Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who is the former mayor of Greater Manchester, said he was “really pleased” he would be welcoming the US president to the city.
The G20 summit, an annual gathering of the world’s biggest economies, will take place on 27 and 28 November 2027 at the Manchester Central Convention Centre. It will be the largest summit ever held in the city.
Manchester was chosen earlier this year, prior to Burnham becoming prime minister. Downing Street said preparations will now step up, with hundreds of local people expected to be involved.
In June, as it looked likely Burnham would become prime minister, Trump called him “the mayor of a town”.
Burnham told reporters that in the first phone call between the pair, he told the president: “Manchester isn’t ‘some town’…this is Manchester”. He said the “right thing to do” was to laugh about it and “move beyond it”.
When he was mayor, Burnham told the Manchester Evening News that he “wouldn’t welcome” a visit from the American president.
But on his way to New York, where he will meet Trump for the first time on Tuesday, he said “politicians say things throughout their career, but now the important thing is to focus on the moment you are in”.
Speaking to the BBC, Councillor Garry Bridges, the new leader of Manchester City Council, said an event like this would have been “unthinkable a couple of years ago” and that he hoped it would change Trump’s perception of Manchester.
The UK has hosted the G20 before, in 2009 in London. The cost of the security operation at the time was estimated at £7.2m.
As well as the summit in Manchester, there will be events across the country next year as the UK takes on the G20 presidency.

Grim discoveries of murdered women spark fear in South Africa
“What we are going to do, I have no idea,” sobs Nokwanda Matshikiza, reflecting on the murder of her niece Dineo Motapane. “But something must give.”
“For us, for all the other women. How many other bodies will be found before something happens?”
Nokwanda is speaking to the BBC from the family home near South Africa’s main city, Johannesburg, just two days after relatives identified Dineo’s body.
The 38-year-old mother-of-two was last seen alive last Sunday. Her battered body, partly burned, found later in the residential region of Ekurhuleni.
Nokwanda weeps as she describes how the family will have to face, at some point, the grim task of telling Dineo’s daughter of her death.
“How do you explain that your parent was brutally murdered, dumped in a field, and just left there, discarded like a piece of rubbish.
“There’s no coming to peace with it,” she adds. “It’s something that you can never reconcile yourself with, that you can never get over.”
Dineo’s death this week has come amid a series of comparable incidents in Ekurhuleni – her body one of three discovered there this week. In total, nine bodies of murdered women have been found in similar circumstances in the region since July.
The problem has always been there but this spate of grim discoveries has once again sparked a national outcry about the scale of violence against women in the country – which has one of the highest rates of gender-based violence in the world.
Themba Kekana is also living in shock at the death of a loved one.
His sister, Itumeleng, was one of the first to disappear in Ekurhuleni.
The 32-year-old shopkeeper’s body was found in July, 17 days after she was last seen alive. Her body was badly bruised, partially clothed and dumped on a bridge.
“We are devastated with grief,” says Themba, wet eyes shining.
“I look at my sister’s young daughter and my eyes fill with tears, I know there is no way that I can ever take this pain away from her.
“No family should have to deal with what we are faced with.”
Only one arrest has been made in connection with the murders – and that was two days after the first body was discovered on 15 July.
Nobody has been detained following the murders of Itumeleng or Dineo or the other six Ekurhuleni women.
Most of the victims were young, in their 20s or 30s, and almost all had suffered extreme violence before their deaths.
Police have said they are not sure if they are hunting a serial killer. It is possible the cases are not linked.
Either way, what has happened in this residential district east of South Africa’s biggest city has traumatised the nation, shining a spotlight on a situation that many believe is a crisis.
South Africa’s police issue detailed crime statistics every quarter, which show that during the last quarter – between April and June this year – 5,427 people were murdered.
The official data does not distinguish between the genders of the victims, but this week the country’s Human Rights Commission released figures showing that 569 women had been killed in that period (six a day on average), with another 1,052 who faced attempted murder.
Many women – already feeling unsafe – have been left reeling by recent events.
And it has put pressure on the government, less than a year after ministers acknowledged the scale of the issue and declared gender-based violence a national disaster.
