unless pay talks are opened, with even more hospital trusts expected to walk out than the december strikes. meanwhile, union chiefs say borderforce strikes could go on for six months unless the government joins pay talks. china continues to grapple with a major covid outbreak following a lifting of restrictions with growing questions about the government s official death tally. and the british husband and wife duo who ve had more uk christmas number one singles than the beatles meet ladbaby who ve bagged the spot for a record fifth time. for you watching in the uk, on pbs in the us and around the globe, welcome to bbc news. the french president, emmanuel macron, has condemned a shooting at a cultural centre in paris as an odious attack on the country s kurdish population. three people were killed and three injured by the gunman, who had just been released from detention for targeting a migrant camp a year ago. clashes later broke out between police and a large crowd which h
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 updated
a powerful arctic storm sweeps across swathes of the us and canada more than 200 million people are under weather warnings with temperatures dropping to minus 45 degrees celsius in some places. and the british husband and wife duo who ve had more uk christmas number 1 singles than the beatles meet ladbaby who ve bagged the spot for a record fifth time. a gunman has shot and killed two men and a woman in central paris. all were of turkish kurdish descent. police say the attacker, who was 69, was acting out of hatred of foreigners. he has been arrested. he had just been released from detention for targeting an african migrant camp in paris a yearago. clashes later broke out between police and a large crowd which had gathered at the scene. protesters started a fire in the street and threw chairs and bricks. police clad in riot gear responded with tear gas. hugh schofield reports. shouting not long after the attack, rioting in central paris. these are people from the city s
Queen elizabeth ii. Those are the headlines on bbc news. You are watching bbc news. Now on bbc news, amol rajan interviews ian hislop. Even by recent standards, 2022 has been a tumultuous year in news. Russia launched a War In Europe. Her late majesty Queen Elizabeth ii died just months after her Platinum Jubilee. And britain went through three Prime Ministers and even more chancellors. One man whos tried to make sense of it is ian hislop, whether on tv or as editor of private eyes fortnightly magazine and latest annual. I visited his office for a conversation not just about recent news, but also why its been a turn off for some and why we need proper journalism more than ever. Ian, thank you so much for talking to me and to bbc news. Lets start, if youre happy to, with a few kind of reflections on this year, because in recent years the news agenda has often felt pretty crazy. Yeah. And overwhelming, but this year, even more than most, weve had War In Europe, the death of her late maje