>> no deal yet over iran's nuclear program but president reufn sayrouhani excess many gae been eliminated. hello there i'm barbara serra, you're watching al jazeera live from london. also coming up from the program. >> this decision does not come easily to him but i consider myself extraordinarily lucky to have him by my side for two years. >> pressure over the i.s.i.l. crisis. u.s. secretary of defense chuck hagel announces he's resigning. the victims of sunday's suicide attack on a volleyball match in

afghanistan. and a swiss museum accepts hundreds of artworks from the son of hitler's art dealer, with the promise to return any looted pictures. hello there thank you for joining us. world leaders have failed to reach a deal with iran at the end of historic talks in vienna. instead they have decided to extend the talks until the middle of next year. all sides saying that progress has been made towards an agreement. it will meet again in december, draw up a time line by march and look to seal a final deal by july 2015. the u.s. secretary of state john kerry says real and substantial progress was made at the vienna talks but he's warning that the negotiations cannot drag on. >> we are certainly not going to

sit at the negotiating table forever. absent measurable progress. but given how far we have come over the past year, and particularly in the last few days, this is not certainly the time to get up and walk away. these issues are enormously complex. they require a lot of tough political decisions. and they require very rigorous technical analysis of concepts. >> john kerry there. meanwhile, iran's president has given a nationwide broadcast since the talks wrapped up in vienna. hasan rouhani said a significant victory has been achieved and the negotiations would eventually lead to a deal. >> translator: we haven't reached the final agreement. but we have made some progress.

today, situation is completely different to yesterday's, and six months ago. regions in countries are getting closer, a lot of differences have been avoided, but still, we have some progress to make. >> al jazeera's jonah hull joins me from vienna. jonah, you have been following all those talks. everyone is claiming a victory and sounding quite positive but what exactly do they need another seven months for? do we know? >> no, i'm afraid we don't know. almost relentless positivity, in mr. kerry's statement and from the iranian president in tehran. the message seems to be very strongly, this is not end of the road. we are so close within touching distance. throughout this process barbara we have been hearing about gaps,

significant gaps that need to be bridged, today we've been hearing about significant progress. we don't know how far they are apart or what questions need to be answered. kerry specifically said none of the negotiating teams will answer, that is what the iranians and the americans are painfully aware that there are opponents and skeptics on both sides, who are watching the progress and believe its credibility is wearing thin. they wouldn't mind if it were to collapse altogether and the more information they are given the more they may be able to undermine this process. so we are not going to be told what the gaps are or what needs to be done to bridge them. seven months to go now to succeed, where up to now, they've failed. >> and jonah as you mentioned seven months to go. talk us through time line that's going to lead to a final conclusion at some point in seven months. >> well, what we've been given

as a time line is that they are aiming for two deadlines. the first deadline is the 1st of march next year, four months from now, township they hop at y hope to have a framework to codify all the agreements they have reached on awhole variety of factors over the course of the last nine months and would specifically write down where the problem areas are without giving the nuts and bolts of the science perhaps but focusing for the final three months where the final deal is reached by the 1st of july. that's the time line we're talking about. keep in mind we've already missed two dea deadlines, two me deadlines, the w.h.o. whole issue of deadlines is beginning to lose credibility. >> jonah hull, in vienna, thank you.

>> can u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel has resigned. he announced his intention to step down at a press conference with president obama and vice president joe biden. hagel talked about his accomplishments as u.s. secretary of defense over the past 21 months. >> we have prepared ourselves, as the president has noted, our allies, in afghan national security forces for successful transition in afghanistan. we have bolstered enduring alliances and strengthened emerging partnerships while successfully responding to crises around the world. and we've launched important reforms that the president noted. reforms that will prepare this institution to challenges facing us in decades to come. i believe we have set not only this department, the department

of defense, but the nation on a stronger course torts security, stability and prosperity. >> let's go life now to washington, d.c. and speak to our white house correspondent patty culhane. patty, i guess after the descrowdescrowtion middisastrout had in the mid term elections. >> make no mistake about it, the secretary of deference was fired. president obama asked for his resignation. the reason he is leaving is because there's a new focus for the secretary of defense and that is combating i.s.i.l. they think somebody else would be better suited for the job. there is a lot of sniping happening back and forth between the secretary and the white house. secretary hagel i think was a little bit surprised about it.

