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00:00The U.K.'s new prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has promised to bring change, but what does

00:06this mean for the future of Britain?

00:10Hungary's Viktor Orban was in Moscow for talks with Putin in a rare visit to Russia by European

00:15leader since it invaded Ukraine more than two years ago.

00:21Days after assuming the European Council presidency, Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban sparks

00:26anger in Brussels for a surprise trip to Moscow.

00:31Russia has been hit by an overnight Ukrainian drone strike in the southern region of Krasnodar.

00:45On the morning of the Labor Party's landslide U.K. general election win, party leader and

00:51new prime minister Sir Keir Starmer said, change begins now.

00:57But what does this mean?

00:59And what is the expected timeline for a government that's waited 14 years to set the political

01:05agenda?

01:07After the 61-year-old former barrister and director of public prosecutions was formally

01:13appointed prime minister by King Charles III, Starmer said, my government will serve you.

01:21He told reporters outside 10 Downing Street his ambitions for the next five years would

01:26focus on putting the country first, party second.

01:32Changing a country is not like flicking a switch.

01:35The world is now a more volatile place.

01:38This will take a while.

01:41But have no doubt that the work of change begins immediately.

01:47The Labor Manifesto, a document outlining the party's political priorities, lists five

01:53goals for the next half decade.

01:57It includes kick-starting economic growth, reducing violent crime, and improving and

02:02investing in the ailing national health service.

02:07Despite the optimism, Starmer and his party face an uphill battle, both at home and abroad,

02:14and will need to mitigate a cost-of-living crisis, global conflicts, and climate change.

02:23Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was in Moscow for talks with Russian President

02:28Vladimir Putin in a rare visit to Russia by a European leader since it invaded Ukraine

02:34more than two years ago.

02:36Orban's visit comes only days after a similar unannounced visit to Ukraine, where he met

02:42with Ukrainian President Zelensky and proposed that Kyiv consider an immediate ceasefire

02:47with Russia.

02:48His trip to Moscow has drawn criticism from other EU leaders.

02:52President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said unity was the only way

02:56to peace in Ukraine.

02:58Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk questioned who Orban was serving.

03:12Orban has routinely blocked, delayed, or watered-down EU efforts to assist Ukraine in peace talks,

03:42and imposed sanctions on Moscow.

03:47His visit to Russia comes just days into Hungary's presidency of the Council of the European

03:52Union, with European Council President Charles Michel saying the rotating presidency had

03:58no mandate to engage with Russia on behalf of the bloc.

04:06Make Europe Great Again, borrowing a phrase from Donald Trump, is the slogan of Hungary's

04:10six-month rotating presidency of the European Council.

04:13And just days into Hungary's presidency, and Prime Minister Viktor Orban has drawn the

04:17ire of the EU after reports emerged he's taking an unscheduled visit to Putin in Russia.

04:24President of the European Council Charles Michel reminded Orban he has no right to represent

04:27the EU in Moscow, tweeting the EU rotating presidency has no mandate to engage with Russia

04:33on behalf of the EU.

04:34No discussions about Ukraine can take place without Ukraine.

04:40Meanwhile, the government says its priorities for the EU as part of the presidency include

04:44a strong line of migration, enlargement, and it also has a strong role to play to ensure

04:48the smooth transition to a new college of commissioners after the European Parliament

04:52elections.

04:54It also says defence is a priority, but Hungary is still blocking 6.6 billion euros of military

04:59support for Ukraine.

05:00The Hungarian government took the decision that we provide wide-ranging support for Ukraine,

05:07including humanitarian one, but we do not provide directly or indirectly military support

05:12to Ukraine.

05:14The Hungarian government says it promises to be an honest broker and work hard on the

05:18transition to the new college of commissioners, despite the fact that Viktor Orban, the Prime

05:22Minister, voted against Ursula von der Leyen for a second term as President of the European

05:26Commission.

05:27However, there is concern among some member states that the constant blocking by Hungary

05:31on issues regarding Ukraine, whether it's military, finance, or the areas of enlargement,

05:36will still cause consternation.

05:38Shona Murray, Euronews, Budapest.

05:45Ukraine has struck the southern Russian region of Krasnodar in an overnight drone attack

05:50which killed at least one person, according to local authorities.

05:56More drone strikes in the Republic of Adygea and the central Tambov region are also reported

06:01to have set several oil depots on fire.

06:06While Kyiv has not yet claimed responsibility for the attacks, Ukraine has previously struck

06:11Russian energy sites and targeted its infrastructure.

06:15It follows footage released by the Russian Ministry of Defence of what it says shows

06:20units using land drones and tanks to attack Ukrainian positions near Donetsk.

06:28The statement also said operators of FPV drones have been continually surveying the position

06:37of the armed forces of Ukraine on the right bank of the Dnieper River.

06:44It comes as Ukraine's army has been forced to retreat from a neighbourhood in the outskirts

06:49of Chazev Yar, a strategically important city in the eastern Donetsk region.

06:58Iranians are voting today in a run-off election to replace the late President Ebrahim Raisi

07:03killed in a helicopter crash last month.

07:05After years of economic struggle, mass protests and tensions, public apathy has become pervasive

07:11in the Islamic Republic.

07:12Voters face a choice between the hardline former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili and

07:17Mesut Pezeshkian, a heart surgeon and long-time parliament member who has allied himself with

07:22moderates and reformists within Iran's Shiite theocracy.

07:27The initial round of voting on June 28 saw no candidate get over 50% of the vote, forcing

07:33the run-off.

07:34This was also the lowest turnout ever for an Iranian election.

07:38There have been calls for a boycott, including from imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate

07:42Narji Mohammadi.

07:44Iran's 85-year-old Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has the final say on all matters of state.

07:50This can bend the country's policies toward confrontation or negotiation with the West.

07:59Labour unions have staged a protest in Athens against new six-day workweek legislation.

08:06The new law applies to the public sector, public utilities, banks and some private businesses

08:11that operate 24 hours a day.

08:15The government says the initiative will boost productivity and address problems of unpaid

08:19overtime and undeclared work.

08:22But unions argue that it ends the traditional five-day working week and rolls back on hard-won

08:28rights.

08:49We

09:08manage everything ourselves, so we do the client schedules, we decide how much time

09:14we spend with the client, and it's not only the caring part, but also a little bit of

09:20talking.

09:22And we have the time to do that, because there's no overhead and that saves a lot of money.

10:14As France heads to the polls this Sunday in a tense final round of legislative elections,

10:38the political debate has been marked by the resurgence of anti-Semitism.

10:42The French Jewish community is sceptical about the new far-right, according to this prospective

10:48Jewish law-maker.

10:49Last week, Shannon Serban's heated exchange with a woman in Paris before Sunday's first

11:14round of voting saw her accused of many things, including being a Zionist.

11:19If the Jewish community's fears pertained only about the far-right, they are now concerned

11:24by the anti-Israel slogans of the left.

11:47Some of the aggression against Jews in Europe have been happening from the start of the

11:51Gaza conflict, taking advantage of critics against Israeli government policies in Gaza.

11:57But there is a growing pro-Israeli narrative from some parties.

12:00In Italy, Giorgia Meloni's ruling far-right has adopted a pro-Israeli narrative too.

12:30Analysts say the structural difference between the Italian and the French far-right is that

12:58has been ruling the country for two years and had to deal with world politics and not

13:03just the moods of the domestic electorate.

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