hit drawing. ah, was there another symbolic meaning to this beautiful painting that perhaps we just don't understand? the search for answers starts july 7th on d, w ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. china is leader visits hong kong to mark 25 years since britain returned the territory to chinese rule. she's in pings, visit comes 2 years after beijing imposes sweeping security law and hong kong that silenced the opposition will get

a live update from our correspondent in the city. also in the show, the u. s. supreme court deals a blow to the biden administration's fight against climate change. it rules that the countries environmental protection agency does not have the power to cap emissions from coal plants. and the mystery of portugal vanishing sea horses, these waters were once home to the world's largest population of sea horses will look at why the creatures have now all but disappeared. ah, i'm amin use if welcome to the program, china's president she ging ping has is in hong kong to mark the 25th anniversary of it's handing over to china from britain. she oversaw the swearing in of a new chief executive for the city. john lee replaces carrie lamb crackdown on

political dissent and rod in the run up to the hand over in 1097. that was agreed, hong kong would follow a one country to systems policy guaranteeing freedom of speech. but a recent security law has allowed vision to tighten its grip on the city. being don young hall dw correspondent phoebe kong is in hong kong. she gave a speech to the, to mark the occasion. what was that speech about? was she has given a like a long speech at the end, the 1st raise some money in the home home just now that he has given a very important instructions and particularly on the one country to system principals that are he said that i quote, safeguarding national and sovereign safety and interest is the supreme principle author, one country to systems that are in that of the system only allows patriots to

run the hong kong. and that is to protect the national interest of china. and that is something that shouldn't be compromised or shaken to under any circumstances. so this is a really a pretty tough to dance on the one country to assist them, especially our products are worried about a how hong kong is going to maintain is high degree of autonomy and that it has systems and how hong kong would enjoy the liberties and freedoms promised one, beijing talk over hong kong from britain to 25 years ago. but she's young people today he us chest radio strongly on upholding the the a comprehensive jurisdiction the hong kong that beijing is not compromising. and a bit of hong kong are when the way that why the face, foreign interference or any met is related to the national security. now you mentioned the crackdown on opponents and opposition in hong kong. does this day,

the celebration to day of hong kong guinea independence from great britain? does this take on a new meeting this year? well should actually i thought over a decade that and this is not only the anniversary celebration of hong kong hanover, but this is also at the age that every single year activist and our massive crowds of hundreds of thousands of people are. we're turn out on the streets and talk to the streets, to protest against the government and expressed that this content onto was the administration but not any more or 2 to 3 years ago when the national security was imposed. and many seaver groups including active as organisation and many visitors were chowed and groups of were forced to disband and the national security load. so

that today is pretty quiet. and, and this is the atmosphere that the authority is really want to see that not even the massive protest, but also even a very small scale action or any kind of a small scale protest as banned in hong kong that we've heard from our individual add to this that they were warned by the national security police and there were confined due to their apartment on the anniversary, on preventing from going outside or causing any kind of embarrassment. today, authorities, especially the chinese president shooting p. now former police chief john lee is taking over as chief executive. so can we expect more of the same from him? but this is the 1st day john lee took office after he swore in front of the president she g p. only a has a long background of his work with the security for says he, he has,

he began his career with a police officer. and so people really expect a kind of like a hot line approach when he wrote hong kong and also a number of major principal officials of his new cabinet came from the security forces for the new government has already said that they are going to push for more legislations relating to national security and also to regulate journalists and media and so called fake information. so this is something that we are expecting. and of course this is an activist. they're worried, like under off john, lead that of the room for descent is going to be for a limited b to b, correspond. phoebe com. thank you.

the u. s. supreme court has ruled that america's environmental protection agency does not have the authority to limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal fired power plants. the ruling by the court, conservative majority marks a set back in the biden administration's fight against climate change. i mean, the white house will now have to work through a deeply divided congress and it's battled to curb emissions another week, another u. s. supreme court ruling with far reaching consequences. this one concerns coal fired power plant and the extent to which the u. s. environmental protection agency can force them to cut emissions. the court ruled that the agency is not authorized to make decisions with such economic and political implications. today the court put the fossil fuel industries and interests over the over their own people. and that is,

that's actually horrible. there is so much consensus right now that the climate crisis is our number one issue and the fact that we're already not doing enough. you as president joe biden wants to make the u. s. a leader on climate change. the plan was to make electricity generation carbon neutral by 2035 with that depended on having the environmental protection agency behind it. instead, the court says it's now up to congress to pass climate laws, but support for biden. there is far from assured or washington correspondents to me . so misconduct has this analysis on why it may be impossible for the biden administration to reach its climate targets. now. it is hard to overstate the importance of this ruling from the supreme court. it severely limits the e p a, the environmental protection agency from regulating emissions from power plants. the supreme court saying here congress did not give a federal agency the right to regulate on big issues like climate change. and that power must rest with congress. but climate legislation isn't getting anywhere in

