The world is preparing to switch to in 2018

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Sunday, December 31 2017 01:45

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SYDNEY | The future rises in the East: the islands of The Pacific, New Zealand and then Australia will on Sunday kick-off a marathon global the New Year’s festivities which will be held again under high security.

Gay marriage in SYDNEY

Jet lag obliges, SYDNEY will be the first city to get out the big game in 2018, with 1.5 million people expected to be on the edges of its iconic Bay to watch the traditional fireworks.

It will include this year a cascading rainbow of pyrotechnics fired from the famous Harbour Bridge, and to celebrate the legalization in December of gay marriage, after a national consultation which had shown a wide support of the population in this reform.

“It is a way fabulous to say goodbye to 2017, the year in which four inhabitants of Sydney ve have screamed +yes+ equality in matters of marriage,” said the mayor of the first city in australia, Clover Moore.

To add a touch of glamour, the 20 seconds of this show will be the work of one of the most famous children of Sydney, the actor Hugh Jackman, who imagined this sequence gold and silver with Fortunato Foti, the boss of the company that embraces each year the Bay.

Shooting stars in HONG KONG

The city of HONG KONG has promised, it, a show of 10 minutes of the most impressive, marked even before the 12 strokes of midnight by the apparitions of “shooting stars” pulled from the skyscrapers overlooking Victoria Harbour.

DUBAI has replaced its traditional fireworks with a laser show on Burj Khalifa, the tallest tower in the world (828 meters).

The main boulevards and squares of MOSCOW were decorated to greet 2018, and a fireworks display will illuminate the 36 buildings of the Russian capital.

In spite of the security problems in the tourist capital of Brazil, mayor of RIO DE JANEIRO’s hoping for a record crowd of three million people on Copacabana beach, and most will dress in white, as is the tradition.

Remember tragic in Istanbul

In the Face of potential attack, including the threat of attacks to the drive ram, such as those committed in Nice (France) or Barcelona (Spain), the security will be at the heart of all concerns.

Turkey remains haunted by the memory of the tragic New Year 2017, when a man armed with an assault rifle had entered in the most famous nightclub of Istanbul, Reina, killing 39 people and injuring 79.

The Turkish authorities have not allowed for safety gatherings on the iconic Taksim square of Istanbul, and other neighbourhoods.

In Australia, the police numbers have been reinforced in many large cities, particularly in Sydney where officers will be equipped with semi-automatic rifles.

A week after a motorist was dark in the crowd in Melbourne, being wounded 18, of the studs in concrete have been placed in some australian cities to better secure pedestrian areas.

“More police will be visible, this will be the quota the more important,” said Shane Patton, who is temporarily acting head of the police of the australian State of Victoria, of which Melbourne is the capital.

The police presence will also be reinforced to New York for the traditional New Year celebrations from Times Square, near which a bomb attack was committed three weeks ago. Two million people are expected to participate Sunday in the famous district, by an unusual temperature of -10°C.