this is bbc news and these are the top stories developing at 11. nearly 330 people have been killed in iran by a powerful earthquake centred just over the border in a mountainous region of iraq. the husband of nazanin zaghari—radcliffe — jailed in iran — says foreign secretary borisjohnson is now ‘personally engaged' in her case his words are being used by the unions and it is important that she stands alongside her and together we get a as soon as possible. business leaders from across europe meet the prime minister — calling for clarity on the future relationship with the eu. bob geldof hands back his freedom of the city of dublin honour — in protest against myanmar leader aung san suu kyi holding the same accolade. also a firearms amnistice. gun owners are urged to hand in their weapons as part of a two—week gun surrender scheme. and six months on from being rescued at sea,

after being stranded for two days — the surfer who bravely rides the waves, once again. good morning. it's monday 13th november — i'm annita mcveigh. welcome to bbc newsroom live rescue efforts are under way on the iran—iraq border after a deadly earthquake struck overnight. more than 330 people have been killed, according to iranian officials. thousands more have suffered injuries — iran's western kermanshah province has been particularly affected. 0ne iranian aid agency said at least 40,000 people need shelter after homes were destroyed. the quake hit the border area between the two countries,

around 30 kilometres south of halabja with a magnitude of 7.3. it was so powerful, it was felt as far away as lebanon and turkey. andrew plant has more. carried into hospital amid the chaos at this clinic in iran. victims of the earthquake on stretchers, others, walking wounded, as more and more of the injured arrived. the earthquake struck after dark. for rural villages in the affected areas, the search is beginning in torchlight for any survivors that may be buried in the fallen buildings. the shocks were felt in towns too. people out for the evening running to safety, finding a way outside away from the danger, scared there could be more to come. the first reports are that the centre of the earthquake was near the border between iran and iraq, somewhere close to the city of halabja.

the us geological survey said that the epicentre was about 20 miles south—west of the border. many people have lost their homes and do national threat to sleep or live in the coming days and weeks and that will lead to huge crisis because of electricity and water supply. it has been damaged. the moment the earthquake struck was even captured on live tv. these news broadcasters feeling the tremors as their programme played out. local media is now showing emergency shelters and beds being set up outside. 15 emergency teams, they say, are now helping treat the injured and search for survivors. the number of dead is still climbing, but it could be many days before the real extent of the damage done here is fully clear. andrew plant, bbc news.

we will be getting an update and if you minutes. the husband of a british womanjailed in iran, nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, has said the foreign secretary, borisjohnson, is now "personally engaged" in the case. richard ratcliffe said mrjohnson had told him he was considering whether his wife would be eligible for diplomatic protection. last week, the foreign secretary corrected an earlier remark suggesting that ms zaghari—ratcliffe had been training journalists when she was arrested last year. earlier the foreign secretary gave a very brief response to reporters about the case was being handled. can we get your thoughts about conversations you had? let me say on consular cases generally, they are all very sensitive but the key thing

to understand is that we are working very ha rd to understand is that we are working very hard and intensively and impartially on those cases. thank you very much. mrs zaghari—ratcliffe's husband, richard, has spoken to the foreign secretary and hopes to travel with him to iran to see his wife. he also spoke to our correspondent, laura trant, about how his wife was feeling behind bars. iam hoping i am hoping the foreign secretary will sit down with us any next few days and there are two things i want to discuss with him. one is going with him to run and how that can be achieved and the other one as i want him to personally consider whether she is eligible for diplomatic protection. conversations with a very, she is very volatile and her moods, up and down so she is crying and angry, happy and laughing at different points and we had the full range of feelings. it is myjob to reassure her that it will be ok and it is all snowballing but i promise it is all snowballing but i promise it will be ok. and we will be

talking to the former uk ambassador to iran at around 11:30am. bob geldof says he is handing back his freedom of the city of dublin — because the same honour has been granted to the burmese political leader, aung san suu kyi. he's described the treatment by myanmar‘s military of the rohingya muslim minority community as "mass ethnic cleansing." the live aid organiser said his home city had honoured aung san suu kyi — but now she had appalled and shamed dublin. the mayor of dublin has hit back saying he is surprised bob geldof was still keeping his honorary knighthood given britain's colonial past. the church of england is telling its schools that children should be free to explore their identity and both boys and girls should be allowed to wear a tutu, tiara or superhero cloak withoutjudgment from teachers or other pupils. the new guidelines aim to prevent children being bullied because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. jon donnison reports: the church of england first issued

guidance on homophobic bullying in schools three years ago. today those guidelines are being updated to include bullying against children and as licence who identify as transgender or bisexual. and as licence who identify as tra nsgender or bisexual. it and as licence who identify as transgender or bisexual. it comes after a controversial case on the isle of wight where one couple withdrew their son from a church of england primary school because another pupil asked to be accepted as transgender. our child came home from school saying he was confused, there was a boy in his class which was sometimes a boy and sometimes coming asa was sometimes a boy and sometimes coming as a girl. we were concerned about that because it is very confusing and how do children deal with that. let us remember that these are primary schools children, six years of age. the guidance stresses children should be able to

play with what it calls the many cloa ks play with what it calls the many cloaks of identity. no labels needs to be fixed. the archbishop of canterbury writes in the new guidance is that we must avoid at all costs... it is part of our vision for education is that we want every child to flourish and to know that they are loved by god, that they get their human dignity and identity from god and we want every child to be able to grow up and be free from a kind of environment where they get that kind of bullying because some of the impact and effects of bullying are really serious. the church is by no means united on the issue of human sexuality. this latest guidance as likely to divide opinion. global emissions of c02 in 2017 are projected to rise for the first time in four years, according to new data presented

at un climate talks in germany. the main cause of the expected growth has been greater use of coal in china as its economy expanded. researchers are uncertain if the rise in emissions is a one—off or the start of a new period of c02 growth. from bonn here's our environment correspondent matt mcgrath. global emissions of c02 have been rising in the last decade. from then until the end of 2016 emissions growth stalled as economies would enter recession. many scientists wondered if the global peak and cabin had been reached. today's figures had cast doubt on that idea. there is a level of uncertainty and the data but there has been a clear rise of around 2% in 2017. the key as china. call use has risen not just because of a growing economy at droughts have driven down river

levels within to a shortfall in hydroelectric power. the us and eu saw emissions fall but not by as much as had been hoped. some experts believe that 2017 may be able up, others are worried it may signal a return to grow since you are too emissions. if that is the case then the chances of the world keeping below the temperature rises agreed in the paris climate pact become ever slimmer. at least 330 people have been killed in iran by a powerful earthquake centred just over the border in a mountainous region of iraq. jiyar gol from the bbc persian service is here... what is the latest information you have on the scale of the damage and the toll of dead and injured? the epicentre of the earthquake has been inside iranian border, cluster arrack kurdistan border. at the beginning we thought there was major

damage but as hours pass more and more casualties and damage. this region is completely mountainous, the roads to reach them are difficult and most of the roads have been damaged by the earthquake which is reaching those people who are trying to help reaching that is difficult at this point. reports about people being pulled from rubble but because of the terrain you are describing it is proving difficult to get the numbers of rescue workers that are needed to all the areas they need to get to. exactly. looking at the footage, from major cities, we see a lot of damage, most casualties are from those regions but we have hundreds of villagers in those regions and mountainous regions and that is why i think the number of casualties might rise in the hours coming ahead. i know you yourself have

family in kermanshah and you were saying the rok. clearly many people will have spent the night outdoors, the earthquake happened at around 9:20pm. shelter is going to be a big concern. yes it is. tens of thousands of people have been camping outside, staying in their ca i’s camping outside, staying in their cars all night and some of the people are afraid to go back and only one other before the meaning of quick there were numbers of less magnitude earthquakes and that was some sort of warning. some people left their forms and possibly help to reduce the number of casualties. in terms of after—shocks of the fear of another quick, what have you had? people are afraid to go back to that homes, their homes have been damaged

and they prefer to stay outdoors or in theircars, but and they prefer to stay outdoors or in their cars, but tens of thousands of people needing some sort of roof over their head like tents. the iranians government have dispatched military to go and help the people in need. thank you. the headlines on bbc newsroom live. more than 330 people have been killed and nearly four—thousand injured by a powerful earthquake, centred just across the border in a mountainous region of iraq. we will come back to the headlines in the minutes because we need to go to one of another main stories today and that is the news that business leaders from across europe are meeting theresa may in downing street. that meeting getting underway shortly. they'll call for a transitional deal between britain and the eu which maintains current arrangements

and for a future relationship to be clarified. joining us from our westminster studio with more on this is our political correspondent chris mason. time is very short for business leaders to get the sort of clarity and reassurance they are looking for. business leaders here in the uk and their equivalent organisations scattered around europe a la making the argument that they claim they are nervous about the clock ticking down, but the arrangement will look like between the uk and eu immediately after brexit and enter the longer term. and put any kind of transitional arrangement that might be negotiated will look like. that meeting getting underway, business leaders arriving in downing street and the next ten or 15 minutes and to give you a sense of the kind of a few they will be articulating, he is caroline philbin from the cbi. they should listen to what businesses are seeing, particularly smaller businesses about the impact of the

