and joining me from paris now is correspondent lisa lewis good to see you lisa we understand that michael and merkel have given short statements what do they intend to focus on during this meeting. well absolutely as you said they were going there are going to talk about lots of international issues including the crisis in syria the turkish offensive both only did have apparently talked to the turkish leader to tell him to stop the offensive immediately but there was this red thread going through both statements with both leaders saying you know we need to be strong we need to show unity these are very difficult and worrying times as french leader in one of our cast said and angela merkel from germany said something that she'd actually in that way never said before she said that a europe needed to this strong franco german engine because they were facing new challenges and then she said you know we're going to face a new competitor we will not only face the u.s. and china but they will be the u.k. so we need to be stronger than ever before really interesting so paying less lip service the