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with the top stories of the year this is give you to join us now is just about five pm here in the russian capital. two thousand and ten comes to a close we open the vaults to the you know just past capturing the despair and disaster as well as the heroic and historic it was a year ago when it was rather during the year that 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 power deciding to cut their arsenals and for russia netting the world cup was a crowning moment. takes a look at what's behind what's ahead for. twenty 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 work 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 in a chain of special operations several terrorist involved in the suicide bombings were taken out by russian special forces. president dmitry 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 that could win 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 tell a tear in his and let kaczynski was coming to russia to pay tribute to the killed polish offices 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 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. 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 you didn't get to stay for long fam fatah and 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 harder 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 moscow's mayor stay on vacation in riyadh yuri luzhkov was sacked the next month with president medvedev 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 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 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 wiki leaks founder julian assange exposed hundreds of thousands of iraq war documents and american diplomatic cables to name just a few the u.s. government would like to get a social silence here and wiki leaks. the wiki leaks website will continue to run. 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 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. well a new coach had me called harvard 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 feed for both. gentlemen to be organized. it was a now by the way to the announcement with russia and england going head to head till the very end function with. little sloshes secured the bid with his

big dreams of football and england secured have minds by dubbing russia's win a fix 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 fee for 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 ten's top ten am nice 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. now the year of two thousand and ten was a tough one for much of europe in particular the eurozone will have all details on the troubled european continent in just a few moments now it's already two thousand and eleven in some parts of the world

and the east in most parts of russia as well one region preparing to welcome the new year very shortly is your code here and it's going to be a celebration with a difference as its capital is the coldest city on earth our correspondent sean thomas is there for us. hello to you sean not exactly what your show where you're sitting in there maybe you've upset the locals and they've put you in some sort of prison cell tell me this though you're in the coldest city on earth and you've spent the day with a local family preparing for midnight give us an idea what has that been like if you've been enjoying yourself. well roy certainly have been enjoying ourselves here out in now let me first explain where i am right now this is a representative of a summer hunting choom if you will they would actually take these they're lined with birch bark roll them up take them out when they went hunting obviously i bagged this wolf myself just kidding but this is actually a representative of

a summer structure there's no way that this thing would pass in the frigid temperatures today minus thirty four degrees is what we are out working in today which is why we're inside no one in their right mind would be out on a new year's night tonight in fact we had the opportunity to go out and spend some time with families and as they prepared for the new year's celebration tonight we went to a fish market in fact where there's always the debate is it frozen or is it fresh well in this case rory the frozen fish are the fresh fish because there's no way you can get anything else we even saw milk that was sold in frozen blocks where they didn't need a container didn't need a cart carton whatsoever you just walked up and said i want some milk and they handed you a block of milk frozen solid we also got to spend some time with family that had adopted more than eight children and they got to celebrate their new years a little bit early with a traditional russian new year's meal as well but they went outside and got to play in the snow and it's just been a very lively festive environment in

a very very cold environment as well ok so i'm sure you're telling us about frozen fish frozen milk freezing temperatures as many say you know the coldest city on our time how is it how is it affecting the celebrations for new year. well in terms of attitude and spirit it hasn't affected anything at all in fact the people here are very happy they're celebrating a warm trend if you will last week when we were preparing to come out here we were dreading it considering we are hearing of minus fifty four degrees temperatures but everyone is talking about the warm front that has moved through and how they've had such great weather and it's still minus thirty to minus thirty four outside but they have a great spirits about it in fact this is part of their life it is what they deal with on a yearly daily basis so it hasn't affected their celebration one thing that's very interesting though is a lot of the decorations that you see outside in other places they're done with

