welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore. i'm arunoday mukharji. the headlines: the us supreme court deals a major blow to efforts to tackle climate change, with a ruling that limits government powers to cut greenhouse gas emissions. president xijinping arrives in hong kong — it's his first trip out of mainland china since the start of the pandemic. on the 25th anniversary of the handover of the former british colony, borisjohnson says china must be held to commitments made on hong kong. on the 25th anniversary of the handover, we simply cannot avoid the fact that for some

time now, beijing has been failing to comply with its obligations. as nato leaders wrap up their summit in madrid, president biden says the united states and its allies will stick with ukraine for as long as it takes. sri lanka's worst economic crisis deepens — the island is close to running out of fuel. and temperatures in japan are the highest in nearly 150 years amid fears the electricity grid could be overwhelmed. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it's newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. the us supreme court has issued another landmark ruling — this time, limiting the government's ability to regulate emissions from power plants.

it marks a victory for the coal industry, but the united nations has described it as �*a setback in ourfight against climate change�*. from washington, here's our north america editor sarah smith. in california today, wildfires burning out of control are a vivid reminder of the urgent need to take action on climate change. america is a large part of the problem — the second biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world after china — but also a victim. you can see from the water line above the vast lake how much it has shrunk in recent years, impacting the water supply for millions of people in the south—west. president biden came into office pledging to lead a global effort to reduce carbon emissions, promising at the cop summit in glasgow last year to lead by example. will we act and do what is necessary? will we seize the enormous opportunity before us? will we condemn future generations to suffer? future generations may not

thank the us supreme court for a decision today that restricts the federal government's ability to regulate energy producers. this ruling makes it harderforjoe biden to try to meet his climate change goals. the court has decided the environmental protection agency does not have the authority to impose carbon limits unless there is new legislation coming from congress, and that's something joe biden knows he doesn't have enough votes to get passed. coal lies at the heart of the problem. america still relies heavily on this most polluting fossil fuel to keep the lights on. the supreme court case was brought by 19 mostly republican states afraid they may be forced to move away from coal to generate electricity. those are states that have an outside share of america's carbon emissions and have done little so far to reduce them. california's landscape is vulnerable to the effects

of climate change. a democrat—run state, its spending billions — more than most countries — to protect the environment but that effort will be undermined by the supreme court ruling. the idea that the us supreme court moved to take away one of the most significant and historically powerful tools to address the ravages of climate change is incomprehensible. in the states that won this case, they are celebrating a ruling that gives them a right to make their own rules on carbon emissions, rather than be told what to do by washington. and they say it will prevent a rise in the price of electricity. andres restrepo is a senior attorney with the us based environmental organization the sierra club who were involved in the case. he says despite the supreme court ruling, there are other legal means to fight climate change in the us. the rationale by the court, which of course is a harsh blow, was that the court read the statute, the clean air act, section 111 in particular which is the governing provision for

this regulation, to limit the authority of the epa, not to control greenhouse gases, that was not quite right, the agency still has authority to control greenhouse gases but what the court held was that in determining the stringency of the regulations, the epa is able to impose, it can only consider technology in measures that can be implemented at each individual source and integrated into the engineering of each source as opposed to what the obama administration had previously done which was set the stringency based upon the ability of coal and gas plants to shift electricity generation away from those fossil fuel sources and towards new renewable energy which is the most effective and efficient tool the epa has for controlling this pollution so although the agency �*s authority to control greenhouse gas emissions does remain, its ability to set appropriately stringent limits is seriously