congress where such legislation has been gridlocked. one of the very 1st things president biden did when entering office was to rejoin the paris climate agreement . he has made ambitious targets part of his administration's plans committing to reducing emissions by at least 50 percent this decade. the u. s. still really relies on fossil fuel power plants. they make up about a 4th of us greenhouse gas emissions. so the ability to rein in that production is very important to president by the climate plans and his ability to use a get executive power has been key so severely restricting the ability of the e p. a here to act is going to be a big blow to president biden, and his attempts to make progress on global warming. and this all comes, i should say, as the countries witnessing devastating weather patterns that scientists attribute to global warming. things like massive heat waves, a droughts, wildfires, and flooding, and the disappointment can be sense beyond the u. s. as well. the united nations are saying today in

a statement that it doesn't provide commentary on issues in individual member states, but said quote, we can say that this is a setback in our fight against climate change. when we are already far off track of meeting the goals of the paris agreement, so blow a generally to global efforts to curve global warming. so me some scandal in washington for us now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world. could tanya brown, jackson has made history becoming the 1st black woman sworn in as a u. s. supreme court justice? the 51 year old replaces stephen brier, who's retiring justices, remain on the bench for life, or until they've chosen to step down the remains of the independence. 0 of the democratic republic of congo. patrice le mamba had been buried more than 60 years after his death. the model was assassinated in 1961 and his body dissolved in acid leaving only a single gold plated tooth. the tooth was taken to belgium from where it was repatriated last week. next dorian government has signed

a deal with indigenous leaders bringing end to protest that brought the country to a halt for almost 3 weeks. the agreement cuts fuel prices to address protesters anger over the rising cost of living. 5 civilians and one soldier have been killed in the unrest. nato ended at summit today with a tougher line on russia and promised to increase true presence in europe. the meeting and spain also concluded with 2 countries, finland and sweden officially invited to become members of the military alliance. pomp and pageantry in madrid. leaders of the 30 nato member states have tightened ranks against russia as an attack on one as an attack out all. and we will defend every edge of nato territory. every edge of nato territory for our part, united states is doing exactly what i said. we do it prudent, invaded it,

hatch our forest posture. your nature agreed on a new strategy, ending any pretence of partnership with russia, then that's actually history. in fact, nato is a defense of alliance. it does not attack other countries and has no intention of doing so. for these, it is not a threat to any one in its own neighbourhood. i know, but in fact, it is putin who has made imperialism the goal and the object of his policy to you are not politic. gemacht ut up, some gigs, johnson up politic. while some members have announced new deliveries of weapons to ukraine and additional military funding of more than 2000000000, yuri's chief says it's simply not enough to catch co brothers who represented ukraine here in person and madrid. one that ukraine's fight is a fight for europe. wake up, guys. this happening now. you're going to be next. this is going to be knocking on you door. just in the blink of an eye, nato is also sent to grow with a turkish veto against finland and sweden joining having been ironed out,

vladimir putin is warning he'll consider sending ballistic and even nuclear weapons to russia's border with finland once it joins nato's ranks. treachery, nature, unusual, everything was going fine between us. but now there will be tensions. there certainly will is it that this is obvious and inevitable. i repeated that if there is a threat to us and it's better isn't the most though us animal girls. nato also drop plans against what it sees as coercive tactics by china. the leaders will meet again next summer in the lithuanian capital vilnius. now to portugal, where scientists are sounding the alarm about the dwindling population of sea horses, of the countries coast in just 20 years. their numbers in one estuary have fallen by some 96 percent, a re population effort called project seahorse is underway in hopes of halting the decline. the re a formosa lagoon, and southeastern portugal used to have one of the largest populations of sea horses

in the world. but these tiny creatures are disappearing. isla meal haven't seen any . see horses here for monson a rather years? think of nothing. and they used to be everywhere for the sea level is rising, salt is coming into the fresh water lagoon. the sea horses are leaving, but that's not the only threat of weak motion. so if they got the main reason for the decline of the sea horse population is man who has destroyed their habitats. would all we've worked with the university of algarve research is the reasons for their dwindling numbers. it also breed see horses in the lagoons at special protection zones until they are 2 years old. more than you might, the number of see horses in the new protection zones is much greater than outside of. boats are not allowed in the protected areas, and fishing is prohibited yet. park rangers still find squid cages like this one.

if you south of a could illegal fishing harms the see horses in it? i discover because they get stuck in the cage's grandmother. and they just die their business because we found this one in just such a cage, franklin peddler by 2030 portugal plans to expand its protections to include not only the ria formosa lagoon, but one 3rd of its marine territory. you're up to date. doc film is up next, stick around for that. i'm ami annisa. thanks for joining us here at d w i . she's got any issues with thoughts they will grade will we will.