michael hilliard - certainty. really interesting stop. michael hilliard at - certainty. us. to some news from the chess world now. the is ding lee—ren — he won the world chess championship on sunday, becoming the first chinese male to do so. he defeated russia's ian nepo—miachtchi in a tense rapid—play tie—break match in kazakhstan. the victory means china holds both the men's and women's titles. the crown previously belonged to magnus carlsen, a five—time world champion from norway who chose not to defend his title. to discuss this i'm joined now by levee rozzman, aka' gothamchess�* on youtube — he's an american chess international master, commentator and has one of the most followed chess accounts on youtube. first of all, understand this championship final, it was pretty dramatic. if you want to compare to other sports, maybe like nba finals. walk us through about how this title was handed out. thank you for bringing this up with a diehard new york knicks fan. it was a rough day. but it was a tense match. weather can win 6.5 wins the match. historically most of those

by some for opening up the country after decades of authoritarian rule. earlier i spoke with michael hilliardcentral asian affairs. they said this could usher in a new uzbekistan with more civil liberties. what do you think about? the new uzbekistan has been shavkat mirziyoyev�*s project since he came into power is 2017 and wanted to prejudice something different to karimov who ran it as a authoritarian enclosed state them much time. this could be a bit of a mixed bag. this does extend his term until 2040 but it does do things like guarantees lawyers a right to see their client, it has some domestic violence stuff in there as well. it allows people to have habeas corpus. these are some pretty good reforms that a lot of advocates have been pushing forfor a long time but it's a very worrying sign that mirziyoyev his backsliding and effectively doing effectively what happened last time there was a constitutional referendum in uzbekistan which was to extend karimov�*s terms, so a lot of deja vu for people covering uzbekistan for a while now. i was about to mention sceptics would say they've seen