of rights groups and election observers and with me is the former president of ghana it was to john muhammad who is leading an observer mission is the mom of one of the things that we've heard about is that to be a 1000 observers haven't been given accreditation to be able to attend the polling stations today what will tell us about the. major challenge with this election and i think that it's huge. the process should be simplified so that more people can be ready to. give a certain integrity to an election and the fact that they are available and watch and see what happens is good for the process. i mean form this in 2 steps you get the official letter and then you have to go for the bites and it complicates the process i mean there's a one stop shop where you get your attention letter and you get a badge it will help speed up the process but. a lot of people who wanted to be part of the process of the being able to write scripts in opposition have complained about the votes as well just to take you to ready a province which is a fairly willing posse stronghold where they say that there are

student id like john muhammad there let's bring in alex yassky from the australian capital but on now alex is and i'm most of the australian strategic policy institute and he has done a lot of research on and that chinese interference in australia and it's good to have you on the program can i just ask you of the outset doesn't look like the chinese state is this treaty or supporting students who are protesting on australian university campuses. thank you the very least we know that the chinese government is encouraging these kinds of activities the consulate has really statements encouraging students to show their patriotism and protect china's sovereignty and there's a lot of evidence that groups linked to the chinese government are involved in orchestrating some of these protests the australian government has set up a task force to look at chinese interference in australian university campuses how is the task force going to proceed what are the things they're going to be looking at least to be looking at a whole range of areas including research collaboration freedom of speech and

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