curtailed by this decision. the us accounts _ curtailed by this decision. the us accounts for _ curtailed by this decision. the us accounts for nearly 14% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. given this ruling, legal recourses are available counter this? figs legal recourses are available counter this?— legal recourses are available counter this? as i mentioned before, counter this? as i mentioned before. the _ counter this? as i mentioned before, the agency _ counter this? as i mentioned before, the agency will - counter this? as i mentioned before, the agency will still l before, the agency will still have authority to control existing fossil fuel power plants but it will be hindered inability to do so by the agency, its authority to control for instance vehicle emissions, greenhouse gas emissions, greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks remains fully intact and that is the sector with even more significant greenhouse gas emissions than the united states in the electric power sector. at the same time, this case does nothing to affect state authority to control fossil fuel fired state authority to control fossilfuel fired generation and as we've seen in a significant amount over the last five, ten, 15 years, there has been a dramatic move away from coal—fired electricity towards renewable resources, even under the trump administration, to stop the

transition. we have seen the retirement of 357 coal plants in the united states and we will see more about thanks in no small part to organisations in the environmental community like sierra club and our allies so although this decision is certainly a blow and a setback, it is the power to control not just power plants, the transportation and oil and gas sector and for state and local governments to facilitate that transition away from fossil fuel powered generation. china's president xi has arrived in hong kong to take part in events to mark the 25th anniversary of the handover by the uk. this was the scene at the railway station as mr xi arrived — he was greeted by the outgoing chief executive, carrie lam, as well as lines of schoolchildren waving flags. the chinese leader is expected to attend a ceremony to inaugurate hong kong's new top official, john lee.

but earlier, the british prime minister borisjohnson said china had failed to meet its commitment to respect a one country, two systems arrangement agreed under the deal that ended british colonial rule in 1997. on the 25th anniversary of the handover, we simply cannot avoid the fact that for some time now, beijing has been failing to comply with its obligations. it is a state of affairs that threatens both the rights and freedoms of hong kong as and the continued progress and prosperity of their home. but we're not giving on hong kong. 25 years ago, we made a promise to the territory and its people and we intend to keep it. doing all we can to hold china to its commitments so that hong kong is once again run by the people of hong kong for the people of hong kong. for more on this i am joined

now by martin yip in hong kong. good to see you there. i believe the flag raising ceremonyjust lace. can you give assistance of what you are seeing, the kind of celebrations in hong kong and what is planned? 50 celebrations in hong kong and what is planned?— celebrations in hong kong and what is planned? so the talk of celebration, _ what is planned? so the talk of celebration, it's _ what is planned? so the talk of celebration, it's more - what is planned? so the talk of celebration, it's more about. celebration, it's more about the official celebrations. you mentioned the flag raising ceremony, it's not quite done yet because as you can see, parading right at the back of where i am and i'm roughly one kilometre away from the flag raising ceremony and victoria harbour, there is a parade going on. we saw the new chief executive be sworn in in two hours time as well as the outgoing chief executive carrie lam but technically, president xi is not in hong kong yet, he went back to mainland china, and in about one hours time,

just to oversee the new government swearing in and everything happening behind me is under tight security, the police station, along the harbourfront as well as very tight sealed up area. the hong kong exhibition centre. that is what we are going to see but of course the key moment today would be first of all, what i've mentioned, the oath of office ceremony. a speech expected to be given by president xijinping himself. what is the sentiment on the ground, among the people of hong kong? it ground, among the people of hong kong?— ground, among the people of hon: konu? , ,., . hong kong? it depends on which side ou hong kong? it depends on which side you are. _ hong kong? it depends on which side you are, i'm _ hong kong? it depends on which side you are, i'm afraid. - hong kong? it depends on which side you are, i'm afraid. after i side you are, i'm afraid. after three years of protests, clamping down on hong kong's national security law, there is

a total clampdown, it's not exactly something about celebration and we have even been hearing about pro—democracy activists saying that they've been invited to talks with national security police, not to do any protest today, that is one side and the other side is there will be rallies run after the flag raising ceremony so it will be quite a contrast but the problem is, you might be hearing quite a distorted audio because there are vehicles approaching and a very strong wind in hong kong and two hours ago, it was literally thunderstorms and all that the weather is very unstable here which would get into the way of many celebration activities for the rest of the day.— the rest of the day. martin, that could _ the rest of the day. martin, that could impact _ the rest of the day. martin, that could impact the - that could impact the celebrations and we will leave it there. mixed feelings as you are pointing out. let's get

