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Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
A little bit later in the programme I'll be joining my colleagues to try to recall the big and not so big news stories of 2025 and the end of year news our quiz in the second half of the program.
I don't think I'm spawning anything by saying I was a complete shambles.
We're starting, though, with two election stories today.
One looking ahead to a vote, one holding a vote, both potentially very significant.
In a moment, we'll be heading to Somalia.
But first, Bangladesh, because Tarik Rahman,
the frontrunner to be the next prime minister, has returned to Bangladesh.
After 17 years in exile, a head of the general election scheduled for February,
Tarik Rahman was driven into the capital,
Dhaka, in a big red bus,
draped with pictures of him and his mother, the former Prime Minister Khaled Azir.
Cheering crowds lined the streets.
And among the throng of excited supporters from Tarik Rahman's party,
the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was this activist.