international with me mickey arian that is a very big day for the russian president and the world media as president putin for pass to begin his annual media q. and a with journalists from back at home and abroad what's become a traditional end of the year here enabled this year be attended by a record number of journalists sound quite a scramble to get the front row seats in the conference hall was anticipated as our correspondent told us earlier before the conference began he's among the journalists in central moscow poised to put questions to the president let's take a look at his earlier report. just how bill would describe this is the kind of thing that happens ahead of every lot of our progress conference every year as soon as the people at the door say yes this is going to look a bit like black friday but to get a seat closer to the president this is where every meter counts because perhaps the russian leader will only be able to answer a few dozen questions and the number of people who want to do that is more than seventeen hundred this year. this year the ways to attract the at