>> monday's deadline to reach a deal on iran's nuclear program is extended. >> also on the program. [ gunfire ] united against isil, kurdish forces backed by iraqi troops and shia militia launch a major offensive northeast of baghdad. swept to their deaths in moroc morocco. torrential rains cause devastating flash floods. and a rapper sings for change in

burkina faso, where many are asking for freedom of speech. >> monday's deadline to reach a deal has been extended. talks in vienna will continue until july 1st. iran is being asked to slow its nuclear development in exchange for economic sanctions being lifted. we have been monitoring the talks, there is a deadline set for 23 hours gmt for today. halfway through the day they announced that they are not going to hit that deadline. they're giving up, and they're going to extend it. >> reporter: that's right, barely an hour since the end of the session of all the foreign ministers, the p5+1, and it's all over. it looks pretty lonely and quiet

as we speak. the talks have ended without any formal agreement at all, no political statement as had been hoped for. that's the most likely possibility. no framework agreement. certainly no deal inside. the french foreign minister is gone. thwe have been told there is an extension until the end of june, the 1st of july with a pre-deadline with the 1s of march to which they hope to have an agreement in place to codify all the agreements that have been reached up to that point, and narrowed down to some specificity. and determine what needs to be nailed down by the 1s of july. no one seems to be trying to dress up these talks as having achieved very much at all that

they can take back to their capitols. listen to the german foreign minister speaking earlier. >> in spite of a very constructive atmosphere, unfortunately, we did not get as far as we would like. we made some progress. new ideas have been put forward, and they might be able to bridge one or two differences that still exist. since we're dealing with the finer details we have to go back to the experts with these. >> german's foreign minister is not the only one to come out of the constructive atmosphere. everyone trying to put a positive spin on this. can you explain what the political framework that has to be in place by the first of march. >> reporter: we not the by the by that a lot of things have

been greed but nothing has been written down. the aim, of course, of the framework agreement by the first of march would be to do all of that. these are things that we no longer need to talk about, and these are things alone that we need to talk about. we thought that might have been doable by monday's deadline. but the problem is that nothing is solved until everything is solved. that's the position that they're in at the moment. it's a sign, if you like, of mistrust that the other side is not going to do it what they say they're going to do. those things could be overcome over the next three months. we'll have to see. >> a bomb attack in afghanistan has killed six people. the explosion followed sunday's suicide-bomb blast that killed more than 60 people.

charles scratch ford has more now from the afghan capitol of kabul. >> according to a so, person six people have been killed in an attack in the north of afghanistan. according to that spokesperson an ied was attached to a parked motorcycle exploding, killing six people, two of those were women. another six were injured. now this attack comes only you a day after one of the largest attacks this year. and the province where more than 60 people were killed in a suicide attack. it comes during a time in afghanistan in 2014 more civilians were killed in attacks than any time in the last five years. >> in iraq kurdish forces backed by iraqi troops and shia militia say they've retaken two towns under isil control in the province northeast of baghdad.

>> reporter: curdist peshmerga forces celebrate the taking of the city. isil fighters have been forced from the area. >> our forces managed to enter and free the entire area. >> reporter: iraqi jet fighters led the first wave of attacks sunday on the two key towns ground troops swept in checking the area for hidden explosives. >> we want a huge victory with the support of iraqi army and forces. as we launch a joint offensive. now this area is under control. >> reporter: casualties were treed treated in hospital and others were flown out. despite that there is increasing confidence in the iraqi and peshmerga forces. in june rhythm took the province, while this operation is not over yet it is already being hailed as a

success, and it's being looked at as a blueprint for future operations. this was a cooperative effort between the iraqi air force, iraqi peshmerga forces and shia militias it may serve as a blueprint for future operations. however, where isil has its strength in mosul and the border crossing with syria and down in anbar province will be the real test of whether iraq can beat isil back. that fight and those provinces will be much more difficult than the fight they fate against isil so far. al jazeera, baghdad. >> more storms are foreh forecast in morocco after torrential storms have caused flash floods. many have died and others are feared drowned. >> reporter: holding on to their lives a group of men wait to be rescued. others battle the current alone, swept away b turrent.

rivers across the region have burst their banks and authorities are rushing to get help where it is needed. >> there is a rescue operation going on since yesterday night, sunday night when all this happened. they're mobilizing with helicopters and trying to recover bodies and rescue people. there are a lot of evacuations from remote villages by the helicopters to take people away from regions that are hit. >> reporter: the area has suffered drought for many years and heavy rain means flash flooding. infrastructure is found lacking, and it's feared that the worst is yet to come.

