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The US Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, has for the first time acknowledged that Joe Biden won the presidential election, describing him as the president-elect. Plus, the European Commission has proposed two tough new laws to put a check on the power of the world's big technology companies; we get the details from Javier Espinoza, the Financial Times' correspondent in Brussels. With several coronavirus vaccines given the green light, the challenge is not only how to distribute it but also how to keep it cold in the process.... and that's where a product you may have seen in the theatre or at a nightclub comes in; Theo Leggett reports. Some governments have been tempted to relax coronavirus restrictions over Christmas but with a rise in cases, the UK is under pressure to go the other way; we look at what Christmas could look like around the world. And we're joined throughout the programme by Mitchell Hartman from our sister programme Marketplace in the US and in Vietnam, Lien Hoang a reporter with Nikkei Asia. (Picture of Joe Biden by Drew Angerer via Getty Images)