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we're winding down the last day of two thousand and ten here on r.t. and already wishing our viewers in new zealand and australia a very happy new year we've we've heard that sydney's fireworks will be the biggest in the world and we'll bring you those pictures soon well as two thousand and ten comes to a close we open the vaults to the year just past capturing the despair and disaster as well as the heroic and historic it was a year when espionage and intrigue took hold with spy scandals and embarrassing wiki leaks causing global sensations and there's also been cause for hope with the world's biggest nuclear powers deciding to cut their arsenals and for russia netting the world cup was a crowning moment and he said now it takes a look at what's behind and what's ahead for us.

and 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 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 operation several terrorist involved in the suicide bombings

were taken out by russian special forces the. president to me 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 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 u.s. . april tenth a tragedy with echoes and history shocks 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 whitted new over the past few days we held remembrance ceremonies mourning the victims of told tele terrorism 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 move. an

elaborate parade was how one red square as he 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 still she's. innocent 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 she didn't get to stay for a long time for a towel and that 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 in 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 toxics month for weeks moskos mayor stay on vacation in reality yuri luzhkov was sacked the next month with the president with major saying he lacked 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 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 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 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. last but not

least twenty they didn't feel for both ladies and gentlemen to be organized. it was a nail biting wait for the announcement with russia and england going head to head to the very end function with. little sasha secured the bid with his big dreams of football and england secured have behind by dubbing russia's win a fix from both them over my high. thank you prime minister putin only went to zurich after the announcement saying he didn't want to pressure fi fuck both david cameron back and prince william weren't enough 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 enjoyable moments of the year but that does it for our look at twenty eight hands top ten am and 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 two thousand and ten was the year when some of its countries came to realize that you can't spend what you don't have bailouts and austerity began to be closely associated with the euro and hundreds of thousands of angry people all across the continent lashed out in response to lower him it breaks up the timeline for us. the summer of discontent that became a winter whoa for europe in crisis across the continent tens of thousands repeatedly turned out to protest against their government often resulting in violence and destruction. and it's not over yet after a brief holiday hiatus most assured the unrest will return in the new year and we haven't seen the worst of it yet. every 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 start 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 and 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 quite red in the face quite hot headed because we are having to see months of 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 as but they insist the vote hasn't dampened the spirits what 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 since 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 set for 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 powerful political movement for drug. and once the governments have collusion 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 gallants and from the people of norway and the symbol of peace and goodwill protesters tried to set fire to the tree and still graffiti on nelson's call in nearby and this isn't the end of civil unrest in the u.k. or across europe as governments continue to dig their way out of the crisis by forcing all staring into the people the people to continue opposing them you're and this party. still ahead on this last day of two thousand and ten new year's night

is a time for miracles it's one thing to make a wish and quite another to come true we speak to the russian families with tips on how to make it happen. and getting. a closer look at another part of the russian new year traditions which we trace the where and the why of the country's tangerine dream. as the world marks the beginning of the new year in a celebratory mood we bring out the crystal ball for a look into the future online talk show host often asked people in new york what they think two thousand and eleven might have in store. 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 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 in there if i expect asians what do 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 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 time to change most people 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. for many russians new year's eve is also the perfect time to look for miracles it seems all you need is a napkin a pen a glass of champagne and a bit of faith. reports your wish has to be made when the kremlin clock strikes midnight that's of course if you want it to come true. 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 paid 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 bring them and soak the ashes in the champagne according to the time honored russian ritual drinking it should a grand even the most on a team that will wish on the hour ok 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 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 fractions 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 thought that this 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 because center family has that own little new year miracle running around the house and helping with the festive first decoration at the will of the family as well as she's the wish i wrote on that piece of napkin in the one i made in many many other

occasions but i know for a fact from my own experience in the experience of my friends that a new year's eve each 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 good to say once there dora goes to see the dream fairy they're all going to have a bottle of bubbly hyundai t.v. saturday cramming chimes and proceed with the wishful thinking they were already things down like a star but didn't stop dreaming. of wake up already see moscow. now as time comes down to the new year russian families are rushing to serve our holiday meal with traditional national delicacies they'll be lights lights or glowing bells and charming and plenty of food but the event isn't complete without tangerines for decades the food has been a must have in the nationwide feast the news talks into the story for us 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 as well we call them gold our mandarins are the most beautiful things we have in a party or 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 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 rushing two thousand and eight a 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 at all mandarin sub being picked by hand. 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 mandarins of 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 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 blame that the fruit is from abkhazia. 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 of course. now if you remember you can always find more new year's details on the holiday events on our website dot com and he's a taste of what's waiting for you online right now if you're coming to moscow for the new year holidays. through the city's best winter attractions find out how to make the most of all the entertainment a. new dimension discover the world. in three d. for a fresh take on the famous ballet and

a whole lot more. now let's take a look at some of the other major headlines the last headlines of two thousand and . floods in eastern australia are affecting some two hundred thousand people as rising waters submerged homes and businesses officials in the queensland flood zone covers an area bigger than france and germany combined the entire populations have been evacuated from their homes to safety while others have been completely cut off it's estimated the cleanup will cost billions of dollars. for you and me is warning followers of ivory coast's defeated leader to drop the threat of attack in the hotel where security forces and the president elect based its view. another

civil war. refuses to quit its rivals even been recognized by the international community as winning the last month's election result in violence since then has claimed over one hundred seventy three lives. the new year is already underway in some places with new zealand marking the beginning of two thousand and eleven with a grand display of. sydney australia always putting on a very impressive display. their season fantastic which is right that many say that the sydney fireworks display is the biggest and best in the world you have to wait and see. the square as they were the super bowl which is square and of all the new year's celebrations happening around the world as the new the time is on shifts here on r.t. all right now time to get a business update we shot it she's here in just a moment. hello

and welcome to this special business program here on r.t. looking at some of the highlights of two thousand and ten this year. this year so russia and elders most ambitious privatization programs is a nine hundred ninety s. the government plans to sell stakes in major state owned companies the next three years in the hope of attracting around thirty billion dollars the list contains hundreds of companies of different sizes from various sectors with russia's biggest oil producer ross they're trying to sell twenty five percent the same goes for russian railways the country's biggest biggest lenders bad bank is to sell seven percent of g.d.p. will sell thirty five point five percent but also includes a seven percent stake in hydro power holding wrist hydro and a fifty percent miners one share stake and shipping companies of call flawed russia will keep control of the firms retaining fifty percent plus one share did to sell

off is a success the state says it's ready to offload even more. wish them with the beautiful . 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 and sell the controlling stake so in the majority of companies we can lower the street to twenty five percent plus one. first second year in a row russia's stock markets have taken a leading growth position among global indices as of a close your reports. very strong and better than expected that's how most analysts describe this year's performance of the russian stock markets both the r.t.s. and my six have grown over twenty two percent in comparison the japanese nikkei lost two percent the footsie s. and p. five hundred and dow jones indices are lingering around the ten percent mark of wood in russia this is been a year for domestic retailers pharmacies utilities carmakers they grew the most

outside as well oiled companies and guns boom that didn't gain anything out of the 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 company has now traded at a 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 that are secular sectors they include.