grief and tragedy in iraq. we meet the victims of war in the city of fallujah caught in the cross fire. ♪ hello, i'm martine dennis in doha. this is the world news from al jazeera. also to come we have got the latest on the suicide attack on a mosque in saudi arabia. a grim anniversary 70 years on hiroshima remembers the horrors of the atomic bombing. and families of victims

question what dereis. and get another sinks in the mediterranean. we'll let the latest from italy. ♪ but let's start in saudi arabia where a suicide bomb attack has killed at least 13 people. the interior ministry says a mosque used by saudi army soldiers was targeted. nine were injured in the explosion in the southwestern region close to the yemeni border. so far no one has claimed responsibility but isil is suspected. it has become increasingly active in saudi arabia claiming responsibility for a suicide attack on a shia mosque on may 22nd. in the same week four people

died when an isil car bomb exploded at the end transto a mosque. last month isil struck again with a suicide bomb near the highest security prison. and just three days later, 430 people which the saudi government said were linked to isil were arrested. we have been speaking to the saudi political analyst, and he says it's too early to say who is behind this attack. >> right now, we cannot confirm it is an isil operation. it could be a houthi operation, we're not sure but most probably all indications [ inaudible ] the previous incidents that lead to isil. if it is an isil [ inaudible ] it is the worst attack ever to hit saudi arabia. why do i see it that way? because it targeted soldiers

[ inaudible ] society. >> the frustration is mounting in iraq over the deteriorating security situation and the rising number of civilians who have been caught up in the battle against isil. bombings are becoming an almost daily occurrence. this was the scene in baghdad just after the latest attack which happened on wednesday when a menny bus exploded killing seven weem, and children were among them. no one has claimed responsibility for this incident. but there are regular anti-government protests as well over corruption and lack of basic services. the government's problems are piling up. with iraqi forces struggling to defeat isil particularly in anbar province. righters from the group seized the capitol, ramadi in may as the number of civilians being killed in this conflict is climbing. people in fallujah say they are

living a nightmare. and just a warning you may find some of these images disturbing. >> reporter: in fallujah bullets and bombs don't discriminate. residents say the young are now just as likely a target as the old, that civilians of all ages are under siege from both isil and the iraqi army. >> translator: look at this. this happened as a result of artillery shelling by the army today. look at this? are we terrorists waging the war? this is my daughter she is dead now, what did she do to deserve this? many parents who thought the hardest trial would be surviving this war are now faced with a far crueller fate surviving their children.

>> translator: we near a dire situation here but we can't go outside the city limits. my son here has a small daughter who got killed by the shelling. she was a year and two months old. this is our condition now. we want medication and proper surgery. >> reporter: even hospitals are caught in the cross fire. >> translator: we are entering the second year of this crisis. we're not treating terrorists. we're treating infants. we need proper attention and supplies. we need more doctors. >> reporter: instead days later this sanctuary for the sick was turned into a casualty of war. here moments after being shelled, the hospitals corridors lined with broken glass as smoke billows through the air. a medic searches for injured

patients and wounded colleagues. homes are no safer. in this video a man decries the killing of an entire family. engaged with iraqi officials. walking through the house he says was destroyed by government bombing raids, he points out all of the blood stains. we can't even find the young kid under the rubble he says. they say they are targeting isil. where is isil in here? are young children now somehow affiliated with isil. more expressions of pain come from this gave yard where two sisters, their mother and aunt all killed as a result of air raids are laid to rest. while the anbar offensive started a few weeks ago, for residents here war is all too familiar. the city has been the scene of insurgencies and counter insurgencies. many civilians feel caught in a seemingly never-ending conflict.

iraqi officials say they have arrived at the moment of truth. families in fallujah worry that promise only means they are face more fighting and that their reality will become far more harrowing. chinese family of missing passengers from mh370 say they don't believe that debris has been found from the airport. the malaysian government says that part of the wing washed up in the indian ocean. and that was part of the plane. adrian brown reports from beijing. >> reporter: for 16 months their emotions have swung between despair and hope. so by barging into the offices of malaysian air lines, they may have felt they had nothing to lose. the announcement from malaysia's

government brings neither closure nor comfort to the families and relatives of the victims. some even believe the wreckage was planted on reunion island. >> translator: it's not true. a lot of things would have been easier to find but they didn't find them. >> translator: during this time we cannot leave anything because aircraft had a gps. the airline doesn't want us to know the truth. that's why we cannot believe them. >> reporter: they want answers. this was not a protest against china's government which was why it was allowed to happen. one plaque card appealed from help from china's president. his foreign minister is in malaysia attending a regional conference.

