this is bbc news with the latest headlines still no deal on reviving the iran nuclear agreement while israel's new prime minister urges world powers not to negotiate with tehran. nine children and one adult have been killed in a crash involving 18 vehicles in the us state of alabama. myanmar�*s ruling general flies to russia for a military conference as the regime tightens its grip on the country. and in france, the far—right party of marine le pen has failed to make the breakthrough it hoped for. the olympic village challenge — trying to keep athletes safe as a member of uganda's squad becomes

the first to test positive for covid. israel's prime minister has called on the us and its allies to "wake up" to the threat of iran. the warning comes as diplomats reported progress on reviving a landmark deal to limit the country's nuclear programme — a deal the us withdrew from under president donald trump. mark lobel reports. world powers have been negotiating with iran since april to stop it from being able to build a nuclear bomb. in return, iran wants rid of sanctions harming its ailing economy.

as both sides agreed to revive a previously agreed deal, the mood music sounds good from iran, the eu and the us. we are closer to a deal than any time in the past, but it doesn't mean that we are there. the next round, delegations will come back from capitals with clearer instructions, clearer ideas on how to finally close the deal. the whole question of- which sanctions will be lifted is currently being negotiated in vienna, _ and i'm not going to conduct those negotiations in public. complicating matters, iran's supreme leader, ayatollah ali khamanei, who's the ultimate powerbroker here, has repeatedly called the elimination of america's ally, israel. now israel says the recent election of hardlinber ebrahim raisi as iran's next president has heightened fears. raisi's election is, i would say. the last chance

for world powers to wake up before returning to the nuclear agreement and understand who they are doing business with. these guys are murderers, mass murderers. iran already blames israel for the murder of its top nuclear scientist last year, and an attack on one of its uranium enrichment plants in april. on sunday, iranian state tv reported technical problems at this nuclear power plant in bushehr. it's been temporarily shut down, it says, for a technical overhaul. fires have hampered operations in the past, but accidents have also turned out to be foreign attacks. however, such is the momentum of the current negotiating table, there is talk of an imminent nuclear deal soon. the chances of the iran factor is a final point of negotiations, maybe by mid—july. departing vienna, delegations are now returning to their capitals for consultations there. mark lobel, bbc news.

ten people, including nine children, have been killed in the crash involving 18 vehicles in the us state of alabama. the county coroner says the vehicles were likely to have hydroplaned on the wet roads and lost control after tropical depression claudette battered the state, with lush budding tornadoes and destroying of homes as well. jeremy grey is reporter with the alabama media group and has been covering this truly awful story which happened on saturday. can you run through what has happened? in south alabama, in boulder county, 165, the interstate, there were multiple vehicles, 18, as you said, they collided. we had a tropical storm, claudette, a lot of rainfall.

and in the course of that, an suv carrying a 29—year—old man and his young daughter, they were killed and also collided with a van carrying residents of a youth home. the driver was pulled to safety by a bystander but unfortunately, the son and daughter of the driver perished, as did their two nephews and four residents of the home, the eight dictums of the home, the eight dictums of the van ranging in age from fourup the van ranging in age from four up till 17.— four up till 17. you are talking _ four up till 17. you are talking about - four up till 17. you are talking about i - four up till 17. you are - talking about i understand there were girls who are in like a foster home for abandoned or neglected children. correct. some of them are placed there privately. some are in the care of the state. �* , some are in the care of the state. �*, ., .,, some are in the care of the state. �*, ., , some are in the care of the state. �*, ., ., , ., state. it's almost too awful to contemplate- _ state. it's almost too awful to contemplate. what _ contemplate. what were the conditions like? they must�*ve been pretty dreadful.

conditions like? they must've been pretty dreadful.- conditions like? they must've been pretty dreadful. there was a lot of rainfall _ been pretty dreadful. there was a lot of rainfall across _ been pretty dreadful. there was a lot of rainfall across the - a lot of rainfall across the state. we had a man in a child killed by a falling tree in tuscaloosa county in the central part of the state, a man swept away by floodwaters, a woman trapped in her car in north alabama, she drowned as well so right now the entire death toll for the state �*s 13, perhaps 1a and that includes the wreck in south alabama. 1 the wreck in south alabama. i can only imagine across the state, to have that many children killed in one terrible accident must have a huge impact on people. what sort of response has there been? well, the four young _ response has there been? well, the four young women - response has there been? well, the four young women who - response has there been? well, | the four young women who were residents of the youth home attended the same high school in the eastern part of alabama. there was a community gathering there today, people sharing memories and stories of these young girls and just a very

