this is bbc news — i'm geeta guru—murthy with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. close — but no—dealjust yet — talks aimed at reviving the iran nuclear agreement are adjourned in vienna with washington saying there's some way to go. israel's new prime minister says that world powers should not negotiate with iran, after the election of hardliner ebrahim raisi as president. the far—right party of marine le pen has failed to make the electoral break—through it was hoping for in france's regional elections, according to exit polls. the olympic village challenge — trying to keep atheletes safe from covid with shared facilities, from dining areas to flats and gyms.

why wales fans are jubilant despite losing 1—0 to italy in rome in the euros. hello and thanks forjoining us. we're closer to a deal, but we're still not there. that's the verdict of the eu's envoy to the iran nuclear talks, after the latest round of negotiations in vienna. iran's chief negotiator also says that agreement is closer than ever — but washington says there's still some way to go. in 2015, iran and six other countries reached a deal. tehran would stop some nuclear work in return for an end to economic sanctions. but in may 2018 president trump abandoned the deal and reinstated sanctions. iran responded by enriching uranium above permitted levels. in april of this year, iran and several world powers resumed negotiating in vienna, hoping to find a way

to bring back the agreement although it's not clear when the next round of talks will take place. our correspondent in vienna — bethany bill — has more. we've heard from both european negotiators and iranian negotiators saying that they are closer than they were, but progress has been made, but there are still differences, still gaps, and that's why the talks have now been adjourned to allow the delegations to go back to their capitals for consultations. the eu's envoy said that they'd made some progress, particularly on some technical issues, but he said that that in and of itself shed some light on some of the political difficulties that the sites will face before they can actually get down and agree to a deal, if that's possible. so, at the moment, ithink it was fairly upbeat people talking about it, but nobody is expecting progress very sooi'i.

we are not quite sure even when the next round of talks will take place. they haven't given a date yet, but no doubt, over the few next weeks, people will try and push ahead for more progress on this issue. so are the iranians serious about the deal — despite the election of a new hardline president.? here's bbc persian�*s beh—rang tajdin. so, iran's chief negotiator, the deputy foreign minister has suggested that they have agreed a text, and now the diplomats have gone back to talk to the higher ranking officials. and in iran, that means that they hope that their supreme leader would approve the text that they have agreed. and with this new president in iran, what is going to be the impact of that?

obviously, we have heard some fears from israel which we will come onto shortly, but in terms of how that can change the evolution of these talks... so, this comes from the hardliners, the ultraconservatives, the ones that are supremely loyal to the supreme leader. the ones who are ideologically driven against the us and all its shapes and forms. these are people who were against the original deal back in 2015 and three years ago, when the united states withdrew under president trump, they said can you see, we said iran shouldn't trust the us. we were right. so it seems that there were fears that he may be against, kind of, reaching an agreement again, but during the presidential campaign, he kind of suggested that one of his priorities is lifting the sanctions, but it won't be his ultimate

priority. he won't do it at any cost. ultimately, the decision rests with the supreme leader and the executive president, the foreign minister, they have to implement whatever he decides. that nuclear deal is of course strongly opposed by israel. the country's new prime minister naftali bennet has said that the world needs to wake up to threat posed by tehran. naftali bennett was speaking as he chaired his first cabinet meeting. raisi's election is, i would say, the last chance for the world powers to wake up before we're turning to the nuclear agreement and to understand who they're doing business with. these guys are murderers, mass murderers. a regime of brutal hangmen must never be allowed to have weapons of mass destruction that will enable it to kill not thousands, but millions. israel's position

will not change on this. joel greenberg from bbc monitoring injerusalem told us more about the significance of naftali bennett's comments. there has been a change of government but the policy remains that israel would allow iran to get a nuclear weapon whatever that means right now. there is diplomacy under way, the israeli army chief of staff has phoned washington and they're trying to influence the outcome but in general the israeli position is negative on the 2015 agreement and that has not changed. previous prime minister netanyahu was opposed to any conversation about this and was opposed to returning to the 2015 deal. here there is some manoeuvring space for discussions with the americans on what shape the new deal may take. in general, this government, because it is such a disparate coalition of different factions, has agreed to set aside a lot of ideological differences and work on domestic issues.

