baptized with the water of the river sava. next up on my voyage down the longest river within the balkans, croatia's 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 commander's 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 work on the zagreb trams before he saw an advert for the position of cannon man in 2008, and landed the job. why c

baptised by the water of the river sava. my friend. next up on my voyage down the longest river within the balkans, croatia's 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 the group. 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 over their preparing to attack the city. to deter them, the cannonball was fired with such pinpoint accuracy it landed on a chicken intended for the commander's dinner. so freaked out with 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 at the defiance, a canon has been fired every day at noon from this tower. wow all, it's incredible. alan is a trained engineer who work on the zagreb trance before he saw an advert the position of kanin man in 2008, and landed thejob. what does that

rajan starts his epic voyage down the longest river within the balkans, the sava. he will be exploring the river head first in slovenia and travelling along its course to croatia to meet the man whose incredible tale of animal rescue has become internationally famous. incredible sight. three baby storks. i am literally six inches away from them. mother, possibly a bit nervous. on the edge there. but, the fact i can get so close, incredible. join us for that if you can and don't forget, if you want to see our adventures on the road, you can follow us on social media but in the meantime, from all of us here, it's goodbye. it has been amada degen yesterday. across central and eastern england, sunshine and bright enough at times in northern ireland but even without the sunshine, temperatures were mild. a number of spots got up to 22 degrees, four celsius above normal for the time of year. overnight, a band of rain will push eastwards across scotland, england and wales. the rain patchy at times. across the west of the british isles, with clearer skies particularly to no

rajan starts his epic voyage down the longest river within the balkans, the sava. he will be exploring the river headfirst in slovenia and travelling along its course to croatia to meet the man whose incredible tale of animal rescue has become internationally famous. incredible sight. three baby storks. i am literally six inches away from them. mother, possibly a bit nervous. 0n the edge there. but, the fact i can get so close, incredible. join us for that if you can and don't forget, if you want to see our adventures on the road, you can follow us on social media but in the meantime, from all of us here, it's goodbye. hi there. whether front today that will try to push eastwards and as does it will build into high pressure across scandinavia and europe. it will make little overall progress and often the front will be weakened puny. beginning the day with damp weather and western scotland and western parts of england and wales, possibly across northern ireland. this is the zone will continue to seek the rain on offer through the day. central and eastern england, ce

rajan starts his epic voyage down the longest river within the balkans, the sava. he will be exploring the river headfirst in slovenia and travelling along its course to croatia to meet the man whose incredible tale of animal rescue has become internationally famous. incredible sight. three baby stalks. i am literally six inches away from them. mother, possibly a bit nervous. 0n the edge there. but, the fact i can get so close, incredible. join us for that if you can and don't forget, if you want to see our adventures on the road, you can follow us on social media but in the meantime, from all of us here, it's goodbye. hi there. over the last few days, we've been carefully tracking the progress of hurricane maria, which wrecked dominica and puerto rico. lots of weather in the atlantic. a big area of low pressure and a powerfuljetstream over that, a big swell of cloud that looks like a massive ear pushing a band of rain eastwards over the uk over the next 12 hours or so. we will see some rain as we start friday, our main weather front across west scotland and wester

rajan starts his epic voyage down the longest river within the balkans, the sava. he will be exploring the river headfirst in slovenia and travelling along its course to croatia to meet the man whose incredible tale of animal rescue has become internationally famous. incredible sight. three baby storks. i am literally six inches away from them. mother, possibly a bit nervous. on the edge there. but, the fact i can get so close, incredible. join us for that if you can and don't forget, if you want to see our adventures on the road, you can follow us on social media but in the meantime, from all of us here, it's goodbye. good afternoon. some lovely spells of sunshine for some of us out there this afternoon. just take a look at this afternoon. just take a look at this picture. blue sky, plenty of fun. there is a little bit of cloud around unfortunately. with the south—easterly breeze it is mild out there. we could see highs of 23 degrees. this cloud and weather front is bringing some rain, albeit light and patchy. the heaviest bursts will be through scotland this ev

rajan starts his epic voyage down the longest river within the balkans, the sava. he will be exploring the river headfirst in slovenia and travelling along its course to croatia to meet the man whose incredible tale of animal rescue has become internationally famous. incredible sight. three baby stalks. i am literally six inches away from them. mother, possibly a bit nervous. 0n the edge there. but, the fact i can get so close, incredible. join us for that if you can and don't forget, if you want to see our adventures on the road, you can follow us on social media but in the meantime, from all of us here, it's goodbye. hello. the week started on a fairly quiet note across many parts of the british isles. we had a weak weather front close by which really pepped up the cloud across some central and eastern areas. 0ut west, different story. some sunshine to be had but first thing on monday and again late on in the day, some areas were quite badly affected by fog. there's the weather front gradually fizzling all the while as the pressure builds in from the continent. b

rajan starts his epic voyage down the longest river within the balkans, the sava. he will be exploring the river headfirst in slovenia and travelling along its course to croatia to meet the man whose incredible tale of animal rescue has become internationally famous. incredible sight. three baby storks. i am literally six inches away from them. mother, possibly a bit nervous. 0n the edge there. but, the fact i can get so close, incredible. join us for that if you can and don't forget, if you want to see our adventures on the road, you can follow us on social media but in the meantime, from all of us here, it's goodbye. hello there. last weekend we had that cold northerly wind blowing, this weekend it's a warm southerly. there will still be some very usable weather around for the rest of today, and indeed tomorrow, although for western areas we will have some rain around at some point during the day. we've had a little bit of drizzle around this morning as well. this was the report in carmarthenshire earlier on, the low cloud around here. this in hampshire dictating

rajan starts his epic voyage down the longest river within the balkans, the sava. he will be exploring the river headfirst in slovenia and travelling along its course to croatia to meet the man whose incredible tale of animal rescue has become internationally famous. incredible sight. three baby stalks. i am literally six inches away from them. join us for that if you can and don't forget, if you want to see our adventures on the road, you can follow us on social media but in the meantime, from all of us here, it's goodbye. hello this is breakfast, with naga munchetty and christian fraser. a show of force, us bombers fly close to north korea in another escalation of tensions over its nuclear programme. the war of words continues as pyongyang's foreign minister says president trump has now made it ‘inevitable' that north korean missiles will hit the us. good morning it's sunday the 24th of september. voters in europe's most powerful nation go to the polls —