hello and welcome to bbc news. france has taken the extraordinary step of recalling its ambassadors from australia and the united states as the row over their nuclear submarine deal intensifies. australia scrapped a multi billion dollar deal to buy french diesel powered submarines in favour of american nuclear powered ones. paris described the security pact between australia the us and the uk as a stab in the back . courtney bembridge reports. back injune the two presidents sat side by side in the sun in the uk. but that warmth has disappeared and, in an unprecedented move, france has recalled its ambassador to the us and australia. this is why. it is about conecting america s allies in new ways. a deal struck for a fleet of nuclear powered submarines. it replaces a multi billion dollar deal australia had signed with france in 2016, in france was only told about it hours before the public announcement which has infuriated president macron. first came this warning from the fo
secretary of state. this was a very partisan line of inquiry from those republicans. one thing that was missing notably yesterday was detail-oriented lines of questions, right, that went into what the biden administration did and what they didn t do because a lot of these republicans were just digging their heels in questioning the biden administration s decision to withdraw in the first place, not exactly how that was executed. now, the secretary of state has another hearing today before the senate foreign relations committee, so we ll see if they get into some more details during that hearing. it will be good to get more information, actual information there. kylie, i thank you so much for that. nice to see you. new day continues right now. and a very good morning to viewers here in the united states and around the world. it is tuesday, september 14th. i m brianna keilar alongside john berman on this beautiful new day. today voters in california will decide governor g
today joe biden makes a final campaign pitch for the california governor. voters decide if gavin newsom stays or goes and even before the votes are counted, the top republican insists outcome is rigged. and former president donald trump spends the day, many are clearly worried a 2024 run would bring another defeat. we begin the hour, though, with the covid crisis and the nation s biggest back-to-school challenge. new york city today, right now, 1 million students back in the classroom for full-time in-person learning. this as experts say there is hope vaccines will be authorized for kids age 5 to 11 by halloween. there is a vaccine mandate for teachers in new york, but the deadline is not by today. polo sandoval is tracking this very big day for us in new york city. polo. reporter: john, good afternoon to you, those students are well into the first days of classes. some parents did decided to take the city s offer up on sending their children to school for in-person learn
good afternoon from msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with new reporting from nbc news. senate democrats close to an agreement on updating voting rights legislation. three sources telling compromised legislation that can get the support of all 50 democrats could be released tomorrow of tuesday. we ve been talking to quite a few different republicans who are very interested in doing something that makes sense. but an agreement on reconciliation and infrastructure, not so close. manchin insisting the democrats need to pump the brakes on spending. need for this, the emergency to do something in the next week is not there. we ve done 5.4 trillion, george, over the last year and about a year and a half. 5.4 trillion. a lot of that money is still going out the door. there s no one going to be left behind for the rest of this year and most of next year. so the urgency, i can t understand why we can t take time to deliberate
antony blinken visits qatar. the latest on the still growing death toll from last week s hurricane ida as president biden will visit new york and new jersey today. and expanded unemployment benefits have expired for millions of americans. what does it mean for the economic recovery? we ll look into that, but we begin this morning with a consequential week for democrats as congress returns to washington this week. democrats will begin the process of the most significant expansion of this country s social safety net in over half a century. the new york times reports this morning that congressional committees are set to meet this week to devise legislation that would touch virtually every american s life from conception to age to imfirmty. the proposed legislation, a cradle to grave waving of a social safety net frayed by decades of expanding income inequality, stagnating wealth and depleted governmental resources capped by the worst public health crisis in a century. the