Community. And is life changing exam during a life altering pandemic thousands of South Koreans to mistake the National University entrance exams under the shadow of the coronavirus crisis. Im british manager welcome to news asia glad you could join us for the 1st time in 1000 yeahs the taliban and the Afghan Government have come to a written agreement just 3 pages long it is a document that lays out the rules of procedures for negotiations between the 2 sides aimed at ending nearly 2 decades of war the Development Ends and impasse after nearly 3 months of talks in doha nato is one of a number of organizations to welcome the move saying theres no alternative to such talks. Im not underestimating the difficulties on the risks for setbacks on disappointments onstream move forward but im absolutely certain that the only way its on going into afghan negotiations and therefore we support them and knowing that it will be difficult from john but that is the only option for all of those who wa
A coming Vaccination Programs possible treatments and rapid testing. Do you think do you feel that these solutions will be spread out to distribute it in an equitable way. Well i think that as you say these are encouraging news especially on the vaccines i think we still need to look at that they dont we need to rely on more than press releases we need to look at very good publications of the results but in the meantime our regulators here in europe and the United Kingdom and the United States are proceeding with emergency authorization process is and thats important and understandable in terms of i could have the access i think its reasonable to assume that wealthier nations those with those advanced deals with companies will be the 1st to get the vaccine and distribute to their populations followed by resource constrained countries professor how long a way is there still ahead of us i mean people are so encouraged by this use of vaccines now are being approved but realistically are w
A special session is there a little time lateral way out of this pandemic. Im off its good to have you with us we start tonight with the latest from the pandemic here in germany and the news is not good the head of the countrys Public Health institute says that germany is still nowhere near bringing the 2nd wave of corona virus infections under control a partial lockdown in place since early november has stabilized the numbers but those numbers remain too high. The coronavirus pandemic is not yet letting up in germany. The head of the countrys federal Health Agency issued a stark warning. Many people are still getting infected with cold and 19 and the numbers are still too high they are on a plateau but they are not yet falling noticeably. We also see that the number of serious outbreaks and deaths is increasing from week to week but since both of these always occur with a certain delay we must expect many more here. Germany has been under a partial lockdown since november 2nd the dail
1000 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 the pockets. Has many wondering what we can expect from this Holiday Shopping season. So lets get some expert analysis from dr. Banky shankar, director of research at the center for retailing studies at Mays Business School at texas a and m. And dr. Barbara stuart, the coordinator of retailing and Consumer Sciences at the university of houston. Thank you both for being here today. Dr. Stuart, i want to start with you. Were seeing a change in black friday due to the pandemic and stores want to avoid crowds. What are some new trends that were already seeing for the black friday this year . Well, here are 3 aspects that will make this a black friday, like, you know, rather firstly, Online Shopping has exploded 2nd playing well shopping. And thirdly, retail is i
Thats ali baba alone, while black friday was once the 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 copa 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 from dr. Vankin shankar, director of research at the center for retailing studies that made Business School at texas a and m. And dr. Barbara stuart, the coordinator of retailing and Consumer Sciences at the university of houston. Thank you both for being here today. Dr. Stuart, i want