prime minister hide a body is on a two day trip to france where he ll meet the french president manuel mccollum a body s office says their talks will focus on the war against the so-called islamic state and economic cooperation between france and iraq and his presidency has backtracked on an earlier statement which server called would discuss last week s kurdish referendum in iraq. or more now let s bring in our correspondent lisa lewis in paris elise so what are the french and iraqi leaders hoping to get out of their meeting today well both sides have been saying that this meeting is on economic cooperation and how french companies can actually how to rebuild iraq and also on counterterrorism but as you said you know they ve pink elephant in the room well of you that referendum that happened not long ago where more than ninety percent of they say they ting in the semi autonomy is could regional free iraq declare that they were in favor of independence and then a knock on the french pr