Black Friday comes early for shoppers this year

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Black Friday started earlier this year as shoppers turned to online services during the pandemic. John Copeland, Vice President for Marketing and Customer Insights at Adobe, lays out the trends they saw this year. Also in the programme, the BBC's Manuela Saragosa reports on how prepping, or survivalism, has gone mainstream. We find out why police in northern India used tear gas and wooden sticks in an attempt to prevent thousands of farmers from marching into Delhi. Plus, a new law is going through France's Parliament, making it an offense to discriminate against regional accents. The BBC's Joshua Thorpe explains the background. (Picture credit: Getty Images.)