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We start with breaking news. One of britains best known holiday flight companies, Monarch Airlines, has collapsed, with all flights immediately cancelled it means more than 100,000 passengers are now stranded abroad. A cross europe and also in turkey. Its the uks largest ever airline to enter administration. The British Government says its helping to secure a fleet of thirty aircraft, flying to dozens of mediterranean resorts to bring stranded british passengers home. 300,000 future bookings have also been cancelled. The news broke in the last 30 minutes or so. A statement from the Civic Aviation Authority says. He added the scowl and challenge meant that some disruption was inevitable. The scale. Earlier my colleague Duncan Golestani spoke to our news correspondentjon donnison. He asked him what the uks civil Aviation Authority had said. They are beginning operations to bring back passengers. What about passengers booked on flights in the coming days . If you are booked on a package holiday, monarch has a part in that and you will be covered. If it isa in that and you will be covered. If it is a flight, that is not certain at all because there are not the same insurer and guarantees for people who have only put flights. We have also seen a statement from the ceo and he is apologising and identifies problems with their roots to turkey and egypt in particular, which were badly affect it by some of those terrorism attacks in those countries. He was saying that was a big factor. They have also been hit badly by the week pound. A lot of revenue comes in pounds, a lot of expenses go out in dollars and that means they really struggle to make ends meet and it has been a difficult time. A very, very competitive market in terms of low budget short haul flights to europe. If you are just switching on and onjoining us, the breaking news is that Monarch Airlines, britains fifth Largest Airline and one of the around europe and turkey has gone into administration. The news broke in the last hour. It is bad news not only for the employees 2500 at also fall 110,000 holidaymakers now effectively stranded across europe and turkey. Lets get more on this from the civil Aviation Authority, with me is the policy, timjohnson. Very sad news for the employees and in default passengers. How many people will need to be repatriated and how quickly can that happen . Good morning. We absolutely understand that the news will be distressing both to and employees and passengers. There are currently 100 and 10,000 people overseas with monarch and we are organising a programme to bring those customers back to the uk at the end of their holiday. We absolutely want to say to passengers currently overseas, please, enjoy your holidays, will bring you back please check out website which sets out all the details of those return flights. What about those due to fly home in the next few hours, or today . We have already got planes in the air which are going out to those sort of european airports and we are expecting the vast majority of customers who are due to return back to the uk today to be brought back on those aircraft. What i would also add, the customers are due to fly out on holiday today, perhaps on the way to the airport now, u nfortu nately, way to the airport now, unfortunately, all your flights have been cancelled so we would encourage you not to go to the airport this morning. All those people are brought at the moment will be flown home today and that is your preach, yes you will come home or could some people be stranded for a day or two . We are establishing a very short notice one of Biggest Airlines and putting plans to work. Forgive me, the people watching now, perhaps abroad. You say you will get them home, you will do your best because you are dealing with a big airline doesnt mean that some people will not be able to fly home today . We expect the vast majority of people to come back to the uk today on the date that they were scheduled. We are establishing this on very short notice. We have aircraft in the sky at the moment. We have over 30 aircraft getting themselves in the right position in europe at the moment so the strong message to customers is they can expect to come back but please bear with us. We are trying to establish in short notice this airline so we cannot promise absolutely everything will go without some minor disruptions. My collea g u es without some minor disruptions. My colleagues are working through the night. The vast majority will get home. Those who dont. What do they do . Will there Accommodation Cost be covered by civil Aviation Authority . Are those protected by the atoll scheme, paying the insurance to get protection, and the extra Accommodation Costs will be covered by the fund. For passengers who are not protected they will potentially need a small amount of additional accommodation. We would encourage you to talk to your Insurance Company and your credit card provider. I will emphasise, company and your credit card provider. Iwill emphasise, we company and your credit card provider. I will emphasise, we are expecting to get the vast majority of monarch home on the day they were due to return home. All details are on the website monarch dot cia dot uk. Check the website for returned details. See cia. We have been able to lease aircraft from all over the world, some from america and they are getting into position at they are getting into position at the moment. This is clearly going to bea the moment. This is clearly going to be a significant programme and we expected to cost in the order of £60 million. Why did monarch fail . That isa million. Why did monarch fail . That is a very good question and there will be plenty of opportunity to debate why events today have happened. At cia our sole focus will be on bringing home customers who are currently overseas and that will be absolutely out priority. Are you in contact with the head of monarch and the board of monarch and liaising with them . Kpmg have been appointed administrators of monarch so it is they who are now in charge of the company and we will be working closely with them over the coming days to make sure we have the information required to help us with the flying programme that we will be running for the next two weeks. Some people have described the shorthaul flight people have described the shorthaul flight business is a bloodbath, especially with the terrorism attacks. Is that partly the reason why monarch