degree ah, and explore fascinating world heritage sites d w world heritage 360. get the app now you know. ah ah, this is indeed a be news live from berlin, a breakthrough on protecting the world's oceans. after a decade of discussions, over 100 nations agree to a treaty safeguarding marine nature environmental group, say it will also help reverse bio diversity losses. also coming up china's she ging paying moves to tightened his grip on power at the communist party congress.

beijing says it was peaceful relations with taiwan, but that its armed forces must train harder for combat and a relegation battle in germany's buddhist league of football. chalka secure a crucial wind against bo hm. and step up from the bottom of the table. ah, i'm nick spicer, welcome to the program. more than a 100 countries have agreed on a united nations treaty to protect the world's oceans. the landmark deal, m to conserve marine life and bio diversity in international waters. it's seen as crucial to bringing 30 percent of the world's land and sea under protection by the end of the decade. the long awaited agreement wraps up. after 15 years of talks. i talked to robert blasi, i can ocean researcher at soccer university about the importance of this landmark

deal. well, this deal is all about almost half of the earth's surface, 47 percent to be exact, which is areas beyond national jurisdiction, the high seas which belong to no country and kind of belong to everyone. and there's a lot out there. it's the largest habitat for life on earth, this vast air, on average, for kilometers deep. and until yesterday, there is no international law, no treaty, that guided conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. in this area, it's a big deal. physically, in terms of the size of the earth, but also in terms of multilateralism assign that countries can play nicely together and still get big stuff done. it's a good day for us. well, i want to get more to the details of what this all means. but why does it take so long to reach a consensus? well, the main problem,

and here i will get into some of the details is that there are 4 main elements of this treaty negotiation. the 1st is conservation. so as setting up a mechanism to create protected areas in air, in the high seas, the 2nd as having an impact assessment. the 3rd is capacity building and transfer marine technology. and the 4th may be the trickiest one, is the equitable sharing of access and benefits of marine genetic resources. and this is exactly why it takes so long because marine genetic resources and biotechnology, it's moving at light speed. it's a great frontier of scientific and technological development. the united nations does not move at light speed. it's one of those to really slow, deliberative organs. so this is where there's been a bit of a mismatch where you have something that's growing so rapidly and says so unexpectedly, paired with international a negotiations which did not move quickly. just to give you a statistic on that,

when the negotiation started at the cost of sequencing a raw mega, basic dna where over $6000.00 to day it's less than one cent. so most of the types of changes that are happening and this is why diplomats are struggling to negotiate around it. sure, as incredible science there you're describe just a real quick last question. if i may. great treaty, let's say a sounds like it. what's the enforcement mechanism? what if a country disobeys? well, this is one of the tricky thing. so they're all sorts of enforcement mechanisms, hard and soft. so the hard enforcement mechanisms are going to be really tricky on the high seas because it's such a big area and it's so far away, on average, it's 370 kilometers from any coastline. so enforcing what's happening out there is going to be tricky. but then there's all the soft enforcement, that's all the norms at what best practices are for countries, even if they don't have a military on their side, they can show what best practice should be. they can demonstrate it through their

actions, through their language. and if someone is stepping in a different direction than it immediately stands out. so this is one of the aspects that will have to be navigating over the next years. today's the day to celebrate that we have this treaty on paper. but it's not a reason for complacency. there's a lot of hard work up ahead to make sure that it really results in positive change for the ocean. and for people who rely on it ok, robert lacy are from stockholm university. thanks so much for those insights. thanks, nick. i we, jared to brother turn to china now, who's rubber stamp parliament the national people's congress has begun at an annual meeting in beijing. outgoing premier lee k chan, who was 2nd in command after leader seizing. paying 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 spending, but at the same time wants to promote peaceful relations with taiwan, which

