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³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead. 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 ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳’s top correspondents for their predictions on what they think will happen in the next 12 months.

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Producer: Ben Carter

Sound engineers: Ben Andrews and James Beard

Assistant editors: Sergi Forcada Freixas and Richard Fenton-Smith