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It is a real nightmares for travelers. >> reporter: it certainly is. airlines continue in their efforts to try to mitigate the efforts of not only severe weather but of course omicron and the explosive transmission we have seen across the country that has affected airline workers, many having to call in sick and recover at home. because of that airlines forced to cancel thousands of flights. lets give viewers an idea of where we stand as of today. about -- today alone, just over that amount of 2...

Empty shelves and despite all those supply chain problems and labour shortages which were real, i think actually retailers have had a pretty decent christmas overall. as for this one, well, its had a really good one. m and s is a christmas winner and i think thats because food has done particularly well, more than i2% up compared with the same period before the pandemic, and actually it said it had its best everfood actually it said it had its best ever food sales in the week before christmas. c...

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Breaking news on the logistics of quarantining in hotel, the senior responsible officer in charge at the uk health security agency expects people can be released from quarantine hotels today once logistics like travel are sorted. he said the standard practice if you start, you complete hotel quarantine has changed because of the development of the fast—moving omicron variant is that we want to release people early and we are starting arrangements as quickly as possible. he said officials dont ...

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So we expect peoples real incomes to fall byjust over 1% next year unless we have some much bigger than expected pay growth. we are expecting the bank of england to make a decision on interest rates tomorrow and i noticed in hsbc�*s response to the inflation figures today, this line, "under usual circumstances, it would be consistent, the inflation rate, with an imminent interest rate rise." i sense there is a "but". and the but is of course omicron. this inflation rate, 5.1% is more than doub...

South africa, nigeria and zimbabwe, have been removed from the uks travel red list. the red list was reintroduced in late november as a precaution after the emergence of the omicron variant. the bbc�*s mayenijones is in lagos and says that putting nigeria on the uk red list has affected many people in the country. its definitely had an impact on how much trust people have. this was the first christmas in two years when nigerians felt that they were finally going to be able to either travel to ...

The omicron variant is reproducing and some fear that whether the nhs is or isnt overwhelmed injanuary will turn on tight margins. indeed there are hopes that current measures will work, working from home may have an impact significantly but looking at some of the government ministers, they are saying that some of their own colleagues, some of the backbenches, some of the rebels are not appreciating the speed of which omicron is moving at the scale of the problem we may be facing in a matter of ...

Ben wright, bbc news, westminster. the uk transport secretary grant shapps says hes not expecting any further covid restrictions this month. weve got in place now the measures that we believe will see us through to the new year. and some of the measures which are not relevant, we are removing. in fact, yesterday we removed the red list countries. there is no point in having those any more because omicron is already here. so, we always try and keep these things proportionate, and remove them as q...

Who cancelled their plans and for a lot of others who are currently in quarantine hotels and have spent the two and a bit thousand pounds. so there has been a lot of frustration, a lot of incomprehension as well because omicron cases so far havent been very high here. the last numbers we are hearing are about 11, although the nigerian centre for disease control hasnt been releasing daily figures. all 11 countries which were on the uk governments red list have now been removed. the list was reint...