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happy new year from the coldest region in the world i'm sean thomas. and coming up we'll tell you about all of the celebrations and impressing the icy cold frigid temperatures feeling incredibly mild weather. as we. celebrate. the atmosphere filled as people begin to the. red square preparing. the new year join us in just a few moments. and old a name with a new we bring you the highs and lows of twenty ten years it will be remembered in russia. has been a turbulent twelve months in western countries with

a wave of simple raging across some say. coming to take a look at. hello this is a t it's nine pm friday the thirty first of december here in moscow and welcome to the program and in just a few moments we'll be taking a look back at the biggest events of twenty ten but before that some places are already celebrating new year and most parts of russia are among them the party's indeed in full swing in the far eastern siberia and will sweep through all nine times of the country's western most borders our correspondents gave us a snapshot of what's going on all around russia with alice hebert in the capital sara first in the southern of the big city of sochi and in the eastern city of.

we've brought the party outside i don't know why because this is the coldest region on earth in fact it's about thirty four degrees below zero out here centigrade but that's ok it's not stopping any of the fun in fact i'm joined by actually khan who is the you could see a version of good models which of course is the russian version of father frost celebrations couldn't be better out here in fact one of the main features about this area because it is so cold a lot of the decorations for new year involve ice in fact we're standing in the midst of a beautiful frozen ice sculpture a village which is all that a beautiful with lights it's just an amazing amazing time earlier today we had to you had the opportunity to spend preparing for the new year with families getting ready for their celebrations we went to the market with them which was an interesting experience in itself no need for refrigerators there and because all of the fish are frozen all of the meat is frozen even the milk is sold in frozen

blocks we then went and joined a family that had adopted more than eight children as they had their new year's celebration that meal it was a very special time as they had a traditional russian meal as well but really the people here they don't like to call the bring them down that they embrace the freezing temperatures in fact believe it or not there is a heat wave going on here it is only minus thirty four degrees right now usually around this time it's about minus fifty miles should you can even get down to minus sixty two degrees below centigrade so right now they're embracing the heat wave saying they're enjoying these wonderfully warm temperatures as you can see i'm dressed to the hilt just so that i can stand these temperatures but this is a part of their life and it's a part of their new year and they're saying that two thousand and eleven is just going to be brilliant chilled tallness so thanks to david you all part of the world out of chile minus thirty four ok let's go to tempe is a plus ten though and head to a southern russia the olympic city assault she is decidedly warm of their day at

least but me getting into this. preparations well underway we've had a few more people turning out on the main square here in sochi where we are you can see them there the markets to the beat in the drink and we're enjoying an incredibly mild even in sochi of course known for its much warmer climate so we've been able to ditch the warm place of the sun chill in so much of russia and have been enjoying this sort of weather and now even in the coldest month of january it doesn't much below ninety degrees we actually managed to toggle yesterday in the black sea as well as the black sea and the beautiful coastline with its purple and sun beaches about an hour away from that you've got snow capped mountains and a very populous. weather like the president medvedev and prime minister putin to see sochi of course going to be the face of the twenty eighth when a limp a bit back in the sense that today we're getting into the spirit of things we've

got the christmas tree behind us in the background in the mediterranean style climate means we've also got some palm trees that are certainly feeling the holiday spirit here at the moment as we gear up for. this part of course. now there's always a big show to make up for the fact that we maybe don't have problems on the streets tomorrow a big. heaven as there is a saying here in the russian capital good luck sticks to those who rush hour in the new year old red square as a celebration focused on a friend's father and of course champagne drinking now we are expecting. the home of people to descend on downtown moscow with its main historic square as a. people not only from moscow russia but from across the world are where do you begin to convert all of this we spoke to some of the they told us about their new

year's rent. solution i just want everybody to be happy chinese hear the rabbit i wonder skeered to bring everyone only positive emotions of love and shelter to suit you this is really my wish everyone the best of luck i hold that everything that is one that will happen. is that and that everyone feels happy in this new year money family children and of course for me and for my whole family for your original roots will be a large show featuring singing and dancing and fireworks will take place on the square itself president deby the red there is new year's message will be carried on big screens across the capital and all crescendo want to an enormous fantastic follower display to take place over the moscow river of course most worst divides will be ensuring the celebration from the comforts of their own havens but those who do decide to brave the elements will be treated to a fantastic show that i think is being lined up for them here in the russian

capital. yesterday much more from alice in the team will be later in the program and of course we'll bring you president very present your speech as well as it comes up to midnight well as twenty ten comes to a close we open next the vaults to the year just past capturing the despair and the disaster as well as the heroic and the historic it was a year when espionage and intrigue took hold and spy scandals around the bars in wiki leaks causing global sensations is also of course as a cause for hope with the world's biggest nuclear powers this year the son of a cup they're assholes and for russia not in the world cup was a crowning moment and this and now it takes a look at what's behind what's in store 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 bellow rules like in previous years and

a relatively bearable winter but that all changed in march when terrorists struck the. 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 our g. headquarters. we will find all of those who are guilty and we will punish them too kumar of 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. presidents 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 that could win was seen as a tremendous step for russian polish relations with

