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machine on the dot com. we're seeing all of you is a very happy new year from moscow is red square where thousands turned out to answer in twenty eleven in style every. hour it's a two thousand and eleven the president and the head to look a. happy new year from the coldest region on earth i'm sure thomas in your courage and coming up we'll have all of the new year's celebrations we'll tell you all about it. with the old and in with the new we're bringing you the highs and lows of twenty ten as it will be remembered in russia and around the world. out of the top even twelve months in western countries with a wave of civil unrest to rage here of some outfit say there's was in store once

the austerity cuts begin to bite. happy new year and a very warm welcome from all of us here in moscow this is o.t. with the latest news and a review of the twenty ten main events thanks for joining us celebrations are in full swing across russia to mark the coming of twenty eleven with the new year being russia's most popular holiday and our correspondent sara furthur and alex habit have been following the festivities in moscow and sochi for at. the parties in the village where here hail moscow's red square thousands turned out to brave the cold the snow to enjoy the fabulous cause you don't hear earlier we did talk sing is a fine and of course the crowd just added to the federal law to see if people would

solve this if they just stopped. the future one of the most divisive descended on the town to town to enjoy the celebrations twenty five thousand below red square lots of calls this new year is the big is all the day here in russia even trumps christmas eve it's the night when children across the country receive their presidents from the russians opticals dead that is when they enjoy my work champagne in south little friends i get together it really is the night that everyone here across the country gets to see most of these red square dance from the folks in the audience so all of those t.v.'s celebrations across the country put a stop to see most of the lights. told residents to enjoy the celebrations but joining me now is a man from my own country from the u k to the precess abuse to get you back to moscow and decide to see how well given the it twenty seven here in the prosecutable what do you make of the celebrations here ready to scream absolutely

fantastic the russian two being fantastic everyone is having a great time you can see behind us seem credible it's just a great mysterious want to make it be our entertainment that was the first song to the whole it's really really good this really good it's very hard to cater for everyone to go to just roy there's a bit commercial music some classic russian songs a great form of spray was exceptional really exceptional and how would you say this most days new year's celebrations compared with say those that came in the. bar the chord to for an hour to come. we have christmas russians don't have christmas they have christmas in january so new year's eve is very very important to me they go home. during big ball team actually it's one time when you really see russians at their best the whole going to cold front comes down and everyone to

really welcoming these great loving until some commend it to anyone we. get over there and journeys it's amazing. very very be comfortable that just another one of the thousand syrians show you that year's celebration say that took place on the red square as you were saying earlier i think the party is going to be well into the i. love of. the people's. liberation. palm trees you might be able to see that in the back. of her russian when such a false name was climate even in the code that very very strong

about nicely said. that the celebration never yet the track of the people because the case with all the city content to people. it is not a wonder that it's a popular case it is the basis of a twenty four day winter olympics and let me tell you. if you haven't done. well in the countries eastern regions the new years policies are already coming to an end thomas braved the cold in russia's most china city if you could watched people celebrate and what a special thought the frost of the region. 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 am joined by actually khan who is the

version of the dead 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 are involve ice involve the cold 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 we 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 well in fact all of the fish are frozen all of the meat is frozen even the milk is sold in frozen blocks we then went in 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 fifteen minute you're good you can even get down to minus sixty two degrees below centigrade so right now they're embracing it he way of 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 in fact in the distance we can still see some fireworks going on the people are still celebrating and enjoying this special time of year. still ahead new year's night is a time for america. it's one thing to make a wish quite another point to come true we speak to the ranch families with the best tips on how to make it happen. as we bid farewell to twenty ten let's take a closer look at the gate just passed yet so does paula and despair and disaster as