red tape borders and tariffs and the impact that would have on jobs and investment here and if we have the opportunity to have a more collaborative deal, one which does not put up new barriers which rules would, let's go for it. the odyssey between now and christmas are trying to get a good deal would really help jobs and investment in europe. that is the perspective from the cbi, what about the perspective from labour? this is now crunch time. tomorrow we have key members to this legislation, i think it is blindingly obvious to everyone following the negotiations that the final agreement, the future agreement is not going to be agreed by march 2019 and we need a bridge or transitional management. the legislation at as a discomfort drafted events that from happening on the same terms as we have known so on the same terms as we have known so that is a fundamental flaw, we have a very simple amendment to connect that floor —— floor and the

prime minister this to reflect on what we and conservative mps are seeing and accept our amendment because this is crunch time. businesses and communities are looking in saying make sure that transitional arrangements can be agreed and agreed only. we are doing this very much in the national interest. two perspectives in this discussion. let's bring in a third, we can talk tojohn redwood, long—standing advocate of brexit. what do you say to this? i would say cheese up. the way to end the uncertainty as we should prepare for a couple of trade organisation terms. i hope within the next couple of weeks they should answer one simple question, do they want to negotiate free—trade agreement with britain or don't they? we are very happy to offer a full featured agreement based on what we have at

the moment. that would probably be the moment. that would probably be the best outcome but if they are not interested in doing that we must get on in the uncertainty and plan to trade under wto rules. you mention the rules, and we have seen regularly real nervousness expressed by these business lobby groups about the prospect of world trade organisation rules. you have always made the argument don't panic, relax. convince them if they are watching, why is there this huge gulf between you being relaxed and then being very never scratched mike i have chaired and run large industrial companies in the past, i cannot see what they think the problem is particularly now that is a general agreement applying to all wto members which came in in february which deals with many of the details they keep making. we know the cbi is catastrophically wrong, the doctor sent to the exchange rate mechanism which gave a huge recession to their members. they wanted us to go into the euro and told us the city would be

damaged if they did not. instead it the city flourished outside the euro. they are systematically wrong and they are wrong again. on the specifics of the ongoing talks in brussels, there seems to be some optimism that come december that will be a movement on to the future relationship moving beyond the unpicking of the current relationship. add you still hopeful, you say you are relaxed about the prospect of no deal, but i do still hopeful a deal can be struck?” trust the united kingdom will not be offering any money because we do not wa nt offering any money because we do not want them anything and it would get rid of any possible advantage from being tariffs three, it would be better to pay the tariffs that have a very large beam at going out because we would collect the tariffs and we could give it all back to our customers and the form of tax breaks so customers and the form of tax breaks so again it is not such a big problem as some people seem to make out. i problem as some people seem to make out. lam problem as some people seem to make out. i am still a little sceptical. i have not had them say they want if the trade deal, it is massively in their interests to have one. the sooner they say yes the sooner we can conclude a good deal. without

that that is no point and we should get on and plan for brexit. there seems to be a sense that the government is moving towards paying much more than the roughly £20 billion already seemed to be, potentially £60 billion. you are saying that should not happen. absolutely not. the british public to not think we should pay anything like that because we have no legal obligation and as to the 20, that was if we had a trade deal and if it took two years to implement it and any government would look at making some contributions during the transitional period. if they make too big a bill for that epic transition deeply undesirable and itself and remember that is no point in having transition and less than a something good to transit to. if thatis something good to transit to. if that is not then be made as yoghurt on an opponent of wt0 rules in march 2019 and in the uncertainty and business will find works as well. thank you. i think a deal sense here

this week that after the couple of weeks where brexit has not dominated the political headlines, it is going to be back front and centre in the next couple of days. thank you. more than 330 people have been killed and nearly four—thousand injured by a powerful earthquake, centred just across the border in a mountainous region of iraq. borisjohnson says he's working "very hard and intensively" on the case of nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, the british woman jailed in iran. business leaders from across europe are meeting the prime minister, to call for a transitional deal between britain and the eu that maintains current trading arrangements. and in sport northern ireland will not be going to russia next summer after their 0—0 draw against switzerland. they lost 1—0 on aggregate but manager michael o'neill discredit performance as

amazing. —— described the performance as amazing. world champion lewis hamilton was the driver of the day in the brazilian grand prix, even though he did not win the race, he started last but finished fourth and sebastian vettel took the honours. i will have more on the story is just after 11:30am. donald trump has told reporters he has a "great relationship" with the controversial philippines' president, rodrigo duterte. he was speaking after the two men met in manila on the sidelines of the asean summit — that's the association of southeast asian nations. mr trump didn't say whether they'd discussed human rights, but a white house spokesman said the subject was briefly raised. president duterte has previously admitted personally killing people as part of an anti—drugs campaign that has left thousands dead. but there was no mention of any disagreements when president trump addressed reporters. we have had a great relationship.

this has been very successful, many meetings with other leaders. it has been handled beautifully by the president of the philippines and presented as and i really enjoyed being here. live to manila and our correspondentjonathan head. president trump has forum on lavishing praise on certain world leaders to others might be slightly more restrained about. that is the way president trump does it. she has made it clear he believes that by establishing a good personal relationship with leaders here he can fix problems that he says his predecessors could not. there is a great deal of scepticism about that. the problems are very complex in this region. just getting on well with the love leader of beginning red—carpet treatment does not actually solve issues. it is an interesting meeting between president trump and president duterte. they are both in the early

70s, both controversial populace, very colourful outspoken characters. it was was interesting to see how they get along. mr trump did not raise human rights at all as far as we know. recently did not mention it. there are thousands of people who have been killed on the streets of the city and the last year any really brutal drugs crackdown for which president duterte is that the unapologetic. he says it is the only way to deal with the drugs problem. human rights groups are aghast at what has gone on and across this region there is no doubt democracy and human rights are in retreat. traditionally the united states has a lwa ys traditionally the united states has always been in the power that has spoken out, reminded people of the importance of human rights and has supported a lot of non—government groups often very embattled and under the great that we try to protect human rights. mr trump simply did not mention it and the same applied in vietnam, he did not say anything about it and china either. was there much of substance to this meeting? i do not think so.

there has not been much substance to any of the meetings with president trump. this is for show and it does matter and that this is a vitally important region, the most dynamic economic agent and the world. to do strategically very important for america and they have underpinned these strategic importance since world war ii. mr trump did not seem to acknowledge its importance at all. by coming here he has shown at least he is interested and i wear but most of these have been very brief meetings, and mr trump seems very focused on getting a better deal on trade by breaking down all of the multilateral agreements that used to have and getting on with leaders and focusing on north korea. he has not dealt with any of the other issues and the meetings he has had had generally been very short. they left me well be are lower viewers to see this cut. earlier president duterte took to the stage to sing a filipino love song, and said it was at the request of donald trump.

he sings in own language applause i cannot think of any other word than bizarre. this is a land where people are absolutely in love with singing. nobody here would think it is odd that president duterte decided to sing. any land of superlative lunacy does not have the best of voices but it is very fitting, this is a meeting or have important countries. —— superlative singers. it is an asian tradition, being quite light—hearted and funny

costu mes being quite light—hearted and funny costumes and crossing hands. resident trump struggled with that and the singing was in keeping with that sort of informal rather colourful that sort of informal rather colou rful style. that sort of informal rather colourful style. we are seeing those images, the efforts to do that handshake. they just about images, the efforts to do that handshake. theyjust about got images, the efforts to do that handshake. they just about got there in the end. thank you very much. six months ago we brought you the story of matthew bryce who was stranded at sea for two days after his surfing trip went disastrously wrong. matthew almost died, and was rescued 13 miles off the coast of northern ireland, vowing never to surf again. time isa time is a healer and matthew has bravely decided he is ready to go backin bravely decided he is ready to go back in the water. a moment matthew bryce thought would never happen again. i knew i was going to die. it wasn't a question, it's — it was a fact. lucky to be alive —

that's how belfast coastguards have described a surfer who was rescued from the irish sea last night. matthew bryce was picked up 13 miles off the argyll coast... i was thinking i was going to die. i was almost convinced entirely. i didn't think i'd see the sunrise. i'd totally given up. i'd resigned myself to the fact i was going to die. i'm sitting here in the dark — i can't describe how cold. it's not as if you went out for a snowball fight and your hands are that cold. it's like life is just being sapped out of your core. six months on, matthew bryce is ready to get back into the water. but any fear or apprehension he has has been replaced by pure excitement. how are you feeling? i'm excited. i'm going to go out now. i'm going tojump on right now. yeah, i'm buzzing. and, with the support of his friends, he was back where he once said he would never

venture again — on a surfboard. how cool was that, seeing him back out there? it's awesome. keeping his passion going, and everything. this is perfect. eventually, he even found his feet. not bad for six months away. there were a couple of points where i was getting tossed a bit in the water, and you're thinking, whoa — hang on, it's fine. and reunited on water with the surfboard that saved his life. this board, matthew, must mean a lot to you. it's a special board for me. i can never get rid of this. if i'd lost the board, if i hadn't been able to get back to it, if the leash had snapped, if i'd decided to throw it away, i would have died. it was the only thing that was keeping me safe. even if i stop surfing, it'll go on the wall. yeah, i'll always keep it. but there are no plans to hang it up just yet. in fact, the ocean is calling. matthew and his friends will be back

