To world news today. The foreign secretary, borisjohnson, says he has had frank and constructive talks with his iranian counterpart in tehran over the case of british iranian Nazanin Zaghari ratcliffe whos been injail since 2016. Our Diplomatic CorrespondentJames Robbins reports. It could look routine, shaking hands before talks. But there is nothing routine about this encounter. The foreign secretary looking uncharacteristically tense, and with good reason. He wants to improve relations, but also criticise some of irans actions, while arguing for prison releases, including of Nazanin Zaghari ratcliffe, a case many accuse him of damaging because of loose talk last month. Watching anxiously with me in london, nazanins husband, who has campaigned day in, day out for freedom since she was arrested last year. Im sure it will make a difference, him being there, raising her case, and in the context of a lot of other stuff, can only help improve relations, can only lead to a better case for us. I think thats right. Im not expecting that on monday morning he comes back with her on the plane. Borisjohnson is saying nothing at all publicly while in iran, instead the Foreign Office issued a statement after two hours of what they called a constructive meeting. One good sign is that irans foreign minister confirmed borisjohnson should be able to meet president rouhani tomorrow. Something that is not automatic on a visit like this. Talks went on for two hours. It seems that this was a genuine discussion, not a pre scripted exchange. Positives and negatives in relations were aired. We should not expect immediate consequences, but iran is in no doubt how much importance the british side attaches to getting Nazanin Zaghari ratcliffe home. Earlier i asked siavash ardevan of bbc persianian about what might have come up in those meetings. He hasnt met the head of iransjudiciary, which is really the branch he should be meeting, the people handling the case. Because they are different, arent they . The government and the judiciary are separate. Thats significant in this case. Its a power struggle between the two. Often you have the judiciary trying to undermine the governments foreign policy. As much as the president rouhani or borisjohnsons counterpart may want to help it boils down to hardliners who controls the judiciary. What do you make of the fact borisjohnson will meet with the president tomorrow . Well, the president is not handling her case, so as much as the president may be able to pressure the head of thejudiciary, its very good. But at the end of the day really its up to the judiciary whether they want to go along with the government and release her or not. The due process is that after five years, which is the sentence that she has received, if you serve a third of that sentence, then you are eligable for par role. Next month will be that, we approach that dead dlien. Deadline, so thats good news. Her husband is being cautiously opt miscontinuing you could say. Even though he is not expect willing her to come home on the plane with borisjohnson, he is crossing his fingers she may be back for christmas, is that a realistic time scale if the judiciary decide to release her . It is, like i said, next month will be approaching the third of the sentence shes already served. Even according to iranian law if thejudiciary served. Even according to iranian law if the judiciary decides that its appropriate to release her, yes, that could be done. In terms of negotiations, and as you have said, borisjohnson is talking to the government which is separate to the judiciary, but what kind of conversations do you think will be going on, negotiations on the ground . Well, we know that the iranians are demanding money owed, something to the tune of £400 million owed by the British Government from back in the 70s, they want that money back. The British Government has not paid the iranians back because of revolutions and sanctions and we understand theyre facilitating now to make that payment possible, that would make the iranians happy and there are bilateral issues, trade and other things signed between the two sides. So the more the iranians feel theyve made headways with the British Government and private sector theyll feel like theyve gained enough concessions to release her. Journalists at the bbc are hoping that Boris Johnson her. Journalists at the bbc are hoping that borisjohnson will raise theissue hoping that borisjohnson will raise the issue of how british or persianian journalists over here in the uk are being treated by the iranian government. Yes, after Boris Johnson went to iran the bbc released this statement calling on borisjohnson to bring that issue up. Yes, we here at the bbc persian tv are hoping that issue also comes to the foreand Boris Johnsons negotiations with the iranian authorities. Whats the issue . That they are harassing families in iran, interrogating them, summoning them every now and then, pressuring them to somehow force us to resign from oui to somehow force us to resign from our jobs, to somehow force us to resign from ourjobs, spreading fake news, personal slander against us. Theyve also just recently frozen all our assets, so is disinherited dozens of people from properties and whatever assets they may have had in iran. The palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has pulled out of a meeting with the us Vice President mike pence, which was due to happen in cairo later this month. The announcement comes as protests in the middle east and other muslim countries continue over Donald Trumps decision to formally recognise jerusalem as the capital of israel. There have also been israeli air strikes on gaza after rockets were fired from