New PM Andy Burnham picks his team

25:10BBC News, I'm John Shea. Britain's new Prime Minister Andy Burnham has made key appointments to his government. A former leader of the Labour Party, Ed Miliband, becomes Foreign Secretary and the post of Chief Finance Minister has been given to John Healy. One of Mr Burnham's first calls was to Donald Trump. President Trump has previously said he's heard that Britain's new leader is extremely liberal. The US president has vowed to punish Iran for the deaths of American soldiers, saying Tehran would pay many times over for any US soldier killed. The Iranian president has said his country is fighting a full-scale war with the US.

25:47Meanwhile, Tehran has continued attacking neighbouring countries across the region. The Jordanian army says it shot down three Iranian missiles. Attacks were also reported from Iraq, Bahrain and Kuwait. The UN Security Council has heard that children in Haiti are being jailed for years without ever appearing before a judge. The UN's Special Representative for Children, Vanessa Frazier, said it was among the most alarming situations anywhere in the world. A judge in California has temporarily suspended a merger of Warner Brothers and Paramount Skydance. California led 12 US states in asking for the order, arguing that the merger would create a media behemoth with the power to dictate prices in film and television.

26:31A court in Ghana has jailed an opposition politician for 20 years after convicting him of illegal mining. It's the highest-profile conviction in Ghana's long-running crackdown on the activity. And a jubilant crowd of over a million people are on the streets of Madrid celebrating the return of the Spanish team after they won the World Cup. Following receptions with King Felipe and the Prime Minister, the team's open-top bus is parading through the Spanish capital before a concert takes place in a central square. Spain beat Argentina 1-0 in the final. BBC News. Welcome back to NewsHour. The online influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate have appeared in a US court in Miami, Florida.

27:18They were arrested over the weekend following a request by British authorities for their extradition over alleged offences including rape and sex trafficking. The pair already face a number of charges in Romania. While the Tates deny any wrongdoing, they do have both US and British citizenship. Our correspondent Tom Bateman has been in the Miami court today and he gave us the latest about the new charges. Well, the charges themselves are from police in southern England. It's a series of new charges against both Andrew and Tristan Tate that bring to more than 50 the total number of charges they face by authorities in the UK.

28:00They include alleged counts of rape and offences relating to sex trafficking. Now, that announcement was made by police and prosecutors in the UK over the weekend who said that they were seeking the extradition of Andrew and Tristan Tate. And that's when this video emerged of the pair being arrested by the US Marshal Service here in Miami over the weekend. They were then taken into custody where they've been held since Saturday before this short court hearing took place here in Miami in the last couple of hours. So, I mean, the British authorities are wanting their extradition. Is that likely to happen?

28:40What could some of the issues be? Well, in terms of the hearing, first of all, I mean, I was in the courtroom when the pair were there standing in front of a federal judge. They were wearing light brown prison uniforms. They were handcuffed. They were shackled at the waist and at the ankles. They stood in front of the judge. Now, the only time they spoke was when the judge asked them if they understood their rights, to which they said, yes, Your Honour. There was then a discussion between both the government attorneys and the Tate's lawyers with the judge. The judge was making it very clear that here in the US this was not a criminal case, so there were different rules that applied.

29:19She asked the defendant's attorneys what their position was, and they said that they were resisting, they were seeking to reject the extradition request from the UK, and that they would also be seeking bail. and the purpose of this very short hearing was really to reschedule a further hearing in front of the judge which will now take place next Monday. Meanwhile there will be the unsealing, so the making public of the complaint from the UK authorities against the two men. The judge asked them if they'd seen that and they both nodded and said they understood that. Very briefly Tom, the Tate lawyers have claimed that these charges previously were politically motivated.

29:58Did they mention that again today? That's right there, Attorney Joseph McBride. I mean, I asked him questions both before and after the hearing. He was outside court afterwards. They characterise all of this as, in his words, a politically motivated stitch up against the Tate brothers. That is part of the reason they say that they'll be rejecting the extradition request. They take to both dual nationals, dual UK-US citizens, although trying to reject an extradition request on nationality alone is a very difficult thing to do. That's the BBC's Tom Bateman outside that court in Miami there.

30:39You're listening to NewsHour Live from the BBC. I'm Rebecca Kesby. Returning to our top story now, the new British Prime Minister Andy Burnham and his new cabinet. as we've been hearing. He's made several key appointments already in the past couple of hours. Ed Miliband is the new Foreign Secretary. John Healy is the Chief Finance Minister. Shabana Mahmood stays as the Interior Minister for now. Mr Burnham spoke out about a new style of leadership, the need for politicians to earn back trust. And he spoke about hope and optimism. So far, there haven't been many details on policy. Mr Burnham said those details are yet to come, but he did have one clear policy priority that he said he would start working on immediately, and this was it.

