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The leader of the Liberal Democrats, sir ed davey, says the party is considering scrapping some of their House Building targets because the current approach is leading to the wrong houses being built in the wrong places. The lib dems had pledged to build 380,000 homes each year if they come into power, but its expected that will be abolished tomorrow, at the partys annual conference in bournemouth. Live now to our Political Correspondent helen catt. What are we expecting to be announced . What are we expecting to be announced . ,. , announced . This is about the issue of housin announced . This is about the issue of housing targets. Announced . This is about the issue of housing targets. It announced . This is about the issue of housing targets. It is announced . This is about the issue of housing targets. It is quite announced . This is about the issue of housing targets. It is quite a of housing targets. It is quite a contentious issue, particularly in the sort of areas that the Liberal Democrats would like to take from the conservatives at the next General Election. They tend to be places that tend to be leafy, green, white people seem to be not in favour of large scale development. The Liberal Democrats are proposing that they scrap this target that they have had to build 380,000 homes a year in favour of putting on a target of 150,000 social homes a year. The rationale behind that, sir ed davey has been announcing that the current Top Down Targets lead to the current Top Down Targets lead to the wrong kind of homes being built in the wrong places. Perhaps ones that are larger than needed and he wants to move instead to a more Community Led approach. There is quite a debate about this happening at this conference. The lucky young liberals who are the the young liberals who are the the young liberals are going to try to formally block this. They think that scrapping the target would send out all the wrong signals to younger voters, who they say are really struggling to be able to even rent, let alone own a home. They say the target needs to be kept to send out the signal that Liberal Democrats are on their side. And insiders think that this vote could be quite close. As a possibility that it isnt going to pass. Earlier, i asked the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats. I hope very much that we win the vote tomorrow because its very, very clear after years and years and years that these conservative Top Down Targets simply dont work. They dont solve the Housing Crisis that exists across this country, but they do destroy beautiful parts of our green spaces and our environment. The current Top Down Targets put all the power in the hands of developers, developers that can choose where to build, what to build. They can negotiate their way out of bringing in the key infrastructure. What the Liberal Democrats would like to see is a Community Led system where local communities have the power to buy up pieces of land that Big Developers are sitting on. Where we can build 150,000 social homes per year to solve the Housing Crisis. This is the kind of model that we really hope we can achieve. But if members dont go for that tomorrow and they vote to keep this target, it will be party policy. How will you, as the leadership, make that work . Well, thatll be for us to discuss after the debate tomorrow. What im really keen to do is to make sure that we win the argument on this. As the mp for st albans, i have campaigned on this issue for a very long time. I know the National Planning framework back to front and it is clear that these Top Down Targets simply do not work. We have got to have a Community Led system where we build the homes that we need, the social homes that we need, and that we give local communities the powers to get the right infrastructure and the right homes in the right places. Thats what were proposing. And i very much hope that that becomes part of policy tomorrow. So housing has been one topic of debate here at the Liberal Democrats conference but there is another one where there is a bit of simmering tension behind the scenes here and Thatis Tension behind the scenes here and that is on the partys position on rejoining the eu. Sir ed davey and other figures rejoining the eu. Sir ed davey and otherfigures in the party rejoining the eu. Sir ed davey and other figures in the party have consistently been saying they want the uk to be at the heart of europe but that rejoining the eu is of the table for now. They have got a four step plan to go closer to the eu. Theirs is a very pro eu party and there are some among the membership who are pretty unhappy at this stance. They would like the Liberal Democrats to be coming out as they have to be much bolder and braver and make it clear that they do want to rejoin the eu eventually. That sort of came to the surface a bit earlier when sir ed davey was taking questions and he was heckled by a couple of people in the audience. Interest about the ideology of the conservatives. Applause. A campaign to rejoin the eu . We are campaigning hard on europe, as you know, my friend. But one of the reasons the leadership is saying that, they say brexit isnt coming up when they go out to speak to people on their doorsteps any more and what the focus of this conference is is about focusing on those issues that they think will help them gain seats in the next General Election by addressing voters concerns. A lot of that is about health. So we are having a lot of announcements linked to health. There have been more a Mental Health, the announcement on Mental Health, the announcement on Mental Health, the announcement on Mental Health mot is the people at certain points in their life, where they know that it is more likely that someone will have a Mental Health impact that they want people to be able to be checked out for those just like the physical mot that are offered to people over a0. We had announcement today on how the Liberal Democrats are likely to pay for some of the pledges, particularly in relation to putting a Mental Health professional every school in england. They were saying that they would pay for that by increasing the Digital Services tax which is a tax that is paid by big social Media Companies and big search engines. They want to tablet from 2 to 6 . Search engines. They want to tablet from 2 to 696 from 296 to 6 . Helen for us in bournemouth. From 296 to 6 . Helen for us in bournemouth. And from 296 to 696. Helen for us in bournemouth. And the from 296 to 696. Helen for us in bournemouth. And the liberal| bournemouth. And the Liberal Democrats conference officially gets under way tomorrow. Security forces in kosovo say theyve killed three of the gunmen who attacked officers overnight in the mainly serb north. A siege is continuing at a monastery where the attackers are holed up. It follows an ambush against police that killed one and injured at least one other. The eus Foreign Policy chief has described that attack as hideous and called for the culprits to be brought to justice. Serbia is yet to comment on the incident. Reporter Yasmin Khatun dewan has more from the newsroom. The attack took place in the Northern Village of banjska. You can see it here, its to the north of kosovo by the serbian border. According to official reports, it involves professionals using heavy weapons and two large