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Relatives say the us apology, isnt enough. This was americas last act of war before it pulled out of afghanistan, and the decision to fire the missile smacks of panic. And what a legacy. After a Record Rise in wholesale Gas Prices, the Uk Government holds urgent talks with Energy Suppliers. And after 18 months of pandemic cancellations, the new York Philharmonic is back on stage on broadway. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. After the french president ordered the recall of ambassadors To Australia and the us, washington says it plans to hold talks with senior french officials in the coming days to calm the diplomatic storm. The french ambassador To Australia has now left the country, describing as a huge mistake its decision to unilaterally cancel a Submarine Contract worth tens of billions of dollars. From paris, heres hugh schofield. For the americans, the australians and the british, its a new alliance to ensure stability in the pacific and thwart the strategic ambitions of china. But Australias Decision to buy nuclear submarines from the us has left the french feeling stunned and humiliated. Their contract with australia has been simply binned. Ordered back home by President Macron, the french ambassador to canberra was as polite as he could be about the reasons for frances anger. I think this has been a huge mistake. A very, very bad handling of the partnership because it was not a contract. It was a partnership. This evening, the Foreign Minister, jean yves le drian, spoke again on national television. Translation there has been lying, duplicity, a major Breach Of Trust and contempt. This will not do. Things are not going well between us. It means there is a crisis. I am with the president of france and that makes me feel better. They laugh just a few months ago, it was all smiles at the G7 Summit in cornwall between president s biden and macron, and all talk of cooperation and shared challenges. But behind the scenes the french are convinced that the three english speaking nations were hatching the plan to cut them out. The fallout is potentially very great. This puts a big rift down the middle of the nato alliance, pushes france towards doing more with other european countries, puts britain very much in the camp of the americans in dealing with the indo pacific, but britain needs a functioning nato alliance. My worry is that this does deep damage to nato, going well beyond the diplomatic row over an arms deal. As they assess the damage, the french are asking themselves tough questions. Who now can be relied on as a serious Military Ally . Noticeably, here at the french foreign ministry, The One ambassador who has not been recalled is The One to london. One reason being put about is that the french regard the british role in the new pact as being that of a junior partner, but it does also suggest a willingness to keep lines of communication open. The souring of relations is in stark contrast to when President Macron visited an australian submarine in 2018. With an election coming early next year, he has, perhaps, to act tough, but his angry reaction has broad support. For most people, its not the government thats been humiliated, but france. Hugh schofield, bbc news, paris. United nations agencies have urged the taliban to re open girls� schools in afghanistan. More than a month after the taliban seized power, secondary schools for boys have reopened and all male teachers have been ordered back to work. But the taliban have said nothing about reopening secondary schools for girls, despite the fact that female enrolment has been steadily going up over the past two decades. Weve been talking to 21 year old afghan Student Shuhra Koofi whose mother, a former mp, survived two assassination attempts. Both women have been evacuated by the us and are currently in doha, from where shuhra described the current lack of female education as Heart Breaking and frustrating. Tx Sot Afghanistan is not there country it was 20 years back but unfortunately it is now going to the 90s. When my mother was at school, she faced a lot of opposition from a family because they do not allow her to go to school and even some families in that time didnt allow their boys to go to school but compared to when i was going to school my mum trying to find the best schools to send Me And My Sister so you see a big Generation Change here. Back home there was a High School For Girls in front of our house and every day i saw girls at 1pm going to school and at 5pm they were coming out but when the taliban came that door was closed and that school was empty. It was really heartbreaking and frustrating. Before this when they were fighting against the government they had a reason to legitimise the fact that they dont allow the girls to go to school but now they are ruling the government so they are accountable to people and this is not what people want. People want, families want they got their daughters to get educated and go to school have the rights the boys have. Sam mort, kabul based spokesperson for the United Nations childrens fund, says the gains of the last two decades need to be preserved. We welcome the Statement Yesterday that boys could return to secondary school. That is good news. But of course we are deeply concerned that girls were omitted from that message. But that doesnt mean to say that girls will not go back to school. They have not said that girls are banned from School And Unicef is very clear that girls must not be left out of secondary schooling. 