seeking common ground in v i enna diplomates try to reach 11th hour agreement on iran's nuclear power program. ♪ hello, this is al jazeera, live from doha, i'm adrian and also on the program, torrential rain in morocco and more than 30 people are killed as flash flooding destroys homes and roads. more than 60 are killed in a suicide attack at a volley ball game in afghanistan. unable to seek medical treatment and we follow the plight of a gaza boy suffering burns because of the rafah crossing be mains

closed. ♪ the clock is ticking, the diplomates are trying to remain upbeat about agreement over iran's nuclear program and major world powers in tehran have until midnight local time to strike a deal of talks in vienna, 12 hours from now and al jazeera is at those talks in vienna and is now live and jonah where are we right now? >> reporter: well, adrian let me give you the latest information i have, this is not information we can independently verify but carried by both the major news agencies, reuters and quoting a source close to negotiation and it says this, that there is, they feel, no longer time to reach a full and comprehensive agreement at these talks, the minister the source says are now

talking about the possibility of adjourning here in vienna a so called stop the clock option and simply walking away from these talks and reconvening and a future date possibly in december it is said at a venue to be decided possibly arman it is said where a number of meetings prior to this a have taken place and it's considered safe, neutral ground and that as i say is not something i can confirm independently but tallies with reports we have been hearing over the past 24 hours from others unnamed sources quoted by the news agencies who say this simply is not the time to do this and need more time and there is however the political will to keep talking and the suggestion is they may on monday here sign a so called political statement to that effect. that said they are still talking, a so called final push as uk foreign secretary phillip hammond put it on sunday night.

>> we are focused on the last push, big push tomorrow morning to try and get this across the line. of course if we are not able to do it we will look at where we go from there but at the moment everybody is trying to look how we can bridge the gap and move things forward tomorrow with iranians. >> political will is there to reach some sort of an agreement in spite of the fact we have a deadline, if everything is frozen as it is now and they pick up these talks again at some point in the future presumably that means that sanctions will not be eased against iran which is something, one thing the iranians are particularly keen to happen. >> probably not for now, that is right and that is something else this unnamed source is saying, if this was the option to walk away and come back in december to resume talks at a location to be decided but not in the interim period would be any

further and sanctions relief for iran and only would come in the context of a deal that is decided codified, written down and signed and that it seems may not happen here in vienna before the deadline of midnight on monday night. >> thanks jonah live in vienna. in iraq kurdish forces backed by iraqi troops and shia malitia have taken two towns in a province northeast of the capitol baghdad and we report. >> reporter: kurdish pershmerga fighters celebrating after gaining control of two towns 70 miles northeast of baghdad. isil established a stronghold and iraqi forces say on sunday they bombed isil positions and carried out ground offensive looking for explosives that isil may have planted as they fled. >> translator: units were

formed from isil terrorists and we entered and freed the entire area. >> reporter: army official says about 50 isil fighters out of a group of 400 may have been killed and at least 23 pershmerga fighters died and isil controlled the town for moves and many others escaped the violence and among a ring of towns isil controlled around g baghdad and recapturing the towns was a huge effort. >> support of iraqi army and better forces as we launch joint offend civilian now they are under total control. >> reporter: regaining control of the towns may now allow a road to be reopened between baghdad and a town near the iranian border, it could also have influence in the province, al jazeera. nato says the servicemen

have been killed in attack in the afghan capitol kabul, a bomb attached to a bicycle exploded by a convoy and a separate attack in eastern afghanistan risen to 61 and targeting a volley ball and we will go live to kabul and stratford is there and no claim of responsibility for the attack at the volley ball game. >> reporter: no, still, almost 24 hours since that attack happened there has been no claim of responsibility. however, in the last hour the afghan intelligence agency released a statement and blaming a group called the hakani network for that attack and say the orders for that attack came from what they describe as a shadow hakani network on the afghan side of the pakistan border. this group operates

