welcome back to crossfire where all things considered i'm peter lavelle toronto we're discussing some real news. ok let's go back to alexander in london i've been waiting for this announcement for this these reforms of whatever nature well but because we're looking at president putin's term will end in 2024 and everyone wants to know and it's a cottage industry operation successor we've been thinking about of her 20 years now it's coming about and i think the timing is just perfect it is a gradual process. looking at the constitution tweaking it here and there to meet the times and face the future here however of course we have western media coverage coming to power how do react to how westerners receive this this package of reforms go ahead alex is supposed to pull up some words let's just compact this sort of all out moment how computed cling to power when the he's made it absolutely clear that there's any going to be 2 terms so that rules him out standing as president in 2020 fool and there is no other think going to be comparable to the president. as a result of well i mean you kn