well lately you mentioned the statement by foreign minister heiko moss saying that the decision to perspire own the election and also to disqualify a number of opposition karen candidates who are a further encroachment on the basic rights of people in hong kong including the right to free and fair elections and he said those events as well as the arrests of democracy activists were very concerning to the german government that's why this action has been taken and of course extradition is at the heart of concerns about hong kong it was the protests last year about an extradition bill that has since been withdrawn but it would have allowed suspects to be extradited from hong hong kong to mainland china that ultimately led i think to the in position all of the hong kong security law which of course western governments including germany have been extremely concerned about and that's i mean i outlined some of the reasons that prompted to today's decision by the german government why was the german come why did the german government feel compelled to act right now it could have done last year. we

troops being repositioned to now here in germany both foreign minister heiko moss and the german chancellor angela merkel have a great concerns about the issues in the relationship between berlijn and washington a lot of those issues go back to the north stream 2 gas pipeline that we've seen a group of senators from oil and gas states in the united states wanting to put sanctions on companies and for a pee in market the problem is that is more expensive than piping it in directly and it seems that both senators and washington in general create king to flex their economic their diplomatic and their sanction muscles in order to try and convince germany at that they should go with the u.s. product however angela merkel and tyco must both saying that should donald trump leave office should he be voted out in november this wouldn't automatically reset the german u.s. relationship back to where it was. we grew up in the certain knowledge that the united states wanted to be and world power should the u.s. now wish to draw from that through all of the cereal would have to reflect on that very deepl