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covered. pain i knew years the bitter cold didn't stop russia's reverence from seeing twenty seven across all its time zones. but also celebrations in space as the cool with the center seems more message to those thousands of kilometers but there . but for the stands it's an unhappy europe as a country because the latest to sign up to the currency it fears it will force costs up and drive the living standards down.

there and a happy new year to you watching r.t. well yes rolled out around the world with russia marking nine times twenty eleven began and that it was stuck on the pacific coast eventually reaching the baltic city of kaliningrad winter chills didn't stop millions of russians from celebrating parties of his habit was among moscow's revelers. i must tell you is a city that reading know these houses through a new year's back yes i. am seeing in twenty eleven was no exception nearly one and a half million revelers descended on the russian capital downtown area turning it into a giant street. my wish is that my children are happy and successful that's the most important thing that i mean it's not that i wish them and everyone health and happiness let them ski and fly and have you know enemies junkyards

wishing boys and girls everywhere a very high. the new year. my warmest congratulations for the new year the healthy everyone and support sochi winter olympics. red square itself numbers were limited to twenty five thousand those who braved the elements to claim their sponsor leon were not disappointed on the stroke of midnight the kremlin's clock tower rang out. marking the beginning of the night's main celebrations. the music only stopped for a posse go is to listen to president nevada's new year address shown on big screens across the capital. but i was a good witness we see the old year out we remember it's joyful and sad. and hope that next year will be good and successful for all of us and for our country we

will build a modern russia together a strong open and friendly country. the evening's christian day was a fabulous firework display over the mosque forever a burst of color setting the scene for the capital's fun holiday the saying goes that good luck sticks to those who celebrate new year here on moscow's red square whether or not to choose to believe that what's not in doubt is that those muscovites you must hear a sponsor of this story love so well to be geared towards eleven did so and she russian style alice said that's. well over a thousand kilometers south of the capital but still in russia people in the olympic city of sochi have been marking new year but unlike moscow or events that took place on the palm trees instead of the standard christmas variety parties sarah ferguson. we've had. we've. love.

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a group of people who many times the team on board the international space station had the most start yet. shared it with them took about a prime seat the crew. not just. city or even the country celebrates its new year they get to watch the whole planet spin into its next. mission control in moscow on a live link up. just how they feel about it. my name comes from russian television my christmas and happy new year. down here what is your message to the. happy new year we wish everyone good health love happiness success in all their new beginnings and plenty of rewarding achievement in the upcoming year it was also

a chance for others to send a cosmic congratulations for the frost was here greeting the cosmonauts children and praising their orbiting relatives but as much as the kids wanted to see the joy right now on their warmest words were saved the loved ones in space. below daddy i love you still knots you are the best dad in the world happy new year. the crew the s.s. are the only ones to spend new year and spend in isolation in moscow those participating in the simulated trip to mars and back over five hundred days have already been in their modules for seven months. we would like to hug everybody to shake hands even to kiss and people if they ask but it won't be soon because we have a year of hard work ahead the i.s.o.'s crew is spending new year in about the most exotic location possible and they also have the unique advantage of being able to share the strikes of midnight repeatedly. we have

a chance to celebrate the new year several times we send our wishes to different control centers we start in the east and finish with houston we can celebrate all day but after the partying is over they'll still be watching over the planet because they are s.s. will remain in space for quite a while after the new year suffice to say that today's little chat provided a human touch to an otherwise very technical life. well a few minutes west to gatehouse some revelers on the tree playing with fire headlights and that across russia as with poor quality far west content paths into tragedies. cashmore suffering families are left with nothing taste in and out pollution crops are cheap. breaks from the market. father frost magic kingdom fairy tale but if there was. visiting children raises concerns about whether it's worth

the money spent on. a stone or a starting twenty eleven with bank machines dishing out a new currency as a baltic state becomes the seventeenth member of the euro zone when the boycott has been discovering that officials are celebrating a historic switch distance for poor livingstone it's about to get us. chatting about the bad and the worst these two france italy sions apart irina and her native a store near here are lent but they have one concern on their minds how to make it in this tough economic times march according to rena definitions of hardship couldn't be more different he said i knew if irish people had a chance to experience what life is like here in stony athens i think there would have been no rallies in dublin they simply don't appreciate what they have to take my friend for example she gets an employment payout each month and with this money

she's able to support a child with the study and say for air tickets to visit her parents here in estonia if you are on welfare when a stone you simply can't make out meet with the gap in living standards within the european union is huge but it may get even bigger play did you join the euro zone from january first is tony now have to contribute eight hundred million euros to the e.u. solidarity found that will be partially used to month in our lands lavish social programs and only three the arrangement will keep reach countries reacher and their poor neighbors who are. fair tourists. to. this. because. sixty three percent for. you know.

