it's late night in geneva switzerland right now. a deal has been reached involving iran and six world powers over tehran's nuclear program. let's go to cnn's national security correspondent joining us from geneva right now. we're trying to connect with jim. but if he is not there, candy croley has been with us in washington. these talks are going way into the night. it's early morning in geneva, switzerland but there is a deal between iran and the six powers, the five permanent members of the u.n. security council and germany. they worked hard on this deal. it will be very, very controversial. we are standing by to hear from the president of the united states. he is scheduled to address the nation in about 15 minutes from now. but let's give our viewers here in the united states and around the world perspective on what is going on. >> wow. first of all the u.s. and iran have not had a relationship, basically, of any sort, certainly not official since 1979. we're in the month of the anniversary of the taking hostage of americans in t

leader have to say on the success of the geneva talks. as you said president obama pledged to put a modest relief of sanctions in return for iran scaling back its nuclear program not the relief will include freeing up a small portion of iran's overseas accounts as well as easing some other trade restrictions here's actually what the president said. on our side the united states and our friends and allies have agreed to provide iran with modest relief while continuing to apply our toughest sanctions we will refrain from imposing new sanctions and we will allow the iranian government excess to a portion of the revenue that they have been denied through sanctions. but the broader architecture of sanctions will remain in place and we will continue to enforce them vigorously and if iran does not fully meet its commitments during the six month phase we will turn off the relief and ratchet up the pressure while again this president obama said the u.s. would refrain from imposing new sanctions because it would undermine the breakthrough deal that

as the spooks the unfolding in geneva. thanks very much so i won't condemn these reporting to us there from geneva from tehran of iggy pop. and we will keep you updated about the talks in geneva as well from our cause. one of which invested. now china is sending an emergency medical team from the government and its os to willie's team from the china red cross to the typhoon and devastation philippines. the red cross rescue team at the ageing today. the medical team is scheduled to leave on saturday. ten million yuan worth of humanitarian relief goods have already arrived the idea to include seven two thousand tents and ten thousand blankets the chinese navy is to send one of the largest and best equipped twenty hospitals in the world known as the piece oke the vessel has three hundred and twenty intensive care units and ice operating theaters well the death toll from typhoon high and has now cost four thousand the statement from the philippine national disaster risk reduction and management council puts the number official

first, geneva, now we're in december, this is huge that maybe will be geneva. the second issue that the u.s. policy should not focus on the diplomatic efforts to bring both parties on the table. they should focus on change the calculation on the ground. that's what convinced assad to come to the table. he has killed 120,000, and he will do more. he has used chemical weapons against his own people, and he's willing to do more and more. if there is no such actions begins assad he will not be convinced to come to the table and negotiate. and the third point that geneva communicate one, he said clearly that about transitional body there was no opposition for this transition. this is why the opposition they need to have a guarantee. that's with all sacrifice the syrian people, they should at least have no assad in power. >> not to be cynical, but is it really about politics and power? >> it is about politics and power. look, the gulf countries who have been funding rebel groups especially those who are extremist groups in syria and undermining the syrian people desi

it was continued in geneva and will be continued in 10 days or so again in geneva and throughout thecoming year. i think they could reach agreement very quickly on technical grounds particularly gaining national approval is a much harder task. we know at the strength of our lobbies are. we know what past attitudes have been. the sting of humiliation that to place when the hostages were taken remains in our psyche, our national psyche. and we have much political work to do you. when i say we, a suite of people, but it's mainly after the obama administration to make the case to congress that has to agree in large measure. a similar case pertains in iraq. whether the great can be removed as the bogeyman is a pertinent question. we'll see. we'll see and i'm one of those who believe that not only our dreams possible, but i think that our president and the leaders of our country are wise enough and experienced enough to seize the opportunity. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much, ambassador miller. our next speaker to answer the question, dr. patrick clawson. from the washington in