in the sea this weekend, determined not to give up on his passion. i want to go and, you know, live as much as i possibly can. i hope to god i'm never going to experience anything like that again, and i'd never wish it on anyone, either. but, if i can take some positives out of it, and if i can try and get the message to people to be safe, go out with friends, don't go surfing alone, don't be reckless like me, i think some good can come from it. jupiter and venus — the two brightest planets — have been appearing very close together in the morning sky. both have been visible to the naked eye across the uk. the best viewing time was a0 minutes before sunrise. while the planets are visible to the naked eye, viewers with a telescope have also been able to see jupiter's four galilean moons. lovely clear skies for most of us,

but here's the person who knows. hello, lucy. cloudy in the north with outbreaks of rain spreading in from the north west, could more like something like snow and sleet. turning increasingly cloudy across england and wales, but that cloud turning the sunshine hazy. temperatures feeling fairly cool though. through this evening and overnight, that weather front will sink its way south of bringing cloud and some outbreaks of rain and drizzle. holding onto some clearer skies in the far north as well, one or two showers developing but not quite as cool as we saw last night. so tomorrow, the best of the

brightness in the north, we will see good spells of sunshine across scotland, a cloudy day though across northern ireland, england and wales. some outbreaks of rain and drizzle here and there. temperatures, though, back in double figures. this is bbc news — our latest headlines. more than 300 people have been killed and thousands injured as a powerful earthquake hits the border region between iran and iraq. rescue teams are facing landslides as they try to free people caught in the rubble. the husband of nazanin zaghari—radcliffe, the british womanjailed in iran, says that the foreign secretary borisjohnson is now "personally engaged" in the case. business leaders from the uk and europe are preparing to meet with the prime minister later today, with hope of gaining clarity into the future relationship between britain and the eu post brexit.

police across england and wales have announced a two—week gun amnesty, urging people to hand in there with —— weapons without the fear of being prosecuted. let's cross to the bbc sports centre. hi, catherine. northern ireland boss michael o'neill described his side's efforts as "amazing" and said the players were "emotional and upset" after their draw in basel. he was still tormented by a controversial penalty in the first leg, that gave switzerland the advantage. chris brunt and jonny evans went close last night, but they won't be going to next summer's world cup in russia. it would be too strong a word to say "cheated", but you feel a certain injustice going out at this point. a

lot of people say switzerland were far superior, but they only scored of the penalty, not anything else. so we could have come here zero, zero, we could have been playing extra time now. so there is a huge injustice given the nature of what has divided the teams. ten days to go now until the battle for the ashes begins. england are in australia getting over the jet—lag and preparing for the first test with a spot of interaction with the local wildlife. 0ur correspondent andy swiss is following the tour. welcome to townsville here on the north queensland coast, just ten days to go until the first ashes test in brisbane. england have arrived hoping to fine—tune their preparations with a final warm up game starting on wednesday. matches like this are a chance for players to explore a bit, and this morning moeen ali and alastair cook visited a local wildlife sanctuary, where they got to feed a crocodile named

bully. maureen ali has not played in either of england's matches so far, but the good news is he is now fit and he is ready for whatever australia have to throw at him. best part of the game, that's something i've not had before. what these happen —— these things happen in australia, they like to talk themselves about, so we need to keep ourselves calm and get ready for that first ball when it is delivered. i've always backed myself and my ability, and hopefully i will back that even more in this series and do well for england. moeen ali set to play against an australian 11 starting on wednesday. england still have plenty of questions particularly over their batting. no one's scored a century so faron batting. no one's scored a century so far on this tour, and there were

two pretty horrible collapses in their last game in adelaide. so england will be hoping for a few ru ns england will be hoping for a few runs and a few wickets before that first ashes test in brisbane, starting on november the 23rd. great britain have won a third gold medal of the track cycling world cup in manchester. katie archibald, elinor barker, emily nelson and neah evans won the team pursuit, beating italy by a huge margin in the final. it was archibald and barker's second gold of the weekend, after they won the madison. 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 pit lane after a crash in qualifying, but he carved his way through the field to finish fourth. sebastian vettel gave ferrari their first victory in brazil since 2008. roger federer is clearly going all out for number seven in the atp

finals, he won overjack soc. he is playing in this event for the 15th time. —— jack sock. that's all the sport for now. more now on the news that scientists at a un climate conference in germany say global emissions of carbon dioxide are likely to rise in 2017 for the first time in four years. they say the main cause for the increase of around 2% has been a rise in the use of coal in china. 0ur environment analyst roger harrabin is here. at the beginning of this conference we heard that 2017 is going to be the hottest ever year, this is without natural factors at play. explain what that means is the setting for all of this. so scientists know there are two incidents driving the climate, one

is man—made emissions of carbon dioxide and the other is natural factors. the past two years have been record years for temperature, pushed forward by the el nino effect. this year it has been absolutely negligible, but it will still be one of the top three years on record, and that is alarming because the warming trend is now very clear. and 13 american agencies came out and said there is no plausible reason for this warming, other than activity from human society. and then we have this news about global emissions of carbon dioxide, rising they believe, for the first time in four years, and the first time in four years, and the big question i suppose is whether this is a one off this year the start a trend. yes, there's been a really encouraging trend for the past four years, where countries have been investing very heavily in renewables, they have been investing in energy efficiency, trying to

drive down energy demand. and that has kept the emissions levels more or less static, that and a sluggish global economy. now the economy's picked up and chinese emissions have increased and that will push global emissions. as you say, is that the new trend, for emissions to be rising again? or will we continue to plateau? i rising again? or will we continue to plateau ? i don't rising again? or will we continue to plateau? i don't want to give anybody the wrong impression, the emissions stay in the atmosphere for hundreds of years. so every year we emit more, itjust adds to the problem more and more, we need to be reducing the amount we emit. and the un and other bodies have been saying there is still an opportunity to sort this out, but time is very short in which to do that. if you ta ke short in which to do that. if you take into account the fact that president trump is pushing —— pulling the usa out of the paris accord, how are we said as we look into the next decade, to tackle these issues? world leaders have set

themselves a target, 0k, these are themselves a target, 0k, these are the things were going to trying to do —— try to do, unfortunately that is on one trajectory which is still increasing emissions overall, the trend is the one that is downwards, and that gulf between what leaders say they know needs to be done, and what they are actually doing, is growing all the time, and that is very alarming from the point of view of the scientists who see the planet warming. political will, of the scientists who see the planet warming. politicalwill, that's of the scientists who see the planet warming. political will, that's the thing, isn't it? politicalwill, technical fixes. this is thing, isn't it? politicalwill, technicalfixes. this is a massive, massive challenge, and we always forget when we talk about these things, we are also changing the chemistry of the oceans. we are making them —— boeotia and more acidic with the c02 from the atmosphere, —— we are making the ocean. that will affect all live in the sea in some ways, it is a

massive effect with the ocean and the atmosphere. legislation is said to be introduced this afternoon to pass a budget for northern ireland. ministers say they were forced to act because leaders at stormont have failed to restore the power—sharing executive which collapsed injanuary. sticking points between the dup and sinn fein include an irish language act, brexit and how to deal with the legacy of the troubles. live to belfast, and our correspondent chris buckler. chris, is this de facto direct rule? that is something that is being asked by a lot of the parties here, but increasingly we are having the conservative government saying time and time again that this is not direct rule, it is simply about setting a budget while there is no government to do that. as they point out, basically the civil servants, public services here are running out

of money. they have to find cash now, which means setting a budget. but this question about direct rule is rising time and time again, and it is certainly a step towards westminster having more of a say in affairs. if you have to legislate for a budget, that is certainly westminster doing it rather than stormont. theresa may is deeply trying to reassure the parties that thatis trying to reassure the parties that that is not the case. she found them last week to say, we still want you quys last week to say, we still want you guys to do a deal, we still want to get back —— you to get back to government instalment, but in the meantime we have to have a budget to keep things running. and we are talking about everything from money for schools to repairing the roads. all the normal things you would expect money to be available from government for. and the health service is one of the big things, that is something that has to be sorted out and pretty quickly. so even to pay for services, to pay for people who deliver those services, all of that

has to happen, and because we are in this kind of limbo land, this place thatis this kind of limbo land, this place that is somewhere between devolution and direct rule, we find ourselves ina and direct rule, we find ourselves in a position where northern ireland is just continuing in a position where northern ireland isjust continuing on in a position where northern ireland is just continuing on with a sort of zombie government, civil servants are doing the practical business of deciding we will keep this going, that going, but they cannot make decisions, and that is the big problem because ministers are put into government in order to make decisions, to say, what is the strategic direction of things? at the moment because there is no government here, that simply is not happening. as a result there is this question about whether full—blown direct rule could return. the conservatives are saying that is not the case, but even the dup deputy leader said last week this

