the japanese foreign ministry's asian and oceania in affairs bureau chief jim chu said the talks were sincere and handed me was the first of its kind in sixteen months items on the agenda included issues surrounding the abduction of japanese nationals by north korea. pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs are also a focus of discussion he said the japanese side reiterated taco stands on the abductions he noted that they also lodged a protest against north korea's ballistic missile launch last week japan stressed that the laws are violated un security council resolutions and bilateral agreements how to add that that another meeting will be arranged through diplomatic channels. we headed to north korean expert to analyze the results of high level of japan north korea government talks to me and also is an associate professor and psychiatry university. this man. the two women. north korea has maintained that the construction issue is already sold. the teton pass it this time is going to discuss the issues sincerely it had agreed to talk further. i think the north conceded to some degree

. >> jim maceda, thank you. dominic chu, a market flash. >> good morning.with exposure to the russian and ukrainian markets are getting hit this morning. check out kiwi, the paypal of russia, losing the most. companies like mobile telesystems a russian internet and tv provider, and there's yandex and a telecom service operator lower here. all operate in and around that russian ukraine region. market impact being felt. >> global markets falling as investors keep the close eye on the situation in ukraine. want to bring in art cashin, director for operations at ubs. joins us at post nine. good morning. >> good morning. >> 1845 here well enough. >> so far, so good, 1845-48. then 1841, two support areas if they were to violate that, that would be troublesome. market trying to assess what's go on here. all looking at pictures of troop movements and whatnot, the real battle is in things like currencies and what's going on. ruble has plunged. they've had to consider raising rates over there. can't make mr. putin too comfortable, but as jim maceda pointed out, there

. >> pauline chu in beijing, thank you. i want to go back to jim sciutto.tting more a sense of what's going on. >> it is far from an exact science just as a matter of caution. we have on the wall the dimensions of a 777 200, wingspan 200 feet long, the length about 200 feet long as well. when you talk of these potential pieces as seen many the satellite images, 43 by 59, 43 by 62, that could be any part of the plane or in fact these are busy water, it could be something else. and because the speed of the plane may have hit the water, hard to identify. it may not look like a piece of a plane from the air. that's the difficulty now. we're told by barbara starr who spoke with a senior pentagon official that the u.s., which of course has its own accurate and capable satellites now going to look back at its own satellite data in that same area to see if it can find any information to corroborate what these chinese government officials are saying. >> these are heavily traveled arias and ships just dump a lot of junk in those areas as well so let's have a little c