to talk about this washington had warned before that the imprisonment or detainee detention of mr branson is not acceptable those talks on wednesday went nowhere and so trump and the white house ministration is. squeezing it a little bit here trying to. make the turks understand that if they don't cough rating and sticking to their reportedly weren't they had given to the u.s. to free branson that they have to face the consequences tariffs is one tool to do this and as the u.s. president tries to squeeze president anyone into doing what he wants joint i'd like to turn back to you because we heard erica won you know blaming the turkish economy's woes on the west but the turkish currency has been taking for months we have to mention i mean investors really concerned because inflation is at nearly sixteen percent but the central bank is reluctant to raise rates in response which is something that you would normally see a central bank do what is anyone's way forward here. well you're right i mean basically this is what vessels have been saying it's a slow motion train crash has been waiting t

mr. richard branson.a difficult time with analysts, and then he decided not to ipo some of his companies. there are parallels when it comes to the temperament of the founder and what would be best for the company because of the founders temperament. tom: bloomberg technology will really dive into this with a west coast feel. i need to look over at the bloomberg terminal. there are so many moving parts. if you are just joining us, it truly has been idiosyncratic. that ended with comments from mr. erdogan a few hours ago. 5.92 on turkish lira. u.s. curve flattening. the german two-year is at benchmark for european debt goes into a greater negative, lower yield this morning. we'll continue. stay with us. this is bloomberg. ♪ francine: this is "bloomberg surveillance." tom and francine from london and new york. 80% of our time is on lira and turkey and markets, but there are other things. talksnk is said to be in with the startup that makes and delivers pizza with the help of robots. are ratchetings up pressu