thank you rula, joining us from beirut. the u.s. says it's intensifying training of the iraqi ministry after the fall of mosul. the desertion of troops raised questions about washington's strategy in the region. >> reporter: this were few specifics at the state department about what the u.s. can or will do now that the islamic state of iraq and levant is on the march in iraq. >> you can expect we will provide additional assistance to the iraqi government to combat threat from i.s.i.l. i'm not in a position to outline it. >> reporter: the administration was not in a position to assess the disease. mosul is a pivot ol moment. u.s. foreign policy is underpinned by the use of force will lead to a favourable outcome, and the arming of local forces would secure the outcome once the u.s. lease. both are brought into question with the fall of mosul. >> on capitol hill. the main foreign policy is whether it was a show of weakness transferring five taliban soldiers for one u.s. u.s.'s ambassador to syria was giving interviews on how more aid

. >> rula amin, in beirut. thank you. >>> after 10 months behind bars in egypt, al jazeera journalist abdullah al shamy has been released from prison. he was on a hunger strike for nearly five months. he used his first moments of freedom to call for the release of his colleagues who have been in jail until cairo for 172 days now. mariana hond has the details. >> screams of jubilation at the intrapings to a kcairo police station as friends, family and other journalists welcomed the release. for 10 months, he was held in prison without charge. for all of that time, he maintained he had done nothing wrong. >> i have won, and everybody who is a freedom fighter, either a julyist or anyone doing his work credibly and with honesty has won because this is -- this experience has saved my life. i am not the person i have been anymore. i am now more determined than before to carry on with this struggle, not just because of me. because for every one to be able to do their job freely. >> the change in his physical appearanc

i want to the start with you, rula, let me read something that the secretary of state cardinal said,s a political strength that we maybe don't even realize and we should be exploited to the full. prayer has the ability to transform hearts and thus to transform history. was yesterday about symbolism or were there some tangible things that came out of yesterday? >> well, definitely about symbolism. in this early phase two presidents, president peres and abbas knew each other since 1993, since they signed the auslet agreement, and we we saw a little bit of jerusalem saying it is the vibrant heart of the jewish state, and president abbas said it is our capital, and it is our holy land. i think that both of them understand the issues and how to address them, but peres is 90 years old. he is in the last term, and by being there, simply by being there is undermining the prime minister of israel benjamin netanyahu who is trying to isolate abbas because of the feeling that the government has been doing and trying to tell the right wingers in his own country, that there is no way to peace. pea

rula, i want to turn to you first because about a year ago you wrote an article for "the daily beast"assault. you wrote rape is a hate crime. it is a purely criminal act designed to induce terror. by brutalizing a woman, the intent is to humiliate, degrade and ultimately break her. and as such, it is not only a violent act against an individual, it is violence committed against their family and their children with devastating effects. these assaults horribly damage the lives of the victims, but how do they also impact the broader community? >> they do, and they do in a big way. they impact family, society. if you think of the connection between economic empowerment of women, if you think how this affect these kind of women, in my case, for example, i became a reporter because i wanted to somehow talk about these issues, a privilege that my mother was denied. as soon as you come out, as you mentioned in the piece before, you come out speaking about these issues, you've been silenced by your community, by your family. look, a year ago, more or less a year ago, the head chief of police i

monday there are reports of the ukrainian military carrying out air strikes on anti government forces rula homes are said to have come under machine gun and artillery fire now that has become what seems to be the focus of crackdown on unrest the ukrainian interior ministries announced it's recruiting people for special squads to take part in the military operation in the area. and of course will be closely following the developments in lugansk over the coming hours and days of these two crane which is reportedly as a say come under military air assault up to five people of food have been killed to keep watching r.t. international for the latest updates. next the man arrested over a deadly shooting rampage at the jewish museum in brussels appears to have links to radical islamist groups in syria security video from the scene shows the gunman carrying a k forty seven assault. rifle it's the same time found with the man when he was arrested the attacks are fueling worries over the terror threat from europeans traveling to syria to then be trained as a jihadist is what the head of the eaves la