the, the, this is the, the, the news coming to line from bullet trying to opens its national people's congress with a battle to transform its struggling growth model. thousands of delegates gather for the highly choreographed event. it offers glimpses into how the communist party plans to get the world's 2nd largest economy back on track. also coming up the u. n's agency for palestinian refugees might support survival. to ted says israel is helped to dismantle on the wall. 2000000 guys have been displaced from their homes . many of them are now facing common inducing. and france guarantees the right to

a portion in its constitution. the world 1st intended to prevent any roll back of reproductive rights in the future. the hello, i'm terry martin. welcome to the program, ken trying to find answers to his pressing economic and demographic challenges. that's one of the questions facing thousands of delegates says they gather for the countries highly choreograph national people's congress in beijing. leaders of announced a target of 5 percent economic growth in 2024. it's far below the double digit growth that once powered the chinese economy, the they also plan to increase defense spending by 7.2 percent. the same rate of increase as last year. the annual report and gathering is mostly ceremonial in

nature of key decisions have already been made behind closed doors by the communist party. the for more we're joined now by probably encroached by corresponded in beijing, fabio china is aiming for 5 percent economic growth. there's been much faster growth in years past. how does the government plan to keep the economy currently? yeah, that's the big question, but let me just give you a little bit of context um around 5 percent to to the p target for this year. might so not too high. um, given that china has its cheap as you mentioned, higher growth targets before. but for this year actually this is a really a business growth target because the economy is facing a lot of pet vince, you having a real estate crisis. you have a really very sluggish domestic demand and so on. so the economists of wondering how is china going to achieve it? and also, the average chinese is wondering can the national people's congress,

can the government deliver any response to the, the, the really sluggish grows. and i would say almost a crisis in terms of economic and growth. and i would say based on what we've heard today of from the prime minister who gave the long work report, they just basically the giving the paradigm, giving the direction of the future economy. i would say um, we don't see any bold plan of both reform vision um it's bought the same and more of the old, you can say maybe some many steps. for example, it was quite remarkable that leach young, the prime minister, acknowledge that um, china has to prince farm its growth model. but how it will, it's cheaper than that. it's really quite left in the open. that could be the option of making a big stimulus package. but just based on what we heard today, i don't see it defense spending fabia is set to grow faster than the economy as a whole. why is defense such a priority for beijing right now?

so yeah, that is actually quite extraordinary. already for 3 decades, the defense of the increase of this defense spending in china has never gotten below 6.6 percent and this year will be 7.2 percent. on the one hand it wants to be expected. we already knew it would be in this range, but it is most significant given the economic situation, that's a lot of type belt and then um, you know, reduction in costs, but the military obviously enjoys the priority. and i think it's obvious that when you look at this, a speech has of seats in ping or also the tongue, the prime minister, then there's a lot of mention of the extra on the environment. and the crisis has into the, you know, um, potential threats. so you can guess that, you know, china place a lot of emphasis on national security. but of course this is also not um, it was quite concerning. for example, when you look at it from a perspective from taiwan, for example. um, because uh,

recently the tensions according to across, across the taiwan strait has been increasing. so i think this is something that the intent and international community really so to pay attention to. well speaking until i want a basing claims, the democratically ruled territory as its own is repeatedly say to plans to reunify the island with the mainland, but is now using tougher language on that. tell us more about that. probably a so yeah, so what we thought today um the speech by the prime minister, it was mostly about the economy just to give you context. but in the end there was one paragraph about taiwan and usually in the us before they would always be the mention of a peaceful reunification. this time the peaceful, the word was dropped and it was only the mention of unification. so in, in a, given that, the national people's congress is highly choreographed and, you know, every um, so it'd be, as, you know, capital the weight on there is no co incidence. it has to have

a meeting. and i think from a to have a nice perspective, this is quite a vari, some it could for example, mean that the vision of a piece where we are an education seems less unlikely because uh, just look at the uh, so based uh into one um, just a very, very small minority once uh, unification with china. so maybe um, now, uh china, uh, putting more emphasis on. yeah, pressuring uh or maybe even using military force against taiwan fabio. thank you very much. that was journal is probably and crushed by invasion. so the head of the u. n's, palestinian refugee agency underwater has warned of a deliberate campaign to destroy it, following a funding fries by donors. speaking of the un general assembly, philippe allows the read the stress that the agency was vital to support what he called a scene of displace palestinians in gaza. he alleged these really government was

trying to undermine the agency for political ends. israel has repeatedly accused and a lot of employing stuff linked to the mass and other militant groups that sled, many countries to suspend funding. was there any way. busy that the agency was being pushed to the break, so we off functioning hung to mouse result, additional funding. we will be in on top of the territory. we service implications for global peace and security. the faith of the agency and the millions of people who depend on it hung in the balance. excellence is only one, is facing the deliberate and concept as compared to undermine its operations and ultimately and does have the w correspond atanya, kramer drawing just now from jerusalem. tanya, the head of the un posting