cannot continue for ever. at some stage they are going to have to come toa stage they are going to have to come to a conclusion that decisions will have to be made about how things run here. i mention the health service, just as an example, anita, there are big questions about how it needs to change to develop. because frankly it is ina change to develop. because frankly it is in a bit of change to develop. because frankly it is ina bit ofa change to develop. because frankly it is in a bit of a state at the moment, and people within the health service are even thinking that. this kind of zombie government can't continue for ever, and the question is whether it will be devolution or direct rule? at the moment, the parties seem —— the parties seem com pletely parties seem —— the parties seem completely at odds over things like the irish language act, and same—sex marriage, and at some stage, the question is, is direct rule the next likelihood? i question is, is direct rule the next likelihood ? i don't question is, is direct rule the next likelihood? i don't know for the manic, but this is going to last a long time. —— for the moment. long time. -- for the moment. it seems like the politicians have run out of ideas about how to get past the sticking points. so is there really any prospect that politicians there are

going to get out of this limbo land as you describe it? i think at the moment though doesn't feel like there is any momentum, and negotiations really aren't continuing at the moment. we do have sinn fein's annual party conference on saturday, and it will be the dup conference the saturday afterwards. you could look at that in two ways, first of all it was unlikely they we re first of all it was unlikely they were going to get a deal before the party conferences, because they are really looking towards their own members and neither of them wants to be seen to be drawing back on their position. —— the one thing i would say is that we have not seen any sense that the parties are really coming to some sense where they can doa coming to some sense where they can do a deal. they don't seem prepared to compromise. and as a result, at the moment, stormont sit here, but frankly it is not doing much and it doesn't look like it is going to

come out of that deep freeze any time soon. gun owners in england and wales are being encouraged to hand in their weapons to the police as part of a two—week long gun surrender scheme. people giving up firearms will not face prosecution for illegal possession, but could be questioned ifa gun possession, but could be questioned if a gun is found to be linked a crime. handin crime. hand in yourguns, crime. hand in your guns, and no questions will be asked, that is what police forces across england and wales are calling on people to do. the last firearms surrender was in 2014, when 6000 handguns, rifles and imitations firearms were handed in. it is targeted at those who may have forgotten about owning a gun, or who are maybe too scared to tell officers they have won in case they are arrested. the deal is no questions will be asked at the point of surrender, but if the weapon is traced back to a crime scene, they could be called in for questioning. we are realistic enough to realise we are not going

to get hardened gangland members who are position in weapons they intend to use, hand in a gun, but this is pa rt to use, hand in a gun, but this is part of our response to try and make it as difficult as possible for those people to come into possession of any type of weapon at all. latest figures show there were almost 7000 crimes involving firearms in england and wales last year. that is an increase of 27% on the year before. but the number of crimes is still far less than a decade ago, when it was 31% higher. critics say those who want to use a gun will do so, and the surrender will not make a difference. it begins today, and lasts for two weeks. it's been announced that the prime minister and scotland's first minister nicola sturgeon will hold talks tomorrow, it is thought the meeting, which will be the first between the two since march, will

focus on brexit, something nicola sturgeon has been asking for more clarity on recently, and also the recent allegations of sexual harassment at westminster and holyrood. —— holyrood. in a moment a summary of the business news this hour, but first the headlines on bbc newsroom live. more than 330 people have been killed and nearly 4,000 injured by a powerful earthquake, centred just across the border in a mountainous region of iraq. borisjohnson says he's working "very hard and intensively" on the case of nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, the british woman jailed in iran. business leaders from across europe are meeting the prime minister, to call for a transitional deal between britain and the eu that maintains current trading arrangements. brexit summit at downing street — the uk prime minister meets european business leaders to hear their views on how to make a smooth separation

from the european union work. uber strikes a deal that could lead to a huge investment by a consortium led by japanese conglomerate softbank and san francisco group dragoneer. reports say it could be worth up to £7.6 billion. the ride—hailing company said the money would fuel uber‘s expansion and investments in technology. german energy giant innogy has cut the value of its uk energy business npower by £427 million — partly in response to tightening regulations. this competition in the uk retail business remained "very tough, and pressure on margins is very high", it's said. one of the biggest problems facing british businesses at the moment is productivity. this country is

putting more and more effort into producing not very much more. what to do about it? the cbi, it says one a nswer to to do about it? the cbi, it says one answer to —— is to invest more in technology. joining us now is tom thackray, an innovation director at cbi. why have we become so bad at investing in technology? actually we've got some of the most productive firms in the world, we've got a higher proportion of high productivity firms than anywhere in europe, but we have a long tail of low —— low productivity firms who are finding it difficult to invest in even rudimentary technologies. some of the reasons are cultural, and some of it is the fact that we don't have many international firms, so that horizons are not that broad and they don't have the opportunity

to learn from the best globally. what are you asking government to do? the government has an industrial strategy white paper coming out, and when the government tends to talk about technology it is often looking at the latest thing, artificial intelligence, these new and dynamic technologies. i am intelligence, these new and dynamic technologies. iam not intelligence, these new and dynamic technologies. i am not disputing that these are important, but the blind spot is the fact that technologies that have been around for quite a long time haven't actually been adopted fully by industry, things like the ability to do purchases through a website, cloud technology, these are fairly basic that lodges, and if you look across europe, they are being adopted by businesses at a faster rate compared to us in the uk. adopted by businesses at a faster rate compared to us in the ukw strikes me that over the last ten yea rs we strikes me that over the last ten years we had interest rates down at virtually zero, and if in a time like that you cannot invest in new

terminal —— technology, when are you going to invest? we need to see a step change in that, if you look at this disease in other countries, they benefit from a very supportive ecosystem around them. —— if you look at businesses in other countries. in the uk, the support service landscape has changed remarkably, we used to have support through the regional development agencies, we had something called the business growth service, these bodies no longer exists so the churn rate for businesses looking for support out there is quite high. britain's digital surveillance agency, gchq, says it has concerns about kaspersky anti—virus software. the financial times says the software — given away free by barclays to more than two million customers — could be used as an intelligence—gathering tool by the russian government. boeing has snatched up a dream of a dealfrom its rival airbus

at the dubai air show. emirates has placed a preliminary orderfor 40 of their 787 dreamliners in a deal worth about £11.5 billion. that's a blow to airbus, who were expecting a deal of their own. the numbers are in from the world's biggest online shopping event — singles day. chinese internet giant alibaba sold almost £20 billion worth of deals on november 11th. last year, alibaba sales hit a record 13.76 billion pounds in 24 hours. the number of high street shops closing down has fallen to its lowest level in seven years — according to new research out today from the local data company, which studied the top 500 british town centres, said 2,564 outlets closed in the first half of 2017, equivalent to 14 a day. a look at the markets.

shares in ultra electronics sank by more than a fifth, after the defence contractor issued a downbeat outlook and said its boss had left the company. that's the business news. truffles are regarded as quite a delicacy — but they are increasingly difficult to find. there's been a steep decline in production, and many are blaming climate change. the bbc‘s tim allman reports now on the search for what some have called the diamond of the kitchen. the gorgeous mountainous scenery of north—western italy. autumnal mists, rolling in over the fields and farms. and master truffle hunter

here is on a mission. along with his two dogs, he is searching for a rare delicacy, a white truffle. this is a mission that gets harder every year. translation: more than the money, i would say it is the passion. because u nfortu nately would say it is the passion. because unfortunately in the last few years, it has been even harder —— really ha rd to it has been even harder —— really hard to pay even the dogs' expenses, the vets' bills. we've had such bad weather, we haven't learned a lot. there's been a 30% decline in truffle production over the last yea rs. truffle production over the last years. in some areas they are disappearing together, through climate change and a long drought. and when you cut supply, demand inevitably increases. at this auction south—east of turin, huge crowds turned out, some willing to

pay sky—high prices.” crowds turned out, some willing to pay sky-high prices. i come from switzerland, and it is a lot cheaper here, but they are definitely not cheap. i know it's very expensive, but it is even more expensive in germany. and when you buy truffles in germany, often you get bad quality. the largest truffle sold for $75,000 —— quality. the largest truffle sold for $75,000 -- 70 $5,000, the winning bid coming from hong kong. -- 70 $5,000. winning bid coming from hong kong. —— 70 $5,000. proof that as this delicacy becomes ever more rare, it becomes ever more valuable. coming up, more on the earthquake in iran and iraq and those talks between theresa may and business leaders. in a moment, we will say goodbye to viewers on bbc two, but first, the weather forecast with lucy. hello there. a cool start of the day

today, with a touch of frost. the clearest guys were in the south, a little more cloud in the north. —— the clearest skies. perfect conditions to see venus and jupiter first thing this morning. cloudy in the north, but there has been some snow through this morning, this photos sent in by a weather watcher. through this afternoon that rain will continue to push its way south eastwards into the north west, across scotland, northern ireland and later into the far north west of england, i think it will fall largely as rain, a largely dry day for england and wales, a few showers in the east, but they will largely fizzle out as we move through the day. at rush hour, plenty of cloud and some outbreaks of rain across scotland, there will be a bit of rain, -- scotland, there will be a bit of rain, —— mr newmark, cloudy with outbreaks of rain for england and

northern ireland as well, and largely dry the further south we go. temperatures not feeling particularly warned though, largely in the single figures. a little bit milder in the far south—west, but lighter winds than yesterday so we —— not feeling quite as chile. this evening and overnight that weather front will sink southwards. turning increasingly cloudy with outbreaks of rain and light drizzle. here's what's going on in the pressure charts, we've got this weather front sinking its way south, and it's going to introduce some rather less cool air. tomorrow, similarly, not quite as cool as we seen today particularly in the south. for scotland, some good spells of sunshine tomorrow, 12 showers in the far north. a largely cloudy day across northern ireland, england and wales. some outbreaks of drizzle particularly the further west you are, they could be some mist and fog

around as well. tab which is creeping up to double figures in the south. wednesday will start with that weather front working its way back north, so turning increasingly cloudy, again a largely cloudy day in the south with temperatures at a maximum of 13 celsius. we will see a weather front sinking its way south eastwards through thursday, so telling wet and windy for a time in the north west. a cooler day, and a brighter day on friday. —— telling wet and windy. —— turning wet and windy. this is bbc news and these are the top stories developing at midday. a huge recue effort is under way — after over 300 people are killed in iran by a powerful earthquake — on the border with iraq. business leaders from across europe meet the prime minister — calling for clarity on the future

relationship with the eu. global emissions of c02 are projected to rise for the first time in four years, dashing hopes that a peak might soon be reached. bob geldof hands back his freedom of the city of dublin honour — in protest against myanmar leader aung san suu kyi holding the same accolade. also a firearms appeal gun owners are urged to hand in their weapons as part of a two—week gun amnesty scheme. and the surfer who vowed ‘never again' — matthew brice back on his board, just months after surviving 32 hours adrift at sea. good afternoon, it's monday november 13th. welcome to bbc newsroom live.

