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
better that the numbers involved. the article talks about more than £1 million the article talks about more than £1 million being spent on this, let s assume million being spent on this, let s assume it million being spent on this, let s assume it is £2 million, there are more assume it is £2 million, there are more than assume it is £2 million, there are more than 500,000 registered nurses in the more than 500,000 registered nurses in the uk more than 500,000 registered nurses in the uk so more than 500,000 registered nurses in the uk so if these jobs were abolished, each one of those nurses, where abolished, each one of those nurses, where it abolished, each one of those nurses, where it spread evenly, would be able to where it spread evenly, would be able to get £4 a year more in pay. i am not able to get £4 a year more in pay. i am not privy able to get £4 a year more in pay. i am not privy to negotiations that are taking am not privy to negotiations
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this is bbc news, the headlines. clashes have broken out in paris after three people were shot dead at a kurdish community centre. police have arrested a 69 year old man with a history of acts of racist violence. and the us faces its coldest christmas in four decades as a storm sweeps across the country, with temperatures dropping to minus 45 degrees celsius in some places. the uk health secretary says he is disappointed by the announcement that nhs nurses in england are to stage further strikes on january the 18th and 19th. also in the uk, the head of the union representing striking border force staff says walkouts could go on for six months unless the government