Announcing the move last November, Minister of Social Development Nokuzola Sisisi Tolashe said treating the issue as a national disaster would help the government tackle the crisis.
It followed weeks of protests, culminating in a “Women’s Shut Down” march as South Africa hosted the G20 summit.
This week has seen a chorus of calls for things to go further.
Rights group Amnesty International said an important first step towards protecting South Africa’s women was to recognise femicide as a separate crime.
“Every day that femicide remains unrecognised as a crime is a failure to confront the targeted killing of women,” said Amnesty’s country director Shenilla Mohamed in a statement. “It is time to call it what it is: Femicide.
“Femicide is a gender-motivated crime. It is the killing of a woman because she is a woman.”
Amnesty says femicide is criminalised as a specific crime in 33 countries, including Gabon and Morocco in Africa.
It argues that making that change in South Africa could help focus on the scale of the issue.
“It would compel the state to confront their failure to protect women and girls from violence,” says Mohamed. “You cannot fix what you are not tracking.”
Almost everyone in South Africa agrees more needs to be done.
President Cyril Ramaphosa this week pledged to leave “no stone unturned” in investigating the crimes in Ekurhuleni, adding: “As a nation, we must stand up for the rights, safety and dignity of women and girls.”
Lebogang Ramofoko, an advocate for gender and social justice, said the levels of violence against women in the country were symptomatic of a much bigger problem – a lack of regard for humanity.
“The bodies of black women have been treated as disposable in this country for time in memorial, passed down from colonisation through to apartheid,” she tells the BBC, referring to the legalised system of racism that was in place until 1994.
“What we see happening to women is testimony to legacies of violence from those systems whose traumas were never addressed.
“This is not to say black men are inherently violent, but in systems where violence was meted out against them for decades, historically black women were the people that that violence would be taken out on – that cycle has not been broken.”
In Kempton Park, a district of Ekurhuleni where five of the nine recent bodies were found, Lumka Maqhubela is part of the Girl2Woman Foundation group which has held protests to raise awareness of the crimes.
“We are grieved, we are scared,” she says. “If the police cannot protect us any more the government should step in and do something.
“It’s clear that we are not safe, we cannot be told by the police to be more vigilant. They should be doing more to make our communities safe – what else are we expected to do? We are not safe anywhere, not in our homes, not in the streets, it needs to stop.”
“I know many children, girls, who tell me they are afraid to go to the shop alone. There is no safety, even for me too. I am old, but there is no safety.”
“In South Africa,” says Lerato Mzizi, 20, simply, “women are not safe any more.”
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Miriam Levin-Gold likes Prime Minister Mark Carney’s idea of Canadians being able to live and work in the European Union under proposed closer ties with the trade bloc.
“I think that’s great for young people to explore different parts of the world and work in different places and have different experiences,” the commuter told the BBC in Toronto.
Canadians woke up to news of Carney’s speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Thursday morning, welcoming the EU’s ambition for Canada to become its first “associate member” as he urged closer co-operation on defence and energy.
“We should deepen our people-to-people ties, allowing our youth to live, work and study where they want on either side of the Atlantic,” the PM said.
Carney told MEPs that Canada and Europe were “stronger together” in the face of “geopolitical rupture”.
But before Canadians start packing their bags – “associate member” status does not currently exist within the EU and could take years to implement, given that all 27 EU member states would have to approve such an arrangement.
Nevertheless, people the BBC spoke to were excited about the potential prospect of working and studying in the EU as news of Carney’s speech spread.
Alex Nash, from Montreal, said closer ties would clear away the obstacles of work visas and permits.
“It would certainly be really nice for that to be easier, more convenient and to be able to visit more easily,” she said.
Canadian social media has lit up with the topic.
One person on a Facebook group, A Canadian Outlook, said they would love the opportunity for their grandchildren to study at European universities for better rates. Another woman said it would make it much easier for the home she already owns in France.
“Snow birds are going to love it,” another person said, referring to Canadians who head to warmer locations for winter.
The sentiments hint at dissatisfaction in Canada over bilateral tensions with the US.
Growing up in Canada, David Jardine thought of the US as not just a neighbour, but an epicentre of culture and cool.
