Am very concerned and it is a commercially sensitive situation and we are looking at what we can do. but serious questions, the resilience of this firm, the of other firms, resilience of this firm, the of otherfirms, the resilience of this firm, the of other firms, the effect on pension funds and the lib dems are pushing to save the water industry needs to be reshaped and the ownership of companies to be treated more as public goods. companies to be treated more as public geode companies to be treated more as public goods. thank you, damian grammaticas public goods. thank you, damian grammaticas there. protests and unrest erupted in the region around paris overnight after police shot dead a 17 year old who failed to stop when ordered to by traffic police. the teenager, named as nael m, died from bullet wounds to the chest he is the second person in france to have been killed in a police shooting at a traffic stop this year. 31 people were arrested during the demonstrations, and 24 police injured. hugh schofield reports from paris his report contains images of the incident moments before the shooting. riots again in the paris banlieus. the troubled suburbs.
For many firms to find workers. there is a shortage of workers. that means that many firms are hoarding labour even when they re audible to slow down, they re audible to slow down, they know they will have difficulty getting skilled workers in all people who know how to do the job, so they hoard them, otherfirms hoard them, other firms therefore hoard them, otherfirms therefore are really scrabbling around to find new workers. so that s an issue. yesterday we had the labour market data, we had the labour market data, we had significant health, really, in the level of nominal wages, partly because minimum wages went up as well. but very sticky wage inflation and that s one of the reasons driving our inflation rates. we ve had 18 months of falling real wages. employment levels are above pre pandemic high but the rate remains sluggish. just ask the junior doctors. is the wage growth we ve been seeing recently notjust the labour market playing
In a statement. this the national hockey league has announced it will not be sending any players to the winter olympics which get under way in beijing in february. the decision comes after the regular season schedule was disrupted due to a surge in covid 19 cases. 50 games have already been postponed in the regular season that the nhl now plans to play at the same time as the olympics. the decision by the nhl means some of the world s top ice hockey players won t be competing at the games. amazon, facebook and twitter are among firms to announce that they will not send teams to the consumer electronics show, due to take place in las vegas injanuary over fears about rising covid 19 cases. the organisers have said the conference will be going ahead, with health precautions. otherfirms, including google, still plan to attend the event. ces is one of the technology calendar s busiest weeks, where firms show off new gadgets and talk through trends and regularly attracted almost 200,000 people before covid forced
First, run by friends of dominic cummings, people who had also worked with michael gove. the cabinet office as michael gove was not involved in the decision but his name was on the legal papers, and thejudge decided there name was on the legal papers, and the judge decided there was apparent bias because they didn t consider other firms, bias because they didn t consider otherfirms, and bias because they didn t consider other firms, and that is embarrassing for the government. the case brought by the campaign group the good law project, but dominic cummings has been tweeting today, suggesting that this judgment means he should have been concentrating on paperwork, ratherthan he should have been concentrating on paperwork, rather than the covid crisis. public first says it is proud of its work that it did, and the cabinet office says there was no actual bias and procedures have been tightened up. but a loss in court for the government today. lucy, thank you for the government today. lucy, thank you very for the government today. lucy, thank you very much. there s nowjust 48 hours to go before the euros gets under way, with wales and england playing at the weekend and scotland in action on monday.