failed . That is a good question and there will be lots of debate as to why monarch has gone into administration this morning. Our sole focus of the next two weeks is going to be an flying programme on bringing home customers who are currently in europe, back to the uk. One final comment. The vast majority of people will be able to fly home on schedule, those who are travelling already intending to take a monarch flight, they will have to go home . If they are departing from the uk today, those flights will have been cancelled so we are urging our customers in the uk due to fly out not to go to the uk airport. It passengers are overseas and due to return today, as i say, we are expecting to get the bus majority of those back to the uk today and we ask everyone to check how website for all those return flight details. Monarch. Caa. Uk. Monarch airlines has gone into administration. The fifth Largest Airline in the uk. 110,000 passengers are stranded abroad. The cia apt chartered a fleet of 30 planes from around europe and the middle east and will try to get the vast majority of those monarch passengers back home if they were due to fly home today. More information on the cia website monarch. Caa. Uk. 110,000 information on the cia website monarch. Caa. Uk. 110,000 passengers stranded after Monarch Airlines goes into administration. The cia says the vast majority will fly home today if they are due to return home on the state. Those people intending to fly out with acra one, u nfortu nately to fly out with acra one, unfortunately those flights have been cancelled and they will not be able to travel. People who are covered by the atoll insurance policy will have all their costs covered. Those who did not pay the fee will not be covered. In all russias turmoil, it has never come to this. President yeltsin said the day would decide the nations destiny. The nightmare that so many people have feared for so long is playing out its final act here. Russians are killing russians in front of a grandstand audience. It was his humility which produced affection from catholics throughout the world. But his departure is a tragedy for the catholic church. Israels right winger ariel sharon visited the religious compound and that started the trouble. He wants israel alone to have sovereignty over the holy sites, an idea thats unthinkable to palestinians. After 45 years of division, germany is one. In berlin, a million germans celebrate the rebirth of europes biggest and richest nation. This is bbc news. The latest headlines the uks fifth Largest Airline, monarch, has gone into administration, leaving tens of thousands of holiday makers stranded abroad. Future bookings have been cancelled. The authorities in catalonia say 90 of those who voted backed independence from spain after a day of violent clashes with police. Thats more than 2 Million People. More than 800 people and 12 Police Officers were injured. This is how a vote turned ugly. Spanish National Police moving in to disrupt an independence referendum in catalonia, which spains government considers illegal. People kicked and thrown. Women literally pulled by their hair out of polling stations. Across barcelona, Violent Police raids to grab ballot boxes. Hundreds injured when they went to vote. One of the policemen take him from the head, take out the glasses and then he started to kick my dad here. The first one was here. He kicked here. They are mad, i dont know, they are crazy. I am 79, maria teresa told me, i just wanted to vote in peace. But it wasntjust in barcelona. This was the scene to the north in gerona. Watch the blonde woman in the middle. After clearing people from the entrance to the polling station, they smashed their way in. Other officers from Spains National force fought with local catalan firemen. Some of catalonias own Regional Police on the side of voters. Emotions running high. With some in barcelona supporting spains government today, spains Prime Minister tonight seemed oblivious to the violence carried out by his police. Translation we have been an example to the world for our ability to believe in ourselves and to improve at every moment. But many did vote, savouring a precious moment. But in a neighbourhood near barcelona football clubs nou camp, we found spanish police. Surrounding a polling station local people surrounding them. Once inside the school, they removed protesters and searched for ballot boxes. Beth noda was queueing to vote when they arrived. We dont want to be part of this country that they dont love us. Spain doesnt love us. Their work done, they left to a chorus of anger and disbelief. This is the people facing down the police. These are riot police who have been drafted in from other parts of spain. But their heavy handed tactics today appear to be making deep divisions in this region worse. Many catalans did not want todays disputed poll, let alone independence. But spains now Ruling Popular Party helped scrap a deal promising more financial autonomy for catalonia. That was seven years ago and the Pro Independence camp have pushed the idea that this region would be better off outside of spain ever since. Yesterday, we spoke to dr ernest mendoza. Hes a lecturer of physics at the Universitat Politecnica de catalu nya. He was sitting in a school where his children go, protecting the polling station in san cugat de valles, just outside of barcleona. Good morning, i never thought they would go so far, it is psychopathic behaviour, hitting children, hitting anyone in between the ballots and the policemen. I mean, it was more like an occupational force. But do you take the point that the constitution, the 1978 constitution of spain, says that spain must remain intact . But the idea that spain isa remain intact . But the idea that spain is a sovereign state and is indissoluble . There is nothing really in the nature, things do change, countries have changed all of the history. You cannot use the constitution that is supposed to defend our rights to go against our rights in the constitution includes the softer termination as a right. The Self Determination as they write. Its outrageous. It is like a husband that hit his wife and says it is herfault. Do husband that hit his wife and says it is her fault. Do you think he wa nts to it is her fault. Do you think he wants to go back with him after she gets hit the first time . It is a psychopath. He is behaving like a psychopath. He is behaving like a psychopath. Tell us what happened for you yesterday, where