one hundred twenty or even more want to stone you join the european union in two thousand and four most of. the membership is their ticket to perspire achieve the country drastically cut social spending to feed the e.u. requirements a move that provoked little public discontent historians just tighten their belts and according to the country's finance minister they're ready to do it again this time to lead the irish continue wearing their cloth loose. you can avoid obligation if you're. taken to the club if you're some or if we are and inviting smile this group has become a poster child for stoney's inclusion into the euro zone but the reality of this move is proving far less alluring the average unemployment benefit in our line is eight hundred euros that's what a joblessness thornier would get in the year and about policy makers are trying to

portray this issue as a matter of solidarity and european union some a story and see it as a sign of discord in living standards and inequality in shouldering the hardship of the work of art the tallinn estonia. of course twenty four hours a day on air and online to give you a taste of. your own this new year's day yesterday fever the russian capital opens its international christmas festival this year dedicate time to space. not so merry a surprise for the frost as the russian started to get. its cover work.

far away must have any gratian spectacular it can also be highly dangerous as he explains this often down to me sub standard works the consequences. two decades after consumer fireworks were first imported into russia they have become an essential part of the festive tradition this holiday season russians will be setting off nearly one hundred million dollars worth of fireworks in their backyards and many of them will end up here in the burns unit. out of a huge problem is that many of these fireworks do not work as advertised for example a firework doesn't quite ignite when it's meant to people pick it up and then it explodes burns. blown off fingers we get it all here authorities say there isn't enough control over the quality of the fireworks which can be sold anywhere but anyone most don't find out they've bought a defective firework until it's too late to point out that some of the fireworks

really aren't. the pavers that the popular moscow store. with colorful packaging these chinese made imports are aimed at casual part technics enthusiastic prices are dirt cheap less than ten dollars for an entire display i buy a few for testing by professionals. most of the do not comply with the russian legislation for example look at this parachute forward it's meant to go up street. it might seem trivial but. in the wrong direction in his suit. authorities admit drug imports do get through but then says that it's up to people to please try to buy from licensed suppliers still although some. the injuries will be from misuse and not defective fireworks hospitals in moscow alone expect to receive around one hundred patients these holidays but all hope to avoid large scale mishaps most of

firework induced fire in the lame horse nightclub just over a year ago has killed more than one hundred fifty people. well i've hated the numerous warnings slow death yeah i'm enjoying the furthest verge of possibly with some good quality fireworks either on their art the last go . now there is one city which knows how to party it's. coming up next hour martin andrews shows us the best places the moscow team visited in twenty ten. even though it's now it's pretty it's like alice in wonderland the greens and new year's eve all rolled into one. anyway moving on the most guards who were killed in somebody's incredible place is trying to tell let's take a look at some favorites. farmers

in indian kashmir hope the new year will bring them better luck in the world this vice suffer from is much prizefighters charan singh explains heavy industry is damaging the delicacy. saffron is a spice not a must with meat costing four thousand u.s. dollars a kilogram this price being greedy and is used in medicine in south asian cuisine turns out yesterday but the saffron farmers in. unhappy lot with their yield half what it was a decade ago they blamed a dozen cement factories that have been set up nearby. tell i did these factories do not use pollution control devices you can see them spewing out dust twenty four hours a day we are working hard to keep our fields for to increase the eels but the government doesn't take any action against the cement plant. the fall out is that every year

sees less snow fall than the last affecting the crop many farmers see there even thinking of selling their land the biggest problem is the adulteration of saffron cheap big brands of saffron sell briskly here on the streets or three no doubt and it is virtually impossible for you and me to distinguish between these and the real thing this has dented saffron's image and resulted in a drop in prices the availability of cheaper saffron from iran and spain has added to the problem with credibility at stake traders like. now refused to stock saffron . w. when one cannot be sure the quality should i stock at the hope that it can guarantee whether it's genuine so there isn't much demand for more if the government is regular thank you kate what is to suffer i don't know if i will start . but there are those who still swear by saffron houseboat owner but she had done to her saffron every morning especially in winter. or had some from to milk

