ah no other respects ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. the chinese communist party pushes for reform. sheeting thing moves to tightened, his grip on power, the country's communist party congress. they james says it was peaceful relations with taiwan, but that its armed forces must train harder for combat. and a breakthrough in the long running dispute over iran's nuclear program. president

abraham rice, he agrees to allow united nations inspectors more access to iran's nuclear plants. also coming up a relegation, barble and germany's bonus league of football shotgun secure a crucial when against spoken and stepped up from the bottom of the table. ah, i'll nick spicer, welcome to the program. china's rubber stamp parliament the national people's congress has begun his annual meeting in beijing, outgoing premier. les kitchen, who is 2nd in command after leader seizing ping, says, china's armed forces should be more prepared for combat. and the face of escalating threats from abroad. aging says it is cranking up military spending and at the same time it wants to promote peaceful relations with taiwan,

which it claims as its own territory on the economy. and the leadership has set of 5 per cent economic growth target. one of the lowest in decades. delegates gather and beijing's great whole of the people for the biggest days in china's political calendar. it's more political pageant than policy setting parliament. the national people's congress largely serves to rubber stamp decisions already made behind closed doors. but she didn't ping and the communist party leadership. much of the n p. c will focus on communist ritual and slogans. however, china watchers carefully comb over proceedings every year for clues on china's future direction. in october, she cemented is unprecedented 3rd term as the general secretary, the party. he's now set to consolidate his power base. she is expected to unveil a new premier li chung who oversaw controversial pandemic locked downs as parties secretary of shanghai. a particular interest this year is

a report from the congress about how china plans to revive its economy. the world's 2nd biggest, which has been hard hit by long locked hands in the run up. she hinted at reforming the system of financial regulation and policy making. the party wants to get more involved in private business. leading tact i coons like ali baba founder jack my and bite is robin lee had been left off the list of delegates. instead, the congress is expected to focus on scientific research aimed at boosting domestic production of semiconductors. and the backdrop to the congress is growing tensions between china and the u. s. washington fears at beijing could start to supply russia with weapons and ukraine. and for more on this, i speak now to journals fabbing credit for in bridging this one, stop on one number, 5 per cent. as a growth target does not seem modest to you where it's not only modest, it's the lowest growth target since more than 25 years. and that signals 2 things

basically on the one. 0 yeah, the economic wrote ahead will be shaky. the situation is not easy. they are major headwinds ahead, for example, the ongoing real estate crisis to high youth unemployment, et cetera. but actually i'm setting out a rather modest growth target is also by c met seen by many economists f a r s. the rather welcoming paradigm shift. because if you focus too much, an unmarried growth and only on the quantity of growth, it gives a lot of pressure to the economy. and now basically you have a lot of space and room for economic reforms in those reforms will be necessary trends to transform the chinese economy. and if you listen to leakage, chance work report from this morning and he talked a lot about and no increasing domestic consumption, et cetera. and i think what the government wants to do is that transformed the economy to a more sustainable one and focus less on that on just a quantity of growth. okay, what i'd like to turn, turn to taiwan,

if you don't mind, is featured prominently already. not a surprising thing, but is this a less confrontational approach to think this time round? were mixed signals on the one hand liquor chung in his speech, m had a rather subdued tone, at least compared to last. yes. eat em. he didn't issue a military threat. he basically are put as puts his emphasis on a quote unquote peaceful reunification. but at the same time, he talked about the, the combat readiness of the people's liberation army are also the increased military, badgered by 7.2 percent this year should also be concerning for taiwan. so i mean, i would not draw too many conclusions or conclusions from his speech. i think it remains to be seen and in 2 days or then your foreign minister of china will also give a press conference and i'm sure am taiwan will also be on the agenda and fab in just to go a little bit further afield. there's been a lot of speculation in washington and here in berlin that china might be putting

its weight behind russia soon, even supplying weapons. well, security issues feature in this congress to a certain extent. well, in general, the foreign policy issues are rather i'm on the site lines. it's not really about that. i mean, the national people's congress focuses on the economy here and also domestic political issues. but i would say, and in general i'm, i've, i've been in china the last 3 years. and especially the last year since the start of the u. a russian in ways that ukraine and i think i'm china was never neutral. they always were quite close to a russia rhetorically. and, and also a yeah, in terms of political support. but i think it has not changed much. and really an extensive supply of weapons towards russia. i think it's still unlikely just when you analyze the benefit and the possible damage in china could get from this decision. so i think not much has actually changed. all right,

report 5 in crunch for joining us there from bad jake. thanks so much. have him. let's take a look now is some of the other news making headlines around the world. more than a 100 countries have agreed on the united nations treaties to protect the world's oceans. landmark deal ames to conserve marine life and bio diversity in international waters. long awaited agreement wraps up over a decade of talks. in israel, tens of thousands of protesters have gathered for the 9th week in a row. they are trying to stop plant changes to the judicial system. the government says, judges have too much power over elected officials. the critics say the reforms would weaken democracy and help prime minister benjamin netanyahu avoid criminal prosecution. police and crew have fire tear gas at protesters demanding the resignation of president dina blu arte. dozens of government opponents have been

