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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.
Australia welcomes 2000 with a huge firework display, there's a Bugwatch update and Nick Knowles pays the first of many visits to Southampton general.
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.