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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

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Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith

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BBC Correspondents' Look Ahead to 2024: Correspondents' Look Ahead 2018

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Correspondents' Look Ahead 2018

28/12/2018 GMT

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BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead

How do you look ahead in a world which constantly takes us by surprise, sometimes shocks us, often makes us ask 'what happens next?' Who would have predicted that President Trump would, to use his words, fall in love with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, whose country he had threatened to totally destroy? Who could have imagined that a prominent Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, would be murdered and dismembered in a Saudi Consulate? And, on a happier note, we’re relieved that, as the year ends a climate change conference in Poland did manage to save the Paris pact, and maybe our world. The BBC's chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet talks to correspondents from around the globe about what might happen in the world in 2019. 

Guests: 
Katya Adler, Europe editor
Yolande Knell, Middle East correspondent
James Robbins, Diplomatic correspondent 
Steve Rosenberg, Moscow Correspondent 
Jon Sopel, North America editor 
Producer: Ben Carter
Editor: Penny Murphy

(Image:  King Mohammed VI, Melania Trump, Donald Trump, Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte Macron. Credit: EPA/BENOIT TESSIER / POOL MAXPPP OUT)

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