a new over the past few days we hold remembrance ceremonies mourning the victims of told over terrorism what was coming to russia to pay tribute to the killed polish officers well russians share in your grief and sorrow. russian polish ties 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 war. an elaborate parade was how down red square as heads of state looked on to commemorate some twenty seven million soviet lives 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 and might in new york it's the strongest the largest and the most solid community in the world. but she didn't get to stay for a long fan for towie 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 harder than. tampers in the u.s. and russia who ignored the hype with cool cooperation. she said. record heat wreaked havoc in russia i was summer temperatures in 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 the outs yury 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 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 and he's done an extraordinary job of journalism many people believe mr song to be innocent and in sweden he faces allegations of rape and songe was arrested in the u.k. where he was seeking refuge later being. barrow 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. and last but not least twenty eight hundred feet from both ladies and gentlemen to be organized . it was a nail 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 for them both my heart sank you know prime minister putin only went to rick after the announcement saying he didn't want to pressure fee from both david cameron and prince william weren't enough to bring the world cup home to england russia didn't let those sort of losing rain on their parade winning the right to host the world cup certainly goes down as one of the most enjoy it will moments of the year but that does it for our look at twenty two 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. yes and still ahead on this last day of twenty ten new year's night is the time for the record. company to make a week and quite another for it to come true of course now we speak to the russian

families with the best tips on how to make it happen is easy. for europe twenty ten was the year when some of its countries came to realize that you can't spend what you don't have bailouts understand began to be closely associated with the euro and hundreds of thousands of angry people all across the continent lashed out in response artist laura breaks up the timeline for us. 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 governments 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 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 and spain public sector pay slashed while taxes rise. 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 fairlawn deaf ear is inside the house of commons members voted. make students pay three times as much for that to play as but they'd say vote hasn't dampened the spirits what parliament can do the streets 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 it's 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 of 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 or trafalgar square emerged unscathed from this winter's violence an annual gift from the people of norway and a symbol of peace and goodwill protesters try to set fire to the tree and stalks graffiti on nelson's calling 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 austerity onto the people the people vowed to continue opposing them you're at this party london. well as lighten the tone a bit chilly for many russians new year's eve results were

a perfect time to look for miracles it seems all you need is a napkin a pen a glass of champagne like a tree and a bit of faith as artie's examiner boy explains your wish to be made in the kremlin clock strikes midnight if you want it all to come true. it was a hectic new year's eve four years ago because some family was marking their six years 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. they 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 on a team that will wish all of. them i can tell you what i have asked for because this way it won't come true let's wait and see if i'm 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 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 crown in chimes are women and some of the most popular in years wishes include finding your chill love getting married and having a baby. the largest cloak in moscow this 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. to put it on top of his 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 sent a family has their own little new year a miracle running around the house and helping with the festive furs decoration at the will of the family as well she's the wish i wrote in that piece of net can in the one i mean in many many other occasions but i know for a fact from my own experience in the experience of my friends that on new year's eve you need to ask for something very dear to your heart and it will definitely come true for you there will be no gifts of frantic cooking deceiving but all in biggest say once there dora goes to see the dream fairy they're all going to have a bottle of bubbly t.v. saturday crumbing chimes and proceed with the wishful thinking they're already

think they're like a store but didn't stop dreaming. of wake up already most go. take a look at some of the major lost. as they are twenty ten devastating floods in eastern australia affecting some two hundred thousand people is rising waters submerged 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 from their homes to safety while others have been cut off completely it's estimated the cleanup will cost billions of dollars. the u.n. is warning followers of ivory coast's defeated leader to drop their threat of attacking the hotel where its security forces and the president elect embraced its fear that saturday's planned assault could spark another civil war refuses to quit his rivals being recognized by the international community is winning last month's election the resulting violence has claimed over one hundred seventy three lives of

. more on the new year's celebrations now there are of course well underway in the south pacific in asia with new zealand and australia marking the beginning of twenty eleven with all these great pictures there from sydney harbor bridge so too did taiwan stage its own display against the spectacular skyscrapers still play that goes well of course for the two million people expected you. all. like peter the best that could be forget what's going to happen here. to an hour's time in moscow plenty of light and color reds play great file it's play as always a bridge of the tails surely we're off on our travels for thirty minutes this time exploring central russian city of costume obvious business news with charlotte to come first this new year's eve.

welcome to this special business program hey on let's say looking at some of the highlights of two thousand and ten. russia it's become it's hope european tourist market within the next ten years that's according to europe's second largest top right to thomas cook the market is expected to grow by a double digit percentage as the world of russia's one hundred forty two million population increases but in a question about reports. turkey egypt and thailand these are the main destinations for russian tourists who go in search of the sun at the first sign of freezing weather back home about two million russians visit turkey one point six million go to egypt and over half a million go to thailand that picture changed in twenty tan with greece making

a splash as the euro crisis presented russians with the chance of a cheap holiday and greece could get a further boost in twenty eleven with operators in turkey and egypt already raising their prices greece attracted fifteen million visitors in two thousand and nine and ranging in the top twenty global destinations and is expected to strengthen that position as it hopes on booming markets such as china and russia we do have the next year we believe the tourist sales will definitely grow and customers will have more spending power and there's still a trend which even the crisis failed to affect russians do not cut costs on family holidays which we expect this to be the fastest growing sector in twenty women and greek holiday operators aren't the only ones eyeing the russian traveler europe second largest to operate at thomas cook has teamed up with russia's immuno will interest travel agency thomas cook will in vast up to forty five million dollars to

meet russian demand for beach and family holidays with a person. who has more players we cannot go into those jobs the firms. that we are crude to. circuit because we're going to be this russia so clearly we want the global war on them but. it's great is a bad thing and more than rising numbers of holidaymakers analysts believe as disposable incomes rise russians will be looking for more destinations and new services. business r.t. in two thousand and ten merger and acquisition deals were among the top market drivers in the consumer goods sector was ahead of the trend u.s. based drinks giant pepsi co signed a deal to buy sixty six percent stake in russia's leading dairy produce the ball down the three point eight billion.