this year and i shall thomas would also like to wish you a happy and prosperous year ahead from the heart of the russian capital where the party is in full swing and while half the world has rung in two thousand and twelve the rest are getting ready to do so. two thousand and twelve first arrived at some eleven hours ago plus and in a new location this year this year it was the independent state of samoa in the south pacific for the first time ever it used to be last in line but switch to time zones to get closer to new zealand in fact this week if they even skipped friday entirely the previous new year premier venue was in. better known as christmas island next country to enter two thousand and twelve was new zealand closely followed by russia's far east and as the new year started its march across russia as a vast territory australia japan the two koreas china and other countries lit up as midnight passed five hours ago they were ringing in the new year in thailand and

vietnam with kazakhstan nepal and india following later right now the south pacific is probably heading off to sleep after hours of celebration but here in moscow we're already over three hours into two thousand and twelve further west dozens of countries from europe through africa and then to the americas are no doubt getting the champagne on ice and setting out the fireworks then completing the circle american samoa will be the last to leave two thousand and eleven behind some twenty five hours after the other half of the samoan island chain did the same. in the west he is known as santa claus but in russia he's known as father frost the mysterious man who lives far in the north and travels across the country on new year's eve spreading gifts as well as festive spirit. russia being the world's most expensive country celebrates new years at nine times thanks to it thanks to its nine time zones nine hours ago the countries of the far east cost into twenty

twelve and people there are probably still celebrating homes in russia's stock and somehow the no doubt raised a glass or two at the same time as those in sydney and melbourne and australia after that twenty twelve made its way through russia's siberia the cities of key time and of the countries of new guinea and quad up next with the champagne toast for the residents of russian cities and who fall in the same time zone as japan and of the koreas then three hours ago here scanned the cities across their skin he still along with china singapore malaysia the philippines twenty twelve continued to march across siberia and reached cities such as novosibirsk its residents are celebrating along with thailand and vietnam and a little while ago midnight crept even closer to the russian capital it reached the city's if you're caught between a bird and the chelyabinsk russia is that western most point of the baltic city of kaliningrad was the last one to celebrate in this country the rival of the new year and now let's check out

a report by and he said now in on the events that shaped twenty. two thousand and eleven could easily go down as the most eventful year in years the killing of bin ladin after a decade long manhunt may be as good to afi after months of nato bombing and the death of north korea's kim jong il don't even begin to illustrate twenty eleven. time jos the protester as person of the year and although there were different slogans signs and demands of solutions twenty eleven will ultimately be remembered as the year people came out onto the streets. the arab spring bloomed into a european summer which harvested an american autumn from cairo to california moscow to madrid to her ear to occupy global rallies shared common themes but if one thing stood out in the middle east and north africa alone it was protests that

lead down one road regime change. tunisia and egypt got rid of their dictators without war but libya was not so lucky nato allies began a humanitarian mission with a fierce bombing campaign but critics called it a mislabeled invasion to take down gadhafi for benefits the only reason they're interested in with libya is about the oil you hear anybody screaming and yelling about all those people last week that were killed in the ivory coast or who sudan gadhafi was brutally killed in october as the world watched the graphic video go viral thousands of civilians were killed over months of bombing and that's twenty twelve neared syria found itself in a similar set up for intervention russia and china fearing a repeat of the situation in libya as civil war intensifies this is

a direct effect that direct clash between the u.s. and nato on one side and russia and china on the war you know on the other side much more david was in libya protests continue in egypt libya syria and many more arab countries as the year ends. the battle to save the drowning single currency left board rooms and banks in twenty eleven and flooded the streets of europe most commonly and violently in athens greek debt became the centerpiece of the euro crisis protests ranged against desperate austerity cuts to qualify for i.m.f. bailout well germany and france are primed for influence in the debt ridden so i think we will see an exit of greece given the situation in which the greek economy find itself has become really unavoidable draining the economy of big brother germany can't go on forever greece and italy are now led by on

a lark to brussels back technocrat leaders who are trying to curb the crisis coming into a new year critics say twenty eleven bell outs or bust was the beginning of the end for the single european currency there's every chance the euro is going to crash. london burned for days in the summer of twenty eleven what began as a peaceful protests demanding justice over the death of a twenty nine year old man who was shot by police turned into days of riots and left authorities helpless talks of possibly bringing out the military bars to shops were looted car set on fire and windows smashed across the u.k. the police the job center all the banks everything that's happening the recession you know there's a lot of anger about that social experts also threw a fountain multicultural program and racism into the mix you know stop and so.

