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That's all from the BBC News at Six - so it's goodbye from me - | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
to encourage junior doctors to train and work here as GPs | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
It doesn't matter if you pay people more money. | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
Actually, what most doctors want to work in | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
is a properly resourced health system. | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
Nadine Aburas was killed at a Cardiff hotel | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
Sammy Almahri changes his plea and admits her murder. | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood says she's "actively considering" | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
whether to seek a coalition with Labour. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
A council leader apologises for "losing her temper" | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
and swearing during an interview for a BBC programme. | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
And on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the disaster, | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
the Wales rugby team meet the school children | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
?20,000 - that's what's on offer for junior doctors | :00:53. | :01:13. | |
if they choose to train as GPs in parts of Wales | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
It's being described as a unique way to deal with what some are calling | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
But a group representing GPs says what's on offer | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
With more here's our health correspondent Owain Clarke. | :01:29. | :01:38. | |
In the early days, it all seems so simple. But the NHS has changed a | :01:39. | :01:48. | |
lot since then and in parts of the country, the challenge now is not so | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
much choosing a family doctor but finding one in the first place. | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
Heidi Phillips is a GP in one of the poorest parts of Swansea. She also | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
teaches at the city's medical school. | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
We are about to have our senior partner retire and we cannot get a | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
replacement partner to take over that role, so I recognise personally | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
the challengers. So what's going on? To offer me a job in Ms rural Wales | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
is absolutely fine. But my husband needs a job to and the family | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
collections are there too so you have to think beyond just the GP as | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
an individual. As part of this campaign to try to persuade doctors | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
from around the world to come to Wales, the Welsh government is | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
offering cash incentives. ?20,000 will be paid for those who choose to | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
train to become GPs in areas of long-term shortages, providing they | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
say for at least one year once they are fully qualified and to cover the | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
cost of exams, anyone training to become a GP in Wales will get ?2000. | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
As part of a new contracts, every trainee doctor, regardless of | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
speciality, will get protected handy study. In reality, they must have | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
access to education and learning opportunities in a protected | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
environment so that they don't have it to be on call when they are meant | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
to be doing an educational session. Sobhi shortage of GPs is not an | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
issue. In fact, it is in the headlines quite a lot. Sometimes it | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
feels like we talk about little else. But the key question today is | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
will Beasley measures really work? GP leaders took to the airwaves this | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
morning complaining about a missed opportunity. There was so much | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
opportunity to use this offer to start to fix the problems we face in | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
general practice, but all we have is a marketing campaign. Scotland, | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
England have just announced massive increases in the funding going to | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
general practice. We had the opportunity to do that here and so | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
far, that is not part of the Wales offer. This afternoon, GPs had a | :03:47. | :03:56. | |
chance to Russell 's concerns with the First Minister. It's not just | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
about GPs, although they are important, it is about looking at | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
nurses, pharmacists, therapists, to provide a wider compounds of service | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
are people so people know who to go to when they have a particular | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
condition. It was useful for me today to listen to the GPs I met | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
here to get a better understanding of the pressures they feel they are | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
under. But what matters most is not what they think that whether or not | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
the second-year Swansea medical students will now be more likely to | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
stay in Wales. It all plays a part, doesn't it? But I think the main | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
consideration is about family, friends and where you formulae. It | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
definitely will be attractive. There is a lot of pressure in being a GP | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
and I also think that for me, it is quite a lonely profession. So, we | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
have a national campaign, we have new incentives, will it work, do you | :04:43. | :04:50. | |
think? It has to do. We have to make this work. There is no other choice. | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
If you think of it, 90% of doctor-patient interactions happen | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
in primary care. If we don't make primary care work, the whole NHS | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
fails. So... There is no other choice. Says the early days, the NHS | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
has changed dramatically, but most of the care most people get is still | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
delivered through the GP's surgery. That's why tackling the shortages | :05:16. | :05:16. | |
really does matter. So, ?20,000 on offer. Why do we need | :05:17. | :05:25. | |
these incentives? Well, a shortage of GPs is an issue across the UK but | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
