i'm joined now by david goldwyn. secretary under bill clinton and also served as the us state department's special envoy for international energy affairs from 2009 to 2011. david is now president of energy consultancy goldwyn global strategies. hejoins me from washington, dc. david, we spent half the interview with me introducing you. but you are uniquely well—positioned to explain the value of this move. it is, i thinkjoe biden called it the largest ever release of oil like this, and yet initially crude prices actually went up. thanks, you're very kind. i think is the president said in his statement, it's too early to tell the impact of this. it is really all about what happens injanuary. the oil went in the market until mid—december, 0pec is deciding what it wants to do forjanuary delivery, and it is a question of whether you think demand will be and how big a surplus will be and how big a surplus will there be. what is really significant about this is you have all the major consuming nations doing some contribution

david goldwyn there.to a christmas parade in the us state of wisconsin has appeared in court to face charges of intentional homicide. darrell brooks is to be charged with six deaths after another victim — a child — died. nearly 50 people were also injured in the attack in waukesha. police say mr brooks deliberately targeted the crowd. 0ur correspondent barbara plett usher was at the court. the judge read out the five counts of intentional homicide and he said that each one of them carried a penalty of life in prison. and during the proceedings the prosecutor said now they knew a sixth person had died, a child, and so the prosecution was planning to bring another charge of intentional homicide by the end of the week. she also read out a lengthy criminal record for darrell brooks, this included violent conduct like strangulation, suffocation, sexual assault, domestic battery. she said that he had tried to run over a woman earlier in the month, the mother of his child. she also said he had a long history of