emotional response from the community, it is a very small community, it is a very small community, very tightknit. we can feel the — community, very tightknit. we can feel the pain that must've caused the community and indeed further afield. jeremy, thank you very much indeed for sharing the details with us. the belgian authorities have confirmed the body found in woodland was that of a missing soldier who threatened to kill the country's top virologist. the prosecution offers said initial findings found he'd shot himself. he'd been on an anti—terrorist watchlist because of his extreme right—wing beliefs. the acting prime minister of armenia has declared victory after a snap parliamentary election which was called to diffuse a crisis over and ill—fated war with azerbaijan. he was speaking as early results showed his party opening up a significant lead over a political block led by

the former president. 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. ahead of me and my�*s ruling militaries in moscow to attend a military conference. as another sign of how the army is looking to tighten its grip on the country and seek out international support as well. as aung san suu kyi, civilian leader overthrown by the military, faces the next stage of her trial. the un has called for a court halt to the blow of arms to iran. michael vatikiotis, the asia regional director at the centre

for humanitarian dialogue, explained. i think it's very clear that russia is now one of myanmar�*s closest friends. we saw the end of march that russia sent to deputy defence minister to attend the army day, in a very high—profile visit. russia denies that it's supporting the regime, and agrees with its methods, but nonetheless russia is now one of myanmar�*s closest friends, and i think is visit really does show that myanmar has alternatives when it comes to weapons. right, ye, however limited they might be. if a country like russia is prepared to deal with them, clearly they have access, don't they? and in terms of what they might do with them, the fighting goes on obviously in many quarters across the country, and the village of kin ma was torched after fighting in that area. do you think that is part of a policy to put down insurgency, if i can put it like that?

the violence has become much more complicated than it was at the start of the coup, where you had protests that were eventually violently put down. now you have violence on both sides, you have people being trained in ethnic areas who are being armed, who are beginning to launch attacks on myanmar armed forces and police, in ethnic areas, marginal areas of the country as well as the army continuing to arrest and abduct people it considers to be suspect. they can be as young as 12— or 13—year—old people who are just abducted or even shot, and i think what we are seeing now is that low—level violence is appearing in cities, people are being abducted, people are being assassinated in urban areas of yangon, and these are people who are suspected of being informants. it's not clear who some of these people are all the time, and so the violence has become much more complicated on both sides.

and would you expect that do notjust to continue but worsen? i think it will continue, and unless there's leadership that emerges on the side of the opposition with these so—called people's defence forces, it's going to be quite difficult for this violence to become co—ordinated. and if the army could just wait until it sort of peters out, however, as the army continues to launch these punitive attacks, as you mentioned, in central myanmar, there will be increasing anger and increasing violence. it's hard to see the opposition winning outright but we will see this kind of low—level violence escalated over 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 macron�*s centrists. voter turnout was exceptionally low. the regional elections are being watched closely really for clues to next yea r�*s residential contest. a corresponding paris, hugh schofield, has the details. it's a very complicated election, and it breaks down into regions. it's very hard to be sure that there's any hard—and—fast reflection of national tendencies or trends that will come to fruit in the election next year for the presidency, but clearly marine le pen was hoping for a big showing on this first round of the vote, and she hasn't really got it, as far as i can see. it looks like her vote taken nationally, taken 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 nice in the south and around lille and calais in the north, that she would stand a chance of getting those next week, but those are looking much more problematic now than they were 2a hours ago so it 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 didn't expect to do well," but as predicted, his party score is very low, probably no more than 10% nationally, and in many regions, his party won't get through to the second round because it's so low. he'll be able to say with some justification party," and the turnout was so desperately low, around 33%, it meant that broadly speaking, governors or republicans or councils which were in place already may have left or intended to show to do well and therefore a big kind of reward for whoever was in place at the time. stay with us on bbc

