Of war before it pulled Out Of afghanistan and the decision to fire the missile smacks of panic and what a legacy. And walking in the air the french slackliner wowing the crowds in paris. Frances most senior diplomat says relations with australia and the united states are in crisis because of what he called their duplicity and lies over a new security alliance. The pact resulted in australia cancelling a multi billion Dollar Contract to buy french submarines. Hugh schofield reports. 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 a 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. Im with the president of france. It makes me feel better. Laughs. Just a few months ago, it was all smiles 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. Britain needs a Functioning Nato Alliance and 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 whos 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 perhaps has to act tough, but his angry reaction has broad support. For most people it is not the government that has been humiliated, but france. The bbc� s Courtney Bembridge has been looking into why australia scrapped the french deal in the first place. The deal in the first place. Prime minister Scott Morrison the prime minister Scott Morrison was keen to say that this was not a change of mind but a change of need, that australia needed to have a more modern fleet of submarines and thatis modern fleet of submarines and that is why they had opted for these nuclear powered. They are not nuclear weapons, they are nuclear powered submarines, rather than the more traditionally conventionally powered ones. Now, there had been indications that the french deal which was signed by 2016 had been troubled for some time. The cost had blown out, it had almost doubled, there were also delayed. There had been indications and certainly reports as early as this year that this deal may be under threat but of course we know that the french say that this came completely Out Of the blue. So why now . Well, many people are suggesting it was a viable plan b. That the uk and us alliance allowed australia to sidestep into something else. But, it is worth pointing out, the billions of dollars have already been spent on french deal and they will be further delays now because they are effectively going back to square one. These submarines were meant to be built in australia but they were french designed. Now they will have to be redesigned to cope with the new way of powering them, so this will set australia back because of this comes at a time when australia put Submarine Fleet is ageing as it is, it was supposed to be retired in 2025 and that is at a time when we know It Tensions are increasing with china and there were very real concerns about that. So they have spent billions of dollars upgrading the current fleet, the old style of submarines so that there is no gap between. Now, this new fleet thats been agreed under the deal with the us and the uk, we know the prime minister said it is not likely to be delivered until at least 2040 so there is a long amount of time, a long lead time on this and in the meantime, threats are changing and the landscape is changing so much that there are still concerns about this. France is U Set Concerns about this. France is upset about concerns about this. France is upset about this, concerns about this. France is upset about this, how concerns about this. France is upset about this, how is concerns about this. France is upset about this, how is this | upset about this, how is this going to pan out for australians . Going to pan out for australians . , australians . France is upset that australia australians . France is upset that Australia Isnt australians . France is upset that Australia Isnt holding l australians . France is upsetl that Australia Isnt holding up the side of the deal with australia is upset that france didnt hold up the side of the deal with the Cost Blowout and the delays but as i said ruins of dollars have a ready been spent and the french are saying well, you have made an agreement and you are going to have to make good on that so australia may end up still having to pay out some of that deal, but australia for its partner says it is still better than investing billions and billions more into what will become outdated technology by the time it is eventually delivered. Moving from submarines to space now. The four Space Tourists aboard the Spacex Inspirational4 Mission have splashed down successfully in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of florida. Spent three days orbiting the earth at an altitude of 570 kilometres. The spacecraft was operated by Ground Based Flight Teams and onboard guidance systems. Here they are celebrating as the capsule arrived back on earth. Inspiration4, on behalf of spacex, welcome back to planet earth. You have shown that everyday people can make extraordinary impacts. Thank you for showing your leadership, hope, prosperity and generosity. Thank you. Smooth landing there. The bbc� s simonjones told me about the crew on board the mission. Four crew members, ordinary people, were told, not the usual astronauts who have had years and years of training. It was a built in Billionaire Businessman who paid. After they landed he said it had been a heck of a ride and said it wasjust the beginning. He helped select the three other crewmembers and paid for them to go on board. There was a geoscientist, a us Air Force Veteran and a woman named Hayley Arceneaux who was actually treated for Bone Cancer when she was a child and actually went back to work at the hospital that cured her of cancer. She was seen as an inspirational Person And Somebody who deserved this chance to go up into Space And Thatis chance to go up into space and that is why this is really so different. Were talking about amateur astronauts known as Space Tourists. Amateur astronauts known as � Space Tourists. Amateur astronauts known as Space Tourists. Space tourists. Quite a cast list. We have Space Tourists. Quite a cast list. We have covered Space Tourists. Quite a cast list. We have covered a Space Tourists. Quite a cast l list. We have covered a number of spaceflights recently but what is different about this . They took a number of experiments up to space with them. They went to a great height above the international space station, there is going to be tests to see the sort of effect that would have had on their bodies just not being the usually trained astronauts but i think it was far more than that, a lot of the mission was being beamed back alive so this was raising awareness of space and really sending out the message that space can be for everyone, with the kv at that you have to have Deep Pockets caveat. But it will open up that whole field. 