a couple of weeks ago his spokesman said he planned to stay in office until the president's term of office was over. but between he and the president it was all smiles and kindness. >> let me just say chuck is and has been a great friend of mine. i've known him admired him and trusted him for nearly a decade since i was a green behind the ears freshman senator. and we were both on the senate foreign relations committee. if there's one thing i know about chuck it's that he doesn't make this or any decision lightly. this decision doesn't come lightly to him but i consider myself extraordinarily lucky to have him by my side for two years and i'm grateful he is willing to stay on until i nominate a successor. >> the president is going to nominate, any indications who they may be? >> we are talking about or

hearing about undersecretaries of defense. his two previous secretaries of defense, bob gates and leon panetta, we are hearing more about former undersecretaries that could possibly get through a very hostile republican-controlled senate. but it doesn't look like anyone who he nominates is going to try to change the strategy against i.s.i.l. most analysts say it's not the case. >> patty culhane, thank you. let's go over to iraq now where kurdish forces are make gains against the islamic state of iraq and the levant. the peshmerga has gained ground.

imran khan has the story. >> kurdish forces celebrate the taking of jalalla city. i.s.i.l. fighters have been forced from the area. >> units were formed to liberate jalalla. >> iraqi jet fighters led the first wave of attacks in the early morning of sunday, then ground troops swept in checking the area for hidden explosives. >> we won a huge victory with the support of the iraqi army and badr forces. now jalalla and sadiha are under complete control. >> others are foreign to solomonea. , dyalla province has seen clashes since june.

when i.s.i.l. took over. it's already been held as a success, also been looked at as a blueprint for future operations. this was a cooperative effort between the iraqi air force, kurdish peshmerga forces iraqi ground troops and shia militia. however where i.s.i.l. have their strength near mosul and whether iraq can beat i.s.i.l. back, that fight will be much more difficult than the fights they faced against i.s.i.l. so far. imran khan, al jazeera, in baghdad. amateur video posted online shows government forces seemingly using barrel bombs and surface to surface missiles to attack areas in the damascus country side. including one child. clashes for control of the villages have been taking place

for three days now. on sunday rebels caught water supplies to i.na feja in an effort to get the government to stock their attacks. >> behind an attack that killed seven people this month. the interior ministry, says a 77 person terror cell, 13 people were wounded, after gunmen opened fire on shia worshipers marking the festival of ashura. scores of civilians and two nato soldiers have been killed in bomb attacks across afghanistan. a bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded in the northern province of kunduz, a day after a suicide bombing killed more

than 60 people in a volleyball match. no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, as foreign troops begin to withdraw from the country. charles stratford hats more now -- has more from the capital kabul. >> the tiny bodies lie wrapped ready for burial. children are among the dead. coffins are prepared close by. the suicide bomber walked into a volleyball tournament and detonated an explosive device on sunday evening. in eastern afghanistan. >> what kind of a cruel person could do this, could come in and massacre innocent people. this is not islam. for god's sake we are all muslims, i hope god which bring peace to this country. >> hundreds came to the funeral. >> translator: this is a barbaric act, god should destroy

them. they are all pakistan slaves, there is a traj tragedy in every family here. gls blaming the hakani network for the attack. the group with strong ties to both taliban and al qaeda, afghan intelligence say the suicide bomber was an afghan national, inside afghanistan. the afghan government has in the past repeatedly appealed for help from neighboring pakistan in dealing with the group. more than 50 injured people were air lifted to kabul for treatment in a military hospital. it seems local police may have been the target. >> i'm a policeman. i was standing with my colleagues. i heard the bomber cry, "god is greater" and there was a massive explosion. a lot of people were killed including my local police commanders. >> voted unanimously in favor both some u.s. and nato forces

remaining in afghanistan to continue training afghan forces. the afghan intelligence service says that it has foiled 11 suicide attacks in patika province in the last month alone. the focus on training their afghan counterparts has never been more important. charles stratford al jazeera, kabul. still are ahead, unusually heavy rain kills 32 people in southern morocco. and we're on eastern ukraine's front line with rare access to fighters on both sides of the conflict.

>> now time for a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera. world powers have failed to reach a deal with iran on its nuclear program at the end of historic talks in vienna. they'll reconvene in december an work towards a deal by middle of next year. the u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel has resigned. he announced his intention to step down at a press conference with president obama and vice president biden. the peshmerga backed by government troops and the shia militia have taken back two towns in dyallah problems of ro.

italy has tagged its first case of ebola. liberia where official numbers of cases is 2700. the president surleaf, vowd to o have the cases reduced by the beginning of the year .1(p) missing feared drown, kim vanel has more. >> holding on for their lives the group of men wait to be rescued in morocco's southern region. oartlothers battle the current , drivers on dry land able to do little but look on. rivers across the region have burst their banks and authorities are rushing to get help where it's needed.

>> rescue operation that's been going on underway since yesterday night, sunday night when all this has happened. it's mobilizing the gendarmery with helicopters and trying to recover bodies, rescue people, there is a lot of evacuation that's been happening from remote villages that has been evacuated by the gendarmery, royal gendarmery. >> the south has suffered from drought for the past 30 years. so heavy rain means an increased risk of flash flooding. strawrkt in the south is lacking -- infrastructure in the south is lacking and it's feared to worst pay be yet to come. >> the national weather forecast similar today has also issued another alert, saying that more storms are coming to that region and even maybe that going to be reaching casablanca.

