here a man with a train station. here a man with a knife attached to people about 1:45pm local time. we know one person has died. police sources are saying a second person has been seriously wounded. the attacker is said to have shouted, allah hu akbar, god is greatest, as he carried out his attack on the french source has said the attack is likely to bea source has said the attack is likely to be a terrorist act. the attacker was then shot by french police and killed. that is the scene outside the train station in marseille. police are telling people to stay away from the area if they can. we will bring you more on that when we have it, but for the time being let's get an update on have it, but for the time being let's get an update on the have it, but for the time being let's get an update on the weather. it is getting brighter this afternoon. in northern ireland, and the west, things may improve before

the west, things may improve before the end of the afternoon. ten eastern side of england we will continue to see rain. it is getting windier. a fairly muddy fields are things despite the fact that we haven't seen much sunshine and the wind is picking up, temperatures reach into the high teens in some spots. we turned riot many of us overnight but showers packed into the western side of scotland and a few move into northern ireland and northern england. to the south clear skies but the winds strengthened through the night. temperature is not coming down too far. a windy monday in particularly in scotland. gusts of 50 to 60 miles brow. maybe more. these winds could cause some travel disruptions. away from northern england, for the rest of england and wales it is mainly dry until there is rain heading in south—west england as we end the afternoon. running across other southern parts of england through monday evening and into the night.

this is bbc news. the headlines: theresa may announces plans to freeze university tuition fees in england on the first day of the conservative party conference. two people have been stabbed to death in an attack in marseille in france. the attacker has also been shot and killed. spanish rye and police have clashed with voters in catalonia as they try to stop an independence referendum organised by the regional government. mourner has been granted a 2k hour extension to its licence to sell package holidays. and an air france flight was forced to make a sudden diversion when it lost pa rt to make a sudden diversion when it lost part of an engine over the atlantic. back to our top story and the conservative party conference in manchester, were later this hour we are expecting to hear the education

secretaryjustine greening. are expecting to hear the education secretary justine greening. let's are expecting to hear the education secretaryjustine greening. let's go to our chief political correspondent, who lives in manchester. this is the first gathering of the conservative party since that general election. a lot of anger and disappointment still about what happened. 0f disappointment still about what happened. of course, they won but lost that majority in the house of commons, and many people analysing what went wrong and how to change things. we have had some policies today from the government on tuition fees, and particularly about trying to attract younger voters to the party. we have heard from theresa may this morning, who says she has learned from that general election and things she knows what people are sent. do you think she has got the right solution? i hope so, and think that some of these announcements are great. i like the idea of the help to buy turning thousands of people onto the housing ladder, i like the student thing. my own children are coming upfor student thing. my own children are coming up for university age. everybody worries about the size and amount of time it might take to pay

that back. good ideas. ithink amount of time it might take to pay that back. good ideas. i think the problem for theresa may is that if you announce policies in a vacuum, in other words, here are some good ideas, but you don't describe a long—term vision for the country, particularly post—brexit, then other people come along and filling the gaps, like boris johnson. people come along and filling the gaps, like borisjohnson. what she needs to do this week is described what the future is for britain. post—brexit, when we are out of europe, what is the vision? we will become the biggest economy in europe oi’ become the biggest economy in europe or trade globally? 0nce become the biggest economy in europe or trade globally? once you have got that, she can fit all of these other policies into that hole vision for the country. without that, i am afraid it adds up to a whole different port of policies. that is a criticism of her, that there is no philosophy or vision. as there is no philosophy or vision. as the home office, she was good at the detail but the broader picture, that was maybe the problem with the general election. do you think she is able to do it? that was the

problem of the general election and we had a series of policies, actually, that were not popular, like doing something with tuition fees and help to buy and extra money that we have since seen for schools. all of those things announced before the election we would have swept on, iam sure, the election we would have swept on, i am sure, but they did not come forward. this is a big test, i think. 0n forward. this is a big test, i think. on wednesday, when she stands up think. on wednesday, when she stands up to address the party conference, it is the opportunity for her to reset things, if you like. when she came to the backbench party, the mps immediately after the election had more or less won the permission to stay on by saying i got us into this mess, i will get about, and will serve for as long as you want me to. she needs to repeat that to party activists here this week, because, after all, these are the activists who only two years before her election actually fought and won a general election for the first time ina general election for the first time in a quarter of a century for the