the territory into israel. Tom bateman reports. A display of grief and of anger. Funerals were held in gaza for two People Killed in israeli air strikes last night. The Islamist Group hamas said the men belonged to their armed wing. Weapons stores and a base run by the militant group were targeted said israel. A new round of hostilities between old enemies. Israel said three rockets were fired from gaza last night. One landed in this southern israeli town. There was minor damage but no casualties. Further disruption took place in jerusalem as palestinians continued to vent their anger at President Trump. Police broke up protests before they gained momentum. And for a third day in the occupied west Bank Protesters threw stones and burned tyres. Israeli troops responded with tear gas in bethlehem and palestinians answered back. The clashes since mr trumps statement have so far not matched the scale of previous escalations in violence this year but people here remain wary and diplomatic relations between the palestinian leadership and the white house are under severe strain. President trump appealed for calm and moderation. His critics point to whats happened here in the three days since his announcement and say he has stoked precisely the opposite. Many israelis continue to praise his move but it comes at the cost of increased tensions. Staying in the middle east, and iraqs Prime Minister has announced that the war against the armed Group Islamic state in his country, has been won. Haider al abadi says iraq has been liberated and his army is now in full control of the areas along the border with syria. At the height of its strength, the militant Group Controlled a third of iraqi territory, and proclaimed a caliphate. But in the last few months, it has lost control of all of the remaining areas it held in iraq. I thank all the countries, as well as humanitarian and international organizations, that stood with iraq, and its people, during this battle. I salute every iraqi fighter who took up arms to defend our land. I salute the souls of the martyrs and those injured, and theirfamilies, who preserved iraq and its people. Iraq survived united and victorious. The New York Times has carried out an investigation which suggests that the number of people whove died in puerto rico as a result of Hurricane Maria is far higher than official figures suggest. The authorities said that 64 people were killed by the storm in september, but the papers investigation says the total number of deaths caused by the hurricane could have risen to more than one thousand. Lets speak to Frances Robles from the New York Times now. Tell us about the investigation, how did you acertain the figure could indeed be far higher than the government said and how certain are you of those fa cts . And how certain are you of those facts . Well, the beauty of what we did is that we are looking at the governments own figures. This is not a Scientific Study based on theory. Its based on the mortality statistics being compiled by the department of health. What you see is on 20th september the deaths there shoot up, really markedly. So, 0k, there shoot up, really markedly. So, ok, what happened on 20th september . Well, there was almost a category five hurricane. So we went back and looked day by day comparing september and october to 2015, 16 and 17. Its absolutely indisputable that about 37 people a day additionally were dying. What do you put the inaccurate government figures down to, this vast discrepancy . Well, the thing thats important to consider is that we are not looking at people that drowned 01 not looking at people that drowned or got hit by a tree or got caught up or got hit by a tree or got caught up in or got hit by a tree or got caught upina or got hit by a tree or got caught up in a tornado. We are looking at what happened when the system collapsed in the days and weeks and months after the hurricane. You have to remember even today most of puerto rico does not have electricity, a lot of people dont have cell service. We are talking about people who didnt have cell service to call 911 or if they did have a landline the ambulance never arrived. People who didnt have electricity to power their respirators. If you are the guy who didnt have electricity for the respirator machine you get to the hospital eventually and you die, thats a natural death. Ok. So thats a natural death. Ok. So thats how it was coded. The government isnt going out of its way to get behind all of those natural deaths to say how many of these natural deaths were people who we re these natural deaths were people who were waiting for ambulances who had no electricity in their homes and died of heat strokes and things of that nature . I guess thats important to learn from what happened in case heaven forbid this happens again. What are the government saying now theyve been presented with this information . They started hedging a couple of weeks ago because other news organisations had also done other kinds of investigations, cnn for example, literally called every single funeral home in puerto rico and whats interesting about the cnn study compared to ours is that the results match identically. Cnn was able to reach half of the Funeral Homes and came up with 500 deaths that the Funeral Directors thought we re that the Funeral Directors thought were hurricane related. We came up with 1,000 deaths looking at the totality of the mortality statistics. So now the government is saying ok, well, if you bring us the information we will look into it. So this morning in fact the day after the story first posted online, they increased the total by two. So one of them is a person whose respirator machine was not functioning and another