20 years ago there were i million children in school. 10 of them are girls. Today, weve got nearly 10 Million children in school and 40 are girls and it is absolutely vital that we preserve those gains especially now when we have lost so many talented young people in the last few weeks through evacuation. It is critical of those going to be a peaceful productive and prosperous afghanistan that all that young people are School Boards and productive. Relatives of the family of ten afghan civilians, killed in an american Drone Strike in afghanistan last month, say the attack amounted to a war crime. Us officials have admitted the air strike, which killed 7 children in kabul, was a mistake from there, heres jeremy bowen. This is all that remains of the Toyota Corolla that the americans tracked for hours, as they convinced themselves entirely incorrectly that it was packed with explosives. Five of the seven dead children were playing in the car when it was hit. Its owner, Zemari Ahmadi who they believed, wrongly, was an islamic State Bomber had just driven it home from his work with an american aid organisation. The survivors have moved out. After their terrible loss, they want Compensation And Resettlement in a safe country. This was americas last act of war before it pulled out of afghanistan, and the decision to fire the missile smacks of panic. And what a legacy. It isnt necessarily the Parting Shot of the americans, because they still have the capacity to hit targets from the air. The us relies increasingly on drones. Across the road, the neighbours are still traumatised by what they heard and saw. Parisa said, there was an explosion, i picked up brain and Human Flesh from the ground. Americas latest deadly blunder shows how dangerous its drone strategy can be for civilians. Jeremy bowen, bbc news, kabul. Now to the us, where the department of Homeland Security has moved around 2,000 people from a camp in a Border Town in texas to other immigration Detention And Processing centres. In the past two days up to 12,000 mainly haitian migrants have arrived at the Border Town, many after travelling from south america in an effort to request asylum in the us. Heres a little of what the mayor of the texan Border Town of Del Rio said a short while ago. This is unprecedented. This is beyond surreal. This is affecting affecting everybody in this community. Our correspondent will grant explains what the united states� plan is for these migrants. It isa it is a pretty basic plan. Remove them from under a bridge where they have set up a sort of makeshift centre, makeshift camp. And send them to processing centres, Detention Centres along the border. We hear that at least 2000 have already been moved in that way but ultimately the aim will be to get them on planes and back to haiti. I think we know that the Driving Force when it comes to the biden administration with its relationship with mexico, for example, is immigration. These images, these numbers do not look good for the biden administration. They are tired of the situation they will continue to act whenever these sorts of moments of influx on many crises happen. So i dont think it comes as surprise at the department of Homeland Security is acting pretty swiftly. There are haitians who we believe had been outside of haiti since around the 2010 earthquake, the devastating earthquake that caused so much destruction in the country then but also there are more recent arrivals and the route often is to go to South American countries, people can get from haiti to brazil relatively easily. Which is an extraordinary thought to think they have come all the way from south america through Central America and have made it camino, to this Border Town but we do believe that in a number of cases that is what is happen. A lot of cuban migrants too are there. Of course the current economic crisis in cuba is pushing a lot of people out. Amid rising global Gas Prices and warnings of higher Gas Bills for consumers, Uk Ministers have been holding urgent talks with Energy Industry leaders. Its understood that 4 small energy companies are likely to go under next week. The Uk Business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, says protecting customers is an � absolute priority� for the government. Here� s our business correspondent, katy austin. Gas is a key source of the energy that heats our homes and powers our industries. Since the start of the year, wholesale prices have soared, almost doubling in the uk, prompting the government to hold urgent talks with the Energy Industry today. Reasons for the increase include lower wind and solar output, high demand, and reduced supply from russia. The unprecedented costs are already taking