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Shoppers rush out to grab a Black Friday bargain. Although shopping is increasingly done online, high streets are still busier than normal. The 大象传媒's Michelle Fleury reports from a department store in New York and Ijeoma Ndukwe has been out shopping in Lagos in Nigeria.

There are predictions of a surge in migration to the US from Brazil before Donald Trump takes over as president in January 2017. The 大象传媒's Joao Fellet in Washington DC who tell Robert Young about the fact that Brazilians have few ways of migrating legally to the US, so many of them come on tourist visas and then just stay.

Over the past month Thailand's military government has announced subsidies for rice farmers worth over a billion dollars. It's to address a sharp fall in global rice prices. However, the new subsidies have raised awkward questions for the government, which has filed criminal charges against former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and imposed a one billion dollar fine on her for losses incurred under her scheme. The 大象传媒's Jonathan Head in Bangkok reports on this story.

Rob Young is joined by Colin Peacock, the presenter of Mediawatch on Radio New Zealand throughout the programme for comment.

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