Australian PM defends cancelling French submarines

The Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, says France would have known his government had "grave and deep concerns" about French submarines, which Canberra has decided to ditch in favour of a nuclear-powered American model. His comments come as France has withdrawn its ambassadors to Canberra and Washington for consultations.

Also in the programme: With the COP26 Climate Summit just a couple of months away, we hear from Huiyao Wang, a Counsellor on the China State Council, on Beijing's attitude to the talks; and should rich nations be giving third doses of the coronavirus vaccine, when so much of the developing world is unvaccinated? This weeks panellists are Isabel Hilton, founder of the London-based 'China Dialogue', a bilingual website, and Manu Lekunze, lecturer in international relations at the University of Aberdeen.

(Photo: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to the media during a press conference at Kirribilli House in Sydney, Australia, 19 September 2021. Morrison made remarks following France's decision to recall its ambassadors in Australia and the United States after Canberra walked out of a submarine deal with Paris to acquire nuclear propelled ones from Washington. Credit: EPA/Joel Carrett)