>> the national forecasters say more storms are coming to that region. >> reporter: civil defense teams are warning moroccans not to take any chances as rescue workers scrambled. >> egypt has closed it's border can with the gaza strip following sunday's bomb explosion in the sinai peninsula. following sunday's bomb explosion. the shutting of the crossing have left many gazaens stranded, including patients in need of medical care. we have report from gaza that may contain images that you may find disturbing. >> reporter: doctors can't go this man the treatment he needs. devastating burns cover half his body since his house was hit during the bombardment of the gaza strip. >> i have pain all over my body.

my arms feel painful and my back niche itches all the time. i cannot sleep at night. it is painful. >> reporter: doctors say he needs specialists in europe, but the family cannot leave. rafa is the only border crossing, and it has been shut for a month. this empty 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 departure where hundreds if not thousands of gazaens would be here waiting to move across the border into egypt and travel abroad from there. but now, however, it is completely abandoned apps. >> an attack in the sinai killed 33 of its soldiers last month.

egyptians are creating a buffer zone with the border to stop tunnels and supply routes into gaza. some borders in this town have been leveled. authorities in gaza say closing the rafa crossing is unreasonable. >> the chaos in egypt is an internal affair and we have nothing to do with it. it's not fair that gazaens should pay the price for the chaos. >> the only option now is to apply to leave gaza. but such permission is rarely granted. jane ferguson, al jazeera, gaza if. >> al jazeera continues to demand the release of our three journalist who is have been held in egypt now for 341 days. mohamed fahmy, bader mohammed, and peter greste were jailed on false charges of helping the outlawed muslim brotherhood. they're appealing against their

convictions. still to come here on al jazeera, a new law in greece threatens to stop farmers selling directly to shoppers. and karate andude zoe. martial arts students are showing off their skills. >> it's a chilling and draconian sentence... it simply cannot stand. >> this trial was a sham...

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say that talks will continue until july 1st. a bomb attack has killed six people. the explosion in the province followed sunday's suicide-bomb blast at a volleyball game that killed more than 60 people. kurdish forces backed by iraqi troops say that they have taken over two towns. 50 isil fighters died in the battle. thousands of foreigners have reportedly joined isil fight necessary iraq and syria but growing numbers are also joining the battle against the group as harry smith reports. [ bomb explosions ] >> reporter: no one knows for sure how much western volunteers have joined the fighting in isil. as the battle rages around the town of kobane, just across the

turkish border, many suggest that the numbers are growing. this american and a brit are said to be fighting on the side of kurdish people's defense unit. the ypg. madsen is believed to run the recruiting operation for the group of an off shoot of npg. he said that he trained with the french army before leaving for syria. another is james hughes, who describes himself as a british infantry soldier. their presence raises some concerns back in their home country. those familiar with the radicalization of young werners say there may be many reasons why they're drawn to war. >> well, isil has a very strong appeal to a certain set of extremists. it promises utopia and pristine

islam. it promises the return of th the c calipha ate. it is a very persuasive and pervasive ideology that it has. and it's prop began did california is very effective. >> reporter: one analyst say men join wars for many different reasons. >> countries fight for their own reasons, oil, terrain, religion. individuals fight for their own personal reasons, also. i've read the article, guys get a lot of tweet hits. he's facebooking, he's doing it for the media. he's a fighter. he has a history of fighting in wars. in this case the individual has a taste for the war. whereas the british who are going there on the isil side, they're going to support the

caliphate. they have an ideal goin ideology going in there. >> reporter: some have threatened criminal sanctions on those who fight for isil. some say they will have similar actions for those who join the kurdish side. >> egypt's president has been meeting pope francis. it's the first time in eight years that an egyptian leader has visited the vatican. what do we know about the visit between the leader of egypt and the leader of the catholic church? >> reporter: well, it's still going on. it started an hour ago. it comes six months after vermont fattah al sisi came to power, and slowly egypt is regaining its national standing. with this visit president al sisi wants to improve

relations between egypt and the roman catholic church, and the talks between him and the pope are expected to address the relationship between the vatican and sunni islams' highest theological institution, the allah university following comments made by pope francis to minority muslims in egypt. it is hoped that this meeting here between president al sisi and the pope will accelerate the normalization of relations between them. >> president sisi also due to meet with italian prime minister renzi. what is the state of die ties between italy and egypt?

>> well, italy and egypt have very cordial relations, but it is the economic ties that really important here. they have trade volumes running in the billions of dollars every year, and this is what president sisi wants to see improve. he would be having a summit with the italian minister of commerce, and they're supposed to talk about how to increase investments by italian investors and companies in egypt. another issue that is definitely going to be discussed is the issue of the islamic state and how europe and countries in the north african region and middle east as well can have a common stance against fighting this group, and also to be discussed is going to be libya, which the two country have great concerns.

