i think i will live long enough to witness the factory farming the great debate this week on d. w or ah, ah ah, this is deed of you news live from berlin. the chinese communist party pushes for reform. she ging paying moves to tightened his grip on power of the country's communist party congress. beijing says it wants peaceful relations with taiwan, but that is an armed forces must train harder for combat. and a breakthrough in the long running dispute over iran's nuclear program. president

abraham, right, you see agrees to allow united nations inspectors more access to iran's nuclear plants. also coming up estonians go to the polls to elect a new government. the war and ukraine is a major topic, but so too is rampant inflation. ah, nick spicer, welcome to the program, china's a rubber stamp parliament, the national people's congress has begun as an 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 in the face of escalating threats from abroad. beijing says it is cranking up military's bending, but at the same time it wants to promote peaceful relations with taiwan, which he claims as his own territory. on the economy. the leadership has set

a 5 percent economic growth target. one of the lowest in decades. delegates gather in beijing's great whole of the people for the biggest date 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, jim 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 v chung, who oversaw controversial pandemic locked downs as parties secretary of shanghai. a particular interest this year as

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 tech tycoon like ali baba founder jack my and by dues 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 earlier i spoke to journalists having christopher and beijing and asked him why chant china is expecting only 5 percent growth for in its economy. 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, etc. but actually, i'm setting out a rather modest growth target is also by seen met are seen by many economist f, a r s. the rather welcoming paradigm shift. because if you focus too much on unmarried growth and only under 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, and those reforms will be necessary trends to transform the chinese economy. and if you listen to liquor, chance work report from this morning and he talked a lot about am now increasing domestic consumption, et cetera. and i think our, 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 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 around? we're mixing notes on the one hand leeker chung in his speech and had a rather subdued tone at least compared to last. yes, each am he didn't issue or military threat. he basically are put as puts us emphasis on a quote unquote peaceful reunification. but at the same time, he had talked about the combat readiness of the people's liberation army are also the increased military budget 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 each 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 family just to go a little it 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. will security issues feature in this congress to

a certain extent were in general a 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 am, 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 a, china was never neutral. they always were quite close to russia rhetorically and, and also a, yeah, in terms of political support. but am i, i think it has not changed much, and really an extensive firm supply of weapons towards russia. i think it's still unlikely just when you analyze the benefit and the possible damage and china could get from this decision. so i think not much has actually changed. all right, reporter fabbing credit for joining us there from bay. jake,

thanks so much. have him. let's take a look now at some of the other news making headlines around the world. more than a 100 countries have agreed on the united nations treating to protect the world's oceans. the landmark deal, m to conserve marine life and bio diversity in international waters. the long awaited agreement wraps up over a decade of talks authorities in ukraine to say the death toll from missile strikes in zap, arissa has risen to 13 rescue workers continued to pull bodies from the rubble of an apartment block. a russian missile hit the 5 story building in the southeastern city, just before dawn on thursday. police and peru have fired tear gas at protesters demanding the resignation of president deena blue archie. dozens of government opponents have been killed in clashes with security forces in the last 3 months. more than 50000 people have marched across australia,

sydney harbour bridge. to wrap up the world, pride fest crowds made the journey to celebrate the l. g b t q. community and demand more global, the quality 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 in relations between tay ran and the international body of multinational agreement, regulating iran's nuclear activities collapsed when the united states 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 with due wrong, they jason delray or your on deal your on has an i'm reaching and the level of

enrichment off uranium and increasing the level of engagement of uranium and also the young lady and last amount of su ring. 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. right. you see to allow more inspections. and finally, a break through 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 it's part denies wanting to develop nuclear weapons, but admits to some unintended fluctuations in enriching uranium. it's hopes that a diplomatic solution to this long running international wrangle may now be a step closer. oh, stonier is voting to day 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 where the prime minister kaya colors will stay in office. her government was quick to aid ukraine after rush as invasion, a year ago per capita. no other country has supported ukraine more than estonia with financial military and humanitarian aid support or a greenhorn grain is sir 96 percent the set up. so luckily it's absolutely, it's almost done up a 100 percent. and it, sir thought of support, because that 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 callous government can hold on to it's parliamentary majority. despite estonians

strong backing for ukraine, they're also struggling with high energy in for 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 bigger sir. when it 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 journey bundis league, it was a battle between the bottom dwellers, both shaka and thereupon, and spoke 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 hm. the league's worst defense looked destined to be sent down at seasons in bo humps mascot. bobby bolter 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 riemann, 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 shockers, mario's boater doubled their lead over. bo hm!

boot a stepped up in fire through a sea of bodies off the corner kick. to nail the final score, shoak as 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 by an unit got a to one away when it stood guard to finish the day, the top of the standings defender mateus to list put the visitors ahead and 40th minute firing a shot from outside the box. and eric maxine, chipper routing doubled their lead after halftime break. fire needed that insurance school because stood guards. one was a period, pull the late one back to the home side. there you go by and are in 1st place level on points with darkman, but i had on goal difference. and

that's all for me coming up next world stories, the ukrainian musician musicians using their art to fight back against pollutants for i'm mix spicer. i like to watch a every journey is full of surprises. we've gone all out to give you some time with them. i'm in your.