lights and with banners and with colors out here a lot of the new year's decorations are done in ice sculptures so everywhere you go around the city going out in the countryside as well you see ice sculptures with lights lighting them up at night in fact they even have parts made of ice where kids can slide down slides made of ice so they're taking the cold aspects of their life literally the coldest city on earth and they are making it a part of their life and having fun with it as well and it's been just a joy to celebrate in less than an hour we will be in two thousand and eleven and i can't wait to talk to you and bring in the new year in styles are celebrating the new year in chile fashion sean thomas in russia's far east stay warm. well for europe two thousand and ten was the year when some of his countries came to realize that you can't spend what you don't have barrel out 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 user laura murder but timeline for us. the summer of discontent that became a winter whoa for a europe in crisis across the continent tens of thousands repeatedly turned out to protest against their government often resulting in violence and destruction. and it's not over yet after a brief holiday hiatus most assured the unrest will return in the new year and we haven't seen the worst of it yet john a thirty first fabulous first bomb on the door mat the credit card bills people will be beginning to lose their jobs people have been living the proof for this on their credit cards to pay their mortgages they're going to start defaulting that's when the real protests are going to 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 in spain public sector pay slashed while tax is right. 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 hard up britain's enduring the harshest cuts since the second world war also reeling over forking out around twelve billion dollars for a huge mess 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 ear is 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 what 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 ben 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. on very very powerful political movement for drugs 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 violence and 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 by forcing all staring into the people the people to continue opposing them you're and this party. and still ahead for you on this last day of two thousand and ten new year's night it's a miracle it's one thing to make a wish and quite another to come true we speak to the russian police with the best tips on how to make. the world marks the beginning of the new year and celebratory mood we bring out the crystal ball for

a look into the future online talk show host laura oftenest asks people in new york what they think two thousand and eleven might have in store for them. what do you expect the world to be like in two thousand and eleven this week let's talk about that what do you think the economy's going to be like in two thousand and eleven i think about the same 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 patients 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. obama has promised to cut down on nuclear weapons around the out do you expect to see any difference in that and 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 the north koreans back in the ninety's under clinton and yet they still went ahead with their program we see where we are now we're still arguing over it's. time to change most people of new year's resolutions are out 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 cost of champagne of course and a pretty face. on a bike and explains now your wish has to be made when the kremlin clock strikes midnight of course if you want it to come true. it was a hectic new year's eve four years ago because santa 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 poorest. they rode out wishes and napkins burned them and sewed the ashes in the champagne according to the time honored to russian ritual drinking it should a grand even the most unattainable wish. though. i can't 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 chimes 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 crown in 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 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 crown in china. because seneca family has that own little new year a miracle running around the house and helping with the festive furs decoration at the local farmers and 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 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 or frantic cooking deceiving but all in biggest say was the dora goes to see the dream fairy they're all going to have a bottle of bubbly t.v. saturday cramming chimes and proceed with the wishful thinking they're already think they're like

a store but didn't stop dreaming. artsy mosco. now do remember you can always find more. details on the. website dot com and he's a taste of what's waiting right now if you're coming to. find out how to make the most of. the. last major headlines of two thousand. floods in australia are affecting some two

hundred people as rising water. officials in. the u.s. is warning followers. defeated leader threat of attacking the hotel where security forces president. refuses to quit even his rivals now being recognized by the international community as winning last month's election resulting. claimed one hundred seventy three. yes integration is already underway in some places for example new zealand marking the beginning of two thousand and eleven with

a ground display. all sydney australia massive celebrations there as well for the celebrations began before the fireworks millions of people now expect you to break posh weather conditions to attend events all throughout the world will bring you more scenes of the celebration of the coming hours with kevin oh. ok now let's get an update from the world of business with shot. hello welcome to this special business program here and a look at some of the highlights of two thousand and ten. russia and its most ambitious privatization program since the one nine hundred ninety s. the government plans to sell stakes in major state owned companies in 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 the russia's

biggest oil producer was not willing to sell twenty five percent the same goes russian the country's biggest bank to sell seventy percent of g.d.p. will sell thirty five percent that also includes a seven percent stake in holdings us under fifty percent minus one share stake in shipping company sells controlled russia will keep control of the firms retaining its fifty percent plus one share if this is a success the states is already 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. for the second year in a rush the stock markets have taken at leading growth positions among global

indices as soon as a close you 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 car makers 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.'s oil spill in the gulf of mexico low oil and gas prices and relatively low realization of volumes however russia is still looking cheaper than its peers russian companies now trade at a price to earnings multiples of nine and a half versus.