:00:00. > :00:00.an attack by IS killed an elderly priest. What can a democratic state
:00:00. > :00:00.actually do in this situation? Join me on
:00:00. > :00:11.Our top stories: Years of policies to help vulnerable people out
:00:12. > :00:13.of poverty - so how come so many are still struggling?
:00:14. > :00:15.Wales at the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth
:00:16. > :00:19.Tonight, why we won't be hosting it any time soon.
:00:20. > :00:22.And lessons in chemotherapy - why patients are being encouraged
:00:23. > :00:47.We've had years of policies to try to get people out
:00:48. > :00:50.So how come so many people are still struggling?
:00:51. > :00:52.Tonight, calls for the Welsh Government to be given
:00:53. > :00:58.A report from the Bevan Foundation says current policies aren't
:00:59. > :01:01.working, as nearly a quarter of the population are struggling
:01:02. > :01:06.to make ends meet, a figure which hasn't gone down in a decade.
:01:07. > :01:16.Here's our economics correspondent Sarah Dickins.
:01:17. > :01:24.Looking for bargains. That's what so many households across Wales have to
:01:25. > :01:28.do every week. Everything a pound a bag today. Outside of London, Wales
:01:29. > :01:31.has the highest proportion of working age people living in
:01:32. > :01:35.poverty, despite having lower unemployment than the UK as a whole.
:01:36. > :01:39.In Wales, nearly one in three children live in poverty, as do one
:01:40. > :01:44.in four working age adults, and around one in six pensioners. For 16
:01:45. > :01:48.years, the level of pensioners living in poverty fell, look for the
:01:49. > :01:51.last three years, it has risen again.
:01:52. > :01:55.People have lived off their savings. They always saved for a rainy day.
:01:56. > :01:57.The rainy day came faster than they thought.
:01:58. > :02:03.There has been a real shift from people being in poverty who are out
:02:04. > :02:06.of work to in work poverty. In E.ON, Emma Turner is studying at
:02:07. > :02:11.university and working all the hours she can to bring up her children.
:02:12. > :02:15.The Department for Work and Pensions says a single parent with two
:02:16. > :02:18.children needs to have ?291 a week after paying for household bills to
:02:19. > :02:23.be above the poverty level. Emma has three children.
:02:24. > :02:29.Minimum wage job, 40 hours a week, you're not even earning ?300 a week.
:02:30. > :02:37.If you have rents to pay, the average house price rental around
:02:38. > :02:41.here is about 500- ?600 per month for a three-bedroom house. Ever
:02:42. > :02:44.since devolution, successive Welsh governments have made combating
:02:45. > :02:52.poverty a priority, and many millions of pounds have been spent
:02:53. > :02:57.on a range of schemes on, from free school breakfasts to attempt to get
:02:58. > :03:00.unemployed young people into work. And of course, initiatives to
:03:01. > :03:05.attract more investment and jobs into Wales. These figures suggest
:03:06. > :03:09.that poverty really has not changed overall those years. The Bevan
:03:10. > :03:14.Foundation is proposing one new radical approach, devolving
:03:15. > :03:17.benefits. Such new ideas may gain momentum.
:03:18. > :03:21.Housing benefit, we think, could make a huge difference. There is ?1
:03:22. > :03:25.billion coming into Wales and going straight into landlords' pockets. If
:03:26. > :03:28.that money was used differently and better, we could be building more
:03:29. > :03:32.houses and people could have more affordable, secure homes.
:03:33. > :03:37.The Welsh government says is working hard to create jobs and improve
:03:38. > :03:43.skills, but when Wales is enjoying its biggest increase in jobs but
:03:44. > :03:44.still has this level of poverty, it suggests that this is about more
:03:45. > :03:46.than getting people into work. 115 people who work
:03:47. > :03:48.at Dow Corning Chemical plant in the Vale of Glamorgan have been
:03:49. > :03:51.told they're losing their jobs. Workers were told last month that
:03:52. > :03:54.some jobs at the Barry based factory Around 630 people currently
:03:55. > :03:59.work at the plant. The MP for Aberavon,
:04:00. > :04:02.Stephen Kinnock, has denied concealing details
:04:03. > :04:05.about his daughter's private education when seeking selection
:04:06. > :04:10.for the safe Labour seat. His eldest daughter Johanna
:04:11. > :04:13.attended Atlantic College, near Llantwit Major,
:04:14. > :04:15.in the Vale of Glamorgan He said her study was partly funded
:04:16. > :04:21.by a standard Danish The death of a man from Bronygarth
:04:22. > :04:25.near Oswestry who fell from a cliff while trekking in Peru has been
:04:26. > :04:29.recorded as accidental by a coroner. Harry Greaves' body was found two
:04:30. > :04:31.weeks after he was reported It's one of the biggest sports
:04:32. > :04:37.events in the world, but the 2026 Commonwealth Games
:04:38. > :04:41.will not be staged here. The Welsh Government has announced
:04:42. > :04:45.that an all-Wales bid for the event will not go ahead due in part
:04:46. > :04:48.to financial uncertainty following the Brexit vote.
