melissa: dr. walsh, seems like at this point it is starting to feel like troops are inevitable.his is really escalating quickly to a full-scale conflict. do you think that is the case? >> well, i hope not. part of what is going on here, broader context, melissa, the rebels fared badly in recent weeks. ukrainian government has made stride. they have got them cornered. resignation within, high-ranking resignation within rebel military forces. they may be on the brink. that may force russia's hand. i don't really understand the russian strategy, if they do invade and take a piece back like they did georgia, all they're doing is taking pro-russian voters out of ukraine, leaving ukraine and full of western, leaning pro-nato, pro-eu voters. which leaves them with problem for decade to come. melissa: colonel do you see the international community respond negotiate near term? >> well if putin nakedly sends tanks across the border, there will be more sanctions. that will probably be about it unfortunately. what we need to do if that happens, really give military aid directly to the ukrai

treat infected patients as the number of victims exceeds one thousand dollars going live now to dr peter de walsh at cambridge university who's at work currently looks at the spread of ebola on the effectiveness of the vaccines thank you very much for joining us here on r.t. international. people has been known about since the one nine hundred seventy s. why why hasn't more been done in that time to try and find a vaccine that works. the bottom line is that there's just not a market in developed countries for for vaccines and treatments because if this disease does not occur in europe the united states really isn't a commercial market and therefore all the money that's been spent on developing vaccines and treatments is really become from bio defense funding the u.s. military in particular is worried that somebody will try to use this is a weapon and therefore they're trying to develop countermeasures now spanish priest who was treated during the treated using an untested vaccine he's died when will it be known whether they say drugs will be effective well known. to really get enough data to tell

drugs to treat infected patients as the number of victims exceeds a thousand a bowler researcher dr peter walsh from cambridge university told me that dozens of cases need to be treated with a new vaccine before its effect in this becomes clear. really is the commercial market and therefore all the money that's been spent on developing vaccines and treatments has really become from bio defense funding the us military in particular is worried that somebody will try to use this is a weapon to really get enough data to tell where the drugs are effective in humans you need tens of people to be treated the least and so just by treating you know two or three people you're not really going to be able to tell whether it was really effective the african countries just don't have the capacity to maintain all the protocols necessary particular the high heat they don't have air conditioning you know they don't have regular power and so the odds that this happens that this spreads into europe or russia or somewhere else or very very very low. now the city of ferguson in missouri has suffered a third night o

a spanish priest repatriated this week after testing positive in liberia a bowler researcher dr peter walsh says a lot of cases need to be treated with experimental vaccine before it can be considered effective. the bottom line is that there's just not a market in developed countries for for drug vaccines and treatments because the disease does not occur in europe or the united states all the money that's been spent on developing vaccines and treatments has really become from the defense fund that the u.s. military in particular is worried that somebody will try to use this is a weapon and therefore they're trying to develop countermeasures to really get enough data to tell where the drugs are effective in humans you need tens of people to be treated at least just by treating two or three people you're not really going to be able to tell whether it was really affected in africa you need to just follow the bare nursery practices you know contact with somebody who shows the symptoms you wear the full suit gold goggles respirator etc there's a lot of highs you procedures involving using soap a

dr. wendy walsh's 50th birthday party. we both roasted her. and you were surprised that i had worst jokes than you did. and i wrote them myself. remember that? >> i was surprised. because i know you have a battery of people and that you can pay to write jokes. and i was stunned at how lame they were. >> oh, please. >> however, let's tell some of those jokes. >> no, no, no, no, no, no. there are some great pictures in the book and it shows you with everyone. from your parents, it talks about growing up, your being the product of divorce. i see you here with magic johnson. i see you in the book with who else here? there is mike tyson there is muhammed ali. and i also see you with your friend, your mustache as well, a huge part of your life. did you have that mustache as a baby? >> there is a good picture there. now listen, yeah, actually, there is my son sean, who is a good-looking kid. the irish people have no upper lip. i think that's how it began. and so a lot of -- that's why most cops and firemen have mustaches. and i shaved it off a couple

dr. walker, our conference convener and bob walsh, who has done such a splendid job organizing this event. i'm very glad to join my fellow panelists such important scholars whom i have learned so much over the years. of course, we also thank all of you for come iing and making an effort to understand some of these crucial areas of harry trum truman's presidency. let me clarify for you that i come to the issue of the use of the atomic bombs from the perspective of a diplomatic and political historian, as sam mentioned. i wrote a book on george cannon and his contribution to the making of u.s. foreign policy. my first sort of exploration of the truman administration looking at the marshal plan and nato. then in 2007 i published a book that explored the impacts on american foreign policy more broadly understood of the transition from frankly roosevelt to harry truman. and that book explored true man's policymaking in his initial years in office and it led me to consider his u diplomacy as world war ii ended into what we now know was its final phase. so i want to first speak from a diplomatic

dr. walker, our conference convener and bob walsh, who has done such a splendid job organizing this eventi'm very glad to join my fellow panelists, such important scholars from whom i have learned so much over the years. of course, let me thank all of you, for coming and making an effort to understand some of these crucial areas of harry truman's presidency. let me clarify for you that i come to the issue of the use of the atomic bombs from the perspective of a diplomatic and political historian, as sam mentioned. i wrote a book on george cannon and his contribution to the making of u.s. foreign policy. my first sort of exploration of the truman administration looking at the marshal plan and nato. then in 2007 i published a book that explored the impacts on american foreign policy more broadly understood of the transition from frankly roosevelt to harry truman. and that book explored truman's policymaking in his initial years in office and it led me to consider his diplomacy as world war ii ended into what we now know was its final phase. so i want to first speak from a diplomatic histori

dr. walker, our conference convener and bob walsh, who has done such a splendid job organizing this event. i'm very glad to join my fellow panelists such important scholars whom i have learned so much over the years. of course, we also thank all of you for come iing and making an effort to understand some of these crucial areas of harry trum truman's presidency. let me clarify for you that i come to the issue of the use of the atomic bombs from the perspective of a diplomatic and political historian, as sam mentioned. i wrote a book on george cannon and his contribution to the making of u.s. foreign policy. my first sort of exploration of the truman administration looking at the marshal plan and nato. then in 2007 i published a book that explored the impacts on american foreign policy more broadly understood of the transition from frankly roosevelt to harry truman. and that book explored true man's policymaking in his initial years in office and it led me to consider his u diplomacy as world war ii ended into what we now know was its final phase. so i want to first speak from a diplomatic