news, still to come: getting out of the city and into the countryside. our south korean children are being helped through the pandemic. members of the neo—nazi resistant movement stormed the centre arms with shotguns. we believe in _ centre arms with shotguns. - believe in international law but we have the right to claim certain parts of this country is our land. i certain parts of this country is our land-— is our land. i take pride in the words _ is our land. i take pride in the words ich _ is our land. i take pride in the words ich bin - is our land. i take pride in the words ich bin ein - is our land. i take pride in - the words ich bin ein berliner. as the — the words ich bin ein berliner. as the uk _ the words ich bin ein berliner. as the uk woke up to the news that it — as the uk woke up to the news that it is — as the uk woke up to the news that it is to— as the uk woke up to the news that it is to exit _ as the uk woke up to the news that it is to exit the _ as the uk woke up to the news that it is to exit the european l that it is to exit the european union, — that it is to exit the european union, lead _ that it is to exit the european union, lead campaigners - that it is to exit the european . union, lead campaigners began celebrating _ union, lead campaigners began celebrating. in _ union, lead campaigners began celebrating. in total, _ union, lead campaigners began celebrating. in total, 17.4 - celebrating. in total, 17.4 million _ celebrating. in total, 17.4 million people _ celebrating. in total, 17.4 million people voted - celebrating. in total, 17.4 million people voted for. celebrating. in total, 17.4 . million people voted for the celebrating. in total, 17.4 - million people voted for the uk to leave — million people voted for the uk to leave the _ million people voted for the uk to leave the eu. _ million people voted for the uk to leave the eu. the _ million people voted for the uk to leave the eu.— to leave the eu. the medical research _ to leave the eu. the medical research council— to leave the eu. the medical research council have - to leave the eu. the medical research council have now. research council have now advised the government that the great increase in lung cancer

is due mainly to smoking tobacco. it is due mainly to smoking tobacc0-_ is due mainly to smoking tobacc0-— is due mainly to smoking tobacco. . , . tobacco. it was closing time the checkpoint _ tobacco. it was closing time the checkpoint charlie - tobacco. it was closing time | the checkpoint charlie which, for 29 years, has stood on the border as a marker of allied determination to defend the city. seoul, bolsonaro, talks aimed at reviving the nuclear deal. world powers encouraged not to negotiate yet. nine children and one aduu yet. nine children and one adult killed in a multicar crash in alabama. staying in the united states, president biden has announced he is heading to a rally in north carolina later in the week to encourage more people to get vaccinated. a take—up is starting to stall in the us,

almost 46% of the population being fully vaccinated, but in parts of the south and north—west, rates are very low. mississippi, 27% of the population having had both jabs are so far, and in the northeast, vermont's population shows the other end of the scale, the highest rate of 58%. doctor lisa cooper is the director ofjohn hopkins centre for health equity and an author of a new book about health disparity. she is in maryland. thank you forjoining us. the common held view would be that these discrepancies are built around politics, around party politics, in fact. around politics, around party politics, infact. is around politics, around party politics, in fact. is it that simple? no, much more complex than that. explain.— than that. explain. sure. we have peeple. _ than that. explain. sure. we have peeple. a _ than that. explain. sure. we have people, a range - than that. explain. sure. we have people, a range of- than that. explain. sure. we have people, a range of age| have people, a range of age groups, a range of people from

different race and ethnic groups, people of different education, different kinds of comfort level with the vaccine and with trusting authorities and with trusting authorities and institutions administering the vaccine, so it isn't as simple as politics. i think there are communities of colour that have been treated very poorly for a long time in the united states, and therefore have developed a mistrust of institutions. we also have people at a level of education that don't understand how the vaccine was developed or how it works. then you have people with particular religious backgrounds or political affiliations that may have concerns around the government and it coming up with a vaccine quickly, the safety of it, whether or not it is being used to track them in some way. there are many different groups. in there are many different urou s. . there are many different u-rous. . , there are many different u-rous. . ., , groups. in which case, what is the role you — groups. in which case, what is the role you think _ groups. in which case, what is the role you think the - the role you think the president of the united states cannot usefully play here? you would make the point,

communication is everything, that perhaps communication at a local community leader level may be the best way to fix this authority problem. cannotjoe biden make a difference. i think you can, he has a very important voice, he is trusted by many people but it is important for the federal government to work, as you said, with local leaders, grassroots organisations, physicians, nurses, other health professionals trusted in their own communities and with certain groups in order to get the message across. is certain groups in order to get the message across.- certain groups in order to get the message across. is there an element where _ the message across. is there an element where a _ the message across. is there an element where a substantial - element where a substantial number of americans can't quite be bothered now, the crisis feels like it is over? i be bothered now, the crisis feels like it is over?- feels like it is over? i think there is — feels like it is over? i think there is an _ feels like it is over? i think there is an element - feels like it is over? i think there is an element of - feels like it is over? i think| there is an element of that, feels like it is over? i think. there is an element of that, i think people who didn't really believe it was an issue in the first place are now relieved that many restrictions have been lifted. i think others who feel somewhat invincible feel

