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. and, temperatures in japan are the highest in nearly a 150 years, in nearly 150 years, amid fears the electricity grid could be overwhelmed. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe the biden administration has condemned a supreme court ruling which curbs the us government s power to limit carbon emissions from coal fired power stations, calling it a devastating decision. all six members of the conservative majority in the supreme court backed the landmark ruling, which marks a victory for the coal industry. the case was brought on behalf of mostly republican led states which were worried that they d be forced to move away from using coal to cleaner sources of energy. from washington, here s our north america editor sarah smith. in california today, wildfires burning out of control are a vivid reminder of t
the icelandic capital, reykjavik the fifth in six months. hi there, thanks for being with us. we start in new york where the 12jurors in donald trump s hush money trial have begun their deliberations. in the first ever criminal trial of a us president, mr trump is facing 3a counts of falsifying business records. prosecutors accuse the former president of an elaborate scheme that violated campaign finance laws. they say he and his campaign team tried to cover up a $130,000 hush money payment to adult fim star stormy daniels, in order to supress her claims of an affair with mr trump in 2006. mr trump speaking outside the court. so it seems that there - are a lot of witnesses, a lot of people that they could ve called, that they didn t call. they didn t call them obviously because they would ve - very bad witnesses for them. but take a look at the list i and because of the gag order, i won t go down into individual names. i but you have a lot of big players that would ve
people of hong kong. in the next hour, hong kong s new leaderjohn lee is due to be inaugurated. let s cross live to our reporter martin. this is xijinping s this is xi jinping s first visit outside mainland china for 2.5 years. he has gone to hong kong. give us a sense of the significance of this visit. i think the significance here is on quite a few sides. one of course is what you said about xijinping being out of mainland china for the first time after the pandemic. but also because of the fact that the pandemic is still going on, at least that is still the case in hong kong. he has actually returned to mainland china last nightjust after dinner. he is expected to arrive, he should be arriving right now back in hong kong. and head to their
been invited to talk to national security police. they decided they would not come up to protest even in the smallest group possible under the covid-19 group possible under the covid 19 prevention laws. it is more like if all goes well, the pro beijing camp will celebrate today. but you might have heard all the wind noises, as a typhoon approaches hong kong, there has been raining in the morning. there is sunshine right now but we re not sure if the weather will bring a typhoon and that will factor into many of the activities for the rest of the day. we into many of the activities for the rest of the day. the rest of the day. we will follow the the rest of the day. we will follow the weather - the rest of the day. we will follow the weather and - the rest of the day. we will follow the weather and the | follow the weather and the words. thank you martin yep. injapan, an unprecedented heatwave has got many worried about global warming, and a possible shortage of electricity to keep a