relationship with animals. clover, i think i will live long enough to witness the factory farming. the great debate this week on d. w or ah ah, this is g w. news live 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 by diversity. watson's china's she ging paying moves to 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 historians go to the polls to elect a new government. the warn ukraine is a major topic, but so to a ramp, inflation and surging energy cost. ah, a michael ok welcome. more than a 100 countries have agreed on the united nations treaty to protect the world's oceans. the landmark deal aims to conserve marine life in 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 ship has reached the shore. the close and relief of to some 15 years of tubes. 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 u. n. high seas treaty will help conserve marine diversity in international waters. it's the largest habitat for life on earth is vast. there are 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, 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. earlier i spoke to fabi in mcclellan, managing director at the n g o ocean care about the importance of this landmark deal. this treaty will be the absolute game changer that the ocean so urgently needs. because so far it,

the high seas has been a lawless. i see bands and that has been over exploited. so now with this treaty, we have to pass way to enforce measures to better protect this wide expense. where do you see most room for improvement? in this treaty? the treaty text actually covers different element and seat range and from area based management tools such as devising marine protected areas. and this is an absolute key instrument that will deliver on the target that was set in climbing material in december, that by 203030 percent of land and oceans need to be covered. so this treaty will how to actually define and set the objectives off where

and how these marine protected areas can be set and won't get actual protection to manage measures are policing, international waters has been historically challenging. i don't need to tell you that how in very practical terms will this treaty ensure over fishing, for example, won't happen. there are different elements in the treaty that will allow to build upon, for instance, harmful activities that can have a very severe impact in areas beyond national jurisdictions. i. e, i, c s m will have to undergo environmental impact assessment. so this is one element instead activities and projects that will happen in the high seas in the future can on their come at biggest scrutiny and theses really an important element and talking about marine protected areas. these will also be

an opportunity to define exactly which activities are allowed and which activities are not allowed in marine protected areas. why did it take so long to finally reach a consensus? we have to realize that this is a legally binding instrument, so it is not a target. it is not a framework. this is legally binding upon the member states. so per se, and negotiating a treaty is really challenging. so it, he has taken 20 years, which is a very and use long time and we have last time, certainly also because of the car will be pandemic. but it's also highly political . geo politics have played into the negotiations. we have seen that in new york because they are diverse interest, diverse understanding of what equity and benefit charing means that is

a sub mcclellan managing director at the end geo ocean care. many facts. thank you very much. china's rubber stamp parliament, the national people's congress has begun its annual meeting in beijing. outgoing premier lee kitchen is who is 2nd in command after leader. she him 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 said 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 date 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 shakeup of personnel and institutions to help consolidate his power base. she is set to unveil a new premier. each young who oversaw controversial pandemic locked downs, his 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 of around 5 percent. a party plans to get more involved in private businesses. top tech type kuhns, like ali baba founder jack mar, and by dues 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. i spoke to d. w correspondent william yang in taipei earlier. and i asked him if he thinks their, china's 5 percent growth target is modest. yes, most economist described this as somewhat of a conservative as a result and eat go, that the chinese government has laid out. but most of them, oh so said that this is somewhat actually a positive signal because it shows that the chinese government is raining in their desire and also their urge to try to boost and find different ways to really trigger and push their chinese economic growth in rather focusing more on the

possibility of economic reform in giving their chinese economy more breathing room rather than using many different ways to try to maintain in focusing too much on the actual number. based on your experience covering politics, there will the threats, an aggressive rhetoric against taiwan continue we are not going to probably see too much of a change in terms of china's a rhetoric and also the approach. the only reason why or leakage homes speech somewhat take a softer tone on taiwan without mentioning the threat of military invasion is because there is a presidential election coming up in january 2024 in taiwan in. china knows that any kind of very provocative rhetoric is not going to work in its favor in the election, so they aren't likely going to refrain from any very fiery words coming into the

next few months. lots of western eyes on china right now. there is a lot of speculation that china is going to really put its weight behind russia even supplying arms well, security issues feature at this congress. so the national people's congress mostly usually focused on domestic issues in setting the agenda for the communist party, especially targeting economy, the internal politics and for this year is mostly going to focus on the recovery of the economy and also the new lineup of the top leadership and also we are probably going to see some reforms to keep government agencies and departments. many things to well william yang journalist in type pe. thank you. a look now at some the other news making headlines around the world. a fire has broken out at a refugee camp in cox's bazaar, bangladesh. it host thousands of ruins. your refugees who had fled persecution in

neighboring miramar, in 2016 cliche the blaze which is now under control destroyed thousands of homes, but no casualties have been reported. so far, police in pakistan say they've tried to arrest former prime minister in ron con at his home in law. they tweeted that they were unable to find him, but were instead met by hundreds of his supporters. con has been accused of failing to declare gifts received while in office. he has denied the chargers. newly released drone footage shows the damage from russia. is bombardment of the eastern ukrainian city of buck. mood pressure is mounting on ukrainian troops holding out their intelligence. analysts shakeelah may be considering a controlled pull out, but mood is seen as a key staging ground for further russian advances. clashes have broken out between police and protesters in athens, demonstrators through flares and other projectiles, while police fire 2 gets thousands were on the streets of the greek capital voicing

their anger over last week's train disaster, which killed 57 people. the sonya is 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 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 is tonia with financial, military and humanitarian aid support. order cranium. 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 and 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 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 we will have to end a tear, but up next is reported. looking into the links between shacks and age is more in our website at d, w dot com. and you can also check on our social media channels at t w, just the handle a mike to lookup in berlin. thanks for watching. ah, a where all that good to go.