>> thanks. live in rome. >> the united nations labor organization said that emergency action could help greece to restore employment levels to where they were before the financial crisis. greeks have been hard hit by recession, job losses, and they're being hit harder by government crackdown on a popular scheme to buy low-cost food directly from farmers. we have reports now in northern greece. >> reporter: at the farmers' market, producers sell directly to consumers. food is rarely fresher at such markets across greece. but millions of people have been unable to fill their store cub boards even here. and this group responded to their flight. it invited farmers to sell to consumers in bulk by passing supermarkets and farmers markets like these. a new law is threatening to stop

what has been dubbed as the no-middle man-movement. >> the movement helps our family budget, and they have an effect on supermarket prices as well. when the no-middle man movement started, supermarkets lowered their prices in response. >> reporter: the law is hurting these farmers, too. this farmer would sell his apples but he's afraid of stiff penalties so his apples sit in storage. >> reporter: the new law now fines farmers $6,000 for direct sales. it impounds their produce and imprisons them for six months. the government has also stopped giving farmers retail licenses. it has effectively smothered a consumer movement born during the crisis. grassroots groups from all over greece has gathered here forming an alternative parliament seeing

to check what they see as parliamentary democracy. >> our action dos not go against the law. lawmakers must understand that people have a right to buy their food freely wherever they wish and a farm consider sell wherever he wants to. >> reporter: loam lawmakers who voted for the bill said consumers are not their only constituents. >> i know they say we passed this law just to help supermarkets chains. but greece is not just supermarkets. they are also grocers. don't you think they'll shut down if people buy their potat potatoes off the back of a truck. >> reporter: many continue to sell their produce with impunity. now that politicians have assaulted them directly, they vow to wield that power with even more determination.

al jazeera, northern greece. >> we'll make you aware of something that you're going to be hearing a lot about in the coming hours here on al jazeera. details very scant at the moment, but reports say that chuck hagel, the u.s. defense secretary, is to stand down. president obama has accepted his resignation. he's the 24th and current secretary of defense. he has been at the post sinc since 2013 having served as u.s. senator from nebraska from 1997 until 2009. he is a recipient of two purple hearts when he was an infantry squad leader in vietnam. he's reported to be stepping down. we'll speak to our correspondents in washington to get more on that breaking news. now, a grand jury is investigating a police shooting in the united states. riots broke out when an unarmed black teenager was shot by a

white policeman in ferguson, missouri, o on the outside skirts of st. louis. many things will never be the same. >> reporter: hitting all the right notes. [music] river view gardens high school jazz band on stage at the historic sheldon concert hall in st. louis. they practiced hard, and it was not easy amid the anger, frustration and occasional violence over michael brown's deaths. >> with all the violence it's hard for me to sleep at night and think about getting up in the morning and getting out there, getting to school safely. >> reporter: protests and tension have dominated the school year so far, disrupting classes, raising stress levels. many of the students at river view saw these scenes unfold in their neighborhood. there are fears that 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 broken out makes it all more special. the area is going through terrible trauma, but today it's all about the music. between sets backstage these young musicians are as relaxed as they have been in months. the music she played so well has helped them cope. >> i think about music. music saves my life. >> reporter: teachers face their share of the there's over the past months. 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 make them come straight home after school because of the violence that was happening in their communities, to the looting and all these things. but these students worked hard.

they went home and practiced, and i'm kind of one of those teachers i keep an iron fist. that's how i was raised. >> reporter: the last song is anding, but the fears and concerns of a community remain. for one night the show did go on al jazeera, st. louis. former president of burkina faso made a bid to stay in office, protesters made their voices heard. the anger forced him to resign. now they hope that the new government will allow them freedom of speech. >> reporter: rap artist smokey said that he had to put his feelings in words. his song describes what happened in october when the former leader compaore was forced out as leader of burkin burkina

faso. >> this has to be an example for everybody in africa. they're going to fight. they're going to win. >> reporter: things got nasty when comaore, who had been in power for 27 years, tried to get parliament to change the constitution. he wanted a third term so protest urgency burned down the national assembly. after comaore ran away, the army stepped in. international communities president has stepped down and it was handed over to kafando. general zida was named prime minister. suspicions are directed at the army being involved in

politician. >> freedom of speech in burkina faso has come a long way. people are not afraid to criticize. our leader must not stop us from speaking out. people have shown what they can do. >> reporter: many are watching the interim government closely. >> there really is a sense of hope and relief that two weeks have gone well, that the schedule has been effective, and that something new is coming. >> reporter: that's why smokey is so confident. he believed the interim leaders know what the people of burkina faso are capable. al jazeera. >> the rio 2016 politics organizing committee has revealed its mascots for the summer games. the olympic character is an yellow animal that represents all the different animals of brazil.

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