The liberal Democrat Leader Sir Ed Davey has said his party can win seats from the conservatives in areas where traditional tory voters have been taken for granted. At his party conference, hes attacked the governments handling of coronavirus, trade and climate change. Hes also proposed a system of Catch Up Vouchers for parents to spend on helping children recover learning lost because of the pandemic. Heres our political correspondentjonathan blake. This party may be far from Centre Stage in british politics, but Sir Ed Davey made the most of his first speech to lib dem members in person since elected as leader last year. Theyve taken a once Safe Conservative Seat in a By Election since then, and he thinks theyre onto something. We heard it loud and clear on the doorsteps, in the high streets, in the cafes, from people who had voted conservative all their lives, but now feel completely let down. Betrayed. He accused the tories of an abuse of power and rallied members to help remove them. The electoral arithmetic is clear. These Conservatives Cant be defeated next time unless we, the liberal democrats, Win Tory seats. Borisjohnson will stay in Downing Street unless we throw him out. This is a heavy responsibility. The main Policy Focus was education, a call for £15 billion to help pupils catch up, post pandemic, and money for parents to spend directly. A third of the Education Catch Up Fund should go to parents directly, in the most radical empowering of parents ever. Parents should get Catch Up Vouchers to spend on what they want for their childs education. This was a head on attack against borisjohnson� s conservatives, designed to appeal to those who want to remove them from office. Lots of talk of fairness, decency and a focus on education. His party is convinced that is a strategy for success, but its voters he has to win over. Surrey is just the sort of place the Lib Dems have their eye on. Esher and walton has long been a Safe Conservative Seat, but there is hope here that can change after the Lib Dems came a close second at the last election. Its now a marginal seat. Thats very exciting. I was lib dem. I dont know what you were, to be fair . I was conservative. But we will be voting next time. Youll probably be lib dem again. I do need to look into it. I dont really know who the lib dem is out here. I suppose i am a natural conservative. Thats about all i can say. A natural conservative . Yeah. Would you consider voting for the Lib Dems . No, not at this point in time. One, two, three, yes the Lib Dems are encouraged and emboldened by their recent success but know they face a long path back to political prominence. Jonathan blake, bbc news. Australia has defended its decision to scrap a multi billion Dollar Deal to buy french diesel submarines, in favour of a new Security Pact with the us and uk. Under the trilateral agreement, known as aukus, australia will instead buy nuclear powered subs, equipped with us and uk technology. The move has caused fury in france, sparking an unprecedented diplomatic crisis. Australias prime minister, scott morrison, says he understood frances disappointment, but added australia had to act in its own strategic interest. Ultimately this was a decision about whether the submarines that were being built at great cost to the australian taxpayer were going to be able to do a job that we needed it to do when they went into service, and our strategicjudgment, based on the best possible of Intelligence And Defence advice, was that it would not, and therefore to go forward when we are able to secure a supreme submarine capability, to support our defence operations, it would have been negligent not to. Prime minister of australia there, scott morrison. As students start to head to campuses for a new academic year, universities in england are being urged by their regulator to take Student Views into account when deciding about online teaching. The regulator the office for students says it expects the majority of teaching to be in person, but many universities have told the bbc some lectures are likely to be online. Heres our Education Editor Branwen jeffreys. So, in terms of the freshers� week. Freshers� week is about to come roaring back. Universities were Ghost Towns last year. But in the coming weeks, from bars to laboratories, everything will reopen. The biggest change, and the thing im most excited for, is to get back into the lectures, to see people. I do a science degree, so im really excited to be back in the labs and doing that sort of work. Its time to rebuild their social lives, and get used to turning up to lectures. There are people in the new cohort who have potentially never been out. So they are trying to go for the full uni experience. But everyone is aware, you know, that there is still a bit of precaution that needs to be in place. The coronavirus reminders are still there. But more of a nudge, less of a strict regime. The big Game Changer this year is vaccination. It should allow a return to mainly face to face teaching, and thats absolutely crucial, notjust for students, but universities also know they are under pressure to show value for money for those tuition fees. These seats will refill at york. But lectures will also be offered online. In england, a warning that Student Views on quality matter. Were going to be looking particularly at those courses where we know there are high numbers of students going in, where there may be a risk to quality. But were also relying on students and others to let us know if they think that quality is slipping. And, if it is, we will intervene and we will be discussing with universities and colleges what the problems are. At york, theyve brought forward finishing these student flats. With student numbers up, theyve run out of rooms. First year rhys has been offered Student Accommodation in hull, so he faces an hour each way commuting untiljanuary. I am still stressing about it, how much im going to have to spend travelling instead of studying, or in lectures, or with friends, or socialising. Its going to be a real challenge, especially for my first year of university. The university says giving students the full uni experience is the priority this year. Were going to look after them as well as we can in that situation, making it easy for them to get to and fro, helping them with money and