rescue efforts are under way on the iran—iraq border after a deadly earthquake struck overnight. more than 330 people have been killed, according to iranian officials. thousands more have suffered injuries — iran's western kermanshah province has been particularly affected. 0ne iranian aid agency said at least 70,000 people need shelter after homes were destroyed. the quake hit the border area between the two countries, around 30 kilometres south of halabja with a magnitude of 7.3. it was so powerful, it was felt as far away as lebanon and turkey. andrew plant has more. the powerful earthquake struck last night, entire buildings collapsing leaving many people trapped underneath. it appeared in the

western provinces of iran that the damage has been most serious. in just one district at least 200 people are now known to have been killed. and the hospitals in this region is trying to cope with thousands of injured. many lucky to still be alive. translation mac ali the earthquake was a very strong, the earthquake was a very strong, the window fell on me and winded my hand and my face. the moment the earthquake hit in the region was caught live on television. the studio guest here trying to keep calm as the building shakes violently. this is across the border in the kurdish region of northern iraq red houses have also been brought down and the hospital

seriously damaged. so far the number of casualties is reported to be comparatively low with at least six people known to have been killed. we have evacuated some medical cases to hospitals rather than the winded. there are damaged house is in one of the districts and partial damage in the districts and partial damage in the hospital. the earthquake with the hospital. the earthquake with the magnitude of 7.3 was felt across much of the middle east. but it is our land much of the middle east. but it is ourland and iraq much of the middle east. but it is our land and iraq which have suffered the most with the centre on the border between them. thousands of people in the region are now in need of shelter. it is cold at night and that have been more than 100 after—shocks since sunday. business leaders from across europe are meeting theresa may in downing street. they'll call for a transitional deal

between britain and the eu which maintains current arrangements and for a future relationship to be clarified. earlier we had from the cbi's caroline fairburn and she said urgency was growing day by day for many businesses. and some firms had already addressed the button on the contingency plans in the event of a no deal scenario. with me now is our business correspondentjonty bloom. clearly firms placing the button on these contingency plans and working towards a number of possible scenarios because the do not have clarity on exactly what fruit the relationship is going to take.” think that is the big concern. we are not only worried about not knowing ruby will end up, we do not

knowing ruby will end up, we do not know how we will get there and that is what they say they need and they need it quite quickly. if you look at the timetable for brexit it is really only about 80 months away at most —— 18 months and business groups say the need longer than that to pretend contingency plans if we're going for a hard brexit so they are getting nervous that they will have to do something to plan for brexit when they do not really know how can a brexit we will get. you say they are not so much concerned about what we will get to but how we are going to get there but how we are going to get there but the majority do not want to have brexit? the majority do not want brexit? the majority do not want brexit at all but they certainly do not want a hard brexit. they are saying the government said they will have a two—year transition but they do not have the details of that transition. business groups are saying they want the same system at the moment guaranteed for another two years and then what kind of a trade deal we will get at the end of that period. that is the kind of clarity they want. they are worried

about the discussions which have not started about what that transition deal will look like to liberty trade deal will look like to liberty trade deal will look like to liberty trade deal will get at the end of that. we do not know. and they are feeling frustrated because to a large extent this is out of their hands because as we know there has to be progress on those three issues of citizens rights, the border between northern ireland and the republic and the brexit bill before they can get into any serious discussions on business and trade. that is why they are calling on both sides to speed up the talks. i think they are worried thatis the talks. i think they are worried that is a logjam at the moment and the longer that continues the litter they will find out what is really going on because the eu have been quite firm on this that they will not move onto trade talks until they have those things you were discussing sorted out. there is no sign of that happening immediately so business organisations are worrying the google run out of time and not just putting worrying the google run out of time and notjust putting pressure on the british government today, they have

also called on the eu to be more proactive and flexible to get these talks going to a meaningful degree. we had john redwood telling up 0 ra cle we had john redwood telling up 0racle corresponded that firms should not be to lay concerned if we do move towards wto rules, the contacts do move towards wto rules, the co nta cts you do move towards wto rules, the contacts you have, what do they think about that particular scenario? i met a company in the north—east last week which does not ca re north—east last week which does not care about this. they traded around the world on wto trade terms, perfectly willing to do the same in the eu. british industry needs a good electric shock to get it more efficient and this is what brexit will do but that is the minority view. the north-east was an area that voted overwhelmingly for exits perhaps you would hear that they are. but you do not often hear that from business leaders. most business leaders, especially those last countries which do a lot of business across europe have spent the last 40

yea rs across europe have spent the last 40 years understanding perfectly for the terms conditions were, seamless borders, been able to move components and people around, they wa nt components and people around, they want as much of that to continue as is possible. thank you. global emissions of c02 in 2017 are projected to rise for the first time in four years, according to new data presented at un climate talks in germany. the main cause of the expected growth has been greater use of coal in china as its economy expanded. researchers are uncertain if the rise in emissions is a one—off or the start of a new period of c02 growth. from bonn here's our environment correspondent matt mcgrath. global emissions of c02 had been rising in the last decade. from then until the end of 2016 emissions growth stalled as economies enter recession. many scientists wondered if the global peak and carbon had been reached.

today's figures had cast doubt on that idea. there is a level of uncertainty in the data but there has been a clear rise of around 2% in 2017. the key is china. coal use has risen notjust because of a growing economy at droughts have driven down river levels leading to a shortfall hydroelectric power. the us and eu saw emissions fall but not by as much as had been hoped. some experts believe that 2017 may be a blip, others are worried it may signal a return to grow in co2 emissions. if that is the case then the chances of the world keeping below the temperature rises agreed in the paris climate pact become ever slimmer. i spoke earlier to our environment correspondent roger harrabin. he explained why 2017 is shaping up to be the hottest on record. scientists know there are two issues

driving the climate, one is man—made emissions of carbon dioxide, the other is natural factors like the el nino effect in the pacific. the past two deals have been reckoned years for temperature but they have been pushed forward by the el nino effect. this year that has been absolutely negligible yet it will still be one of the top three years on record and that is alarming because the warming trend is very, very clear. 13 american agencies came out and said there is no possible reason for this warming other than activity from human society. and then we have this news about global emissions of carbon dioxide rising, they believe for the first time in 40 years and i suppose the big question is whether this is a one off of whether it is the start ofa a one off of whether it is the start of a trend. that is the question. there has been an encouraging trend for the past four years where countries have been investing

heavily in renewables, investing in energy efficiency to drive down energy efficiency to drive down energy demand and that has kept the emissions levels more or less static, that and a sluggish global economy. now the economy has picked up economy. now the economy has picked up and china is racing away, the emissions have increased and that will push global emissions. is that the new trend or will be continue to plateau? i do not want to give anybody the wrong impression that plateauing emissions is enough. the emissions stay in the atmosphere for hundreds of years for every year we emit more thatjust adds to the problem more and more. we need to be reducing the amount to be it. the united nations have been saying that as an opportunity to sort this out but time is very short on which to do that. if you take into account the fact that president trump is pulling the states out of the paris accord and the efforts of other nations, how are we set as we look into the next decade to tackle these

issues? that is what is called the emissions caps all world leaders have set a target of the things they will try to do to reduce emissions. u nfortu nately will try to do to reduce emissions. unfortunately that is trajectory which is still increasing emissions overall. the emissions trend that needs to happen as the one that is downwards and that gulf between the two, the emissions cap between what they do say they now needs to be done and what they're actually doing is growing all the and that is very alarming from the point of view of the scientists who see the planet warming. political will, technical fixes, the whole of society buying in. this is a massive challenge and not just climate in. this is a massive challenge and notjust climate change. we always forget when we talk about these things we are also changing the chemistry of the oceans. we are making the ocean more acidic with the c02 that seeps and from the atmosphere and is absorbed by the ocean and that will affect all life

in the seas in some way. it is a massive experiment with the ocean and the atmosphere. thank you. dr yaseen abbas of the iraqi red crescent society joins me from baghdad. tell us what the situation is like in iraq. yesterday we had an earthquake affecting two provinces in the north east of arrack close to the iranian border. those provinces are affected with other earthquakes, affected distant cities like baghdad

