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out with the old and in with the new trays the holiday break and hope which define twenty ten and look at the key about what shade to give for russia and. also europe's twelve months of turmoil with some of the biggest protest ever seen over slash spending and tax hikes predictions say there's worse to come as the cuts stop to bite. on the people's prophecies were hit the streets of new york to hear the wishes of the warriors ahead for twenty seven.

and a very warm welcome from all of us he moscow this is our see with the major news as a review of the twenty ten main events thanks for joining us every year has its ups and downs and twenty ten has been no exception it had its fashion and turns tragedy as well as a few spy scandal and embarrassing we can weeks along the way but it's definitely not been all bad with the world's biggest nuclear powers making a new start and for russia letting the world cup was acquiring more than a nice and now assesses the year and what lies ahead for twenty seven. i like to tell it was a year filled with leaks and laughter tears and tragedies it got off to a good start for russia signs of economic recovery no gas crisis with ukraine or bellow rules like in previous years and a relatively bearable winter but that all changed in march when terrorists struck the. twin blasts rocked moscow's metro during morning rush hour work killing

forty and injuring over one hundred two women suicide bombers blew themselves up on a central line one just meters from r.t. headquarters. we will find all of those who are guilty and we will punish them too kumara from chechnya who's on the international most wanted list and has links to al qaeda is the suspected mastermind behind the attack in a chain of special operations several terrorist involved in the suicide bombings taken out by russian special forces. president hamid to madrid dave and barack obama signed the new start treaty in the spring setting to slash both countries strategic nuclear stockpiles by a third this is the most significant arms control agreement in nearly two decades and congress only approved the pact just before christmas and the russian duma is expected to follow suit after months of waiting for their counterparts on capitol

hill to get through bipartisan wrangling there were fears the pact would be amended or blocked by senate republicans over unrelated domestic issues both the kremlin and white house the feeling the deal as a cornerstone in the restart between russia and the u.s. today. april tenth a tragedy with echoes in history shocked the world polish president lech kaczynski and most of the country's political elite were killed when their t.-u. one fifty four crashed near smolensk the delegation was going to mark seventy years since twenty thousand polish officers were massacred at cut them by soviet secret police just days before the accident a joint commemoration that could win was seen as a tremendous step for russian polish relations waited near over the past few days we held remembrance ceremonies mourning the victims of cold tell a tear in his own kaczynski was coming to russia to pay tribute to the killed

polish offices well russians share in your grief and sorrow. russian polish thais continue to warm as the two nations mourn together. in twenty ten russian marks sixty five years since defeating nazi germany in what's known as the great patriotic. elaborate great was how one red square as the heads of state looked on to commemorate some twenty seven million soviet minds lost during world war two. it was the first time in history countries that made up the allied forces took part in the tradition. twenty ten also saw the return of cold war spy scandal sending bombshells like her anna chapman into the headlines for weeks and then home to russia just don't fit that bill nelson inspires me more

than the amount and quality of people i met in new york it's the strongest largest and the most solid community in the world. but she didn't get to stay for long fam fatah and the chapman was just one of ten alleged russian spies exchanged in vienna for four american spies serving sentences in russia the scandal worthy of a hollywood blockbuster broke just after obama and medvedev dished out politics over burgers in virginia the media frenzy was a lot hotter than tempers in the u.s. and russia who ignored the hype with cool cooperation. record heat wreaked havoc in russia with summer temperatures and twenty ten lingering at forty celsius for over a month hundreds of wildfires ravaged the country killing over fifty and leaving thousands homeless. the flames left the capital covered in

a blanket of toxic smog for weeks moscow's mayor stay on vacation in the outs yury luzhkov was sacked the next month with president medvedev saying he lacked confidence in the mayor and sergei sabean and soon became our scouse top man. officially our first in the middle east iran's bushehr nuclear power plant was launched and unloaded and is set to be connected to the country's electric grid within months saving iran eleven million barrels of oil a year the plant is operated by specialists from russia which also provides the nuclear fuel and deals with the waste iran considers the launch of victory and proof of their peaceful atomic program despite criticism from the u.s. and israel. he never made it off the short list as time's person of the year but for many he is the man of twenty ten with the leaks founder