some more perspective, emily lau, the first woman to be elected to the legislative council of hong kong back in 1991. thank you very much for your time. what would you say other challenges that are facing hong kong as we speak as it marks this landmark event? well, i hope president xi jinping and the authorities will help to heal the rift because hong kong is a city that is split asunder. you “ust askaboutfi that is split asunder. you “ust ask about the i that is split asunder. you “ust ask about the mood �* that is split asunder. you “ust ask about the mood of h that is split asunder. you just ask about the mood of the i ask about the mood of the people, there are those who are pro— beijing who are happy and there are those who are very, very anguished and very worried or even scared and there are thousands of people, including members of my party in prison and they have been there for 500, 600 days with no trial and

theirfamilies, friends, supporters are very, very worried and very upset and also course many civil society ngos have collapsed and journalists have collapsed and journalists have been arrested so there is this mood but it does not have to go on like this and we hope asian will understand, because most hong kong people are patriots, they are not asking for independence, they are not waging revolution, using violence to overthrow the government, not at all. what we want is to continue to have a safe and peaceful free life that we've had for so long after 97, for many years. hong kong was a free, safe and vibrant city and the economy boomed. why can't we return to that? ., ., ~ ., that? you talk about the heafinu that? you talk about the healing touch _ that? you talk about the healing touch that - that? you talk about the healing touch that is - that? you talk about the - healing touch that is required. what needs to be done? has your party or members of the

opposition been approached by the leadership to bridge this divide, as you point out. has any attempt been made yet? figs any attempt been made yet? as far as any attempt been made yet? is far as i'm any attempt been made yet? is faras i'm aware, any attempt been made yet? sis far as i'm aware, my party and others have not been contact had but you are right, it's up to the people in power to reach out, to extend the olive branch, so that we can start talking because we are not advocating violence so the way forward is dialogue, communication and trying to look towards a commission of enquiry to find out what's happened in the last few years and try to find some compromise, consensus and a way forward so this city can boom again, people can feel free again. again, people can feel free aaain. �* ., ., again, people can feel free aaain. �* . . ., �*, again. i'm afraid that's the only time _ again. i'm afraid that's the only time we _ again. i'm afraid that's the only time we have - again. i'm afraid that's the only time we have at - again. i'm afraid that's the only time we have at the l again. i'm afraid that's the - only time we have at the moment but thank you very much for your thoughts and in water. really highlighting the mixed feelings as you can see,

celebrations of one side but also concerns and challenges that remain for hong kong as well. the other headline we have been tracking. nato leaders have pledged more financial aid and weapons for ukraine. the alliance also renewed calls for president putin to end the invasion. nato's secretary general, jens stoltenberg, insisted that ukraine must prevail as an independent state. here's our political editor, chris mason. salisbury plain, usually a place where british troops train. now those in ukrainian uniforms are here, too, being taught how to use the weapons and equipment being given to them by the uk. this as the prime minister, at the end of the nato summit in madrid, promised more money to help ukraine further. the best way for us to win the argument around the world about our values is for the ukrainians to win. that's why i'm pleased today that we've announced another £1 billion worth of military support. so, prime minister,

what is the overall objective of the uk's help and strategy for ukraine? we want to give them the means to repel the russians, to expel the russians from the territory that they have occupied, because that is the right thing under international law. this gathering of the world's biggest defence alliance has had a sense of urgency — even emergency. an invasion in europe, a hostile russia, an ongoing war without obvious end — huge human suffering, profound global economic consequences. president putin has been meeting his allies in turkmenistan. his decision to go to war in ukraine has spooked others close to russia's borders. for years, sweden and finland felt sufficiently safe to be neutral. no longer — russia's aggression means they're joining nato. translation: we don't - have a problem with sweden and finland, as we do with ukraine.