but we have the main casualties in these provinces with casualties. we have almost 425 evacuated to hospital including some medical cases like heart attack or increased blood pressure and almost 300 wouldn't evacuated —— wounded evacuated. we have nine deaths among the people of these cities and damages in the house is and a damaged hospital. how are the emergency services coping if we consider the terrain and extent of the damage, how difficult is the task? unfortunately all those needed

to be evacuated have already been an support and services delivered to them. they are in hospital and have been discharged and there was no problem for accessing those people. also we are having services like water and electricity now back on, there is no shutdown of the services and the people in the region are safely being from subsequent earthquakes. did you feel the earthquakes. did you feel the earthquake yourself in baghdad? yes. we felt it last night and the people we re we felt it last night and the people were panicking for a while but now recorded casualties but accidents

here and there which led to main winds. —— minor wounds. here and there which led to main winds. -- minor wounds. how much cooperation is going on between yourself and red crescent colleagues? i think iran and turkey contacted me yesterday at midnight and the turkish red crescent are planning to send 56 trucks of assistance. we already also received some assistance by aeroplane landing and unloaded and these will be directed to the beneficiaries of the people being evacuated. thank you. good luck with the rescue and relief efforts. the headlines on bbc newsroom live.

more than 330 people have been killed and nearly four—thousand injured by a powerful earthquake, centred just across the border in a mountainous region of iraq. business leaders from across europe are meeting the prime minister, to call for a transitional deal between britain and the eu that maintains current trading arrangements. global emissions of c02 are projected to rise for the first time infour projected to rise for the first time in four years mostly because china is using more coal. time for some sport. good afternoon. northern ireland boss michael o'neill has described his side's effo rts o'neill has described his side's efforts as amazing and said the players were emotional and upset after the draw with switzerland in a

world cup qualifier. he was tormented by a controversial penalty in the first leg that gives us the advantage. they will not be going to make some's world cup in russia. advantage. they will not be going to make some's world cup in russiam would be too strong a word to say cheated but you do feel there there's a certain injustice to going out the in this nature. a lot of people said switzerland are far superior to us in the first leg but the ultimate thing was the only scored off a penalty, they did not scored off a penalty, they did not score of anything else so we could have came here 0—0, been playing extra time so that is an injustice there given the nature of what has divided the teams. there are just ten days to go until the battle for the ashes begins and england will be fine tuning their preparations for the final one up much against an australia 11 starting on wednesday. alastair cook and moeen ali had been exploring the area and took a trip

toa exploring the area and took a trip to a local wildlife centre. moeen ali has not played so far but he is now fit and says he is ready for what about australia have to throw at him. that is part of the game, not something i have had before but these things happen. australians like to talk a lot and big themselves up so far as it is to stay calm and make sure we're ready for that first ball at the gabba. i have always backed myself and my ability and hopefully i will back that even more in this series and do well for england. and scotland prop will miss the autumn test after breaking his arm against samoa. he was injured 30 minutes into the game on saturday and will be replaced by ferguson. newcastle prop john on saturday and will be replaced by ferguson. newcastle propjohn welsh has been called into the squad as

cover. that is all the sport for now, i will be backjust after 1:30pm. the husband of a british womanjailed in iran, nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, has said the foreign secretary, borisjohnson, is now "personally engaged" in the case. richard ratcliffe said mrjohnson had told him he was considering whether his wife would be eligible for diplomatic protection. last week, the foreign secretary corrected an earlier remark suggesting that ms zaghari—ratcliffe had been training journalists when she was arrested last year. earlier this foreign secretary gave a very brief response to reporters about how the case was being handled. let me say on consular cases generally, they are all very sensitive but the key thing to understand is that we are working very hard and intensively and impartially on those cases. thank you very much. mrs zaghari—ratcliffe's husband,

richard, has spoken to the foreign secretary and hopes to travel with him to iran to see his wife. he also spoke to our correspondent, laura trant, about how his wife was feeling behind bars. i am hoping the foreign secretary will sit down with us in the next few days and there are two things i want to discuss with him. one is going with him to iran and how that can be achieved and the other one as i want him to personally consider whether she is eligible for diplomatic protection. conversations with her vary, she is very volatile in her moods, up and down so she is crying and angry, happy and laughing at different points and we had the full range of feelings. it is myjob to reassure her that it will be ok and it is all snowballing but i promise it will be ok. bob geldof says he is handing back his freedom of the city of dublin — because the same honour has been granted to the burmese political

leader, aung san suu kyi. he's described the treatment by myanmar‘s military of the rohingya muslim minority community as "mass ethnic cleansing." dublin's mayor has hit back — saying he had always condemned the persecution of the rohinghya — and saying he was surprised geldof was still keeping his honorary knighthood, given britain's colonial past. the live aid organiser said his home city had honoured aung san suu kyi — but now she had appalled and shamed dublin. ido i do not want to give this up, i am proud of it. i get handle things by states and cities around the world and this meant very much to me, it doesn't mean much to anybody else. i doesn't mean much to anybody else. i do not want to do it but it is the most i can do and the least. the church of england is telling its schools that children should be free to explore their identity and both boys and girls should be allowed to wear a tutu,

tiara or superhero cloak withoutjudgment from teachers or other pupils. the new guidelines aim to prevent children being bullied because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. jon donnison reports: the church of england first issued guidance on homophobic bullying in schools three years ago. today those guidelines are being updated to include bullying against children who identify as transgender or bisexual. it comes after a controversial case on the isle of wight where one couple withdrew their son from a church of england primary school because another pupil asked to be accepted as transgender. 0ur child came home from school saying he was confused, there was a boy in his class which was sometimes a boy and sometimes coming as a girl. we were concerned about that because it is very confusing and how do children deal with that. let us remember that these are primary school children, six years of age.

the guidance stresses children should be able to play with what it calls the many cloaks of identity. the archbishop of canterbury writes in the new guidance is that we must avoid at all costs... it is part of our vision for education is that we want every child to flourish and to know that they are loved by god, that they get their human dignity and identity from god and we want every child to be able to grow up and be free from a kind of environment where they get that kind of bullying because some of the impact and effects of bullying are really serious. the church is by no means united on the issue of human sexuality. this latest guidance is likely to divide opinion. tracey byrne is from the lesbian

and gay christian group "one body 0ne faith". she joins me now from our nottingham studio. the retired bishop stephen lowe says this really is about bullying, it is not about telling children they have two real a two to 40 other superhero clocks. is it fundamentally about theissue clocks. is it fundamentally about the issue of bullying and is not already enough guidance cross i think bullying is the starting point and is unfortunately the unpleasant end point and mini to get his message is right for young people from the very beginning if we agreed to make a churches and schools safe places where children can flourish and thrive and become the people god has treated them to be. we have to get the message right and be right ourselves in terms of understanding if we're going to do that. do you

not think that is already a clear enough message for children and church of england schools that bullying is wrong? i do not think they can be. if children are still telling us they are bullied and feeling afraid then we cannot do too much to address that. these policies are fine in themselves but it is how the flesh out on the ground that counts, how they are being implemented and adopted by schools, how confident professionals feel. i do not think we have yet added place we can be covered composed about that. what did you make of the phrase that children at the stage after in the trying on stage of life? when that comes to someone's sexuality or gender identity, a lot of people would argue that that is a neat, not something that you try one. whatever you might feel about gender identity are given or nurtured and young people, what is really important is that we allow people to expedia is a whole range of varieties of their classmates and peers and we deal with those things ina peers and we deal with those things in a professional way which does not

say that there's anyone we put this and other ways which are wrong. the church has that badly wrong and damage people in the past i think it is incredible important that we say it is possible for a number of opportunities to be explored and all of them are good for god. what would you say to parents who may feel uncomfortable about this? what do you say to members of the church who think this is a step too far?” absolutely understand that. we have all grown up absolutely understand that. we have allgrown up any absolutely understand that. we have all grown up any world with your gender determined your school and opportunities in life and how the church saw you. i can understand that grown—ups and adults have discomfort around this and anxiety which they need to be given an up—to—date address. what we need not to do is make sure we need to and not projecting that two young people to the point where they feel confused because your people often see this very simple terms. children learn to swim in it, they do not wa nt to learn to swim in it, they do not want to treat one another unfairly and unfortunately the isle of wight

seem to identify it is the projection of adult uncertainties on children that are causing a much bigger problem. it is instinctive for people to fix those labels on others. i think that is or was it addition to do that unethically church is governed by the dahmen' disorder do that at anything that we can do that broadens that out and is more tolerant and creative and fluid as we understand agenda to be that has to be a good thing. thank you. donald trump has told reporters he has a "great relationship" with the controversial philippines' president, rodrigo duterte. he was speaking after the two men met in manila on the sidelines of the asean summit — that's the association of southeast asian nations. mr trump didn't say whether they'd discussed human rights, but a white house spokesman said the subject was briefly raised. president duterte has previously admitted personally killing people as part of an anti—drugs campaign that has left thousands dead.