a claim does its own territory. on the economy, the leadership has set a 5 percent economic growth target. one of the lowest and decades. she, jim ping and the ruling communist party elise arrive in beijing's great hall of the people for the biggest days in china's political calendar. the national people's congress is more of a political pageant than a policy setting. parliament. it largely serves to rubber stamp decisions already made behind closed doors by the 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 his unprecedented 3rd term as the general secretary of the party. now he will introduce a major shake up of personnel and institutions to help consolidate his power base. she is set to unveil a new premier ne chung who oversaw controversial pandemic locked downs,

his party secretary of shanghai. the congress is closely watched for insights into how china plans to revive its economy. the world's 2nd biggest, which has been hard hit by lock downs. the government to set a modest target for economic growth this year, around 5 percent. the party plans to get more involved in private businesses, top tech tie, kuhns like ali baba founder jack mart and bite is robin lee have been left off the list of delegates instead, the congress is expected to focus on scientific research to boost domestic production of micro chips and the backdrop to the congress is growing tensions between china and the u. s. washington fears that beijing could start to supply russia with weapons in ukraine. earlier we spoke to journalists have in crush, burned badging. i asked him why china is only expecting 5 percent economic growth,

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 am setting out a rather modest growth target is also by see met or seen by many economist f, a r s. the rather welcoming paradigm shift. because if you focus too much, an 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, you know, 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, 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 liquor chung in his speech and had a rather subdued tone at least compared to last. yes. eat em. he didn't issue or military threat. he basically are put as puts his 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 speech. i think it remains to be seen and in 2 days. and 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 and

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 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 china was never neutral. they always were quite close to russia rhetorically, 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 and china could

get from this decision. so i think not much has actually changed. all right, reporter 5 in credit for joining us there from bay. jake, thanks so much. have him. new ariel images have been released showing the extent of the damage done by the russian bombardment of the eastern ukrainian city of back. moot drone footage shows st. after street of destroyed homes with fire. still burning. pressure is mounting on ukrainian troops holding out in the eastern city intelligence. analysts say keith may be considering a controlled pullup. russian forces have spent months trying to capture back loot, seen as a key staging ground for further advances. let's take a look now at some other stories from ukraine and around the world. authorities and ukraine have said the death toll from missile strikes ins. operation has risen to 13 rescue workers continued to pull bodies from the rubble of an apartment lock. a

russian missile hit the 5 story building in the southeastern city. before dawn on thursday, protesters in greece have released lanterns outside parliament and memory of the victims of last week's train crash. 57 people were killed when a passenger train collided head on with a freight service. on sunday, the country's prime minister curios meets talkies, released a statement asking victims families for forgiveness. more than 50000 people have marched across australia, sydney harbour bridge. to wrap up the world, pride festival crowds made the journey to celebrate the l. g. b t q. community and demand more global, a quality ah, in the german bundis league, it was a battle between the bottom dwellers. both shaka and their opponents spoke who are struggling to stay in the top flight. shall go, managed to pick up a much needed victory with some unexpected help from the other side. bo homes form

since to restart. one word swamp with 5, defeat so far, bull hm. the leagues worse defense looked 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 hadn't 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, chalka 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 break show, because 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 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 and munich got a to one away. when had stood guard to finish the day, the top of the table, defender mateo delish to put the visitors ahead in the 40th minute firing and a shot from outside the box. and eric maxime tuple looting doubled their lead after the half time re fire needed that insurance school because stood guards fun was a parade pulled, a late one back for the home side. there goes iron are in 1st place level on points was dark one, but a head uncle performance. the new formula one season is getting underway with the bahrain grand prix. and qualifying max for tappen took

pole position. the reigning world champion edge to out read bold t made sir. feel perez? by less than 2 tenths of a 2nd. it's 1st happens 21st pole position of his career 3rd place went to ferrari shout. okay. who won last year's race in bahrain? that's all the news for now. coming up next, we have shifted with a special international women's day additional domains on next by sir, thanks for watching. these places in europe are smashing all the records. stepped into a bold adventure. it's the treasure map for modern globetrotters. discover some of you will record breaking sites on june.