Because of atol, the 10,000 monarch customers currently on holiday will be flown home no matter what happens, but the operator employs nearly 3,000 staff. Their future is less clear. We are all working to try and prevent monarch from going down the route that it seems like it might be. It has been part of our history and heritage in this time from the 50 years. We want to see it back on feet. Monarch was in the same situation last year, but a huge cash injection from investors saved it. The airline says it is continuing to work on its future and flights are operating as normal. With insiders predicting a horrendous winter for the industry, monarch may not be the only airline with trouble on the horizon. Hello, skies were clear, but as winds continued to strengthen increasing number is a heavy showers will come in, especially to scotland and Northern Ireland. Temperatures will not be as low as last night, 1213. It will be will not be as low as last night, 12 13. It will be prove whether further rush hour and especially scotland, gusts up to 60 mph combined with frequent and heavy showers in the morning. Through the day the showers become fewer and winds gradually ease a little. Further so that will not be as windy. Sunshine in the morning, cloud in the afternoon, some rain from mid afternoon in south wales and the south west. It will feel chilly, colder air on monday, still with us on tuesday. By this stage winds will not be as strong and not as many showers and northern areas. Many places will be dry, i temperatures of 30 14. Hello. This is bbc news. The headlines at 8 30pm the spanish Prime Minister has thanked police for upholding the law in catalonia following violent clashes as people tried to vote in an independence referendum. Mariano rajoy said the poll was illegal. Right now i can tell you all emphatically what they have fine today and what you already know is that there was no independence referendum in catalonia today. 17 Year Old Girl and a 20 year old woman had been stabbed to Death Outside the Railway Station in marseille. The suspect was shot dead by soldiers. 0n the first day of the conservative party conference, the Prime Minister has announced a review of the system of student finance in england, and more help for young home buyers. Now on bbc news the travel show. This is the mighty river sava, flowing for nearly 1,000 kilometres from the alps in slovenia, right across to belgrade, in serbia. Its the longest river within the balkans. A vital artery thats 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, the sava connects four countries that just a generation ago were at war. 0n myjourney ill be exploring how today this river is healing wounds by boosting trade and tourism and creating a new identity for the region. And finding out why locals call this the vital heart of the balkans. A nation ofjust two million people, slovenia prides itself on its close relationship with nature. Its 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 rivers 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. Its 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 savas main tributaries, which has now become famous for watersports. And im getting a face first perspective. This is bellyaking. And, yep, theres 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 isnt just used for watersports its 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 its sort of nice to have the sava river connect us all. The river isnt always this placid. It can rise a metre higher in the autumn and winter and turn a lot more aggressive. Frankly, the relative calm of these rapids is more than enough for me to deal with. Ah oh my god 0k. Not sure if bellyaking is the sport for me. 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 slovenias oldest castle, first built in Medieval Times. Its got a kind of fairytale ambience to it and, because of its location, its 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, president josip 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. Its been a sovereign nation state since 1991, and my next stop down the river sava is slovenias 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 wasnt always like this. Just over a decade ago ljubljana was clogged with traffic and the citys main piazza was a car park. But in 2006, the citys 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. If you had to compare how this city looked ten years ago to now, can you tell me the difference . And the children are still following you. And its 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 youve done that . Yeah. Filip and blaz have good reason to keep the city centre, which doubles as their performance space, spick and span and theyve 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 youve 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 the capital win the accolade of being europes greenest city in 2016, and filip and blaz are keen to encourage other locals and tourists to see the potential in ljubljanas spruced up streets. Wow 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 its simple. You can move one arm as well. Push ups three, two three. I dont know how i managed that. Its 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 im here tojoin other tourists 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 110w 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 dont 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. Next stop on my voyage down the longest river within the balkans, croatias capital, zagreb. Croatia was part of the austro hungarian empire until the end of the first world war. And you can see much of that architectural influence around zagreb. The city has been fought over by competing armies for centuries. In the 15th century, so the story goes, the ottoman army was camped on the other side of the sava river, just over there, preparing to attack the city. To deter them, a cannonball was fired with such pinpoint accuracy, it landed on a chicken intended for the commanders dinner. So freaked out were the turks by this that they scarpered and never returned to the city again so the legend goes. But ever since 1877, as a nod to this alleged act of defiance, a cannon has been fired every day at noon from this tower. Wow incredible. Alem is a trained engineer who used to work on the zagreb trams before he saw an advert for the position of cannon man in 2008, and landed the job. Ah, how come what does it do . Laughs. The cannon firing has become a big tourist attraction in zagreb. Alem needs at least 15 minutes a day to prepare and in his nine years doing thejob, hes never had a misfire. Maybe we should pray. No, no, no. No, no praying. 0k. Um, we can. Lets wait. 0k. Please stay here. Yep. You stay here. Thank you. Its 11 58. 