massive scale and they tend to stick with it certainly because it benefits them as well. kim. >> yeah, we'll be watching to see what they do promise there. david culver in shanghai, thanks so much. and russian president vladimir putin isn't showing up at the summit either he's set to address by video link as well. putin will speak with what is called a russia nationwide working period to try to get covid under control. for mon on this, sam kiley from moscow. sam, first, let's start with the g20. what are we expecting to hear from putin? >> reporter: well, i think, kim, he will address all of those issues. that the g20 has set itself up to look at, trying to get an equalized distribution, or something closer to an equal distribution of covid vaccines worldwide. putin expected to say by end of this year, they want 40% of the