parts washed up on reunion island of a plane that went missing last year also coming up, hundreds rescued off the libyan coast, among them a young palestinian girl and her family an agreement on the iran nuclear deal took years and the president selling it to the u.s. people is the next challenge

japan is marking 70 years since the atom bomb was dropped on hiroshima. prosecutors in france have confirmed part of a wing found on the island of reunion does belong to a malaysian airlines plane that went missing last year. andrew potter reports. >>reporter: for 17 months families of the passengers and crew have worried and cried over an airliner that apparently disappeared without a trace. finally confirmation on a piece of wreckage found on a french

island confirms that flight. >> it is with a very heavy heart that i must tell you that an international team of experts have conclusively confirmed that aircraft debris found on reunion island is indeed from mh 370. >>reporter: the part washed up on the island of reunion in the indian ocean last week. the piece was sent to the french military aviation center for examination. malaysian authorities also examined it >> we can say the part found belonged to mh 370.

boeing confirmed it came from a triple 7. secondly, malaysian airlines confirmed it -- >> even before the announcement was made, some said the discovery would not bring closure. >> it doesn't mean the thing has been -- one piece of wreckage only. there's nothing else. >> it's not the end. they still need to find more of the plane. yes, we still want them back. >> delivering on the wish to find the whole aircraft will be incredibly difficult. a six-week air and sea search for the plane found nothing and even if more parts wash up, getting definitive answers could prove impossible. andrew potter, al jazeera

search and rescue crews have saved around 400 people from the waters near libya after a fishing boat carrying 700 people overturned. seven ships have been redirected to the scene 22 nautical miles away. dozens were collected from the money including this man who -- water including this man. >> anybody here? severe leg wound in two places. >> also among those rescued was this couple and their 1-year-old daughter. the operation is still continuing. there's a full team and doctors and nurses at the operation. it's technical and won't be the last time its services are

required. >> what's important is to understand that there are no other routes for these people to take to flee from the conflicts from the violence they're fleeing from. over 60% of the people are making this journey across the mediterranean who are fleeing from conflict whether from afghanistan, syria, somolia, political strife. they have no safe and legal rights to do this so they're risking life and limb to get out. the drivers of this problem are still problem. no political solutions. so it's not a search and rescue operation required. it's channels for them to access refuge that don't entail risking life and limb on a boat that usually fits 1 to 200 the u.s. president has appealed to americans to back

the iran nuclear deal saying without it, there will be war in the middle east. our white house correspondent has more. >>reporter: the battle lines are clearly drawn. >> it'd is a very good deal. >> this is not a good deal. >>reporter: the israeli prime minister rallied through a web case on tuesday. on wednesday the president rallied. >> every nation in the world that has commented publically with the exception of the israeli prime minister has supported this deal. i do not doubt his sincerity, but i believe he's wrong. >>reporter: the president warned

if congress blocks sanctions being lifted could lead to war in iran. now he's making a new argument. an economic one warning the u.s. would be the only ones isolated. >> we'd have to cut off countries like china from the american financial system. and since they happen to be major purchasers of our debt, such actions could trigger severe disruptions in our own economy and raise questions internationally about the dollar's role as the world's reserve currenty. >>reporter: the administration is so concerned that they briefed the senate behind closed doors ahead of the speech. >> i would say most members left here with greater concerns about the inspection regime than they came in with. >>reporter: the key to getting congressional support is convincing the majority of their voters that they need to make their voices heard. it could tip the balance.

