let's take a closer look at the story with my colleague clifford cohen here in the studio and our financial correspondent in frankfurt. let me start with you how important is it for the chinese to get rid of this label currency manipulator well china really just likes this label it's something that it it's something that a monkey on its back that it's been trying to get rid of after the past 5 months since it was introduced the chinese economy is slowing very strongly we've seen this. it's probably good it slows raise in 3 decades last year it needs to kick start growth everything has to be lined up in order for this to happen the resolution to the trade war is one and getting rid of this of this label of currency manipulator is part of the bigger picture of putting china in a position where it can really start to expand again. over to you in frankfurt how much truth was there to washington's claim that beijing was indeed artificially influencing its currency. well i think the word artificially influencing is absolutely correct and if you later. wording that donald trump is used and accuse

for more clever cohen joins me who just brought back that report from hong kong clifford what are your impressions of the real estate market among ordinary people in hong kong well i think people are looking at this and i think that they it's almost time for a correction i mean the prices are very very high and every one of you seen that people do back the protests largely i'm part of the reasons is the dissatisfaction on congress because property prices have been so high so my level i think among ordinary people i think there is people are not too worried about the fact that prices are falling it also means that rents are more affordable and also for businesses in the city center of makes it more affordable for for rents but now we're looking at a question about how far that could fall and looking at office rents was a survey today saying that they could fall by 40 percent in the next 2 years so while people are feeling ok about it i think they're also maybe they just don't want of things to fall too far you mentioned the pro-democracy protests there how big is the role that these pro