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In Correspondence Look Ahead, Mark Mardell is joined by four of the BBC's top international journalists

to try to predict the big stories for 2015. Good luck to them. Over to Mark.

Hello and welcome to Correspondence Look Ahead.

I'm Mark Maudel and I'm joined by four senior BBC Correspondence.

Our job is to try to peer into the future and foresee the big developments that will define 2015.

The ancients use the entrails of animals, the pattern of the flight of geese, the configuration

of the stars to tell the future.

But all I have is some of the BBC's most prodigious intellects, their knowledge,

go on yes, a pinch of guesswork.

After all, we have to humbly admit no one last year saw the rise of Islamic State,

the annexation of Crimea or the Ebola outbreak.

But we can try to do better this year.

I'm going to ask my guests to introduce themselves,

and as they do, I want them to give me a word or at most too that they think will define this year.

Thank you Mark. I'm Bridget Kendall. I'm BBC Diplomatic Correspond correspondent and also with a long-standing

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