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 that the Air Strike, which killed seven 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, zemerai 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. Translation parisa said there was an explosion. I i picked up brain and Human Flesh from the ground. Americas latest deadly blunder shows how dangerous its drone strategy can be for civilians. Ive been speaking to mikey kay, a former senior Raf Officer who served in afghanistan. I asked him how he thought the americans made such a deadly mistake. I used to be a part of the Kill Chain which is Military Parlance for the position Airstrikes Process and the precision Airstrikes Process takes a lot of Energy And Resource into figuring out Collateral Damage estimate damage estimates, understanding what Weapon Selection Selection will be required, looking at all of the intelligence that leads up to what is called the pid, the positive identification of the target, image intelligence from a drone which is doing pol, pattern of life, its listening to communications such as cell phones, and the really important one, one of the majorfactors in this erroneous Drone Strike, is the Human Intelligence component. One of the factors your reporter alluded to in terms of still having the ability to launch these Drone Strikes, the fact is we should be really asking the us chain of command, is the level of Human Intelligence that is now available given that all us forces, as far as we are aware, have left the country. Because human is a huge part of the positive identification process. Now, if we look at the schedule of events that occurred on august 26th, you had islamic State Suicide bombs, two big ones go off outside of kabul airport, and those explosions killed 13 us marines. Three days later, on august 29th, this Drone Strike went in. So for three days, the us were on edge. Ive been trying to get things going on and we were aware that there were seven were aware, through intelligence channels, that there were seven Suicide Vests on the loose and a Suicide Vehicle on the loose with Car Bombs as well. The us will have been on edge, wanting to try to intercept these Suicide Threats to the airport. But it is the human and the positive Id Functions of the Air Strike process that have gone massively wrong. One wonders if we would have found out about this, had journalists not unpicked some of the cctv footage. And those explanations that came Out Of america at the time were very strong that thered been a secondary explosion that proved they had got their man, if you like. What does this say about the certainty of Future Counterterrorism Operations from the sky in afghanistan . These are the questions we need to be asking. At the moment, the us does have Air Superiority over afghanistan, basically has control of the air. But in order to conduct these precision Air Strikes, as i alluded to, you need boots on the ground, you need informants, you need the human channels. Thats usually conducted with whats called a jtac a joint air controller, usually a very highly qualified individual that embeds with forces on the ground to make sure the Collateral Damage of the positive identification goes seamlessly. Thats not there any more. I think another big Question Mark about the Air Strikes is the americans have two channels where Air Strikes can be conducted, one is through the cia and one is through the pentagon. In my experience, the Approvals Process for any Cia Strike is very different to the pentagon approved Air Strikes. And dare i say, the cia Air Strikes have a little bit more leeway, if you like, in terms of the Approvals Process. Thats a big question that needs to be asked. 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. Shuhra koofi is a 21 year old afghan student whose mother, a former mp, survived two assassination attempts. Both women have been moved out by the us and are currently in doha, from where shuhra described the current lack of Female Education as heartbreaking and frustrating. When they were fighting against the government, they had a reason to legitimise their brutality and 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. Families want their daughters to get educated. They want their girls to go to school and have the rights that the boys have. Well earlier i spoke to mariam wardak, whose organisation her afghanistan is dedicated to the advancement of young afghan women. She began by discussing how much progress had been made by Women In Afghanistan until very recently. Well, there is no comparison, really. In the 90s, people, the community was not as advanced. They did not have the experience of the past 20 years, they have lived through the Civil War and not only the Civil War, they had gone through what the occupation brought, the type of Military Engagements that they had and then we also had the strong Brain Drain so they were not equipped with that kind of confidence and with that kind of abilities to do so. And todayit of abilities to do so. And today it is a different story. Weve had young people who have pretty much grown up in the past 20 years who are not even familiar with the current structure, for instance, that the individuals, their parents and the generation before were aware of what the taliban were like this generation is not, and i think not having that exposure also, it falls into the kind of confidence that they have to challenge that system. And its also, we have to have this understanding that the population is not the same population of the 90s. This population of the 90s. This population has experience of education, financial independence, and