31:28We will help people to live well, building a more preventative state, investing in people's success rather than paying for failure, and that work starts now. I will soon go through that door behind me and issue my first instruction. to end rough sleeping in our country. To end rough sleeping in the country here in the UK, that basically means being homeless, but specifically sleeping on the streets. As we've been reporting, Mr Burnham until last month was the mayor of Greater Manchester for the past nine years, and we can hear from someone who knew him there. Yoshi Herman is the editor of the Manchester Mill online newspaper, And let's look at that first instruction to end rough sleeping, because that was something he prioritised in Manchester as well, wasn't it?

32:23Yeah, that was one of his first pledges when he became mayor in 2017. He said he was going to end rough sleeping by 2020, so within three years. And when he took over as mayor, rough sleeping was a really big problem in Greater Manchester. by the official count. They do an account every year, which isn't precise, but it's kind of the best metric we have. There were about 250 rough sleepers on that single night when they do the count later in the year, when he took over as mayor. And what happened is, by virtue of sort of a bunch of policies that he brought in, he got rough sleeping way down. Once we got to the pandemic, it was sort of like 80 people down from 250.

33:08and the problem is kind of what has happened since then which is that it's shot up again. Right okay how do you rate him as a person I know you've been covering him for all these years but what's he like to you know to deal with on a professional level? On a professional level he's very good to deal with for a journalist because I think he's very aware of what it is the media is trying to get. He's a good storyteller. He gives good press conferences. He speaks fluently. He's available to the media. He goes on lots of different podcasts, etc. So I think from a journalist point of view, he's a pretty good politician to cover.

33:52And I think what he brings to this job is he brings all these sort of strong communication skills that maybe people feel were lacking from the previous administration. As we mentioned earlier, he's still not taking questions from the press yet, though. Is that likely to change or will he be mainly on broadcast mode on TikTok and things like that? I'm sure he'd love to do as much as possible in terms of social video, because obviously you get to curate it. You don't have to answer difficult questions. But there will come a moment where he has to be on the BBC shows like Laura Koonsberg or whatever the show is going to be.

34:28and he's going to have to answer very detailed questions about what is your plan. And I think the biggest area where he needs to have a plan is getting the economy going. Britain's economy has just stagnated for a long time now and that is where I'm a little bit less convinced that he really has a plan to get economic growth in the UK. Joshi, we've heard a lot of Manchesterism for our international audience. Can you just explain what that phrase means? I wish I could. I mean, Manchester has had a successful last 15, 20 years. And it's done that by having a very clear economic strategy, which was that we're not going to get very much help from the state.

35:13And therefore, we need to go to the global investment markets and get investment into private sectors, into private housing. It's very much a kind of almost Blairite or even Thatcherite sort of vision of how to build a city. Highly competitive against other cities, lots of private investment. The way Andy Burnham's talking now about his vision sounds more left-wing and frankly doesn't sound like the Manchester vision at all. So there's a blurring of kind of Burnham's idea of Manchesterism and what I would associate with what has actually grown the Manchester economy over the past 20 years. But he's also in the position now of having to represent the entire country as Prime Minister.

35:53He's already said he wants to have an alternative at Number 10, the official residence up north. It's called Number 10 North. Everyone presumes that's going to be in Manchester. But I mean, there are many other cities in the north of England and indeed the south of England that may feel they're not being represented. Yeah, I think that's possible. I was sitting in a restaurant having lunch today with a colleague and I was about 100 metres away from this office block. very drab office block that is going to host the number 10 north where we're told he's going to be this week eventually it'll be in a new build office block across town so for us in manchester we're really excited because we think there'll be more opportunities in manchester more power in manchester but as soon as we started reporting on it and i posted about it on my social media people started saying well what about birmingham you know what about newcastle what about glasgow that is the potential problem with this focus on manchester it does seem refreshing and it does seem different, but does it create resentment in the rest of the country?

36:48I think we'll have to wait and see how that plays out. We certainly will. That's Yoshi Herman there, editor of the Manchester Mill online newspaper. Well, Keir Starmer's premiership was largely defined by the work he did internationally. In fact, both France and Ukraine awarded him high honours before he left power. But will Andy Burnham continue with Britain's current foreign policy? How much clout does the UK have in the world? It may be a declared nuclear power, one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, one of the largest economies in the world. But it's also, in many people's eyes, a declining, rather detached power.

37:27And it faces a cash flow crisis with very slow growth and very big bills to pay. NewsHour's Tim Franks has been speaking to Michaela Kufner, Deutsche Welle's chief political editor, and Mark Landlert from the New York Times Paris Bureau. He's the chief there. Starting with Michaela, what will Europe be hoping to see from Andy Burnham's government? To put it in one word, it would be consistency. And that's what Europeans and particularly Ukraine has already heard. The Ukraine may have left the European Union, but it's much needed as a strategic partner in the biggest foreign policy and security challenge that Europe faces as a whole.

