NEW: Trump’s approval rating hits 28%. The lowest for any president in U.S. history.

Scotland's raucous Tartan Army of supporters gathered in downtown Boston, with fans saying they had no qualms about the thousands of dollars they are spending to see their team return to the World Cup after a 28-year absence reut.rs/4w8bDHR

Two people have been detained in connection with the theft of equipment from the England national team's vehicles during their move from a pre-training base in Florida to Kansas City, where the Three Lions will have their permanent World Cup base camp. apnews.com/article/england-t…

The good people of Makerfield constituency make their minds up about the future direction of the country on Thursday. Here are my thoughts from last week’s @bbclaurak What do you think?

Aomori may not attract the crowds of Tokyo or Kyoto, but that’s part of its charm. Perched at the northern tip of Japan’s main island, it’s a place of fresh seafood, mountain scenery and a slower pace of life. It’s also the gateway to some of Japan’s most beautiful countryside and the home of the famous Nebuta Festival, when enormous illuminated floats parade through the streets each August. Have a look at some of the images and let me know what you think. Sometimes the places you know least about before you arrive turn out to be the most rewarding. Aomori proved to be one of those places.

NEW: Bloomberg Saturday read — Andy Burnham is planning to move quickly after Makerfield to secure a coronation. His supporters think John Healey’s resignation kills off Keir Starmer’s chances of survival. They think Wes Streeting and Al Carns don’t have the numbers, and that Burnham can quickly get 250 Labour MPs and most of the cabinet to back him. — Starmer insists he’ll fight, but the question is what the cabinet does. Burnham’s supporters want them to tell the PM to agree a handover. Before Healey resigned, Starmer’s allies hoped he could battle on because most of the cabinet would back him to stay. Aides suggest the calculus is changing and Healey’s brutal exit makes it more likely they tell Starmer it’s over. — Even Starmer loyalists are very critical of the PM. They wish he’d been bolder, found the defence money from welfare, net zero or elsewhere, and sacked Ed Miliband. Several allies say they can’t believe Miliband and Shabana Mahmood (who they say privately plotted with Burnham and Miliband to oust Starmer) are still in the cabinet, but Healey isn’t. One says that’s the final evidence of his lack of authority, political judgment and decision-making ability. — Starmer’s relationship with Rachel Reeves has been tested to the limit. Her resistance led Starmer to renege on his Munich speech and overrule Healey and Jonathan Powell. She effectively buried his survival strategy of focusing on security. Reeves allies argue it’s her job to make the numbers add up and if Starmer wanted more money for defence he could have imposed more departmental cuts but was unwilling. — Burnham will not keep Reeves on as his chancellor, despite her allies pitching her to stay. Reappointing her would not be the change he’s promising, one Burnham supporter says. They say they spoke to Reeves around the locals and came away believing she would help them persuade Starmer to go, but she didn’t follow through. — The turmoil is rattling UK allies. European diplomats contacted British counterparts in recent days complaining about the uncertainty over the UK’s defence spending plans, the slow pace of the uplift and Healey’s departure. They’ve also asked for information about Burnham’s plans for foreign policy and defence but got no answer. — If Burnham does become PM he’ll face the same problems. His critics say he’s never uttered a word of substance on defence or foreign policy, shows no interest in it and has no plan. It is not impossible that in the next few months the British PM has to join negotiations with Putin over Ukraine. “Can you imagine Burnham doing that?” asks one official, especially with Powell likely to leave with Starmer. — Starmer’s chaos also distracted from what might otherwise have been a bad week for Burnham. He got away with his WASPI gaffe thanks to Healey. Labour MPs are also critical of his plans on immigration. One aide said his proposal to end asylum hotel contracts and move responsibility for housing migrants to local authorities is amateurish and toxic. — It all leaves Labour MPs in a state of total despair. Starmer looks finished but Burnham has no obvious plan and keeps making basic mistakes that foreshadow another troubled premiership, one said. If Burnham loses Makerfield, Labour appears to have no other options. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

England have been victims of a theft of their training equipment, after vehicles transferring kit to their Kansas City training base were broken into.