>> okay, phil, live from geneva, thank you. we're still watching those doors awaiting secretary of state kerry to emerge and when he does we'll bring that to you live: now to another huge story, this from the philippines where the last three days have been devastating for them as the typhoon roared through on thursday killing an estimated 1200 people and tonight the death toll is climbing, families are still trapped in flooded homes and hardest hit is a city about 350 miles south of the capital of manila, it has no electricity and no way of communicating. the typhoon was one of the most powerful storms on record. gusts from the wind reached 235 miles per hour. against the, quote, common ene enemy." malcolm x is right, today's white man is the global political system of racism and white supremacy. everyone who wants to say that racism is dead is today's quote/unquote enemy. andrew says malcolm x would be disappointed that 50 years later black people still have not taken our economic security in our own hands. i know you have a q

talking about another conference in geneva, i wonder how much of a cloud are the counter talks in geneva over iran's nuclear program, casting over the meeting that's going in in istanbul where you are right now. >> quite a significant one. there are people seriously worried whether syria will be a card in the nuclear negotiations. people feel it may not be an immediate card, but maybe in the background. for everyone, what is happening in geneva with negotiations over iran's nuclear status is directly or indirectly, immediately or with a delay going to impact on the syrian national coalition and the status of syria and what parties make what bids, intervene and play what roles in syria going forward. the ones most concerned are those allied with the gulf states. the syrian revolution could be up for negotiation in its entirety. part of the deal may be implicitly behind closed doors - that iran is allowed to continue to do what it has been doing in syria, in backing and supporting, arming, giving economic support it the regime and will be given a green light in return for a nuclear comprom

structure of the geneva-harney bus rapid transit community advisory committee geneva-harney cacc and appoint matt householder, tom kirvin, fran martin, and erick orantes to the geneva-harney cac for two-year terms. >> item number 8, approve the revised structure of the geneva-harney bus rapid transit community advisory committee geneva-harney cacc and appoint matt householder, tom kirvin, fran martin, and erick orantes to the geneva-harney cac >> item number 8, approve the revised structure of the geneva-harney bus rapid transit community advisory committee geneva-harney cacc and appoint matt householder, tom kirvin, fran martin, and erick orantes to the geneva-harney cac for two-year terms. this is an action item. >> okay. commissioner mar. >> yeah. let me say that our plans and program committee we heard from really great applicant for the cac and one of them that was not in attendance at the plans and programs was william walker who is in the audience today and i wanted to speak for his seat for the ocean seat, but i didn't know what chair avalos views on mr. walker were, but i kn

>> okay, phil, live from geneva, thank you. we're still watching those doors awaiting secretary of state kerry to emerge and when he does we'll bring that to you live: now to another huge story, this from the philippines where the last three days have been devastating for them as the typhoon roared through on thursday killing an estimated 1200 people and tonight the death toll is climbing, families are still trapped in flooded homes and hardest hit is a city about 350 miles south of the capital of manila, it has no electricity and no way of communicating. the typhoon was one of the most powerful storms on record. gusts from the wind reached 235 miles per hour. and then the water just started coming. >> the survivors are desperate. >> we're opening as many stores as we can. there is some looting that is going on. and we're doing as much as we can. and trying to secure power and water, which are the basics. >> reporter: with communications down and roads out, emergency organizations are struggling to organize relief. the philippi

they met in geneva for talks. the summit aimed as controlling iran's nuclear capabilities in exchange for easing sanctions. the first such talks involving the u.s. in nearly a decade. the u.s. and its allies saw tougher terms for iran and it's nuclear program especially the iraq heavy water plant. iran insists the plant is only for educationalled a domestic energy purposes but in the end the talks fell apart. >> france had hoped to reach an agreement during the iran nuclear talks. the talks here in geneva allowed us to make progress however we cannot reach an agreement because there are problems that need to be tackled. we'll surely tell you that our political directors will meet, then ministers, and we hope at that time to include an agreement. >> reporter: most delegations blame france, but kerry shifts it to iran. >> there was unity, but at that moment they were not able to accept that particular agreement. >> reporter: in reaction the iranian foreign minister took to twitter posting no amount of spinning can c

i have already continued talks in geneva for a third straight day. what initially was to be a two day meeting began on thursday to reach an agreement on the first step toward resolving the stalemate. iranian

this is all building on the conference of geneva one and the communique of geneva one which said there had to be a transitional government that will take over full executive powers. >> of course, therein lies the problem, the syrian government without bashar al-assad. that's now how the syrians will see it? >> no, absolutely. i think they know when you get into the detail of these key issues before you get around the table you never have talks. they're never going to turn up. i think that's why they have this idea of bringing both sides together bought any pre-conditions. the opposition still have pre-conditions. when that didn't work they tried to set a date to force both sides around the table. i think eventually you're going see some sort of opposition delegation turning up. but does that opposition fully represent the people of syria? probably not. does it present those fighting on the ground, probably not. >> let's go to zan live to beir. they made it clear what they expect will happen before the geneva talks. are the demands set to scuffle the talks before they have even gun. >>

