>> this confirmation, however tragic and painful, will at least bring certainty. >> malaysia's prime minister confirms that debris belongs to mh 370 which went missing last year. you are watching al jazeera live from doha. also coming up, grief and tragedy in iraq. we meet the victims of war in the city of fallujah caught in the cross fire. hundreds fear dead after an

overcrowded fishing boat sinks off the coast of libya. a grim anniversary, 70 years, hiroshima remembers the horrors of the atomic bombing. we are there live. angry relatives of the victims of malaysia airlines flight mh 370 stormed into the company's beijing office says they do not believe that the wing belonged to the missing plane r malaysia confirmed it's part of the wing, but french, australian as well as u.s. authorities have yet to corroborate that. the malaysian airline plane caring 239 people vanished on the way to beijing. the aircraft veered out over the

indian ocean flying for hours after its communications and tracking systems were shut off and what remains one of the biggest mysteries in the history of flight. so the search for mh 370 concentrated on the southern indian ocean of western australia where it was thought to have gone missing. scientists modeled how the ocean could have taken the debris to reunion island. >> for 17 months families of the passengers and crew aboard flight 370 worried and cried over an airliner that disappeared without a trace. but finally, confirmation that is a piece of wreckage found on a french island did come from that flight. >> today, 515 days since the plane disappeared, it is with a very heavy heart that i must tell you that an international

team of experts have conclusively confirmed that the 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 where malaysian authorities also looked at it before a prosecutor in paris delivered the findings. in the expert's view, we can say today there are very strong presumptions that the flapron found belonged to mh 370 for two reasons. boeing representatives confirmed that the flapron came from a boeing 777. malaysian airlines communicated technical details about the flight.

on that basis, it was possible to establish a link. families knew there was a chance it would be from flight 370. but some said the discovery would not bring closure. >> one piece of debris doesn't mean the thing has been fully discovered. there must be more debris to be found. one piece is not enough at all. >> it's not the end of it. they found something. it's not the end. they still need to find the whole plane. yes, we still want them back. >> reporter: delivering on the issue to find the whole aircraft will be incredibly difficult. a six-week air search found nothing. even if more parts wash up, getting definitive answers could prove impossible. china suffered the biggest loss of people when that flight mh 370 went missing. relatives say not enough has been done to find out what happened. crossing over to adriane brown

joining us from beijing telling us what the relatives want authorities to do. how are they reacting to the news that the debris was found? >> reporter: well, 16 months after this baffling mystery began, the families of the chinese victims feel they haven't got any closure. they don't feel the wreckage found on reunion island moves things further. in their view, they think this wreckage may have been planted there. so they are hostage to number of real to what people watching now would seem as fanciful notions. they are hostage to the ideas that perhaps the plane was hijacked or shot down. what they do say categorically, they don't believe that wreckage really, in their eyes, moves things forward. this is what some of them had to say to me earlier on today.

>> translator: it's not true. a lot of things would have been easy to find, but they didn't find them. like the chairs, baggage and other stuff that's much lighter. >> translator: during this time we cannot believe anything. because the aircraft has gps. the airline doesn't want us to know the truth, that's why we can't believe them. >> so where is it that the investigation stands now, adriane? >> reporter: well, today the chinese government's foreign minister has been commenting on the latest developments. and they say that the announcement from the malaysian government seems to point to the conclusion that the plane crashed. so the malaysian government and the chinese government very much on the same wave length at the moment. of course, the french investigators have been much less category cal in their assessment. that really adds to the suspicion among the relatives that this wreckage may well have been planted.

now, as to what happens next, well, an official of malaysian airlines, senior official, is due here in beijing on friday to give a regular briefing to the family. this meeting was planned some time ago. that is going to be a very emotional meeting. it's going to be a meeting, i guess, where there will be an awful lot of anger. it will be closed to the media this is going to ramble on for a few more days, if not months or years. >> thank you for that update from beijing. now, to the war in iraq. that's where the long suffering residents of fallujah say they are living a nightmare. they are caught in the cross fire between isil fighters and control of their city. children are dieing along side their parents. some viewers may find images in the report disturbing.

>> reporter: in fallujah, bullets and bombs don't discrimination. and the wounds have only grown deeper. residents say the young are now just as likely a target as the old. civilians of all ages are under siege from isil and the iraqi army. >> translator: look at this, this happened as a result of the artillery shooting. are these innocent children waging war? this is my daughter, she's dead now. what did she do to deserve this. >> reporter: many parents who thought the hardest trial would be surviving this war are faced with a far crueler fate, surviving their children. >> translator: we are in a dire situation. we can't go outside the city limits. my son here has a small daughter shwas a year and two monthsing.

old. this is our condition now. we want medication, proper surgery. >> reporter: even hospitals are caught in the cross fire. >> translator: we are entering the second year of this crisis already. we are not treating terrorists, we are treating young babies, infants. we need proper attention and supplies. we need more doctors. >> reporter: instead, just days later, this sanctuary for the sick was turned into a casualty of war. here, moments after being shelled, the hospital's corridor is lined with broken glass. a medic searches for injured patients and wounded colleagues. homes are no safer. in this video, a man decrows the killing of an entire family.

