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with the old and in with the new we traced the heartbreak which defined two thousand and ten and look at the key events which shape the year for russia. europe the twelve months of turmoil with some of the biggest protests ever seen spending and tax hikes but predictions say there's a worse to come as the cuts start to bite. on the people's prophecies we hit the streets of new york to hear their wishes and worries for two thousand and.

four you are watching live from moscow on the last day of two thousand and ten and it's already time to wish our viewers in new zealand a very happy new year 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 at 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 was a crowning moment. assesses the year and what lies ahead for two thousand and eleven. ten 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 routes like in previous years and a relatively bearable winter but that all changed in march when terror 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 archie headquarters. we will find all of those who are guilty and we will punish them do kumara from chechnya who is on the international most wanted list and has links to al qaeda is the suspected mastermind behind the attack your train of special operation several terrorist involved in the suicide bombings taken out by russian special forces. president is ready 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 the 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 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 and let kaczynski was coming to russia to pay tribute to the killed polish offices that 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 bridge 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 anna chapman into the headlines

for weeks and then home to russia that she's. innocent 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 you 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 now moscow's mayor stay on vacation in riyadh yuri luzhkov was sacked the next month with president mid-range of 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 social silence 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 it is 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 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 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. well a new coach had me 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 madoff's one hundred fifty years fourteen years is nothing more than a slap on the wrist. last but not least twenty they didn't feed for both ladies and gentlemen to 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 sloshes secured the bid with his big dreams of football and

england secured have minds by dubbing russia's win fix from boredom over my heart thank you prime minister putin only went to zurich after the announcement saying he didn't want to pressure fi fuck all david cameron back to him and prince william weren't enough to bring the world cup home to england russia didn't let the sword losing brain 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 to him and he said now away and from all of us here at our 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 governments severely cut back on budgets hundreds of thousands of people lashed out in response lauren that 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. 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 our land 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 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 u. 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 member. voted to make students pay three times as much for that to play but they insist the vote hasn't dampened the spirits but parliament can do. 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 ben says the next move would be said former united front. students support pensioners who are finding their pensions. disadvantage public support those who benefits are being cut to the thing becomes. a very very powerful political movement for justice and once the governments have to listen 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 posting austerity onto the people the people continue. your and it's. just a little bit later for you we have a forecast for the coming year from the streets of new york. get ready for solar flares the end of the world yeah great. couple of farming's natural disasters somewhere in europe by expectations for twenty one oh i'm going to enjoy it really enjoy it. do we get the big balls

a big predictions for two thousand coming away just a little bit later. on supplying festive fruits we had to wear many of its iconic new year tangerine with char staple of dinner tables nationwide. for many russians the new year officially brings in with the kremlin chimes striking midnight but they do much more than just herald a change of date. 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 some family was marking their six year together with all of finishing the cooking and pay to entertain in the guests . but as the kremlin 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 a grand even the most unattainable wish of the world though. i can't tell you what i've 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 are scribed wish granting powers to the kremlin chimes are women and some of the most popular new year's wishes include finding your chill live 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 descent of family has that own little new year a miracle running around the house and helping with the festive first decoration of the family 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. there will be no gifts of frantic cooking deceiving but all in biggest say was there dora goes to see the dream fairy they're all going to have a bottle of bubbly hyundai t.v. saturday crumbing chimes and proceed with the wishful thinking they're already think they're like a store but didn't stop dreaming. artsy mosco. our web sites online any time you get updates on all of our stories and here's some of what else is at r.t. dot com right now americans love to shop but there's a real price to be paid for report on the plastic addiction that storing up trouble for the future. and meet the siberian strongman there and whether it helps to build my team muscles and all that dot com.

he is coming to you live from moscow and with a new year on the way russia is preparing for what is arguably its biggest a nationwide event and few things truly mark the holiday like a full russian feast now alongside their traditional for trees and champagne tangerines are a must have at festive dinner tables denise has been tracking down the source for the secretary citrus it's a party as golden harvest thousandths and the tiny caucuses republic spend the winter months in their gardens picking freshmen durance 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 a posse of the weather has been helping us recently it's like god is looking at us from heaven. almost each family in a pause it 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 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 you fizzes the mandarins will be fresh for much longer on the same day with heavy lorries and small trucks the men bring some 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 policy and brand it as a positive wonderings 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 blame that the fruit is from abkhazia. the people in sukhumi are hoping consumers won't be fooled and even though buoying the real uprising on gold gets more difficult in the festive season those who manage to find it will be delighted by the unforgettable taste of of course. this summer did a school ski are the. right word in just

a moment charlotte's going to be here with the business news but for the meantime let's check out some other stories making world news on the final day of two thousand and ten and the u.n. is warning followers of ivory coast's defeated leader to drop their threat of attacking the hotel where the security forces and president elect of based its fear that saturday's planned assault could spark another civil war long by both refuses to quit even his rivals being recognized by the world as winning last month's election the resulting violence has so far claimed over one hundred and seventy three lives. severe flooding in eastern australia is affecting some two hundred thousand people as 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 and it's estimated the cleanup will cost billions

of dollars. and three men have been charged in denmark for planning a terrorism attack in copenhagen a fourth man was freed due to a lack of evidence while a fifth remains in custody in sweden it's alleged they were targeting the office of a newspaper with which printed a cartoon rather depicting the prophet mohammed five years ago police say the suspects intended to break into the building and kill as many people as possible. war time now to get out the crystal ball and think about what lies ahead for the next twelve months online a talk show host laura half an ist 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 is 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 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 europe i expect asians were taught 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 a lot of people are very skeptical but i think we should focus on fossil fuels and replacing guys 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 people of new year's resolutions are out there in the body and the. why don't we ever learn from that because this whole 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. let's turn over to charlotte now she's got the latest business. blair welcome to this special business program here on r.t. looking at some of the highlights of two thousand and ten. this year for russia and els its most ambitious privatization program since the one nine hundred ninety s. the government closed to sell stakes in major state owned companies within the next three years in the hope of attracting around thirty billion dollars the list

contains hundreds of companies of different sizes them from various sectors with russia's biggest oil producer also they're paying to sell twenty five percent the same goes for russian railways the country's biggest lenders bank has to sell seven percent of g.d.p. will self thirty five point five percent the panel also includes a seven percent stake in hydro power holding wrist hydro and the fifty percent minus one share stake in shipping company soft called flawed gosh i will keep control of the firms retaining a fifty percent plus one share but if the sell off is that the success the state says it's ready to offload even more. and wish them with a beautician. as the first step we plan to change of two 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 share to twenty five percent plus one. now for

the second year in a row russia's stock markets have taken a leading growth position among global indices so if a cross your reports are 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 in the seas are lingering around the ten percent. mark the wood will in russia this is been a year for domestic retailers pharmacies utilities comic is what they grew the most outsiders were loyal companies and guns boom that didn't gain anything analysts 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 and russian companies now traded at price to earnings multiples of nine and

a half versus brazil and the company's brazilian market trading at a thirteen year a share and chaney'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 they include retailers consumers they include telecom italia it is mel's and mining overall for two thousand and eleven analysts expect another year vance growth in the russian indices up to twenty five percent timofey across europe business r.t. moscow. and.