Is the World Ready for Donald Trump 2.0?
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at how Donald Trump’s return to the White House could impact events around the world.
Adam speaks to Chris about Keir Starmer’s foreign policy priorities and working with the incoming Trump administration. Plus Senior North America Correspondent Gary O'Donoghue discusses what we know about Trump’s foreign policy.
And Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet joins from Syria to talk about what might happen next in the country and across the Middle East.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, today's festive episode of Newscast is going to be a bit of a preview. |
| 0:10.5 | Actually, no preview is putting it too strongly, because actually none of us really know what's |
| 0:13.5 | going to happen, but it's going to give you some ideas, some thoughts, some theories about |
| 0:18.8 | what might happen in the world in 2025. And we've assembled some |
| 0:23.4 | fine minds who spend a lot of their time observing the world from different points of view |
| 0:28.3 | to help us work it all out. That's on this episode of Newscast, which is going to feel like |
| 0:33.2 | it's in 2025, even though it's not quite 2025 yet as we're recording it. |
| 0:40.4 | Newscast. Newscast. |
| 0:41.0 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:42.9 | Two cheeks of the same backside. |
| 0:45.8 | Well, I don't think I'm that bad at politics. |
| 0:47.9 | People do call me for short, Jenny Leck. |
| 0:50.3 | On reflection, it was a mistake not to stay longer. |
| 0:52.5 | We did it. |
| 0:53.3 | Are you all watched the debate? |
| 0:55.0 | Winning the popular vote was very nice. |
| 0:57.4 | I don't think I'm being rude. |
| 0:59.0 | Blimey. |
| 1:01.1 | Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio, and in full transparency, we have recorded this episode of Newscast on the 18th of December. |
| 1:10.1 | That's 2024. But we're going to be getting our heads |
| 1:13.2 | into what might happen in 2025, with a particular focus on the arrival of one man in particular, |
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