predominately from pakistan and responsible for big attacks and most notably 2011 on u.s. embassy. the nato forces here describe this group as being the most resilient of all the armed groups here and have strong affiliations with both the taliban and al-qaeda and this statement also says they know the identity of the suicide bomber, apparently an afghan and not pakistani and devastating blow to security efforts here in afghanistan. >> charles stratford is life in kabul. flash flooding caused by torrential rain in morocco swept away homes and roads, at least 31 people are known to have died, others missing, neared drown and the worst may not be over. further storms are forecasted as kim reports. >> reporter: holding on for their lives, a group of men wait

to be rescued in morrocco region and others battle the current alone swept away but powerful currents with drivers on dry land doing little but look on and across the region has burst their banks and authoritys rushing to get help when needed. >> rescue operation going underway since yesterday night and sunday night when all this has happened, it is mobilizing with the helicopters and they are trying to recover bodies or rescue people. there is a lot of evacuation that has been happening from remote villages evacuated by the helicopters to take people away from the region. >> reporter: the south has suffered from drought for the past 30 years so heavy rain means an increased risk of flash

flooding. infrastructure in the south is lacking and it is feared the worst may be yet to come. >> the national weather forecast here today is also, has issued another alert saying that more storms are coming to that region and even maybe going to be reaching casa-blanca. >> reporter: warning people not to take chances as rescue workers scramble, i'm kim with al jazeera. kenya says troops killed more than 100 al-shabab fighters linked to a bus attack on saturday. the deputy president william roto said they carried out two raids in somalia destroying a camp where it was plan but al-shabab denies this and catherine reports from nairobi. >> reporter: people skeptical about the announcement of deputy president 100 fighters including planners and those who executed the attack on saturday were

killed in air strikes inside somalia and want more evidence the government is also under a lot of pressure to find security chiefs in the country and a lot of miss trust here with a government being blamed for failing to keep the country safe and also a disconnect between different security organs and people are asking why the military can identify and destroy an al-shabab camp hours after it happen and the government couldn't do anything about it before. deputy president said, in fact, the government has foiled many terror attacks previously and have not made public but many people are not buying that and see the government statements as a pr exercise, people want to feel safe, they want to feel the government presence more. >> reporter: tunesia first presidential election since four years ago likely to go to runoff and exit polls say neither one

is likely to win outright and we have more from the capitol tunis. >> they are back at work after what was a fiercely competitive presidential campaign but all the newspapers are filled with news that it's not over yet and there will be a second round between these two men. the papers also talking about the relatively high turn out of almost 65% but also do mention the fact that it seems all the people were excited by the election but younger people boycotted it. i think a lot of people in cafes on the streets of tunis on the streets are asking why is it young people came out on the streets here where we are in january 2011 calling for the down fall of the president but when it came to election day did not come out and vote. i think the answer was they were disappointed the aspirations of

jobs and dignity were not fulfilled in the last four years but of course we still have a big campaign to go between these big political figures and i think both sides are talking to each other and saying let's make sure it stays calm and let's make sure there is security in the country and also national unity as well. a weather update next on al jazeera, then the continued closure of the rafah border crossing and how that is creating hardships for some gaza people and how ferguson is trying to cope after the shooting of an unarmed black teenager. ♪ >> we're following stories of people who died in the desert. >> the borderland marathon. >> no one's prepared for this journey. >> experience al jazeera america's critically acclaimed original series from the beginning. >> experiencing it has changed me completely. >> follow the journey as six americans face the immigration

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♪ hello again the top stories on al jazeera, diplomates trying to remain up beat over agreement of nuclear program and they have until midnight local time, just under 12 hours to strike a deal of talks in vienna. kurdish forces backed by iraqi troops and maysha have taken two towns under isil control northeast of baghdad. and more storms forecast in morocco after torrential rain caused floods and at least 31 died and others missing and feared drowned. when the long serving president fasso stayed in office protesters made voices heard and forced him to resign and flee to neighbor i neighboring ivory coast and people hope the new transitional