38:08And that, of course, is Ukraine and the stance towards Russia. And there he's been very fast to signal that he will wholeheartedly continue to support Vladimir Zelensky, Ukraine's president. And also hearing Andy Burnham speak of stability that points towards someone who will not sound or feel necessarily that terribly different to Europe as a whole. Mark, I assume that you wouldn't disagree with that. I just wonder where you think Andy Burnham is going to find the UK on a global stage. I mean, Keir Starmer in his exit speech said that our international reputation is greatly enhanced. Do you think that's a reasonable summary?

38:56Well, there's no question that Keir Starmer ended up being perhaps more successful internationally than he did domestically. And that sets up an interesting potential contrast with Burnham because Burnham's made it quite clear he'd really like to focus heavily on domestic policy, on rebuilding the UK, on rebuilding and changing the politics of the UK. and it'll be a real tension to see how much freedom and time he has to do that given the intense international obligations that any UK prime minister faces. And I think if you were to ask Keir Starmer now, one of the surprises of his time in Downing Street, it might be just how much of his time was taken up with Ukraine, with Israel, Gaza, with the relationship with the United States, with trade.

39:50and so given what Burnham has set out as his intentions it will be interesting to see what he's able to do internationally despite the amount of emphasis he's putting on domestic politics. You talked about the I think intense relationship was the way you put it with the United States. I mean how he relates personally to Donald Trump would seem to be one thing that that is potentially difficult to predict. Keir Starmer invested a lot of time in political capital in trying to buddy up to Donald Trump, and it came back over the Iran war. What do you think the Burnham approach might be? Well, it will be interesting to see, and I wouldn't be surprised if Burnham initially puts a little bit more distance between himself and Trump than Starmer did for the simple reason that, as you say, all of that cultivation and all of those charm offensives and all of those state visits from the king really didn't leave Starmer in a very good place when the two countries divided over the Iran war.

41:04And I think it goes to show the limitations of some of that kind of personal diplomacy. So by no means will Andy Burnham seek to change the nature of the alliance, the US will still be the most important country for Britain. None of that's going to change. But I do wonder if on a, just on a level of vibe, whether Andy Berman wouldn't mind demonstrating a little more distance between himself and Trump than his predecessor did. And McCain, I just wonder, I mean, Britain obviously matters, because it's a sort of reasonably important country in Europe and in the world, but also just whether there will be interest, particularly in Germany, in how Andy Burnham deals with something that Germany is dealing with, which is the rise of an insurgent populist right wing, which certainly is seen by people in the Labour Party as their greatest challenge, the Reform Party.

41:59Do you think that German politicians may be looking for parallels with Germany and the AFD? Well, they have seen parallels in a sense. The whole talk about taking your country back. I think it's very interesting how Andy Burnham comes in and then promises a new political system, a new economic system. And that's very much also something, certainly the rhetoric that the far right alternative for Germany here is promising a new system, the resentment towards politics that that can be broken and that can be changed by introducing something entirely new. Now, this has not been demasked as an empty promise to a certain degree here in Germany because the far right AFD has not been in power.

42:46Let's see how far Nigel Farage gets with that. But there is no quick fix to the promises he's addressed. And when he promises to give people breathing space, that money will have to come from somewhere with above 90 percent GDP of public debt, way above the European average and way above Germany. It will be concrete delivery of policy that will have to be financed. And I'm very curious to hear what he says about that. That's Michaela Kufner, their Deutsche Welle's chief political editor. We also heard from Mark Landler from the New York Times. He's the Paris bureau chief and they were speaking to NewsHour's Tim Franks earlier today.

43:39This is Rebecca Kesby with NewsHour live from the BBC in London. Protests are continuing in Ukraine over President Zelensky's decision to sack his popular defence minister last week because of a major dispute with the country's commander-in-chief, General Sersky. Mikhail Fedorov had only been in the office for about six months and left with many tasks still untackled, not least a growing crisis when it comes to conscription. After four and a half gruelling years defending against Russia's invasion, It's harder to find men who want to fight, and attempts to force them to the front line is sparking a backlash, with recruitment officers themselves increasingly coming under attack.

44:22Our Eastern Europe correspondent Sarah Rainsford sent this report from Kyiv.

