Russia has responded to the sinking of its warship by becoming increasingly hostile on its attacks in the south. ben wedeman is in southeastern ukraine. ben, what are you seeing there? reporter: yes, jessica. we spent the day in donetsk again, the eastern most under ukrainian control and a city very much right smack dab against the russian lines. what we saw today more intense shelling. shelling on random targets. hitting markets and basically not necessarily targeting military targets but i think the goal is really to demoralize and terrorize the population and perhaps prepare the ground for this much-anticipated russian offensive. we know that russian forces are
This as russia is hitting markets, bread lines, schools. is this all part of the russian strategy to try to inflict maximum pain on ukrainian civilians? i think that is. i think they re going to a war of extermination and they re trying to extract, or inflict such pain on the ukrainian people that they hope to break the will of the ukrainian people. but i think what we re seeing is the exact opposite. that even as they are besieging cities, sort of 15th century tactics with 21 century weapons, as they are doing all these things, frog marching away mayors from different cities, and of course, deporting people to russia. these are stalin tactics. i think what you re seeing is the exact opposite. the ukrainian people are just more resolution that they are going to keep their land, they are going to keep their country.
We ll look into it. but we re not going to do it just because of u.s. pressure. there is a saying in the region for my friends neigh is the enemy is the law. so mr. trump says do me a favor, can you look into this, the investigation is don t conduct a fair investigation, bring me something that i can use politically. for my friends, anything. for the enemies, the law. we ll leave it there on that note. think about that one. wow, when we come back we ll talk about the decline in the manufacturing sector and thousand is hitting markets. the president says markets are down because of the inquiry. guess again. manufacturing, farming, another area suffering, agriculture. this kweweek in wisconsin, a di
A whole lot of things, not only the russia probe and michael cohen, but we talked about china and trade. one of the bigger headlines, honestly, that he said and what he is dealing with, he suggested he be willing to intervene with the justice department on behalf of the cof from wow way. he is having to prepare for the democrats taking control of the house, and dealing with international trade negotiations, which have been hitting markets and hurting his potentially his chances of re-election in 2020. jeff, did you talk about the nancy pelosi and chuck schumer and the possibility of a government shutdown and all that drama? yes, we talked about that. the interview was just a few hours after the meeting with the
European markets are fairing now. here s where they stand 90 minutes into the trading day. the london ftse down .67%. paris contact down .19%. zurich smi up .08% and xetra dax down .37%. what s it like in asia? it s hitting markets in japan. the hong kong hang seng is japan, just to make that clear. that hurt the markets. it pulled the market down. also pulling the market down in japan the ministry of finance came out with new figures which shows japan had a $5.7 billion trade deficit in january. that s the first time there s been a deficit in 22 months, and it was fueled by higher import costs and weaker than expected exports. now markets around the rest of the region were as you saw.