we can take you next to live pictures in geneva. beg your pardon to the west bank where we are expecting a press conference to take place shortly. the palestinian investigative committee looking in to the alleged assassination of i can't siyasserair fat, talking about w results, russian test results looking at clothing and bone sap samples from yasser arafat. i think we have her to talk to now just as the press conference begins to get underway. tell us about what is expected from this press conference? we have swiss results already. russian results as well? two different investigations? >> reporter: correct, jonah. now we are expecting any time soon the head of the investigative committee to announce the conclusions of the investigative committee here in the pal spi pal palestinian ters after receiving results of the swiss report as well as the russian report and now i than we can listen in to the conference. >> i think we have lost picture there. let's see if we can go to the press conference. we seem to have lost the press confer

years of political wrangling over iran's nuclear issue five days of talks intense heated talks in geneva a night of several hundred journalists sleeping in the media center waiting for a decision and we finally have a breakthrough that historical deal has been reached now it's hard to describe just how tense the atmosphere has been here throughout the night waiting for any sort of news from those negotiations to find out whether or not that deal has been made and up until the very last moment when we received the news about the deal being made there was no way of knowing which way it was going to go because sticking point still remains between the sides now the agreement that we have at the moment according to the russian foreign ministry coincides with what russia had been proposing from the offset in these nuclear negotiations now what are the details that we know so far well we have according to the russian foreign ministry coincides with what russia has been proposing from the offset in these nuclear negotiations we can take a listen to sergei lavrov talking about that right now in a

and we will not stop fighting for geneva two and we will continue fighting even if there is a geneva. >> reporter: if the political opposition, the syria national coalition which whom you report to, if they do agree to attend geneva two pending their conditions are met, what will you do? will you support that? >> we will support them under our condition, if there is nothing clear as we see now, we will not support any kind of meeting especially as you know the russians are trying now to bring them and many others as oppositions to sit with opposition, the syrian opposition who are fighting on the ground, who are giving martars and blood and together i will not support anyone who will go to geneva to sit together on the part of the opposition. >> reporter: let me ask you this because you say you support a solution to the crisis in syria, a war in its third year, so what exactly is your solution if you don't back peace talks, how do you propose putting an end to the war? >> the end of the war must be very clear that bashir, he will not have any role in the future of syria and talks and

ministers from all six negotiating world powers and iran their road down the remaining obstacles in geneva are just bully boy who is there with a delegation of russia's foreign minister and you know joins us live to bring us more well all the way from geneva paula it's been a long long do tell us what happened and talk us through the made highlights of the deal reached today. by them arena one of the men tests and kasian off to two sets of failed negotiations ten years of political wrangling over iran's shia issue twenty four hours of intense negotiations for the foreign ministers knocks in these crucial talks here a night of several hundred journalists camped out in the media center we finally have a breakthrough on this very important issue that's taken a very decades to come to any sort of progress on now that was so much i can't describe to you the sense of tension that we've had in the media center a juror in these talks that have been shrouded in secrecy very few leaks coming out up until the very last minute until now up until the news broke very natural indication about whether or

. >> not all the people who want to come to geneva will be able to come. but they should know that this is not an event. this is a process. and in this process, i'm sure that everybody who wants to participate in rebuilding what i call the new republic of syria will be able to do so in the course of the process. >> van hoder is standing by for us in beirut the lebanese capital. thrashing out the details of those talks. so david what happens between now and january the 22nd? >> sammy the next most important date is december the 20th, when there will be another tripartite meeting like there was today. mediated by lachtar brahimi. this is the last planned meeting before the conference starts on january the 22nd and they have an awful lot to sort out. are iran and saudi arabia going to come to these talks? because they are so important players in this conflict. and diplomats here have been telling me that they might well attend. bull they'll attend as observers. they'll be in meetings around the actual peace negotiations. then there's also the question of who

itis why john kerry went to geneva with pressure.et us have longer negotiations and try to work out a deal that could be historic like the one we see tonight. that seems to have worked. the tougher sanctions that harry reid and a coalition of republicans and democrats wanted to see will be on the back burner. the point that ann made that the president of iran is going to take a lot of heat for this deal in his own country, it will happen to president obama as well. republican senators are taking to twitter. lindsey graham the senator from south carolina says this deal does not do enough. it doesn't make sure their ability is decimated. you are going to have a lot of outcry from the right and democrats saying the president went too far here. you are going to see it within iran. interesting to see how they are going to take heat from inside the countries and how it makes the deal look moving forward. david? >> thank you. stand by at the white house. we expect to hear from the president momentarily. the chief negotiators have been in ge

