. >> jim walsh is an independent international security expert at mit and explained why the destructionf the weapons is likely to take some time. >> the first step in the process is that syrian government turned over to the u.n. agency its declaration. here is what we have. this is how we store it, so on and so forth. folks were impressed when this happened back late last year. we are impressed that the declaration was complete. we have a baseline to compare how well we are doing in terms of removing chemical weapons. i'm guessing the regime will squirrel away, store some of it. if we get 50, 75, whatever, per cent of the chemical weapons out of syria, it's a huge policy victory. the only other alturnive is one president obama was submitting. they would have gone after chemical facilities, but we wouldn't get the chemical weapons. if we remove the chemical weapons and agent, even if we don't get it all, if we get most of it, it's a big advantage over the other options we were looking at. syria is in the middle of the civil war. is doesn't want the u.s. to get involved or the u.s. to tak

we'll bring in jim walsh, a research incident were mit.ning accusation, but how surprising is it. >> it's not that surprising, but we have known the conditions in north korea, as close as the country is, we know conditions are horrible. we had defectors come out and make reports. sadly, it is not a surprise. this is an important story. it's rare for countries to be charged with this level or this level of crimes without humanity. it's a horrible thing that started long ago and conditions. it's important to recognise. and the question is what did you do next. >> that is my question, what do you do next. what comes of it. i think there are two things to keep in mind. there's not a lot that will happen. north korea is not a signatory to the treaty, the convention that holds them responsible. the u.n. security council might take it up and act on their own. i don't think china will allow that. sometimes people blame china, people flee north korea, and they are turned back. i think it's important, my daughter works on war and peace, my daughter

. >> we'll break down the development with jim walsh. a research associate with the security studies program at the massachusetts institute of technology. good morning. good to have you here. not a lot came out about why the talks happened or the substance of them. what is your take on why the north may have reached out to south korea. >> it is a bit of a surprise. we were talking about bad weather in britain and the east coast. along the north korean, seen border there's a thaw. they are the highest level talks. there was breaking news that they had spoken yesterday, they met three times during the day, and the north koreans came back and said, "let's meet tomorrow. they'll meet on friday. part of it is - and we never know when it comes to north korea. part of it is the new leader having consolidated his position after executing his uncle is moving on a peace offensive with south korea. the top priority is to delay, if not cancel, delay the military exercises which the north finds threatening, and to get economic relations between the t

here's a story by jim walsh, out of the minneapolis star tribune. a pacemaker like device offering hope for epilepsy patients. all were involved in the critical -- the medical trials for the device. they enrolled the highest number of patients in these trials. the system was approved for commercial availability in the united states. it talks about how the system developed and how it is being used. 's role when it comes to developing something like this and working with the fda? guest: i should back up a little bit. has multiple causes. for about two thirds of patients, the seizures can be controlled either by medication or by surgery. for about a third of the patients, the current treatments do not work. we have been thinking about alternative strategies for treating patients that do not respond to drugs or surgical ablation. what we did was to support recorded fromwho areas of the brain to determine where the seizure would start and develop algorithms to detect when a seizure would begin. that was one set of studies. a second step the studies learn

. >> here to talk about that report and what it means is jim whrach. walsh, welcome. >> good to see you john. >> what do you think about this report? >> i have two contradictory ideas about this. this is a big deal, right? crimes against humanity. stories flow over us every day. a trial in florida. winter weather, whatever. this is crimes against humanity. right? this is a big deal. we should pause and sort of try to absorb the gravity of what that means. but, or and, so what do you do about it? and i think a lot of us would rush to want to do stuff to try to change that situation. and it wouldn't work. and it might make things worse than they are now. so i think there are two questions. one is, is this bad? yes. the second is, what do you do about it? and these are very different questions. >> it makes plenty of sense jim. what does north korea do about it if anything? >> you know right now they're going to be defensive, right? already they have come out with the propaganda saying this is made up and the facts are concocted. and frankly, john, north korea d

here's a story by jim walsh, out of the minneapolis star tribune.maker like device offering hope for epilepsy patients. all were involved in the critical -- the medical trials for the device. they enrolled the highest number of patients in these trials. the system was approved for commercial availability in the united states. it talks about how the system developed and how it is being used. 's role when it comes to developing something like this and working with the fda? guest: i should back up a little bit. has multiple causes. for about two thirds of patients, the seizures can be controlled either by medication or by surgery. for about a third of the patients, the current treatments do not work. we have been thinking about alternative strategies for treating patients that do not respond to drugs or surgical ablation. what we did was to support recorded fromwho areas of the brain to determine where the seizure would start and develop algorithms to detect when a seizure would begin. that was one set of studies. a second step the studies learn how yo

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nick paton walsh in kiev and bring in former long time correspondent jill dougherty currently at harvard university's kennedy school of government. also senior white house correspondent jim acosta joins us. nick we spoke to you at the beginning of the program. in terms of where you are, at least some of which appears quite dangerous, is there any talk of a truce, is this calming things at all? >> reporter: right now i'm seeing fireworks go off right behind me fired directly at what seems to be police positions down there. so no sense of peace here at all, frankly. i mean, the real question, anderson, is exactly what talks could result and president yanukovych doesn't seem to want to go anywhere at this point, anderson. >> nick, are people able who are in the square, protesters, are they able to get back and forth or are they stuck there, completely surrounded? >> reporter: no, they can come and go. down further away from here it's possible to get in and out. we don't know what sanction they might face by police if they move away from this area, if they're perhaps arrested or picked up at all. it's a long to the side to my left here where police have very firm lines. they