they aren't at particular high risk, and people are also fatigued with everything, so there is some of that. there are issues getting in the way. people don't have time to get off work, they may not have transportation to get a vaccine. there could be some other complicating factors relating to access that aren't only relating to being hesitant to taking the vaccine. the challenge _ to taking the vaccine. the challenge goes _ to taking the vaccine. the challenge goes on. - to taking the vaccine. the challenge goes on. thankj to taking the vaccine. the - challenge goes on. thank you very much- — challenge goes on. thank you very much. thank _ challenge goes on. thank you very much. thank you - challenge goes on. thank you very much. thank you for - challenge goes on. thank you i very much. thank you for having me. for the millions of young people living and seoul, the pandemic has met hour upon hour of being stuck in virtual classrooms, no chance of seeing friends or playing outside even. many say it has left them feeling isolated and depressed. some families have abandoned the city and embarked on rural life. as part of our education interrupted series, our correspondent has visited them.

freedom. freedom, after almost a year cooped up inside a small inner city apartment in seoul, these children are finally free to roam. translation: during - the pandemic i couldn't go to school and 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 to any of them. translation: but exploring the village, right away - i was captivated. the traditional old houses, so close to nature, i really loved that. but in south korea, academic success is everything. translation: people kept saying, why are you going l there. they called me weird.

south korean mums are eager to send their kids to a good university. education fever here is high. they thought by moving here we were giving up on education. but they don't think the city is the only way to study. i want to raise my children in a challenging environment. i want them to learn nothing comes for free. and he is not the only new kid in town. schools here are enjoying a revival. translation: seven new students have joined our school this - year. one girl used to study only with her teacher but now she can enjoy group

activities and project. with more than 80 new students arriving in the area, it is notjust schools that are flourishing. translation: now it is a town where kids run around. - it is to be a town with no children but now a young families live here too copy the atmosphere is really lively and i hear lots of laughter. translation: i believe this has been one of the happiest times | of my life, because it was filled with all the delightful things. good luck to them, and good luck to tokyo. a ugandan team coach has tested positive for coronavirus after arriving in tokyo ahead of the

olympic games. uganda is sending 36 athletes and support staff, they have been given two doses of the astrazeneca dose. this comes as tokyo lays out very harsh restrictions ahead of the game is. this is the tokyo olympic village, and the first chance for media to take a look at what will be the hump of the tokyo olympic games. in a few weeks time, thousands of athletes will arrive in tokyo, and this is where they will state during the games. olympic organisers have brought us here to show us how they will do this safely. this is a representation of what the athletes' village bedrooms look like. these other beds, quite small. they are also, as you can see, made of cardboard.

this is a environmentally friendly. the main issue about the design of these bedrooms is they are shared, as they always have been in previous olympics, but because of the pandemic, many experts say that sharing rooms for athletes is a really bad idea. this is one of the main dining halls. you can see it as fast, and it needs to be because they will serve 45,000 meals every day during the games. to mitigate the risk of having so many people coming here every day and mixing, they are telling athletes to use their smart phone app to find out when it is least busy, too, alone, pick up their meal, and come to one of these tables with a plastic divider on them. they are told to eat their meal alone and do so quickly. doesn't sound like an awful lot of fun but that is how they are mitigating the risk. this is

the main gym, pretty huge. there is room for 500 people to train at any one time. they have dividers between the machine, but the major anti covid measured they will and force as making everybody who comes in to wear a mask, even when on of these machines. it is hard to see how they will enforce it or how olympic level athletes will wear and mask while training on these machines. this is a facility specifically built because of the covid—19 pandemic. you wouldn't find it in a normal olympics. this is the fever clinic. you go here to get tested if you develop symptoms. you get a pcr test and if it comes back positive, an athlete will be brought to one of the specialist isolation rooms. this has an infiltration system meaning no virus can get out of this room. they will be kept here until they can be moved elsewhere. and that comes as

anxiety is about, keeping covid at bay. this is bbc news. thank you. 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 airfrom 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: talks aimed at reviving the iran nuclear deal have been adjourned and vienna with no dealjust adjourned and vienna with no deal just yet. adjourned and vienna with no dealjust yet. earlier israel's new prime minister naftali bennett said world powers should not negotiate with tehran after the election of a new hard—line president ebrahim raisi. ten people including nine children have been killed in a crash in alabama stopping the county coroner said the vehicles were likely to have hydroplaned on a wet roads and lost control after tropical depression claudette caused flash flooding. me and my�*s ruling general is in moscow to attend a security conference, a further sign of how the army is tightening its grip on the country. the visit comes as the civilian leader overthrown in the country faces the next stage of her trail.