so i live now to joe's of china political analyst and professor at hong kong city university joining us here on the program mr chang good to see you both the north and south expressing optimism do you expect any potential breakthrough at these talks. yes it is a small breakthrough certainly the entire korean negotiations have led to the participation of not career in the ping tongue winter olympics. and the south korean side is the more eager party it openly proposes that the two koreas may continue to talk about family reunions about the rung the coming new year the reopening of the ties long industrial park as well as even. negotiations under nuclear weapons issues. certainly there will be continuing discussions on protocols of north korea taking part in the winter olympics like the arrangements for the opening ceremony and so on the international olympic committee is quite willing to facilitate as well mr chang we understand that one of the tentative agreements coming from the talks today is to the highest level military officials for boast both south korea and north korea will op

latest comments let's bring in jason chang he's a professor and political analyst who with hong kong city university joins us now good afternoon we were just hearing there some examples of insults both leaders have traded over the last few months or so how dangerous is this relationship do you think between trump and kim jong considering the joking it seems about the size of each other's new clear buttons i mean that's not something to joke about is it nuclear war. this is certainly not anything to joke about but i think the situation despite the confrontational rhetoric has been step allies some warped there is a recognition that the use of the military option by the united states is going to be very dangerous very risky. will be strongly opposed by beijing and moscow and will not be supported by seoul however the atmosphere is still not right for the initiation of negotiations there are some hopeful indicators the american secretary of state rex tillerson a few weeks ago did indicate the possibility of negotiations even without preconditions and at the moment has indicated that it will like to tak

shows the chunk of political analyst and professor at hong kong city university thank you for your time. now switzerland may not be in the e.u. but it could still be facing its own version of briggs it goes with people's party has received permission to collect signatures in support of a referendum to end switzerland's free movement agreements with the e.u. the move would hand back to the country full control over immigration at the moment the current policy allows the e.u. citizens to live and work freely in switzerland and finds versa the s.v.p. has until next july to collect nearly one hundred thousand signatures if successful the proposal will be considered considered by the government and parliament in burned before being put to a vote the code president of the youth wing of the s.p.p. is convinced the public would vote in favor of stopping free movement. we are to biggest party in switzerland we are the strongest party and we have made a lot of initiatives and in two thousand and fourteen there is people's party has launched that initiative against mass immigration so why shouldn'

more now on the developments in hong kong where pro-democracy protesters are gathering joseph chang is a professor of political science at the city university of hong kong joins us now live from the city good to have you with us so you think the banning of more candidates like agnes chiles are going to provoke a public reaction. probably so i think the message from beaching has been there it wants to crack down on the more radical wing of the pro-democracy movement which has been advocating for independence or democratic self-determination the whole process is seen to be leaking so if i could jump in there but the whole point of the. party though says it doesn't actually promote independence from beijing but it does want people to have the ability to have a referendum and say what sort of a future they do want. exactly group already is quite careful to avoid the articulation advocacy for independence and instead simply ask for the right to engage in democratic self-determination in fact our whole group was able to present a candidate indeed twenty sixteen not just a few becoming so good actions and that candidate won a seat so suddenly now

is not suitable for joseph chang is a professor of political political science at the city university of hong kong he says that many others are following in agnes childs footsteps. the movement has been fairly well prepared for this kind of action and in fact alternative candidates have been people so we are looking to worst securing the three out of four seats to be elected in a coming by your action on march eleventh and it is generally believed that peace end of the hong kong people the hope of these candidates to win in the coming value but the whole idea is that our people are very very worried that any tax and balances mechanisms that remains are being seriously eroded and that the rule of law in home in the territory which is very very much cherished has been damaged has been and these seriously tell and leaders from fifty five african union nations are meeting in ethiopia for the in the organizations annual summit and the fight against corruption is taking center stage nigeria's president muhammadu buhari is being put in charge of the blocks first of anti corruption drive they also discuss