The battles of south sudan, an exclusive report on the rebel forces fighting to bring down the government. An australian sport has been plunged into a racism controversy after comments by an olympic swimming legend. If they dont like it go back to where their fathers or their parents came from. We dont need them in this country if they act like that. Dawn frazier called a blatant racist by nick kurios. But first these are crucial hours for the future of greeces economy, but theres no sign of progress towards a new bailout deal. Euro zone finance ministers meeting in brussels are trying again to forge an agreement over what cuts greece will make in return for billions of euros in loans. The ministers have said they want serious proposals from greece, but in the end, they have had nothing in writing so far, and it could hardly be more urgent. The banks are said to be on the verge of running out of cash. As the European Central bank tightens access to these vital emergency funds. We listen to our new greek colleague after welcoming him to the euro group. His assessment of the situation, and what the results of the referendum would mean to the greek government. He has not yet presented new proposals, but he will first of all send us quite quickly a new letter requesting support. And following that he will present proposals from the greek side on what the substance would look like. We have got reporters in both athens and brussels. Jonah hull is in the greek capitol, and Jacky Rowland is in brussels. Lets go first to jackie. Jackie hearing from the leaders, it sounds as though the greeks still havent presented their plan. Reporter no, and it sounds like it could be at least another 24 hours, one euro zone official has mentioned the idea that maybe the greeks will put forward those proposals on wednesday. So not even certainly on wednesday, but were hearing that the greek Prime Minister is now due to appear at the European Parliament on wednesday. Hes due to take part in a debate in a mrener rare session of the European Parliament along with the president of the european council, and the president of the commission, and one wonders really what all of these debates are about, since in fact Senior Leaders of the euro zone including chancellor merkel and president hollande have said all we can do is wait for the greek proposals. Everything they have offered so far has been rejected notably the latest package was rejected by the whole of the greek electorate on sunday and euro zone leaders are saying we now need the greeks to come forward with new proposals to get us out of this situation, and they really have underlined the urgency, because in less than three weeks time 3. 8 billion needs to be paid to e. U. Institutions. So time is of the essence, and yet the days and hours are ticking by and still no new news on what the greeks may be putting forward. Is there a sense in athens today of the urgency of the situation as jacky has just outlined . Reporter among greeks martine, i think there is very much a sense of urgency, they may not understand all of the technical aspects of it but they are certainly well aware that things have really gone to the fire now. Not in five years has anyone here seen such dramatic events of those of the last week not just the referendum, but the referendum taking place in the context of banks which have been shut by the government to avoid the possibility of a disastrous cash run. The greeks have been told the banks would open today, but because the European Central bank on monday declined the request for additional emergency funding, the government has said the banks will be shut until thursday, but theres no reason to believe they can or will open on thursday. Cash reserves are desperately low as people take out those drip drip drip amounts of 60 euros at a time day and night. Were told that one of the four big banks could collapse all together in the coming days and in the meantime the economy is on its knees. Businesses cant play suppliers, importers cant import Raw Materials. People are being laid off all over the place. So there is no doubt as to just how urgent the situation is. Okay. Thanks for that. Jonah hull live in athens. From one critical situation, perhaps to another because talks between six world powers and iran over its Nuclear Program are now due to go beyond tuesday east deadline. The e. U. s Foreign Policy chief says negotiations will continue over the next few days to try to reach a deal. The world powers want iran to prove it is not building a Nuclear Weapon in return for the lifting of sanctions. We are continuing to negotiate for the next couple of days. It does not mean we are extending our deadline. I told you one week ago, more or less, we are interpreting in a flexible way our deadline, which means that we are taking the time, the days that we need to finalize the agreement, which is something that is still possible, even if now were getting into the difficult time. James bayes is in vienna and has been covering this latest stage of talks. In fact you have been covering the whole process of talks, havent you james . We were talking about the critical situation in brussels and athens. It is critical in vienna as well. I think it is. Because this was, again, supposed to be the day of the final deadline. Instead we have dead lock so they have had to extend things yet again. Most of the foreign ministers, some are saying including the u. S. Secretary of state and the Iranian Foreign minister, more of the others are now returning to their capitols while experts and negotiators continue their work here. Just before he left the French Foreign minister described the atmosphere in these negotiations. Translator the Iranian Nuclear talks are as we have predicted, not easy. There have been periods of tension, but the negotiation continue. We are insists especially on necessary limitations on Nuclear Research and developments sanctions and the reestablishment and the possible military dimensions of past Iranian Nuclear work. So it sounds as if they still have a huge amount of work to do, james. Reporter quite a bit of work to do. There are according to the Russian Foreign minister who briefed Russian Press at a special News Conference just for them eight specific items that need to be dealt with. Considering this is massive agreement that is most of it already written, the fact that there are only eight clauses that need to be sorted shows they have done a great deal of work, but when you come to the end, you leave the most contentious parts to the end. