29/05/2017 BBC Wales Today

A floating football pitch - 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

who want to work in the NHS here.

Good evening.

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.

Kate Morgan reports.

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 then

Champions League final.

You look at cities the size of London and Berlin,

lots of big footprints.

We have pretty much taken every lesson learnt in Cardiff.

So the size has been a challenge, but it has 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

to other finals.

So as a fan, it couldn't be better.

South Wales Police say they have 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, there were 250,000 people

in the city, so we know the city can cope and there will be the festival,

meeting points for fans from each of the teams, in bars in Cardiff,

that will show the match, so we're confident the city

can absorb that number.

Alongside the final, there is a four-day

Champions League Festival centred around Cardiff Bay.

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

on Real Madrid here.

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 we have Real Madrid's Gareth Bale,

we will have so many people coming in from the local areas

that the city would basically become gridlocked.

Is Cardiff going to be maxed out though anyway?

It should be.

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

If you are a local person, you know, and you like sport,

we would expect you to come into the city.

The best footballers in the world on our doorstep,

and these opportunities do not come around very often, so people

shouldn't be complacent and think, "Well, we will see them next time."

Who knows, there may not be a next time.

Alan Hamer speaking to Kate Morgan.

Fire crews in Swansea are continuing to tackle a large blaze

at a recycling unit in Forestfach.

There were more than seventy firefighters tackling the fire

earlier, with thick smoke affecting some train services

and bringing road closures.

The operation has been scaled back, but firefighters are expected

to remain overnight.

I look after my grandmother, so I could hear the bangs and that.

You know, I obviously wasn't sure what it was.

But, like, it was dark then so you couldn't see smoke

but you could smell the fumes.

A Welsh surgeon - who saved countless lives in Syria -

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

David Nott, who's from Carmarthen, 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, like little Maram.

An air strike killed her parents.

He worked hard to save her life.

Oh, my goodness me!

Later, he was reunited with Maram, but 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're seeing now is evil, really.

Because sin is something you can be remorseful about.

But evil is something that you perpetrate,

it's something that you know is 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's tried to help.

But the attack in Manchester has brought it home,

and where the techniques he's used on the battlefield have been

employed in British hospitals.

There is a course called the definitive surgical trauma

skills course which all surgeons in the UK have been on,

so it teaches them how to deal with traumatic injuries and how

to deal with haemorrhage.

Nowadays, of course, we never saw the effect of bomb

blasts in this country before.

Now we're adding that to our training regime whereby

we are teaching surgeons had to deal with horrific wounds.

Look what I have got you.

He told me he will return to Syria and wherever

else his skills are needed.

It's a dolly.

Dolly.

To help others like little Maram, the innocent victims of the world's

cruellest conflicts.

You can hear David Nott's Patrick Hannan lecture

at bbc.co.uk/radiowales.

Meanwhile, 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.

Here's Kate Scott-Williams.

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.

I am inclined to believe that...

What brings these people together is that they are all

refugees or asylum seekers.

Professionals in their own country determined to qualify

to work in the NHS here.

To do that they will be tested on their reading, writing,

speaking and listening.

Not an easy feat when you are talking about complex science.

One of them was in Aleppo just a month ago having graduated

from medical college.

Another left Libya in 2014 and wants to continue

to work as a paediatrician.

I'm not working for myself.

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.

It was my dream when I was a kid.

So I think I have to put some work into this to achieve my

dream to be a doctor.

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

allowing them to work in the NHS.

Of those, 12 are GPs, two are consultants and 67

are in training posts.

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

difficult to find a job.

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

and this will help us to find jobs.

These doctors can use their own language and culture to benefit

patients and it also means they can become professionals again

in the place they now call home.

Armed police officers are on duty at the Urdd National Eisteddfod

in Pencoed, near Bridgend.

The increased security is in response to last week's terror

attack in Manchester.

It's expected over 100,000 visitors and competitors

will attend the Welsh-language youth festival this week.

There have been no complaints and people have just accept the fact

that our bags searches are there and the police presence on site.

So obviously it's something that we didn't want to do

and I don't think anybody wanted anything like this.

But obviously we have to adhere to the advice that the police give

us and everybody has accepted it and everything is going OK.

Cricket, and Glamorgan have won their first County

championship game of the season in thrilling fashion.

They beat Durham by three wickets, with just three balls to spare

at St Helen's in Swansea.

The visitors declared on 276-7, but Nick Selman proved to be

the hero for Glamorgan - helping them to reach their target

with an unbeaten 116 - which included two sixes

in the last over.

Rugby, and the British and Irish Lions have

left for New Zealand, ahead of their 10 match tour.

The squad - which includes 12 Welsh players -

took off from Heathrow airport this afternoon.

They play their first game on Saturday.

It hasn't been the brightest end to the Bank Holiday.

Benaz has the weather forecast.

Well, we have had a lot of cloud around today.

The weather settling down this week thanks to high pressure.

We can look forward to a lot of dry weather, some sunshine and it

will start to feel less humid as we go through tomorrow

and over the coming days as well.

Through tonight, it is a fairly quiet night,

we do have a few isolated showers.

Quite a bit of low-level cloud, mist and fog forming into the early

hours of tomorrow morning.

The winds light to moderate, coming from a south-westerly direction.

The temperatures getting down to about nine Celsius.

Tomorrow we do have this weather front which will bring

with it a few showers, high pressure building

from the south, that will settle things down by the time we get

into the afternoon.

But first thing tomorrow morning, for the rush hour, we do have quite

a lot of low-level cloud, mist and fog and a few showers.

If you do catch one, it could heavy, maybe even be thundery.

Some sunshine developing as we go through the day.

For the rest of the British Isles, yes, we do have some rain getting

into Northern Ireland, Scotland and northern

parts of England.

The further south and east you are, it is dry and warm,

and the temperatures coming up to about 22 Celsius.

Here in Wales tomorrow afternoon we do still have a few

showers lurking around.

Gradually they will clear through and it'll start to brighten

up in the North and the West, so at the end of the day,

looking much better.

The temperatures up to about 19 Celsius,

the winds again, light to moderate.

Now through tomorrow night, we will see clear skies,

light winds, the perfect recipe for some mist and fog to form.

Some clear skies as well and feeling much fresher

with the temperatures in single figures, most of us getting down

to about seven Celsius.

By the time we head into Wednesday, high-pressure bringing a largely dry

day, some sunshine to look forward to, perhaps the odd

shower along the South.

But for most of us, it's looking good, highs of 20 Celsius, the winds

coming from a southerly direction.

Looking good on Thursday, too.

Again, largely dry with some sunshine developing through the day.

Highs of around 21 Celsius and then turning more unsettled as we head

towards the end of the week and the weekend.

That's Wales Today.

Thank you for watching - from all of us on the

programme - goodnight.