well as heroism and hope as spare knowledge and intrigue took hold as governments and covets pie scandals and the wiki leaks to big secrets public and there were also historic reasons for celebration after a year waiting as the world's biggest nuclear poe's agreed to come there also mills and russia was awarded the world come on he's an ace and now it takes a look at what's behind us and what's ahead. i want to turn it was a year filled with leaks and laughter tears and tragedies that got off to a good start for russia signs of economic recovery no gas crisis with ukraine or bell the 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 work 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 too kumara from chechnya who's 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 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 new over the past few days we hold remembrance ceremonies mourning the victims of told tell a tear in his i'm kaczynski was coming to russia to pay tribute to the killed polish offices 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 parade was how down red square as the 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 out of 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 the 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 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 almost cows mayor stay on vacation in rio 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 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 plan design provided 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 weekly 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 we he wakes. 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 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 mater 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 go 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 made offs 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 of. them on the way to be organized. it was a nail by the way to the announcement with russia and england going head to head to the very end function with. little saussure secured the bid with his big dreams of football and england secured have minds by doubling 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 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. in europe twenty ten was the year when bond gambling debts were due and some countries learned the hard way you can't spend money you don't have banks were bailed out with the public's money and hundreds of thousands across the continent took to the streets to protest law and this takes a closer look at the timeline. 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. 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 the country's near collapse forced its toughest ever budget to secure an e.u. and i.m.f. rescue in greece and spain public sector pay slashed while taxes rice.

for the french it's the prospect of being forced to work longer all measures which ensure working people pay for the mistakes of bankers and governments britain's enduring the harshest cuts since the second world war also reeling over forking out around twelve billion dollars for a 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 all have. to save massive cuts here local authorities are cutting back on their frontline services and actually we don't feel as british people that we get that much in the we put a lot in we don't get an awful lot out london's biggest protest of more than fifty thousand fell on deaf ears as inside the house of commons members voted 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 for united front solidarity students support pensioners who are finding their pensions. disadvantage public support those who benefits are being cut to the thing becomes. very powerful political. 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 an annual gift 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 still receive onto the people the people to continue opposing them you're at it forty. and remember you can always find a wrap up on all the most important events and when to turn in russia and across the globe at our website home here's a taste of what's online for you right now. if you're in moscow for the holidays. guide you through the city's best winter attractions and find out how you can take full advantage of the russian capital's doing to tame and. understanding their story in a new dimension check out the world of the not crap in three d. but fresh take on the classic ballet and of course and a whole lot more right now at teen dot com.

so many russians new year's eve is also the perfect time to make for miracles it seems all you need is a napkin a pen a glass of champagne and a bit afraid and as a boy explains your wish was to be made when the clinton clock strikes midnight if you wanted to country. it was a hectic new year's eve four years ago the. the 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 pours. their road our wishes and napkins burn them and soak 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. 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 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 are scribed wish granting powers to the crown in chimes are women and some of the most popular new year's wishes include finding your chalabi 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 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 the descent of family has their own little new. or a miracle running around the house and helping with the festive first decoration at the will of the son wasn't she's the wish i rode on that piece of napkin 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 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 biggest say was 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 were already things down like a store but didn't stop dreaming. r t moscow. as the world marks the beginning of the new year and celebrate tree mood will bring out the crystal ball for a look into the future an online talk show host gloryhole thinnest also people in new york what they think twenty 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 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 power polarization there ready for solar flares the end of the world. great political unrest couple of farming's problem or natural disasters or more fear of i expect asians for the audio now i'm going to enjoy it really got to enjoy it what do you think scientists should focus on and what eleven . i guess global warming is a big issue and a lot of people are very skeptical but i think we should focus on fossil fuels and . do you have faith that governments are going to do that you know. obama has promised to cut down nuclear weapons around the world back to see any difference in that in two thousand and eleven is always a lot of talk but there's no very verification of whether 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 which stored your.

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 twenty eleven let's just hope it's happy and healthy for as many of us. now for a brief look at a other major headlines while we're celebrating here devastating floods in eastern australia affecting some two hundred thousand people as 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 follows of ivory coast defeated lead it to drop their threats of

attacking the hotel where its security forces and the president and that's how based it's feared that saturday's planned assault could spark another civil war. refuses to quit his rival's been recognized by the international community as winning last month's election and the resulting violence has claimed over one hundred seventy three lives so far. and we're back with the headlines in just a few. thank. you.