i know the peace talks in geneva to take a sunset me. the new sanctions intended to place right now would be a part of the opening times of the sports meeting for what struck me the easing of sanctions even if it is to limit it to stop. well i would be the incense and onion ring inside that is one day i can choose to see happening in each one to present the president at the new deal to bring in prison on the east on his promises people say he's back economic turmoil since this be from the west side if they are keen to seize on this on pitching and see if any of the senate and the iranians because they want to build bridges often be assessed at tehran's isolation and second it's in the works in trust because at. none o the reasons are on space missions and syria. salem and signed stephanie have something to gain from it. as i say it was still at the stars and jt very difficult old to have that will have to wait and see that of the interesting story among the new kidneys process happens if the deal is to cheat engine me to post you happen

jones are costs that said thanks but they said that from the geneva. thank you. bill will new syria's spoons and all position has been holding talks in istanbul today aim to agree on whether or not they'll take part in a peace conference in geneva on the main umbrella group the syrian national coalition says the assault the likely continue into tomorrow the group has been expressing concerns that the regime of push ups on one standby anything it was agreed at the conference us take a listen to what a coalition spokesman said the school. you know what that is deemed not to. it takes to. cool the best seats in it no one so it's not just with the books. his team would continue to people in the distance the sun she still would not. assyrian a coalition spokesman speaking bad. same with syria are in the head all how high a dying man i'm so lucky has ordered the major distraction operating in syria its dispatch. well the group which is called the islamic state of iraq and the defense has been blamed for the escalating abuse against syrian rebels and civilians i cut sma

it's a huge night in geneva and across the world. we'll watch the story, bringing you more online and throughout the night. we have other news. >> in syria one of the largest oil fields was seized. >> cutting off nearly all of bashar al-assad's reserves. caroline malone has that story. >> opposition fighters say they have taken control of syria's largest oil fields. it's difficult to prove, but the video shows the entrance to ar-omar near deir ezzor. it was posted online. this man says the area was taken at dawn from government forces and is in the hands of the al-nusra front, an al qaeda linked group as well as the ekhlas army and mouta brigades. he introduced a field commander who described the defeat. >> we are an omar oil field. his men ran away like rats, leaving the tanks. >> it's the scop time opposition forces took control of the facilityies. the government withdrew from the oil field last november, tog get it back again. if it has changed hands again, that means most of the syria's oil reserves are in the hands of the opposi

james bays live in geneva. a deal there in geneva would have major implications for the entire middle. joining us is a journalist thanks for being with us. we had openly angry words before a deal had been done. how is saudi arabia, already angry with the u.s. on issues with syria, what is the view of saudi arabia? >> puzzled. the people are flabbergasted. they do not understand the deal with iran. the iranian policies are the same. a change in personnel does not grant a deal. it is a part of the problem in syria. it is part of the problem in iraq today. obviously a huge part of the problem. republic, yet some how iran is being given a price to its program. >> there was talk, rumors more than anything that thanks to wikileaks we remember the call to cut off the head of the snake in tehran. what impact would a deal in geneva have on the stability of the gulf region? israel is the cause of all these problems. iran would not use its cause for obtaining the nuclear arms. saudis have expressed in the past that if ira

well as we know the first geneva conference has yielded a road map on how to go about solving some of the problems and how to solve the conflict in general but so far things haven't gone exactly to plan how do you expect geneva two to be different and to be more effective in that sense. if i may speak in the name of the city and people who live in syria whole harbin some putting in syria i would like to say that the fed is saying that the syrian people want is photo violence to stop which is by the way the fairest in geneva the one that was at it then on the thirtieth of june two thousand and twelve to stop violence by old plot there's the stop the groves. dolar peace and safety into that country and then it is up to the syrian people to rethink their own method to put the mechanism put a political approach says for syria it's not up to this people who say you know who invented the story of every day in order to obstruct a solution what we want is to produce store peace and security and then start a political process but speaking to one language with one no objective which is to solve

and that's the geneva conference will bring some solutions. the a sweet november all below also the palm it because it's on the fourth amendments of the state budget for putting that in the fall to fifteen an impenetrable command for the next review is approved by them and irritable. well before baseman who is typically subject to constructive criticism the budget implementation this edition remains from the same from year to year none the worse in the budget remains the main problem for the government as the year's coming to and the ministers ask the members of the parliament approved the location of going to think how it turns out the fishes cannot implement the past for which he defines the deputies criticize the prime minister for that the turkey was appointed prime minister just over a year ago that he promised to control the disbursement of budget funds covers instead of out of the dispersed money has increased reaching out in sixteen seventy the deputy of the module is my ic not things that every year the government just to complete an

