this is bbc news. i'm martine croxall. the headlines at eight: nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, the british—iranian woman jailed in iran for spying, is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, according to her husband. in a telephone conversation with boris johnson that he called positive, he said the foreign secretary expressed deep sorrow for her suffering, but this evening the row over the government's handling of the case continues. the deputy prime minister, damian green, insists police never told him about pornography allegedly found on his computers. he says the allegations have an ulterior motive. as the us continues military exercises in the pacific intended as a show of strength towards north korea, president trump continues the war of words with kim jong un. also today, the queen attends a remembrance day service in london, watching from a balcony in whitehall. big ben chimes.

for the first time, the prince of wales leads the country and honouring its war dead, taking the queen's place to lay a wreath at the cenotaph in london. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the husband of nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, the british woman imprisoned in iran on charges of spying, says she has seen a medical specialist after finding lumps on her breasts and is "on the verge of a nervous breakdown". in a statement, richard ratcliffe said he had spoken to the foreign secretary, who had expressed deep sorrow at her suffering and agreed to meet in person with mr ratcliffe in the next few days. it comes as the government is facing further criticism over its handling of the case. our political correspondent eleanor garnier reports. jailed in iran, separated from her family for allegedly trying to bring down the government. but nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe‘s family has always maintained

she'd been on holiday. now another government minister is facing accusations of a blunder after appearing to cast doubt on what the mother of one had been up to. what was she doing in iran? i don't know. i want to stress that there is no reason why nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe should be in prison in iran so far as any of us know. those remarks directly contradict what the foreign secretary said earlier this week. the uk government has no doubt that she was on holiday in iran when she was arrested last year, and that was the sole purpose of her visit. it was a statement borisjohnson had been forced to make to clarify his previous comments that nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe had been teaching journalists in iran, remarks that caused concern that her sentence might be extended. today, michael gove attempted to shift the attention. if the iranian judiciary want to use

the words of a democrat to justify an unjustifiable decision, it's our responsibility to call them out. let's not play their game. mrs zaghari—ratcliffe‘s husband and the foreign secretary spoke for the first time today. they've agreed to meet within a couple of weeks. but the family's local mp is calling for resignations. it is the job of the british government to protect british citizens. if they make matters worse for my constituent, they need to realise that they are unfit for office and michael gove and borisjohnson, who are meant to be the leading lights in the government, have got to resign. with more calls for senior ministers to go, the pressure is growing on the prime minister to get a grip on her cabinet. there have been two resignations in the space of a week and one of her closest allies is under investigation. all this while the government is embroiled in the brexit negotiations.

for now, the focus for the foreign secretary, and of course mrs zaghari—ratcliffe‘s husband, must be to get her home as soon as possible. our political correspondent, eleanor garnier, is here. richard a richard ratcliffe has released a statement this evening. he says that what she's describing some sort of mental nervous breakdown, and a p pa re ntly mental nervous breakdown, and apparently she has found lumps on her breasts. he said he had a phone call with her today, apparently she was seen by a specialist in a hospital in tehran yesterday. the finding is believed that the lumps we re finding is believed that the lumps were benign, but because of a family

history of breast cancer, the lumps are being closely monitored. the other part of the statement refers to the foreign secretary. absolutely, borisjohnson has faced a lot of criticism in the last 11 days over his statement to the house of commons saying that she was in fa ct of commons saying that she was in fact teaching journalism in iran. today mr ratcliffe says that he doesn't want to see any resignations, and he believes that borisjohnson will play a crucial role in helping to secure her release, so that was certainly the family's point of view. he also said interestingly, and said his wife expressed anger at boris johnson, and certainly she was aware of his comments, and she has spoken about how some of her cell—mate in iran a p pa re ntly how some of her cell—mate in iran apparently have seen the reports in the media off the back of boris johnson's comments. so what is likely to happen next? how is the foreign secretary over the help? they had this conversation today for the first time, boris johnson

