with the old and in with the new we trace the heartbreak and which define two thousand and ten and look at the key events which shape the year for. europe's twelve months of turmoil with some of the biggest protests ever seen over spending and tax hikes but predictions say there's worse to come as the cuts start to bite. and the people's prophecy so we hit the streets of new york to hear the wish. i had for two thousand and eleven.

he is coming to you live from moscow welcome to the program we are highlighting the very best and worst of two thousand and ten well every year has its ups and downs but this one's been no exception two thousand and ten had its fair share of intense tragedy as well as a few spy scandals and embarrassing a wiki leaks along the way but it's definitely not all been bad with the world's biggest nuclear powers making a new start and for russia netting the world cup was a crowning moment and he said no way assesses the year and what lies ahead for two thousand and eleven. twenty ten 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 bell the roof 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 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 the. president to meet 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 congress only approved the pact just before christmas and the russian duma is

expected to follow suit real after months of waiting for their counterparts on your 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 us. 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 thin 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 tele tearing isn't what

kaczynski was coming to russia to pay tribute to the killed polish officers the thing well russians share in your grief and sorrow. russian polish ties 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 heads of state moved on to commemorate some twenty seven million soviet mines most 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 doesn't fit that bill nelson inspires me more than the amount and the quality of people and might 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 media frenzy was a lot harder than tempers in the u.s. and russia who ignored the hype with cool cooperation. record heat wreaks havoc in russia with summer temperatures and twenty two and 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 capitol covered in a blanket of toxic smoke for weeks moskos mayor stay on vacation in laos yuri luzhkov was sacked the next month with the president with major saying he lacks confidence in the mayor and sergei so. beyond them soon became a scouse top man. this is really our first in the middle east iran's bushehr nuclear power plant was launched and loaded and is said 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 a 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 wiki 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 social silence here and wiki leaks the wiki leaks website will continue to run its top these documents were stolen the freedom of speech any breach of security like this is bad for diplomacy an extraordinary job of journalism many people believe mr song to be innocent but the u.s. accuses him of as be anonymous and in sweden he faces allegations of rape the 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 hard 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 had to cough 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 offs one hundred fifty years fourteen years is nothing more than a slap on the wrist. and last but not least twenty eight hundred feet from both ladies and gentlemen the bilby organized manner. it was a nail biting wait for the announcement with russia and england going ahead thirty and was a good. little sloshes secured the bid with his big dreams of football in the

england secured have blinds by doubling russia's wind picks from both them over my heart saying q prime minister putin only went to zurich after the announcement saying he didn't want to pressure fee for both david cameron backroom and prince william wanted not to bring the world cup home to england. russia didn't let the sword losing reign 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 eight hands top ten companies and now way and for all of us here at r t happy new year stay with us for the top of dance in twenty eleven. well 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 governments are severely cut back on budgets hundreds of thousands of people lashed out in response artie's lore and it

wraps up what's been a troubled year for europe and why people should brace themselves for two thousand and eleven. the summer of discontent that became a winter whoa for a 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 john a thirty first fabulous first bomb on the door mat 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 and in the u.k. was a huge hike in college fees that sparked the violence. in ireland the

country's near collapse forced its toughest ever budget to secure an e.u. and i.m.f. rescue in greece in spain public sector pay slashed while taxes rise. 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 see 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'd say the vote hasn't dampened their spirits what parliament can do the streets 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 to students support pensioners who are finding their pensions. disadvantaged public support those who benefits are being cut to the thing becomes. very powerful political movement for drugs and once the government. 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 violence and from the people of norway and the 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. to the people the people continue. your and it's oh it's we. all are coming to you live from moscow nearly quarter past the hour on the last day of two thousand and ten and a little bit later we have the forecast for the coming year from the streets of new york. get ready for. the end of the world. great. natural disasters of the rabbi expectations but what do you well know i'm going to

enjoy it really go enjoy the one there is a. big apple predictions for two thousand and. supplying festive fruits we had to wear russia gets many of its iconic new year tangerines which are a staple. nationwide. well for many russians the new year officially with the kremlin chimes striking midnight but they do much more than herald a change of date. has been finding out they also help to keep in tune with peoples the persuasions. it was a hectic new year's eve four years ago because santa's family was marking their six year together with all of finishing the cooking and pay to entertain in 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 soaked the

ashes in the champagne according to the time honored russian ritual drinking it should have grand even the most unattainable wish on the world. or young will do i can tell you what i have asked for because this way it will come true let's wait and see if i am lucky with my wish you will know about it. a symbol of russia's officialdom the kremlin charms are also an embodiment of people's most private hopes every year has the cloak strikes midnight millions of russians ask fortune 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 scribed wish granting powers to the kremlin chimes are women and some of the most popular new year's wishes include finding your children are getting married and having a baby. the largest cloak in moscow these 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 on top of his tradition could be traced back to soviet times because never before had red square and the kremlin had such a sacred status 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 of family has that own little new year a miracle running around the house and helping with the festive first decoration at the little farm wasn't she's the wish i wrote on that piece of net can in the one i mean in 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 discerning but all in biggest say once they're dora goes to see the dream fairy they're all going to have a bottle of bubbly t.v. saturday cramming chimes and proceed with the wishful things. he really ready things down like a story but didn't stop dreaming. all right see. well our website online any time for you to get updates on all of our stories and here are some of what else is waiting for you right now at r.t. dot com well americans love to shop but there's a real price to be paid we report on the plastic addiction that's storing up trouble for the future. and meet the siberian strongman where in homes where the hot climate helps build mighty muscles it's all about r.t. dot com.