>> translator: the search should continue. we should find out the truth and start rolling out the next phase of the plan. >> reporter: quite what the next phase is is far from clear. analysis of ocean currents shows search teams looking in the right area. australia's prime minister though, is hopeful. >> it suggests that for the first time we might be a little bit closer to solving this baffling mystery. >> reporter: and malaysia's prime minister is now adamant that the wreckage found on the island did come from mh370. >> 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 mh370. >> reporter: experts in france

where the part is being examined are, though more reserved in their conclusion. >> translator: in the expert's view we can say there are very strong presumptions that the debris belonged clearly to flight mh370. >> reporter: these people don't believe that after an emotionally draining time since the jet disappeared, the psychological strain has more than taken its toll. it will another emotional day for the families on friday when they attend a briefing given by a senior airline manager. there will be many questions, but undoubtedly not enough answers. adrian brown, al jazeera, beijing. >> reporter: the nigeria based armed group boko haram has reportedly kidnapped 135 people in a neighboring cameroon. they attacked villages with cameroon's border with nigeria.

thousands of people are gathered to remember the nuclear attack on the japanese city of hiroshima 70 years ago. latins were lit and floated down the river to remember the 140,000 victims. at an earlier ceremony there were prayers, a moment of silence, and calls to abolish nuclear weapons. >> reporter: for decades, this man kept the most agonizing images of his life trapped inside his mind. now they surround him. he has been committing his memories to canvas. memories dominated by the image of a baby in a pile of bodies. >> translator: the baby was facing up with its arms extended like this. for me this baby represented the a-bomb and i remember it vividly. it seemed totally unscathed as

if someone has placed it there. such cruelty. >> reporter: the bomb that burned the city detonated in the styes above it at 8:15 on the morning of august 6th, 1945. 70 years on to the minute a minute of 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 non-nuclear powers. >> reporter: the aircraft that delivered the 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 vision of hell.

the figure that died would rise to 140,000 by the end of the year. by life somehow went on in the wasteland and the city was rebuilt. it's current mayor used his speech to call nuclear weapons evil and imhuman, and to praise japan's passivist constitution. while the prime minister wants to loosen those restrictions listened on. a reminder if needed that the events of the second world war are still influencing the country today. organizers of this event say this will be the last major anniversary in which significant numbers of the survivors remain alive. in hiroshima's peace park there

stands a memorial. and in this man's case through art. he said his old school friends convinced him to paint the horrors before it was too late. now he says they are all dead and there is nobody left to tell him that they did him proud. there's a lot more to come still on al jazeera, including celebrations in egypt as the president unveiled the $8.5 billion expansion of the suez can -- canal. and people are being diagnosed with dementia at a younger age. we look into the reasons why. ♪

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♪ hello again, these are the top stories here at al jazeera. a suicide bombing in saudi arabia has killed 15 people and wounded nearly a dozen more. that's according to the interior minister. the attack took place in the southwestern province. seven civilians have been killed by shell fire on a market in fallujah in iraq. increasing numbers of civilians are being caught up in the cross fire as the city is fought over by isil and the iraqi army. chinese relatives of missing passengers from malaysian airlines plight 370 are demanding answers in beijing. they don't believe reports that the debris that has been found is from the missing plane. now an irish navy ship has docked in the port of sicily

with around 360 rescued migrants. they were picked up after the boat they were on capsized off of the coast of libya. it's feared that up to 200 others may have drowned. 25 bodies have been recovered so far. well we can now talk to our correspondent who is there, and we're seeing pictures now of the ship as it rives and we're hearing, then the numbers then. more details of the numbers of the lucky people who managed to survive this latest deadly crossing. >> reporter: yes, indeed. the number is 367 of those rescued from the shipwreck are on the boat that you are seeing now. this is the same irish navy vessel that first went to the rescue of these people. it is believed that when the

migrants saw the boat -- arrive in the distance and the boat stopped one nautical mile from the boat all of the migrants rushed to one side and that's what caused their boat to capsize. that's when most of the migrants ended up in the sea. but now we know that at least 25 people died drowned. they are on the same ship. we have seen a number of persons arrive here. a number of white coffins rife here so we don't know whether the bodies of the victims will be taken away before the survivors, but certainly -- i don't know if you can still see those pictures you can see the survivors, most of them are men, but you see a few women, a few children. they seem to be in good shape, but what is still unclear is how

many really died because aside from those 25, well, according to survivor's testimony, there were at least 600 people on board, and if that is true it's impossible to confirm, of course the [ inaudible ] that would mean that 200 people will have drowned. >> claudio thank you very much. updating us with the very latest from southern italy. now from italy to other parts of europe, because the migrants who do safely make it to europe still have many hurdles to overcome before they can start a new life and one of the biggest is learning a new language. charles stratford reports from a school that has been set up in the port city of calais in france. >> reporter: this tiny shelter may be the beginning of a brighter future for some of the desperate people who come here. the school was set up last month in the so-called jungle camp

