BBC News with Marion Marshall.

The French foreign minister Laurent Fabius who’s representing his country in multi-party nuclear talks with Iran in Geneva says negotiators remain divided over Teheran’s nuclear programme. Mr. Fabius said Iran was resisting French demands that work on a plutonium producing reactor be suspended and its stockpile of higher enriched uranium be downgraded. But Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has told the BBC a deal is possible as Jeremy Bowen reports.

He’s saying that it would help matters if the people who is facing

on the other side of the table essentially the five permanent members of Security Council plus Germany would effectively get the same story, get their act together. In so far as they might have a common negotiating position. He doesn’t seem to believe that they have that. And he says that some people are growing from maximum position. And he accepted that French foreign minister Fabius has made some public comments which he alluded to and what Mr. Fabius has been saying is that there are concerns about

a plutonium reactor which hasn’t been finished yet, which potentially could produce material for nuclear weapon and also what exactly they do with existing stocks of enriched uranium and that apparently has been a big sticking point today.

There are estimates that many hundreds of people may have been killed when the powerful typhoon Haiyan swept through the central Philippines affecting four million people. The Philippine Red Cross says that as many as a thousand people could have been killed in just one city, Tacloban.