:04:49. > :05:05.Teleri Glyn Jones reports. Glasgow 2014, a record 36 Welsh
:05:06. > :05:09.medals in what many say was the most successful staging of the
:05:10. > :05:13.Commonwealth Games. But it is likely to be the closest Welsh athletes get
:05:14. > :05:18.to a home games for sometime, with estimates suggesting the cost of an
:05:19. > :05:23.all Wales bid for the 2026 games at up to ?1.54 billion. The Welsh
:05:24. > :05:27.government has decided it is not feasible. Ideally, we would have
:05:28. > :05:30.loved to be able to bid for the games, but in the current
:05:31. > :05:35.circumstances, leaving Europe, and with ongoing austerity, the cost to
:05:36. > :05:38.Wales was judged to be too great. An official report into Glasgow's
:05:39. > :05:43.staging of the games to two-year great years ago and that it was
:05:44. > :05:49.worth ?740 million to the Scottish economy, with the city itself
:05:50. > :05:52.gaining close to 390 million. Across the world, around 690,000 people are
:05:53. > :05:56.estimated to have visited Glasgow during the games. With cross-party
:05:57. > :05:59.support Brigade, today's announcement has been met with
:06:00. > :06:04.disappointment. What they have done is damage Wales' future in terms of
:06:05. > :06:08.economic develop them, in my opinion, about getting is on the
:06:09. > :06:12.world stage. It costs a lot of money to host these games, but you also
:06:13. > :06:14.earn a lot of money, directly and indirectly, and you can buy
:06:15. > :06:18.advertising like posting the Commonwealth Games.
:06:19. > :06:21.The Welsh government's preferred it would have seen events staged right
:06:22. > :06:26.across Wales, with, for example, bowls in wonder drug Wells, and
:06:27. > :06:29.table tennis in Wrexham. However, with increased costs and greater
:06:30. > :06:32.logistical challenges, it is believed it would not have gained
:06:33. > :06:35.support among Commonwealth boating nations. The chair of the committee
:06:36. > :06:41.leading the dead safe investment is needed. If we had those world-class
:06:42. > :06:44.sporting facilities, like a number of people who have hosted games
:06:45. > :06:47.before us, we would not be in this position. A lot of the cast is to
:06:48. > :06:49.actually develop that, develop a huge cultural programme which would
:06:50. > :06:56.develop every child and adult across Wales. With one football's biggest
:06:57. > :06:59.event, the Champions League Final, being staged at the principal at the
:07:00. > :07:02.Stadium next year, Wales is still on the map and tins of high-profile
:07:03. > :07:06.sporting events. The Welsh government says it is ordering a
:07:07. > :07:08.review into sporting facilities here to make sure it can bring other
:07:09. > :07:09.big-ticket events here in future. Future nuclear power projects
:07:10. > :07:12.in Wales need to show value That's the call from MPs
:07:13. > :07:15.who sit on Westminster's A report published by them today
:07:16. > :07:19.looks at the potential of developing new nuclear power stations at Wylfa
:07:20. > :07:32.and Trawsfynydd in North Wales. Nuclear power is going to be... Is
:07:33. > :07:36.already very important in North Wales. It is providing jobs at the
:07:37. > :07:41.moment, not least in the decommissioning that is going on. It
:07:42. > :07:44.could be used to provide even more highly skilled jobs, especially if
:07:45. > :07:49.we go to continuous decommissioning, which is something our committee
:07:50. > :07:52.would like, but also, in the future, we have the capacity to provide
:07:53. > :07:55.thousands of well-paid jobs, firstly in the construction of the plant,
:07:56. > :07:57.and secondly in the running and maintenance of it.
:07:58. > :07:59.A new council-funded hydroelectric scheme has officially opened
:08:00. > :08:03.At a cost of nearly ?4 million, the Radyr Weir hydro project
:08:04. > :08:06.is expected to generate enough energy to power 550 homes.
:08:07. > :08:10.The electricity will be sold to the National Grid.
:08:11. > :08:12.The profits will help the council offset its annual
:08:13. > :08:20.Cancer patients at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Denbighshire
:08:21. > :08:23.are being offered question and answer sessions
:08:24. > :08:27.The six-month trial is a joint venture by the North Wales health
:08:28. > :08:33.Its aim is to reduce the anxiety some people feel before
:08:34. > :08:46.starting their treatment. Matthew Richards reports.
:08:47. > :08:52.Chris Dunning from Flintshire has just completed the second of three
:08:53. > :08:55.chemotherapy sessions for cancer of the oesophagus. Having previously
:08:56. > :08:59.attended a session with medical and support staff who told them what to
:09:00. > :09:00.expect, he is speaking to patients about to undergo their own
:09:01. > :09:04.treatment. You know what you're going to expect
:09:05. > :09:07.when you come in here. It is actually not a horrible place, it is
:09:08. > :09:11.quite a pleasant environment to sit while they give you an infusion with
:09:12. > :09:14.the different drugs, and so as a consequence, I knew where I was
:09:15. > :09:18.coming, what I was going to be doing, and what it might look like
:09:19. > :09:21.for me, rather than this worry that I was kind of building up in my head
:09:22. > :09:25.before that. Classes explain what chemotherapy
:09:26. > :09:29.is, how it could affect people, and what steps they can take to stay as
:09:30. > :09:31.healthy as possible during treatment.
