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If 2024 was the year of elections - around half the world’s population went to the polls this year alone - then 2025 will be the year the election winners try and deliver on their promises. Among them, incoming US president Donald Trump — who has criticised the status quo domestically, and abroad.
The world will also enter 2025 with wars in the Middle East, Ukraine and Sudan showing no signs of ending - could there be any breakthroughs?
And - in the fight against climate change - is 2025 the year greenhouse gas emissions peak? On this episode Azadeh Moshiri asks the BBC’s top correspondents for their predictions on what they think will happen in the next 12 months.
00:00 Intro
01:05 Donald Trump’s agenda for 2025
02:53 Trump’s plan for Ukraine and Russia
05:05 Priorities for Vladimir Putin
07:39 Will Trump follow through with his tariff threats?
09:16 How does China view the tariff threats?
12:13 Xi Jinping and Donald Trump
17:18 Political turmoil in Germany and France
19:48 Donald Trump and Europe
23.11 Will there be a ceasefire?
25:10 Israel's military strategy
26:37 The fall of Bashar al-Assad
28:39 South Africa's coalition government
30:37 Crisis in Sudan
32:09 New drug to treat HIV
34:07 Will we meet our emissions target?
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