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the very best and worst of two thousand and ten well every year has its ups and downs and 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 wiki leaks along the way but it's definitely not been all bad with the world's biggest nuclear powers making a new start for russia netting the world cup was a crowning moment to use and he said no way assesses the year and what lies ahead for two thousand and eleven. i went to town 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. 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 were taken out by russian special forces. presidents 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

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 see sealing 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 at keteyian 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 terrorism kaczynski was coming to russia to pay tribute to the killed polish officers that all russians share in your grief and sorrow. russian polish ties continue to war 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 move. an elaborate braid was how one red square as 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 out of 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 the quality of people i met in new york it's the strongest largest and the most solid community in the world. but you didn't get to stay for long fam fatah anna chapman was just one of ten alleged russian spies exchanged in vietnam 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. prickers heat wreaked 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 capital covered in a blanket of toxic smog for weeks moskos mayor stay on vacation in the outs yuri luzhkov was sacked the next month with president medvedev saying he lacks confidence in the mayor and sergei so. beyond and soon became our 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 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 human 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 an extraordinary job of journalism many people believe mr song to be innocent but the u.s. accuses him of espionage 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 to be a 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 had me come out of the 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 madoff's one hundred fifty years fourteen years is nothing more than a slap on the wrist. and last but not least twenty feet from both legs john the money will be organized manner. it was a nail biting way to the announcement with russia and england going head to head to the very end. little sloshes secured the bid with his big

dreams of football in the england secured have behind by doubling russia's wind picks from both them over my head saying q prime minister putin only went to zurich after the announcement saying he didn't want to pressure fi fuck all david cameron back and prince william wanted not to bring the world cup home to england russia didn't let those sort of losing rain 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 times top time companies and now away and from all of us here at our team 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 severely cut back on

budgets hundreds of thousands of people lashed out in response r.t. so lorimer 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 mats 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 writes. 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. red in the face quite hot headed because we are having to see massive cuts here local authorities are cutting back on the 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 ears as 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 the 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 so former united front solidarity students support pensioners who are finding their pensions. disadvantage public support those who benefits are being cut to the thing becomes. very powerful political movement. 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 square emerged unscathed. 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. to the people the people continue. your and. the forecast for the coming. of.

the year of i expect patients. really enjoy not everyone. we had to wear. for many russians the new year officially. chimes striking midnight but they do much more than just a change of date. finding out how they also keep in tune with people's deepest. it was a hectic new year's eve four years ago because some family was marking their six year together with all of finishing the cooking and peter intervening 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 to russian ritual drinking it should have grand even the most unattainable wish on the world. i can tell you what i have asked for because this way it won't 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 ascribed wish granting powers to the kremlin chimes are women and some of the most popular in years wishes include finding your chalabi 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. you couldn't know what the fish 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 their own little new year a miracle running around the house and helping with the festive first decoration at the will of the family is what 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 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 the wishful thinking they were already think they're like a store but didn't stop dreaming. of wake up artsy mosco. and our websites online any time for you to get updates on all of our stores here's some of what's waiting for you right now that. americans love to shop and there's a real price to pay we report on the conviction that storing up trouble for the future. helps to build muscles it's all out.

with new year on the way russia is preparing for what is arguably its a biggest nationwide event and a few things truly holiday like a full russian feast alongside traditional fur trees and champagne tangerines are a must have a festive dinner tables to tracking down a source for the celebratory citrus. golden harvest. this republic spend the winter months in their gardens picking fresh. fruit is a traditional feature of the russian holiday season we win is the way we call them . our mandarins are the most beautiful things we have in the party the weather has 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 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 but let me show you how to do it right if he says is the manager into the 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 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 mandarin as 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 trotters throw away the flashy colorful cardboard boxes and put their margins into wooden crates just like the ones you can see here and they claim that the fruit is from abkhazia. and the 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 of four cars. now about twenty minutes past.

some other stories making news on the final day of two thousand and ten the u.n. . defeated leader to drop the threat of attacking the security forces the president. it's fear the. war. refuses to quit even his rivals being recognized by the world as winning last month's election results in violence so far as claimed about one hundred seventy three. severe flooding in eastern australia is affecting some two hundred thousand people as rising water homes and businesses officials in queensland flood zone covers an area bigger than france and germany combined the entire populations of evacuating to safety while others have been completely cut off it is estimated the cleanup will cost billions of dollars. and is.

planning a terrorism attack in copenhagen. remains in custody in sweden it's alleged they were targeting the office of a newspaper which cartoon depicting the prophet mohammed five years ago police say the suspects intended to break into a building many people as possible. well now it's time to get out the crystal ball and think about what lies ahead for the next twelve months online talk show host laurie huff and it's now people in new york with a speck to happen in two thousand and eleven. what do you expect the world to be like in twenty this week let's talk about that what do you think the economy going to be like. i think about the same the same no different i think it's going to. 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 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 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 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. in

a new dawn and time to change most paper of new year's resolutions are out the window. 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 with the business. hello and a very warm welcome for our business update and we continue to bring you the highlights of this year and also taking a look at head. twenty ten saw russia analysis most ambitious privatization program says the nine to ninety is 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 various sectors but russia's biggest oil producer ross may have to planning to sell twenty five percent the same goes for russian railways the country's biggest lenders burbank used to sell seven percent while b two b. will sell thirty five and a half percent the plan also includes a seven percent stake in hydro power holding bruce hydro and a fifty percent minus one share stake in shipping companies soft float russia will keep control of the forum's retaining fifty percent plus one share but if the sell off is a success the state says it's ready to offload even more. and wish them with a beautician. 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. and for the second year in a row russia stock markets have taken leading growth positions among global indices as 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.g.s. and my six have grown over twenty two percent in comparison the japanese nikkei lost two percent. and the footsie s. and p. five hundred and dow jones indices are lingering around the ten percent mark of wood bull in russia this is been a year for domestic retailers pharmacies utilities comic is what they grew the most outsiders were companies in concert room that didn't gain anything analysts say the oil and gas sectors growth was hampered by b.p.'s 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 and russian companies now traded at price to earnings multiples of nine and a half versus brazil and company's brazilian market trading at a thirteen year a share and chaney's above sixteen in fact turkey is the only emerging market that outperformed russia with a twenty five percent growth but experts point out that pricier turkish companies have a lower cost two to growth in two thousand and eleven as for russia the early growth part of the economic cycle means investors should keep an eye on the so-called cyclical sectors there are cyclical sectors they include. financial services they include retailers consumers they include telecom italia it is mel's and mining overall for two thousand and eleven analysts expect another year down sproule from the russian and she's up to twenty five percent timothy across.