but as you can see, foreign affairs are there with the palestinian issue, the iranian issue, so it will be hard for them to evade that. they are having trouble passing a piece of legislation and government, now i'm sorry come in parliament, and they have a one—vote majority in parliament, it will be difficult them for them to hold it together. it is a fragile coalition and they will have to show a lot of coalition discipline to maintain the ranks in parliament and pass laws and get policy promoted in the legislation. let's get some of the day's other news. ten people — including nine children — have been killed have been killed in a crash involving 18 vehicles in the us state of alabama. the county coronor said the vehicles were likely to have hydroplaned on the wet roads and lost control after tropical depression claudette caused flash flooding and tornadoes, destroying dozens of homes across the state. libya's unity government has officially belgian officials say a body found in the woods in the country is that of a heavily armed soldier who went missing after armed soldier who went

missing after threatening a prominent virologist. jurgen conings had been on an anti—terrorist watch list because of his extreme right wing beliefs. cuba's soberana 2 vaccine candidate has shown 62% efficacy with just two of its three doses, according to the state—run bio—pharmaceutical corporation.. it comes as the caribbean�*s largest island is facing its worst outbreak since the start of the pandemic. cuba's government has opted not to import foreign vaccines but rather to rely on its own. a leading scientific adviser has suggested that people who have been double vaccinated in the uk could face fewer restrictions. dr susan hopkins told the bbc that might include the possibility of them not having to self—isolate or quarantine. ministers are aiming to have two thirds of the adult population double—jabbed by the new unlocking date ofjuly the 19th. here's our health correspondent anna collinson. all adults in england can now receive a coronavirus vaccine, and demand is high. nhs england says more than 700,000 appointments

were booked on the first day over—18s became eligible. over the weekend, football stadiums, including here in tottenham, have transformed into large vaccination centres. and these long queues of people will be a heart—warming sight for health officials who say, the more people who are jabbed, the sooner our freedom can return. ben, you're 18 and you've travelled over an hour to be here today — why? because getting vaccinated is so important. i mean, it will reduce hospital admissions, and it'll make me a lot happier to see my parents. especially with going to university in september, we are hoping that we can have a normal life. i'm expecting that, - by the end of the year, for people who are vaccinated, borders will be much... - it will be easier. to cross borders. i'll be able to go back- to india, meet my parents, go back to singapore, meet my friends. - all adults in wales and northern ireland can also book a vaccine. so can over—18s in glasgow. but for the rest of scotland, people need to be over 30. this comes as a trial is looking to see if people who are fully vaccinated can avoid self—isolating if a close

contact tests positive. they would instead take daily tests. we are moving steps forward, and i think that, in a time in the future, i'm not sure when, but at a time in the future, i can imagine the situation where we will have alternatives to isolation for people who have two doses of the vaccine. alternatives to isolation could also open up foreign travel, which would help the uk's struggling aviation industry. ministers say they are trying to be as flexible as possible. well, of course, there's frustration. all of us want to have a holiday in the sun wherever possible, but we are right as well to balance that with the need to control variants of concern. scientists advised we should holiday at home this summer, but, from tomorrow, the scottish government is introducing a travel ban to and from parts of greater manchester amid concerns about high infection rates, a move that has angered the mayor. i'll be writing to thel first minister today. i'll be asking for compensation for the individuals— who might lose holidays and the businesses who| might lose bookings.

