difficult to guarantee that next week's presidential election will be free and fair and credible while foula. blamed interference from politicians earlier a commission member quit saying that the upcoming vote would not be credible. china's president xi jinping has declared a new era for his country and said that it is time for china to take center stage in the world at the first session of the communist party congress in beijing she also pledged to open his country's economy further and pursue a policy of zero tolerance against corruption during the week long congress a new politburo to run china for the next five years will be selected have a look. it's a meeting on the grandest of scales. nearly twenty three holes and we can also see now that trump is actually moving the u.s. out of the center stage that china will actually try to move in all of into all these voids that are left open by the u.s. you were telling me a little bit before the show that you were actually struck by how confident he appeared in that in this congress why did why did you see that specifically as being significant