more cases of the monkeypox virus have been reported worldwide. expert expect there will be more cases in the days ahead. this is not as transmissible as covid. health officials tracked more than 100 confirmed or suspected cases of a monkey pox in 15 countries. this includes the u.s. president biden today tried to ease people s concerns. joining us now annie ramoine a professor at the department of epidemiology and a career studying a monkey pox. you re an expert here. we start with it s not as transmissible as covid. this is not a covid situation but we re seeing more cases pop up in a number of countries and
diamond, thank you. this just in, the biden administration is considering sending u.s. special forces to ukraine to protect the u.s. embassy, not to fight but protect the u.s. embassy. barbara starr with more. my colleague in this state department and i are both hearing that this is essentially a very preliminary idea. it s not gone to the president s desk yet but a department and pentagon certainly at a staff level are talking about the idea do you need to send special operations forces to help protect the embassy in kyiv, which of course is in the middle of an active war zone in that country with all of ukraine essentially of course being at war against russia. here is the challenge. right now there are a limited number of state department personnel at the embassy. the ambassador confirmed last week but has not arrived there
business editor at large richard quest is attending the world economic forum in switzerland. jeremy, first to you. the news the white house is sticking with this morning is a major economic and trade frame work for asia, but on the taijuan comments, what exactly is administration s position here? because i m told there is no new china policy. this would be weapons, not troops. do you see daylight here between that statement and what the president has said? yeah, there certainly does seem to be daylight between that statement and what the president said, particularly when you listen to the question that the reporter asked president biden contrasting what the president did in ukraine, which was providing weapons but not intervening military with troops versus what he is saying now about taijuan. just listen to the question and the president s response. you didn t want to get involved in the ukraine conflict military for obvious reasons. are you willing to get involved
yet. it s enough right now they have diplomatic state department security personnel protecting that limited number of people but if you really reopen the embassy, you need more security and how to best fulfill it. there is a sense that simply marine corps embassy guards, the traditional force protecting embassies around the world may not be enough in this case and you might need special operations forces. as you just pointed out, that s a challenge. the president has been adamant no combat forces inside ukraine. these would be security but if you were going to send special operations forces into ukraine even on an embassy security mission, you are going to have to find a way to get them and the diplomats out of there in a hurry if there is a crisis and nobody yet is talking about how that could be achieved. big question. barbara starr at the pentagon, thanks so much. so to ukraine on the ground, the imminent threat remains constant, not only in the east
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