true food and there were complex relationship with animals. with the great meat debate. this week on d, w ah, this is d, w. news ally 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 lawsuits. china, as she aging paying moves,

had tightened his grip on power at the communist party congress. beijing says it wants peaceful relations with taiwan, but that its armed forces must train harder for combat. and estonians go to the polls to elect a new government. the warn ukraine is a major topic, but so too is rampant inflation. ah, a michael ok welcome. more than a 100 countries have agreed on a united nations treaty to protect the world's oceans, the landmark deal aimed to conserve marine life in bio diversity in international waters. it's seen, it's crucial to bringing 30 percent over the world land and sea, under protection. by the end of the decade. the ship has reached the shore.

applause 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. there's vast,

there on average for kilometers deep. and until yesterday there was 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, a sign 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 plastic waste, climate change, and over fishing. now it's hoped this new deal will at last start to turn the tide. china's rubber stamp parliament, the national people's congress has begun its annual meeting in beijing. outgoing premier league, and john is 2nd in command after leader shooting ping says,

china's armed forces should be more prepared for combat in the face of escalating threats from abroad. beijing shares, 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 said 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 downs 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 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 ma 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 that speak now to d, w report. 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 month. parliament sheeting 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 sol, 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 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 and paying himself. and then secondly, that we're going to be trying to take the economy forward after these years of lockdown, because the pandemic show, 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 go so used to double digit growth rates in the 1st 2 decades of this 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 as an economy. and so you don't have the spectacular growth rates that 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 some people 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 it 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, 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 it's 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 look now at some of the other stories making news around the world at this hour. a fire has broken out at a refugee camp in cox is bizarre, bangladesh, the camp houses thousands of ruins, your refugees, you fled persecution in neighboring mirror, and more in 2016 emergency services. in volunteers around the scene, hundreds of homes are believed to have been destroyed. thousands of tunisians have

taken to the streets of their capital for a 2nd day of protests, organized by powerful unions. demonstrators demanded the resignation of president, ty, site. unrest has boiled over in recent weeks, amid sorenson prices and a wave of arrest targeting opposition and media. clashes have broken out between police and protesters in athens, demonstrators through flares and other projectiles, while police fired to you get thousands were on the streets of the re capitol, voicing their anger over last week's train disaster which killed 57 people. while new aerial images have been released, showing the extent of the damage done by the russian bombardment of the eastern ukrainian city of buck mort 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 shake. he may be considering a controlled pull out. russian forces have spent months trying to capture backward, seen as a key staging ground for further advances. estonia is voting today for new government in an election dominated by the warn 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 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 order. crenan ukraine is sir 96 percent it's it's absolutely it's absolutely. it's almost sort of a 100 percent and pizza 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 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 through. 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 sport now in the german bonus lager, it was a battle between the bottom dwellers. both shaka and their opponents bottom 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 swamp with 5 defeat so far bo hm. the league's worst defense looked destined to be sent down at 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 shall cause 1st away when since 2009 t. the victory means shaka moved out of last place for the 1st time since october.

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