a refugee agency there claims there is a deliberate and concerted campaign and, and you can swap operations and gaza. what's israel's response to that? a lot of thing is ro and is there any government has made it very clear? does it that it doesn't see any role of own run any posts for cause a scenario not even know and be heard again last night? the is really military spokes person. they released a audio file or 2 or 2 falls, reportedly showing or, or that too. when ro stuff is wet involved in the hostage taking of october, a 7, so the doubling down in the organizations against one well that militants are basically, i missed the employees. and they also said again, the military, that a 451, the employees have things to militant groups in golf. those out providing evidence

. novia. we've heard the head of the not agency, philip, and that's the re me last night. also in the press concerning saying that they never received any evidence and that they had dismissed those 12 on the stuff was they weren't informed about. and you're also stressed that they're actually submitting the list of entry every year to the is very, or socrates and they never had heard of any concerns about them. no investigations, uh, ongoing, but owned by itself. but also we understand as an investigation by the e. u. an audit about the screening process of how people are employed. but of course, as mr. that's a really stressed this has own an impact on a people in gaza because when that is one of the biggest age provide is a full gardens and of course funds right now we've held by many countries until

they know what actually happened there. and of course, this has a direct impact on the situation, the in gaza, us vice president, some of the harris smith with many guns on monday in washington. now benny guns is a member of israel's war cabinet, but he's also prime minister benjamin. that's in yas whose political arrival, how is that meeting between guns and harris being seen in israel? tanya? well, it has been a lot of talk about this visit of the many guns in washington. and a lot of the talk about the reaction of the prime minister benjamin netanyahu was said to be very unhappy about this visit. there's a sense here that you know, i've been, you mean that to me, y'all should not be a so critical off. he's a colleague who's also in the war a cabin that because no one ever relations to all with is votes, closest ally,

it's very important for any government officials to be received in washington. and that domestic issues should arise as stand behind. no, of course the background to all of this is that these 2 men up, any guns used to be a defense minister and also prime minister benjamin netanyahu are the political rivals. and you know, if you look at the opinion polls, if any guns would be a frontrunner in potentially elections and of course this mixes with jason very difficult. tony's thank you very much. that was the jerusalem correspond atanya kreme. and here's a look at a couple of other stories making headlines, including this 1st related one, a new report by the humans. and boy for sexual violence says there are quote, reasonable grounds to believe rape and gang rape. occurred during how boss is october 7th terrorist attacks on israel. the report also said there was convincing

information that hostages were subjected to sexual violence during their captivity in gosh, moslin and argentina's government has suspended the country state news agency. tell them workers protested the move outside. tell them what us our offices calling it an attack on press freedom. the suspension comes up your fluoride populous present hobby and relate, announced he was shutting down. the agency which he accuses of spreading left wing promptly gunned. this france has become the 1st country to enshrine the right to an abortion in its constitution. that's after lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in favor of an amendment. public support for the change followed the us pre him court ruling in 2022 over turning the right to an abortion in that country. the life of the dollar was lit up in celebration with the message. my body, my twice as fronds me double action,

a constitutional right it is very moving disease, such a fundamental liberty written into the constitution. it will make us feel more recognized and protected. it's historical and we are all as you see, very happy. and for us, it's a fundamental rights and it has to be in the constitution because you can always change the law to adults. you said sound good because of the also do, but it seems differential volume. and then that is the vote was announced by a mountain of $78272.00. no make goods from across the political spectrum made from the only country in the world to explicitly and try and access to abortion. and it's plus a fusion with our vote today,

we recognize the fundamental human right of abortion. because the threat of regression is weighing heavy on women. because the right to abortion always reappears on the list of things. the extreme right wants to attack from what abortion has been legal in front since 1975 some critics say the revisions was therefore unnecessary. the accused president demanded in macro of using it to boost his popularity level some way these uh, it took us on a visa at boston is already legal and friends. and i don't understand why we need to put it into the constitution because it's already allowed. and i don't want this to encourage even more women to take the lives of the unborn baby side. they'll feel like they do put to vivian this woman's rights activists. it started the push to get into the right to abortion. last year, off to it was rooted back in the united states. finally,

they have to you giggle and whole other countries will follow from slade. you're watching dw news, i'm terry martin. thanks for being with the c w. this is ebony also is available to them and it has medive in some sense what i mean. i know i might just do it and i'm hoping dw new pod costs. thank strength amounts bother today about move join us this week.