44:30Vasyl Krupich has survived some of the harshest battles in eastern Ukraine. As we talk, the machine gunner sends me videos from his phone of soaking wet and muddy trenches and the constant explosions. He describes how a Russian drone hit his car and he was badly injured. He still has nightmares about the friends he couldn't save. Then, last December, Vasil was attacked by his own countrymen. He was on military patrol checking for draft dodgers when two men refused to show their documents and fled. Vasil gave chase and was badly beaten. He hit me in the side with a crowbar and broke my rib. I was lying there and couldn't breathe.

45:27What did we fight for if soldiers can now get beaten? The attack on Vasil was not a one-off. This month in Lviv, some 200 protesters surrounded the car of another military draft patrol. They smashed it with bricks and then they rolled it over.

45:50Back in April, several recruiters were stabbed. The National Police Service has recorded more than 600 assaults so far. It's not something Ukraine is used to discussing. Admitting any weakness is dangerous when you're fighting for survival under relentless Russian attack. But this issue has become impossible to ignore. My name is Ivan Stupak and I'm a former officer of Security Service of Ukraine. Military analysts like Ivan say the violence isn't just fueled by fear of the front line, the fact that every Ukrainian now knows someone who's been killed. It's also a backlash against how the military hunts for recruits.

46:28We start suffering lack of manpower on the battlefield. Less people like to join armed forces, but we are suffering constant losses, unfortunately. Military command has to refill these losses and started this program called busification. When the people just stop on the street, document check, move it to the bus. Busification sounds like this. Panic and anger as men in uniform drag civilians into buses.

47:06President Zelensky has condemned the rioters in Lviv for attacking the men who defend their country. And he's called on officials to push ahead with reforms, including those meant to make military service more attractive, like better contracts and pay. But he has also sacked the defence minister, who is in charge of that. So Ukraine still has veterans like Vasil on draft duty, men who've been through hell and now hunt for those desperate to avoid it. Our lads need replacing, but nobody volunteers. Everyone is afraid to die. After four and a half years of all-out war, Ukraine's conscription problem is growing.

47:49and the anger that just exploded in Lviv suggests the need to address it is urgent. Sarah Rainsford reporting from Kiev. Now a new law has come into effect across the European Union. From now on, large clothing companies will not be allowed to destroy or dispose of unsold clothes, clothes, accessories or footwear. From now on, any clothes not sold will need to be sold at discount or donated. It's all in an attempt to reduce waste and cut the impact of incinerating tons of unsold clothing every year. I've been speaking to Marianne Groh, who's sustainability reporter for Politico in Brussels, and she told me more about the new law.

48:30The ban on distracting unsold goods is part of the EU's new eco-design law, which is coming into force incrementally and requires manufacturers to make sure their products last longer, are more repairable and recyclable. And textiles is sort of one of the product groups that the law is targeting. Right. So there's been a lot of concern from environmentalists over the past few years about this thing called fast fashion. But also, does this indicate that they're worried about overproduction as well? Yes, I think the EU here wants to tackle a waste problem that it has identified in the fashion industry.

49:09I mean, Europeans on average, you know, they produce about 16 kilograms of textile waste each a year. And research from the environmental agency shows that up to 9 % of clothes sold on the EU markets get destroyed before they're ever worn. And less than 1 % of textile gets recycled in the EU currently. So are there any potential loopholes then? Because I noticed this is mainly aimed at larger companies. Yeah, the ban comes with a lot of exemptions, some that are pretty straightforward and some that have become more politically contentious. For example, if an item cannot be resolved for safety or hygiene reasons, then a company would be allowed to destroy it.

49:48If a business has made an effort to try and donate its unsold stock, but the donation hasn't been accepted, then it would also be allowed to destroy the goods. But then the commission says as well that products will not be considered as reusable or suitable for reuse if they have a big logo or label that can't be removed from the clothing. and that has sparked some concern amongst environmental NGOs but also some lawmakers thinking that this is going to open the door for companies to basically burn all types of branded clothing and not really respect the overarching aim which is to not destroy these clothings.

50:25What's all this going to do to the fashion industry? Because that's obviously worth a lot of money and pays a lot of tax right across Europe But if the thrust is going to be towards items that last longer or trying to discourage people from spending too much or buying too many different items of clothing, how is that going to affect that industry? Well, to be honest, I don't know that the ban will immediately lead to people buying clothes that last longer. I think you have to take the decision with the broader legislative context that it comes with. I mean, those clothes are not going to get destroyed anymore.

51:00Fine, but they have to go somewhere. And that means that the EU will need to improve the system by which it collects the waste, the textile waste, the clothes, the sorting infrastructure and the recycling, which, as I was mentioning earlier, isn't really happening at scale. So the overarching objective, which is to steer consumers towards more sustainable choices, is a little bit more complex than just telling brands that they no longer can destroy their unsold goods. Marianne Groh there from Politico in Brussels that's it for this edition of NewsHour from me and the whole team thanks for listening