government will hope freedom of speech to flourish and we report from the capitol. >> reporter: rap artist smoky had to put his feelings into words. his song describes what happened in october when the former leader was chased out of fasso by protesters and smoky said that day brought a whole new meaning to freedom of speech and africanism. >> this process has to be an example for everybody in africa, for everybody, for every state where we too can find the art as in cameron and two congos are going to fight, they are going to win. >> reporter: things got nasty when he had been in power for 27 years tried to get parliament to change the constitution and wanted a third term so protesters burned down the national assembly. after he ran away the army

quickly stepped in and declared himself head of state and international community pressured him to step down and hand over to civilian and interim president and was later named prime minister. and he says this is big news on radio stations, a lot of caller critical and suspicious of the army being directly involved in politics. >> translator: freedom of speech in fasso has come a long way and people are not afraid to criticize and leader must not stop us from speaking out. >> reporter: many are watching the interim government closely. >> there is really a sense of hope and relief that two weeks have gone well, that the schedule has been effective and something new is coming for us. >> reporter: that is why smoky

is so confident and believes the interim leaders know what the people are capable of if they are pushed again. i'm with al jazeera. israel cabinet approved a controversial bill that defines the dues and bill has to be passed by parliament and opponents say it under mines the democratic value and benjamin netanyahu announced that palestinians could be stripped of residence and welfare rights if they take part in violent attacks. >> translator: state of israel is the state of the knjewish people and has equal rights for it senls and insist on this but they have national rights and flag, anthem and rights of jews to i'm great to the country and other symbols and granted to our people in this one and only state. egypt a police officer

killed in a blast in the sinai sent la and the armored vehicle he was in was deliberately targeted and parts of northern sinai in state of emergency after attack killed more than 30 soldiers last month and soon after attack egypt closed border with the gaza strip and closing rafah have left peoples struggling especially those who need medical care and this has images you may find distressing. >> reporter: they cannot give him the treatment he needs. devastating burns covered half of his body since his house was hit during this summer's bombardment of the gaza strip. >> translator: i have pain all over my body. my arms feel painful and my back itches all the time. i cannot sleep at night. it's too painful. >> reporter: doctors say he

needs specialist treatment in europe but the family can no longer leave. rafah is the only border crossing between gaza and egypt and it has been shut by the egyptian authorities for a month. themty terminal is where most palestinians come in and out of gaza. the building here was slightly damaged during the bombardment earlier this summer but it is entirely functional. this is the main departure area where hundreds if not thousands of gaza people would be here waiting to move across the border to egypt and then from through but however now it's completely abandon. egypt closed the crossing after attack of an armed group in sinai killed 33 soldiers last month and evacuating a one kilometer white buffer zone with border to stop tunnels and supply routes into gaza and some

towns on this border have been levelled. authorities in gaza say closing the rafah crossing is unreasonable. >> translator: the chaos in egypt is an internal affair and we have nothing to do with it, it's not fair government should pay the price for the chaos. >> reporter: his option is to apply to leave gaza through israel but such permission is rarely granted, jane ferguson, al jazeera, gaza. al jazeera continues to demand release of our three journalists who have been held in prison in egypt for 331 days, greste and fahmy and mohamed were jailed on false charges of helping the out lawed muslim brotherhood and appealing against their convictions. syrian forces continue to be siege rebel held areas around capitol damascus and for those

trapped inside the humanitarian situation is getting increasingly desperate and we report. >> reporter: in the neighborhood of haja the water has been cutoff for more than a year, and he gets water from a well near his house, the system is simple but effective. >> translator: we had no choice but to act. we have for water, no generator and no electricity so we do it all manually. >> reporter: and this is a poor suburb four kilometers south of damascus and regularly controlled by rebels and regularly targeted by shells and bombs and ba sieges and people loyal to al-shabab cutoff supplies so he uses a bike to charge batteries and tens of

