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Part of the biggest ever live broadcast in TV history - 28 hours of celebrations as people of the world bid farewell to and welcome the new millennium.
Cameras capture midnight in Auckland, New Zealand. There's a link-up with Cape Town, South Africa, and Bugwatch provides news on the millennium bug. Diane Louise Jordan pays the first of a series of visits to one of the last weddings of 1999, and a VIP meets workers on board an Irish Sea gas rig.
The 2000 Today team brings reports from the UK and around the world as the clock ticks down to midnight in different time zones. To begin with John Simpson is on the South Pacific island of Kiribati, seeing the first sunrise of the new millennium. And Tan Dun and an orchestra perform a special symphony.
Presented by David Dimbleby from the Prime Meridian line in Greenwich, with Michael Parkinson, Gaby Roslin, Peter Sissons, Peter Snow, Philippa Forrester and Fergal Keane.
Includes some channel hopping Sky coverage in this video.