hello, this is bbc news. i am ben brown. the headlines at ten: on the first day of the conservative conference, the may will apologise for not winning the majority of the election. voters clash with riot police in the spanish region of catalonia, as many try to take part in a banned referendum on independence. the low—cost travel company, monarch, has been granted a 24—hour extension to its licence to sell package holidays. an air france flight was forced to make a sudden diversion when it lost part of an engine over the atlantic. also in the next hour — the invictus games hold their closing ceremony. founder prince harry wants to expand the event in the future, saying "the sky's the limit." and at 10:30, we'll bring you a newsbeat debate on generation z, exploring the misconceptions

of 16—22 year olds and asking how they see their future. good morning and welcome to bbc news. theresa may says she plans to say sorry to activists at the conservatives‘ annual conference for the party's performance in the snap election that she called earlier this year. the prime minister is also seeking to enhance her party's appeal to younger voters by outlining changes to student funding and has indicated that graduates won't have to start repaying loans until they earn £25,000 a year.

our assistant political editor norman smith is at the conservative party conference in manchester. mrs may has been speaking already this morning, what has she had to say? there are going to be more announcements, more initiatives targeted at young people and in particular students. mrs may think she's going to look again at student financing. now, we do not know what those announcements are, she was press today could the government consider a graduate tax, should he did not rule that out. i would think thatis did not rule that out. i would think that is unlikely. it underpins the fa ct that is unlikely. it underpins the fact the tories are desperate for this conference to be a brexit fest, they want to talk about other issues which is what we have had this morning, the announcement of student fees and housing, the extra £10 billion to be set aside for help to buy. what we did not get this morning as any clarity of where this cash is going to come from because thatis cash is going to come from because that is 10 billion that is going to be spent on extending the help to buy scheme, another 2 billion is

going to have to go on keeping tuition fees at their current level and increasing the threshold to 25,000, but is £12 billion which is now going to have to be found somewhere in the budget. that is announced next month. the traveller those that to find £12 billion pretty pronto. —— the chancellor. the urgency that senior tories realise they have to reach out, not just beyond brexit but also to younger voters, many of whom deserted the conservative party in d roves deserted the conservative party in droves and that is, i suppose, the other issue facing them today. will today's proposals on tuition fees really cut them any site because these are pretty small announcements compare to the big sort of blunderbuss that jeremy corbyn compare to the big sort of blunderbuss thatjeremy corbyn is offering a just blowing tuition fees out of the water altogether, scrapping them. the careers of the water altogether, scrapping them. the theresa thing we will not increase them. bat the tories aja saying we will not increase them. the rise through parliament if the

dup had cut of rough, it might have been bowing to the inevitable. she has apologised to the party, apparently, so the performance of the general election. is that an apology that shows weakness or strength? to be fair, i do not think she did quite apologise to the party this morning. she said, i am sorry, councillors lost their seat, i am sorry candidates were not victorious but she did not say it is my fault, i got it wrong. not i am sorry. it is not what she said. that is probably what some people here would like because they're in mind she had a working majority courtesy of one david cameron, she blew it, it was her choice, she broke a promise not to hold a general election. i did

not hear that open and generous apology to the party, more just think that you lost a seat. there will be interesting to see what sort of reaction she gets on that. the other thing i think were staying at the end of her interview with andrew marr, she was asked about brexit. a couple of things i thought interesting, her conviction that her florence speech has given new negotiations momentum. the other thing i thought interesting wishy seemed to have a wobbly line on terms of during the transition phase we will accept new rules and regulations from brussels. boris johnson yesterday said no way, we cannot accept it. he has drawn a red light. not at all clear i heard that from mrs may. i thought she kept all her options open there without committing to rebuffing any future new rules during a transitional phase. norman, let usjust listen to the prime minister this morning talking about beating angela merkel, the german chancellor after that speech she made an brexit. ——

meeting angela. i had the chance to speak to other eu leaders as well, i got the impression with being told that they had welcomed the florence speech, that the bride speech had given to the negotiations. it is notjust leaders who have said that, if you look at what michel barnier said at the end of the week, he was very clear that speech had change things. the prime minister speaking earlier on, the brexit issue, people think borisjohnson is still on manoeuvres, one of the papers suggesting the day that he thinks she will be gone within a year, what is the feeling that in manchester?” think there have been an awful lot of raised eyebrows, yet again boris johnson has articulated a pretty clear set of red lines, just two