on a sense that the police certainly institutional. and probably institutionally racist as well the riots faded but the problems are still passing some say only a spark is needed to set the public off again. occupy wall street became a household name in the u.s. and around the world when the protests began in september if you were talking about the mainstream media stayed silent until seven hundred people were arrested on the brooklyn bridge and that was truly based in the end of his fruits of american politics the crowd is easy some. they are disorganized they look funny what are they protesting nobody seems to know but negative coverage didn't stop us from spreading from small towns to huge ports occupied was not going anywhere great on

campus heavy handed police and burning pepper spray only helped occupy grow read their message of the need for economic equality and an end to corporate greed their slogan became we are the ninety nine percent and they the rich the one percent from oakland to boston the more people occupied the more brutality became more evident by. what you're. right our police forces have been militarized they're working more in cooperation with the pentagon they're buying and being given military surplus quitman that has been kind of designed for use in war and this is something that. needs to treating the public as you would treat an enemy a public that has promised to come out in full force in twenty twelve.

parliamentary elections were the push behind tens of thousands of people coming out onto the streets of moscow after allegations the december duma vote was raped. i the protest at least fifty thousand strong the largest in recent history called for free and fair elections and remained peaceful ruling party united russia lost popularity in the vote with official results putting their numbers at almost fifty percent but experts say a sixty percent drop from two thousand and seven should be taken as a warning i think a lot of people wanted to punish. united russia for having power for so long maybe not doing everything they could protest organized by vast groups of opposition members are set to continue in twenty twelve next year russia along with the u.s. and france presidential elections which makes it

a safe bet people will be out on the streets in twenty twelve in europe america and around the world and you see now a party moscow. now on to the events that shaped two thousand and eleven and that are expected to dominate the new year russia saw the year close amid protests with demonstrations over the results of russia's parliamentary elections the people returned to the polls in march to vote for the country's next president parties care and explains what's behind the protests in russia for two decades. and happy new year to everybody very interesting first to say a very fond and very regulated new years here on red square everybody laughing yelling fireworks going off but more importantly with the protests this year in december amidst many many sort of claims of ballot box stuffing that coming in after the december fourth parliamentary elections where united russia did win two

hundred and thirty eight of the four hundred fifty seats in parliament protesters took to the streets first on december tenth. the interior ministry reporting twenty five thousand protesters of course the opposition counting somewhat fifty thousand protesters another sanction protests taking place on the socket of a square there we saw about thirty thousand protesters the number is growing and opposition claiming one hundred twenty thousand were calling for fair and free elections the equivalent reaction in president prime minister putin was a very positive one they actually enforce the people and they want the people to come forward and express their right to voice their opinion so in that regard a very good reaction from the government also a lot of proposals have been put in place by president mugabe did really calling for a rebuilding so to speak all of the electorial system sort of looking at the governors

the way the governors are elected in russia at the moment they are lifted by the president president medvedev hopes about that he can change that he wants to bring it back to the way it was in the early ninety's and then it was done away with in the early two thousand a system where the governors are elected by the people or by political parties it's not yet known how that will play out but he does want to bring the vote sort of destabilize the power in russia also currently in order for political parties to register you need ten thousand votes he wants to drop down that number to something a five hundred. in order to run for presidency out and an independent candidate must find two million signatures in order to run for the presidency he would like that vote as well those signatures drop down to three hundred thousand so those reforms being put forth hopefully will be approved and those are the changes at the moment those are the reactions by the government to these massive protests overall

a very good reaction you go to from the institute of world economy and international relations in moscow doesn't believe that the results of the russian elections could have been rigged on a massive scale. it's hard to imagine how it can wriggle actions on a massive scale with paper system. and. a million observers monitoring the election it's hard to imagine how it can wriggle actions on a massive scale with paper system that it's twenty one and a half a million observers morning during the election every location all over russia so i think the problem is more social logical so there has risen up a new breed of people younger people. years ago. came into power first as prime minister and later the president russia was haunted by the legacy of the collapse of the soviet union it had all out war in the north caucuses and this war was spreading into russia mainland these problems have been