:09:32. > :09:34.Hospitals can be bewildering places at the best of times, which is why
:09:35. > :09:38.there is a list of signs showing you where to go. Now, the hospital and
:09:39. > :09:44.ten of us have teamed up to create a road map to guide people through the
:09:45. > :09:46.cancer treatment. Patients and their families are able to ask about
:09:47. > :09:50.anything that concerns them before chemotherapy begins.
:09:51. > :09:54.One of the main questions was, will I lose my hair? My age, I am very
:09:55. > :09:57.pleased with my bonnet. I was told I probably would not lose my hair, but
:09:58. > :10:01.the hair would get thinner. I feel like a fraud, because I have
:10:02. > :10:08.not had any symptoms or anything. And now, they are going to make me
:10:09. > :10:15.unhealthy to make me look healthier, and that's just... I can't get my
:10:16. > :10:19.head around that happening. But the advice and support extends
:10:20. > :10:22.beyond the merely medical. We do our best to enable them to
:10:23. > :10:26.have more information, to be more confident going home, having had
:10:27. > :10:32.their first chemotherapy. We would like them to be able to seek help
:10:33. > :10:36.and ask for attention, and advice, as they need to.
:10:37. > :10:40.We are here to help people with any financial problems that they have.
:10:41. > :10:44.They can join our choirs, they can speak to a nurse on our support
:10:45. > :10:48.line, and we also have a cancer call-back service that we can speak
:10:49. > :10:51.to patients regularly to see how they are doing throughout their
:10:52. > :10:54.treatment. The six-month trial is halfway
:10:55. > :10:58.through, and the vast majority of participants have found it useful. A
:10:59. > :11:00.cancer diagnosis can be a journey into the unknown, but the classes
:11:01. > :11:01.should help to eliminate at least part of it.
:11:02. > :11:04.Seven Welsh Paralympians have been added to Team GB's track and field
:11:05. > :11:08.They'll be joining discus and shotput athlete Aled Sion Davies
:11:09. > :11:11.and javelin thrower Holly Arnold, who had already been included.
:11:12. > :11:14.Cricket, and in the Royal London One Day at Chelmsford,
:11:15. > :11:16.Glamorgan scored 324-8 from their 50 overs.
:11:17. > :11:21.Their opponents - Essex - had reached 24 for no
:11:22. > :11:33.Both sides could still qualify for the quarterfinals.
:11:34. > :11:35.Let's see what the weather has in store.
:11:36. > :11:44.This time last week, it was hot and humid. But this week, our weather is
:11:45. > :11:48.coming from the Atlantic, so it is much cooler. There is more rain on
:11:49. > :11:52.the way, followed by dry and brighter weather tomorrow afternoon.
:11:53. > :11:56.In the meantime, some places are dry at the moment, but rain will spread
:11:57. > :12:01.across the whole country after midnight, some heavy bursts of rain
:12:02. > :12:06.and a mild, muggy night. Lowest temperatures, 14-16. A dull and damp
:12:07. > :12:10.start tomorrow morning. Light rain, drizzle, mist and low cloud, but it
:12:11. > :12:14.should dry up in the North data in the morning. Across the rest of the
:12:15. > :12:18.UK, some light rain and drizzle in the South will gradually clear. One
:12:19. > :12:23.or two sharp showers, perhaps the odd rumble of thunder in the south
:12:24. > :12:26.tomorrow afternoon. Further north, dry Aaron brighter, some sunshine,
:12:27. > :12:31.and if you showers for the North of Scotland. Top temperatures, 22
:12:32. > :12:35.Celsius in London. In Wales tomorrow afternoon, and improving story. Most
:12:36. > :12:41.places become dry and brighter, with a little sunshine and cloud
:12:42. > :12:45.breaking. The visibility will also improve. I is temperatures, up to
:12:46. > :12:49.22, cooler in the north and on the West Coast. Dry for most of us
:12:50. > :12:53.tomorrow evening. The odd shower in the south, and later in the night,
:12:54. > :12:58.the next batch of rain will cross the Irish Sea, and on Thursday, we
:12:59. > :13:02.will all season rain. It should stage I and brighter in the
:13:03. > :13:07.afternoon, breezy on the Bristol Channel coast, a fuse showers in the
:13:08. > :13:11.north. Friday, a better day. One or two showers here and there,
:13:12. > :13:15.otherwise dry, some sunshine, and feeling fresher. The weekend, sunny
:13:16. > :13:19.spells and a few showers. Temperatures not that high over the
:13:20. > :13:24.weekend. Cool at night, pleasantly warm when the sun is out. I will see
:13:25. > :13:25.you soon. More on all of our stories on our
:13:26. > :13:27.website. That's Wales Today.
:13:28. > :13:29.Thank you for watching. From all of us on the
:13:30. > :13:33.programme, goodnight.