mr rouhani for his cooperation. and like to congratulate respect. and situations and delegation and all that. we have stated. that we are determined to continue to deepen our cooperation in these areas and like to ask my brother mr president rani to take the microphone. at the midst of all. mr or the gun. present. for follow to express regret is that your invitation. for your warm hospitality. and i'm. sure. don't want. to join. all right we appear to be having some technical difficulties. with our translator.

mr. rouhani of iran visiting turkey. they are saying they can sort out syria.r interest by pulling out of syria? >> no doubt about it. could havetayed, we gotten the russians to pressure the iranians to get out. but they wanted this, just as they are doing better in yemen. 's policy of getting out of the iran nuclear deal to prevent iran from expanding its influence, this does not help at all. david: i'm really curious about jim mattis, a distinguished soldier. what is his -- what is his position in this administration? again and again to persuade the president of things. he is not always successful. --i think it was a civilian if it was a civilian in there, they might have resigned when they sent the troops to the border. but remember, he is a military person. military people are used to following orders. they make their opinion known and they follow it. that is one of the things keeping mattis in there. that's why it is not good to have a military person in charge of the pentagon. i think bob gates or any of the previous secretaries would be long gone by now

rouhani there speaking in a joint news conference with turkish president richard. who you just heard from here just to kind of sum up. mr edwards comments a little bit basically reiterating the bilateral ties between the two countries and working towards strengthening their economic relationship which he had knowledge has taken a hit over the last year or so he said trade between the two countries has fallen considerably between twenty seventeen and october twenty eighth of last year and this is something but they are looking to address he also talked about the so-called starner process these these are the ongoing peace talks to try to end the war in syria because of course both countries have a major presence in syria turkey and. iran iran supporting president bashar forces as they fight against the rebels there and turkey with a presence in northern syria trying to fend off the kurdish separatists in northern syria we're still waiting to fix that translation the english translation of rouhani at this point and while we're waiting for that we're going to go to the heart of who has been listening to this with us in anka