leader had to say in the success of the geneva talks. well right actually president obama called the the most tangible progress the u.s. has made with iran since he took office president obama said in return for iran scaling back its nuclear program there will be quote a modest sanctions relief the relief would include freeing up a small portion of the alliance overseas currency accounts and easing other trade restrictions he said but u.s. would refrain from imposing new sanctions because it would undermine the breakthrough deal that they just reached with iran and the deal is nonetheless temporary so it will have to pass the test of six months before a more durable agreement is negotiated so building trust is going to be very important within the next six months here is what the president. or side the united states and our friends and allies have agreed to provide iran with modest relief while continuing to apply our toughest sanctions we will refrain from imposing new sanctions and we will allow the iranian government excess to a porti

the un's nuclear chief is heading to geneva to join those talks.ecretary of state john kerry and his counterparts are going to try to reach an agreement. phil ittner joining us live from geneva where john kerry has just arrived, and phil, the senior leaders are gat ering. are we expecting anything to happen any time soon? >> well, dell, it doesn't look like today, but it is interesting to note we have heard from the state department that secretary of state kerry has canceled his travel plans. he was scheduled to go to algeria and morocco and he will be doing that. he will be staying here. so you have a lot of heavy hitters trying to get this started. but there is still an awful lot of work to be done. >> there are still some very important issues on the table that are unresolved. it is important for those to be properly, thoroughly addressed. i want to emphasize there is not an agreement at this point in time. we hope to try to narrow those differences, but i don't think anybody should mistake that there are some important gaps that have been to be

so there is obviously some movement going on on the ground here in geneva.e have not heard anything definitive and there is still an awful lot of question as to whether or not the narrow gaps that secretary of state kerry mentioned when he arrived here, whether or not those narrow gaps are getting any narrower at all. >> phil thank you very much. >>> before heading to geneva, secretary of state john kerry met with israeli prime minister netenyahu. >> it's the deal of the century for iran. it's a very dangerous and bad deal for peace in the international community. >> for the latest we turn to mike hannah who is in jerusalem. >> well, it has been a rocky visit for the u.s. secretary of state john kerry, ending with a breakfast meeting with israeli prime minister in which netenyahu repeated his assertion that he would not accept any deal reached with the iranians in terms of relaxing sanctions in exchange for them making guarantees about them keeping their nuclear development a peaceful one. this follows days in which there were a series of dispute between the

>> well, this is a marathon session in geneva. the documents, we are led to believe, are sitting around the table trying to hash out the final points, the last few contentious issues that stalled the negotiations here. it is an indication of how serious they take the issue. the fact that they are well into the middle of the night and still talking shows us that they are going to try to use every minute, every hour as they go into sunday to try to find a resolution. >> that raises another question - is there a deadline. could they pick up the talks tomorrow morning? >> well potentially. human endurance is so good for so long. they may have to call. they have said they'll take every hour. but you know, it's 2 in the morning, as you mentioned. they do say that certainly sunday will be the cut-off time. we heard from the iranian delegation. it's midday sunday. we know that secretary of state john kerry does plan to go to london later sunday. so this can't go on forever, certainly. will they take time to take a breather and come back?

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paula back to watching our team coming to live from moscow on marina joshua now let's go live to geneva where iran and the six negotiating world powers have reached an historic deal over iran's nuclear program let's listen in and i hope this process can. so this late hour or the hour whichever you want to call it. let me finish year and maybe answered a few questions and then i will have time to have a chat with my iranian colleagues thank you to your june at least for joining us and thank you mr minister. in there jeffs i learned of what i'd imagine is your father. roos. chan and holds the. more him go to. that as how many. no me at any shows you around but asked me to show the. conference coming out of the geneva on a and a story reached between iran and the six negotiating working hours and the deal was over iran's nuclear program in which they were now i went in and sells out. there is do no work of course covering this throughout the day today and later the program was joined by our correspondents will bring us the highlights are these long charts. you can start listening was it mo

