>> isil said it carried out a suicide bombing in saudi arabia that killed 15 soldiers. hello, this is the al jazeera live from london. also coming up. burying the dead in fallujah, the civilians victims caught up in the fight for iraq's anbar province. >> hundreds of reef gees rescued from a boat that sank off the libyan coast wednesday arrive in sicily. >> no closure relatives of mh370 protest in china.

many don't believe parts of the missing plane has been found. >> sailing on the suez, the newly widened stretch welcomes its very first vessel. >> hello fighters from islamic state of iraq and the levant claimed responsibility for a suicide attack targeting security personnel in saudi arabia. 15 were killed in the attack in a town close to the border with yemen. at least nine soldiers were injured. they are being treated in local hospitals. isil is becoming increasingly active in saudi arabia. they claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a mosque in may, which kills 21 people. we have this report. >> this is where the attack took

place. a suicide bomber got in this mosque blowing himself up and killing police trainees. >> they targeted two shia muslim mosques in may. 25 worshipers were killed in the heartland of saudi arabia's shia minority. last month, police arrested hundreds of suspected isil members and displayed several weapons which were confiscated. the saudi minister of interior said it stopped isil attacks on mosques, security forces and western diplomats. the kingdom has seen a surge in violence in the last two decades when al-qaeda launched nationwide attacks.

security forces led a crackdown. al-qaeda's top leaders were either killed, arrested, or fled to yemen, where they formed al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula six years ago. now, saudi arabia faces new challenges, a fight at home against isil, and a military campaign in neighboring yemen against houthi militias. al jazeera. >> as the security situation in iraq deteriorates, more and more civilians are caught between government forces and isil. isil received ramadi in their latest offensive. fallujah another key city is now under siege. you may find some images disturbing.

>> in fallujah, bullets and bombs don't discriminate and the wounds have only grown deeper. 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. >> look at this, this happened as a result of artillery shelling by the army today. look at this, are we terrorists waging the war? are these innocent children waging war? this is my daughter. she's 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 crueler fate, surviving their children. >> we're in 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 her condition now. we want medication and proper surgery. >> even hospitals are caught in the crossfire. >> we are entering the second year of this crisis already. we're not treating terrorists, we're treating young babies, infants, we need proper attention and supplies. we need more doctors. >> instead, just days later, this sanctuary for the sick was turned into a casualty of war. here, moments after being shelled, the hospital corridor is 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,

enraged at iraqi officials he says are providing them with more destruction than protection. walking through the house he says was destroyed by government bombing raids, he points out all 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 somehow now affiliated with isil? >> more expressions of pain come from this graveyard where two sisters, their mother and aunt all killed because of air raised are laid to rest. >> while the anbar offensive may have officially started only a few weeks ago, for residents of the city of fallujah, war is all too familiar. many civilians there feel caught in a seemingly never-ending conflict. >> iraqi government leaders who vowed to defeat isil in fallujah and anbar province say they've arrived at the moment of truth.

families in fallujah worry that promise only means they'll face more fighting and that their reality will become far more harrowing. >> there have been street battles in taiz after local resistance fighters broke into prison and freed detainees releasing 25 people captured by houthi forces. taiz i says yemen's third largest city and has been under houthi control since march. 158 yemenis who fled the fighting earlier this year returned home to aden. the city's airport is now secured and allowing civilian flights mainly to bring home refugees or fly in humanitarian aid. the saudi-led coalition is controlling all flights in and out of aden. >> the united nations says the number of refugees and migrants crossing into europe has reached

224,000. that figure was announced as 400 survivors of a ship wreck were brought ashore. it docked in palermo. 200 may have drowned when their fishing boat overturned off the coast of libya. we have this update. >> hundreds of migrants who have been rescued on wednesday out in the mediterranean sea by an irish be navy ship as you can see behind me were taken here at the port of 35 let me mow. 367 migrants from all across africa and the middle east arrived thursday safely here. they were given first aid food, water, shoes anything they needed. they are taken to a number of reception centers troops the country. six other people rescued yesterday on wednesday were airlifted to a nearby hospital

on the nearby island of lampedusa because of their serious conditions. 25 people whom drowned were recovered from the sea who were on the same ship were taken away but the death toll is still unclear. according to survivors the boat was carrying 600 migrants and if that is true and there is no way to as i remember it, of course as the ship has sunk and many bodies may be lost at sea the death toll may be as high as 200. this is once again a tragedy. it is understood that once again when they saw this ship approaching in the distance, all or most of the migrants moved to one side of the boat, causing it to capsize and causing so many people to whose their lives. >> part of an aircraft wing which washed up on reunion island is said by malaysian authorities to be from mh370.

