BBC correspondents' look ahead

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🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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There were times in 2020 when the world felt like an out of control carousel and we could all have been forgiven for just wanting to get off and to wait for normality to return. But will 2021 be any less dramatic? Joe Biden will be inaugurated in January but will Donald Trump have left the White House by then? And vaccines are promised to help tackle the Covid19 pandemic but how successful will they be and how do global leaders go about trying to repair the economic damage the virus has caused? So many big questions but luckily we have some big hitters to provide plenty of answers. Presenter: Lyse Doucet Panel: Anne Soy, Gabriel Gatehouse, Larry Madowo, Vincent Ni and Yogita Limaye Producer: Ben Carter Editor: Ravin Sampat

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0:00.0	Greetings to all as a new year begins at last.
0:04.4	Welcome to the Correspondents' Look Ahead on the BBC World Service.
0:08.4	I'm Lee's
0:10.3	Chief International Correspondent.
0:13.0	2020 will be remembered as a year like no other, a year where one crisis hit our one world,
0:21.0	wherever we live.
0:22.2	The deadly coronavirus crossed every border, changed, even
0:26.1	shattered so many lives. And in some parts of the world it catalyzed even bigger crises.
0:33.0	For millions the world over, this year will be remembered for even more powerful pandemics
0:38.4	of hunger, violence and suffering.
0:41.9	As 2021 begins, the wealthier nations remember their mantra of no one is safe
0:47.8	until everyone is safe. Will that vaccine now being rolled out in some places also reach all.
0:54.8	2021 also brings a new president into the White House.
0:58.2	Will President Biden reshape a world
1:03.4	world-
1:06.4	how much attention will he and other world powers pay to the new front lines in Tigray and
1:08.9	Nagorno-Karabakh and the old fights in Afghanistan across the Middle East and more.
1:15.0	As always, the best of our World Service analyst and astrologers are here to help us navigate these uncharted waters. Now it's been a tough year even for all of us so let's
1:26.8	start with an easy question. Tell us who you are. First with the two people who are with me here in the studio in London.
1:34.0	Hello, my name is Vincenney. I cover China for the world service.
1:38.0	And hi, I'm Gabriel Gatehouse. I cover the whole world, minus the UK, for a program called Newsnight.
1:45.0	Hi I'm Yogitalamay and I cover the South Asian region.
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