weeks after that daily telegraph article now we have an interview in the sun with borisjohnson saying two years the sun with borisjohnson saying two yea rs not the sun with borisjohnson saying two years not a second more for a transitional phase. bear in mind mrs may has left the door open to a longer transitional phase, she said roughly two years, but she is not nailed herself down to two years. borisjohnson nailed herself down to two years. boris johnson saying nailed herself down to two years. borisjohnson saying the years it has to be, no more. as ijust imagine, he said we cannot accept any new rules are recognition from brussels and we must not keep paying into access for the single market and we should not be shadowing the single market to ensure access. that is awful lot of red lines you scribbling all over the place which is perhaps why mrs may is trying to shift the agenda onto other issues and in particular that question of tuition fees. letters have a look at her speaking about that. this is not as an issue, people think about student finances, something that worries student

themselves, this is something that parents and grandparents are concerned about in terms of debt. so we have a system that provides funding for universities, as is that ensures more people can go to university but people are worried about the level of debt that the students build up. so we will look at it again. where are we this morning? we are in manchester but where we are is mrs may trying not to get bogged down in brexit and the endless speculation about what an boris johnson brexit and the endless speculation about what an borisjohnson is up to with these policy announcements on tuition fees and housing. i have to say i think it is going to be an awfully ha rd say i think it is going to be an awfully hard task, and himalayan mountain to climb to get this conference focused on anything but brexit. norman, i am glad you know where you are. norman smith in manchester, where else? voters have clashed with riot police at polling stations in the spanish region of catalonia, as they try to take part in a banned referendum on independence.

this was the scene a short while ago in girona in the north east of catalonia. the civil guard — who are the national police — were brought in by the government in order to remove voting material from polling stations. the government insist the police are not there to prevent people from voting. since those clashes, the national police have entered that particular polling station — which is where the catalan president carles puigdemont was due to vote — but he has since alread cast his vote. he cast his vote in another polling station in the end. he has maintained that the vote should still go ahead, despite the fact the spanish courts have declared the poll illegal. i have been speaking to gavin lee who was outside a polling station in

barcelona. what i found fascinating, one of the polling stations that shouldn't be polling stations, the spanish government saying and the police saying that they will remove ballot papers, they will come here. this is a suburb of barcelona, this is gracia, this is a middle—class suburban district in which people have come out in their hundreds, if not more than 1000 here, queueing, some of them, since six o'clock this morning. the ballot boxes were brought in on the back of motorbikes aboutan hourago, a huge cheer went up. so here is the thing that is going on right now. here, the police came this morning at six o'clock, they took a few names of the volunteers that are organising this particular community centre. they walked away. but they have come back and since have said that ballot boxes that are brought here, they will be removed. there will be no vote count by the end of the day here and what we are hearing reflected across different parts of catalonia, where the catalonian president carles puigdemont voted girona, scuffles breaking out there. we are not talking violence or clashes but we are talking about moments of perhaps ugliness between the police trying to get the ballot

boxes and another centre, maybe about 500 metres down the road. just to briefly show you around here so you get a sense of the size the crowd. all under umbrellas in the rain, as you can see, but the crowd stretches right down the other side of the block. it goes on for at least half a kilometre down here and i think this is the point, it is about the politics of the street for the cata la n politics of the street for the catalan government, legitimate or not, they convey the power of the people, if the turnout is high, if they get one or 2 million people voted, most of them voting yes, they are still think they may call for independence in 48 hours. gavin the reporting in barcelona. the low—cost travel company, monarch has been granted a 24—hour extension to its license to sell package holidays. it means travellers who book with the firm until midnight tonight will be covered for their trips. the airline is understood to be in talks to sell part or all of its short—haul operation, as simon cleminson reports. for almost as long as package

holidays have been popular, there has been some form of protection in case businesses fails. the government scheme atol ensures that not only do you get a refund if you booked ahead, but if you are already abroad, and the firm you're travelling with goes bust, you can get home. companies need to prove they are financially robust to get a licence in the first place. under intense pressure from falling prices, a weak pound and shrinking demand because of terror threats in egypt and turkey, monarch is trying to find a buyer for part or all of its shorthaul operation. it is engaged in talks with a large number of potential investors. a 24—hour licence extension to its atol license means if the airline can continue selling in the charter market and customers will still be covered. monarch also needed a temporary licence last year. ultimately, 10,000 passengers already out of the could be affected. the civil aviation authority is thought to be working on backup plans, using other airlines for the return leg. it says it will provide daily updates. the airline says it continues to work on

its future and flights are operating as normal. let us take you back to spain now. they have declared it illegal, they have sent in riot police to stop voting going on. let's speak to ernest mendoza, he's at a school where his children go and is one of the parents protecting their polling station just north of barcelona. he's stayed there all night. tell us what is going on there right now. at the moment in the school where i am, people of voting, you can see but i do, everyone is motoring and there are massive queues of people waiting to vote. we have had information in the last minute that there are some police taking ballads is another part of our city and we are prepared to not allow them to take the ballot. just