julian assange exposed hundreds of thousands of iraq war documents and american diplomatic cables to name just a few the u.s. government would like to get a solution silent here in wiki leaks. the wiki leaks website will continue to run. these documents were stolen the freedom of speech any breach of security like this is bad for diplomacy he's done an extraordinary job of journalism many people believe mr song to be innocent but the u.s. accuses him of as be a non-issue and in sweden he faces allegations of rape a son was arrested in the u.k. where he was seeking refuge later being granted bail after a legal wrangle and now has to wait to find out whether he'll be extradited to sweden clearing my name is not the hardest task i have the highest task i have is to continue on with my work the whistleblower continues to leak into the new year. following yukos head mico course he was found

guilty of laundering over twenty five billion dollars worth of oil and sentenced to fourteen years in jail he has nearly served out an eight year sentence for tax evasion and fraud and faces another six behind bars russia has been criticized for politicizing the case but putin says compared to financier bernie made off one hundred fifty years fourteen years is nothing more than a slap on the wrist. and last but not least twenty feet. ladies and gentlemen will be organized. it was a nail biting wait for the announcement with russia and england going head to head to the very end was a. little saucer secured the bid with his big dreams of football in the england secured have minds by dubbing russia's win

a fix from boredom over my heart sank you know mr putin only went to zurich after the announcement saying he didn't want to pressure fi fun for david cameron. and prince william weren't enough to bring the world come home to england russia didn't let the sword losing grain on their parade winning the right to host the world cup certainly goes down as one of the most enjoyable moments of the year but that does it for our look at twenty top tam nice and now away and from all of us here at r.t.e. happy new year stay with us for the top of ants in twenty eleven. for europe it was a year when the cash ran out in some countries but one thing that wasn't in short supply was the number of angry protesters as government severely cut back on budgets hundreds of thousands of people lash out in response lore and that wraps up what's been

a troubled year for europe and why people should brace themselves for twenty eleven . the summer of discontent that became a winter whoa for europe in crisis across the continent tens of thousands repeatedly turned out to protest against their government often resulting in violence and destruction. and it's not over yet after a brief holiday hiatus most assured the unrest will return in the new year and we haven't seen the worst of it yet. the first bomb on the door marked the credit card bills people will be beginning to lose their jobs people have been living the proof for this on their credit cards to pay their mortgages they're going to start defaulting that's when the real protests are going to stop in the u.k. was a huge hike in college fees that sparked the violence. in the

country's near collapse forced its toughest ever budget to secure an e.u. and i.m.f. rescue in greece and spain public sector pay slashed while taxes rice. for the french it's the prospect of being forced to work longer all measures which ensure working people pay for the mistakes of bankers and governments britain's enduring the harshest cuts since the second world war also reeling over forking out around twelve billion dollars for a huge membership and as we've seen the contribution rise i think is going up by two point nine percent unfortunately that is you know it's enough to get people actually quite quite right in the face quite hot. headed because we are having to say massive cuts here local authorities are cutting back on their frontline services and actually we don't feel as british people that we get that much in the we put a lot in we don't get an awful lot out london's biggest protest of more than fifty

thousand fell on deaf ear is inside the house of commons members voted to make students pay three times as much for their diplomas but they insist the vote hasn't dampened their spirits what parliament can do. the movement can and do in fact and we believe that we still have the chance of defeating the higher education bill which is going to be debated in the new year so far in the u.k. students and trade unions have been the most vocal but veteran politician and campaign attorney says the next move would be said former united front solidarity student support pensioners who are finding their pensions. disadvantage public support those who benefits of being cut to the thing becomes. very powerful political movement for drugs. and once the governments have closed right now the cuts are on paper but once they begin to bite so too will an increasingly angry

public not even the christmas tree on trafalgar square emerged unscathed from this winter's garlands an annual gift from the people of norway and a symbol of peace and goodwill protesters tried to set fire to the tree and graffiti on nelson's call in nearby and this isn't the end of civil unrest in the u.k. or across europe as governments continue to dig their way out of the crisis by forcing all staring into the people the people continue opposing them you're and is. until later this hour find out that people's four costs for the coming year. you're ready for solar flares the end of the world. great political unrest farming's natural disasters are more of the are of i expect asians for what you learn oh i'm going to enjoy it really go enjoy it everyone in new york such a look at the big apple's big predictions for trying to leaven that.