some relatives of the missing chinese passengers don't believe the debris from the jet has been found at all. >> for 16 months, their emotions have swung between despair and hope. by barging into the offices of malaysian airlines, 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 chinese victims. some even believe the wreckage was planted on reunion island. >> it's not true with that 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. >> during this time, we cannot believe anything, because aircraft had a g.p.s. the airline doesn't want us to know the truth. that's why we cannot believe

them. >> they want answers. this was not a protest against china's government, which is why it was allowed to happen. one placard appealed for help from china's president. by coincidence his foreign minister is in malaysia attending a regional conference. the search should continue. at the same time, we agree with malaysia that we should find out the truth and start rolling out the next phase of the plan. >> quite what the next phase isis far from clear. analysis of ocean currents shows search teams looking in the right area, but it's a vast area of ocean, 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. >> malaysia's prime minister is now animate that the wreckage found on a small french island did come from mh370.

these people don't believe that. after an emotionally draining time since the jet disappeared the psychological strain has more than taken its toll. >> on friday, they will attend a briefing given by a senior airline manager. there will be many questions but undoubtedly not enough answers. al jazeera beijing. >> this man's wife was a passenger aboard mh370 when it vanished. he is waiting for more detailed analysis to put the latest findings beyond doubt.

we heard the prime minister of malaysia speak in fairly definitive terms, and we haven't heard a similar tone taken bit the french authorities who held a press conference yesterday, so the discordant note struck by the two leave me some doubts and hard for me to be certain. the second thing i think is that no basis, no facts and reasoning was given to convince the families and anybody interested as to how they did make the determination, so we are left to speculate as to what led them to take a view one way or another. >> still to come, 21 years on a course in argentina look what happened in the aftermath of this shocking attack. >> calling for peace in a city that suffered massive destruction and war japan remembers hiroshima.

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digs deeper into the stories of the day. and at 9:00, get a global perspective. weeknights on al jazeera america. >> a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera. isil said it carried out an attack in saudi arabia where 16 were killed. the suicide bomber targeted a mosque used by army personnel. >> in iraq, the number of civilians injured or killed in a fight against isil is rising. they are under increasing strain. >> survivors of wednesday's ship wreck in the mediterranean have been arriving in italy. more than 400 were rescued by the irish navy with an estimated 200 people drowned. >> in afghanistan police forces say the taliban shot down a military helicopter killing all

17 people onboard. the afghan defense ministry said it happened in the southern province. elsewhere, a truck bomb exploded near afghan special forces base. three police officers and five civilians were killed. the taliban said it was behind that attack. >> turkey's military deployed armored vehicles on its border with syria. the vehicles had been spotted at high points along a 910-kilometer stretch. turkey has committed to creating an isil free buffer zone following a suicide bomb attack near the border last month. >> argentina's former president is standing trial along with several officials accused of trying to obstruct the investigation into the bombing of a jewish center in buenos aires in 1994. no one has been convicted of the attack in which 85 were killed. we have more details.

>> this trial started back in 2004 and at the time, the trial was suspended and all the defendants acquitted when the judge in charge of the tribunal was found trying to bribe witnesses. he is accused of cover up of abuse of power apparently, the case against him involved him trying to deviate the investigation involving a family friend of syrian or in, so all of these things are going to be debated for about a year and around 140 witnesses are going to be represented here. since the very beginning there was accusation against iran in this whole trial. what this trial specifically is trying to investigate is what is

called the local connection, who facilitated the attack locally who facilitated the van the explosives among other things. the. >> aid agencies r. scrambling to help a quarter million people affected by flooding in myanmar. seventy people have dialed as heavy rain has lest vast squares submerged. we have the latest. >> this is one of four states declared a disaster zone because of the severity of the flooding here. it's also the state that recorded the highest number of people killed by rising floodwaters or in landslides. in the capital planes have been flying in, transporting much needed relief supplies.

the international red cross that said it's scaling up its emergency response because of the severity of the humanitarian situation. in some parts of myanmar areas are still complete cut off. aid workers haven't been able to reach those areas either because the roads have completely disappeared or become impassable because of land slides. some reports say there are villages in need of clean drinking water and it will become increasingly urgent that aid workers reach these areas in the coming days. rain is expected to continue which means that you could see more areas being inundated with floodwaters, especially in central myanmar in places already severely flooded. there are some dams already nearing capacity and in the delta region, some rivers have exceeded the danger levels which means we could see more water in the coming days.

