or let's talk about more about this visit we have our chief political editor michelle or krisna with us and our beijing correspondent mathias building a good to have you both with us here in our studio we said let's start with you here because hong kong protesters are calling for the chancellor's clear and on equivocal support to can they count on it but they didn't quite get in the statement that we saw so far but they certainly need a message of standing up for guaranteed rights did resonate with the german chancellor let's just have a quick listen to what she had to say. one starts one country 2 systems is the basic principle and based on that we have an agreement signed by china and the u.k. in 1984 and the hong kong basic law guarantees the freedom and rights of hong kong citizens. during the meeting i pointed out that the freedom and rights of hong kong citizens should be guaranteed and the agreement in 1904 should still be valid under the current situation we should do the utmost to avoid violence. and this very much is the narrative that we've seen so far from the german char