already seven points behind it which is that so out of those three it's definitely going to be frankfurt ali you've been keeping a keen eye and a keen eye on this season what has actually driven them back into the top four well you know i'm not surprised to see them go on a bit of a surge at this stage of the season they came through a rough patch of fixtures where they managed to get through without losing against the likes of lights a brain then you'll love it. course dortmund all these games back to back they came out of those games unbeaten now they've had some gentle fixtures as we said and. five wins on the bounce the front three of course gets a lot of praise for rightly so you know that and they've been sensational but it really has been an all round effort the likes of danny de coster i think is at a very good season and today of course the hero philip cost age who has been sensational and is our right is really picked up from his poor form of hamburg his best ever season the goals and assists but of course the man you can look out mention by only just a minute ago he has a coach he

so very complicated stuff let's bring in our market correspondent ali frankfurt's to find out what they're making of all of this i mean what is the verdict in frankfurt what are people there saying about all this. well they're following it closely because it's such a high profile case and because everybody knows about the troubles the alliance is having now and going was an icon in the auto industry he forged this alliance and made it very successful rescued this on basically and propped up bruno and then this a lot of people who had been critical of going for amassing such power were not all that surprised that he fell and some were glad you know seeing hubris and greed didn't retching himself but as the story progressed the perception seemed to turn that indeed there might be a conspiracy at hand here in removing him you already mentioned some of those comic is next on the renault mitsubishi i mean where does it leave all those comics. yeah they're up in the air basically you know you have individual leaders that nessun and it's officially under no gone has been replaced and functions he

let's bring in ali by financial correspondent in frankfurt only weiwei that getting a bit miffed that with all the bad p.r. they're getting from u.s. officials will this lawsuit make a difference do you think i don't know if it will a little bit surprising considering the development that this lawsuit is coming only now at this point in time of course it's an unfortunate timing because trade deal talks are in the midst of possibly concluding xi jinping and donald trump said to meet at the end of the month and this will surely not improve the mood of the man in the white house but well way doing basically the only thing it can still do trying to force the americans to produce evidence that they claim they have in public in a court and not just make accusations while way itself says it's innocence that the accusations of the americans equal basically a corporate death warrant that this was a last resort although when you look at it when you look at the history of similar cases u.s. courts have generally not decided against washington and security matters in other news only all eyes are