by opposing against them seizing the ballots. the school, a large queue of people waiting to vote and we hope that we can change the situation that we are in now. this was a referendum that has been declared illegal, unconstitutional so what is the point of voting, i mean, if you get a vote in favour of independence, what happens next if this is an illegal, unlawful referendum? well, first of all, it is not illegal, it has not been declared illegal. it has been suspended but our constitution gra nts suspended but our constitution grants the freedom of south determination so in a sense it is not following its rules and secondarily, i do not think it is about legality, it is about politics. it is now time for

politics. it is now time for politics. spanish government has denied to do politics for the last seven years, the catalan government has tried to negotiate with these banish government only 17 times and we could not even discuss about the referendum so the catalan government had no choice after seeing the massive amount of people that wanted to vote, about 80% of the population of the country, they had to wait for this referendum. legality here, i think we are over legality, what we are about is freedom and democracy, freedom of speech that has also been misused. we are hearing unconfirmed reports that spanish police have fired rubber bullets in barcelona. are you worried at all that this could spill over into violence, that are so many police on the streets trying to stop this meeting

happening, but there could be violence? the only people i foresee using wireless is the spanish policemen, not the catalan. i do not see the population of catalan using violence, we are going to be using specific demonstrations, democracy, freedom of speech as we have done until now. through all of history, in fact. catalonia has never been, has never had an army. we will be following the same rules. i do not think there is the space for balance, there is only space for democracy once again. seeing the concern gale catalonian president voting there, do you think there could be a political compromise in any way between catalonia and the spanish government in terms of not full independence but enhanced powers of sovereignty, you know, more autonomy for catalina, is there a compromise that you see as possible? at this moment, taking

that the police are seizing ballots, i see that situation very far—away. i think the spanish government has taken things into a situation where it is quite a reversible. i am just a citizen, that is my own opinion. but i think it is time for politics, that means discussing, sitting down. but if you ask the vast majority of people that i know, even if they we re people that i know, even if they were not pro—independence two weeks ago, now they are pro—independence because they've seen the spanish authorities detaining people without permits, they have been stopping web pages, they have been entering into schools to get people out because they do not want them to vote. denying a population the right to vote is really, really big thing in a democratic country. he called a

referendum in scotland, david cameron, the decision was respected. we should be doing this by now. they are blind to the opinion of people of catalonia. thank you very much. ernest at a school, a polling station for the day. it is north of barcelona. thank you. our headlines: theresa may says she is sorry some conservative mps lost their seats at the general election. voters clashed with riot police in catalonia as many try to take part ina band catalonia as many try to take part in a band referendum on independence. the low—cost travel company monnet has been granted a 24 hour licence to —— extension to its licence to

sell package holidays. —— monarch. max is that ben has won the malaysia grand prix. there was drama even before the race began because kimi raikkonen's ferrari had a problem with the battery. a ruled him out of the race. lewis hamilton finished second but he does extend his standings. on pole, sebastian vettel at the back of the grid, this race was lewis hamilton's to lose. but missed edith has struggled for most of the weekend and the briton's lead lasted just three laps. red bull's max. and george do with the confidence of the multiple world champion he overtook. with best sap and no threat, that was not too troubling. metals surging through the field was. the german repeatedly broke the lap record on his way to fourth place.

victory was the perfect birthday present for maxi 1020 yesterday. it was a bitter sweet they've also and rattle. he was smashed into after the chequered flag and the damage could mean a gearbox change. it was not the result hamilton had hoped for either but he still extended his championship lead to 34 points. manchester city sit top of the premier league this morning. they lead on goal difference ahead of their city rivals united. both teams are unbeaten in the league this season, city beat champions chelsea bya season, city beat champions chelsea by a call yesterday while united easily beat struggling crystal palace by four goals to nil. they scored twice while lukaku scored his seventh goal of the domestic campaign. he now equalled andy cole's club record of seven gold in

the last seven games for united. there are three premier league today, including arsenal hosting newly—promoted brighton at the emirates at midday. the gunners have an enviable record at home, winning eight league games on the bounce, whilst brighton are yet to win away this season. arsenal manager arsene wenger says he's pleased with his side's current form. i believe it is the most interesting, we look like we are good system now with our performances and the results of the of our performances. i'm convinced that the team is hungry, united and that the team is hungry, united and that we show that in every single game. the fans will be behind us. england all rounder moeen ali says he's excited about the prospect of playing australia in the ashes series — and thinks his side can win even if they have to do so without ben stokes. following stokes' arrest last week after an incident in bristol, the england and wales cricket board said he wouldn't be considered for selection until further notice meaning stokes may not travel to australia.

you know how good of a cricketer he is, what he can bring to the table, he is one of the main players that we have saved would be great to have him out there that we will have to see what happens. i am looking forward to it. i've played in australia, the wicked are really good out there. i saw them against pakistan, when you get in there, it feels like it is a good place to bat. golfers at the new zealand women's open had plenty to deal with yesterday — if you've ever played a round of golf in challenging conditions take a look at this.

