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room the photo guru gold how would. she. help with the old with the new. hope two thousand and ten look at the switch. europe's twelve months of home with some of the biggest protest ever seen about slash spending tax hikes but predictions. start to bite. on the people we hit the streets of new york to hear the news for two thousand. and four the second here in a row russia's stock markets have been taken positions.

with the very best. and worst of two thousand and ten you're watching r.t. 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 a wiki leaks along the way but it's certainly not being all bad with the world's biggest nuclear powers making a new start and for russia netting the world cup so crowning achievement and he said our yes this is 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

bell the roots 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 is on the international most wanted list and has links to al qaeda is the suspected mastermind behind the attack on a chain of special operations several terrorist involved in the suicide bombings were taken out by russian special forces. presidents to me to medvedev 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 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 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 catherine 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 totalitarianism let kaczynski was coming to russia to pay tribute to the killed polish offices 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 mood. the number to rate was how one red square as the heads of state looked on memory some twenty seven million so we had 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 has done just that you know that's an 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 and 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. record 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 capitol covered in a blanket of toxic smoke for weeks moskos mayor stay on vacation in the hours yuri luzhkov was sacked the next month with the president with major saying he lacks confidence in the mayor and sergei sabean and soon became mosque oust top man. this is really a first in the middle east iran's bushehr nuclear power plant was launched and loaded 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 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 side of 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 he's done an extraordinary job of journalism many people believe mr a song to be innocent but the u.s. accuses him of aspin and in sweden he faces allegations of rape a songe 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 offs one hundred fifty years fourteen years is nothing more than a slap on the wrist. and last but not least twenty feet. 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 was

a. little sasha secured the bid with his big dreams of football in england secured headlines by dubbing russia's win a fix from both them over my heart thank you prime minister putin only went to zurich after the announcement saying he didn't want to pressure thief well david cameron. and turn to you were not to bring the world cup home to england russia didn't let the sort of losing rain on their parade winning the right to host the world cup certainly goes down as one of the most enduring bull moments of the year but that does it for our look at twenty cannes top tam nominees and now away and from all of us here at r.t.e. 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 to you so lauren 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 woes 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. every the 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 our land 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 red 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 ears as inside the house of commons members voted. make students pay three times as much for that to play as but they insist the vote hasn't dampened the spirits what parliament can do. to the movement can 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. disadvantaged. support those who benefits are being cut to the thing becomes. a very very powerful

political movement. and we. have 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 this winter. 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. coming to you live from the heart of the russian capital we're glad to have you with us today now a little bit later we're going to be hearing the forecast for the coming year from the streets of new york. ready for a. great. period

of i expect asians what do you enjoy really going to enjoy everyone there is a. big big predictions for two thousand coming up a little bit later. supplying festive fruits we had to wear many of its iconic new year with. well for many russians the new year officially but the kremlin chimes striking midnight but they do much more than just her all the change of date. has been finding out just 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 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 sold the ashes in the champagne according to the time honored to russian ritual drinking it should a 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 clock 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 new year's wishes include finding your children 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 it over 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 consent of family has that own little new year a miracle running around the house and helping with the festive furs decoration at the will of the farmers that she's there 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 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 things. they were already things down like a store but didn't stop dreaming. and wake up all right see. our websites on line any time you'd like to get some updates on all of our stories and hear 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 strong man we are and where the hard climate helps to build mighty muscles it's all at all to dot com.

with a new year on the way russia is preparing for what is arguably its biggest nationwide event and a few things are truly maga holiday like a full russian feast alongside traditional for trees and champagne tangerines are a must have at festive dinner tables twenty spots has been tracking down a key source for the celebratory 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 went away we call them gold our mandarins are the most beautiful things we have in

a posse 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 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 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. but 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 but as opposed to london's 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 mansions into wooden crates just like the ones you can see here and they claim that the fruit is from abkhazia. the people in sukhumi are hoping consumers won't be fooled and even though buoying the real pies in gold gets more difficult in the festive season

those who manage to find it will be delighted by the unforgettable taste of forecasts. ok look at some other stories making news around the world on this final day of two thousand and four the u.n. warning followers of ivory coast defeated leader to drop their threat of attacking the hotel where security forces and the president elect are staying it's feared that saturday's planned assault could spark another civil war. refuses to quit even his rivals been recognized by the world is winning last month's election the result in violence at this point has killed over one hundred seventy three people. so we're flooding in eastern australia is affecting some two hundred thousand people as rising waters deluged 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 cut off completely it's estimated the cleanup will cost them billions of dollars. well 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 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. or i will pull out the old crystal ball and think about what lies ahead for the next twelve months online talk show host laurie huff and now ask people in the in the big apple 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 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 you have i expect asians for twenty leno 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 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. of new year's resolutions are out there in the body and the. 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. their idea of just doom and gloom from the people of new york in that well to keep your eyes on a yes we are running down the very best and the very worst stories of two thousand and ten for the meantime with the past this. that's right time to get the latest from the world of business welcome to the

program and we continue to bring you the highlights of the year twenty ten and look what's ahead in twenty eleven twenty eight it send saw russia announce its most ambitious privatization programs in mind in mind his 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 from various sectors but russia's biggest oil producer also met planning to sell twenty five percent the same goes for russian railways the country's biggest lenders burbank is to sell seven percent while d.t.b. will sell thirty five and a half percent plan also includes a seven percent stake in hydro power holding rose hydro and a fifty percent minus one share stake in shipping companies soft for russia will keep control of the firms retaining fifty percent plus one share what if the sell off this is success the state says it's ready to offload even more. risk than 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 stakes so in the majority of companies we can lower the state's share to twenty five percent plus one. for the second year in a row russian stock markets have taken leading growth positions among global indices as to my fit 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.g.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 jones in the season. are lingering around the ten percent mark of wood will in russia this is been a year for domestic retailers pharmacies utilities can make is what they grew the

most outside as well oiled companies and guns plume 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 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 the so-called cyclical sectors there are cyclical sectors they include. financial services.