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BBC Correspondents' Look Ahead

BBC journalists gaze into their crystal balls to predict what 2024 might have in store.

Nuala McGovern and some of the BBC's best correspondents gaze into their crystal balls to predict what 2024 might have in store.

Nuala McGovern asks some of the BBC's top correspondents from around the world to gaze into their crystal balls and predict what 2024 might have in store.

2023 has been dominated by the conflicts in Ukraine and Israel and Gaza and a global cost of living crisis. Next year will see nearly half of the world’s population going to the polls.

Forty elections are scheduled to take place next year, in countries including the USA, UK, South Africa, India, Russia and Pakistan. How will the results of some of those elections shift the geopolitical tectonic plates? And will we see any resolution to those conflicts.

Big questions, but luckily we have some of the BBC's best minds on hand to provide plenty of answers.

Contributors:

Yogita Limaye, BBC South Asia and Afghanistan Correspondent

Lyse Doucet, BBC Chief International Correspondent

Sarah Smith, BBC North America Editor

Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, BBC Asia Correspondent

Mayeni Jones, BBC West Africa Correspondent

Steve Rosenberg, BBC Russia Editor

Producer: Ben Carter
Production Co-ordinator: Ibtisan Zein
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith

BBC Correspondents' Look Ahead to 2024: 01/01/2011

01/01/2011

BBC World Service - BBC Correspondents' Look Ahead to 2024, 01/01/2011

Stephen Sackur asks BBC correspondents to forecast the news stories for the year ahead

Stephen Sackur is joined by some of the BBC's top correspondents to give their predictions about what will shape our world in the year ahead.

For many in the West, 2011 will be a year of austerity. 

Will the economic tough medicine work? Or will we see more uncertainty, insecurity and possible public strife and disorder?  

What will further power shifts to the high-growth markets in Asia, Latin America and Africa mean for the world's strategic and diplomatic relations? 

And ten years on from the advent of social media, how has that changed the way we view and talk to each other?

Join Stephen Sackur as he mulls over the issues with some of the BBC's top correspondents, as they predict the events and people who will shape our world in 2011.

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