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 president s 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 americas 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 Foreign Minis
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Humanitarian crisis with alarming speed at the border as dhs confirms over 10,000 migrants packed under a bridge in Del Rio, texas, all arriving on our southern border. Welcome to Meet The Press daily. Im chuck todd. We expect an update on Capitol Police ahead of Tomorrows Justice for J6 Rally which is held on half of the people tied in connection with the insurrection on the January 6th attack on the capitol. They expect 700 people to show up. Not a big number but authorities given what happened on January 6th, are not taking any chances. So the fencing is back up around the capitol. Former President Trump put out a statement in support of the rallys cause even though he has told supporters the rally, itself, could be some kind of setup. Whatever he thinks that means. Tomorrows rally comes amid even more evidence of donald Trumps Power over this form of the Republican Party. A new survey from pri shows just how successful the former president has been at rewriting the January 6th narr