Crude carnage im joined by my guess was me in beirut hes a professor of economics and International Affairs in irvine we have pai and he is an independent economic and political analyst as well as a former commodities trader and in toronto we Cross Alexandre Bruno he is an analyst at gulf state analytics sorry gentlemen crosslike rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate pilot may go to you 1st in irvine because you got up early as for this program here all right it all happened quite quickly and a lot of analysts werent too surprised by the deal that the russians and the saudis had collapsed. The russians didnt go along with what the saudis wanted to do and the saudis reacted and now we have carnage on the oil markets here what is saudi arabias gambit here because you know in the if you look at its budgetary constraints it can afford to have low oil for a very long time and we throw in the coronavirus that is also hurting crude demand all acro
All across the world whats the whats the gambit go ahead. Well thank you yeah the timing the gambit of the gambit as well as a separate thing all this turmoil and black swans concurrently happening around the world really kind of begs certain geo political questions in my opinion you have coronavirus more or less announced really kind of command saying on new years eve and then the rollout is fairly rapid and. In a sense the attention being kind of collapsing of as you said already low Energy Demand but as a demand especially within chinas collapsing then you have the announcement of the pandemic and the timing then of opec really saudi arabia and to a certain extent now u. A. E. You know just insisting on the pullback which would in turn affect the desired medium term desired from russia to capture more of the Global Market share within the energy space and at some point there was a budding of heads russia i sensed saw through you know a certain coordination issues you had unofficial
People have been fined for breaching the law. Its 3 pm here in moscow youre watching international the coronavirus pandemic has claimed more than 10000 lives worldwide more than 250000 people are infected with the disease at the moment and the death toll in italy has surpassed that of chinas meanwhile the World Health Organization has begun trials of a possible vaccine but it is estimated it could take 12 months before its available. You know. Meanwhile russia has started its own code with 19 vaccine trials the country has 200 confirmed cases. Of physics had Moscow Sheremetyevo airport to find out why the number of infections in russia is low compared with the west. Welcome to sherry and thats in the airport where officials have invited us to reassure the russian public that they are doing Everything Possible to prevent the spread of the covert 19 virus here in russia now personally i would have taken them at their word and left it at that but juicy cools i was here last a month ago wh
Comes at a time when demand for crude was already low some are calling this the ultimate perfect storm how this all ends is anyones guess. Crosschecking crude carnage im joined by my guess was me in beirut hes a professor of economics and International Affairs in irvine we have pai and he is an independent economic and geo political analyst as well as a former commodities trader and in toronto we Cross Alexandre Bruno he is an analyst at gulf state analytics sorry gentlemen crosslike rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate pilot may go to you 1st in irvine because you got up early as for this program here all right it all happened quite quickly and a lot of analysts werent too surprised by the deal that the russians and the saudis had collapsed there were the russians didnt go along with what the saudis wanted to do. And the saudis reacted and now we have carnage on the oil markets here what is saudi arabias gambit here because you know in th
Trumpet in this race for the United States has. Used various terms in order to describe israel the west bank and the gaza strip you can. Look it up throughout the years it has changed so one headlines the coronavirus story and Everything Else to talk about at r. T. Dot com pictures and features there for you or a very social media check if you get a minute its midnight 31 here in moscow my name is kevin owen thank you for watching our channel we are r. T. International. Hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered im Peter Lavelle with the coronavirus now officially declared a pandemic the world faces the additional burden of an Oil Market Collapse this comes at a time when demand for crude was already low some are calling this the ultimate perfect storm how this all ends is anyones guess. Crude carnage im joined by my guest was me in beirut hes a professor of economics and International Affairs in irvine we have pai and he is an independent economic and political an