wei yu and did the police try and stop the vote . Did the police try and stop the vote . Where were you . At the school, things were not the police didnt show up at the moment of tension because we heard stories so we kind of fortified the ballot room and everyone was prepared for them to storm in and there were moments of stress and people crying, of angen of stress and people crying, of anger, and impotence because hitting, hitting, attacking the population, and an armed population with a brutality we have seen so far, it is something on the scene in european, in the context, and even mrjeremy corbyn and theresa may yesterday was told to do something about it. That is not normal in the 21st century. In my opinion. What happens next . What happens next . According to our president , i think they will discuss what is happening next but what i would like is for catalonia to declare independence because for the most of us, if yesterday before what happened we didnt feel spanish, after what they didnt feel spanish, after what they did to us, what they did to our kids, our elderly, throwing people from stairs, kicking them on the head, shooting and other population, it is going to be very difficult to go back. Very, very difficult. 0k, doctor, thank you very much indeed. Thank you very much. Good day. Barcelona have continued their 100 start to the la liga season with a win over las palmas, but the game was played at an empty camp nou. The decision to play behind closed doors was made by the club as a protest, asjoe lynskey reports. With kick offjust 25 minutes away, the announcement was made. Barcelona would play, but the public wouldnt get to see them. The club had asked for the game to be postponed due to the controversial Catalonian Independence referendum. When that was refused, a decision was made to play the match behind closed doors as a protest. Attention already running high in the city, fans were furious. This is disrespectful. People have organised their travel and come from all corners of the world, having paid for the plane tickets. This could have been agreed a long time ago. They already knew about the referendum and the match was scheduled for the same day. They knew this was happening. Politics and football cannot be mixed. Translation now we have to go back without the excitement of watching barcelona. Where is our money, the money for the tickets, the travel and all the expenses involved to come here and watch barcelona . Stop mixing politics and football, please. Barcelonas players made their feelings known, taking to the field in training tops the colours of the catalan flag before kick off. When the match got under way, it was business as usual. Lionel messi scored twice. Seven wins out of 7a barcelona this season. Unsurprisingly, events off the pitch dominated press interviews. A supporter of Catalan Independence broke down. He says he is ready to stand down, describing sundays events as the worst professional experience of his life. It was confirmed that fans who bought tickets would be reimbursed. The mixture of football and politics wont be forgotten any time soon. I think we are back on track after some slight sound issues before that report. For the latest on all of that, go to our website. Breaking news also this power, Monarch Airlines, one of britains best known airlines, has gone into administration. The caa said 100,000 holidaymakers are stranded abroad. People due to fly today are going to be repatriated. 20. 5 degrees on sunday in herefordshire, we once as the temperatures for a while, things are getting colder and we are dragging cold air down to the north westerly and the wind is really a feature of the weather, strengthening to the south of that deep area of low pressure and pushing away those weather fronts. But we are picking up weather fronts. But we are picking up the winds across the north and seeing more of these heavy and blustery showers so quite unpleasant weather for the morning rush hour, where we have the pick of the winds across northern island, northern england, 50 mile an hour gust, many a touch more than that across exposed parts of scotland, and there will be travel disruptions and the really strong wind back and showers continue into the morning, easing off in the afternoon but it is not as windy, some sunshine in the morning, but into the afternoon likely to find more clout streaming m, likely to find more clout streaming in, have some rain towards the far south west. A windy day on monday, temperatures low as well, it will feel chilly. Especially in the north with the winds are at their strongest. This rain is going to slide across the south west for parts of england out into the English Channel and it has gone by tuesday, certainly, pressure building a little, the north westerly wind back enough to clear skies overnight and rebel glowing and more clout but not as many showers but we would like there across the north but if anything those numbers will be a degree or two lower than on monday. We had high hopes for this area of High Pressure here building in across the uk but it looks now it is getting squished, getting flattened by these active for the system is moving in across the north, bringing the wind and rain. Some dusty winds to the east of high ground of the heaviest rain over the hills and western scotland, someone later in northern ireland, with england and wales is dry with some sunshine around. We started weather front across the north on wednesday and we could see some heavy rain into northern ireland, north west england. Then the weather front moves its way southward and at weekends. We are left with a narrower area of rain. It is getting pulled apart so the rain is why the set had southern areas, north westerly wind back following on behind, dry with some sunshine. This is bbc world news, the headlines the uks fifth Largest Airline monarch has gone into administration leaving tens of thousands of holidaymakers stranded abroad. The news was announced by the civil Aviation Authority after concern about the compa nys finances. Regional leaders in catalonia say more than 2 Million People 90 of those who voted in a banned referendum were in favour of independence from spain. The Prime Minister, mariano rajoy, has called the poll illegal. Canadian police have arrested a somali refugee suspected of stabbing a Police Officer and injuring four pedestrians in edmonton, alberta. And then attacked him with a knife. Two young women accused of using a nerve agent to murder