thousands of syrians and palestini palestinians used to live here and forced to leave their homes but those still here the situation is desperate. >> translator: we have nothing here any more. we have no water. no jobs. barely any food. and no one is helping us. >> reporter: anti-government fighters have so far defeated attempts by government forces to enter here, for now the neighborhood remains under siege so people living here maybe the best of what they have. i'm with al jazeera. a 12-year-old boy carrying imitation gunshot dead by police in ohio and he was shot when he failed to follow police orders and reached for his fake pistol inside and to officers involved have been taken off duty while the incident is investigated. another police shooting in the u.s. is the subject of a grand

jury investigation and august a white police officer shot an unarmed black teenagers in ferguson, missouri and prompted angry scenes as they fought with police. the city is now returning to normal but for many things will never be the same. daniel lack reports. >> reporter: hitting all the right notes. river view gardens high school jazz band on stage at the historic sheldon concert hall in st. louis and practiced hard and it wasn't easy amid the anger, frustration and occasional violence over michael brown's deaths. >> the riots and everything so it is kind of hard to sleep at night and think about getting up in the morning, being out there, getting to school safely, but i made it and am here today. >> reporter: it dominated the school year and discorrupts

disrupting classes and fears a grand jury decision against indicting the white police officer who shot michael brown will be a catalyst for more trouble. this concert might not have happened at all had violence broke out makes it more special for students and parents and school and the area is going through terrible trauma but today it's all about the music. between sets back stage these musicians are as relaxed as they have been in months, the music they played so well has helped them cope. >> i dream about music, i wake up with music in my head and go to school and music and eat and think about music, music saved my life. >> reporter: these are high school students and getting them ready for college and adult life can't be put aside even for what this area is going through. >> the parents made them come straight home after school because of violence that was

happening in their community with looting and all of those things but the students went home and practiced and i'm kind of one of those teachers and i teach with an iron fist because that is how i was raised. >> reporter: the last song is ending but fears and concerns of a community remain for one night at least the show did go on. daniel lack, al jazeera, st. louis. now pope francis head of the catholic church is prizing the commitment to helping the poor, a priest and an nun from india among people declared saints in vatican city and helped those he called the smallest and the poorest. and you have heard of karati and judo but what is this, an art of marital art in the philippines and seeing a resurgence but in a

nation obsessed with basketball it needs some government help to survive and we report now from manila. >> reporter: it was once disguised as an folk dance during precolonial period hundreds of years ago. but the rise of martial arts during the 1970s held capture the interest of the filapinos for the marshal athe martial ar and students are grateful. >> china and japan has a strong martial heritage and lots of emphasis on training the people ma many -- in the ways of martial art. >> reporter: it's one way for filapinos to appreciate culture and they have karati and judo

and this is called kali or extrema and martial fights that uses weapons if it's blades or knives or fighting stick and include this in the physical education curriculum basketball remains the most popular sport here with many promoters saying the american sport is far easier to endorse commercially than this sport. but it all has to do with the deep seated colonial mentality of filapinos. >> it's a mixture of technologies of two cultures now what the european has is a very severe, straightforward action. what the filapino has is a graceful, flowing, rhythmic, well timed movement that is able to deliver the techniques of the

europeans in the signature way of the mali. >> reporter: it is also an efficient self-defense system and the sport remains untapped bur more than discipline the sport brings something else to the country, with athletes saying filapinos have a sport now they can finally identify with, al jazeera, manila. look at this rio 2016 organizing committee has mascots for summer games and the olympic character is yellow animal that they say represents all the different animals of brazil, the para olympic mascot is a blue figure representing plumbs. astrona astronauts at the space station wake up and smell the coffee and zero gravity machine and three

others and the first female astronaut and nicknamed iss- iss-express so says it uses extra teresstrial and suzanne it flows right in space and i wonder if they do decaf. here is the weather. america stands on the bridge of a new cold war with russia, i journeyed to the front lines in the frozen north with america's allies are locked in a high-stakes stand off over huge deposits of oil and gas. i'll look at how arctic melting unlocked a wealth of opportunity, and fuelled new tensions between old enemies, and i'll talk to a cold war wore yore who has never taken his eye off russia. i'm ali velshi, and this is "real money".