their toll four small Energy Suppliers have recently gone bust with more set to follow as soon as next week. The conversations with government right now are about where we may or may not need additional targeted support for customers or users. The industrial sector is, obviously, a really high priority. Steelmakers, which need a lot of energy, are worried. If theyre at this price now, whats it going to be like in the winter . If it carried on like this, im fearful, notjust for the Steel Sector but all energy intensive sectors, and then downstream operations because thats what we do. Were at the start of the Supply Chain we sell to manufacturers. High energy prices have already forced two large Uk Fertiliser plants in the north of england to close one consequence is a shortage of their crucial by product, Carbon Dioxide, and that could hit Food And Drink businesses. Because it� s used to stun some animals before slaughtering and for meat packing. Meat processors fear the shortage could hit production. It� s used to extend Shelf Life through packaging, notjust on meat but on all foods. At a time when we� re struggling because of the Haulage Shortages in this country to keep the Supply Chain running, to actually lose Shelf Life and have a shorter Shelf Life on the products going on to shelves is going to cause even more disruption, so this is a really serious problem for us. The owner of one large Poultry Group which includes Bernard Matthews called the Carbon Dioxide problem a massive body blow. The online Food Delivery Company ocado says it now has limited stock of some frozen foods because it can� t get enough dry ice. The Trade Body representing major supermarkets says the disruption could not have come at a worse time, with the Lorry Driver Shortage already causing issues. The rising price of gas is mainly being felt by businesses at the moment but it is likely to feed through in terms of higher bills for consumers at a time when the Cost Of Living is already rising. The Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng says britain can meet demand for gas and the government doesn� t expect Supply Emergencies this winter. But some things are beyond their control. With wholesale prices, there are global factors at play. Katy austin, bbc news. Robert buckley an Energy Analyst at Cornwall Insight told us what� s driving the increase in global prices people keep talking about a perfect storm of increasing demand, constraints on supply of gas from russia, from norway, very competitive international market for. Lower production from wind and solar than we were expecting. So a real combination of factors. In asian and European Problem with an overlay of issues specific to great britain. A very difficult market for small suppliers particularly in the Domestic Market where they face a cap that limits the amount they can pay and that cap sent some pretty perverse incentives to people about not trading with these Energy Suppliers because people on the other side of the market think they will go bust so we are in a self fulfilling prophecy where the Tariff Cap is causing as many problems as it solves. The headlines on bbc news. The french Foreign Minister has accused australia and the us of lying in a Deepening Crisis over the cancellation of a french Submarine Contract. Us officials are moving thousands of migrants away from a texas Border Town, after a rapid influx, mostly from haiti. Here in england, Travel Companies say that Holiday Bookings have surged, since yesterday� s announcement, that foreign Travel Rules are being relaxed. The travel � traffic light system� is being replaced with a single � Red List�. Fully vaccinated people will no longer need a pre Departure Test before returning from non Red List countries. Professor Lawrence Young is from the university of warwick. He says the new Testing Regime raises concerns about how new variants will be detected, with the new requirement for fewer tests. Given the high levels of infection we already have in the country perhaps that is not as much of an issue. The key issue has to be the importation we know that previous waves of infection have been driven by travellers returning to the uk and look at what we are facing now the Delta Variant that originated in india. So we mustn� t let our guard down. It is really important we keep genomic surveillance going because we know that some of these variants can affect the efficacy of vaccination and that is the risk that we are running, actually. Staying with the uk, dozens of universities have set up Pop Up Clinics and Walk In Centres for students to receive covid vaccines, as the new academic year begins. Students who are not yet vaccinated, are being urged to getjabs during freshers� week. Megan paterson, has the details. A new addition to the usual freshers� week festivities at Oxford Brookes University Pop Up Clinics and grab a Jab Drop ins, all aimed at encouraging as many students as possible to get vaccinated, amid some concern about covid spread in young people. We are aware just before the summer there was quite a high increase in Covid Infection rates amongst the 18 24 year olds, so