supplying festive fruit we had to where russia gets many of its iconic media tangerines a stumble of tables nationwide. for many russians the new year fishnet rings in with the kremlin china striking midnight but they do much more than herald a change of date and the boy has been finding out how they also keep in tune with people's deepest wishes. it was a hectic new year's eve four years ago because cynthia family was marking their six year together with all of finishing the cooking and peter interchange the guests. but as the cramming clock started counting down the last seconds of the year everybody paused. there rode out wishes and napkins burned them and sold the ashes in the champagne according to the time honored to russian ritual drinking it should a grand even the most on a team the wish of the hour we're going to get i can tell you what i have asked for

because this way it will come true let's wait and see if i'm lucky with my wish you will know about it a symbol of russia's officialdom the kremlin chimes are also an embodiment of people's most private hopes every year has the clock strikes midnight millions of russians ask fortunes for favors for those few seconds even cynics start to believe in magic. you can call it the cinderella fact according to polls the majority of those who are surprised wish granting powers to the kremlin chimes are women and some of the most popular in years wishes into finding your chill love getting married and having a baby. the largest clock in moscow this kremlin timepiece is also among the oldest in russia the current mechanism was installed in the late nineteenth century and it's still a measure of precision and while the chimes have more of the pendulum of russian

history swinging many times according to historians the wish making tradition is relatively new. put it on top of this tradition could be traced back to soviet times because never before had red square and the kremlin how it sucked. sacred status because it wasn't well publicized back then because there was no place for superstition in communist ideology but people made their wishes anyway and here's why four years after synchronizing their hopes for the kremlin chimes the descent a family has that own little new year a miracle running around the house and helping with the festive first decoration at the will of the family as well as she's the wish i wrote on that piece of net can in the one i meet and many many other occasions but i know for a fact from my own experience in the experience of my friends that on new year's eve you need to ask for something very dear to your heart and it will definitely come true for you there will be no gifts of frantic cooking deceiving but all in

biggest say once there dora goes to see the dream fairy they're all going to have a bottle of bubbly t.v. saturday crumbing chimes and proceed with their wishful thinking they're already think they're like a store but didn't stop dreaming. artsy mosco. our upsides online any time for you to get updates on the all out stories and hear some of what else is at the at r.t. dot com right now. americans love to shop but there's a real price to be paid to report on the plastic addiction that storing up trouble for the future. i made this siberian strongman where enormous what a hard climate helps to build might in muscles it's all about our team.

with new year on the way russia is preparing what is all good blades biggest nationwide event and few things truly among the holiday like a full russian feast alongside the traditional thought trees and champagne tangerines are a must have at festive dinner tables that is bollocks has been tracking down a key source for the celebrate treat citrus it's a party as golden harvest thousands and destroying the caucasus republic spend the winter months in their gardens picking fresh mandarins the fruit is a traditional feature of the russian holiday season we were very we call them. our mandarins are the most beautiful things we have in the parts you know the weather is beautiful because recently it's like god is looking at us from heaven. almost each family in a policy is a link in the chain of the growing and export of mandarins for decades it's provided a steady source of additional income during the low season when

a pozieres black sea beach resorts are closed down during the nine hundred ninety s. when the republic faced an international located after it declared independence from georgia this cottage industry suffered from the sanctions but survived after independence was recognized by russian two thousand and eight across the resumed full scale wholesale exports of its main agricultural produce the mandarin road starts here in the gardens around the capital so cool and as you can see the crops a very good the locals say they don't use any chemicals at all mandarin sub being picked by hand. let me show you how to do it right if he says is the mandarins will be fresh for much longer on the same day with heavy lorries and small trucks the man brings a being delivered to the russian border. usually we travel three to four times a day it depends on how many people are working in the garden. traders expect to sell more than thirty thousand tons of fresh fruit during winter months however the

competition is getting tough recently have been movers cases where street vendors in russia have fraudulent use their paws in bread and butter as opposed to mandarins a milliner because the emergence became famous for their sweet taste many thanks appeared in the market some vendors take turkish moroccan spanish or croatian projects throw away the flashy colorful cardboard boxes and put their margins into wooden crates just like the ones you can see here and they've claimed that the fruit is from abkhazia. but people in sukhumi are hoping consumers won't be fooled and even though buoying the real prize in gold gets more difficult in the festive season those who manage to find it will be delighted by the unforgettable taste a four part. if there is one city which knows how to see in the new year it's moscow coming up next our modern endurance

