let's get to paul wallace. his royal highness over the weekend. good afternoon, good morning.believe it when i see it and then i will take action. he has been holding the preemptive. not ready to take any actions yet. >> it is a reiteration of what he said before but i think it emphasizes the point, that the saudi's are not for moving until they see from evidence that it has risen significantly in china . what saudi arabia says is often what opec-plus is saying and doing as well. it seems it is very unlikely that there will be a ramp-up in oil supplies. >> elsewhere in the energy story, the day has finally arrived. have we seen any immediate impact? >> not yet. that is something playing on oil prices at the moment. a lot of traders in the run up to this fine product man was pretty nervous. they were pretty nervous about what would happen to russian exports and what the eu would do with its price cap. if it is like that, it means russian flows will continue. that is exactly what the g7 and the u.s. wanted. they do not want to see any of its exports dropping. that is quit a hard

point to this, though, paul , in that we've got though, paul, in that we've got this security being announced by the defence secretary, ben wallacese, for instance, may have been having these surveillance in the skies over britain or at least western nafions britain or at least western nations since 218. so clearly we're sort of waking up to something here . yeah, it does something here. yeah, it does seem like that. i mean, bhumi heard from the white house yesterday , were saying that this yesterday, were saying that this appears to be part of a more extensive programme by the chinese and that although that weather balloon that they shot down, the first one didn't seem to indicate that there was any kind of compromise compromise of intelligence that gathered anything that was necessarily to endanger national security . they endanger national security. they did say that the chinese program appear to have the capability to move towards that kind of damage future. so it is something the appears to be, if you'll the pun, on the radar of the americans and indeed the wider western intelligence community. and as you say, ben wallace say

paul's album is out now and his uk tour starts on the 24th of february. you may have heard the defence secretary ben wallace