we� re really keen to try and sort of capture them just as they� re coming back to university, to make sure in the environment they live in maybe in shared houses that we minimise the spread and the transmission of covid as much as possible. Obviously we want people to really enjoy their University Terms and so it� s to really make it possible for them to do that. In england, 72 of young people aged between 18 and 2a have already had theirfirstjab. Among them is holly, now waiting for her second. It is as much about her own freedom as protecting others. Were socialising with other people and wed like to be vaccinated, and eventually id like to be able to go on holiday. Im worried about Family Members getting it, as well, because theyve got to go to work and all of those sorts of things. So financially they need to be able to go off to work, so its important for me to get it as welt with so much disruption to College And University terms last year, they hope to return face to Face Teaching as the norm. We do want to have students back on campus, but we want them to feel safe. We want everyone in the University Community to feel safe. I think the first thing that we� re really focusing on with all students is do take the opportunity to get vaccinated. We know that vaccinations are the best protection that individuals can take. It� s the best protection for the University Community as a whole. Many universities will still ask students to wear masks and will manage timetables to avoid overcrowding. Nhs teams hopeful that, coupled with increased vaccination, will not only maximise student enjoyment, but also reduce pressure on services as we go into the winter months. Megan patterson, bbc news. There� s been a heavy Police Presence on Capitol Hill In Washington For A Rally by hard right supporters of rioters who attacked the us Senate And House of representatives onjanuary 6th. But the organisers have acknowledged that the numbers are not as high as at previous protests. Our Correspondent Nomia Iqbal spoke to us from washington and told us about the turnout. This was the first large Scale Security Test for officials here In Dc since january six and of course they don� t want a repeat of what happened that day so the security was massively beefed up. There was the Militarised Perimeterfence that went all Around Dc. You had national guard troops on standby as well in the capital is fully armed and lots of roads blocked off so trying to get Around Dc took a little bit longer than usual. In terms of the turnout this particular group that held this rally, they had a permit of around 700 people. The Captive Lycee in terms of how many actually turned out that was about a50 and that definitely is how it felt. There were certainly more police there then there were actual protesters and of course lots of media there as well but the police were worried because it is notjust about january six. There were worried because it is notjust aboutjanuary six. There have been a few instances that have alarmed fleas. Just last month a man from North Carolina turned up in a truck full of explosives threatening to blow up two blocks of the neighbourhood and on april two there was a Car Attack which killed one capitol police officer. They were not sure if other groups could turn up not sure if other groups could turn up today far right extremist groups are not given any assurances of security and then the Counter Protest groups which were kept far away but still, police did not want to leave anything to chance. Away but still, police did not want to leave anything to chance. It� s the second day of voting for the russian parliament. Of the 1a Parties fielding candidates in the three day poll, only three Look Set to find themselves elected alongside president putin� s party , and they are all clear putin allies. Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets of paris to denounce french covid 19 Health Pass requirements. The country this week made it mandatory for medical workers to get the Coronavirus Jab or Risk Suspension without pay. Hospitals, Care Homes and Health Centres have suspended around 3,000 workers across france for failing to comply with mandatory covid vaccination. Greece has inaugurated the first of five new closed migrant camps. The facility on samos will serve as a pilot. Asylum seekers will only be able to enter its Detention Centre by scanning their fingerprints and electronic badges. The eu has given 326 Million dollars for the new camps on five aegean islands, but they� re opposed by Rights Groups who say the strict access measures are too restrictive. When the Coronavirus Pandemic first took hold in New York all the city� s theatres and Concert Venues closed their doors. Broadway has begun to re open and now one of the big apple� s premier orchestras is returning to the stage. The new York Philhamonic is putting on its first season of concerts for more than 18 months. The bbc� s Tim Allman reports. Established in 18a2, the new York Philharmonic has been performing for nearly 180 years. A vital and much loved part of the city� s cultural bloodstream. But then came covid and the music