the effects are felt more in rural areas. There are many reasons for | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
it. GPs are retiring, Wales has the second oldest GP population, and is | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
a leaving rate because of the stress and pressures. There are suggestions | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
that younger doctors may be less tempted to go down that route and | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
may even if they do want to go down the GP route, they might not want to | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
be tied down to one area or one single practice and there is the | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
age-old question, of course, of the brain drain from rural communities | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
into the big cities, so lots of elements to try to disentangle. | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
Groups representing GPs say they welcome these incentives as far as | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
they go but they suspect they will be more successful at attracting GPs | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
rather than keeping them working here and to do that you need | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
investment in the service to ease the pressure. What will happen next? | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
The incentives come into force next year but tomorrow, the boss of the | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
Welsh NHS and the Chief Medical Officer will both be manning a big | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
stall at a big medical recruitment fair in London. They will be trying | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
to sell the Welsh NHS and sell this new deal. To what extent they will | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
be successful we will have to wait and see, but this is certainly not | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
an issue that will be solved overnight. Thank you very much. | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
An American man who strangled a woman in a Cardiff hotel room | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
44-year-old Sammy Almahri had already admitted the manslaughter | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
of Nadine Aburas on the grounds of diminished responsibility, | :06:57. | :06:58. | |
He claimed the voice of God had told him to do it, | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
but today he changed his plea, as Nick Palit reports. | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
The body of 28-year-old Medina Aburas, described in court as a | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
swim, petite Muslim lady, was found on a bare mattress in room two or | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
three of this Cardiff hotel. On New Year's Eve 2014. She had been | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
strangled. Sammy Almahri, an American she had been in a | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
relationship with, fled the scene on the night of the killing and flew to | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
be middle east from Heathrow before eventually being tracks down in | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
Tanzania. Yesterday, he went on trial at Cardiff Crown Court for her | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
murder. Sammy Almahri has already indicated he would plead guilty to | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. But not | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
guilty to murder. However, this morning, on the second day of what | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
was to have been a four-week trial, he decided to change that plea. He | :07:57. | :08:03. | |
admitted he had murdered in the Dean Aburas. Yesterday, the prosecution | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
described the strangling as the deliberate killing of an offence was | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
a woman by a jealous, angry and dangerous man. After the guilty | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
plea, there were tears from the Dean's family in the public gallery. | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
Relieved they now don't have to go through a month-long trial, they | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
made a statement to police on the steps of the course. Justice has | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
been done for Nadine. The right verdict has been returned. We would | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
like to thank everybody who has assisted asked about this tragic | :08:34. | :08:42. | |
period in our lives. Are you now that we are given time to grieve and | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
remember our beautiful girl. I will get a full statement after sentence. | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
The court heard the couple met on an online dating site and Almahri had | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
travel to Cardiff on two or three occasions to see Nadine Aburas. But | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
the relationship ended when he became violent and jealous. The jury | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
heard that Almahri was suffering from a mental illness. His mental | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
state will be discussed next month before the judge passes sentence on | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
November three. There are mixed messages from the leader of Plaid | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
Cymru over whether her party should see a coalition with Labour to | :09:15. | :09:16. | |
formally share power in the assembly. | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
Leanne Wood says Plaid had said "actively considering" the idea, | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
But one of her Assembly Members says he's surprised | :09:24. | :09:25. | |
by talk of a coalition, and Labour says it's happy | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
Here's our political correspondent, Arwyn Jones. | :09:29. | :09:38. | |
Rewrite nine years when the Labour and Plaid Cymru readers join | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
together to form the One Wales coalition government. | :09:44. | :10:01. | |
This evening, however, after some backlash from within her party and | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
criticism from other parties, Ms Wood wrote back from her earlier | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
comments. We are not in 2007 now. This time is very different. Brexit | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
has changed everything. From Plaid Cymru 's point of view, we are | :10:18. | :10:25. | |
acting in Wales best interest and we feel that the arrangement we have is | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
the best one we can pursue for Wales at this moment in time. | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
So why would Plaid be considering this anyway? | :10:33. | :10:34. | |
Well, it all comes down to the numbers in this place, | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
the Assembly's chamber in Cardiff Bay. | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
You've got 60 AMs, so for the government to get all | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
its policies through, it needs a majority, 30 or more. | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
Now, at the moment, Labour only has 29 AMs, just one short | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