ukraine and its people's well being is not the aim of nato or the west. it's just a means to defend their own interests. the prime minister has spent the last few days urging other countries to commit more to defence spending, while facing criticism at home that the british army is shrinking. nice to meet you, how are you doing? he's also faced criticism from the scottish and welsh governments, who feel, while helping ukraine is noble, they've been pickpocketed by the government at westminster to help pay for it. but he's set a big, long—term goal, saying that, by the end of the decade, the money allocated to defence will rise to 2.5% of national income — much more than most other countries. chris mason reporting. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: japan continues to swelter in the highestjune temperatures in nearly 150 years.

china marked its first day of rule in hong kong with a series of spectacular celebrations. a huge fireworks display was held in the former colony. the chinese president, jiang zemin, said unification was the start of a new era for hong kong. the world's first clone has been produced of an adult mammal. scientists in scotland have produced a sheep called dolly that was cloned in a laboratory using a cell from another sheep. for the first time in 20 years, russian and american spacecraft have docked in orbit at the start of a new era of cooperation in space. tennis balls thwack cheering and applause challenger powered past the bishop rock lighthouse at almost 50 knots, shattering a record that had stood for 3h years, and there was no hiding the sheer elation of richard branson and his crew.

this is newsday on the bbc. i'm arunoday mukharji in singapore. our headlines: a setback for the biden administration, as the us supreme court issues a ruling limiting the government's ability to regulate emissions from power plants. chinese president xijinping arrives in hong kong to mark 25 years since the handover of the former british colony. it's his first trip out of mainland china since the start of the pandemic. sri lanka is facing the worst economic crisis since its independence. the island is close to running out of fuel, and now president gotabaya rajapaksa has written to vladimir putin to discuss buying cheap oilfrom russia. our south asia correspondent rajini vaidyanthan reports from the capital colombo.

an endless struggle for this island nation. queues that go on and on and on. sri lanka's running out of fuel... ..and of hope. with only days of petrol left in the country, all they can do is wait. at the front of the line, taxi driver ajeevan. you're number one in the queue, how long have you been waiting? two days, maybe. two days? yeah... translation: i've been sleeping in my taxi. - sometimes i leave to get food, then i come back here and sleep. that's how i've been living in the last few days. i can only survive if i have fuel. here, the pumps are dry. with no international shipments due for at least few weeks, what's left in the country is being rationed. these tiny pieces of paper have become one of the most

sought—after things in sri lanka. they're fuel tokens, and everyone in this stretch of the line could be waiting days just to get one. and once you have one in your hand, you then have to wait for your petrol station to say that they have supplies of fuel. now, the owner of this particular token got it on tuesday, and his local station says they still don't have any fuel for him to pump. near the end of the queue, we find jayinda. he drove here from his village, using up fuel, in the hope of finding more. only without gas, petrol, everything, we need everything, but it's difficult, not supplying continuously. that's why we are in deep trouble here now. and that's led to deep frustration and anger towards the government. the country's president's appealed to russia for help. a delegation is due in moscow at the weekend to discuss

the purchase of cheap oilfor this nation. do you usually ride bikes? back at the queue, jaganathan�*s just bought his first ever bike to get around. now, no petrol, no diesel, everything, bicycle very expensive. the cost of cycles has tripled. inflation�*s at more than 50%. sri lanka's economic crisis keeps getting worse. how long must they wait for things to get better? rajini vaidyanathan, bbc news, colombo. injapan an unprecedented heatwave has got many worried about global warming, and a possible shortage of electricity to keep air conditioners going. tokyo reported record breaking temperatures on thursday, making it the worstjune heatwave injapan since records began nearly 150 years ago. rupert wingfield—hayes reports.

