now i'm joined by journalist owen holdaway his an arab bail following the papal visit heigho and the pope met with one of the most powerful figures and shiite islam grand ayatollah ali al sistani why was this meeting so important. i think it's extremely important because as you say he's one of the most powerful shiite leaders in the not just in iraq iran that ram whole middle east so i think the meeting of them to give a joint message of unity and was streaming important you know and also signals a lot of that ship follows that you know to actually go along with that.