matthew taylor is joining us live from sydney, australia. the nikkei just opened. 8% on japan. pushing that market further into correction territory. of course, over the month of january we saw that japanese markets sink by more than 8%. we're down 2% yesterday and it looks as though we're going to have another drop for the japanese market of 2% today. well below that 15,000 level. 14,348 is where we sit on that main index. we're likely to see the selling in japan exacerbated. we have a stronger japanese yen. below the 101 level against the u.s. dollar, the strongest level for the yen since the middle of last year. the move is likely going to prompt a sell-down in those japanese exporter stocks which are well on the overall index. the australian market that has been running for more than an hour, we've been pressured by the big mining stocks like rio tinto. copper prices, of course, the ninth executive drop that we've seen bringing about the worst losing streak for copper in 18 years the gold plays are moving higher. a big key risk event here in australia that reserve bank meet

one of his children is named matthew, maxwell, taylor, kennedy -- matthew maxwell taylor kennedy. >>e had a great regard for maxwell taylor. he was a revered military figure and someone who they admired. he had resigned from his military position during the eisenhower presidency because he disagreed with the eisenhower idea of massive retaliation. he was the one who spoke for the idea of building up ground anyes to combat or counter soviet threat in europe. that is why they brought him in to the white house. he had this opposing view to the idea of massive retaliation. they appreciated that. over time, i think the fact that he was reflecting -- he was in a difficult position. was he going to come to the white house and say, the gene think -- joint chiefs, i -- not that he reflected what they were saying. >> another man like a lot of attention is robert mcnamara. this was recorded in 1996 on both notes. i know he went on to serve lyndon johnson. let's listen to this and put him in perspective. , i said it would be a long war. what should i say to the enemy, we are losing? by the way,

but what do you make of bobby kennedy -- one of his children maxwell matthew, taylor kennedy. > bobby had great regard for taylor. he had resigned from his military position during the eisenhower presidency because he disagreed with the eisenhower of massive retaliation. and he was the one who spoke for the idea of building up ground forces to combat work or counter any soviet threat in europe. that's why they bought him into the white house, the kennedys brought him into the white house in the first place because he had this opposing view to the idea of massive retaliation, see? and so they appreciated that. but over time the fact that he was reflecting -- because he was in a difficult position. was he going to come to the white house and say, oh, the joint chiefs is all -- what they're advising you i think is not -- so more he reflected what they were saying and i don't think kennedy found that very appealing at all. >> another man that gets a lot of attention his former secretary of defense is robert mcna mara. this was recorded in 1996 in book notes. he went on to serve lyndon joh

taylor, a former u.s. ambassador to ukraine. he's now a vice president at the u.s. institute of peace. and matthew rojansky, director of the kennan institute, which focuses on russia and ukraine at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars. mr. ambassador, united states, germany, sweden, france, poland, all of these countries are now engaged in conversations about what to do in ukraine. why is ukraine central to their interests? >> ukraine is at the heart of europe, so the europeans that you mentioned are very interested to see stability. they are interested to see a market. that is why the discussions between the european union and the ukrainian on a free-trade agreement have been so important. and that's fairly close. so the economic issues are key but the social issues are also important. ukrainians would like people to recognize that a, they're sovereign. that b, they're european. they are at the heart of europe. they know that they're on the borders between european union and the russians, as your map shows. so that discussion is an important one for the ukrainians in particular. b