but there was no mention of any disagreements when president trump addressed reporters. we have had a great relationship. this has been very successful, many meetings with other leaders. it has been handled beautifully by the president of the philippines and representitives as and i really enjoyed being here. jupiter and venus — the two brightest planets — have been appearing very close together in the morning sky. both have been visible to the naked eye across the uk. the best viewing time was 40 minutes before sunrise. while the planets are visible to the naked eye, viewers with a telescope have also been able to see jupiter's four galilean moons. time for a look at the winners. and

glad if you manage to get to see jupiter and venus because things are clouding up. the cold weather that the weekend gives perfect visibility but things are changing across scotla nd but things are changing across scotland and northern ireland and increasingly through this evening and overnight so will bring this thicker cloud from the atlantic associated with this weather front across the heart of the british isles. a much milder mate as a consequence than last night, —5 last night plus five tonight. quite dull, but this only on but slumps further south all the while scotland in clea n south all the while scotland in clean and fresh with a scattering of showers, single figure temperatures but the rise, more like 1112 tomorrow. wednesday morning, wide dense fog patches but after that durrell and murky start things will

improve, sunshine maybe not for scotla nd improve, sunshine maybe not for scotland but with that sunshine 12 or 13. this is bbc news, our latest headlines: more than 300 people have been killed and thousands injured as a powerful earthquake hits the border region between iran and iraq. rescue teams are facing landslides as they try to free people caught in the rubble. business leaders from the uk and europe are in a meeting with the prime minister, hoping to gain clarity into the future relationship between britain and the eu post—brexit. c02 levels have risen for the first time in four years. the rise has been linked to china's increased use of coal. police across england and wales have announced a two week gun amnesty — urging people to hand in their weapons without the fear of being prosecuted. bob geldof has handed back his freedom of the city of dublin honour — in protest against myanmar leader aung san suu kyi holding the same accolade. the charity founder and musican

said "her association with our city shames us all". the husband of nazanin zaghari—radcliffe, the british womanjailed in iran, says that the foreign secretary borisjohnson is now "personally engaged" in the case. 0ne one hour 0ne houron one hour on one of our main story this lunchtime. —— more now. business leaders from across europe are meeting theresa may in downing street. they'll call for a transitional deal between britain and the eu which maintains current arrangements and for a future relationship to be clarified. earlier, conservative mp and euroscepticjohn redwood told our political correspondent chris mason that there was no need for panic over a "status quo" transitional trade agreement. the way to end the uncertainty is we should prepare for world

organisation time, work fine. and i hope within the next couple of weeks, asi hope within the next couple of weeks, as i see the eu wants to set a deadline, they should answer one question, do they want to set a free trade agreement with britain, or don't they? if they are not interested in doing that in the next two weeks, we should go on in the uncertainty and prepare to trade under wto rules. we have seen regularly real nervousness being expressed by business lobby groups, you have always made the argument, don't panic, relax. convince them if they are watching, why is there this huge gulf between you being relaxed and they've been very, very nervous? i have traded under wto rules in the past absolutely fine, i don't see what the problem is now particularly as there is a trade general

agreement which came into fabric which deals with many of the deals they keep making. but the cbi told —— talk us into the exchange rate mechanism which gave a huge headache to their members, they wanted us to go into the euro and said the city would be damaged if they didn't, instead the city flourished. there seems to be some optimism in the air in brussels that come december, there will be some movement beyond there will be some movement beyond the on picking of the current relationship. are you still hopeful? you say you are relaxed about the prospect of no deal, but are you still confident an agreement can be struck? it would be better to pay the tariffs than to have a very large payment going out, because we would pay the tariffs and we would

—— collect the terrace and give it back to our customers in the form of tax breaks. i am still a little sceptical but they are serious because i haven't heard them say they want a trade deal, the sooner they want a trade deal, the sooner they said yes, the sooner we could conclude a permanently —— perfectly good deal. you seem to be setting quite a high bar, however, on the basis of the divorce settlement, because this seems a sense that the government is moving towards paying considerably more than £20 billion, perhaps £40 billion, £60 billion. you are saying that is not going to happen? i don't see we have any obligation to pay that. as to the 20, if they make too big a bill it makes transition deeply undesirable in itself. there is no point in

having transition unless there is something good to transit to, if there is not good —— if there is not, we might as well go ahead and implement web —— wto rules in march 2019 and end the uncertainty, and business will find that it quite well. legislation is set to be introduced at westminster this afternoon to pass a budget for northern ireland. ministers say they were forced to act because leaders at stormont have failed to restore the power—sharing executive which collapsed injanuary. sticking points between the dup and sinn fein include an irish language act, brexit and how to deal with the legacy of the troubles. earlier i asked our ireland correspondent whether this was de fa cto correspondent whether this was de facto direct rule. that is something that has been asked by a lot of the political parties here, but increasingly we harp having the conservatives saying time and time again that this is not direct rule, it is simply about setting a budget when there is no government here to do that. it is incredibly important,

as they point out, basically public services here are running out of money. they have to find cash now, which means setting a budget. but this question about direct rule is rising time and time again, and it is certainly a step towards westminster having more of a say in affairs here. if you have to legislate for a budget, it is westminster rather than storm at doing that. theresa may is of course trying to reassure the parties that thatis trying to reassure the parties that that is not the case, she phoned both the dup and sinn fein last week to say she still wants them to get back into government here in stormont, but in the meantime, they have to have a government to keep things running. you are talking about schools and repairing roads, all the you would normally expect money to be available from the government for. when you look at the health service, that has to be sorted out pretty quickly, so even

to pay for people who deliver those services, all of that has to happen, and because we are in this odd kind of limbo land, this place that is somewhere between devolution and direct rule, we find ourselves in a position where really northern ireland is just continuing position where really northern ireland isjust continuing on position where really northern ireland is just continuing on with a sort of zombie government, civil serva nts sort of zombie government, civil servants are doing the practical business of deciding, yes, we will keep this and that going, money is needed there, but they cannot make decisions, and that is the problem because ministers are in government to make decisions, to say, what is the strategic direction of things? at the moment, because there is no government, that simply isn't happening. as a result there is this question about whether full—blown direct rule could return. the conservatives are saying that isn't the case, but even the dup direct —— deputy leader nigel dodds said last week, this cannot continue forever, at some stage they are going to have to come to the conclusion that

decisions will have to be made about how things wrong. just as a matter of the health service, there are big questions about how it needs to change here to develop, because frankly it is in a bit of a state at the moment, and even people within the moment, and even people within the health service say it is a case that —— the case. you need a minister to put in place reforms, so the kind of zombie government cannot continue forever, and the question is, will it be devolution or direct rule? at the moment, the parties seem completely at odds with issues like the irish language act and same 76 -- like the irish language act and same 76 —— same—sex marriage, and as a result, i don't think we are going to see a return to devolution pretty soon. is direct rule the solution? i don't know, but this is going to last a long time. it seems like the politicians have run out of ideas on how to get past the sticking points, the big issues which are sticking

points for them. so is there really any prospect that politicians there are going to get out of this limbo land as you describe it?” are going to get out of this limbo land as you describe it? i figured the moment though doesn't feel like there is any momentum, negotiations really are not continuing at the moment. we do have sinn fein's annual party conference coming up on saturday, and the dup conference the saturday, and the dup conference the saturday afterwards. you could look at that in two ways, first of all it was unlikely they were going to get a deal before their conferences. because they are really looking towards their own members and neither of them wants to be seen to roll back on their position in order to do roll back on their position in order todoa roll back on their position in order to do a deal before the party conferences. does that mean that something is more likely after was? perhaps, but we haven't seen any sense that the parties are coming to some sense where they can do a deal. they don't seem prepared to compromise, and as a result, at the moment, storm to sit here, but

frankly it is not doing much, and doesn't look like it is going to come out of that deep freeze any time soon. —— store wantjust sit here. —— store want. —— stormont. gun owners in england and wales are being encouraged to hand in their weapons to the police as part of a two week long gun surrender scheme. people giving up their firearms won't face prosecution for illegal possession — but could be questioned if a gun is found to be linked to a crime. sima kotecha reports. hand in your guns, and no questions will be asked. that is what police forces across england and wales are calling upon people to do. the last firearms surrender was in 2014, when 6,000 handguns, rifles and imitation firearms were handed in. it is targeted at those who may have forgotten about owning a gun, or may be too scared to tell officers they have got one, in case they are arrested. the deal is, no questions will be asked at the point of surrender. however, if the weapon is traced back to a crime scene, they could be called in for questioning. we're realistic enough to realise that we're not going to get

hardened gang members, in possession of weapons they intend to use, hand in a gun. but this is part of our response to try and make it as difficult as possible for those people to come into possession of any type of weapon at all. latest figures show that there were almost 7,000 crimes involving firearms in england and wales last year. that is an increase of 27% on the year before. but the number of crimes is still far less than a decade ago, when it was 31% higher. critics say those who want to use a gun will do so, and the surrender won't make a difference. it begins today, and lasts for two weeks. hundreds of people have marched in hollywood in support of victims of sexual assault and harassment, inspired by the "metoo" social media campaign. the march follows a series of assault and harassment