the students who watched the speech next to where the president spoke said -- >> there's a facebooker that's against the iran deal. i think i might set up one for the deal. >> i probably won't go out and do something. >> i'll definitely send a small email to my congressperson. >>reporter: both leaders know if they're going to win it's going to have to change and in their favor. al jazeera, washington confirmation that a wing flap that washed ashore in the indian ocean is from mh flight 370. we are now live in washington

d.c. with a family member of the victims. can you tell us the reaction of the families to this finding? >> i can tell you that these families have been emotionally battered from day one and it is some consolation that the plane did indeed crash in the sea and their loved ones were killed in the accident. there is still no absolute confirmation of that fact and we certainly insist upon finding the wreckage, finding out what happened to their loved ones, and understanding with some further degree of certainty

precisely what caused their death. why were those people flying on a routine flight those to lose their lives and the families struck. >> are they prepared to sit back and wait for that further confirmation to come in? it could take some time. >> we're counseling with our clients now and believe that with the information that has become available, it's time to begin at least the dialogue with malaysia airlines in an effort to reach some resolution of the claims. that will not satisfy the clients who ultimately want answers. in order to be able to prosecute a claim for wrongful death you have to first accept the fact that deaths have occurred. i believe that many of the clients will now accept that

fact but for a variety of reasons. a cultural, spiritual. some of them will not and we're not going to insist that they do something that they're not ready to do. but i think the facts now are quite compelling that mh 370 crashed at sea for reasons unknown, that the passengers on board unfortunately, tragically perished. >> can you tell me the view of how this investigation has been conducted so far? >> poorly. in a word. poorly. if you start out with the great uncertainties in the beginning and the delays in trying to capture information about what happened to the airplane, there's no fault that one can address to the effort to try to locate the plane frankly. but the delay it took to

recognize that mh 370 was lost deprived investigators, deprived the aviation community of immediate information which would have helped in tracking the airplane, putting other airplanes in the sky while the airplane still had enough fuel to be in the area if that's in fact where it was. i think the miscommunication between malaysian airlines and the malaysian government has caused the family great distrust and a lack of confidence in the investigators. so i think the intensive physical investigation of the component part found, we will begin to get an investigation that gets us some serious answers. whether we get that or not is not clear and that may not be

entirely the fault of the investigators because most of the information that would solve this puzzle remains buried at sea in the two black boxes. if we found those which have the cockpit voice and the data of the flight, we might be closer to answers. right now, all we have is a very, very tender first step in getting answers. >> still more questions than answers. thank you very much. the lawyer representing the families of relatives on board flight mh 370. thank you for joining us from new york. >> you're very welcome. very welcome. >> there is more to come still for you on al jazeera this half hour. many missing in the himilayas and the fight to cut down on poaching.

welcome back. investigators have confirmed a piece of malaysian airlines flight mh 370 has been found u.s. president barack obama has urged america to get behind the iran nuclear deal described as the strongest

nonproliferation agreement ever negotiated the u.s. has carried out its first ever air strike in northern syria. it was carried out by an unmanned drone but details have not been released of the target or exact location. turkey plans to create an isil free buffer zone in northern syria while washington is providing air cover to syrian rebels in the area the united nations has a growing number of women and children killed and injured in afghanistan so far this year. jennifer glass reports. >>reporter: he says his days are full of suffering now. his only son was killed by the blast wave of a nearby suicide bomb attack >> he was a good, smart, and brave boy. he told me all the time that he

wanted to be a lawyer. >>reporter: the attack that killed him was on the main road to kabul airport. the target was a military convoy of foreign soldiers but afghan civilians were injured and died. >> when these suicide attacks happen, the poor people suffer because in every suicide attack many die and are injured. it's all civilians, poor people like me who are working for their families. >>reporter: the united nations says civilian casualties are at a record high in the first six months of this year with a 26% rise in female casualties and 13% more children being hit. the report documents the devastating consequences of the conflict upon afghan men, women, and children. this destruction and damage to afghan life must be met by a new commitment by all parties to the

conflict to protect civilians from harm. >>reporter: while antigovernment fighters including the taliban are responsible for 70% of all civilian casualties, the use of mortars and other indirect fire by progovernment forces meant they killed 60% more civilians last year. more than 5,000 civilians have been killed in the first half of this year. amid the continuing violence, the u.n. is calling for renewed commitment from all parties to protect civilians from harm. it's too late for this family trying to cope with the loss of a brother and son. aid workers in myanmar are struggling to reach remote areas hit by floods.