>> land slides in nepal killed 90 people and 35 others are still missing. aid agency says are struggling to reach people affected by april's earthquake. people in the district say in that latest disaster could have avoided. >> shocked by the death of loved ones mourners in the village in west nepal line up for a memorial service. villagers woke up to a rumbling sound. by the time they walked out of their homes, parts of their village were swept away by a massive landslide. 27 died. one is still missing feared dead. >> our entire village is in grief. >> after coming back from visiting relatives she found she had lost everyone, mom brothers sisters all six of

them. neighbors hope that her dad a migrant worker in qatar comes back soon. i asked her if she needed anything. the thick smell of death of rotting flesh is heavy here. all the cattle that were buried under debris have not been pulled out. >> this area of nepal gets the highest amount of rain. sections of this mountain is made of very loose soil and when rain water perk latelies in, it makes the entire mount be side

fragile. >> 35 hectares of forest were swept away. a major cause of the disaster is a haphazard believe of new roads. >> development activities have to be done keeping possible disasters in mind making sure they don't happen. here, even though environmentalist assessment it is are done for infrastructure development, suggestions are not carried through, risking people's lives. >> more areas are in danger in the district, where at least 35 people have died. across nepal, floods and landslides have killed more than 90 people already this monsoon and as usual, people were unprepared. on the day of the landslide, he was busy pulling out the injured. >> we never knew this area was dangerous. now we are told this entire village is in danger. it is not like asking one family to move, the whole village has to move. where will we go now? we are grieving here, everything is here. >> houses next to the landslides are perched precar i couldn't saily. there was heavy rain the night the disaster struck, more rain than in decades. locals say had there been a

warning system, this tragedy could have been avoided. al jazeera, nepal. >> 26 people were injured mostly women and children. the area has seen a shortstop rise in civilian casualties. egypt continues its fight against armed groups. >> the first ship passed through the newly widened suez canal with egypt marking the occasion with a lavish ceremony. we have been following the day's events. >> they gathered for an inauguration rich in pomp and

patriotism. the french president hollande attended. it has great political significance for egyptian president al sisi, who after years of unrest says he now wants to unite the nation. >> the new suez canal is not just an engineering achievement. in one year, we've given egyptians more confidence, more peace of mind and less anxiety about the future. no one can ever harm egypt, as long as the egypt people are united. >> earlier in the day, he traveled along the widened canal by presidential yacht, flanked by the egyptian navy. the $8 billion project created a 35-kilometer bypass along the original route and deepened and widened the waterways.

the orange canal took 10 years to build. the new channels have taken 12 months to dig, employing 40,000 workers and soldiers laboring around the clock. ahead of the inauguration, the egyptian government heavily promoted the new look canal, describing it as a channel of prosperity. on the streets of cairo, some have publicly celebrated its opening. only egyptians have been allowed to invest in the project. they expect to see a share in its profits. it could be many years before ordinary egyptians feel any benefits. the government hopes the channel will double toll revenues within eight years and help refloat egyptian's ailing economy. while deep, social and political divisions remain in the country, the so-called great egyptian dream may be wishful thinking. al jazeera. >> thousands of people have been marking the 70th anniversary of the nuclear attack on

hiroshima. lanterns were lit and flowed down the river to remember the bombings 140,000 victims. at an earlier ceremony were prayers, a moment of silence and calls to abolish nuclear weapons. we have this report. >> for years he kept the images trapped inside his mind. he saw a baby. >> the baby had its arms like this. for me, this baby represented the a bomb. i remember it as if somebody had placed it there. such cruelty. >> the bomb that pulverized, poisoned and burned the city, 70

years on to the minute, a minute's silence. >> he hoped the one country to be attacked by an atomic bomb would renew efforts to bring about a world without nuclear weapons. with the cooperation of both nuclear and non-nuclear powers. >> 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, 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.

hiroshima didn't cease to exist. life went on in the waste land and the city was rebuilt. it's current mayor used his speech to call nuclear weapons evil and inhuman and praise japan's constitution, while the prime minister who wants to loosen that constitutions restrictions on his military listened on, a reminder if needed that events of the second world war are still influencing japan's politics today. >> the offering age of the survivors of hiroshima and knack sacki passed 80 for the first time this year. organizers say it's going to be the last major university at which significant numbers of them remain alive. a lost opportunity to pass on their experiences for future generations. >> many are doing just that. in hiroshima's peace park, beneath the ruined dome that stands in permanent memorial in shattered stone and steel and through art everyone says his old school friends convinced him to paint the horrors he carried

in his mind before it was too late. he said they're all dead and there's nobody left to tell him that he did them proud. al jazeera hiroshima japan. >> much more cab found on our website. the address is aljazeera.com. >> i'm russell beard in the sea of cortez mexico to explore the future of fish farming >> and i'm gelerah darabi in kapama park south africa where a specialist team of