is a person who died waiting foran another is a person who died waiting for an ambulance. Whats interesting is both those people did die on the day of the hurricane. Le. What do you make of President Trumps intervention in this, on the day he tweeted that the island had to deal with its massive debt, food water and medical Top Priorities and doing well, hashtag fema he said. Weeks later he visited costa rica and praised the low official death toll, related it to Hurricane Katrina saying that had been a real catastrophe so welcoming this relatively low death toll in the area. Thats right. I think that donald trump was working off the information that he was being given by the government and the day that he was in puerto rico they were still sticking to the number 16 and it was a few hours after he left that the number first doubled and everybody was like, wait a second, a second ago the president was here praising the number 16. Then when i went back and we looked, went day by day from the 20th september until october 3rd visit, we saw that 550 people had died, above that same time period the year before. Is it 16 or was it 50 . Thats the question. 0k 550. There we will leave it, thank you forjoining us. Tens of thousands of people have filled the streets of paris for the funeral of the singer Johnny Hallyday who died on wednesday at the age of 74. His coffin was driven in a cortege down the champs elysees, followed by hundreds of leather clad bikers. From paris, Hugh Schofield sent this report. For nearly 60 years, Johnny Hallyday sang his songs to the french, and today they came to bid him goodbye. Tens of thousands of fans, many of them from the older generation, people who grew up to his sounds in the happy, optimistic days of the 60s. For france, johnny was le rock and roll. He was the first to open their ears to the thrilling new music coming from the united states. America was his obsession. America and motorbikes. Hence the escort of hundreds of bikers for his funeral cortege down the champs elysees. Translation let him rest in peace and wreak havoc up there. Let him sing, and get it going, and open his heart up there, surrounded by family and friends. Stars of music and screen, political leaders past and present, they were all there for the Funeral Service inside the church. For the french, johnny was their rock hero, the man who, for half a century, was always there with new songs and new performances. With his death people do feel that part of the nations life has gone. Donald trumps visit to the southern us state of mississippi has been met with a protest by democratic leaders. Mr trump toured a new Civil Rights Museum in the state capital, jackson. He said hed studied and admired the American Civil Rights campaigner, Martin Luther king, all his life. Two Democratic Party congressmen and the city mayor pulled out of the ceremony, accusing the president of deepening racial divisions in the country. Officials in california have extended the red alert caused by a series of wildfires. And say it will now remain in force until at least sunday. One person has been killed, and 700 buildings have been destroyed, by fires burning out of control in several parts of the state. More than 200,000 people have been forced to leave their homes. Stay with us, still to come. A New Discovery from ancient egypt. Archaeologists unveil a mummy and other treasures dating back more than 3,000 years. Britains foreign secretary says hes had frank talks with his iranian counterpart over the case of a british iranian woman held in prison there. There have been further protests in the Israeli Occupied west bank and the gaza strip in response to President Trump declaring jerusalem to be israels capital. Lets get all the sport now with john watson. The football action first. Chelsea suffering a surprise derby defeat at west ham in the premier league today. A goal in the 6th minute was the difference between the two sides to give david moyes his first win since taking charge. West ham remain in the bottom three. The defending champions could be 14 points off the top by the end of the weekend if Manchester City beat neighbours united tomorrow. What a great result for us. We needed to find one of the results, we came close against Manchester City for long periods, thought we were going to get it. Dont get us wrong, it was tough today. Chelsea kept us under pressure. We scored a good goal, played well at times in the first half. If we had been better with the ball a couple of times in the second half we might have got another goal. To face one game, at the same time when you play almost always with same players its very difficult because you have to play something and only is that we have just started this period. The days other results. Christian benteke missed a last minute penalty in palaces 2 2 draw with bournemouth. Englands ashes tour of australia has been affected by news of another drinking related incident. This time ben duckett dropped from englands tour match today for pouring a drink over the head ofjames anderson at a bar in perth. Its the latest incident relating to poor player behaviour in a series which threatens to become a nightmare for the team trailing 2 0 with three matches to play. I think its fairly trivial. In the climate its just not acceptable. Everyones been warned about even small things can be blown out of proportion and the ecb have also been quite strict to the boys with their message. Its simply unacceptable. Doesnt matter how trivial it is in this environment and what we have had to go through already with some of the small problems. As i said, its not right, not acceptable. Todays warm up match was intended to give englands batsmen the chance t