“I remember wanting to go and visit New York all the time,” he told the BBC after finishing his overnight shift, not far from one of Toronto’s most iconic buildings, the CN tower.
But he’s become a lot more sceptical in the light of US President Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada and rhetoric about annexation.
“I would say I think not only does it make more sense to associate closely with Europe, it’s a place that I would rather be associating with given the way things are these days,” he said.
Maggie Stainton, who manages local pub C’est What in Toronto’s St Lawrence Market district, became emotional when she spoke about Canada’s frayed ties with the US.
“It’s too volatile with the United States,” she said. “I feel that there’s some stability in Europe.”
For decades, America has been a cultural centre of gravity that is difficult to avoid, with many Canadian actors working in Hollywood and Canadian radio stations playing US music.
“I think we’re forced to feel more American simply by the influences that we have,” Stainton added.
“However, I think deep down, I definitely I lean towards feeling more European in my ideas and ideals.”
These views were echoed by many other people the BBC spoke to in the centre of Canada’s biggest city.
Carney, who used to lead Canada and Britain’s central banks, was elected on a promise that he would not only take a tough stance against Trump, but broaden Canada’s economic horizons.
Up to 72% of Canadian exports are to the US, and the ongoing trade tensions have spurred Ottawa to seek closer ties with other nations.
The EU, in many ways, would seem a natural fit. Over half of Canada’s population reported having European origins, according to the last census, which was taken in 2021.
A recent Abacus Data survey conducted before Carney’s speech found that 80% of Canadians say the country should deepen strategic cooperation with the EU, and over half feel closer to Europe than America.
However, details of Carney’s proposed plans for greater ties with the EU are scarce.
A pair of opposition Conservative MPs have called on him to elaborate on what he and the bloc plan to work towards.
“It could be a concrete, meaningful proposal. Or it could be just words and vibes,” said Adam Chambers, MP for Simcoe North in Ontario, during an interview with the BBC on the eve of Carney’s speech on Thursday.
Chambers alluded to the existing Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (Ceta) between the EU and Canada, highlighting that it still awaits ratification by multiple EU nations.
And while deepening ties with Europe would be welcomed by many Canadians, there is still a sense that the country’s relationship with the US – however strained – must not crumble.
“I grew up here. I’ve been here 40 years in Canada, in Ontario, and America’s always been the neighbour,” says Ahmed Khalil.
With additional reporting by Madeline Halpert and James FitzGerald

Images showing widespread damage to multiple US sites in the Middle East from Iranian strikes have been obtained by the BBC’s US partner CBS.
The photos, provided by active military personnel, show a severed radar jet, flattened trailers and severely damaged buildings.
The undated photos were taken at US bases and sites in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
One member of the military, who was not named by CBS, said: “This is major damage to our bases that hasn’t been communicated to the American public.
“We’re standing there with our eyes closed getting punched in the face.”
The White House referred the BBC to US Central Command. Centcom did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The photos, which have not been independently verified by the BBC, were published the day after a report from the Pentagon’s watchdog confirmed hundreds of buildings and structures at US bases in the Middle East have been damaged and destroyed by Iran.
One of the photos showed a destroyed Boeing E-3 Sentry at Prince Sultan Air Force Base in Saudi Arabia that has been ripped in half, its tail section crumpled into a tangled mess of metal.
While the photo is undated, BBC Verify previously confirmed a similar photo, apparently of the same radar aircraft in March.
The Boeing E-3 Awacs are used to detect and track potential targets at long ranges to provide an early warning of possible threats.
At the time, a US official told Reuters that 12 US personnel had been wounded, two of them seriously, in an Iranian attack on the air base.
A pair of undated images reportedly from Camp Beuhring, Kuwait, show crumpled trailers, and a large tent-like structure that had been reduced to shreds as smoke billowed from the site.
Another image shows a four-storey building damaged by an Iranian strike at Camp Arifjan, in Kuwait.
Damage to the site was reported in March, including on satellite communications hardware, though it is not clear whether this image is from the same attack.
Brian Katulis, a former national security official under both Democratic and Republican administrations, said that the damage visible in the images showed that “America had not adequately prepared its defences”.
“And there is strong evidence that US adversaries like China and Russia may have helped Iran in targeting,” added Katulis, now a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute. “The Trump administration has done nothing to address these vulnerabilities.”