they had this conversation today for the first time, borisjohnson and mr ratcliffe. we were told it was a promising conversation, the men will meet in the coming days. the family hope very much the borisjohnson will take them up on this offer of going to tehran to try and help the family secure her release. that is there hope. nick beake, thank you very much. theresa may's closest cabinet ally, damian green, has insisted that police did not inform about claims that pornography had been found on a computer in his parliamentary office, nearly ten years ago. a former head of the metropolitan police, sir paul stephenson, says his force was aware that material had been found in a search. damian green has previously described the claims as "completely untrue". our home affairs correspondent dominic casciani's report contains flash photography. at the heart of the government, the prime minister's right—hand man. but now damian green, the first secretary of state and de facto deputy pm, is under increasing pressure over

allegations that he says are untrue and a smear. it all goes back to this 2008 raid on mr green's office, filmed by a conservative party worker. scotland yard detectives were investigating government lea ks to the then shadow frontbencher. they never got to the bottom of it, but nine years on, claims of what they did find have surfaced. last weekend, the sunday times reported that officers had found pornographic material on one of damian green's parliamentary computers. no action was taken at the time. in a statement, mr green said... now the former metropolitan police commissioner sir paul stephenson, seen here in 2010 with theresa may, says officers also briefed him that pornography had been found. but he also told the bbc that the find involved no criminality, no victims, and in his view no extraordinary public interest.

he added that it wasn't scotland ya rd's role to police the workplace. today damian green maintained his innocence... today's public words don't repeat last week's assertion the allegation was completely untrue. mr green gave evidence last week to the whitehall inquiry into the claim, which could report back next week. scotland yard won't say if it's handed over documents to back up what two former senior officers have now said, but with two cabinet resignations in a fortnight, the prime minister can ill afford to lose one of her most trusted confidants. dominic casciani, bbc news. it's not a pretty political picture for theresa may this evening. the deputy prime minister, damian green, remains underfire and there are fresh calls for the foreign secretary boris johnson to be sacked. she also faces a fight from her own mps, with a0 of them

reportedly willing to sign a letter of no—confidence. and if that wasn't enough, ahead of more tricky brexit debate in the commons this week, michael gove has admitted the existence of a letter co—authored by borisjohnson that apparently outlines his concerns about her handling of the negotiations. so is it all getting too much? let's talk to michaeljacobs, who was a special adviser to gordon brown from 2004 to 2010. he is now at the institute for public policy research. mrjacobs, thank you very much forjoining us this evening. how long can theresa may really hold on for, do you think? constitutionally, she can hold on until 2022, five years away, because that is when the next general election is to be held. in normal circumstances, there is only one way to have a general election, which is for the prime minister to call one. it is not at all clear that theresa may would want to do that. because it looks like she

would not win such a general election, and prime ministers and governments generally don't. she could of course be replaced by her own party as leader, that is more likely possibility perhaps, with 48 conservative backbenchers, it would need 48 conservative backbenchers to call for a leadership election. that wouldn't necessarily stop all the anxiety problems in government. there is also the issue of the dup and the fact that they need to be prepared to keep backing her. indeed. she doesn't have a full parliamentary majority, so she needs the backing of the democratic union. it is unlikely they would seek to call a general election. they were given a very hefty political contribution and in budgetary terms about £1 billion we understand for the government of northern ireland, and it is not clear they would get that under any other government, and

they are not natural supporters of they are not natural supporters of the labour party. she is also relying on there being no more turbulence, no more resignations, no more claims of harassment or other issues which mean that her ministers have to step down. but those kind of thing is, however destabilising they are for the government, don't mean the end for the government. we have had ministerial resignations in previous governments, and they don't lead to the toppling of a prime minister unless the parliamentary party behind her ceases to support her. and that could happen, but the problem that the conservative party seems to have is that it isn't clear who would replace her. a number of candidates have been mentioned, but none of them looked likely to command the support of the general public which in the end is what a prime minister really needs. so however bad this looks on a day—to—day basis, and it looks pretty bad, it is likely the prime minister will be toppled. so brexit

is going to be debated again this week. how likely is it that there will be anything to help her rather than hinder her in that? well, she has a problem, because there are a lot of parliamentarians, including members of the conservative party on her own backbenches, who are not co mforta ble her own backbenches, who are not comfortable with the way the government are trying to get the brexit vote through parliament. the repeal bill, the withdrawal bill, has a lot of powers that give the government powers to do what they like to rephrase the laws we will be losing from the european union, and many parliamentarians are not happy about that. and there are many other issues being put down as amendments to the bill. but again, the parliamentary defeat doesn't mean the end of your government. michael jacobs, former special adviser to gordon brown, now with the institute