conservative party. do you and your collea g u es conservative party. do you and your colleagues want to carry on for the next year or two? you will find a range of views, i can tell you mine. if you have been in charge of calling an election which was not required, which was a gamble and unnecessary, you do have to take the consequences and i think it is very unlikely that she can be there to fight 2022 general election. the best hope, if she wants to stay there, and in any case what is required for the party and the country, is to set out that a wider agenda that i was talking about. is britain going to be a global trading nation, with 7 billion people who live outside the eu? i was a remain in force, but even i think we are getting, if you like, authorfocused on the single deal with europe, when what we should be doing is looking to the future of a global trading nation outside of europe, setting the agenda, for example, no reason why we should not aim to be the biggest economy in europe and if she does that in a speech and set some vision out, people will know where these other policies that in and

thatis these other policies that in and that is what she has got to do this week. there is inevitably chat here of course about leadership and who might be the next leader, even though there is no vacancy at the moment. many thanks. back to you later on in the afternoon. we will be back in manchester in a few minutes, when the education secretary justine greening makes her speech. right now, any change to the schedule, here is the travel show. this river goes from belgrade to serbia. it is the longest river within the balkans. a vital artery that has borne witness to so much history, stretching all the way back to ancient and medieval times and, of course, the turmoil of recent decades. today, it connects four

countries that just a decades. today, it connects four countries thatjust a generation ago we re countries thatjust a generation ago were at war. 0n countries thatjust a generation ago were at war. on my countries thatjust a generation ago were at war. 0n myjourney, i will be exploring how, today, this river is helping to kill those wins by boosting trade and tourism and creating a new identity for the region. and finding out why locals call this the fatal heart of the balkans. —— vital heart. a nation ofjust 2 million people, slovenia prides itself on its close relationship with nature. it's one of the most densely forested countries in europe and nearly two thirds of its landscape is green space. this river, the sava, has been a crucial trading

route for centuries, dating back to 400 bc, when the celts named it after their river god savus, protector of merchants and travellers. and this is the river's source, the magnificent savica waterfall, bursting from two separate points on the cliff face there. and my intention is to follow the river from here, at its very beginning, until it meets the danube, in belgrade. it's a near 1,000 kilometre course, flowing through four countries that just over 25 years ago were joined as part of yugoslavia. the emerald waters snake through the cliffs and then widen into one of the sava's main tributaries, which has now become famous for watersports. and i'm getting a face first perspective. this is bellyaking. and, yep, there's

a hint in the name. it looks like a kayak, but you lay on top of it and use your hands to peddle. like many slovenian kids, luka grew up in the countryside and the sava was a huge part of his childhood. i spent my whole life in the same house about 50 metres away from the river, so when i wake up, if i had my window open, i can already hear it. here in slovenia, the river isn't just used for watersports — it's an important source of hydropower, and luka thinks the river also has an important role to play in uniting the communities who live throughout its course. we were formerly part of yugoslavia, so we are sort of still connected. while our languages may not be that similar, they still have the same origin, so we are still sort of one nation and it's sort of nice

to have the sava river connect us all. the river isn't always this placid. further down the valley, two tributaries merge and the sava starts its journey proper. and at the fork in the rivers lies this majestic castle, lake bled, and its historic castle of the same name. this is slovenia's oldest castle, first built in medieval times. it's got a kind of fairytale ambience to it and, because of its location, it's been a strategic lookout for 1,000 years. and standing here, i can kind of get why. you can see for miles! this place is legendary in slovenian history. 0n the banks of the lake still sits

the former holiday home of the father of post—world war ii yugoslavia, presidentjosip broz tito. tito took the helm of the newly formed federal republic and more or less kept the country together until his death, in 1980, when yugoslavia began to fall apart. slovenia became the first to break away, with a short—lived war that lasted just ten days. it's been a sovereign nation state since 1991, and my next stop down the river sava is slovenia's capital, ljubljana. the city centre is made up of vast squares, lined with baroque buildings and the streets are packed with tourists ambling around. but it wasn't always like this. just over a decade ago ljubljana was clogged with traffic and the city's main piazza was a car park. but in 2006, the city's mayor made the decision to ban