a soldier during the putin years and no new generation of people they care about absolute a different problem the magnitude of the problems have totally changed they care more about honesty about. issues about their authenticity and basically this is the fact that this is people into the streets which has proven to be a very. of the truth and now he's approaching russian politics and his first twelve he has first as prime minister then as president and then as prime minister again have proven to be very successful have to remember the twelve years ago russia was of the age of its existence and now russia is. a developing economy it's the fastest growing economy and europe. that has almost doubled in the recent decade and is now it to one of the stories that has been making the headlines during the past year mass protests swept across greece where angry crowds clashed

with police over government austerity measures the country remains under intense pressure from the european union and the international monetary fund to make savings cuts to qualify for desperately needed bailout money our correspondent sara firth witnessed of the worsening crisis in greece in two thousand and eleven and reports from athens on what's been a turbulent turbulent year with an uncertain year ahead. well it's just been such a challenging year for the people here in the country because it's been all about that this year and the bailouts that that very severe austerity this now in real terms of the people hit us that just all of that heat get a little bit like it's really affected so many people here in the country every household felt the brunt of this the scene and you close the famous springing up here in the country even here this evening the results that are very clear you can see lots of people out on the street leaping rope on the streets tonight so many

different people signed up to that discontent and so many young people it's all that you were speaking to a full team fifteen is a very nice if they did very well educated people that are happening to grapple with extremely big issues and they're you know doing their part c. turning out into the states and really making us who we evaluate the way we fools about the usa and in europe as a whole new prime minister lucas papademos says as steps summing up the year's events that we still face the big challenges they gave stick all they can and put all their assets into the main end within the year if that close to one thing i can tell you is that the people here in greece the love thing that they're going to want in two thousand and twelve is going to the mall and the rhetoric because i'm pushing we see too much of that this year where it's profit and serious action in the situation just seeming to deteriorate to the time with the world leaders you're insane leaders always a few paces behind and as i said just real impact on people's lives is

a weaving food into the new year what people are going to want to be seeing is the real development to two thousand and eleven has been the year the sense that maybe we can hope for two thousand and twelve to be the year of development because people here want to see some real changes as so well tonight people are going to be celebrating the new year and seeing that in celebrating with friends the family is getting. if you can bring with me to give me money if it's going to be very tough yes. he's a surfer porting for us there now we cross to the third top story that shapes two thousand and eleven time magazine has chosen and unknown a protester as the person of the year just one of the hundreds of thousands who hit the streets to demonstrate in countries across the globe and helped overthrow the regimes of three arab countries journalist and author f william and says what happened in one of them libya is not about democracy but a way for nato to gain control in the middle east i think they can look forward to

pure hills. the opposition groups were given a promise by the french well before the. ouster of the cut off the government that they would get a chunk of the oil revenues and that was the incentive they were armed by the west and now libya is being converted according to the latest information into a giant nato aircraft carrier if you will and the libyan oil is being used as a bargaining chip with japan and others hillary clinton has promised libyan oil reportedly in return for japanese reducing its intake of a rainy and oil and putting financial pressure on iran so we can see what what the game is in libya is not about democracy or libyan welfare it's about using that to militarize entire eurasian land mass. u.s. president barack obama has signed the defense bill with a price tag of six hundred sixty two billion dollars despite serious reservations by critics over how terror suspects will be handled under its provisions the new

law means any person can be detained without charge opponents also say the legislation it gives more authority to the military to detain and interrogate people denying them constitutional rights obama also brought into force the latest round of tough sanctions against iran targeting its central bank in an effort to hamper tehran's ability to fund its nuclear enrichment program author and radio host stephen leatherman says he believes the sanctions could bring war between iran and the u.s. closer. oh obama isn't pure evil he targets dissidents he time gets whistleblowers he's extremely repressive he's going after one country in the middle east after another i use a for a use his problems he is ravaging the world for one country in a time serious and a spotlight now a return to absolutely is on the list and there are others obama simply can't wait

to start another war and this could be a war against the rain it means that the entire region could become inflamed russia and china a strategic interest in the region the main gate involved to protect them in syria alone is you know russia has all the mediterranean based entirely syria it does not want to lose it it will do what it needs to to protect it so we're talking about a clash of titans in one more thing the real time good for america the real two targets for america oh russia because of its military strength china because of its growing economic strength and shabda is certainly no one has military power but russia is the big one between russia and america they have ninety seven percent of