you know, why should a couple from salford i who are double—jabbed, who are about to go - on a walking holiday- in scotland not be able to go? it's completely . disproportionate. this pop—up vaccination site in halifax is hoping to curb rising cases. are you allergic to anything? so far, 59% of adults have received two doses. the government wants this to have risen beyond 66% byjuly the 19th in the hope complete unlocking can follow. anna collinson, bbc news. it's looking as though the far right party of marine le pen has failed to make the electoral break—through it was hoping for in france, where a first round of regional elections has been taking place. exit polls put her party in second place — well behind the main centre right republicans, but still ahead of emmanuel marcon�*s centrists. the regional elections are being watched closely, for any clues as to who might do well in next year's presidential contest. 0ur correspondent in paris — hugh schofield — told me more.

it is a very complicated election, and it breaks down into regions, so it is very hard to be sure that there is any hard and fast reflection of national tendencies or trends that will come to fruit in the election next yearfor the presidency. but clearly marine la and was hoping for a big showing on this first round of the vote, and she hasn't a really got it as far as i can see. it looks like her vote nationally is about 20%, but the vote for the mainstream right is much larger, it's about 29%. she was hoping to be able to show that in two regions in particular around the south and the north that she would stand a chance of getting those in the second row next week. both look much more problematic now than they did 2a hours ago. so this is not a great night for her, nor is it a great night for president macron because as predicted, and this is where he can say "well, we always knew we wouldn't do very well." but as predicted, his score

and his party score is very low, probably 10% nationally, and in many regions his party won't get through to the second round because it is so low. he will be able to say with some justification, that "we are still are a young party and the turnout of the election was so desperately low," only about 33%, it meant that broadly speaking that governors are republican or councils which were in place already, be they left or right, tended to show to do well and therefore a big kind of reward for whoever was in place at the time. to stay with us on bbc news. much more ahead. abandoning the mega— city of seoul and embarking on a more rural life is helping south korean children through the pandemic. members of the neo—nazi

resistance movement stormed the world trade center armed with pistols and shotguns. we believe that according to international law that we have a right to claim certain parts of this country as our land. i take pride in the words, "ich bin ein berliner." applause. as the uk woke up to - the news that it is to exit applause. as the uk woke up to - the news that it is to exit the european union, leave - campaigners began celebrating. in total, 17.4 million . people voted for the uk to leave the eu. the medical research council have now advised the government that the gradient increase of lung cancer is due mainly to smoking tobacco. it was closing time for checkpoint charlie, which for 29 years has stood on the border as a marker of allied determination to defend the city.

this is bbc news, the latest headlines... talks aimed at reviving the iran nuclear deal are adjourned in vienna with washington saying there is some way to go for an agreement to be reached. in france, regional elections, the far—right party has failed to make the electoral break there it was hoping for. for millions of people in the capital of seoul south korea, it's meant hours and hours of being stuck in classrooms with no chance of seeing their friends or going outside, many states left them feeling isolated and depressed, some families have abandoned the city and embarked on a more rural life. as part of our education interrupted series, we have more.

freedom. after almost a year cooped up inside a small inner city apartment, a 11—year—old is finally free to roam. translation: during - the pandemic, i couldn't go to school and i took online classes every day. i cried a lot. it was so hard. there were lots of things i wanted to do but i couldn't do any of them. but exploring the village, right away, i was captivated. the two traditional old houses so close to nature, i really love that. but in south korea, academic success is everything.

translation: people kept saying, "why - are you going there?" they called me weird, south korean mums are eager to send their kids to a good university, education fever here is really high. they thought by moving here we were giving up on education. but i don't think sitting is the only way to study. i want to raise my children in a challenging environment. i want them to learn that nothing comes for free. he is not the only new kid in town. arriving in this province, schools here are enjoying a revival. translation: seven new students have joined - our school this year. one girl use to study only with her teacher, but now she can enjoy group activities and projects.

