i think i will live long enough to witness the death of factory farming. the great debate this week on d. w or ah, ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, a breakthrough on protecting the world's oceans. after a decade of discussions, over $100.00 nations agree to a treaty safeguarding marine nature environmental group. se will also help reverse bio diversity losses. also coming up, china's changing paying moves had tightened his grip on power at the communist

party congress. beijing says it wants peaceful relations with taiwan, but that his armed forces must train harder for combat. and estonians go to the polls to elect a new government. the war and ukraine is a major topic, but so to is rampant inflation. ah, annexed by sir. 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 ave, to conserve marine life and bio diversity in international waters. it's seen is crucial to the brother 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 earlier i spoke to robert blaze. jak,

an ocean researcher at stockholm 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. is vast area, on average, for kilometers deep. and until yesterday, there was 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 of the details of what this all means, but why did 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 is 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 research isn't 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 say 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 ra, mega base at the innate were over $6000.00 to day, it's less than one cent. so wanted 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 describing a real quick last question. if i may. great treaty, let's say a sounds like it. what's the enforcement mechanism? what of 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. china's rubber stamp parliament, the national people's congress has begun its annual meeting in beijing, outgoing premier lay kitchen who is 2nd in command after leader. she ging 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 spending, but at the same time it wants to promote peaceful relations with taiwan,

which it claims as its own territory on the economy. the leadership has set a 5 percent economic growth target one of the lowest in 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 dances,

party secretary of shanghai. the congress is closely watched for insights into how china plants to revive its economy. the world's 2nd biggest, which has been hard hit by locked 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 mont and by does 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, fabbing crutch, bern bed. ching, i asked him why china is only expecting 5 per cent 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 a head, for example, the ongoing real estate crisis to high youth unemployment, et cetera. but actually i am setting out a rather modest growth target is also by seen met or seen by many economists f a r s a 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 and no 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 is, 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? were mixed signals on the one hand leeker chung in his speech and had a rather subdued tone at least compared to last. yes. eat. he didn't issue or military threat. he basically are put as puts us emphasis on a quote unquote piece for reunification. but at the same time, he had talked about the, the combat readiness of the people's liberation army are also the increased military budget bay 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 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 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. s. 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 am 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. let's take a look now at some of the other news making headlines around the world. protesters in greece have released lanterns outside parliament in 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 curia was mister 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 a man more global equality authorities in ukraine say the death toll from missile strikes in separation have risen to 13. the 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. before dawn on thursday, new ariel images have been released showing the extent of the damage done by the russian bombardment of the eastern ukrainian city of ukraine. a pardon me of backward drone footage, so st. after st of destroyed homes with fire, still burning. pressure is mounting on ukrainian troops holding out in the eastern city intelligence. analysts say key may be considering a controlled pullout. russian forces have spent months trying to capture backward, seen as a key staging ground for further advances is stony as 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 it's going to 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 estonia with financial military and humanitarian aid support or a green grain is sir 96 percent it's it's absolutely it's absolutely. it's almost 100 percent and pizza thought and 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 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 from 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 they help little do much. so because, so we need also is tonia borders on russia and has a large ethnic russian minority. oh, 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, this is dw news from berlin, and here's a reminder, the top story we're following for you. more than 100 countries have signed on a united nations treaty to protect the world of ocean's landmark deal aims to

conserve marine life in bio diversity in international waters. it scene is crucial to bring in 30 percent of the world's land and sea under protection, by the end of the decade. that's all your news for now. coming up next reporter takes a look at lifelong love and sex over the age of $45.00. next by sir, thanks for watching with sometimes the big jump right out at you. out tv highlights with free week. not the not jam the has had 1111, not a single woman. the mission is to defend the 1st female.