the world's nuclear arsenal and sophisticated delivery systems to send a mini we're russia is the number one target for that reason sooner or later that clash is coming. the new law comes as the u.s. looks forward to the upcoming presidential elections in two thousand and twelve barack obama is running for a second term but who he will be running against is not yet known correspondent marina portmanteaus us if there is anyone he should be worried about. for the past three years u.s. president barack obama has faced an increasing amount of disappointment among his volunteers former volunteers former voters and when he came into office those that supported him and helped him break records when it came to campaign contributions that he received were did see obama come into office under the umbrella of the promise of change and then followed up and extended what

many perceive to be bush era policies such as doubling down on the patriot act and extending tax cuts for the rich also way you creasing drone attacks in this at the same time corporate profits have increased here in the united states over the past three years while more americans are suffering in the wake of the financial crisis so while many americans put their beliefs and their hopes into candidate barack obama three years ago many has been publicly speaking out over their disappointment with regards to the actions that he has taken it looks as though brooke according to polls that u.s. brock you have president obama will possibly most likely secure a second term and there are two candidates that he should be obviously paying much attention to and i would say that would be mitt romney and ron paul because those

are the two republican candidates that are leading the polls in iowa where the first u.s. caucus will take place on january third so there is competition for u.s. president barack obama it's not a landslide by any means but but he does have at least almost half of the country's approval rating so going into a second term a possible second term that doesn't look so bad but it will be a fierce election one we will be reporting on and paying attention to. more important reporting for us there from new york now on to england where they had a scorching august but it had nothing to do with the summer sun a wave of riots and looting seemingly sprang from nowhere gripping london for days and spreading to other cities nationwide with buildings torched and streets trashed police struggles to contain the worst violence in decades laura smith who watched events said the unrest was unprecedented blew up seemingly out of a very small big chill for

a young black man who was allegedly shot by police in north london grief from the big chill and it turned into nationwide rising essentially out of control and that the violence was particularly in those first couple of days with an escalating all the time eventually it grew from london and in suburban to manchester all the cities but only in england interesting not in scotland all the way to the police response was i think very slow certainly in the first couple of days the police literally didn't know what to do they turned up at a scene where people had set fire to cause all to shops along the street they would charge and involves numbers and then not knowing what to do when they got there they would retreat as far to the government so much of the government was on holiday of course because they go on holiday and say prime minister david cameron eventually came back from his holiday as did to him secretary and the matter of london boris johnson and essentially told people who know tea children they were being and how they had to go back to school and don't think the media blames its

own sort of something for nothing mentality but eventually it's come out really the other people's stories is a symptom of a deeper ill is in society the fact that you services have been caught and that the relationship between young people young black people particularly and the police is very bad and i was talking to some people on the street has a nice actually he was saying that they didn't feel that anything had been done to address these problems a lot of rhetoric but not any actual action. more spent force there in london now investigative journalist tony gosling says injustice in the u.k. sparked the unrest there was all sorts of problems at the time with the police and of course it was the shooting of mark duggan that sparked it but the london school of economics and also the guardian have done a very comprehensive report actually interviewing lots of the rioters some of whom were convicted some of whom were convicted but it's absolutely clear one hundred percent that the reason behind this really was

a treat for the police in this country which is goes right across many of the sink estates in the country they see i think most people see the police many of the rights to see the police as in forcing a kind of unjust system and a lack of justice there's a whole bunch of people in society who are disenfranchised right now including many of the middle classes but i think particularly young people feel utterly betrayed by our political hierarchy by our leadership here in britain particular these youngsters are not stupid they can see when you've got a crooked corrupt and rotten political class and that's the news for now stay with me for a recap of the headlines and much more to come and a happy new year to you again from all of us here in moscow.

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happy new year from all of us here in moscow and also a happy new year to those in a prague berlin and copenhagen as well as in rome and oslo as well thomas this is our team good to have you with us two thousand and twelve is finally here in moscow happy new year to all of you watching our team wherever in the world you may be russia has been marking the arrival of the new year with a grand fireworks displays and celebrations across the whole country from all of us here we wish you a happy and prosperous twelve.