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Zones. and he floated the idea of establishing no-fly-zones there. russia's top diplomat said last night that is a step in the right direction. on the eve of the meeting, the kremlin said regrettably, we don't know what washington wants to get out of the meeting. they admit the relationships between the two countries are at zero. the kremlin said sitting face to face would probably be good for geo-- geopolitical stability. basically trying to avoid a worst case scenario. of the two militaries that are bumping up against each other not only in syria but in the airspace over nato's eastern borde...

About the military aid he said he understands at this point in time there's only so much the west can do, but he said any sort of aid would be of great help. even if this might seem a sort of token force 150 people is certainly not very much, but putting u.s. soldiers on nato's eastern borders certainly sees the u.s. as making a statement to russia and certainly making a statement that will bolster the confidence of the government here in kiev. certainly it is something that is very important and one of the things you were mentioning, this is not a one-off, it is a rotational thing that will h...

May trigger another set of sanctions. if he menaces ukraine on its eastern borders, yet another. and i think, yes, he can retaliate with some sanctions. but frankly the economy of russia is the size of italy's. it is not a world economic power. it's a relatively modest power. apart from its energy and apart from its nukes, which are very important. but let's not exaggerate what that means in terms of economic opportunity and economic clout. >> yeah. and that's an argument jay carney made today, speaking on behalf of the white house, about the fact that the russian stock market is being rocked....

factory floor -- asia -- has fewer things to manufacture. china, an economy second in size only to that of the united states, or of europe, has slowed. india has slowed, too. that means more than 2 billion people in the fastest growing nations in the world are buying less. this is one big storm. what is america doing about this storm? well, we've got umbrellas. what we need are hurricane shelters. but you can't go out and build an economic hurricane shelter yourself. that's something you need help with. government help. congress, for instance, could help stave off the effects of the ...