aspiring them with their ideas, with valley africa, watching out of the w documentary with this is dw news lie from berlin, a breakthrough on protecting the world's oceans. after a decade of discussions, more than a 100 nations agree to a treaty safeguarding marine nature environmental group say it will also help reverse bio diversity losses china's she ging paying loose and tightened his grip

on power at the communist party congress. beijing says it wants peaceful relations with taiwan, but that is armed forces much train harder for combat. and historians go to the polls to elect a new government. the war and ukraine is a major topic. but so 2 is rampant inflation. ah. warm greetings to our viewers round the world. the i'm michael oak, who more than a 100 countries have agreed on a united nation street to protect the world's oceans. the landmark deal aimed to conserve marine life and biodiversity 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 ship has reached the shore. the close and

relief. after some 15 years of talks, a deal to protect the world's high seas is finally agreed by more than a 100 countries. i can safely say that this has been the learning journey of a lifetime, so thank you very much. every what the oceans are our life support system. they provide us with food and transport routes. they regulate the climate and they offer a range of valuable raw materials. but nearly 2 thirds lie outside national boundaries, making them hard to protect. now the un high seas treaty, well, how can serve marine diversity in international waters? 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's 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. the world's oceans are under threat from stick waste, climate change, and over fishing. now with this new deal will at last start to turn the tide. earlier we spoke to robert. blaze. yeah, an ocean researcher at the stockholm university. we asked him how this treaty could actually be enforced to stop illegal fishing in international waters. well,

this is one of the tricky thing, so they're all sorts of enforcement mechanisms hard and so. 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 that work best practice 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, china is a rubber stamp parliament. the national people's congress has begun its annual

meeting and beijing outgoing premier lee kitchen is 2nd in command after leader shooting. 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 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 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 lockdown is 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 and ukraine that speak now to d. w reported clifford coon and who has covered the congress in beijing for many years and is watching a closely for us today. clifford talk to us about the significance of this mark, parliament shooting ping is expected to make some big changes. he is and add these changes. some of them are personnel, some of them are about the structure of the party. and they mark the culmination of what has been an incredible power play pretty much over the last decade, during which time he's sold to position himself. right at the center of the party and he's had to go through all these different motions to get all the factions in place so that now he is truly the supreme leader on. if i can describe, i mean i've attended 14 of these of these congresses and they really are the most

extraordinary events there. where you have 53000 people sitting there applauding in, in concert. and it's, it's really pure theater. and it is indeed a rubber stamp parliament, but it does also give us an idea of the direction things are going on. what we've learned so far, even from the opening of this, is that 1st of all, the power is being centered on nash in paying himself. and then secondly, that we're, he's going to be trying to take the economy forward after these years of lockdown because the pandemic. so they've said a 5 percent growth rate. that sounds hardly ambitious. some might even argue a sign of weakness. yeah. in some ways, because we got so used to double digit growth rates in the 1st 2 decades of the century, there were massive growth rates the highest in the world. and every year we cheer these amazing growth rates. and now the economy is clearly, 1st of all, it's maturing is an economy. and so you don't have the spectacular growth rate such you get. but also what's important, i think, is that, and i think they're,

they're putting a low growth rate there just to so they can under shoes and they can come out with a higher one at the end. because actually the indications are that the economy is growing faster than the people that are expected. one factor they mentioned is overseas and foreign factors that maybe the global economy won't recover as quickly . so if that happens, then they can always say was, it was external factors that meant the economy didn't grows fast, but it is, it is certainly a modest estimate. what other chinese leaderships plans regarding security and defense policy? well, that's one thing we saw that the defense spending at increasing by 7 percent. and when we talk about foreign factors in the economy, we also have foreign factors in terms of how to use that security position. there's a lot of tensions with the u. s. at the moment on these tensions are translating into, into all areas of, of, of defense spending, for example, in the marine area in the navy with the south china sea. and also we saw

taiwan. that was kind of a conciliatory mention of taiwan just just to references in this work report was that which was in the speech that was given. but generally in terms of defense spending, again, they're looking to to boast or defense. 7 percent is a big, it's a big number. and a lot of the neighbors in the region are going to be looking at this, you know, with a certain amount of trepidation given the china has all these regional disputes with its neighbors. so certainly painting a very robust picture of defense spending. you are a veteran of this issue many, many thanks again to d. w reporter clifford kuhn and let's take a look now at some of the other news making headlines around the world at the shower. a fire has broken out at a refugee camp in conscious bizarre bangladesh. the camp houses thousands of rowing

refugees who fled persecution in neighboring miramar. in 2016 emergency services in volunteers or on the scene, hundreds of homes, a believe have been destroyed. thousands of tunisians have taken to the streets of their capital for a 2nd day of protest organized by powerful use. demonstrators demanded the resignation of president. ty, site address is boiled over in mid swing food prices and waves of rest targeting opposition and media protestors in greece have released the lanterns outside of it 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 rocco's mid to talk is released a statement, asking victims families for forgiveness authorities in ukraine have said the death

toll from missile strikes and zap regia has risen to 13 rescue. workers continue to pull bodies from the rubble of an apartment block. a russian missile strike hid the 5 story building in the southeastern city. before dawn on thursday. well knew aerial images have been released, showing the extent of the damage done by the russian bombardment of the eastern ukrainian city of buck. mood. 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 key may be considering a controlled pull out russian forces have spent months trying to capture buck mode seen as a key staging ground for further advances. estonia is voting today for a new government in an election dominated by the war and ukraine. public support

for key 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 a 25 percent. when estonians go to the polls, they'll be doing more than choosing new members of parliament. these elections, body side where the 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 greenhorn grain is sir 96 percent it's it's absolutely it's absolutely. it's almost sort of a 100 percent and it's a 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 colors 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. so we need also is tonia 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 and we will, and if they're coming up next world stories looks at the ukranian musicians using their art to fight back against the russian invasion this plain more in our website, the dom dot com. and you can also check out our social media channels handle and you need there is asked d, w a michael oak, who in berlin for me in the team. thanks for watching with with dr. glen german with d w at any time in place.