What will happen in 2025?

BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead. Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 https://bbc.in/3VyyriM 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? Watch more episodes of The Global Story here 👉🏽 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz_B0PFGIn4dvK8UQS79GwGLDl94Z3gkt You can listen to more episodes of The Global Story here. Making sense of the news with our experts around the world. Insights you can trust, Monday to Friday, from the BBC 👉🏽 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xtvsd/episodes/downloads ---------------- This is the official BBC World Service YouTube channel. If you like what we do, you can also find us here: Instagram 👉🏽 https://www.instagram.com/bbcworldservice Twitter 👉🏽 https://twitter.com/bbcworldservice Facebook 👉🏽 https://facebook.com/bbcworldservice BBC World Service website 👉🏽 https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio Thanks for watching and subscribing! #BBCWorldService #WorldService #2025 #2025predictions