enraged that iraqi officials are providing them with more destruction than protection. walking through the house, he says, was destroyed by government bombing raids. he points out the blood stains. we can't even find the young kid under the rubble, he says. they are targeting isil. where is isil in here? are young children now somehow affiliated with isil? more expressions of pain come from this graveyard where two sisters, their mother and aunt, all killed as a result of air raids, are laid to rest. while the offensive may have started only a few weeks ago, for residents of the city of fallujah, war is all too familiar. for over a decade the city has been the scene of insurgencies and counter-insurgencies. many residents are caught in a seemingly never-ending conflict. iraqi government leaders who vowed to defeat isil say they have arrived at the moment of truth.

families in fallujah worried that promise means they will face more fighting and their reality will become far more heroing. the taliban bombed a truck at an afghan special forces base killing at least six people. three soldiers and three civilians were killed in that explosion. dozens of other people were injured. hiroshima has marked the moment it was flattened by an atomic bomb. tens of thousands of people gathered in the japanese city to remember the attack. >> reporter: for decades, kego miyagawa kept the images trapped in his mind. in recent years he's been committing memories to canvass, memories by the image of a baby

in a pile of bodies as he searched the city for missing relatives. >> translator: the baby was facing up with its arms like this. for me, this baby represented the a-bomb, i remember it vividly. it seems unscathed as if someone placed it there. such cruelty. >> reporter: the bomb that pulverized and poisoned and burned was detonated on august 6, 1945. 70 years on, to the minute, a minute silence. and a message from japan's prime minister that the one country to be attacked with nuclear weapons would continue to work for their eradication. >> translator: japan intends to renew its efforts to bring about a world without nuclear weapons with the cooperation of both nuclear and nonnuclear powers.

>> reporter: the aircraft that delivered barely imaginable destruction was named after the pilot's mother. the bomb it was carrying, little boy. for the u.s. it was a strike that saved lives, shortening the second world war. for the people of hiroshima, it was a visitation of hell. tens of thousands died in the blast. the figure would rise to 140,000 by the end of the year. but hiroshima didn't cease to exist. life went on in the waste land and the city was rebuilt. its current mayor used his speech to call nuclear weapons evil and inhuman. a reminder, that events of a second world war are still influencing japan's politics today. as the average age of the survivors past 80 for the first time this year, organizers of

this event say it's going to be the last major anniversary in which significant numbers of them remain alive. a vast opportunity to pass on experiences for future generations. many are doing that. in the peace park, beneath the ruined dome in shattered stone and steel and through art, his school friends convinced him to paint the horrors. now they are all dead. there is nobody left to tell him that he did them proud. >> let's talk to harry foster who's joining us from hiroshima. harry. >> reporter: here in here row shima, talking to those survivors, it's not just about commemorating an event that happened 70 years ago. for so him of them they are struggling with what they experienced at that time,

whether that be illness, the psychological impact. i'm joined under the dome, the iconic dome of hiroshima by the red cross, the international committee of the red cross, lynn schroeder. you have two hospitals, one here in hiroshima and one in that dba saki thain thatinnagasaki. >> the japanese red cross society has two hospitals here where they treat specifically a-bomb survivors. most of them are being treated with related diseases, cancer-related diseases. last year they recorded two-thirds of the death of survivors being related to cancer. >> just for some context, the

prefecture, cancer is prevalent. they are struggling with continuing psychological effects. because a lot of them have had to keep these memories within themselves because of the social stigma. >> indeed. i think there was studies in the late '90s showing that psychological impact for survivors are tremendous. of course, long term post traumatic stress disorder, depression, other psychological instability. also, the entertaining of the future. because with never knowing whether they can be affected by things related to the radiation is a big psychological effect.

>> reporter: there is another group you have spoken to who aren't officially classified under the government terms as official survivors of the a-bomb entitled to aid and official recognition. they are still fighting for that. can you tell us about that situation. >> i'm not sure about which ones we are talking about in our numbers. but when we treat patients, of course, we look at them only as patients suffering from radiation or illness related to radiation. some of our patients are people not there in the blast, but came after for assistance, to do burials. they somehow got affected also. >> thank you for talking to us today. and it is another reminder that the ruins that remain here of

this iconic dome, they are not just about a moment in the past, for many people they are fighting to fight against illness, fighting to also have officially recognized symptoms and the source of aid that they believe they are entitled to. this is a present day battle to many survivors of hiroshima and nagasaki. still ahead, education inequality. we'll tell you about the battle for south sudan's girls to get to school. and the countdown is on for rio de janeiro to get ready for next year's games.