monsoon rains have caused flooding and landslides that have killed 29 people so far. in nepal rescuers are searching for those lost in the foot hills of the himilayas. >>reporter: this is a village steeped in grief. in the early hours of july 30th, an entire section of the mountain came crumbling down sweeping away part of this village in western nepal killing at least 28 people. a week on, the smell of rotting animals is still heavy. every year monsoon season in nepal brings such tragedies. just this year, more than 90 people have died and more are

missing. >> now, monsoon is not over yet and many people say that had there been an early warning system, this kind of tragedy could have been prevents. the nature of global war changed on august the 6th, 1945 when the united states dropped an atomic bomb on hiroshima in japan.

in december 1941 japan bombed pearl harbor bringing the united states into world war two. in 1942 the u.s. atomic weapons program was already well underway. its original aim was to counter nazi germany. in 1945 the u.s. dropped the first successful atomic bomb in new mexico at a testing site. 40 days later they dropped an atomic bomb on hiroshima in japan. commemorations are underway there. harry, how do these commemorations compare to those we've seen in the past? >>reporter: well, the organizers here are saying tens of thousands of people are here and that this will be the biggest

commemorative event since the bombing of hiroshima and the bombing of nag -- nagasaki days later. we're going to hear from the mayor of hiroshima who is going to be talking about what he calls the humanity of the use of nuclear weapons. what we've also been told by the director of the peace museum here in hiroshima is that this is going to be the last big commemoration event in which many survivors will still be alive. their average age rose above 80 this year and we've been hearing from some of them in the last few days. >> for decades he kept the most

agonizing images trapped in his mind and now they surround him. recently he's been committing his memory of the hiroshima bombing to canvas. >> the baby was facing off with its arms extend like this and to me that represented the a-bomb. i remember it. he was seemingly unscathed as if someone had placed it there. such cruelty. >>reporter: on august 6th, 1945, a u.s. air force bomber took off from a pacific island carrying the first a.comic -- you

destructive power they released and a few days later, another u.s. bomber would do it again over nagasaki. he was 14 and days later his seemingly uninjured baby brother and sister both died of

radiation poisoning. if we'd left them they would have rotted away in the heat. we'd see other people burning the dead so i said i'll do it. i went to collect wood. i still remember my mother's shock. >>reporter: for many this occasion marks an opportunity to ensure their experiences don't die with them. hiroshima stands as permanent memorial and in the paintings, he says his old school friends convinced him to paint the horrors in his mind before they're too late. now he says they're all dead and there's nobody left to tell him that he did them proud. >> remarkable to hear some of those stories. tell us about how japan has dealt with this legacy of being the only country in the world to be hit by an atomic bomb. >>reporter: of course the biggest legacy was the sheer numbers of those killed and the

way in which they died. more than 200,000 people were killed by the end of 1945. both in the initial blast and the radio active poisoning inflicted on so many of them and they died many months after.

fe -- that destruction of billing it up and that is what happened, japan relied greatly on nuclear energy as its economy grew rapidly in the 60s and 70s and 80s. and of course that was book ended by what happened in fukushima in 2011 that brought back memories to many of the

a--bomb. the prime minister is doing as much as he can to free up the pacifist constitution to play a greater part in those negotiations. eradicate them for the world. the psychological effects and the long running effects of this are great. >> thank you very much indeed. harry joining us live there from hiroshima where commemorations are currently underway to mark the 70th anniversary since the bomb was dropped on that city now one of the most decorated free divers in the

world is missing off the french coast. she was seen diving off the coast of an island near ibiza. it is feared she may have died. al jazeera.com for more on what we've covered here and more. who they say brutally assaulted them. >> grabbed me around my neck and he told me he was going to. [ beep ] me. >> what we heard in the videos made us get to a plane to michigan. it was the starting point of our investigation in to the treatment of youth in the adult criminal justice system. >> we are now on the record. this goes the videotape deposition of john doe number one. >> and it began with an inmate that we'll be referring to as john doe one. >> 10:20 a.m. >> describe the weapon? >> it was about three inches long