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I'll be back with the late news and sport at quarter past ten - | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
The Welsh government says it's concerned about being | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
"frozen out of talks with the European Commission | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
over how EU grant money is being spent here. | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
The Finance Secretary, Mark Drakeford, has written a letter | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
outlining his concerns after commission officials failed | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
to attend a key meeting with Welsh officials in Brussels. | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
EU grant aid has helped pay for all kinds of things in Wales, | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
from colleges, to roads, to this university | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
It has contributed the best part of ?4 billion over | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
The Brexit vote last month means the future of much of that money | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
is uncertain, though promises were made that Wales | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
But now the Welsh government is concerned after EU officials | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
who oversee how the money is spent refused to meet them last week. | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
In a letter to the European Commission, the Finance Secretary, | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
Mark Drakeford, said, any sense that in the short-term | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
we are being frozen out by the European Commission would be | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
It would also send entirely the wrong signal to our partners | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
and stakeholders who have worked tirelessly to make a success of EU | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
In an interview with BBC Wales' Sunday Politics programme, | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
the First Minister said the problem is what is known as Article 50, | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
which begins the process of the UK leaving the European Union. | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
There is no doubt that the commission has decided it is not | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
going to play a part in these meetings from now on. | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
We are in a period at the moment of two sides who are | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
The UK has said it will not trigger Article 50 until there | :01:47. | :01:54. | |
are informal negotiations, and the EU has said there will not | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
be informal negotiations until Article 50 is triggered. | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
At the moment we are at an impasse and over the next few weeks that | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
A spokesman for the commission said they did not want | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
As the UK unpicks its relationship with the European Union, | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
the discussions between officials will be crucial. | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
The Welsh government has a team in Brussels who are trying to secure | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
the best deal for Wales, and that could be vital for | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
Welsh holidaymakers who are due to fly out to Turkey in the coming | :02:22. | :02:30. | |
days have been told to monitor advice from the Foreign | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
And Commonwealth Office following the failed coup yesterday. | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
Cardiff Airport has one flight to Dalaman on Monday and has used | :02:39. | :02:40. | |
social media to remind passengers to check with their airline, | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
British Airways cancelled all its flights to Istanbul today, | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
while other operators are offering customers the chance | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
Campaigners are holding events across Wales ahead of a vote | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
in Parliament on Monday on the replacement of | :03:00. | :03:00. | |
Opponents to Trident manned a street stall in Bangor today, with further | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
events planned on Monday in Aberystwyth and Cardiff. | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
The upgrade is expected to cost tens of billions of pounds, but former | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
Prime Minister David Cameron has previously described it | :03:16. | :03:17. | |
It is a day of protest, throughout the country, | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
to say this is a time when people have really suffered with cuts, | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
with austerity, attacks on all our public services, | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
and they want to spend hundreds of billions of pounds on weapons | :03:29. | :03:31. | |
of mass destruction, which is against human rights law. | :03:32. | :03:43. | |
It is inhumane, and it does not keep us secure. | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
Parents who oppose removing the English language stream | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
at a Carmarthenshire primary school could challenge the plans | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
by making an application for a judicial review. | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
Some parents at Llangennech School object to the council's policy | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
Discussions on the school's future have been deferred until a meeting | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
of the executive board later this month. | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
A plaque has been unveiled in Carmarthen to mark | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
the 50th anniversary of Gwynfor Evans' | :04:10. | :04:10. | |
He won the first parliamentary seat for Plaid Cymru, in 1966, | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
Around 150 people turned up to watch the ceremony | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
An exhibition of works by Roald Dahl's illustrator, | :04:21. | :04:30. | |
Quentin Blake, has opened at National Museum Wales in Cardiff. | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
The drawings include pieces from books such as The Twits, | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
Matilda, and The BFG, as well as Mr Blake's other works. | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
The exhibit is part of the Roald Dahl centenary celebrations. | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
Time to take a quick look at what the weather has in store, | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
and it will be a very mild night with patchy rain and drizzle, | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
as well as extensive low cloud over the hills. | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
Tomorrow morning then cloudy in the west with more patchy drizzle. | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
Cloud will break in the east later, allowing some warm sunshine. | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
We're seeing some of the best and worst of what summer 2016 has too | :05:03. | :05:20. | |
often today, no prizes for guessing | :05:21. | :05:21. |