enters talks about pay. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the business journalist, john crowley, and joe twyman, who s the director of the polling organisation, deltapoll. tomorrow s front pages starting with. the financial times leads with covid cases in china, which the paper says have reached up to 250 million in december since the country eased lockdown restrictions. the times reports on an initiative by the government to cut down early retirement the paper says prime minister rishi sunak plans a midlife mot to get over 50s into work. the daily mail says the nhs is wasting money on equality, diversity and inclusion related positions. the i leads on yesterday s vote in scotland on gender identification reforms, saying it could lead to what it calls an unprecedented constitutional clash with westminster. it s also on the front page of the telegraph, which says labour leader sir keir starmer wants updat
lead. wales rescued a point, thanks to a second half penalty from kayleigh barton, keeping them top of their group. northern ireland s are unbeaten start is over, as well. they were beaten 4 0 by portugal in the third group game, they are second in their group. portugalare group game, they are second in their group. portugal are top with three wins from three. either bath or chemical sale will confirm their place in the grand final later today, they already know who awaits next weekend at twickenham, that is northampton. they won their semifinal last night beating saracens. this penalty from finn smith ten minutes from time proved vital. united rugby championship, glasgow already assured of a championship place. they can still finish in the top two, depending on other results. leaders leinster beat connacht in the night s at all that much.
between the two sides. ulster beat connacht in the other match tonight. finally, sir geoff hurst has led the tributes to his england world cup winning team mate george cohen who has died at the age of 83. hurst scored a hat trick in the 1966 final and said cohen was a dear friend who will be sadly missed and that everyone without exception said he was a lovely man. cohen played in every game of the tournament on home soil 56 years ago as the england team s right back, including in the 4 2 win over west germany in the final. he spent his entire club career with fulham and was also awarded an mbe in the year 2000. george was pure class. he was a gentleman, he had big standards and passed that on too many people, myself included. he was a classy
in his career. next up for him is the canadian denis shapovalov, who stunned the third seed alexander zverev. if he is able to keep improving, he will be a multi grand slam winner. he has a lot of amazing things in his game and. and his results say that. when he is playing well, it is very difficult to stop him. in rugby, it s all eyes on the european champions cup as teams look to move into the last 16 stage. sale have qualified, they beat 0spreys 49 10. sale suffered a narrow defeat to clermont last week which put their qualification hopes on hold, but the win was never in doubt. this was the best of their seven tries and also the final one. jack metcalfe going over. 0spreys remain bottom of pool a with no match points. stade francis beat connacht,