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The main stock index 4%. its down 27 this year. russian ruble heading for a record low. >> i sue the move on the ruble. be interesting to keep an eye on the russian markets to see whether its being felt. oil and gas, nord stream 2 being put on hold. when we were talking about crimea, europe thought gas was being weaponized. europe knew this. what was your assessment? >> europe was very concerned. germany was reluctant to take the measure. it was the biggest stick they could wield against russia ...

Name of vladimir putin. >> reporter: according to one human rights group, more than 5,000 russians in dozens of cities had been detained since the protests erupted. over the weekend, support for ukraine was felt from new york city to madrid and berlin. and tonight, russias economy suffering another blow after the u.s. and its european allies barred some russian banks from the international payment system s.w.i.f.t. the eu is now agreeing to ban all transactions of russias central bank and freeze...

Voted to condemn russia for invading ukraine and demanded that moscow withdraw its military forces. meanwhile, the refugee crisis is only getting worse. we are entering day eight of the war, and the un now says at least 1 million ukrainians have been forced to flee. lets go right to our reporters on the ground. nbcs cal perry and lviv, ukraine. and rough sanchez in moscow. how, you are in a war zone, youve been there for a week. what are people telling you? i think we just lost cows audio. so ro...

Something of a stupor. i dont think many people expected this at all to happen. they certainly dont know what it means for their day-to-day life. my phone is lighting up with stories of the fall of the ruble. also the central-bank is announcing its going to release some of its hard currency reserves to try to stabilize the markets. airports are closing. people are nervous about how theyre going to get out of here when they eventually do have plans to go abroad. many people simply didnt recognize...

Over the past week, several global companies have cut ties with russia in the wake of the invasion. give us a sense of the state of the economy in moscow right now. >> absolutely terrible. verge of economic collapse, some would say, its ferris the worst since world war ii and the collapse in 1991 and 1998 and some analysts say it is worst than either event and you have heard the ruble at historic lows and nike and apple, ikea, pulling out of the country. russias have a standard of living much th...

What is his message going to be tomorrow? >> reporter: yeah, michael. its going to be a critically important speech tomorrow for the president, something that just a few months ago white house officials thought would be a perfect platform for him to do a domestic reset on the issues facing the country. but fast forward to right now, of course things look a lot different, and ukraine is going to have to be a major focus of the speech. so yesterday white house press secretary jen psaki, she laid o...

And the u.s. is supplying 26% of the natural gas to europe. the producers say, though, we can do more if it takes some of the pressure off lack of investment, problems with permitting and the rest, we can fill the void and it will bring prices down as well. harris. >> harris: jeff flock, thank you very much. the russian ruble crashed to historic lows against the dollar this morning after the western sanctions on russian banks began being felt. senator tom cotton says the punishments are not near...

Are seeing is the package of sanctions that we now have added to this import ban on, it is having an extraordinary impact. and you see that in the economic data. as i said the ruble is down 50%. but you also see it in the constraints on economic activity in russia. now, you cant use a credit card. most western businesses are pulling out or not providing their services at all. and this economy is really in absolute free-fall. at the same time, what we have made clear, we will be consistent and st...

War. >> trace: you talk about private companies, apple said they are pausing sales in russia, may be cutting off the i payments, the plans over there and exxon will stop russian investments. you see the ruble really is almost worthless there. the interest rates 20%. these are not things that will stop the war and stop vladimir putin. but they will eventually really start to squeeze russia. >> yes. hes very isolated right now, as you said. and the question is, how does he respond? it is why we ar...

Secondly, she talked about their petition and hague make putin a war criminal. im going to make that my cause. here is what i will tell you. she believes the russians are going scorched earth. that the ukrainians have fought very well. they have slowed it this down. lets not kid ourselves, putin son track to destroy this country unless we do everything we can to change his mind and were not doing everything we can to change his mind. we need to crush his oil and gas sector. destroy the ruble and...