for public policy research, thank you for your time this evening. we'll find out how this story and many others are covered in monday's front pages at 10:30 and 11:30pm this evening in the papers. our guests joining me tonight are the entertainment reporter caroline frost and the parliamentary journalist tony grew. at least six people have been killed and many more injured in western iran in an earthquake. an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 has hit the border area between northern iraq and iran. the quake hit 103 kilometres southeast of the city of sulaymaniyah in iraqi kurdistan. there are reports on social media of it being felt as far away as lebanon and turkey. president trump has resumed his war of words with north korea over its nuclear weapons programme, attacking its leader kim jong un on twitter. the president is on a tour of east asia, as the us continues a military build up in the region.

0ur correspondent rupert wingfield—hayes reports from the uss ronald reagan in the sea ofjapan. sailing together off the coast of korea today, three american supercarriers. swooping low over them, a pair of b—1 bombers. 0n the right is the theodore roosevelt. 0n the left, the nimitz. and leading them, the ronald reagan. on board, these ships carry more than 200 combat aircraft. the launches and recoveries continue around the clock. we can sustain 24—hour operations for extended period of time, however with more than one carrier that length of time goes out indefinitely, quite frankly, when we get to three. in other words, there is enough combat power here off the coast of korea to go to war. the last time anything like this was seen in the western pacific was ten years ago — here off the korean peninsula, no one can really remember. this is a raw expression of america's military muscle, and for president trump, it is a message being sent to pyongyang that if it doesn't come to the negotiating table this is potentially what it faces. but as so often with president trump, the message can

very suddenly change, and it did today in vietnam. taking to twitter, the us president sounded hurt, after pyongyang called him "an ageing lunatic." "why would kim jong—un insult me by calling me old," he wrote, "when i would never call him short and fat? "oh, well, i try so hard to be his friend — and maybe someday that will happen!" in hanoi he was asked, "did he really mean he now wants to be friends?" see if i think anything's possibility... strange things happen in life — that might be a strange thing to happen, but it's certainly a possibility. back on board the ronald reagan, they're practising night landings. this is flying at its very hardest. there is no doubting the skills of these pilots, but there are many doubts about the strategy their commander—in—chief is using with north korea. rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, on board the uss

ronald reagan, the sea ofjapan. you're watching bbc news. a reminder of our headlines tonight: nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, the british—iranian woman jailed in iran for spying, is "on the verge of a nervous breakdown" according to her husband. the deputy prime minister, damian green, insists police never told him about pornography allegedly found on his computers. he says the allegations have an ulterior motive. the prince of wales has led the country in honouring its war dead on remembrance sunday, taking the queen's place to lay a wreath at the cenotaph in london. sport now, and a full round—up from the bbc‘s centre with james. good evening to you. heartbreak for nothern ireland in switzerland. they are out of the world cup. they say a picture says a thousand

words, and this one does. trailing 1—0 after the first leg due to a cruel penalty decision they gave everything tonight, but couldn't find a way past the swiss defence. it finished goalless. both sides had their chances. northern ireland could have taken the lead in the opening minutes. chris brunt‘s shot was well saved. the swiss came close on a number of occasions — zuber pulling a great save from mcgovern. in injury timejonny evans had a header cleared off the line. unfortunately for the irish, rodriguez in just the right place to deny the the west brom defender. northern ireland had come so close, and they will be proud of this performance, but it's switzerland who will be going to russia next summer. 0n on to cricket. england and australia have drawn the women's ashes test, a result which keeps the series alive. georgia elwiss and heather knight steered their team home, with captain knight making a crucial half century. australia have 86—4 lead in the

series, which mean that england need to win all three twenty20 matches to read gain the ashes. the way we played today was phenomenal, the girls showed character and mental strength to hang in there, and we are hopeful that that will give us a bit of momentum, we are still hanging on and we are fighting team with a toughjob, and we are fighting team with a tough job, and we and we are fighting team with a toughjob, and we will and we are fighting team with a tough job, and we will have to fight for every t20, but the focus will be that first game and trying to win it. sebastian vettel has won the brazilian grand prix. britain's lewis hamilton was the driver of the day at the brazilian grand prix, despite not winning the race. the newly crowned world champion started from the pitlane after a crash in qualifying. but carved his way through the field to finish fourth. sebastian vettel gave ferrari their first victory in brazil since 2008, boosting his chances of finishing second in the drivers‘ championship. marc marquez has claimed his fourth motogp title in five years afterfinishing third at the season—ending valencia race. the 24—year—old honda rider,