unidentified vehicles. You can see this image from the scene of the attack, where nato troops were part of a long standing kosovo force standing by the scene of the incident with local Police Officers. Tensions have run high in kosovo following recent elections and the clashes that followed. Relations between the albanian dominated government and the serb Minority Community have been strained for years. You can see images from those clashes there. Nato, following those clashes, deployed an additional 700 troops to its almost a,000 already based in the country to deal with the unrest in northern town of where those clashes took place, with some of its Peace Keepers injured in those clashes. The land locked country in the Balkans Borders Albania and serbia. And it was a former province of the the former yugoslavia. Serbian forces waged a brutal attack on the mainly ethnic albanian populated territory before It Saw Independence in 2008. Kosovo is recognised as a state by 99 United Nations countries, including the us and the uk, but serbia, along with its key allies, chinese and russia, do not recognise its status, instead considering kosovo a part of its nation. Of the 1. 8 Million People living in kosovo, 92 are muslim albanian, of the 1. 8 Million People living in kosovo, 92 are muslim albanian, with around 6 serbian. You can see the Majority Serb Areas in purple here. Ethnic tensions have been constant in kosovo, with eu mediated talks to stabilise the situation currently stalled. Live now to our balkans correspondent guy de launey. We are hearing from the Reuters News Agency that serbias president will be holding a Press Conference in an hours time. What is the latest that you are hearing on the scene . We are heaļ¬na you are hearing on the scene . We are hearing from you are hearing on the scene . We are hearing from serbia you are hearing on the scene . We are hearing from serbia that you are hearing on the scene . We are hearing from serbia that they you are hearing on the scene . We are hearing from serbia that they think i hearing from serbia that they think that kosovo has been far too quick to accuse serbia of involvement in the shooting. The president of kosovo said it was a terrorist attack. The authorities in serbia have said he is far too quick off the mark with this. We really dont know the full facts of what has gone on here, we dont know who this armed group are and i dont have any identifying features so it is very difficult to say who is responsible, what the motivations are and why they had been engaging the Kosovo Police in this way which turn deadly. The Kosovo Police are saying that as well is one of their own colleagues being killed in a shooting incident, three of the armed group have also died and they had taken one person into custody. So with that one person in custody, then perhaps we will start to get some more answers about whos involved, what the motivations were and whether there was any official involvement from serbia. Took and whether there was any official involvement from serbia. Involvement from serbia. Took us throu. H involvement from serbia. Took us through the involvement from serbia. Took us through the bigger involvement from serbia. Took us through the Bigger Picture involvement from serbia. Took us through the Bigger Picture here. I involvement from serbia. Took us i through the Bigger Picture here. For many, this will start to bring back memories of the balkans conflict of the late 80s and early 90s. Is this an isolated incident or reflects similar intentions in the region . I think we may have. I think similar intentions in the region . I think we may have. I think we l similar intentions in the region . I i think we may have. I think we may have lost our think we may have. I think we may have lost our balkans think we may have. I think we may have lost our balkans corresponded. We will bring you more on the story when we have it. Ethnic armenian refugees from Nagorno Karabakh have started arriving in armenia. Over 300 now have crossed the border. Azeri forces retook the disputed territory last week in a military operation. This comes as azerbaijan said it would reintegrate karabakh armenians, while local media in the enclave predicted a mass exodus of them. Nagorno karabakh is a territory in the mountainous South Caucasus of Eastern Europe and asia, between the black sea and the caspian sea. Its recognised internationally as part of azerbaijan, but large areas of it have been controlled by Ethnic Armenians for decades. This week, after azerbaijan launched a Military Offensive in Nagorno Karabakh, a ceasefire was declared. The agreement was that karabakhs Military Forces would be completely disarmed and disbanded, but now there are concerns over the fate of Ethnic Armenians living in the area who say that aid has not been getting through to them. 0ur correspondent Nataliya Zotova is in the Armenian Border town of goris, and she sent this update. This town is the closest one to the border. The road from karabakh to armenia goes through here. Thats where all the International Observers and people from red cross are accumulating, but they dont have much luck getting into karabakh. This morning, several ambulances left for stepa na kert. They are expected to return with the wounded. Meanwhile, today, first few people were led through the border to armenia. They have been put into a refugee camp, but for now they are only letting through women and children and no letting any man. We came across 19 trucks of humanitarian aid here in greece. The drivers told us that they have waited two months on the border trying to get the humanitarian aid through to the karabakh people. Now they are losing hope, so they return to the town. Talking to us, the drivers accused the azerbaijani authorities and russian peacekeepers of deliberately starving the people of karabakh. The drivers didnt want to talk on camera, but they were eager to show us the contents of the trucks so that no one would accuse them of trying to smuggle weapons inside. There were noodles, sugar boxes of first aid medication. Meanwhile, in yerevan, people are protesting, demanding the humanitarian corridor to be opened for everyone who wants to leave. Thats what all people in armenia are waiting for. But it hasnt happened yet. At least 3a people were killed saturday in a fire at a Smuggled Fuel Depot In Southern Benin near the border with nigeria. The number of casualties was announced by interior minister Alassane Seidou who said the bodies were found charred at the scene in the town of semi podji and that 20 people were also injured, some seriously, and admitted to hospital. Live now to dakar and our news reporter, nicolas negoce. Good to see you. What are we hearing, what is the latest . The latest is that hearing, what is the latest . The latest is that we hearing, what is the latest . Iie latest is that we are hearing, what is the latest . Tie latest is that we are hearing many people are in shock and upset about what happened. It sparked a massive fire in the south of benin. It killed at least 35 people, including a child. The interior minister said the cause of the fire is feel. He said the blaze, the fact that the bodies were charred, it was a difficult scene to assist 0. How big of an issue difficult scene to assist 0. How big of an issue is difficult scene to assist 0. 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