we also have live reports coming from geneva as well.n the meantime we'll talk about what has been happening in syr syria. as fighting intensifies in aleppo, the council against bashar al-assad's regime is decide building to attend a peace conference also happening in geneva. >> the syrian opposition coalition has always been the trickiest issue for the coalition and remains over the next couple of days. on one level thi, they can't not show up. on the other hand f they show up, across the table is the assad regime, they risk losing what little credibility they have with syrians inside the country that have sacrificed so much to get to this point. >> all right. much more on the other side of the break. here it here on al jazeera america. theses are strait forward conversations, no agenda, just hard hitting debate on the issues that matter to you ray suarez hosts inside story weekdays at 5 eastern only on al jazeera america [[voiceover]] no doubt about it, innovation changes our lives. opening doors ... opening possibilities. taking the i

we hope for a breakthrough in the future talks with iran in geneva. un climate talks in warsaw go into overtime as negotiations to seek to avoid a complete your conference german sock weight of its biggest game of the season so far with dortmund toasting try and get a top of the table clash. the my dear is inside in geneva treaty in the new kid tell jokes that for a breakthrough. us secretary of state john kerry and other web pages are trying to hum registration with iran. the one day around to limit its nuclear program in return for signed to race officials said that a deal was close but that a number of patients have yet to be ironed out. expectations are that the talks between foreign ministers in geneva on time. you're either with us secretary of state john kerry has been viewed as a sign that an agreement of reruns nuclear program. these clothes the ministers emphasized that the deal is no foregone conclusion. we've been given and some beautiful there's no agreement yet. and there are still differences to beatrice all. that's why we came to genev

. >> a landmark deal is in place in geneva as the nuclear talks look for a breakthrough. john kerry and other world leaders are trying to hammer out a solution with iran, wanting can then look -- we nuclear program for sanctions relief. a deal was closed with a number of issues are yet to be ironed out. >> expectations over the talks between foreign ministers in geneva are high. the arrival of secretary of state john kerry has been viewed as a sign of an agreement over the iran nuclear program is close, but ministers emphasize that a deal is not a full-blown conclusion. there is no agreement yet and there are differences to be resolved. this is why we came to geneva, to do our bit to make sure an agreement will be reached. there is a realistic chance this could happen but there is a lot of work to do -- still a lot of work to do. >> we are not here because it is finished. we are here because it is difficult. minister,nian foreign says his country will not falter these demands. the deal on the table would see iran giving up their nuclear program for an easing of sanctions.

. >>> lives pictures from geneva. a nuclear talk with iran. >> the last three days have been devastating for the people in the philippines. typhoon haiyan on thursday r roared through. >> rescue teams are working to save families on washed-out roads. hardest hit about 350 miles south of the capitol of manilla. it has no electricity or way to communicate communicate: this is one of the most powerful storms on record. the highest winds were up to 190 miles an hour. gusts reached 235 miles per hour. more now from al jazeera's craig leaseon in man ill a. >> this is the moment when the storm hit taclaban, a city of more than 200,000 people. monster winds whipped in with gusts from around 300 kill meters an hour. with it came floodwater. people used mattresses to stay above the rising waters. i can feel the electricity in the water, guys. my legs are tingling. >> this is what rescuers are seeing. >> a tornado just passed us the tornado lasted for four hours. it was just crumbling, you know, at first, it, it was the ceiling

the russianed, if they don't support it: >> that geneva 2 will lead nowhere. geneva is not the end. it's a means. aand if the russians are serious they will put forth their partner, the syrian government to go to geneva and to agree to geneva 1. >> despite the possibility that this is as far that peace talks can go for now, the international community is off the syrian opposition's backs and there was a rare consensus, opposed to going to geneva at all, anita mcnaught, al jazeera. >> after a tropical cyclone hit northeastern somalia swept away homes and livestock. hundreds of people still unaccounted for. a national disaster emergency is being declared. the alleged raich of a somali -- rape of a smali woman by african union forces was investigated so badly it made the situation worse. inquiry in the way security officials look into the incident are said to have intimidated the woman. there have been several rape allegations against several members of the african union peace keeping force. >>> 18,000 soldiers deployed from the african union, protect somalia's government. the african

washington to get on the nuclear deal with iran as world powers applaud the diplomatic effort made in geneva. good morning if you just joined us it's kevin owen here just after midnight now in moscow this is r.t. international russia's president to surge two european politicians to avoid blaming moscow for ukraine's reluctance to move closer to the e.u. the president spoke to reporters alongside the italian prime minister interest you can offer is listening. president putin is on an official visit to italy accompanied by a massive delegation eleven ministers five airplanes certain so on but it wasn't only bilateral ties and joint economic projects that the two sides were discussing but also ukraine's recent days recent decision to put on a halt its plans for a free trade zone with europe and that decision did cause and spark accusations from europe that it was made under pressure from russia and the president did comment on the situation in his own as usual straightforward unique style it was that. if we keep our free trade with kiev and this deal comes through we have every reason to believ