making sure, through well targeted welfare support, and on site support, that they dont feel isolated. Already on campus are international students. One more sign of the slowjourney back to normal university life. Branwenjeffreys, bbc news, york. The people of russia have been voting on the third and final day of parliamentary elections. There have already been widespread allegations of electoral fraud, but officials have dismissed them as a campaign from abroad. Steve rosenberg reports from moscow. Theres something rather odd about a russian election. Polling stations turn into musicals. Buses turn into Polling Stations. We found this one just outside of moscow. They were surprised to see us. And across russia, they have been voting for three days. It looks like a regular election. There are voters and there are parties to vote for, but most Opposition Politicians and activists in other words, the kremlin� s most vocal critics are banned from the ballot. At Polling Station 475, a hooded woman was caught on camera apparently stuffing ballot boxes. When she had finished one pile, out came another. And so it went On And on. And here, someone is using a mop to cover up cctv but they forgot about the other camera that caught them pushing up the handle. At the moscow call centre, an independent Vote Monitor says its been made aware of more than 4,000 possible instances of fraud in this election. If you talk about standards, some European Standards that was assigned by russia as well, russian elections are not free and fair when we compare it with the standards. Russias State Election Commission concedes there have been some issues at some Polling Stations and says it has taken appropriate action but it denies violations are widespread. The official view here is that criticism of this election is a western plot to tarnish russias image. Four Space Tourists have returned safely to earth after spending three days in orbit in a capsule operated by the private company space x. They were the first all Amatueur Crew to go into space without a professional astronaut aboard. As Duncan Kennedy reports, their craft landed in the atlantic just off the coast of florida. Approximately 50 mph, when they touch the. This is the flight thats reinvented space flight. Applause the spacex mission, coming down in the atlantic, is the first all civilian crew to have orbited the earth. On behalf of spacex, welcome home to planet earth. Your mission has shown the world that space is for all of us. They were led by jared isaacman, a 38 year old billionaire who paid for all four seats on board. The four Day Mission began last wednesday, reaching a height of around 360 miles. Whoa among the crew was a cancer survivor, hayley arceneaux, who made the most of the craft� s uniquely large window. We can see the entire perimeter of the earth, which is so beautiful the crew did six months training, but it was the on board computers that controlled everything except the floating toy dog. I think the idea is that there is an awful lot that still needs to be accomplished in space. Theres an awful lot of it. We know so little about it. There may be some really interesting answers to questions we have all been asking for a long Time Out there. Spacex is run by elon musk, Swapping Astronauts for highly trained amateurs in a new world an Outer World of space tourism. Duncan kennedy, bbc news. Were back at the top of the hour, but now its time for sportsday. Clive, thank you. Welcome to sportsday im chetan pathak. Coming up on the programme, we look back at the life ofJimmy Greaves after the former England Striker and Tottenhams Record Goalscorer dies at the age of 81. He was a great personality, a wonderful footballer and a man with huge charisma and fun. Well, the two Clubs Greaves impacted most spurs and chelsea faced each at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium with the visitors leaving with all three points to go top. And englands Women Battle through the rain to beat New Zealand in the second one day international. Welcome along, thank you forjoining us. Only one place to start this evening with a man widely regarded as one of the greatest goal scorers theres ever been. Jimmy greaves death at the age of 81 has lead to tributes across football. Well bring you some of them tonight. Greaves was a man who scored 357 goals in the english top flight. More than anyone else. His former clubs tottenham, Chelsea And West ham were all in action today. More on how they got on shortly. But first, our Sports Correspondent Andy Swiss looks back at the life of a man regarded as a giant of the sport. He was English Footballs ultimate goal machine. Back to greaves, the chance of a shot Jimmy Greaves once said that, for all his skill, scoring was hisjob and it made him a superstar. Greaves oh, and a Hat Trick for greaves after starting at chelsea, greaves moved to Ac Milan in 1961 but his European Adventures soon turned sour, and he came home to tottenham hotspur The Club which would define his career. It wasnt just the goals, it was the staggering rate at which he scored them 266 for spurs, 44 injust 57 games for england. He was a key player heading into the 1966 World Cup. But early in the tournament, greaves was injured and, although he recovered by the final, he was left out in favour of geoff hurst. A disappointment which proved hard to take. I couldnt force myself to join the festivities, because id built. In my own mind, i had built myself up that i was going to be in the side and i was going to be one of the key people and, suddenly, it wasnt there. This is greaves after retiring in 1971, greaves struggled to cope. Alcoholism was followed by bankruptcy. But he battled back from both to reinvent his career. Good afternoon. Gday now, saint, what happened there . You were favourites to qualify. A relaxed raconteur, he was a tv natural, and Saint And Greavsie alongside Ian Stjohn was a hit with viewers. Although the programme ended in the early � 90s, the affection for greaves certainly didnt, and in 2009, the man who famously missed out on the World Cup final at last received a winners medal. It was a fitting reward for one of footballs most popular and prolific talents. Rarely has the art of Goal Scoring been made to look quite so easy. Tributes have been pouring in from all across football and beyond today