shows as the best places to be as midnight. we say goodbye to twenty millions of people here in moscow and indeed around the world are celebrating in style it's the largest events of the year in russia so join me marta boundaries as we take a look at the traditions history and the best locations to party and celebrate new year's eve in the russian capital. let's look at some other stories making world news on the final day of twenty turn the u.n. is moving follows a binary crows defeated leader to drop their threat of attacking the hotel security forces and the president elect are based it's feared that saturday's planned assault could spark another civil war the wrong refuses to quit even his rivals

being recognized by the world as winning last month's election the result he violence has claimed one hundred seventy three lives so far. fewer protests and believe it descended into violence as protesters demanded the government repealed massive price increases petrol costs shot on fire as much as eighty three percent after leaders say they could no longer afford to keep the six year price freeze in place marchers began peacefully but turned to clown shoes when they were prevented from getting a government offices police used tear gas to disperse crowds. three men have been charged for planning a terrorism attack in copenhagen a fourth man was free to tell like about events while this remains in custody in sweden it's alleged. they were targeting the office of a newspaper which printed i call to new depicting the prophet muhammad five years ago police say the suspects intended to break into a building and kill as many people as possible. time to get that crisp crystal ball

out and think about what lies ahead for the next twelve months on light talk show host laurie hoffman is now also people in new york what they expect to happen in two thousand to eleven. what do you expect the world to be like in two thousand and eleven this week let's talk about that what do you think the economy is going to be like in two thousand and eleven i think about the same the same no different i think it's going real slow so i don't know i don't see any big changes is there going to be any peace in the middle east next year i hope there is but it doesn't look it doesn't look good to me think there's too much polarization there ready for solar flares the end of the world yeah great political unrest couple of farming's probably another natural disaster somewhere in there if i expect asians were to audio no i'm going to enjoy it i'm really going to enjoy it what do you think scientists should focus on and

twenty eleven. i guess global warming is the big issue and a lot of people are very skeptical but i think we should focus on fossil fuels and replacing the eyes do you have faith that governments are going to do that no none whatsoever obama has promised to cut down on nuclear weapons around the out do you expect to see any difference in that in twenty levon is always a lot of talk but there's never a verification of whether it's done or not we kind of did this with north koreans back in the ninety's under clinton and yet they still went ahead with their program we see where we are now we're still arguing over itself. be in a new dawn and time to change most people of new year's resolutions are out there in the body and the. why don't we ever learn from that. because it's hard to keep up the bottom line is no matter what your expectations are for two thousand and eleven let's just hope it's happy and healthy for as many of us as possible.

back to the present on today's business news where she's here shortly. hello and a very well welcome to the business program twenty ten saw russia announced its most in bishop's privatization program since the mine tonight and is the plan is to sell stakes in major state owned companies within the next three years to attract around thirty billion dollars. and the list contains hundreds of companies of different sizes and from various actors with russia's biggest oil producer also nafta planning to sell twenty five percent the same goes for russian railways the

country's biggest lenders bear a bank is to sell seven percent while b. to b. will sell thirty five point five percent stake. and also includes a seven percent stake in hydro power holding rooms hydro and a fifty percent minus ones a she has a stake in shipping companies source conflict. russia will keep control of the farms retaining fifty percent plus one share if the sell off is a success the state says it's ready to offload even more. i wish them to be. as the first step we plan to retain fifty percent plus one share for the state in the next three years but depending on the results and looking at the market trends we can go further and sell the controlling stake so in the majority of companies we can lower the state's share to twenty five percent plus one. well for the second year in a row russia's stock markets have taken leading growth positions among global indices as to i think crystal reports. very strong and better than expected that's

how most analysts describe this year's performance of the russian stock markets both the r.t.s. and my six have grown over twenty two percent in comparison the japanese nikkei lost two percent the footsie s. and p. five hundred and dow jones indices are lingering around the ten percent mark of wood in russia this is been a year for domestic retailers pharmacies utilities car makers they grew the most outsiders were oil companies and guns were drawn that didn't gain anything at all to say the oil and gas sectors growth was hampered by b.p. oil spill in the gulf of mexico oil and gas prices and relatively low realization of volumes however russia is still looking cheaper than its peers russian companies now traded at price to earnings multiples of not only have versus brazil and companies.