🚨 WATCH: Keir Starmer says it's his "duty" to remain as PM and will fight any leadership challenge "It's not vanity. It's not stubbornness. It's duty"

By 45% to 9%, Britons say John Healey was right to resign as defence secretary over the level of defence spending Results link in replies

The next war won't be won by armies, navies or air forces alone. It'll be won by the country whose 19 year olds can code, whose factories can build drones in weeks not years, and whose grid stays on when someone tries to switch it off. Industry. Society. Economy. That's the fight now. We're not ready. And we're not being honest about what getting ready will cost.

New: Morgan McSweeney is back advising the Prime Minister – four months after he resigned over his role in the Mandelson scandal. The former No 10 chief of staff is advising Sir Keir Starmer in his moment of greatest peril, multiple government and Whitehall sources told The i Paper. McSweeney is helping the Prime Minister and has “never really gone away”, one minister said. “He has been on the end of the phone 24/7,” one source said. “He has been wargaming a leadership contest and believes Keir still has a chance if there are three or more [challengers] in the contest. He has been working out how the votes could go. It’s mad.” Exclusive with Richard Vaughn

Hey @British_Airways, I stupidly left my lovely scarf on the plane and contacted customer services in Japan in the vague hope I might see it again. Roy went above and beyond, not only locating my item but then biking it to me within a tiny window of time before I was setting sail from the Tokyo cruise terminal. Chapeau to Roy 🧢

Well, PM, you’re in a whole world of trouble now… mol.im/a/15893309

🚨 NEW: Pamela Nash has resigned as a PPS in the Ministry of Defence

A little pocket of calm in a city of 14 million people. Hamarikyu Gardens is less than a 30-minute walk from the designer boutiques and department stores of Ginza. One minute I’m wandering through luxury stores and bustling shopping streets, the next strolling through a 300-year-old garden created for the shoguns. They even have a tidal pond that still rises and falls with the waters of Tokyo Bay. Ancient pine trees, a traditional teahouse and soaring skyscrapers beyond the gardens make for a rather surreal combination. Tokyo does contrasts better than anywhere I’ve ever visited. Nb, if you’re heading to Japan for the first time, there’s a top tip in my video that could save you a heap of time when you arrive.

The impact of John Healey’s dramatic resignation in the short term is I think this… - Much harder to see how the defence investment plan now gets published before Makerfield by-election on Thursday. Is Starmer really politically strong enough now to secure approval for a deeply controversial settlement plan before would-be PM Burnham’s election? - The defence secretary job now risks being a poisoned chalice. A severely weakened PM now has to find someone to step into the role and sign up to proposals the predecessor has publicly said leave the UK vulnerable and insecure, while knowing the Starmer project might be over in a few weeks - The likelihood of Starmer going if Burnham wins Makerfield just went up another notch. His allies are briefing he’ll fight Burnham and sack ministers who back his rival. But the PM has just lost one of his most senior cabinet ministers and stands accused of not doing enough to protect Britain - the most fundamental requirement for leading the country. So an already weakened PM just became even weaker. - Rachel Reeves’s hopes of remaining Chancellor if Burnham wins, already slim given she is so closely associated with the Starmer premiership, also have just taken a big knock. Would a man who promises sweeping ‘change’ keep in the Treasury someone publicly accused by a cabinet colleague of slights of hand that will leave Britain unprotected? The argument would be she’s needed to placate markets and show fiscal responsibility but will that wash? In short: A hammer blow for the credibility of a Prime Minister already hanging on to office by the fingernails.

Finland has a 1,000km border with Russia.

John Healey’s resignation letter is absolutely damning of both Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves - he is directly accusing them and the Labour government of not doing what it takes to ensure Britain can defend itself - about the most serious charge it is possible to make

Hello old girl. Japan’s highest mountain, an active volcano and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Mount Fuji rising through the clouds on our approach to Tokyo International this morning.