What will happen in 2025? - The Global Story podcast, BBC World Service

BBC 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 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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[Tukduk]

Terrible feeling watching this from Ukraine. It's so disgusting.
I mean, imagine that you watching news in another country, how they deciding should you live or die in this year

Hope you never have this feeling

[grwler]

Love this format in that it draws from experts out in the field. be great to see this programme every month or week

[DonaldMark-nese]

Some economists have projected that both the U.S. and parts of Europe could slip into a recession for a portion of 2023. A global recession, defined as a contraction in annual global per capita income, is more rare because China and emerging markets often grow faster than more developed economies. Essentially the world economy is considered to be in recession if economic growth falls behind population growth.

[paulreed]

Tariffs are just another tax on the people of US, they will be paying the higher costs

[mont]

Mr. Trump, *Senior, * lies about what he will do _for_ you, but not about what he will do _to_ you.

[vincentlyon]

Can’t believe there was no mention of AI for the year ahead. Incredible

[lauramilethaconcha]

Thank You very much for this short but powerful documentary, the quality of information provided is really amazing. I hope you continue creating content like this.

[wisewords-wmtt]

Thanks for the informative analysis on important issues

[dianneking]

Did that Washington reporter just say he's going to use tarrif money to support parents and farmers lol...did he really say that.what are these people talking about😮

[mht_the_sylheti_boy]

I just fell in love with the presenter❤
She's absolutely gorgeous😢❤

[marziakarimi]

The world is forgetting Afghanistan and its terrible situation is just becoming normal. It looks like the world is accepting the present situation of Afghan women.😢

[lovechineseforever]

WEST NOT DOING ENOUGH FOR GLOBAL WARMING

[mahendrasolanki]

I am really thrilled to say that we can say our 2025 is gonna be an amazing year for the whole world and we are gaining from it very much information for the near future, getting brunch of vocabulary and sentence formations through BBC news . Really appreciated for things

[samwlovesdogs]

Fun fact, 2025 is the 45th square number

45×45=2025 or 45²=2025

[iamheziegler]

What will happen, more lies, more wars, more crime and more people complaining about everything while changing nothing.😂😂

[ku]

Thank you for your podcast given a wide variety of predictions all over the world! It’s so unpredictable but really intriguing correlations among countries I realized.

[MukhtarSUBEERIYA]

Very nice to listen your highly talented presentation.

[tinnytsme]

A very interesting postcast from BBC, with lots of insightful views offered by journalists around the world and specialists in their fields. I have gotten a glimpse into how 2025 would likely be and although there seem to be a lot of hope but it certainly continues to be problematic in terms of global economy, domestic development, wars and climate change. More efforts are needed from everyone and I feel lucky when thinking that the world is becoming more interconnected and smaller, giving grounds to sharing problems and tackling them together.

[emilcevela]

Thanks for sharing such wonderful overview of the world ! Congratulations on your programe !!!

[embarq]

It just means European leaders need to grow some balls and defend themselves