.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05The UK government has rejected proposals that could have meant
0:03:05 > 0:03:08the Ministry of Defence facing prosecution over deaths
0:03:08 > 0:03:11during hazardous training exercises.
0:03:11 > 0:03:14Reservists Craig Roberts, from Penrhyn Bay, Edward Mayer
0:03:14 > 0:03:17and James Dunsby died as a result of neglect,
0:03:17 > 0:03:19while on an SAS exercise in the Brecon Beacons.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22The Defence Select Committee had called to scrap the current military
0:03:22 > 0:03:28exemption to prosecution, over such tragedies.
0:03:28 > 0:03:31Plaid Cymru politicians say Tony Blair should appear before MPs,
0:03:31 > 0:03:33and possibly face sanctions, in the wake of last week's Chilcot
0:03:33 > 0:03:35report into the Iraq war.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37They're calling for the former Prime Minister to be held
0:03:37 > 0:03:41to account, as Nicola Smith reports.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43It was a war that claimed the lives of 14
0:03:43 > 0:03:45young men from Wales.
0:03:45 > 0:03:46But the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was
0:03:46 > 0:03:49launched, according to the Chilcot report, on the basis
0:03:49 > 0:03:52of flawed intelligence.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55We have concluded that the UK chose to join
0:03:55 > 0:03:59the invasion of Iraq before the peaceful options
0:03:59 > 0:04:02for disarmament had been exhausted.
0:04:02 > 0:04:07Military action at that time was not a last resort.
0:04:07 > 0:04:09The report was highly critical of Tony
0:04:09 > 0:04:13Blair's conduct while making the case for the invasion.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16At the time, in the spring of 2003, Plaid Cymru
0:04:16 > 0:04:20Assembly member, Adam Price, who was then an MP, led the charge of
0:04:20 > 0:04:21impeaching Mr Blair.
0:04:21 > 0:04:23That's a process where Parliament can
0:04:23 > 0:04:27prosecute and try individuals who are normally holders of public
0:04:27 > 0:04:29office.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32Mr Price has now renewed those claims and he's not the only
0:04:32 > 0:04:36one from Plaid Cymru who thinks that action needs to be taken.
0:04:36 > 0:04:37The evidence in the Chilcot report is
0:04:37 > 0:04:43quite damning and we want MPs to have the opportunity to debate what
0:04:43 > 0:04:47sort of sanctions we should take against Mr Blair and hopefully to
0:04:47 > 0:04:51bring him before the bar of the house so that he can hear the
0:04:51 > 0:04:52verdict.
0:04:52 > 0:04:56Possibly also be stripped of some of his titles, some sort of
0:04:56 > 0:05:01symbolic punishment for him for what he did.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04The calls come as a cross-party group of senior MPs plan
0:05:04 > 0:05:07to table a Commons motion on Thursday to declare the former Prime
0:05:07 > 0:05:10Minister in contempt for misleading the House.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13Tony Blair said last week that he made mistakes in the run-up
0:05:13 > 0:05:16to the invasion but insisted that British servicemen killed in Iraq
0:05:16 > 0:05:23had not died in vain.
0:05:23 > 0:05:25The Chief Executive of the Football Association
0:05:25 > 0:05:27of Wales, Jonathan Ford, says he thinks Wales' manager,
0:05:27 > 0:05:30Chris Coleman, WILL see out his contract until 2018.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33But that it could be difficult to keep him,
0:05:33 > 0:05:35if he decides he wants to move to a club side.
0:05:35 > 0:05:37Coleman has already said the 2018 World Cup campaign
0:05:37 > 0:05:41will be his last as Wales boss.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44A quick look at the weather and a wet start to Monday morning
0:05:44 > 0:05:47but the showers should clear to leave some sunny spells
0:05:47 > 0:05:48by afternoon.
0:05:48 > 0:05:49Highs of 19C.
0:05:49 > 0:05:52And that's Wales Today, more at the later time of 10.50pm.
0:05:52 > 0:05:53Good bye.
0:05:53 > 0:06:01Nos da.
0:06:10 > 0:06:10The
0:06:10 > 0:06:10The weather
0:06:10 > 0:06:11The weather held
0:06:11 > 0:06:11The weather held at
0:06:11 > 0:06:11The weather held at Wimbledon,
0:06:11 > 0:06:11The weather held at Wimbledon, it