stopped. Now, 556 days later, final rehearsals are taking place. The phil is coming home. I feel like we are an important part of bringing New York back to normalcy, even though it� s starting very slowly and it� s still very tentative, we are aiming in the right direction. This is a very optimistic and exciting new beginning. The orchestra has performed a series of one off events, mostly online, or outdoors, but this will be a proper concert, in a proper concert hall, with a paying and No Doubt appreciative audience. Ifeel like almost a rebirth as a musician. As a musician we play 130 1a0 concerts a year and you never take it for granted, but sometimes you think, oof, i� m a little tired today i gotta play this again. But not any more i feel, really, such gratitude. The first concert is called from silence to celebration, which seems strangely appropriate. Organisers hoping the audience will simply enjoy the moment and be free. Tim allman, bbc news. A different kind of artistry was witnessed thousands of spectators have turned out in paris to watch french Acrobat Nathan Paulin walk from the Eiffel Tower across the seine and onto the trocadero, 70 metres up in the air. He� s known as a slackliner who walks along a suspended length of flat webbing rather than a tightrope. The 23 year old daredevil performed some tricks during the 670 metre crossing, hanging off the tape. The stunt was part of a festival of live art performance. After the weather we� ll Take A Look at tomorrow� s front pages in the papers our guests joining me Tonight Arejoe Twynham and lucy beresford. Now it� s time for a look at the weather with chris fawkes. Hello there. Many of you will of had a dry start to the weekend, there� s some sunshine around. The best of it arguably across eastern areas of the country. And a lovely end of the day captured by a Weather Watcher sue in west yorkshire. Where those see outbreaks of Rain Start to form, heavy showers crossing the midlands, some of those downpours been captured by our Weather Watcher. Look at this one, a Downpour Crossing the skies in warwickshire captured by Weather Watcherjack. Right now if anything, the rain is getting a bit heavier, a bit more extensive as well as it marches its way across wales, midlands, across Northern England and scotland. Slowly we are starting to see the Rain Ease off across westernmost areas of Northern Ireland. So here it should be a reasonably dry start to the day on sunday. But otherwise, many of us will see at least some rain during day on sunday as these areas of rain continued to push their way eastward. The rain is going to get increasingly heavy later in the day across eastern areas across england. Where the rain is going to grind to a halt and the amount of rain we see from place to place is going to vary quite a bit. But there will be a few areas that Pick Up is much as 30 ora0 mm. There is a risk of seeing some localised Surface Water Flooding across the east. Many western areas actually, the weather will improve through Sunday Afternoon with a bit more in the way of sunshine. Taking a look at the week ahead, it� s not a bad start to the week with some sunny spells, some dry weather. However, later in the week low pressure is going to be moving in and that� s going to be bringing more of an autumnal feel to things as it turns wet and increasingly windy as well. Monday� s charts and into tuesday shows this ridge of high Pressure Building in ahead of the next atlantic system. And not completely dry, i mean, there will be one or two spots of Rain In East Anglia and south east england, a few showers in the northwest. But predominantly monday is a dry day with some sunshine. Temperatures, high teens to low 20s. Probably feeling just a little bit fresher than it has been over the recent days but not cold. On into tuesday� s forecast, a few Mist And Fog patches to start the day. The winds really start to Pick Up for Northern Ireland and West Scotland where there could be age a few showers. But again, it� s a mainly dry day with some sunny spells. Perhaps a bit of cloud developing across england and wales to the afternoon. Top temperatures about 21 celsius was up but heading deeper into the week, low pressure is set to move in off the atlantic. This bringing rain to all areas and increasingly strong winds. We� ll have some autumnal gales later in the week. Hello. This is bbc news. We� ll be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment first the headlines. The rift has deepened between france and key western allies over a cancelled Submarine Contract. The french Foreign Minister has accused the us and australia of lying and warned of a serious crisis. The United Nations has urged the Taliban In Afghanistan to re open girls� secondary schools without delay. More than a month after the taliban seized power, boys� schools only have now reopened. There� s been a heavy Police Presence In Washington For A Rally by hard right supporters of rioters who attacked the us capitol in january. But the organisers have acknowledged that the numbers are not as high as at previous protests

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