The images were published on the heels of a report from the Pentagon’s watchdog, which found Iranian strikes had “damaged and destroyed hundreds of buildings and structures at US bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oman, and Jordan during the conflict”.
It also noted that equipment losses have totalled $3.7bn (£2.8bn). Overall, the US spent $33.4bn (£24.7bn) on the war up to 29 June, the report said.
In the months after the war began, “dozens of US aircraft were destroyed or damaged”, the report continues.
The document lists several of the aircraft damaged, including five refuelling aircraft which were “damaged or destroyed on the ground in Saudi Arabia by Iranian munitions”.
A separate report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) notes that the E-3 aircraft is no longer in production and would have to be replaced with a more modern equivalent, the E-7.
The CBO noted that the E-3 aircraft alone costs $500m (£371m), and the estimated total cost of equipment lost in battle – including planes, drones and a terminal high altitude area defence system – amounts to $1.9b (£1.4b).
CBO said that its review was subject to “uncertainty” because the defence department did not respond to its requests for information, requiring the agency to rely on government databases and public reports.
Additionally, the extent of repairs and rebuilding that the US military plans to do remains unclear, according to the report.
Brian Katulis of the Middle East Institute said that while “these costs show how the Trump administration burned through precious military resources without having much to show for it”, the greater damage had been to broader US military readiness.
“The United States had to divert military assets from Asia to the Middle East, leaving America and its partners in Asia more exposed and vulnerable to China,” he said.
“In addition, the depletion of US munitions makes Russia more willing to probe vulnerabilities with America’s NATO allies and continue its aggressive war against Ukraine.”
While the US has the financial resources to address the equipment losses, it is already facing budgetary problems and may not be able to do so fast enough to prepare for potential flare-ups in the Middle East or elsewhere in the world, he added.
Public and political pressure has mounted on the White House to find an end to the conflict with Iran, which began on 28 February when the US and Israel launched joint attacks on the country.
Since the war began Iran has repeatedly attacked US bases and allied states in the Gulf, as well as Israel.
On Tuesday night, the US House of Representatives voted for the third time to end the war in Iran, approving a measure that would force President Donald Trump to end US military action without congressional approval.
The vote passed with the help of several Republicans, in what could be the final House vote on the matter ahead of the US midterm elections in November.
The Trump administration backed Hegseth, with US attorney general Todd Blanche telling reporters he was “doing a phenomenal job”.

It felt like Nigel Farage’s inner circle tried to fight back when news broke this weekend of Reform UK’s two donations totaling PS36m, a record.
In the last few months, the party has faced a number of challenges, including a drop in polls, an increase in internal fighting, and persistent questions regarding money.
The mood amongst Labour Party and Conservatives is much more positive.
Many Labour MPs think Andy Burnham is off to a good start in his role as Prime Minister, while the Conservatives have confidence about Kemi’s recent team reshuffle.
Reform, however, has quietly been building up a war chest.
Reform raised PS30.5m in the first half of this year alone, which is more than twice their closest rival.
The extra PS72m will allow the party to enter uncharted territory. It says it will use the money to hire policy experts and up to 400 managers for each target seat in the country.
A ground campaign which is effective in reaching the core voters could be increasingly crucial.
Burnham insisting that he will not call an election early hasn’t convinced everyone in Westminster.
The prime minister might find it tempting to vote before Farage had spent the money on his shiny, new party machine.
One Number 10 source said that the extra money provided by Reform does not increase the likelihood of an early election.
Burnham will now be under increased pressure to change party donation rules.
Angela Rayner, when asked by BBC if the new rules would affect the bitcoin billionaires Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne, refused to answer.
To prevent mega-donations in the future, both Liberal Democrats and Greens called for an upper limit for those based within Britain.
Burnham said he was open to the conversation but decided not to back an earlier attempt by Labour MPs to tighten rules.
As the Electoral Commission examines what else can be done, calls for change from Labour will grow.
Sources in the government insist that this weekend’s donation is not viewed as a pivotal moment for this debate.
People across all political stripes are asking if this huge injection of cash will be viewed as the moment that politics changed in this nation.