of that majority, but if it did go into coalition with Plaid, | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
it would mean 11 additional Assembly Members there. | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
That's a grand total of 40, more than enough. | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
But while the leader might be considering a return to that | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
arrangement, this AM told me the group in | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
the Assembly had voted against coalition | :11:05. | :11:05. | |
and that the party faithful wouldn't be keen. | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
I think I'm extremely confident in saying | :11:09. | :11:10. | |
that the vast majority of members don't want a coalition with a very | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
toxic Labour government and as a loyal member of the Plaid Cymru | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
group, I think in public I need to convey the line which has been | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
voted upon by the group, that we don't want | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
Of course, Plaid is already working with Labour in the Assembly. | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
The two parties have an agreement which | :11:33. | :11:33. | |
meant Carwyn Jones could become First Minister in May and could pass | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
It's called a compact and means Plaid | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
also has a say in some of the government's policies. | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
Labour says it's happy with the arrangement as it is | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
and some observers think it serves both sides well. | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
I don't think it would be a temptation | :11:53. | :11:54. | |
either for Plaid or the Welsh government, to be honest with you. | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
I think where the Welsh government stands now, | :11:58. | :11:59. | |
they've got 30 AMs if you include Kirsty Williams | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
plus this compact with Plaid Cymru. | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
They're quite comfortable, and from Plaid Cymru's perspective, | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
ad hoc deals that are reactive and have specific | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
So while he gets a degree of certainty on votes | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
in the Assembly and she gets some say over government policies, | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
they may become closer, but might not quite join forces. | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
The jury in the trial of a former police superintendent | :12:27. | :12:28. | |
who's on trial for historical sex offences | :12:29. | :12:30. | |
Gordon Anglesea, who's 79, denies abusing two boys in Wrexham | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
The leader of Ceredigion Council has apologised for her actions | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
In a programme broadcasted earlier this week, | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
She was being questioned about a contract with the consultants | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
Price Waterhouse Cooper, in which they were paid close | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
to ?2 million to find cost cutting measures. | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
You had what you want from me, I think we should finish this. Just | :13:00. | :13:16. | |
one more question. It has been said that PwC will receive 16% profit on | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
every... I'm not going to comment at all. | :13:22. | :13:23. | |
The leader of Ceredigion Council, Ellen ap Gwynn was being repeatedly | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
asked about consultants profiting from a council contract | :13:27. | :13:28. | |
It was a line of questioning which riled the leader so much | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
she demanded the reporter and crew to leave. | :13:32. | :13:39. | |
Do you think it's right that a company... Will you please get out | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
of my room? The bloody lot of you, I've had a lot of you. | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
many fellow councillors believed it was unprofessional. | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
In a boisterous and rowdy meeting, the reader was accused of bringing | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
the council into disrepute and breaking the council's code of | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
conduct. The Leader of the Opposition demanded she apologise | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
for the way she acted on the TV programme. She didn't handle it very | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
well. She lost her temper because she was being asked questions she | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
did not want answered. Questions I believe that the residents need an | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
answer to, and in no uncertain she asked the TV crew to leave her | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
office. The documentary Who's Spending Britain's Buildings | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
examined outsourcing. However, But Councillor Ap Gwynn says | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
However, the ?2 million spent with Price Waterhouse Cooper | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
could result While she believes this | :14:40. | :14:40. | |
was money well spent, she admits to letting herself down | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
in the TV interview. I had been put under considerable | :14:45. | :14:52. | |
pressure by the interviewing team. They asked me the same question | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
three times and I had given them an answer that I was constrained by | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
legalities of the contract in what I could answer to them on that point. | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
They insisted on pushing that point and I answered it clearly and | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
concisely three times and I'm afraid I did lose my temper on the fourth | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
time. The councillor has also said she will try her best to make sure | :15:19. | :15:19. | |
this doesn't happen again. we speak to one of | :15:20. | :15:21. | |
the survivors of Aberfan. And it's a world-renowned show | :15:22. | :15:31. | |
of contemporary art - the Artes Mundi exhibition | :15:32. | :15:33. | |
opens tonight There's been a fresh development | :15:34. | :15:34. | |
in the saga that is the The merchant bankers, | :15:35. | :15:45. | |
Kleinwort Benson, based in the City of London | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
has joined the project. It says it will be bringing | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
in the final piece of private funding, which is says | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
is around ?100 million. It will also act as financial | :16:03. | :16:04. | |
advisors to the developers Our economics correspondent | :16:05. | :16:06. | |
Sarah Dickins is here. So what will Kleinwort Benson be | :16:07. | :16:13. | |
doing? They will not be writing one cheque for ?100 million themselves. | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