who needed to finish in the top 11 to beat andrea dovizioso to the crown, is the youngest driver to win four titles in the class. dovizioso crashed out of the race. honda's dani pedrosa finished first, with yamaha rookie johann zarco in second. amazing, amazing feeling. during the race, i always tried to be calm, tried to control the situation. and suddenly i said, now is the time to push, because i felt really good. but in turn1, push, because i felt really good. but in turn 1, i lost it, i braked to red, and he got it in the end. roger federer has opened with a win

overjack sock at the 02 roger federer has opened with a win overjack sock at the o2 arena in london. it is always a struggle because of the conditions, you are not used to how the ball is flying, like the last return onjack's return, not quite connecting well, and then it flies a little long. but after a while you are happy to hit some good shots and focus on your own serve , some good shots and focus on your own serve, but i got after some good starts, and i was hoping to be to do that. in the second set i was tight, and then the break again at the end could have gone either way, but he helped me with some double faults and mistakes, so i'm happy that i got through somehow. great britain claimed their third gold medal of the track cycling world cup with victory in the women's team pursuit in manchester. katie archibald, elinor barker, emily nelson and neah evans crushed the italian team in the final. it was archibald and barker's second gold, having triumphed in the madison after britain's men won their team pursuit final. earlier today callum skinner won bronze in the men's time trial. that's all the sport for now. we'll have more for you on bbc news throughout the evening. james, thank you very much.

jupiter and venus will be visible to the naked eye close together in the sky before dawn tomorrow. the planets will appear in conjunction in the south—east, just above the horizon, and may appear to look like one bright star. and if you have a telescope, you'll also be able to see jupiter's four moons. let's find out more about what is happening and how you can see it. joining me now is professorjohn zarnecki, president of the royal astronomical society. thank you for coming in. it's a pleasure. not scientifically important, but it is fun nonetheless. that is a good way of describing it. these are two objects quite a long way apart, about 700 million kilometres apart in space, but it's one of these cosmic coincidences as they do their dance around the sun, every now and again, they appear almost coincident, and this is one of those occasions. how

often does this alignment happen?” looked it up. every few years. there was one a couple of years ago, and then the previous one was 15 or 20 yea rs before. then the previous one was 15 or 20 years before. sometimes it is a bit too close to the sun so we can't see it. but what's good about this time is that the weather forecast for much of the uk is quite good, because normally these things are clouded out, so it is looking good for tomorrow morning. what will people need to look for? the way we are showing it here, it looks like it will be huge in the sky. nothing like that. in fact, that is a totally different event.” like that. in fact, that is a totally different event. i like it that you can tell! i am setting my alarm clock about six o'clock. jupiter and venus rise just a few minutes before six, but that will be right on the horizon, and they will slowly co m e right on the horizon, and they will slowly come up so that by about 6:30am,10 degrees above slowly come up so that by about 6:30am, 10 degrees above the

horizon, and the sun doesn't rise until about 715, depending on where you are, so the sky world still be dark enough, and if everything goes to plan, you will see the two of them incredibly close together, in fa ct them incredibly close together, in fact i'm not sure but they might even look like just fact i'm not sure but they might even look likejust one fact i'm not sure but they might even look like just one object. that is what some people are saying certainly. so like a very bright star. so it will be obvious what you're for even with the naked eye? you have to have a good view towards the east, south east, so no buildings or trees in the way, and then we need the weather to behave for us, and then there will be this bright thing just a few degrees above the horizon. but it is worth having a telescope if you have got it. or even good binoculars, and what you should say is the galileo moons, the natural satellites of