cars from the centre. now the only vehicles allowed are these so—called cavaliers, electric cabs that give free lifts to those with luggage or who need extra help getting around. and the children are still following you. and it's notjust the kids that are using the car—free streets as a playground. filip and blaz are ambassadors for the city. they met when one was a juggler and the other a gymnast, and together became a social media sensation with their urban acrobatic antics. we tried to put ljubljana on the map in our videos. so you can imagine running in a circle or something, we would run off a building. and you've done that? yeah. filip and blaz have good reason to keep the city centre,

which doubles as their performance space, spick and span and they've been part of the efforts to keep it that way. cheering wow! thank you! once a year we have action. the whole of slovenia is cleaned up and the river, they have divers and clean up all the bicycles out. and you've played a big part in those campaigns? yeah. we try to help. we are strong, so we lift all of the heavy stuff, help them to keep it clean and keep it on the next level. citywide cleanups and specialist waste disposal points helped and the gymnasts are firm believers that anyone can be taught to do this. just change the arms. oh, sorry. yeah, like this. and three, two, one, go! see? i told you it's simple.

you can move one arm as well. push ups! three, two! three... i don't know how i managed that. it's kind of superhuman strength. time to leave this urban oasis and head downstream again to radece. this region, like most of slovenia, is densely forested and has a thriving timber industry. hi. nice to meet you. welcome. hundreds of years ago, the sava was the only way to get the huge logs to major cities across the balkans. and i'm here tojoin other tourist to get a taste of those centuries—old rafting journeys. we managed to revive this tradition, because otherwise we would forget all that and it was important because it was alive more than 500 years ago. and duska sees the sava

playing a much larger role in the region in the nearfuture. now there is a perception of sava as a connector. connecting with who? with other communities along the river and, most important, connecting also across border regions. croatia, bosnia, serbia. and we already started to connect. baby steps, they are still, but, yes, we are connecting now along the sava river. but before i head across to my next country on the sava, duska tells me i need to be fully initiated into life on the river with this time—honoured tradition. are you going to behead me? no, we don't do that any more! but if you want to be a member, you have to show us if you are able to sharpen that wooden stick. ah, you show me.

and just when i thought the wood chopping was bad enough... here you go — on your knees. you have to leave the head down. like this. whoa! baptised by the water of the river sava. now, you are watching bbc news. i

will show you some live pictures near saint charles train station in marseille, where a man with a knife attacked two people at about 1:45pm local time. that is the scene now. franz‘s interior ministry local time. that is the scene now. fra nz‘s interior ministry is local time. that is the scene now. franz‘s interior ministry is saying that two women have been stabbed to death in the attack by a man with a knife. you can see, the french army shot the man dead after he launched the attack. there is an investigation now that has been launched by fra nz‘s investigation now that has been launched by franz‘s counterterrorist team. sources say that the man shouted god is greatest in the arabic as he was starting the attack, and police say that he is —— they are treating the incident as a terrorist attack. that is the scene,

as you can see, in marseille right now. police have asked people to stay away, but still a small crowd had gathered outside the station. this is an attack that happened about two hours ago, during the lunchtime french time. two women, we are told, have been killed. stabbed by the attacker at marseille's train station, saint charles train station. 0bviously station, saint charles train station. obviously a busy place in a large city. the man was, as i said, shot dead by the army after he had committed the attack, and there is no investigation ongoing. no details yet as to the identity of the man, but he is said to have shouted in arabic, as i said, god is greatest as he committed the attack. now, while you are looking at these

pictures, i should tell you that we are waiting... we have one eye on the tory party conference that is going on in manchester, where the education secretary, justine greening, is due to take the stage any moment now, so we'll be able to hear what she has to say. in the meantime, while we're waiting that speech byjustine meantime, while we're waiting that speech by justine greening, meantime, while we're waiting that speech byjustine greening, we would like to take you to barcelona, where scenes of clashes between riot police and local people are going on. as you can see, this is all because of an independence referendum that has been called in catalonia. a referendum that the central government says illegal, unconstitutional. as you can see, scenes of some violence going on. cata la n scenes of some violence going on.