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry has said he is prepared to walk away from these negotiations, but he is clearly knot ready to walk away now. And thats why they are extending. They are not giving a new deadline, but the interim deal with iran would have run out on tuesday, right now, so they have extended the interim deal until friday, and im sure some will seize on that as a new deadline. Right. For now, james, thank you very much. Im sure well be talking to you frequently over the coming days. Theres a lot more to come including any fight against isil what progress has the u. S. Lead coalition actually made against the group in syria. Im in gaza where Childrens Charities say young people are still traumatized by last years war, and live in constant fear of another conflict with israel. And in sport, while the Victory Party is only just getting underway for these world cupwinning footballers. Now four years after south sudan was created the worlds newest country remains in the grip of civil war. Theres no apparent progress on peace talks but al jazeera has been inside rebelheld territory. South sudan gained independence in july 2011 following a peace deal tend to what was then africas longest running civil war, but a new war broke out in 2013 after a power struggle between the president and his deputy. Since then more than 1. 5 Million People are internally displaced. Last month rebels captured the capitol of the upper nile state, an Important Oil center. The town has been retaken by the army but much of the town remains in rebel hands. Here is our exclusive report. Reporter these are south sudans rebel fighters. The Sudan Peoples Liberation Army in opposition. They just came from the trenches in the east. It has taken them four days through the swampy jungle to get here. We saw young boys among them. Unicef says there are around 12,000 child soldiers on both sides of the conflict, but Army Commanders here say some of the children we saw had been separated from their families. That doesnt mean that they are soldiers. They are just coming with the soldiers together to join their parents. Yeah. But all in all, we do not accept that. And we abide with all of the convention of geneva on the child soldiers. Reporter the fighters are tired but upbeat. They sing songs of battle and victory. Reporter they have been fighting forces from the government in juba for about 18 months now, and say their mission is to change the leadership. This commander tells his troops that special forces fighting further north are making gains near south sudans only functioning oil fields. The rebels have joined forces with the local militia there, which was allied to the government until recently. Translator we are not fighting for control of world or oil of south sudan. We are fighting the bad rule. He wants to rule the country with an iron fist. Reporter they are eager to display some of their weapons. They showed us some of their heavy weapons like this and the Light Weapons as well and lot tsz of ammunition. Sudan has often been accused of providing weapons to the rebels but they deny that and so have the rebels who say most supplies come from the south sudanese government. Translator were not getting support from sudan or anywhere. If we were we would have won this war a long time ago. We use what we capture. Its the other side getting support from uganda and militias from susan. These fighters are heading to another front line position. They say they are fighting for a cause they leave . Catherine soi, al jazeera, in rebelheld south sudan. The leader of the rebel forces is a former Vice President of south sudan, and he has been speaking us to here at al jazeera and he told us the opposition wants a power sharing deal with the president. Translator we dont recognize the extension, because [ inaudible ] the president who extend his life span was already expired. So we do not recognize the extension. We believe that there shall be constitutional crisis in south sudan. As for the peace talks, we have laid down our position. We want a federal System Installed in the country. We want reforms, we wanted a quit security agreement. We would want compensation. We would want also fair power sharing in the agreement. We have also been hearing from the government. The foreign minister of south sudan says even though the rebels have taken over some towns, the government remains in control. We have got ten states in the republic of south sudan. Seven states are under complete quiet. In the towns the states of upper nile the government controls all of the major towns and areas, the rebels only are in some few counties not more than three or four counties out of those three states. So the country is completely under government control the system is running. The structures and everything are running in south sudan today. So i can tell you, yes, the government is in control, controlling the insurgency. Thats what is going on. Its true that in those areas where rebels have violated thesis thesis thesis the cessation of host illties thats how the civilians get caught in the cross fires. There has been an explosion in nigeria. At least 20 people are thought to have been killed. On monday 44 people died after a bombing. Alshab has claim claim alshabab has claimed responsible for an attack that killed at least 14 people. The attack happened close to a military base. Now the u. S. Defense secretary, ash carter is facing a Senate Committee to defend the coalitions campaign against isil and its 2. 