exposure to the world. Independence, and exposure to the world the world. And do you think the taliban can the world. And do you think the taliban can learn the world. And do you think the taliban can learn from the world. And do you think the taliban can learn from history . | taliban can learn from history . You are talking about the next generation of doctors, teachers, midwives that would be going to Secondary School now. Do they not care about losing that section of society . You know, this is something that my struggle with often because if these are, this is the group that constantly discusses that they are fighting for religion and that they understand religion, islam and those of us who understand the religion of islam, it gives you so much, women so much ability, especially advancement within education, it is a basic right that one needs to have and the fact that they dont understand that, the government will not be able to function without including women in it, just like with the government in the past collapsed because of corruption, Life Ifeel that the taliban government will not be able to function without the inclusion of women especially because we have become such a strong function of the word from the taliban about inclusion of women are not turning into actions. We see women going back to work protesting. Are there men in afghanistan fighting the fight for women . That is Something Id dont witness. The women are not protesting anymore because of the laws that have been enabled by the current structure, but one of the things that i see is a strong fight by women but i dont see Men Holding that fight . Should the be Men Holding that fight . Should they be doing Men Holding that fight . Should they be doing that . Men holding that fight . Should they be doing that . That Men Holding that fight . Should they be doing that . That make| they be doing that . That make they be doing that . That make the difference . The difference . Absolutely, es. The difference . Absolutely, yes this the difference . Absolutely, yes this is the difference . Absolutely, yes. This is where the difference . Absolutely, yes. This is where religious| yes. This is where religious scholars need to come into base, religious scholars Around The World and in afghanistan need to stand up for women and their inclusion in the society, in their role in the structure that is in place. We also have to look at the fact that afghanistan, although it is a patriarchal system, many households are matriarchs now because of the constant war of the last years, people have lost their sons, husbands and fathers, the women are running Out Of. ~. , fathers, the women are running outof. ~. , fathers, the women are running outof. , Out Of. What is your message to men and afghanistan . Out of. What is your message to men and afghanistan . I Out Of. What is your message to men and afghanistan . I think. Men and afghanistan . I think that this is men and afghanistan . I think that this is the men and afghanistan . I think that this is the time men and afghanistan . I think that this is the time where i men and afghanistan . I thinkl that this is the time where you actually stand up the women in your household. Tomorrow you are not around, what else could they do . Would you like them to become the beggars of society or would you like them to become the leaders of society . It is all in hands. It it is all in there hands. Now to the us, where the department of Homeland Security has moved around 2,000 people from a camp in a Border-town'>Border Town in texas to other immigration Detention And Processing in the past week alone, around 12,000 have arrived at the Border-town'>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 city of Del Rio said. This is unprecedented. This is beyond surreal. This is affecting everybody in this community. Andrew selee, president of the migration policy institute, a global nonpartisan institution that seeks to improve immigration and integration policies. Earlier, iasked him what the us� plan to remove these people could look like. Its a little bit these are largely migrants who are living in south america, in chile and sell, they started moving a month or two ago, there have been people coming for a while from the haitian community and it had gone very badly for many of them during covid and they started moving and large numbers a month or two ago. Although there has been movement all year, and they are now, a large number stuck in Del Rio texas and i think we are going to see people sending Deportation Flights back to haiti but these are people who have probably not been in haiti for eight or ten years, they have been living in south america the vast majority. Than america the vast maority. An important america the vast majority. An important point that they have it all just important point that they have it alljust come important point that they have it all just come from important point that they have it alljust come from haiti but just remind us the kind of conditions that they are escaping from an enduring to get to the Border. It is escaping from an enduring to get to the Border. Get to the Border. It is really uuite get to the Border. It is really quite amazing. Get to the Border. It is really quite amazing. These get to the Border. It is really quite amazing. These are get to the Border. It is really quite amazing. These are people who mostly left after the 2010 earthquake, when the economy in haiti was in terrible shape, people had died in large numbers and they have come, the largest number seems to be coming from chile, there were about 170,000 haitians living about 170 , 000 haitians living in about 170,000 haitians living in chile, and they have come all the way up to colombia then they go through the Darien Gap which is an area that has no roads whatsoever, it is not connected at all. They go walking for four to five days and they continue up through central America Mexico and to the Border, and go through all of that then be deported back to a country that is deeply unstable where they have been for eight or ten years is obviously a huge blow but i think thats what many of them are likely to face the next few days. Are