catalan officials have said that over 300 people have been injured in these clashes, with police officers trying to prevent people from voting. they have been seizing ballot papers and ballot boxes at polling stations, and in the capital, barcelona, police have used our towns and fired rubber bullets during referendum protests. there you can see people protesters perhaps, or people simply trying to vote, being dragged away, pushed, pulled, thrown to the ground by riot police. the spanish interior ministry has said that 11 police officers have been hurt in these clearly quite violent encounters. now, we're going to leave those scenes now and take you now to manchester, where the education secretaryjustine greening manchester, where the education secretary justine greening will manchester, where the education secretaryjustine greening will be about to speak. this is clearly a

person introducing... about to introduce the education secretary. clearly a great deal for her to talk about. there has been a lot of changes to the exam system in england, with new gcses this summer, new af levels and a levels going on. a lot of worry from schools and... 0utright complaints and condemnation from headteachers, saying that school budgets are simply not sufficient for them to be going on and carrying out the work that they need to do, and headteachers have been complaining about... being unable to appoint enough staff. and julie on the full curriculum subjects because of a lack of funds. it will be interesting to see whetherjustine greening does directly address any of those complaints. separately, of course,

we heard that the treasury is considering lifting the public sector pay cap for teachers. this may be something thatjustine greening might address. well we are waiting for the education secretary... we do not need to wait, in fact, here she comes. conference, good afternoon. it is absolutely fantastic for us all to be back here in manchester. for our country to prosper and succeed in the future, we need to make it a country that really does work for everybody. education and skills are right at the very heart of that ambition. 0ur party in government has made huge improvements to our education system. improvements that are transforming the opportunities for our young people and for our

country, and we should be exceptionally proud of that fact. as you have heard, 1.8 million more children being taught now in schools that are either good or outstanding, compared to when labour were voted out in 2010. this has notjust happened by accident. labour's legacy was grade inflation. that meant ever rising gcse grades, while standards fell. a shocking number of children leaving our school system without the basic skills they needed to do well in life. conservative education ministers stepped in with a programme of bald ambitious reforms, giving choice to parents with the introduction of free skills, giving more freedom to headteachers, so they could innovate and improve standards through academies, and delivering a more

rigorous curriculum, establishing a world —class rigorous curriculum, establishing a world—class examination system at gcse and a—level, so that our young people, traverse school system with the level of knowledge and skills that they need and ultimately employers need to be successful. in this past year, we have gone further, tackling the iniquitous decades—old postcode lottery in school funding in england, and introducing a nationalfair school funding in england, and introducing a national fair funding formula backed by an extra £1.3 billion of funding for the core skills budget. in the last month, we have also delivered on our promise to introduce 30 hours of free childcare for working parents. that is going to make a very big difference to literally hundreds of thousands of parents. in teaching, there are already a record number of teachers in our schools —30,500 more than in 2010 — and i believe

teaching is a profession. but i am determined to help strengthen the profession through stronger qualifications and ensuring access to continued professional development of teachers right the way through a teacher's career. the fa ct way through a teacher's career. the fact is, because of these reforms, the historic attainment gap in our schools between children from disadvantaged backgrounds and they are better off peers is now finally closing. in higher education, thanks to other reforms and the removal of lieber‘s perverse cap on student places, which was literally a cap on aspiration, more talented young people from disadvantaged backgrounds than ever before are now getting a chance to be able to go to our world—class universities. in fa ct, our world—class universities. in fact, last year, 18—year—old from disadvantaged areas are 43% more

likely to be able to go to university than in 2009. but there isa university than in 2009. but there is a whole lot more that we can and must do to help make sure that this really is a country that works for everyone, and that the benefits of our education reforms are spread to all areas, so that how far someone can go in life is not determined by the family, or indeed the country where they are born. but we know that for some children their development has already fallen behind on literacy and numerous sea by the time they even start school. iam announcing by the time they even start school. i am announcing that the next phase of our £140 million school improvement fund will include a new focus on boosting literacy and numerically during a child's reception year. our maths hubs are

already spreading excellence in maths teaching and i can announce that we are going to now intends to invest a further £6 million to make sure that those are in more areas where we know they need to make the biggest difference. we will also go further. we are going to create a 12 million network of english clubs in the northern powerhouse to further improve early language and literacy. because great teachers are at the heart of a great education, i want to do more to support skills to be able to attract and keep the very best of the teaching profession. we will invest more than £30 million in tailored support is that we can get more great teachers in some of the schools that struggled as most with recruitment and retention. and we will introduce a pilot student loa n we will introduce a pilot student loan reimbursement programme to help

attract and retain teachers. and