with more than 80 new students arriving in the area, it's notjust schools that are flourishing. translation: now it's a town where kids run around used - to be a town with no children, and now young families live here too. the atmosphere is really lively and i hear of laughter. and i hear lots of laughter. translation: i believe this has been one of - the happiest times of my life. it's filled with all the delightful things. a lovely outcome for him at least. counting is under way after a snap election, early results suggest that his party

is doing well despite months of protests demanding his resignation. the opposition of peace accord with azerbaijan after armenia was defeated in last year pos met were over the territory. this cost armenians nearly 5000 lives and swathes of territory. it's estimated 200 people are still being held captive. the bbc pos make has more from the capital. this election has _ more from the capital. this election has been - more from the capital. ti 3 election has been triggered by the military defeat last year. the issues that dominated this campaign come from that defeat, issues like the rejoining of armenia pos make business of war or the national security defence and intelligence. people here also care about the economy, about free and fair about health care come about jobs, aboutjobs, about their future. all of these issues come into this race which is dominated by does make very

different leaders. the incumbent prime minister and the former president. the choice between them also means choice between them also means choice of policy implementation. the president is a personalfriend of implementation. the president is a personal friend of russia pos met president putin and once even closer ties with russia. forthe once even closer ties with russia. for the foreign minister on the other hand, he wanted to create a good relationship with russia but looked towards the west and work with the european union on armenia pos make democratic reforms. a member of uganda's olympic squad has become the first to test positive for covid—19 on arrival injapan for the competition due to start next month. athletes staying at the olympic village in tokyo will have to take unusually strict precautions to prevent any outbreaks of the coronavirus. rupert wingfield—hayes has been to the athletes�* village. so this is the tokyo olympic village, and it's the first chance that any of us in the media have had to come in and take a look at what will be the hub of the tokyo olympic games because, in a few weeks' time, thousands of athletes from all over the world will arrive in tokyo and this is where they will stay

during the games. and the olympic organisers have brought us here today to show us how they will do that safely. so this is a representation of what the athletes' village bedrooms look like, and these are the beds. they're quite small. they're also made of cardboard, which is environmentally friendly, but the main issue about the design of these bedrooms is they are shared, as they always have been in every olympics previously, but, because of the pandemic, there have been many experts who've said that sharing rooms for athletes is a really bad idea. so this is one of the main dining halls, and you can see it's pretty vast, and it needs to be because they will serve 115,000 meals every day during the games. now, to mitigate the risk of having so many people coming in here every day and mixing together, they are telling athletes that they need to use their smartphone app to find out when it is least busy here, to come alone, to pick up their meal and then

come to one of these tables, which will have plastic dividers on them, and they are being told they must then eat their meal alone and do so quickly. it doesn't sound like an awful lot of fun, but that's how they're trying to mitigate the risk. so this is the main gym and again you can see it's pretty huge. apparently, there's room for 500 people to train at any one time here and they do have these dividers between the machines, but the main anti—covid measure they will enforce here is to make everybody who comes in wear a mask, even when they're on these machines, and it's hard to see how you enforce but also how these olympic—level athletes will wear a mask while training hard on one of these machines. so this is a facility that's specifically built because of the covid—19 pandemic — you wouldn't find it at a normal olympics. this is a fever clinic. in a room over there, that's where you go and get tested if you have a fever or develop symptoms, you then get a pcr test and, if that comes back positive,

the athlete will be brought to one of these specialist isolation rooms, and this has an air filtration system that means no virus can get out of this room, and this is where they will be kept until they can be moved somewhere else. at the euros, wales have made it through to the last 16 of the competition, despite losing one nil to italyin rome. they finished second in group a, above switzerland on goal difference. our wales correspondent hywel griffith has the latest from rome. they came, they saw, but conquer? well, the welsh fans arrived in rome with expectations tempered. their hosts had not lost a competitive match at home this century. we are here and having fun, that is the main thing. a draw, i am happy. italy lined up with eight changes from the last game. if they were weakened, they were not showing it. belotti was acrobatic in attack and the manager seem to be working his magic.