near calais. the majority of people here have given up risking their lives trying to get to the u.k. many have applied for asylum in france. this man arrived in the camp four months ago. he has a five and four children in sudan. >> all of the teachers here are volunteers. they say around 100 people at tend their classes each day. >> translator: in general, they come with no french at all, and

some with only basic english. we have also have some who can't even speak english at all, and that's very difficult for us. >> reporter: but most aren't interested in learning french and staying in france. for the students that study here, this school represents a symbol of hope with respect to their future. but the majority of the people here are still determined to get on trains and get to the u.k. riot police blocked groups of member trying to climb on to trucks heading towards the channel tunnel. many people here who fled violence in their own countries, and the hope for a better life isn't over yet. in greece up to 500 afghan migrants have been living in a make ship camp. >> reporter: look what has happened to the biggest park in

central athens. it's become a refugee camp. hundreds of people from afghanistan above all are here. we understand that there have also been some syrians as well. it's a graphic illustration of the greek state failure, its inability to cope with the numbers of people who are coming into this country at a time of economic crisis and they are not all young men, by no means. there are also many women and many children here and this is not a comfortable place to be in the middle of summer in which temperatures can reach close to 40 degrees celsius. there's little running water available and few toilet facilities. although the camp has been here for about a month, the constant changeover turnover in terms of actually sleeping here. migrants come from turkey and through the greek islands.

arrive in central athens stay here for two or three days and then they make their way north into the e.u. and then more people come to take their place. what is the greek state doing to provide any humanitarian assistance to these people indeed to regulate them work out who they are, what their needs are, the answer is very little. what help is available here is coming from local organizations, and indeed from activists in the city including anarchist groups. but the city authorities have now said that this situation is unacceptable, and that in the coming days they intend to move hundreds of people from here to temporary housing that will be made available by the greek army on the edge -- on theestern edge of the city of athens. celebrations are underway in egypt for the widening of the

suez canal. the $8.5 billion expansion project allows for ships to pass each other, without having to wait in a one-way system. >> reporter: as one of the world's greatest engineering achievements and a mighty aid to international trade, the original suez opened almost 50 years ago. it reduced the journey time between europe and asia around the horn of africa by 6,000 kilometers, and has been a major strategic importance ever since. the reason why the egyptian government has built another one, allowing for two-way traffic is because it is very profitable. they employed thousands, including soldiers working around the clock.

it has cost egypt an estimated $8.5 billion. but the government is hoping to get big returns. this year revenues reached $7.3 billion. they are aiming to almost double that figure in about 8 years. they also want to more than double the number of ships making the trip each day. it's a project the government hopes will be a symbol of the new egypt. a taliban suicide bomber has detonated his explosions near an afghan base. three police officers and five civilians were killed. aid agencies are scrambling to help more than a quarter of a million people affected by flooding in myanmar. the flooding has contaminated water sources and cut off electricity. >> reporter: this is one of four states that has been declared a disaster zone because of the

severity of the flooding here. it is also the state that has recorded the highest number of people killed. in the capitol, planes have been flying and transporting much-needed relief supplies. it's not just air force planes, but also domestic carriers. the international red cross has said it is scaling up its emergency response because of the severity of the humanitarian situation. in some parts of myanmar, areas are still completely cut off, either because the roads have completely disappeared underwater or become impassable because of landslides. there are some reports that say that villagers are in desperate need of clean drinking water. and it will be increasingly important that aid workers reach these areas in the coming day. the rain is expected to continue which means you could see more areas being inundated

with flood waters. reports say there are some dams which are already nearing capacity. and some rivers have already exceeded the designated danger levels which means we could see more areas underwater in the coming days. >> reporter: there's new research out which suggests that people are dying of dementia much earlier than they used to. it's a brain disease that disrupts mental function. what researchers found led them to suggest we are suffering from what they are calling a silent epidemic because early on-set dementia used to refer to people in their 60s, but now it is being regularly diagnosed in people in their 40s. environmental conditions could be to blame.

a professor was the man that lead the study. >> this has to be environmental. when we look at our results, we're actually measuring deaths. and one of the rather distressing factors of neurological disease, it takes rather a long time to die of these conditions. so therefore, we realize that these dementias were starting in their 50s -- actually in their 40s. the extent of the changes is being seen in britain, where we have a charity called young dementia u.k. and they said their clients were in their late 40s, early 50s. if you go back 20, 30 years ago that would have been unthinkable. the extent of the changes could be looked at perhaps in america, where men over the age of 75 have tripled their death rate in

20 years. in women they have gone up five fold. that means we have more american women dying of brain disease than cancer. these are profound changes. >> you can find out more about that alarming research and indeed the rest of the day's news stories on the al jazeera website, aljazeera.com. the stage is set for the first republican presidential debate tonight. the hot issues the candidates will spar on. the long road to the voting rights act. why the law is facing multiple challenges today. and a nation pauses to remember the thousands killed in hiroshima, 70 years ago today. ♪