all right and for more on the usia release we're now joined by felix lee he is a correspondent for one of germany's dailies good to have you here with us felix it seems looking from the outside that germany played an imperative role in securing her release why did germany or the german government take interest in her case well actually this used to be a major issue of human rights used to be a major issue for all western governments for all governments of western countries now after france u.k. there it's not a big issue anymore for them dealing with china economy is more important and after . donald trump became president also the u.s. is not pushing so much anymore so germany is the only country left to. research this question let's talk about timing because it seems to be very auspicious well yeah we just heard officially the chinese government says it has nothing to do with the visit of the prime minister. chung here in berlin but to be honest no it definitely has something to do actually do when chancellor merkel was in beijing in may she already hope that you shall be released by