jupiter, first seen by galileo, and they will be little dots of light, two on one side and two on the other side, andi two on one side and two on the other side, and i think it is lovely to see those. you have to be proud to keep ours, don't you? you do, and it will be cold, so wrap up well. if you do use binoculars or a small telescope, remember the sun will be coming upjust telescope, remember the sun will be coming up just after seven, telescope, remember the sun will be coming upjust after seven, so telescope, remember the sun will be coming up just after seven, so you don't want to even just by chance get anywhere close to looking at the sun with binoculars, because it can cause partial blindness. just one second. willie, can you put that back in, show us what we were looking at before. you said this is a different event. what is this?” think that is the transit of venus, so that is when venus passes in front of the sun, so the black dot you can see there, i mean, it is

another alignment... but not the right one. that is venus in front of the sun. somebody on the website needs to... we will have words! but we are here to educate, aren't we, and you have done just that, thank you for setting straight. lovely to see you. you are watching bbc news. a pipe bomb has been found at a wreath laying ceremony in 0magh, forcing the ceremony to be postponed. a suspicious device was discovered this morning in 0magh town, and that is what led to the wreath laying ceremony being postponed. the rest of the service was able to go ahead, but not that pa rt was able to go ahead, but not that part of it, no wreath laying at the

cenotaph this year. the police said that this was a viable pipe bomb that this was a viable pipe bomb that has now been taken away for forensic examination. police also say that they believe the device could be attributed to a violent dissident republicans. that statement continues at this small but potentially dangerous device was left to cause the maximum amount of disruption to remembrance sunday commemorations. they say this was an action of a small and violent group who have nothing to offer communities other than fear and intimidation. they added that while the investigation into the incident is still at a very early stage, one strong line of inquiry is violent dissident republicans being responsible. the statement continues that the group's actions have continued the disregard and disrespect for this community which

have already suffered so much pain and hurt at the hands of terrorists. they say it was a sickening and appalling act on a day which should bring people together to remember the sacrifice made by people from all our communities. we now know that the security alert is over, the roads that were closed have since reopened, and security cordons that we re reopened, and security cordons that were in place have now lifted. sara speaking to us earlier from belfast. ceremonies have taken place across the country to mark remembrance sunday, with the traditional two—minute silence observed at 11 o'clock. veterans, politicians and members of the royal family attended a service at the cenotaph in central london, where this year prince charles led the tributes. he laid a wreath on behalf of the queen — as she watched from a nearby balcony. 0ur royal correspondent nicholas witchell reports. it is, there is little doubt, the way things will increasingly be. for the first time in her reign, the queen took place on the balcony overlooking the cenotaph.

still presiding as head of state, but in a way which recognises her advancing years. beside her on the balcony was her husband, the duke of edinburgh. below on whitehall, the prince of wales led other senior members of the royal family to their positions at the cenotaph, in readiness for 11 o'clock and the start of the national two—minute silence. big ben chimes. bugle plays last post. in whitehall,

after the sounding of the last post, the prince of wales live the queen's wreath on the half of the united kingdom and the commonwealth in memory of all those who lost their lives in the world wars and other more recent conflicts. and then, on a morning which had been damp and cold, the veterans who had been waiting in their columns began their tribute, marching past the cenotaph to lay their wreaths. very few of those on parade now have memories of the second world war. that generation has passed the obligation to remember to its successors — to men like bill speakman, who won the victoria cross in korea, and johnson beharry, awarded the vc in iraq. and to the many thousands of other servicemen and women who today remembered those who never came home from war. nicholas witchell, bbc news. time for a look at the weather

forecast. hello, sunday was a fine, glorious day across much of the country. lots of sunshine. there we re country. lots of sunshine. there were plenty of showers and a strong northerly wind blowing across eastern coastal areas. that will continue over the overnight period. elsewhere, most of the showers should die away from western coastal areas. a cold night to come. in the countryside, quite a widespread frost. the far north—west of the uk sta rts frost. the far north—west of the uk starts to see a change taking place as the weather system brings increasing cloud and strengthening wind, turning milder. we start on a dry, bright and sunny note. much of inland and wales is frosty. showers will fizzle out and then we will see wind and rain in the north—west. snow on the higher ground of scotla nd snow on the higher ground of scotland and even down to lower levels before it turns back to rain later in the day as milder air moves in. the milderair later in the day as milder air moves in. the milder air sweeps across most of the country as we head into tuesday. that means more cloud around, outbreaks of rain limited spells of