welcome back to the spotlight i'm al gore norman just a reminder my guest on the show today is richard jenkins deputy executive director of the international energy agency richard roth let's talk about about russia's policy well there's lots of talk about the red direction gradual red direction of russian crude crude flows from for from the west towards asia and first of all to china how is it seen in the west could it be a reason for for a clash of interests between russia and the west china and the west no i really don't think so and this simple reason is that it's a global market these days the oil market is a worldwide and. china is where the action is that's where they're growing in consumption china and india are the two primary and the middle east would course they have their own oil so i think it's fully understandable in fact we paid it always city or oil demand will actually decline so it's a natural process china has the demand they're willing to pay the price as they get the oil according to the latest see a report i quote the world faces a dire future unless a complete change of c