Weekend as a chance to get a jump on the Holiday Shopping, chinas single day may actually be the biggest worldwide. In fact, ecommerce behemoths ali baba expanded its single day offering to take place over 11 days this year and nearly doubled sales to more than 75 1000000000. 00. And thats ali baba alone, while black friday was once and now known for outrageous door busters that caused consumers to line up in front of Big Box Stores like target, walmart, and best buy 2019 was the 1st year in which more people shopped online than in store for the most part, sales figures have continued to trend up over the last 2 decades. But the covert 19 pandemic has thrown a wrench in the works. The fact that many stores will not have in person a bed due to the pandemic, as well as millions of americans facing unemployment and a lack of another stimulus package to put cash in a customers pockets. Has many wondering what we can expect from this Holiday Shopping season. So lets get some expert analysis
Terrorism. No one has claimed responsibility for years of supporting social movements like its business, as usual with the race to the world. This is our international company. My names, you know, we begin in the french capital where protesters are continuing to vent their anger over a new security trick the filming of police images. By the way, right from police been using tear gas evening to disperse the crowd. I think lets cross live now to Charlotte Dubin speak, whos among the crowds and parsed for more and why what were seeing is actually happening things. Charlotte, theyre appearing quite tense. Whats your sense of it . Do police seem in control of the situation right now . The police are incredibly in control of the situation from what we can see, what they have done these cool doth all around the pasty area. If you just have a look at my camera, we all of the other side of the past, and you may be able to see the fence that is there, those fences and Police Vehicles blocking mo
Thats right. So the question this morning is, what does this all mean for you . Obviously, these numbers are going to give people some pause in terms of choosing perhaps this vaccine. Dr. Fauci says vaccines, though, still, whatever you can get, the best way to keep this virus from evolving further. Officials in South Carolina also have just confirmed the nations first cases of the south africa variant. The new model shows the pandemic could claim nearly 654,000 lives by may 1st. Lets begin with the j j breaking news. Our senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen is with us. Can you explain what that means for everyone watching . The bottom line is, if the Johnson Johnson vaccine gets authorization from the fda and you are looking for a vaccine, and youve looked for moderna and pfizer, which are better, theres no question, but you cant find them because theres not enough of them but you can get Johnson Johnson, experts are telling me, get it. Do not hesitate to get it. It is still a
Locked up or that going to mass could be considered a crime. Election officials found the flames of Donald Trumps voter fraud claims by stating they were tricked into 30 fine results. Chance reportedly invited michigan lawmakers to the white house to gather support for his allegations. And rescuers from countries including russia help refugees to travel back to no goal, no karabakh, and we build their homes as many find they have nothing to return to every day we drive by this house and this is sides every time a dog guarding a house thats been destroyed and the family, but isnt there a very warm welcome. Youre watching r. T. International with me. Carol. We expected better from australia, afghanistans reaction to an inquiry alleging bloodlust triggered elite australian troops to unlawfully shoot dozens of afghans trying to looks at how those coming to find terror in their country became a source of terror themselves. 2 eggs, australia and afghanistan, thousands of kilometers apart. On
And welcome across your all things are considered. What can we expect from a bygone ministration when it comes to russia . As things stand today, relations are at rock bottom. Bidens orbit is replete with hard liners in neo cons with a long record of Foreign Policy failure. Could relations continue to get worse to discuss this and more, im joined by my guest, Michael Ohanlon in washington. He is a senior fellow and director of research in the Foreign Policy program at brookings, as well as author of beyond nato, a new Security Architecture for Eastern Europe, also in washington. We have brian becker. Hes the executive director of the answer coalition. And in moscow we cross to, maxie should go, he is an expert at the Russian International affairs council, originally crossed out rules, and i think that means you can jump in anytime you want. And i always appreciate it. Ok, let me go to maxime 1st here in moscow. By all accounts, were going to have a by ministration in in january. Now, g