it faces days of intense talks in geneva. president obama is expected to make a statement within the hour. there are several news could be foconferences planned for this evening. we'll bring you the latis latess soon as it develops. >> all of the access to crude rearreserves have been cut off. >> it's unclear if any production infrastructure was damaged in the take over. >> a major storm system has caused chaos in western states. eight deaths have been blamed on the storm winter storm warnings are i in effect for parts of california through today. those are the headlines i'm johnathan betz with more on the historic dei deal in geneva. but first "consider this" is up next. you can always go on-line to aljazeera.com. ♪ >> the knockout the game spreads fear across after around the country. teens are cold cocking strangers and it's turned deadly four times. consider this how wide spread is the problem and what is the best way to stop it? we will take you to a place that has been increasingly struck by kids playing the deadly game

>> no geneva 1 needs to be the basis geneva 2 to make any progress.t calls for the regime to accept the issues. there is not a lot of reason to believe the russias are willing or able to do so, the iranians have made clear that they do not currently accept the concept of a transitional government with full executive authority, agreed to by both parties. so i do think geneva one is the place to start. it is not enough to simply hold the meeting. >> all right. many thanks indeed for being with us. >>> there is a hotly contested presidential election in honduras. the main opposition candidate is still refusing to back down. let's go live now to the capitol. adam, why is this election result so contentious? >> well, for a few reasons. one is there was so many people running for president. eight in total, and two now -- the top two in this preliminary vote. and they often do internal polling, and they all thought that they had things summed up. and now they disagree with the results. and people just don't have faith in public institutions. they are full of

diplomats are in geneva for another round of talks. talks are in the final phase and russia says they are nearing a breakthrough. >> let's get more on the top story and the u.s. drone attacks. they are nothing new in pakistan. they are well documented on the ground. according for the bureau for investigative journalism the u.s. carried out a total of 379 drone strikes on pakistani territory. they have become more frequent with 86% ordered by barack obama. 3600 have been killed by u.s. drone strikes since beginning a decade ago. among them hundreds of civilians, 400 to 900 in total. a retired pakistani army general joins us. protests are underway in northern pakistan. many people, especially within nato believe his protests are symbolic. they are likely to have a minimal impact on nato's operation, supply mission. do you think imran khan will and can act on the threat to block the supply route. >> i don't think so. the reason is that there are two routes in pakistan. if this is blocked, the other route, could be operated. at the same ti

many hours have been spent here in geneva, and it's been really positive. it's the first time they've talked about this seriously. this is a positive sign even if we don't get an agreement out of it today or tomorrow, it's a great achievement to have these negotiations. >> iran has been known for its strict regime but now there are some changes. after being elected hassan rouhani has been showing openness not only in politics but at the country's borders. >> reporter: in iran there is a list and ton are those that range from the criminal to the political. many of them were students in academics who were caught up in the election. in student was one of them. he was also banned from attending university. >> i was in journalism and during the post election i want i was briefly arrested last year i took the examine for my mastering during ahmadinejad's presidency but they didn't give us our test results and banned us from studying. verbally i was told i was not allowed to study. >> until now. shams has been allowed back to university and he thanks the president

the foreign ministers from all six negotiating world powers changed their schedules and rushed to geneva now artie's polly boyko is there and joins us now on the line with the very latest polly do we know anything about the deal and what it actually took to finally reach it. high then in the world the deal was going can violate a tweet from catherine ashton the e.u.'s tip top diplomat spokes person broke the news and when now waiting to hear the details of that agreement we're waiting for all the foreign ministers of the p five plus one foreign ministers and the iranian foreign minister just adds a reef to meet in the united nations palace all the nations here in geneva to with . the exact details of the greenland but we have already had a few reports iran far from news agency is reporting that the deal would include that iran would no longer produce twenty percent purity uranium within the next six months and there is also a set. that is one of the reportedly now there is also. set to be a press conference as i said the foreign ministers after that will give separate press conferences i