who have been released issues because it's very good for one's health in this cold weather and that it helps reduce congestion in my back it also goes away that will bring some cheer to the saffron farmers who face a second year of plummeting prices the government had pledged eighty million dollars six months ago to improve facilities but the farmers are yet to see any action do they do this cash crop could well continue its slow decline got and seeing r g bump or. let's look now at some other stories making wild needs on the first day of twenty eleven. a car bomb has exploded in front of a christian church in egypt as worshippers were leaving the us at least twenty one people died and forty three others were wounded the blast not to clashes with those emerging from the church there is still milling about a mosque no one has admitted responsibility for the attack which comes amid rising

sectarian tensions. a series of tornadoes have brought to the americas midwest killing at least six people dozens more were injured as winds spurred by unusually warm weather through homes and storms also brought down power lines plunging more than one hundred thousand people in mississippi into don't swim years eve. live every coast defeated leader is warning that things will get worse if he is forced out. supporters are said to be planning an assault on the hotel where his rival is holed up with human peacekeepers incumbent president refuses to quit even though his opponent was recognized as winning last month's elections the violence which followed has killed at least one hundred seventy three people so far. north korea's new year message calls for better toys with the south young says it's willing to overcome tensions for the shelling of a son who were not a member which killed four people attack was

a response to seoul's group games that is using maritime border which were heavily criticized as provocative in the message the north also vowed to significantly strengthen its military. a moscow district has built a winter wonderland for children to visit father frost the russian santa claus he meets them bringing all the excitement they expect this time of yet but not everyone is smiling sean thomas discovered. a good model since needed which got the snow maiden or true icons of the russian. here spreading love and joy throughout the holiday season while their official address is in the leaky they have a seasonal state of the art home in the outskirts of moscow as well i believe that that place is of great importance for all parents and children then they can feel their real fairytale here at the moscow site kids can play around the new year's tree you can hardly talk to the main characters and even send

a letter to motorists through the village post office through it all the children here can become a part of this magical world. which is why you went to his bedroom and his dining hall and his guest room but aside from the fantasy of it all there is also a practical side to the village. helpers are part of a special college interns program some of them. it's all about the smile you know it's a joy to see a child smile because we also learned how to make children believe our tale it is said that the land of the buildings in all of these decorations cost around thirty three and a half million dollars but it's not just for show the organizers say it's so that the people here can look for a movie of the new year. high hopes hopes that we will accomplish more next year than we did this year hope that we do more and correct the mistakes people make politicians for instance we magicians have to correct the mistakes they make. but life in the village isn't one long fairy tale there are some rumblings the magic

kingdom is costing too much and the money could have been better spent helping children directly despite that the city of moscow is pressing forward with plans to expand the project further in the coming years a move that is sure to continue to make the children who come here smile no matter what the nanny as a holiday when children's wishes come true it's a very fun holiday children get presents what are not to about father's frost house is that it was magical i really did not did when we joined hands in a circle inside the house and made our wishes and then bubbles fell on us. now look at your head with a free for the new year will be brighter for. you. archie moscow. later this hour we're off to one of russia's golden ring cities to discover more about a legendary folk hero hunker down the ancient ways of doing things honest the best .

looks like we're all going. to be interested james brown that all the business highlights from two thousand and ten now a shot at them as father. and

i welcome to this special business program hey i'll take looking at some of the highlights of two thousand and ten. russia is to become the top european tourist monk within the next ten years as according to your second largest tour right to thomas cook is expected to grow by double digit percentage as the wealth of russia's one hundred forty two million population increase its question of the reports turkey eight. shipped 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 tanned 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 which of 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 eleven and greek holiday operators aren't the only ones eyeing the russian traveler europe's second largest to operator thomas cook has teamed up with russia's immuno will interest travel agency thomas cook will invest up to forty five million dollars to meet russian demand for beach and family holidays with

a person. who has more place we cannot go into tours just the firms. that we operate to because of the circle because we're going to be the same russia clearly we want to be the number one or number two in the russian market operates 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 my dinner which no business r.t. . in two thousand and ten merge and i can. among the top market drivers in the consumer goods sector is ahead of the trend the world's largest retailer with walt most of its tolls to enter the russian market as a russian ex-pat retail group stole the deal to acquire discounts of the pay of one point one billion dollars. seven hundred stores to the country's biggest retailer. is expected to reach thirteen percent in moscow leaving significant room for growth

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