the settlers online uplay issue

hope you can help, i tried to load the game at 7pm uk time last night and all i got was a message saying uplay not available right now. please wait a few minutes and try again. so i did this and got the same message so kept on trying but still no luck. so left it a couple of hours and tryed again but i still got the same message. so then i turned off my computer until this morning and tryed again thinking all would be working again but to my surprise i am still getting the same message saying uplay not available right now. all i did was shut down the computer normally on thursday night. please can you help me cause i need to get back into the game as soon as possible.

hope you fix this for me.