christmas is going to be fantastic at lidl as it always is.eed to get to christmas and enjoy it. are you confident you can keep the shelves full? yes. politicians across the eu are weighing up how best to tackle the spread of coronavirus, as it again becomes the epicentre of the pandemic, despite vaccination programmes. austria, with a vaccination rate of 73%, has ordered unjabbed people to stay at home except for work, food shopping or emergencies. governments elsewhere, including the republic of ireland, with a vaccination rate of 92%, are extending covid passports while germany is also considering re—introducing certain rules — and debating whether vaccines alone are enough. angela merkel said this morning that the coronavirus situation is �*dramatic�*. mark lobel reports. coronavirus is catching hospital staff, as well as politicians, off—guard in germany. emergency wards like this one close to munich are filling up so fast, a patient was sent to italy for treatment. translation: the situation was foreseeable and could i have been avoided.

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the company says that will make lidl the highest paying supermarket in the uk. wage increase for all of our front line colleagues who work in stores and warehouses, which will take the minimum pay from £9.50 an hour to £10.10 per hour. that represents an investment of £18 million in ourfront line colleagues, which is the biggest ever wage investment that we've made in the uk. the labour leader sir keir starmer has accused borisjohnson of being a coward for refusing to apologise for the owen paterson case and "giving a greenlight to corruption," as the row over mps standards continues. in a heated commons session, the speaker of the house clashed with the prime minister as he faced questions from the opposition leader. mps will this afternoon debate making changes to the rules around paid consulting, after growing concern about the amount some politicians are earning while serving as an mp. damian grammaticas reports. another u—turn, prime minister? it's been a torrid fortnight for boris johnson, you turning and under pressure over sleaze and second jobs. pressur

. >> reporter: david lidle with the u.s. forest service says some forests need help to regrow.ands crews hand-planting lab-grown seedlings in scorched areas. it's be labor intensive and time-consuming. but some are speeding up the process with drones. >> if natural regeneration is occurring less and less because the fires are high severity, what we need to do is we need to be able to step up and be able to as humans reforest faster. >> reporter: grant canary is ceo of drone seed, a company in washington state. workers deploy swarms of drones in fire-devastated areas often over rough terrain. they map out the area, and the drones are programmed to drop seed vessels in locations marked ideal for their survival. the seed vessels are about the size of a hockey puck. inside seeds of native trees and other elements that assist in the growing process. how much can one drone plant versus one person? >> so generally we take a look at difficult terrain, we're seeing drones can navigate and fly across that terrain about 60 times faster than humans. >> reporter: while the u.s. forest servi

reporter: the store was blocks away from a chop shop where police learned a young man by the name of lidleoffered to sale suburban. >> you mention ladell, i think "car thefts." he was involved in car thefts around the metro area. >> ladell was interviewed by lead detectives in this case. he told police on the night of the crime, a guy named chris jordan comes to his apartment. a few minutes later, according to ladell king, julius jones drives up. >> reporter: chris jordan and julius jones were high school acquaintances. chris was a suspected gang member. julius a college student who had recently been in some trouble of his own. >> my first year of school, i got into shoplifting. i stole pagers, i stole anything i could sell. >> reporter: ladell king says the two young men came to see him asking for help on how to sell a stolen suburban, but the high-profile murder made it too risky to sell the car for parts. king points the finger at julius jones. >> he had a red bandana around his neck. he had a stocking cap on. >> reporter: king accuses chris jordan of being the driver. jordan was taken

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lidl is hiking starter pay by over 6%. it is a challenge, absolutely.ng for talent with all the other retailers and, indeed, other industries, and part of the reason for today's announcement is to secure our staff who are with us, to retain them as far as possible, but also to attract anyone else who would like to come and join this fantastic team. wages going up in sectors with worker shortages, such as retail or haulage, is to be expected, but if this happens across the entire economy the bank of england's festive gift to the nation might have to be a pre—christmas interest rate rise, to try to keep price rises under control. faisal is with me now. you have been talking to lots of people today. just on this business of rising inflation, we were told before this would be a temporary thing, a bit of a before this would be a temporary thing, a bit ofa blip. is before this would be a temporary thing, a bit of a blip. is that what it looks like now?— thing, a bit of a blip. is that what it looks like now? when is it going to end, the _ it looks like now? w

lidl is hiking starter pay by over 6%. it is a challenge, absolutely. talent with all the other retailers and, indeed, other industries and part of the reason for today's announcement is to secure our staff who are with us, to retain them as far as possible, but also to attract anyone else who would like to come and join this fantastic team. wages going up in sectors with worker shortages, such as retail or haulage, is to be expected but if this happens across the entire economy, the bank of england's festive gift to the nation might have to be a pre—christmas interest rate rise, to try to keep price rises under control. faisal is with me now. we were told, weren't we, by many people that this rise in inflation, which has been in this system, was just basically a blip, it wasn't going anywhere.— just basically a blip, it wasn't going anywhere. does it look like that today? _ going anywhere. does it look like that today? that _ going anywhere. does it look like that today? that is _ going anywhere. does it look like that today? that is the _ going anywhe

lidl is hiking starter pay by over 6%. it is a challenge, absolutely.g for talent with all the other retailers and, indeed, other industries and part of the reason for today's announcement is to secure our staff who are with us, to retain them as far as possible, but also to attract anyone else who would like to come and join this fantastic team. wages going up in sectors with worker shortages, such as retail or haulage, is to be expected but if this happens across the entire economy, the bank of england's festive gift to the nation might have to be a pre—christmas interest rate rise, to try to keep price rises under control. so where do you go, to get a clearer idea of where inflation is heading. to the futures market of course? chicago is the second—largest futures exchange in the world and the largest in the united states — and there for us tonight the markets specialist scott shellady — known to all, as �*the cow guy'. nice to see you. good to have you nice to see you. good to have you back on the programme. so you are effectively looking into the c

lidl is hiking starter pay by over 6%. it is a challenge, absolutely.ent with all the other retailers and, indeed, other industries and part of the reason for today's announcement is to secure our staff who are with us, to retain them as far as possible, but also to attract anyone else who would like to come and join this fantastic team. wages going up in sectors with worker shortages, such as retail or haulage, is to be expected but if this happens across the entire economy, the bank of england's festive gift to the nation might have to be a pre—christmas interest rate rise, to try to keep price rises under control. and we'll find out how this story — and many others — are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:30 and 11:30 this evening in the papers — our guestsjoining me tonight are rachel cunliffe — deputy 0nline editor at the new statesman and mo hussein — the former conservative party adviser. in the past hour — mps have backed proposals to toughen up rules on mps having second jobs. a committee of mps will now come up with a set of recommendatio