sweeping storms forced the event into an unscheduled fifth day. umbrellas turned inside—out, & advertising hoardings swept down the fairways at the windross farm course in auckland. play was eventually called off late in the afternoon when the violent weather stopped play for the third time. iam not i am not surprised play was called off, but looks atrocious. an air france flight from paris to los angeles carrying more than 500 people has been forced to make a sudden diversion when it lost part of an engine over the atlantic. passengers described a sudden jolt and then a loud boom. the plane flew for about an hour on three engines before landing at goose bay airport in eastern canada. earlier we spoke tojohn birkhead one of the passengers who is still on the plane. yeah, it's 14 hours now. so, we are still on the plane, first class and business have been loaded onto a small 737 and were flown out of here about two hours ago. the plane for us is due in another hour. right... but we are still on board, we have not been allowed to exit. just describe what happened and how frightening it was. yeah, my wife and i, we were six hours into the flight, my wife and i was stood in the open area next to the galley,

we were stretching and talking about how long the flight was, we we re about halfway through the flight. and then suddenly there was a huge jolt, like we had hit something and then immediately the planejerked around a little bit and then there was a really weird engine noise for a while. that went for about five minutes, we struggled back to our seats. we were strapped in for about five minutes, listening to this noise and then eventually it went away and the usual aircraft sounds kind of returned. for about five minutes, i think, everyone was pretty scared because we didn't know what was going on, there was no announcement. and then after about ten minutes, the crew got up and started tidying the plane away like we were going to land, that was pretty scary because, you know, we were over the ocean at this point. john birkhead speaking to us earlier. oj simpson has been freed on parole

after nine years in prison. the former us football star and actor was approved for release injuly. he has been serving jail time for armed robbery, assault with a deadly weapon and ten other charges following a confrontation in las vegas in 2007. at least 29 football supporters in france have been injured after a security barrier collapsed during a game in the northern city of amiens. hugh schofield reports. 15 minutes into the match at the amiens stadium, lille opened the score with a goal by fode ballo—toure. lille fans erupted with joy, many of them pressing against the metal fence separating them from the pitch. the fence, unable to bear their weight, collapsed sending the crowd of supporters tumbling over each other down to the ground. the match was stopped as emergency workers treated the injured on the pitch. this season, amiens is playing in france's first division

for the first time. their stadium, built in 1999, is undergoing renovation work but officials there insisted that there was no link between the work and the accident. the club's president blamed lille fans for charging en mass against the fence which he said was in perfect condition. prince harry says he hopes to expand the invictus games in the future, saying the "sky's the limit". speaking at the closing ceremony of the event for injured service personnel and veterans, he congratulated the competitors for the example they had shown the world, as andrew plant reports. the final day of competition in canada in the games set up by prince harry in 2014. 17 nations, over 500 participants, for a week—long event that helps wounded servicemen and women with physical and psychological rehabilitation. the closing ceremony then,

a star—studded ending with some of music's biggest names and recognition for one of the game's biggest stars, the uk's mark ormerod, multiple medal winner, the former royal marine commando recognised with the exceptional performance award. to the thousands who filled the stands this week and the millions who watched at home, let me issue you a challenge. don'tjust move on from these games with happy memories. instead, make an invictus goal for yourself. the invictus games are not just for the already determined. these games are for those who need it most. please help us find them. as the scene sets on toronto's games, the flag was passed to the next host. it will be game on down under. i'll see you in australia. sydney taking on the duties. now looking forward

to the next invictus games. cloud, wind, and rain all in the forecast today. not a complete write—off, mild and lively dry weather, central and eastern parts of the country, turning breezy weather you are, a bit of rain for the west of scotland, north—west england, drizzle across wales and the southwest england through this afternoon. brighter skies returning from the western temperatures today, 14, 18 celsius. tonight, the front brushes off towards fees, taking the rain away, left with the windy conditions overnight, particularly across scotland, northern ireland and england, plenty of showers filtering here. it is dry further south, mild with the strength of the wind keeping things frost free to start monday. monday morning rush hourin

start monday. monday morning rush hour in scotland, gusts of 60 mph. less windy further south across the country, but where you are blessed to with heavy showers in the north and the west, drier towards the southeast and a little cooler than it has been at 14 to 18 celsius. goodbye for now. hello. this is bbc news with ben brown. the headlines: on the first day of the conservative conference, theresa may says she is sorry that some conservative mps lost their seats in the general election. voters clash with riot police in the spanish region of catalonia, as many try to take part in a banned referendum on independence. the low—cost travel company, monarch, has been granted a 24—hour extension to its licence to sell package holidays.