>> civil defense teams are warning moroccoans. , kim vanel, al jazeera. >> securing the release of a high ranking generally and other are military people. farc has said it will not release the general, the area where the general was abducted and is being held. two police officers in the u.s. state of ohio have been suspended after a 12-year-old boy who was carried an imitation gun was shot dead. tamir rice died in a playground in cleveland. witnesses say he was shot when he failed to follow police orders and reached for his fake pistol instead. egypt's leader abdel fattah al-sisi has met pope francis and

italian prime minister in rome. since overthrowing elected president mohamed morse in 2013, his two day trip will take in france where he is expected to speak of ways to boost economic ties. mohamed ado is in many rome about just remind us why italy is so important for president al-sisi. >> reporter: well, barbara, italy is a huge trading partner for egypt, the traden partner between egypt and italy, $4.7 billion and president abdel fattah al-sisi is here for the main reason of trying to boost trade between egypt and italy and also finding new investment for egypt as a way of

kick-starting egypt's economy which has been affecting by the events of the past few years, and just before he left the country to enter back on his journey one of his main reasons for going to europe was first of all to tell european leaders what egypt is going through and also try and find support for egypt not only in terms of economic development but also in antiterrorism at a time when egypt is fighting its own insurgency in the sinai peninsula. >> mohamed ado, mohamed, thank you. al jazeera continues to demand the release of its three journalists who have been retained in egypt for 331 days. baher mohamed, mohamed fahmy and peter greste have been appealing their convictions and jail sentences. mohamed and peter were sentenced to seven years, baher got an

additional three years because he had a spent bullet that he picked up at a protest. continuing fight against russian backed separatists in the east, nowhere has the fight been more constant than at the airport north of the city of donetsk. harry fawcett gained access to fighters on both sides of the front line. >> this was piske, a village of 2,000 people, now it's home to the ukrainian side of a ceaseless battle. it's been a quiet morning but throughout our time here we've been hearing small arms fire and heavy outgoing ar till err as well. >> the guns are placed throughout the village.

abouthe men from volunteer regir meant say they switch positions often. talk of a rebel insurgency. >> at the moment the russians are coming in by road. if they take the airport they will be able to fly in. we can't accept this. >> so they spend months on end in grim conditions. some say it should be the regular ukrainian army fighting this battle. ukrainian army recently posted this footage, showing the scale ever damage to this facility. ravaged by shelling and close quarters combat.

outgoing, and incoming. they work in shifts sleeping in a pitch black basement. when i asked how long they have been here, they say a long time. >> it is better to have a bad pace than a good war. we are tired and they are tired as well. even more the civilians are tired because they are suffering there this. >> both sides say they never target civilian areas yet the casualties continue. 12 injured own the weerkd, according to rebels. they say there never was a ceasefire here. both say they will fight on. harry fawcett, al jazeera, donetsk. >> one of europe' europe's largt ports, the main train station in anantwerpt, the workers are

staging a walkout each week, leading into a major nationwide strike by december. a swiss museum has decided to accept the controversial inheritance of a german man whose art collection included masterpieces stone stolen. thing museum decided not to take every piece from the collection which was worth more than $1 billion. nick spicer has the story. >> masterpieces from matisse and chagal. experts thought they were lost, until discovered. about a third of the thousand -- pluthousand-plus pieces of artw.

a legacy the museum took six months to accept. >> translator: the decision ladies and gentlemen was far from easy for board of trustees, there was certainly no feelings of triumph, they would be absolutely inappropriate in light of the art collection's history. >> a special german panel is deciding which works like this one, a $20 million matisse, properly belonged to the jewish owners. they've only acted on 3 of 600 pieces in the past six months. shedding light on the provenance was of the utmost importance. now the german government can begin returning stolen works. >> the agreement is a good step in the right direction because it is the best steps to go to

restitution. however it's pretty general and there are concrete questions for the survivors and the harris. for example to whom should they go to, in order to get back the looted art, should they go to berne, should they go to the german government? >> but the decision by the swiss museum doesn't put an end necessarily to the gerlitz saga. because his cousin said, he wasn't in his right mind when he made the will, therefore it should actually be hers. nick spicer, berlin, al jazeera. >> italian coffee maker lavatsa has sent a specially made espresso machine, brewing coffee that tastes the same as on earth apparently. no need for gravity, allows the powmp of espresso to be drunk

through a straw. the switches look like those already on the space station. don't you need to sleep? anyway, you can find out about that and all our other stories at aljazeera.com. a show about innovations that can change lives. . >> the science of fighting a humanity and we are doing it in a unique way. this is a show about science by scientists. let's check out the team of hard-core nerds. dr crystal dilworth is a molecular neuroscientist. tonight - basil mint and more