in this town, it is another blazing hot day. at 11am, the temperature is already somewhere north of a0 celsius. for masaya, his wife and brother, working outside in these conditions isn'tjust hard, it's dangerous. masaya shows me the electric fans in his jacket, designed to keep him cool, but they hardly seem up to the task. "it went up to 47 degrees on the car's thermometer yesterday," he tells me. "is it dangerous?" i ask. "yes, it's dangerous. "we've never had temperatures like this before injune. "usually, it's raining now." a week ago, most people had never heard of this little city, izizaki, 100 km north of tokyo. now, it's suddenly famous. this is now officially the hottest place injapan. it's been above a0 degrees twice already this week, and according to my thermometer, it's well above that out there in the sunshine today. this has never happened before

injune anywhere injapan. this should be the middle of the rainy season, and it's causing huge problems forjapan�*s electricity—generating system. it's just barely keeping up with demand, and if it fails, people are going to die. these heatwaves are notjust a naturalfluctuation in weather. man—made climate change is making them more extreme and more dangerous. over the past 100 years, the average temperature forjapan has risen by about one degree, which is more than a world record. for tokyo, it was like three degrees higher, so temperatures have been rising. so, definitely, climate change is part of the reason. the increasingly frequent heatwaves are particularly dangerous for old people, of which japan has many. so, here in the north of tokyo, they're opening a cooling—down centre, where i find 86—year—old kiyoji taking refuge from the heat and playing

japanese chess. "i'm overwhelmed by the heat," he says. "coming here to cool down is really important. "i don't want to use the air—con at home, "but we've been told if we don't, we could die." four years ago, another heatwave killed scores of elderly people and put 20,000 in hospital. this one is expected to break on sunday, and for millions of people across japan, it won't come a moment too soon. rupert wingfield—hayes, bbc news, in tokyo. finally, the scorcher that gets you thinking commands a high price. a bronze cast of the thinker by french sculptor rodin sold on thursday for almost $10 million. there are only 30 casts of this culture

and only a head full in private ownership like this one. how long the new owner spent thinking about the new pricetag? one might ask. that's all for now on bbc news. hello again. well, thursday was a day of sunshine and showers. but the day's showers were a lot bigger, there were loads more thunderstorms around than we've seen over the past few days and whenever you see big cloud tearing upwards through the skies like these, well, you know someone is getting soaked. someone lived in south newington as those heavy downpours came through here. really hefty shower. the showers and thunderstorms that developed through the day have actually kept going for the first part of the night as well and they have tended to migrate towards the pennines, north—east england and will generally begin to fade away over the next few hours by the same time, will probably see some rain to spinning its way across the north sea, grazing northeast scotland over the next few hours. here are your morning temperatures. now, for friday itself, we've got low pressure in charge. it's a day of sunshine

and showers, broadly speaking. however, we will see another low bringing some more general rain into northern ireland as we go through the afternoon. here's the forecast for wimbledon — the computer reckons it's dry. well, you might be lucky, i suppose. but i'd go for a chance of a shower, to be honest. the showers will be quite widespread, they'll get going to the morning and come the afternoon, some of them will turn heavy and thundery. the greatest chance of seeing those heavier showers will be across eastern areas of scotland and down the eastern side of england. down to about norfolk, i suspect. temperatures similar to recent days, high teens across western areas, low 20s in the east. feeling warm in the sunshine with a bit more of a breeze around on friday compared with the last couple of days. the weekend sees further weather fronts diving eastwards across the uk and so on saturday, we start off with this weak weather front. a band of rain pushing eastwards across england and wales and what follows is sunshine and showers again. some of them heavy, particularly across northwestern areas this time. it's here where we've got the greatest chance

of seeing some thunder. and those temperatures not really changing a great deal. low 20s in the east, but generally for most of us, we're looking at temperatures into the high teens. now, pressure starts to gradually rise from the southwest as we go through sunday. so, probably dry for wales and most parts of western england and probably the midlands, too. a few showers elsewhere, notably across scotland and northern ireland and temperatures, well, they haven't changed very much, have they? pressure will rise more generally into next week. so, more of us will enjoy drier weather, a bit more sunshine and it will start to get a bit warmer as well.

this is bbc news. we will have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour, straight after this programme.

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