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President Joe Biden wants to get on the phone with Emmanuel Macron to smooth over a diplomatic dispute that’s broken out with France. The announcement late last week that the US, Australia and the UK have signed a new security pact took Paris by surprise. It meant that a big military contract signed between France and Australia several years ago would be scrapped. The French have recalled their ambassador in Washington and accused the US of a “stab in the back.” The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry has the latest.