9 billion price tag. On monday president obama said the effort against isil was being stepped up and insisted it was make progress. We can go live now to rosiland jordan, our correspondent in washington, d. C. So what kind of questions is ash carter likely to get . Reporter well martine the secretary of defense has already been getting some pretty tough questions, particularly from republicans on the Senate Armed Services committee. They are very concerned that the u. S. Military and its Coalition Partners have not done enough militarily to try to stop the spread of isil across the middle east. They say that they see evidence that isil is trying to retake as many communities, both in syria and iraq as possible as well as trying to extend its influence to other places notably to egypt and libya. However, the defense secretary stressed as well as the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey, that its not a matter of the u. S. Military trying to resolve the problem or the threat of isil that it really comes down to what the Iraqi Military is willing to do and what moderate Syrian Opposition fighters inside that country are willing to do as well. Thats interesting, because we have learned a little more detail about what the u. S. Is doing with regard to the situation in syria. Because of course there has been a huge amount of ambivalence, hasnt there, as to how to approach the difficulty of syria. Reporter thats right. Because one the u. S. Has said time and again that its not going to deploy any u. S. Ground forces inside syria, because it does not have a working relationship with the syrian government. There are diplomatic relations, but all for intents and purposes the u. S. And syria arent talking to other. So the problem is the u. S. Is trying to train members of the moderate syria opposition. They had hoped for upwards of 7,000 fighters trained at this point. But as of right now they have only trained about 60, 60, thats far less than what the u. S. Military had anticipated. But ash carter told the members of the panel that they are trying to do extremely rigorous screening of these potential fighter fighters, because they dont want to make the mistake of providing weapons and training to members of isil who are undercover or others who might try to take advantage of the situation inside syria. So they are hoping to get more trained, but when the secretary of defense said 60, that certainly raised a lot of eyebrows here on capitol hill. Okay. Thank you very much. Now legal sources say the Egyptian Military has launched new air strikes in north sinai. The military is targeting sinai province fighters who are linked to isil. These are pictures that purportedly show that attack. Saudi arabia has arrested three brothers on charges of being linked to a suicide bombing on a shia moss income kuwait last month. Dozens were killed at the moss income kuwait city shortly after friday prayers. The brothers havent been named. A spokesman said there is a fourth brother who is with isil in syria. Now to yemen where there has been more fighting in the Southern City of aden. 19 houthi fighters and 5 local resistance fighters were killed. There have been clashes since sunday to recapture an area in the city which fell to the houthis earlier. And doctors in aden are saying that at least 260 people have died in mosquito born Infectious Diseases in recent weeks. These diseases are spreading because of the sanitary conditions. Civic services have come to a hult because of the fighting. And elsewhere the rebels are stopping food and medicine from being delivered to the cities. Hospitals are running out of medicine, fuel is also in short supply. The Afghan Government says it sent a peace delegation to pakistan for talks with the taliban. The armed group, though says it is not aware of any talks taking place in pakistan. Earlier in the day the taliban struck twice in the afghan capitol. Arm men attracted in the eastern part of kabul, while a suicide bomber targeted a nato convoy. Nato says none of its soldiers were killed. Children in the gaza strip are still struggling to cope with the trauma of last years 50day bombardment by israel. Tens of thousands were left homeless. From gaza our correspondent reports. Reporter it was a moment during last years war in gaza that few have forgotten, a group of palestinian children playing football on the beach targeted by israel missiles. Israel says it mistook them for hamas fighters instead four children were killed all from the same family. This 12 year old survived the strike that day but suffered serious injuries. He never plays football on the beach anymore. Saying it is just not the same without his brother and three cousins who died. His mother tells uls he hasnt been the same since that day and he has even tried to take his own life. Translator he suffers from constant seizures now. He is always fighting with everyone. And sometimes breaks the furniture. It has become so hard for us to control him. We have had to take him out of school. Reporter across gaza there are dropin centers like this where children can come in and share what they feel. According to save the children around 90 of parents here report that their children suffer from constant fear and that around twothirds say they are worried about another war with israel. This 12 year old draws a picture of when israeli missiles hit her familys home. They now live in a tent in the ruins of what was once their house. Translator i am sad because there is no safety here. Co dont get to live like children in other countries. They feel safe but we never feel safe in gaza. Reporter the e