They're not paying the money themselves. They are bringing in | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
investment from private individuals. They say both UK and international | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
investors are particularly interested in recreational | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
infrastructure, which is what's good of Wales is, and they are confident | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
they can bring to the table 100000000 pounds of private money | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
and they will also be advising on the investment to go with and not to | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
go with. Reminders where we are on the project? The proposal was | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
rejected by the Welsh government for the second time in July. They were | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
unhappy with the Welsh government underwriting 75% of the project as | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
ingested something more like 50-50 would be better. Since then, the | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
have-nots has been problems with the project, but questions from a number | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
of sources about the people behind the project. Earlier on today, I let | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
the managing director for private merchant banking for Kleinwort | :17:13. | :17:13. | |
Benson and I put that to him. There is a lot of suspicion about | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
the team behind it. You are a very respectable name, Kleinwort Benson. | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
Why are you risking your name to a team that has some question marks | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
from some people? We have obviously conducted our own due diligence in | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
this. We have reviewed the financial package and we have spent a lot of | :17:37. | :17:38. | |
time with the management team. Our own view is that this is a first | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
rate management team to be working with. As I say, very professional, | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
very disciplined, very focused and I believe that they are a team that | :17:49. | :17:56. | |
can deliver a project like this. The position we're in now, this is an | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
interesting development but in terms of the proposal, there is no new | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
formal proposal on the table. That has not been submitted yet, but both | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
the people behind the circuit and the Welsh government both confirm | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
that in ongoing talks, informal talks, let's say, are continuing to | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
say if there can be some kind of agreement or not. Thank you for that | :18:18. | :18:18. | |
update. A commemorative service will begin | :18:19. | :18:19. | |
in half an hour to mark the 50th anniversary | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
of the Aberfan disaster. It will remember the 116 children | :18:23. | :18:24. | |
and 28 adults who died 50 years ago tomorrow, | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
when a coal waste tip collapsed Our reporter Jennifer Jones | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
is at St David's Parish Church Well, the service will | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
begin here shortly. Over the past hour, hundreds of | :18:36. | :18:57. | |
people have been arriving here to pay their respects to the people who | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
died 50 years ago tomorrow around six miles south of here in the | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
village of Aberfan. Tonight's service is one of several events | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
taking place across the county to mark the 50th anniversary. | :19:12. | :19:12. | |
Earlier, I spoke to Jeff Edwards, who was the last child to be pulled | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
One of only 25 children to survive the disaster. | :19:17. | :19:24. | |
And I began by asking him why events like this are so significant. | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
It's important to us and it shows solidarity BB with the community. | :19:32. | :19:41. | |
We've been inundated with messages of goodwill, condolence and | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
sympathy. And that's very important, as far as the community is | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
concerned, to show that support and it gets them through a very | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
difficult time. Tomorrow is going to be a very difficult day for us | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
because at 9:15am, the service is held at the cemetery. I find that a | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
very difficult time for myself because when I walk along those | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
graves, I don't just see the names, I see the children themselves so I | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
find it to be a very emotional affair. | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
We'll be hearing more from Jeff on tomorrow night's Wales Today. | :20:12. | :20:20. | |
On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
some of Wales' rugby coaches and players have visited | :20:24. | :20:25. | |
the village's school and memorial garden | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
to pay their respects to the 144 people who died. | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
Ynysowen Primary School headteacher Simone Roden thanked the players | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
and said the visit had brought a lot of happiness to the children | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
Well, the service is about to get underway here now. | :20:39. | :20:54. | |
Tomorrow morning at 9:15am, exactly 50 years | :20:55. | :20:55. | |
since the disaster, another public service will be held | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
at Aberfan Cemetary, where many of the 144 victims are buried. | :21:00. | :21:07. | |
And we'll have a special programme mark the day's events. | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
Football and after draws against Austria and Georgia | :21:14. | :21:22. | |
Wales have dropped to 11th in the World Rankings. | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
Tonight, manager Chris Coleman has been honoured | :21:27. | :21:28. | |
with the freedom of his home-city of Swansea. | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
Prince Charles and US President Jimmy Carter have been | :21:32. | :21:33. | |
Coleman was born in the city and played 160 times | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
I think it's important that where I was brought up, the people that I | :21:39. | :21:51. | |
was surrounded with, I'm still surrounded by them today. The things | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
that were instilled in me from a young age, you know. You hold onto | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
the good things if you've got half a brain. And I've certainly tried to | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
do that and they've stood me in good stead. Does this kind of occasion | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
motivates you to achieve? I'm so proud of the achievements of those | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
