james landale, reports from kyiv. munitions explode. this is bakhmut, or at least what s left of it, after some of the fiercest fighting since russia invaded ukraine. for more than six months, as the bbc has reported, ukrainian forces have held off a ferocious onslaught. but now russian commanders are growing increasingly confident, including the leader of the mercenaries known as the wagner group, which have been at the heart of the assault. translation: we have - almost surrounded bakhmut. there s only one road that remains in and out of the city, the pincers are closing. before, we were fighting against the professional ukrainian army, but now we fight against old men and boys. ukrainian forces are still defending the city street by street and reports suggest reinforcements are being sent in. but these russian troops, say the ukrainian army, is destroying bridges like these, potentially to prepare for what western analysts call a controlled fighting withdrawal from parts
negotiations around the table? no i m negotiations around the table? i157 i m not confident about it all. as i said it very much depends on how the anticipated ukrainian counterattacks of the spring go. if they make their slow progress so that we are in a genuine world war i situation than i think pressure towards some sort of negotiations will be much harder to resist. if on the other hand ukrainians make good progress as they did last year and begin to move, for example, towards taking crimea, then the whole situation changes and we are looking at a much more fluid situation, one where they will not want to enter negotiations because they are winning and who knows what could happen then. what knows what could happen then. what are wa . ner knows what could happen then. what are wagner and knows what could happen then. what are wagner and getting out of all of this besides money? i’m are wagner and getting out of all of this besides money? are wagner and getting out of all of thi
employment rates. in spring go in over the economy. melissa: but what about what powell said yesterday? dagen: i think they re watching us going on. but tariffs are so all our inflationary companies that make things here like to raise their cost as well, even though they are not directly hit. that s the danger, that the inflation. harris: that s what i understood to be the skin in the game. and what gives the president s argument for this more meat. this to say that, look, we are all going to feel this at the same time. i m putting skin in the game and hurting my own situation. automobiles, 5 to 25% tariffs over the next few weeks if mexico doesn t step up. and then they start to step up. i talked to the acting director of ice yesterday. if things start to change. i said, what really did? and he said, i m not an economist but i can do basic math. dagen: i think it won t take their publications to like the
security forces opened fire today on unarmed protesters. they blame the shooting on unidentified gunmen. several people were wounded. cn nervous syst cnn has not been granted access to report from there. 100,000 people were expected but organizers say more than double that showed up in london to protest spending cut proposals in the country. several dozen people were hurt when police moved in. it was set up by the trades union congress. tornado warnings and watches across parts of the southeast this afternoon, and where did spring go is a good question. a snowstorm is bearing down on the midwest, and our meteorologist karen maginnis is here to tell us all about it. karen, as we were talking, was that a roar of thunder outside the building here? it certainly was. it looks like the rest of the evening across the southeast we are going to look at the atmosphere that is just ripe for the explosion of some of these