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Business Matters: Biden delivers Thanksgiving speech to America

Biden delivers Thanksgiving speech to America

26/11/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Biden delivers Thanksgiving speech to America

The President- elect urges Americans to recommit to the fight against Covid

President-elect Biden has delivered his first address to the American people. In his Thanksgiving speech, he urged the nation to recommit to the fight against Coronavirus. The holiday marks the start of the festive shopping season with Black Friday kicking everything off.The BBC's Michelle Fleury in New York reports on how the pandemic is impacting plans for Black Friday in 2020. Also in the programme, the French government is hoping to bolster its budget in the year ahead with proceeds of a tax levied on the profits mainly of Silicon Valley giants like Facebook and Amazon. Victor Mallett, Paris bureau chief for the Financial Times, tells us French tax authorities are now demanding millions of euros in payment for this year, after talks on an alternative framework stalled. Plus, with three new coronavirus vaccines that are now known to work, the BBC's Ed Butler has been finding out about the immense challenge of delivering the vaccines where needed, especially in the developing world.And, football legend Diego Maradona, one of the greatest players of all time, has died at the age of 60. We hear from Jimmy Burns the author of Hand of God, the footballer's biography.

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