Welsh team. So proud to be associated with it and to be a | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
Welshman. Meanwhile, new Swans manager, | :22:20. | :22:21. | |
Bob Bradley has admitted the club is in a relegation fight | :22:22. | :22:23. | |
but says there's no reason Swansea are one off | :22:24. | :22:25. | |
the bottom in the table. They face Watford in Bradley's first | :22:26. | :22:35. | |
home match on Saturday. He took time out from his schedule | :22:36. | :22:37. | |
this week to meet members They wanted to have a way to | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
say to me, you have a big job, | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
but we welcome you and Totally dismiss that I'm not wanted | :22:45. | :22:46. | |
or that there's things that are held It's the biggest prize of its kind | :22:47. | :22:55. | |
for contemporary art. The Artes Mundi exhibition | :22:56. | :23:03. | |
opens in Cardiff tonight, with the winner receiving | :23:04. | :23:05. | |
?40,000 for their efforts. The prize is awarded every | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
two years, and coincides with a city-wide exhibition designed | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
to put professional artworks Our arts and media correspondent | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
Huw Thomas has more. It's art that's designed to make | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
you stop and think Artes Mundi is a prize | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
for contemporary art with the six on the short list | :23:26. | :23:34. | |
tackling issues like It includes this huge video | :23:35. | :23:36. | |
installation by Benward Williams, only the third Welsh artist to be | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
selected for Artes Mundi and while the meaning | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
behind the works isn't always apparent, the organiser says | :23:48. | :23:49. | |
it mustn't put you off. I know contemporary | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
art is difficult. It is difficult for | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
people if you've not studied contemporary art, | :23:58. | :23:59. | |
not been to art school. Sometimes the institution | :24:00. | :24:02. | |
feels alienating and you feel, oh, my God, I can't | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
go and see that work. Artes Mundi is based | :24:06. | :24:07. | |
at the National Museum and Chapter Gallery, | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
but across Cardiff, a separate festival is putting | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
art in unusual places. This disused motorcycle garage | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
is housing new works by Welsh and international | :24:22. | :24:23. | |
artists while a car park roof is providing space for | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
a simple sentence that's catching The artist wants people | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
to think about their place in the world and the way | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
we treat refugees, but while the message left some people bemused, | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
others were inspired. I think it's very | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
creative and I think it's Really, it was the whole | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
thing about how we are only on this earth temporarily, | :24:46. | :24:56. | |
so immediately, An Art Festival should bring | :24:57. | :24:57. | |
the city alive and I think you can bring the city alive by changing | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
your perspective on it, but also appreciating the beauty | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
of sort of underused, I mean, the rooftop | :25:06. | :25:07. | |
of car park for me has a kind of urban beauty and sort | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
of melancholy that I think the piece In galleries or on the | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
city's more unusual landmarks, art is claiming | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
much of the capital. Cardiff Contemporary will bring more | :25:17. | :25:18. | |
art to the streets this weekend while the winner | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
of the Artes Mundi prize will be Time for the weather picture now, | :25:22. | :25:23. | |
and Derek has the latest. We've had some rain showers this | :25:24. | :25:39. | |
month, but it's been drier than usual so far. We've only had about | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
31 millimetres, that's less than one fifth of the average total rainfall. | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
There is more dry weather to come over the next few days which | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
includes the weekend. Back to today and there's been a lot of cloud | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
around, showers too but bright spells in Penryn Bay. The best of | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
the sunshine in the south-west, ideal for Pembrokeshire flying shop | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
in Haverfordwest. This evening, remaining showers die away leaving | :26:05. | :26:11. | |
us with a few mist and fog patches clearing. Temperatures in rural | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
spots close to freezing with some ground frost. A cold start first | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
thing tomorrow, a bit misty and 40 in places too, for example here in | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
the marchers. Patchy cloud but otherwise try and bright with some | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
sunshine. One or two might about mainly over the sea and the wind | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
will be light from the East or Northeast. During the morning, mist | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
and fog patches will lift and clear, much of the country then bright and | :26:38. | :26:46. | |
dry with sunny spells, the odd shower but no more than that. | :26:47. | :26:48. | |
Temperature wise, we should reach 12 or 14 Celsius with light winds | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
feeling pleasant. In current degree and tomorrow, a dry day, sunny | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
spells, a high of 12 year and dry tomorrow with a mix of cloud and | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
sunshine. Tomorrow night, dry with clouds clearing so it will turn cold | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
again. A widespread ground frost together with a few mist and fog | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
patches. These will lift on Saturday leaving a dry day. Patchy clouds, | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
some sunshine as well. The best of the sunshine in the West. Then on | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
Sunday, most places dry with just one or two showers perhaps in the | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
north. Some sunshine in parts of the South and West but a brisk easterly | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
wind on Sunday which will make it feel cold. Into next week, we could | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
see some rain but possibly a dry and to the month. The sea. | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
We'll have a quick update at eight, more after the BBC News at Ten. | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
For now from all of us on the programme, | :27:41. | :27:43. |