killed in classes with security forces in the last 3 months. more than 50000 people have marched across australia, sydney harbour bridge. to wrap up the world prod, festival crowds made the journey to celebrate the l. g. b t q. community and demand war global equality. iran has agreed to allow united nations monitors to inspect more of its nuclear sites. the breakthrough follows talks between iran's president and the head of the international nuclear watchdog. the announcement indicates a marked improvement between in relations rather between tay ran and the international body. a multinational agreement regulating iran's nuclear activities collapsed when the u. s. pulled out 5 years ago. satellite images of an underground nuclear facility near the iranian city of 4, do un inspectors. recently found traces of uranium here enriched close to

weapons grade. the discovery did not come as a surprise. after the trapping ministration withdrew wrong. they jason gilroy, your arm deal yet on has an i'm reaching at the level of enrichment off uranium and increasing the level of the basement of uranium and also the young lady elijah amounts of hearing. but it's far from clear what has been happening inside iran's nuclear plants. since the international agreement regulating its activities collapsed 5 years ago to ron, has all but stopped cooperating with the un watchdog. it's head raphael grossi has been in to run pressuring president abraham raw. you see to allow more inspections . and finally, a breakthrough we had, we had bought a tory get on the bleeding of information and,

and lack of a continuity of knowledge we had. so now we can start working again, reconstructing these base lines of information. and these are not words, this is very concrete. as well as allowing more inspections. iran has agreed to reconnect deactivated surveillance cameras. at some nucular sites. this is significant improvement. but why are not there yet? i wouldn't say that all issues are resolved to run for its part denies wanting to develop nuclear weapons, but admits to some unintended fluctuations in enriching uranium. it's hoped that a diplomatic solution to this long running international wrangle may now be a step closer. is tonia is voting today for a new government in an election dominated by the war and ukraine. public support for keith is overwhelming, but estonians are struggling with problems closer to home. the baltic state has one

of the highest inflation rates in the european union, running at 25 percent. when estonians go to the polls, they'll be doing more than choosing new members of parliament. these elections will decide whether prime minister kaya colors will stay in office. her government was quick to aid ukraine after russia's invasion, a year ago. per capita. no other country has supported ukraine, more than is tonia with financial, military and humanitarian aid support or a greenhorn grain is sir 96 percent it's it's absolutely it's absolutely. it's almost sort of a 100 percent and pizza thought and support. because the reason is very easy. every body knows when or if ukraine lose, we are the next but polls suggest it's far from clear that colors

government can hold on to its parliamentary majority. despite is tony and strong backing for ukraine. they're also struggling with high energy and food prices. the far right opposition has ceased on this dissatisfaction. we don't need to help them as much because our people are struggling to. it's good, they help but the help little do much sir, because sir, we need also is stony of borders on russia and has a large ethnic russian minority. it's a frequent target of threats from moscow. whoever wins on sunday will send a signal, far beyond is stony as boarders about the strength of support for ukraine. whatever the cost ah,

in the german bonus lager, it was a battle between the bottom dwellers, both chalka and their opponents bow, whom are struggling to stay in the top flight. shaka managed to pick up a much needed victory with some unexpected help from the other side. bo homes form since to restart one word slump with 5 defeat so far bull home, the leagues worst defense look destined to be sent down it. seasons in bo humps mascot, bobby bold sir, was hoping to give the home side a boost shaka had one on the road in 38 matches, but they also had lost in their last 5 lea games. but the visitors got some help from bon goalkeeper. manuel, re, man who was fired up for the match. following his shot for mario's booter shocker got a helping hand. the bull hm. keeper, try to dive on the ball as it trickled goal words,

but could only punch it over the line. after the brake joke is, mario's boater doubled their lead over bo home boot a stepped up in fire through a sea of bodies off the corner kick to nail the final score shall cuz 1st away when since 2019, the victory means shaka moved out of last place for the 1st time since october, and they pick up 3 crucial points in the battle to beat the drop. and at the other end of the table, barn unit got a to one away when it stood guard to finish the day at the top of the standings, defender mathias to least put the visitors ahead in a 40 minute firing and a shot from outside the box. and eric maxime tupa booting doubled their lead after the half time break. fire needed that insurance school because stood guards. one

was a per ear full, a late one back for the home side by and are now in 1st place level on points restored move, but ahead uncle, difference. as the news for now coming up next our show room. it looks at sex after page $45.00. i'm next. i sir, thanks for watching with with ukraine was like a stepping point to you know, pilots you into that would you want to be finish your studies. now you have.