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on target >> you are watching al jazeera. here's a reminder of the top stories. angry relatives of the victims of malaysia airlines flight mh 370 have stormed the company's beijing office. they are angry because they do not believe the wing fragment found on reunion island. they confirmed that the piece was from the missing boeing 777. people in fallujah are caught in the cross fire between isis and iraqi army. isil fighters swept through fallujah in january and iraqi forces are trying to recapture it. tens of thousands of people

gathered in japan to mark the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing in hiroshima. the bombing killed 140,000 people. more than 200 people tried to cross the mediterranean are feared to have been drowned. about 400 people were rescued. >> reporter: blood from the mediterranean, a family reaches safety. this one-year-old gill wa was r. she's alived. but the trauma is etched on her face. she was among hundreds packed on to a fishing boat which capsized. the vessel had begun its journey when it issued a distress call. rescuers from the italian coast

guard, irish navy and medical charity doctors without borders arrived on the scene only to see the stricken boat overturned. many migrants rushed to one side of the boat causing it to capsize. what followed was a furious search and rescue operation. helicopters and ships joined in. they have saved hundreds of people and also recovered many bodies. it's unclear exactly how many people were on board the overloaded boat, but aid workers say what drove their decision to get on. >> what's important is to understand that there are no roots for these people to take to flee from the conflicts. over 60% of the people making this treacherous journey across the mediterranean fleeing from conflict, afghanistan, is a

yeah, they have no safe roots to do this. they are risking life and limb. >> more than 2,000 migrants and refugees have died attempting to reach europe by boat. as rescuers combed the water for survivors, they know this won't be the last time. in yemen anti-houthi forces have expanded the strong hold in the south. tanks sent by the united arab emrats rolled through ten ven hedge fund advisors internationals. the thirthrough. foreign mine calling on the u.n. to protect palestinians. they have been meeting palestinian authority president in cairo. it followed the death of a toddler who was burned in an attack blamed on settlers.

>> translator: we must consider providing protection to the palestinian people. i don't mean the limited protection that the red cross supposedly provides. what's required is a real international protection issued by security council resolution. it has to be a respected mechanism. the armed group boca har ram has kidnapped dozens of people. they attacked villages killing at least eight people. cameroon is part of a regional force fighting the group. south sudan's education system is in crisis. only 10% of all children will complete primary school. girls in particular face the most obstacles. >> reporter: a pair of socks and shoes might be lena's most precious possessions. when they fall apart, she can't

walk the four hours to and from her primary school. >> translator: when i can't come to school, i get very upset. i cry for days for my mom to get me socks and shoes. >> reporter: at 17 she's older than most of her classmates due to the interruptions in her schooling. she's determined to keep learning and her mother is supportive. she sells at the market in the morning. then attends school for three hour notice afternoon. >> translator: i'm only focusing on ensuring that my mom's efforts are not in vein. because sometimes we sleep with empty stomachs. >> reporter: if she can finish primary school, it will be an accomplishment most never achieve in south sudan. unicef says less than 10% of all children will complete primary school. getting families to enroll their girls also remains an obstacle.

35% of students in the country are girls. >> they look at them. so it is useless. they only focus on the boys. >> reporter: deputy head master says after south sudan succeeded four years ago, the government made promises to improve the educational system. there were hopes of a new curriculum, more supplies and better teacher training. instead the students have no textbooks and teachers struggle with delab dated schools and overcrowded classrooms. unicef says the civil war has erased the small gains made. for pone, the battle is personal. each school day she's fighting to get an education. to rio de janeiro where

the countdown started for next year's summer olympics. >> the clock is ticking. olympic authorities seem satisfied. the 2016 olympic games in rio de janeiro will start next august 5 with everything in place. >> translator: rio de janeiro is without a doubt the most beautiful setting for olympics games since ancient greece. >> reporter: perhaps not yet. the olympic part is 82% complete. the athlete village 90%. the aquatic center nearly done. some of these venues will be converted into schools or kept as sporting sites as part of the city's promise to use the games to transform rio de janeiro. with a year to go, there is still plenty of work to be done. it's being done in a calm, controlled way. none of the frantic last year's activity in the lead-up to the

world cup. they announced it will be on time and on budget. more than half the $12 billion funding is coming from private enterprise. there's been nothing like this angry protest in the run-up to the world cup competition. no operation of this size is problem-free. shadow of another athletic doping scandal hangs over the games. >> the ioc has zero tolerance policy in the fight against doping. we'll have the most tight doping control system for rio de janeiro which is starting already months before the olympic games. not only during the olympic games. >> reporter: while rio de janeiro may be pleased with itself, the president is facing a difficult year. hoping a trouble-free game with the growing corruption scandal

and the economic downturn. they are celebrating the promise of a successful games. much more on the summer olympics in rio on our website, www.aljazeera.com. you will find the day's other top stories there as well. >> i'm ali velshi. "on target" tonight. losing control. hackers taking your car for a joy ride while you're driving. how vulnerable are you and what other mayhem are cyber criminals cooking cooking up? plus 70 years after hiroshima, two survivors remember. this week, thousands of professional computer hackers are descending on las vegas for the annual black hat convention. the big topic they're talking about is cars.