likely to face the next few Da S. � , are likely to face the next few da 5. M are likely to face the next few Da S. A are likely to face the next few days. As you said, some have been waiting days. As you said, some have been waiting a days. As you said, some have been waiting a while days. As you said, some have been waiting a while to days. As you said, some have been waiting a while to make| been waiting a while to make this journey. Been waiting a while to make thisjourney. Way been waiting a while to make this journey. Way is this the perception that now is the right time to head to america . There are two reasons, i think theres been a lot of pressure because things really were so bad last year in Latin America in the caribbean with covid. The economy has collapsed, lost theirjobs, they lost their sustenance but also the biden administration has been fairly open to families arriving at the Border. Between march and july they started to allow in large numbers of families, very quietly but they were allowing their men and my guess is that between the bad situation people were in the haitian communities, what they saw happening on the island and what they heard from Family Members and people they knew across the Border, this was the time to go. Yougov while the Border is open enough that you have a chance of getting across. ,. ,. , across. You go while the Border is open enough that you have a chance of getting across. If you happened to be in paris on saturday, you may have witnessed something of a spectacle. In amongst the usual tourist attractions, was a man walking on a rope, 70 metres up in the air. The bbc� s Tim Allman has the story. Sometimes, the only question that needs to be asked is, why . There in the distance, a man walks through midair, suspended on a 600 Metre Stretch of elasticated webbing. His starting point, one of the most famous places on earth. Translation it was great, its really beautiful starting. From the eiffel tower. Its a world renowned place, one that im aware of the view from the ground, and discovering it from above, its really beautiful. Nathan paulin is a slackliner a bit like Tightrope Walking except the rope is looser, bouncier, a sort of long, narrow trampoline. And he doesntjust walk he sits, he lies down, even hangs around for a bit. For the spectators on the ground, it was quite a sight. Imagine what it was like for nathan. Translation when i was young, i had vertigo and i learned to contain it. During the performance, i really didnt feel it. I really didnt have a fear of heights. I felt some stress over starting it, but no vertigo, no. In case you were wondering, he was wearing a safety line, just to be careful. And, after 30 minutes orso, his Midair Odyssey came to an end. Easy. As long as you dont look down. Staying in Paris Restoration work can finally get underway at the notre dame cathedral, two years after the Paris Landmark was damaged in a huge fire. Until now the efforts have focussed on securing the building. The aim is to open it in three years time. You can reach me on twitter im marklobel. Thanks so much for your company. Until next time, goodbye. Hello there. Many of you will have had a dry start to the weekend. There is some sunshine around, the best of it arguably across eastern areas of the country, and a lovely end to the day, captured by Weather Watcher sue in wakefield in west yorkshire. Weve seen outbreaks of rain starting to form, some heavy showers crossing the midlands. Some of those downpours have been captured by our Weather Watchers as well. For example, look at this one a downpour crossing the skies of nuneaton captured by Weather Watcherjack. Right now, if anything the rain is getting a bit heavier, a bit more expansive as it makes its way across wales, the midlands, Northern Ireland and scotland. Slowly were starting to see that 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 the day on sunday as these areas of rain continued to push their way eastwards. Now, the rain is going to get increasingly heavy late in the day across eastern areas of england, where the rain is going to really 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 could pick up as much as 30 or 40 mm. There is a risk of seeing some localised Surface Water Flooding across the east. In many western areas, actually, the weather will improve for Sunday Afternoon with a bit more in the way of sunshine. Taking a look at the week ahead, well, its not a bad start to the week, with some sunny spells, some dry weather as well for many. However, later in the week, low pressure is going to be moving in and thats going to be bringing more of an autumnal feel to things, really, as it turns wet and increasingly windy as well. Mondays chart and into tuesday shows this ridge of high Pressure Building off 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 north west, but predominantly monday is a dry day with some sunshine. Our temperatures are high teens to low 20s, probably feeling just a little bit fresher than it has done over recent days, but not cold. On into tuesdays forecast, a few Mist And Fog patches to start the day. The winds really start to pick up for Northern Ireland and western scotland, where there could be a few showers. But again its mainly dry day, with some sunny spells, perhaps a bit of cloud developing across england and wales through the afternoon, top temperatures about 21 celsius. 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 will have some autumnal gales later in the week. Spacex inspiration4 this is bbc news. The headlines the french Foreign Minister has denounced in the strongest terms the new Security Pact in the pacific. Jean yves Le Drian accused the united states and australia of lying and said there was now a serious crisis, following what he called a major Breach Of Trust between them. The first non professional Space Crew ever launched into orbit has splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of florida. The commercial Spacex Inspiration4 mission had been orbiting the earth for three days at an altitude of more than 570 kilometres. The spacecraft was operated by Ground Based Flight Teams. Un 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