now holmes tell us what's on the horizon einar standing next few weeks there will be a local elections is that what people are focused on right now. well the local elections are for the district council so a relatively community level election it is not a major decision making or doesn't have a lot of political power nevertheless the pro-democracy side is expected to have large gains next election partly due to how the agency i'd have lost favor with the public now there's been a lot of doubt as to whether there are all of the patients affecting these protests elections especially because there are pro-democracy candidates was half interest for fight in previous elections now so far we haven't seen that yet and most of the candidates even those who have very progressive views they seem to have entered into the race ok however the only remaining case. as most viewers probably know joshua long as one of the most prominent pro-democracy activists and has temp change so far has not been has not been given the green light. holmes chan thank you thank you. there's a major problem piling up i

chinese government economic and development issues he joins us from beijing skype talk and he always einar so as to be completely blunt donald trump has made pronouncements throughout the trade war that haven't always ended up being true what do you know about where they actually are on these talks. well in this particular case he's echoing what is being said in beijing there's been a number of articles and some statements that indicate all the areas that he has mentioned are in fact are in the deal but you know donald trump is in a difficult situation the last 5 court cases yesterday his personal attorney has been to say compromised and he's in a position where he wants to change a narrative obviously from the financial side this will work but he's he's has some bad optics here and he risks this idea that he is caving in in order to get some good press and it's going to a lot will depend on how his base reacts and what he's proposing so are you are are you saying that you think that because of the obvious troubles the n.p.t. an investigation hanging over donald trump that that puts him in