29/05/2017 BBC Wales Today

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Cardiff prepares for one of the world's biggest sporting events.

Organisers of the Champions League final insist the city can cope.

The Welsh surgeon who saved countless lives in Syria

tells the Hay Festival of the "evil" he witnessed.

And specialist language lessons for the refugee doctors and dentists

Cardiff can cope with the 170,000 people

expected to come into the city for the Champions League final.

That's according to organisers, who say the capital will be

at capacity when Juventus play Real Madrid on Saturday.

It's taken almost a thousand days to plan for 170,000 people

to arrive, enjoy and crucially leave the Welsh capital.

It means providing extra accommodation, transport

and security in one of the smallest cities to ever host

When you look at cities the size of London and Berlin,

lots of big footprints, and we have pretty much taken every

So the size has been a challenge but it's also been an advantage

because when people do come, they can walk around fairly easily

and we think that will put Cardiff on the map and make it different

South Wales Police say they've never planned for anything like this.

As part of a huge security operation there will be road closures

and disruption for both businesses and residents.

But organisers say the city is used to hosting major sporting events

and can deal with large crowds flooding the streets.

In 2005 for the Grand Slam game they said there

were about 250,000 people in the city.

There will be the festival, there will be two fan meeting

points each for the teens, lots of bars in Cardiff

So we are confident the city can absorb that number.

Alongside the final there is a four-day Champions League Festival

One of the highlights will be a legends match where the world's

best former footballers will play on this floating pitch.

But there won't be an opportunity for fans to watch Juventus take

The Festival shuts hours before the final kicks off.

We would have loved to have been able to put on a public screening

but the problem we face is the city is already going to be at capacity

and if we put a free of charge public screening on in the city,

particularly now that it's Real Madrid and Gareth Bale,

we would have so many people coming in from the local areas the city

Is Cardiff going to be maxed out anyway?

It's not very often that Real Madrid and Juventus play in Cardiff.

If you are a local person and you like sport we expect

The best footballers in the world are on our doorstep and these

opportunities don't come around very often.

So people shouldn't be complacent and think we'll see them next time.

Who knows, there may not be a next time.

Fire crews in Swansea hope to bring a large blaze at a recycling unit

in Fforestfach under control this evening.

There were more than 70 firefighters tackling the fire earlier.

Thick smoke affected some train services

I could hear the bangs and that but I obviously

It was dark then so you couldn't see smoke but you could smell it.

Armed police officers are on duty at the Urdd National Eisteddfod

The increased security measures are in response to last week's

Extra security officers are also conducting bag searches.

It's expected over 100,000 visitors and competitors will attend

the Welsh language youth festival this week.

A Welsh surgeon who saved countless lives in Syria

has been recalling the "evil" acts he's witnessed there.

has been operating in conflict zones for more than 20 years.

He's been speaking to Huw Thomas at the Hay Festival,

where he delivered the BBC's annual Patrick Hannan Lecture.

In Syria the mission for David Nott is professional and personal. The

victims, so often the innocent and the young. An air strike killed this

little girl 's parents. He worked hard to save her life. Oh my

goodness me. Later he was reunited with their butt so many others have

died including Syrian doctors who worked with him. In his lecture this

evening he condemned the bombing of hospitals and the targeting of

civilians. What we are seeing now is evil because of sin is something you

can be a morsel about that evil is something you perpetrate and you

know it's wrong and you continue to do it. That is the difference

between sin and evil. David Nott has trained local doctors and works

tirelessly to promote the plight of the people he has tried to help. At

the attack in Manchester has brought it home and the techniques he has

used on the battlefield have been employed in British hospitals. There

are core skills which all the surgeons have. Nowadays of course we

never saw the effects of bomb blasts in this country before and now we're

adding that to our training regime and a teaching surgeons how to deal

with horrific ones. He told me he will return to Syria and wherever

else his skills are needed. To help others, the innocent victims of the

world's cruellest conflicts. You can hear David Nott's

Patrick Hannan lecture A course run by a Cardiff based

charity is coaching doctors and dentists who are refugees

and asylum seekers through specialist English exams so they can

be employed by the NHS here. It's thought the programme

by 'Displaced People in Action' has saved the health service ?20 million

across the UK. It's just a training room

in Cardiff Bay but through these doors have come children's doctors,

brain surgeons, specialists, talented medical

staff key to the NHS. What brings these people together

is that they are all Professionals in their own country

determined to qualify To do that they will be tested

on their reading, writing, Not an easy feat when you are

talking about complex science. One of them was in Aleppo just

a month ago having graduated Another left Libya in 2014

and wants to continue I'm working for my

children's future. It's different to have a mum

who just stays at home and does the cooking and prepares

everything for them. I want them to see their mum

fighting to get to her target. So I think I have to put some work

into this to achieve my This pioneering scheme was set up

by Displaced People In Action alongside the body responsible

for training doctors here and with initial funding

from the Welsh Government, 87 doctors have now been registered

with the General medical Council Of those, 12 are GPs,

two are consultants and 67 There are shortages in certain

specialties and if you think that we can have a qualified doctor

through the scheme within sometimes one to two years at absolutely

minimal cost, whereas to put somebody through medical school

and training you are looking at about a quarter of a million

pounds, that is a huge difference. This doctor from Kuwait came

to the UK seeking asylum in 2014. Now doing a placement

in psychiatrics in Cardiff, he came here because of what the Welsh

scheme could offer. After passing all the exams

and getting registered it's very Also it's very difficult to find

the references required for the job. So by providing this opportunity

for me and other refugee doctors we were able to find references,

we were able to refresh our skills These doctors can use their own

language and culture to benefit patients and it also means they can

become professionals again Cricket and Glamorgan

have secured their first County Championship win

of the season in dramatic fashion. They've beaten Durham

by three wickets with just three balls

to spare at St Helen's in Swansea. The visitors declared

on 276 for seven, but Nick Selman proved

to be the hero, helping Glamorgan reach the target

with an unbeaten 116, which included two sixes

in the last over. Let's get the weather forecast now.

Here's Behnaz. It has been a pretty cloudy bank

holiday Monday. The weather will settle down towards the middle of

the week. Tonight we have a few showers which will clear the way and

to feel less humid. This was the satellite picture from earlier. We

did season breaks in the cloud with brighter spells but nowhere near as

nice as the weather last week. Tonight we have these showers which

will clear north eastwards. It will become driver time. Overnight a few

more showers coming in from the west. A lot of dry weather to look

forward to. Temperatures remaining in double figures for all of us.

Tomorrow we have this weather front that will bring with it a bit of

rain. I pressure is building from the South and that will settle

things down. First thing tomorrow the odd shower, some sunshine and

then a spell of light rain making its way from the West and gradually

clearing by the afternoon. Temperatures tomorrow getting up to

17 or 18 Celsius. Tomorrow night, some evening sunshine for all of us

and we will see some clear skies. Mist and fog forming in the early

hours of Wednesday morning. Temperatures much fresher. The winds

are like. As we head into Wednesday high-pressure sitting comfortably

across the UK. That will settle our weather down. A lot of dry and

bright weather on Wednesday. We could see the odd isolated shower

along the coast in the south but the most of us it is sunny and dry with

temperatures getting up to about 19 Celsius.

Our next bulletin is at 10:30pm tonight.

From all of us on the programme, good evening.