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NAME: WOR NEW YEAR 20090101E TAPE: EF09/0001 IN_TIME: 10:06:08:23 DURATION: 00:05:08:17 SOURCES: AP Television/SKY/Pool DATELINE: Various, 31 Dec 2008/1 Jan 2009 RESTRICTIONS: Check shotlist for details SHOTLIST AP Television Pristina, Kosovo - 1 January 2008 1 Fireworks and balloons up in the air 2 Couple in the crowd watching fireworks 3 Father and son in the crowd 4 People watching fireworks 5 Wide of scene 6 Couple kissing AP Television Paris, France - 1 January 2008 7 Wide crowd walking on Champs-Elysees 8 Bosnian tourist opening a bottle of champagne on the Champs-Elysees, girls cheering 9 American tourists with 2009 glasses cheering and chanting 'Happy New Year' 10 Man letting off fireworks 11 Wide crowd celebrating on Champs-Elysees with Arc de Triomphe in background SKY London, England - 1 January 2008 12 Various of fireworks going off at the millennium wheel, known as The London Eye 13 Various of fireworks exploding in and around the London Eye Edinburgh, Scotland - 1 January 2008 14 Wide of fireworks going off behind stage at midnight, pan up 15 Various of multi-coloured fireworks AP Television Bratislava, Slovakia - 1 January 2008 16 Wide of fireworks above stage with sign reading 2009 17 Mid of Euro graphic on screen on stage 18 Women hugging 19 Balloons tied together in shape of Euro flying in air 20 Wide of fireworks AP Television Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 1 January 2008 21 Wide of fireworks over sea 22 Mid of fireworks in sky 23 Wide of fireworks over sea 24 People watching, couple kissing POOL New York City, US - 31 December 2008 25 Countdown over Times Square POOL New York City, US - 1 January 2009 26 Couples kissing 27 Former US President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton hugging 28 Various of couples kissing 29 Zoom into display board at Times Square reading: Happy New Year and 2009 30 Mid of Clintons and Mayor Michael Bloomberg on stage 31 Pan of Times Square 32 People waving AP Television Mexico City, December 31 2008 33 Wide of crowd gathered at the Angel de la Independencia monument shouting countdown to New Year Mexico City, 1 January 2009 34 Various of fireworks over Angel of Independence monument 35 Pan right from people watching to fireworks in sky above the stage 36 Close of people hugging 37 Wide Angel monument and fireworks 38 People watching and taking pictures 39 Close boy on his father's shoulders watching fireworks show 40 Various of people dancing 41 medium close of couple dancing while hugging 42 Close woman holding a dog dressed as Santa during celebration STORYLINE WORLD NEW YEAR CELEBRATIONS Fireworks lit up the night sky in major cities all over Europe and the Americas as the world welcomed in the New Year Hundreds of people gathered in the centre of Pristina counting down into the first New Year in independent Kosovo Local singers performed, as people braved subzero temperatures to join the festivities Organisers set off hundreds of balloons and 13 minutes of fireworks The start of the new year finds Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority and its Serbian minority preparing for the celebrations separately, wrapping up a year that saw the former Serbian province become the world's newest state amid ethnic tensions that continue its split along ethnic lines Further west in France, thousands of people gathered on the Champs-Elysees to see in the New Year in Paris Tourists from various countries opened bottles of champagne at midnight to celebrate 2009 A reinforced police presence was seen patrolling on the famous avenue to ward off potential problems The French interior ministry announced a few days ago that 35-thousand policemen and 50-thousand firemen would be deployed across France for New Year's Eve In London, people gathered along the Thames to watch the fireworks at the millennium wheel, known as The London Eye In Scotland, revellers were treated to a huge fireworks display above Edinburgh Castle Back on the Continent, crowds turned out to welcome the new year in Bratislava, Slovakia Celebrations there coincided with the introduction of the euro currency, a circumstance featured heavily in the city's fireworks display A huge euro graphic turned on the screens of the party stage, while balloons in the shape of the euro sign also were released into the sky Slovakia is the 16th country to adopt the euro Across the pond in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, about two million people gathered by Copacabana beach to welcome the new year, and and along surrounding beaches to party until dawn Despite the current economic crisis, over 650-thousand tourists travelled to Rio to take part in the new year's celebrations Hotel occupancy reached 94 percent, far exceeding the expectations of the Brazilian Hotel Association which predicted only a 65 percent rate given the current economic climate The celebrations, following in the path of thousands of other cities around the world, saw more than 2-thousand fireworks weighing several thousand tonnes go up in smoke In New York City, thousands of revellers rang in 2009 from frigid Times Square as the famous Waterford crystal ball dropped, signalling the end of a historic and troubled year that saw the election of the first black US president and the worst economic crisis in decades As the clock struck midnight, a ton of confetti rained down while the partygoers hugged and kissed The wind chill made it feel like 1 degree (-17 Celsius) in the area, but that didn't deter the throngs who were cloaked in fur hats and sleeping bags Former US President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton, who will become President-elect Barack Obama's secretary of state on January 21, helped Mayor Michael Bloomberg lower the the famous Waterford crystal ball atop 1 Times Square for the countdown to midnight And thousands of inhabitants from Mexico City welcomed new year at one of the main symbols of Mexico's capital, The Angel of Independence monument on Reforma Street The celebration included performances from various well-known Mexican artists and norteño bands Five minutes before the clock struck 12, Mexico City Governor Marcelo Ebrard read a new year message followed by a Mariachi band playing las mañanitas while fireworks illuminated the sky of the city and revellers embraced and danced