Browse content similar to 01/08/2016. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
whether they think that is an option. Join me now on BBC Two. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Welcome to Wales Today - our top stories. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Amina Al-Jeffrey from Swansea claims she's being held against her will | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Now her MP calls for "immediate action" from the Foreign Secretary. | :00:09. | :00:17. | |
And drug addicts' needles - in the middle of the town centre. | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
Now Wrexham clamps down on anti-social behaviour. | :00:21. | :00:36. | |
A Swansea MP has written to the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
demanding immediate action in the case of Amina Al- Jeffrey - | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
the 21-year-old woman from the city who says she's being kept | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
Miss al-Jeffrey says she's being imprisoned by her father | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
there, without food or water - allegations he denies. | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
Tonight - the MP Geraint Davies says the UK Government must take action | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
This is 21-year-old Amina al-Jeffrey. | :01:03. | :01:10. | |
She claims to have been locked up against her will by her | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
Behind her, the cage she says she has been kept in. | :01:14. | :01:21. | |
The High Court in London has heard evidence from Amina | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
al-Jeffrey's lawyers and those representing her father, | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
But Swansea West MP Mr Davies says he is writing | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
to the Foreign Secretary calling for the UK Government to do | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
I'm asking the Foreign Secretary to verify the evidence that she is | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
being constrained against her will, if that is the case, | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
to ensure that as a 21-year-old British citizen, she is allowed | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
to return back to Britain and he takes all necessary | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
steps to ensure the Saudi Government ensures that. | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
This was Amina al-Jeffrey aged 16, a former pupil | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
It is understood she was taken to Saudi Arabia by her father more | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
He claims he took her here to Jeddah in order to save her life. | :02:06. | :02:13. | |
He claims her daughter was not doing well at school and had been taking | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
drugs and going to clubs and spending time with older men. | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
Last October, Amina al-Jeffrey got in touch with friends, | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
In an interview with this programme, one of those friends, | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
who wished to remain anonymous, said she had managed to get hold | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
The French showed me messages sent to them on Facebook. | :02:35. | :02:46. | |
In them, she says she has been locked up in solitary confinement | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
She said her family has her under constant surveillance. | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
And that if they get suspicious about seeking help, | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
Her friend told me she had asked them to contact the British Embassy, | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
but in December last year, the messages stopped. | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
One expert on race relations believes this case highlights | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
the tension that can arise between two very | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
These children have every right to live in the United Kingdom, | :03:08. | :03:16. | |
where they were born, and to take them away | :03:17. | :03:18. | |
from that situation is not going to help the individual. | :03:19. | :03:27. | |
The Foreign Office says it has been providing assistance to Amina | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
al-Jeffrey in Saudi Arabia as part of an ongoing legal process | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
and that it will respond to Mr Davies letter in due course. | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
It has been described in court as an important and difficult case. | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
Mr Justice Harman is expected to make a decision at | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
UKIP's leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, may be forced to leave the party, | :03:46. | :03:53. | |
because of concerns over him double jobbing, as an MEP | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
The party's National Executive Committee voted to remove him - | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
unless he resigns from one of his elected positions, | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
a decision that he's described as "undemocratic" and "baseless." | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
But UKIP's leader in the Assembly says Mr Gill has a choice to make. | :04:09. | :04:22. | |
You can't do two jobs properly, so he has to choose one | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
or the other if he wants to stay as an MEP, fine. | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
I need someone who is one of committed to the assembly | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
in Cardiff on to the interests of the people of Wales. | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
A drive to almost double the number of Welsh speakers to a million | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
by 2050 has been unveiled by the first minister | :04:39. | :04:40. | |
Carwyn Jones stressed the workplace, family, schools and the planning | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
But Plaid Cymru called the announcement "another | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
An increase in reports of drunkenness, fighting and drug | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
abuse in the last year - now Wrexham Council has introduced | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
new powers to combat anti-social behaviour in the town. | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
Council leaders say they hope the move will encourage people | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
with problems to seek professional help, rather than | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
It was busy enough and there was little sign of the kind of behaviour | :05:04. | :05:14. | |
Popular with young families, but there have been | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
It is included in the area covered by the restrictions. | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
I found Barry Roberts and his friend Samantha Adams, both homeless. | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
They stay in a night shelter when they can, they told me. | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
You had to queue up every night and it get picked out of a hat | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
and if you get picked out, you have two leaves so it is not | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
guaranteed that you will get a nightmare and the rest of the time | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
you have been sleeping in bushes and stuff. | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
What have you been told about this new public order? | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
That people are getting moved on for drinking and things | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
But fair are not, some people do feel intimidated. | :05:55. | :06:09. | |
It is not good for them to see, is it? | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
I am all right on my own, but when the kids around, | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
On the other side of town, again within the area | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
affected by the new powers, there was this. | :06:21. | :06:21. | |
It was clear people were sleeping out here. | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
And just now, there is evidence of a makeshift tent, | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
but it isn't just rough sleeping on the ground. | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
There is evidence of drug-taking as well. | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
Used syringes and syringe wrappers and we are just yards | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
The council hopes to create a no-go area for what it considers | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
In the first instance, people with problems will be pointed | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
Fines of up to ?100 and the court or a last resort. | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
It is about enabling these people to improve their quality of life | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
so that the people who go about their law-abiding business | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
in the town centre, the visitors, the shoppers, can do that | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
without fear of being intimidated by people who are under | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
The services in the middle of Wrexham town centre | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
and what this order does, basically, it puts people out | :07:09. | :07:17. | |
to the periphery so I wouldn't agree that this does help them | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
I think it makes them harder for them to access the services. | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
Wrexham council insists it doesn't simply want to pose problems | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
And according to the authority these orders have been | :07:27. | :07:35. | |
The way it is implemented is the key. | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
Cwm Taf University Health Board has launched a social media and TV | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
campaign to attract nursing staff, with nine of them appearing | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
in videos as ambassadors to promote their profession. | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
The Royal College of Nursing says Wales needs 3500 more | :07:46. | :07:47. | |
First day of August - Derek has the monsoon forecast. | :07:48. | :08:00. | |
That just about sums it up. Forget summer, it is more like November at | :08:01. | :08:09. | |
the moment. So they in Swansea. Parts of south Wales have had more | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
rain today than the whole of July. Over an inch of rain in places. More | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
rain to come tonight. The heaviest in the south will turn lighter later | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
on. Drier on the north coast and a mild night. Lowest temperatures only | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
12-17dC. Tomorrow morning is dull and damp for most of us. Mist and | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
hill fog, poor visibility. The north and east should become dry later in | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
the morning. The rest of the UK, patchy rain and drizzle will spread | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
north-east during the day across Northern Ireland and reaching the | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
South West of Scotland later on. Parts of the Midlands and southern | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
England may dry up. The best sunshine in the North of Scotland. | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
Wales tomorrow afternoon, a few spots of mist and drizzly rain. Some | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
drier weather particularly to the north and east of high ground. Maybe | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
a little sunshine. It will feel mucky tomorrow where it brightens | :09:13. | :09:20. | |
up. 21 Celsius. After weather tomorrow in Abergavenny. Drier today | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
and feeling humid. Low pressure on the doorstep on Wednesday. Stronger | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
winds. Some dry and bright weather. Showers moving through on the gusty | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
winds. Sunshine and scattered showers on Thursday. One or two | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
heavy showers but you might miss them. Better weather for the end of | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
the week. Drier on Friday with more sunshine. A little light at the end | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
of the tunnel. We are back from six o'clock tomorrow morning. Thank you | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
for watching. Good night. | :09:59. | :10:01. |