0k. Speaks croatian. One minute to shot, please im feeling a bit nervous. Bit tense. Hes very, uh, focused. Waiting for that clock to change. Bang. 0oh whoa even though i knew it was coming, that was still a bit of a shock its still, oof, surprised me. Wow look at this hes milking the applause another day, job done. Well done. Have a nice day. Thank you. Croatias struggle for independence from yugoslavia was more prolonged, complex and bloody than the slovenians. Today, though, its a country of five million and a very popular travel destination, especially zagreb, dubrovnik, and the rest of its spectacular adriatic coastline. But venture away from the capital down the sava and you come across a lesser known city. Sisak lies on the confluence of three rivers and its home to croatias biggest river port. The town of sisak is where the river sava actually becomes wide enough for cargo ships like these to sail downstream to belgrade and serbia, and thats what has made the town such an industrial centre. Now, sisak actually has a rich and colourful history but in recent times, its been characterised as dull and dreary. In fact, most guidebooks dont even mention it. But that is now changing. I am actually the fourth generation born here. And i lived with this town, i grew up with this town, and ijust, you know, when youre reading something about your town, youre reading the bad news and youre thinking what are you talking about . This is not how it is here. So, last year, dahna and her team set about creating re think sisak an art festival that uses the towns buildings as a canvas for murals. This one, by croatian artist lonac, was one of the first to be created. Its the biggest mural in croatia and took 23 days and 400 cans of spray paint to complete. And how do the locals feel about this . Um, well, at first, when we had to have the permission, they were first a little bit, what are you going to do with this . But then, when it all started, they came every day here, they brought him lemonade and cookies, and they were very, very proud of it. They got really emotionally involved as in people from this building call this, our mural which is what we tried to accomplish, you know, for people to accept them as their own. The murals are scattered around the city, each with a different theme or message. Dahna shows me one that highlights a particularly painful part of sisaks history. During world war two, this was the place where the children were gathered to be put in the only concentration camp for children in europe. Really . Just here . Yes in this general area. In this general area . Yes, yes. The camp was set up by the nazi affiliated ustase regime during world war two. The victims were serbian, jewish and roma children. This mural by austrian artist robin abramovic is dedicated to their memory. I believe that the artist gave them a tribute that they deserved and maybe a sort of place of remembrance of all those children who didnt make it. We called him to be a part of our festival because we, as a team, decided that his work does have that certain dark undertone that maybe we kind of lacked in the festival. And needed to portray. And needed, of course, yes, because the art has to provoke thinking, so, notjust be pretty. There are now 17 murals in sisak and the festival has been such a success, theyve decided to keep on painting. Mind you, people dont come to this part of croatia just for the art. They come to see the countrys largest wetland, which im heading through to my next stop on the sava river the marshlands of brodski varos, where i encounter a man on an unusual fishing expedition. Because stjepan goes out every day to collect food for this family of storks. Stjepan found the mother, malena, 2a years ago after she had been shot and critically disabled by hunters. She still cant fly. Because malena cant hunt, stjepan has to help feed the chicks. The fact that i can get so close, incredible. And theyre beautiful wow. Congratulations over the years, a male stork, klepetan, became malenas mate but each winter, malena has to say goodbye to klepetan and their brood of baby storks as he migrates to africa for the winter. This bond between stjepan and malena has become internationally famous and is even the subject of a brand new documentary, the old man and the stork. And so, the first half of myjourney down the sava is complete and im beginning to grasp how important the river is to the people who live along its banks. Next week, i will head to bosnia and herzegovina and then east, all the way to serbias capital, belgrade. Ill find out how a generation who were born by the sava after the war in the 90s have new priorities and why the river has become so important to the future of serbias capital. And i hope youlljoin me. Hello. Its been a blustery day but the wind will only strengthen across northern parts of the uk overnight and into tomorrow morning. This cloud has been spilling across our shores, bringing some rain, not much in the south, and as it moves through we change the wind direction and pick up a north westerly. That will introduce colder airfrom the north west as skies clear. The winds will pick up around that area of low pressure and winds or pushing weak weather fronts eastwards, taking the rain out into the north sea. Skies will clear across the southern half of the uk. Further north the wind continues to strengthen and the cloud will fill in and we will get some frequent and heavy showers in scotland, Northern Ireland and a few in northern england. Temperatures will not be as low as last night. 12 13 further south in clear skies. Into monday morning, there could be travel disruption across the northern half of the uk, mainly because of the strength of the wind on the Trans Pennine route, gusts of 50 mph in Northern Ireland, perhaps 60 mph in some areas of scotland. And combined with heavy showers, the rush hour could be tricky. Showers become fewer. Winds gradually lessen through the day. Further south it will not be as windy. Sunshine for a while, but cloud will increase in the afternoon, and the first signs of rain in the south west and south wales from mid afternoon. Temperatures 14 16. It will feel chilly, especially in strong to Gale Force Winds in the north. This rain is what was left of hurricane maria. It moves out of the way very quickly. Weve still got north westerly winds on tuesday. Not as windy on tuesday, most places dry. Still showers across the north but not as many or as heavy. If anything, temperatures lower on tuesday, a chilly day. We have been getting excited about high pressure, this one will be quite flat. It is getting squeezed by these weather systems from the atlantic, threatening some more wind and rain. And the heaviest rain will be across the western side of scotland. Largely dry for eastern scotland. Some rain for Northern Ireland. Dry for england and wales, some sunshine, and highs of 15 or 16. This is bbc world news today. Im geeta guru murthy. Our top stories after a day of violent clashes across catalonia, voting has ended in the independence referendum. The spanish Prime Ministers response was clear. Translation right now i can tell you all emphatically, what we found today and what we already know, is that there was no independence referendum in catalonia today. As vote counting begins, mr rajoy told catalan leaders to stop walking down a path that leads nowhere. In the southern french city of marseille, two young women are killed in a knife attack. Police have shot dead the attacker. They are treating it as a terrorist attack. And germanys first same sex married couple celebrate getting hitched in berlin