the first chance for wales fell to chris gunter. still no go. italian pressure soon paid off, the precision from pessina giving them the break. worn down, wales enjoyed a little luck. but their judgment wavered. ampadu was sent off and now they were clinging on. stamped on his ankle. danny ward resisted the one—way traffic. nothing was heading in the right direction. bale! puts it over. relief all round at the final whistle, from rome to back home. outclassed, but out of the group and into the next round. wales now head to amsterdam, still believing. i could not be prouderl of the group of players, playing against italy -

with the record, the first two games they have maximum points and we knew it would be tough - and you go down to ten men and you fear the worst. - the faith i have got in those players to dig deep, - they deserve all the credit they are going to get. - to get the result, as long as we go through, that is all that matters. it will be a good night out. i think we will play even better. hywel griffiths, bbc news. imagine spending over six and half hours in space, that is what astronauts have been doing. what astronauts have been doin:. ,, ., ., doing. there mission was to complete — doing. there mission was to complete the _ doing. there mission was to complete the installation i doing. there mission was to complete the installation of| complete the installation of new solar panels to boost power supplies to the international space station. it's the second time they've attempted the installation. he had problems with his spacesuit during the first attempt on wednesday. don't forget get in touch with me on twitter. i am back with

the headlines in a couple of moments. this has been bbc news. hello. like it or not, we've reached that turning point in the year — summer solstice, the longest day, on monday with nearly 19 hours of daylight in shetland. just over 16—and—a—half across the channel islands. but, across some southern areas, you will be lucky to see sunrise or sunset. it is going to be a fairly cloudy and wet start to the week here. brightening up as the week goes on as things turned a bit cloudier and more showery further north as we go through the week and, to start with rather cool, too. an area of low pressure to the southwest of us which has thrown up some weather fronts to take us into the start of monday across southern counties of england. it's here where there will be more persistent rain on the south coast first thing. not a cold start here, but chillier elsewhere with clear skies away from this

zone of thicker cloud in southern scotland producing 1—2 showers. that will push into northern england slowly as we go through the day, sunshine either side of it. but notice how the rain develops more widely in southern counties of england as we go through monday, inching up close to the south and east midlands, parts of east anglia, too, maybe even close to southeast wales. but much of wales and the midlands stays dry and bright, still got the northeasterly breeze here and, where the rain is falling, temperatures will struggle to get above the mid teens. a few showers in northern england, but towards the western coast here, west wales and western scotland, we could get to around 19—20 celsius during the afternoon. now, through monday night, rain still at times across these southern counties of england — that will stop temperatures from falling, but clearer skies, midlands, wales, northwards means it's going to be a chilly start to tuesday morning. the first night after the summer solstice, we could even see a touch of frost through some shelter valleys in the grampians. that's because we've got an area of high pressure building up from the azores — wrong side of us, though, because around it, we're bringing in some cold air from the north as we

go through tuesday. cold relative to the time of year, of course, but it will help to clear away the rain eventually from the southernmost counties of england. long, sunny spells for most to begin with, clouding over a touch through the afternoon across england and wales as the cloud builds up and spreads out. not as chilly for some of you as monday will have been. another cool night across england and wales as we go into wednesday. here, the best of the dry and brighter weather, but clouds spitting in from the northwest will bring in a few spots of rain or drizzle. even with that cloud, though, slightly milder air, 18—19 celsius across the north, but 21 further south. thursday will bring that cloud further south — in fact, the end of the week cloudy for most with a few splashes of rain at times, but temperatures near average forjune.

this is bbc news, the headlines... is not clear when the next round of talks will take place. israel's new buy insurance is the world powers should not negotiate with iran after the new hardline president's election. he says the world needs to wake up to the threat posed by tehran. exit polls in france suggest that the far—right party of marine le pen has not achieved the big breakthrough she hoped for in the regional elections. the parties expected to come second behind the centre—right republicans, but ahead of president macron�*s party. thanks for watching, president macron�*s party. thanks forwatching, more president macron�*s party. thanks for watching, more news now.

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