allegations against public figures, set off by revelations about the movie mogul harvey weinstein. the marchers started on hollywood boulevard and walked along the "walk of fame" to cnn's headquarters. the former prime minister of lebanon has spoken publicly for the first time since his surprise resignation eight days ago. saad hariri told a lebanese television station he would be returning home from saudi arabia within days. mr hariri denied he is being held against his will. he said he realised that he had not resigned in the usual way, but he wanted to give the country what he described as "a positive shock", to alert it to the dangers it faces. translation: there is a security threat on my life, but actually there is also the protection of lebanon on. i will go back to lebanon, and i will be back really soon, and follow the constitutional process of resignation. you have to give me

time to secure myself in lebanon on. lam not time to secure myself in lebanon on. i am not talking about weeks or months, i am talking about days. the resignation of mr hariri has meant we've been hearing a lot lately about the regional rivalry between iran and saudi arabia, that lies behind lebanon's political crisis. but why are the two countries at loggerheads, and what is the potential for real conflict between them? paul adams explains. if iran and saudi arabia were going to go to war, that would be catastrophic. nobody thinks that is going to happen, but they are definitely at loggerheads, fighting by proxy over all the region. it is about a struggle for power, that's been going on for almost 40 years. saudi arabia, home to islam's two

holiest sites, always felt it was the undisputed leader of the muslim world. but then in 1979 along came ayatolla h world. but then in 1979 along came ayatollah khomeini and the islamic revolution. suddenly, saudi arabia had a rival. fast forward to today, and tehran's influence extends across a broad area of the middle east, from iran in the east to lebanon on in the west. saudi arabia feels threatened in its own backyard. and then of course there is religion, the two countries representing the two rival camps within islam. saudi arabia is silly, iran is shi'ite. —— saudi arabia is sunnl in yemen, there is civil war. saudi arabia is helping one side, iran the

other. iran supports president assad and has sent troops to fight for him. the saudis have funded and armed rebel groups. in iraq, iran has become hugely in —— influential. saudi arabia has been trying to increase its influence there. and then there is lebanon, for decades iran has supported the shi'ite hezbollah. but it also has a presence in yemen and iraq. for saudi arabia, this is all too much. saudi arabia, this is all too much. saudi arabia's crown prince, who pretty much runs the country, has been sounding increasingly tough on iran, accusing it of trying to dominate the muslim world. many think the crown prince ordered the recent resignation of the prime

minister of lebanon. saad hariri made his shock announcement in saudi arabia. translation: i want to say to iran and its followers that they are losing in their interference in the affairs of the arab world. the suspicion is that saudi arabia is trying to force a confrontation with hezbollah, to weaken its authority and the influence of iran. if so, this is dangerous —— territory, it could open up a huge new fault line ina could open up a huge new fault line in a country, lebanon, that has already seen far too much conflict. the headlines on bbc newsroom live: more than 330 people have been killed and nearly 4,000 injured by a powerful earthquake, centred just across the border in a mountainous region of iraq. business leaders from across europe are meeting the prime minister, to call for a transitional deal between britain and the eu that maintains current trading arrangements. global emissions of c02 are projected to rise for the first time in four years — mostly because china

is using more coal. "postnatal confinement" — where new mothers do not leave the house, have visitors or shower for a month after giving birth — is said to be widespread among the uk's chinese community. experts warn that few in the medical profession know this occurs. amber haque reports. sitting month, as in confinement after childbirth, is a tradition so ingrained in chinese culture that even i did it myself, some practices. some of the very strict rules are that you shouldn't drink cold drinks during the month, you shouldn't shower. hair washing is not allowed, and obviously not going outside the boundaries of your house. so for obvious reasons, we're not allowed to film with a mum in her house when she's doing the confinement period,

but i have found one mum who is willing to talk to me via skype. her name is ching, and she actually hasn't left the house for nearly 28 days. hi, ching. hi there. i come originally from singapore, and it's part of our culture to definitely do confinement. being confined in yourflat is important, because for us, if you don't practise it then you know, you're just disadvantaging yourself, kind of thing. my husband, he doesn't really know what was going on when i said i need to practise confinement, and his family, as well. so it's quite obvious there is a lack of understanding or even awareness that it even exists. but i can see why it can't be isolating. —— i can see why it can be isolating. new mums can often be left in isolation and that's quite difficult for them to cope. when they have medical problems they try to solve it within themselves, and sometimes that can have detrimental effects to the health of themselves and to the baby. some chinese people feel they should endure problems themselves

and the cultural norm of saving face means many aren't seeking help when they should. elly lee has stage four cancer, meaning its advanced and it's spread around her body. translation: the chinese community can have stigma around around cancer. around cancer. and some may not even tell theirfamilies. the majority of the chinese community here work predominantly in the catering trade. they work long hours, where work takes number one and health takes a back seat. i'm speaking out, to help chinese people have an awareness of health. there's a clear lack of representation of the british chinese in the media, politics and the arts. but for some in the community, that silence can be deafening. we are often grouped in a box along

with other ethnicities on statistic or data collection forms. and that means our specific needs are not being looked into. just because we are silent and polite doesn't mean we should be ignored. now, six months ago we brought you the story of matthew bryce who was stranded at sea for two days after his surfing trip went disastrously wrong. matthew almost died, and was rescued 13 miles off the coast of northern ireland, vowing never to surf again. well, time is a great healer, and matthew has bravely decided he's ready to get back in the water. 0ur reporter alex gulrajani went to meet him. a moment matthew bryce thought would never happen again. i knew i was going to die. it was a fact.

lucky to be alive — that's how belfast coastguards have described a surfer who was rescued from the irish sea last night. matthew bryce was picked up 13 miles off the argyll coast... i was thinking i was going to die. i was almost convinced entirely. i didn't think i'd see the sunrise. i'd totally given up. i'd resigned myself to the fact i was going to die. i'm sitting here in the dark — i can't describe how cold. it's not as if you went out for a snowball fight and your hands are a bit cold. it's like life is just being sapped out of your core. six months on, matthew bryce is ready to get back into the water. but any fear or apprehension he had has been replaced by pure excitement. how are you feeling? i'm excited. i'm going to go out now. i'm going tojump on right now. yeah, i'm buzzing.

and with the support of his friends, he was back where he once said he would never venture again — on a surfboard. how cool was that, seeing him back out there? it's awesome. keeping his passion going, and everything. this is perfect. eventually, he even found his feet. not bad for six months away. there were a couple of points where i was getting tossed a bit in the water, and you're thinking, whoa — hang on, it's fine. and reunited on water with the surfboard that saved his life. this board, matthew, must mean a lot to you. it's a special board for me. i can never get rid of this. if i'd lost the board, if i hadn't been able to get back to it, if the leash had snapped, if i'd decided to throw it away, i would have died. it was the only thing that was keeping me safe. even if i stop surfing, it'll go on the wall. yeah, i'll always keep it. but there are no plans to hang it up just yet. in fact, the ocean is calling. matthew and his friends will be back in the sea this weekend, determined not to give up on his passion. i want to go and, you know,

live as much as i possibly can. i hope to god i'm never going to experience anything like that again, and i'd never wish it on anyone, either. but, if i can take some positives out of it, and if i can try and get a message out to people to be safe, go out with friends, don't go surfing alone, don't be reckless like me, i think some good can come from it. ina in a moment, the news, but first, the weather forecast. the cold, crisp weather of the latter pa rt the cold, crisp weather of the latter part of the weekend is just showing signs of giving ground to a bit of moisture from the atlantic. that is not to say it has gone completely, but the signs of change

are there, certainly across parts of scotla nd are there, certainly across parts of scotland where it has been a cloudy start to the day. there is still some cold air beneath that plume, thatis some cold air beneath that plume, that is where we have seen a bit of wintering is through the first part of the day across scotland. tonight should be a bit milder than was the case over the weekend and into monday. this is how we shape up first up into monday —— tuesday, clear skies getting into the north of that weather front, a speckling of that weather front, a speckling of showers across many northern and north—western scotland. that cloud producing the hill fog and bits and pieces of rain, through northern ireland and the top end of the pennines, and rather cloudy, murky, different fare. 0n the milder side, but that is often the way of it, and

that prospect of those dull conditions extending down into some of the southern counties. a little bit of brightness right along the south coast, but is that cloud eases its way down the south you will be robbed of that in the afternoon, and the rain pretty much there or thereabouts. further north, brighter skies, but a little bit fresher. single temperatures here. further south, it is 12 or 13. the reason for the —— for the change from the weekend is that in the weekend we had nor the lease. the cold air —— the cold air not1 million miles away, but it will be —— we will be enveloped in these milder air conditioners from the atlantic. just a word to the wise about the start of wednesday, it could be really murky across a good part of england and wales, some dense fog patches around. to the north of the weather front, brighter start here at least,

but the rain eventually creeps up the western of scotland. a major rescue operation is underway in iran after a powerful earthquake that's killed around 350 people and injured thousands more. cctv captures the moment the quake happens on the iraqi side, sending bricks and masonry flying through the air. the devastation has left around 350 people dead and thousands more injured. we have been evacuated some medical cases to hospitals rather than to be wounded. people have spent the night sifting through the rubble for survivors. we'll bring you the very latest. also this lunchtime: climate experts says global emissions of carbon dioxide are set to rise in 2017 for the first time in four years. business leaders from across europe meet theresa may to voice concerns about trade between the uk and the eu after brexit.

police forces urge the public to give up any unwanted guns