first point and the second point is that there is a clear commitment that we should have made in geneva and i think what my colleagues have said it's quite true is that france has paid an awkward game in this in this in this is in disarray isn't first it has been a sort of. it has disarray did it radiated itself from the european posture that's the first danger as we all know germany was willing to have a deal at any cost first of all because after the genius of five plus one talks it would be the geneva two talks and we need a clear commitment both by russia and by iran and that was one of the things which can be declination of the previous geneva talks and the second point that maybe it's important to to raise is the fact that. france is was really upset and i think a minister of foreign affairs did a single poster saying that he again took the floor without any consultation with its european partners that is not to say that european partners did not feel that maybe the deal was not so. what could have been could have been motivated what i won't also want to act is at sorry is the fac

diplomats a meeting in geneva for more talks. iran's supreme leader in tehran is warning iran will not back one iota from its nuclear plans. in geneva with the latest developments. >> for the third time in five weeks, catherine ashton and the delegates meet here in geneva for nuclear talks. world powers are trying to secure a six-month interim agreement. they wants iran to limit its nuclear program in exchange for some sanctions removed. >> these are very complicated negotiations. we have made a lot of progress over the last two meetings. last time we came an awfully long way. no one is pretending this is going to be simple. tying up the final details is often the difficult bit. >> she needs to take back some -- he needs to take some kind of agreement back to tehran. for he arrived, he posted his thoughts online. >> for us iranians, nuclear energy is not about joining the club or threatening others. nuclear energy is about a leap, i jump toward -- a jump toward deciding our own destiny. >> these talks are essentially an effort to

thompson reports from geneva. in this short scientist. she tells examination of palestinian need a yes. arafat's medical records samples taken from his remains. i can be taken into hospital with hands on parents when he died. in two thousand and four the forensic report said that echelon has already shown it can expect to see high levels of rooney and what to do at least that will assist the police named timmy the record was ten days to representatives of the palestinian off i see him in geneva on tuesday and also to read defenses of his completed soon. in fact she started speaking to the point is in paris but then of course was as agents of the real crime political assassination she said she didn't do as far as to point the finger and accuse any content or country. she didn't make sense. luis has been the historic anita on the palestinian liberation organization and the top of many enemies. she was sending to fit into an act called him an obstacle to peace now israel has previously denied any involvement in arafat's death and has set thi

a third day of talks begins in geneva.o stability, no security, no one in control - the forgotten crisis in the central african republic. >> and i'm andrew thomas in china - a big meeting of communist bosses in budget -- beijing, why it could be felt in rural areas like this. >>> a huge rescue operation is beginning after the strongest storm to hit land since records began, smashed no the philippines. more than 24 hours on, there's no access to some of the worst-hit areas. marga ortigas reports. >> reporter: the full impact of typhoon haiyan's impact is being revealed. the most intensive storm to hit land falls has affected millions of people. the true extent of casualties and damages is unclear. communication points are down across most of the worst-affected islands. >> translation: it's terrible. the winds were so strong, i have to rebuild my home. this is a tragedy. >> typhoon haiyan was the 24th storm to hit the philippines, and the amount of rain fall was not as great at previous typhoons, typhoon haiyan uprooted tree

a syrian geneva peace conference has just failed.pares minister who their leaders do not cease, -- to nazis -- says this. got the deal of the century and the international community got a very bad deal. >> that did not puncture the mood. iran's foreign minister was driven off to a series of meetings as talks go on. >> we are just hearing that those talks in geneva have broken up tonight after five hours and the participants characterize these talks as "good." i spoke to kareem, from the carnegie endowment program. thank you for being with us. after years of talks that never went anywhere, is this any different? >> this is a hopeful moment because the president in washington, barack obama, and rouhani in iran --in order to stop this program they will meet meaningful sanctions relief. be tough for congress to do that. >> there are things united states can do. the treasury department can lift banking sanctions on iran. >> these can be listed -- lifted, but in order to give everyone the binding sanctions this willare seeking, require con

what does john kerry's arrival in geneva really mean?> i think it means that they are awfully close. now, 10 days ago when john kerry arrived and the other foreign ministers, i think most of us thought there would be a deal. there wasn't. i don't want to get too far ahead of the story. the deputy foreign minister said that progress was made. there's outstanding issues. the iranian deputy foreign minister said there's two to three things you are working on. normally you don't bring in the big guns unless you are close. but there's no guarantees. >> what about enriching uranium, is iran ready to accept limitations? >> the core of the deal - the deal has been around before hassan rouhani's election. in the first phase iran will end enrichment at 20% - which is the number one nonproliferation concern >> 20%. >> you don't want 20% sitting around that could be upgraded to 80 or 90%. they'll enrich at 3-5%, you cannot make a weapon at 3-5%. they'll freeze part of the program and condition a more modest enrichment program as part of the deal. >>