with a new year on the way russia is preparing for what is arguably its a biggest nationwide event and a few things truly mark the holiday like a full russian feast alongside the traditional fur trees and champagne tangerines are a must have festive dinner tables to mean tracking down a key source for the celebrity citrus. it's a party as golden harvest thousands and the tiny caucuses republic spend the winter months in their gardens picking fresh mandarins the fruit is a traditional feature of the russian holiday season we want to we call them gold our mandarins are the most beautiful things we have in a posse i'm the weather's been helping us 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 the 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 recognised by rushing two thousand and eight up cause it 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 and all mandarin sub being picked by hand. let me show you how to do it right if he says is the mandarin to be fresh for much longer on the same day with heavy lorries and small trucks that

mandarin sabine 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 a posse of traders expect to sell more than thirty thousand tons of fresh fruit during winter months however the competition is getting tough recently have been numerous cases where street vendors in russia have fraudulent use their paws in bread as opposed to money things a milliner can see emergence became famous for their sweet taste many thanks appeared in the market some vendors take turkish moroccan spanish or croatian project throw away the flashy colorful cardboard boxes and put their madrid's into wooden crates just like the ones you can see here and they blame that the fruit is from abkhazia. the people in sukhumi are hoping consumers won't be fooled and even though boring the real pies in gold gets more difficult in the festive season those who manage to find it will be delighted by the unforgettable tista forecasts

. yes summer did a school. it's now twenty one minutes past the hour here in moscow let's look at some other stories making news on the final day of two thousand and ten in the u.s. warning followers of ivory coast defeated leader to drop their threat of attacking the hotel where its security forces and the president elect are based its fear that saturday's planned assault could spark another civil war by both refuses to quit even his rivals being recognized by the world as a winning last month's election the resulting violence has claimed over one hundred seventy three lives so far. severe flooding in eastern australia is affecting some two hundred thousand people that's rising waters deluge homes and businesses officials in queensland say the flood zone covers an area bigger than france and germany combined the entire populations of two towns have been evacuated to safety

while others have been totally cut off it is estimated the cleanup will cost billions of dollars. three men have been charged in denmark for planning a terrorism attack in copenhagen a fourth man was freed due to lack of evidence while a fifth remains in custody in sweden it's alleged that they were targeting the office of a newspaper which printed a cartoon depicting the prophet mohammed five years ago police say the suspects intended to break into a building and kill as many people as possible. ok well now it's time to get out the crystal ball and think about what lies ahead for the next twelve months online a talk show host laura now asks people in new york what they expect to happen in two thousand and 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's going to be like in two thousand and eleven i think about the same about 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 thinking 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 you have high expectations for what you well know 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 although a lot of people are very skeptical but i think we should focus on fossil fuels and replacing nice 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 two thousand and eleven 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 it's. time to change most people of new year's resolutions are out there in the body and. why don't we ever learn from that. because this hole 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. here with the business news.

hello this is our business update welcome to the program and we continue to bring you the highlights of this year and see what's lying ahead. twenty ten saw russia announce its most ambitious privatization program since the nine hundred ninety s. the plan is to sell stakes in major state owned companies within the next three years to attract around thirty billion dollars the list contains hundreds of companies of different sizes and from various sectors with russia's biggest oil producer ross left planning to sell twenty five percent the same goes for russian railways the country's biggest lenders burbank is to sell seven percent while v.t. b. will sell thirty five and a half percent the plan also includes a seven percent stake in hydro power holding was hydro and a fifty percent minus one share stake in shipping companies of course lot russia will keep control of the forum to retaining fifty percent plus one share but if the

some offers a success the state says it's ready to offload even more. than was going 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 share to twenty five percent plus one. per second year in a row russia's stock markets have taken leading growth positions among global indices as to i think 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 ford c. s. and p. five hundred and jones indices are lingering around the ten percent mark. in russia

this is been a year for domestic oriented retailers pharmacies utilities car makers they grew the most outsiders were all companies and guns from the. didn't gain anything analysts say the oil and gas sectors growth was hampered by b.p. oil spill in the gulf of mexico low oil and gas prices and relatively low realization of volumes however russia is still looking cheaper than its peers and russian companies now traded at price to earnings multiples of nine and a half versus brazil and companies brazilian market trading at a thirteen year a share and cheney's above sixteen in fact turkey is the only emerging market outperforms russia with a twenty five percent growth but experts point out that pricier turkish companies have lower prospects of growth in two thousand and eleven as for russia the early growth part of the economic cycle means investors should keep an eye on him.