Morning mail: Macron takes aim at Morrison, Cop26 concerns, and the Qantas soundtrack is back

Monday: the French president has accused Australia's prime minister of lying over a submarine contract. Plus: the changing sound of travel

Good morning. The French president has accused Australian prime minister Scott Morrison of lying over a major submarine contract. Australia's carbon neutrality plan is under fire for its over reliance on carbon removal technology. And the Qantas soundtrack is back.

Emmanuel Macron has accused the Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, of lying to him over an abandoned $90bn submarine contract, in a significant escalation of tensions between Paris and Canberra. The French president levelled the accusation to journalists on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rome. Meanwhile, Alok Sharma, president of the Cop26 climate summit, has called on global leaders to banish ghosts of the past" and step up with new pledges to lower emissions as the world is running out of time to keep warming below 1.5C. As leaders prepared to fly in for the conference in Glasgow, Sharma could not say with certainty that the two-week event would end with a deal to keep that prospect alive.