and the rest o find out about bailey's story. info, migraines, reliable news for migrant. wherever they may be. ah, ah ah, this is dw 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 biodiversity losses. also coming up votes are being counted in estonia,

general election. the war crane is a major topic, but so 2 are rampant inflation. and the surging energy cost plus china's shipping moves to tightened his grip on power at the communist party congress. beijing says it was peaceful relations with taiwan vod that its armed forces must train harder for combat ah a marion evans dean, welcome. more than $100.00 countries have agreed on a united nations treaty to protect the world's oceans. the landmark deal aims 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 of to 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 where 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 it on average, or 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. i spoke a short time ago to jessica battle a senior expert, the world wildlife fund. and i asked her about the importance of the deal. yes,

it's hugely thing this again, this is, there is a introduction said a multilateral deal between many countries that, between countries that have coastlines come to the have industries that traverse and use the high seas. that but it was a landlord countries, countries far away, but really interesting about the high seas. that is, this is an area of the plan is that is true global common. it belongs to everyone, but everyone responsibility to make sure that we do not deplete the resources that they can provide for us into the future. so it's a huge deal to get this collaboration done. well that said, we do have to remember that policing international waters is very challenging and has been almost impossible to guarantee in the past. so how can this treaty ensure that let's say something like, over fishing is prevented. so this tracy will look and by the us as

a whole, look at the fish that we eat, the plant and in the water that gives us oxygen, the coil raise and the deep sea in terms of how to collaborate and how to monitor the activities under the treaty that they didn't know because they own the life in the ocean, it has to be through collaboration and what they treat this as is the place a conference of the coffee for all government members or to, to the treaty to meet every year, to talk about what they do to see what the regional fisher management organization who deals with fisheries on the high see what they do in order to protect and to discuss this more needed. if they haven't done enough, would you like to have seen something more added to this treaty? could you have seen some improvement to it? they could have been improvements to the treaty 20 years ago when we decided that this was needed. and then, you know,

it's taken 20 to get where we are today. we were hoping for stronger measures. but regarding what state, what issues are included in this treat the text to get the north and the south degree on money and to get fishing nation agree with those are more interested in both of us to protection is a huge deal. so if the street is 7 out of 10 is a good deal. okay, 7 out of 10, definitely room for improvement. you mention nearly 20 years of this treaty has been in the making. why did it take this long? it took a long time, 1st of all, cooked to convince global community of states meeting in new york under the discussion that was set up 1520 years ago to, to come to, to the point where they wanted to go see. but they agreed that actually they were going to set up and they go station for the tracy that happened about 5 years ago.

the time that make this delayed is a bit more. and then because this different issues under this tracy, including how to share money, how to, how do you share money between the rich and those who have left and how to make sure that all activities on the high seas are included in this tracy? it took a long time to get, get the consensus that coleman agreement, the business this is needed and the, all of this needs to be part of the treaty. that was jessica battle senior global ocean governance and policy expert at the w w f. thank you. so much will vote counting is underway in a stony as parliamentary election. the poll will decide whether prime minister kaya collis stays in office, nearly a 3rd of the voters, including collis cast, their ballots online. ahead of the election on sunday. it's been dominated by the board and ukraine. public support for key of is overwhelming bod estonians are also struggling with problems closer to home. the baltic state has one of the highest

inflation rates in the european union, dw correspondent and of her palka is in the stony and capital tallen. and she talked as through what the main contenders are offering voters in this election. hi, a callous, the prime minister is very, very much set on eating ukraine. but the far right opposition party eta, is against it. is stillia is a country that borders on russian in the east and is also part of nato. while talking to some people's here in estonia and talent on the street, the majority of them supported the government's aid of ukraine. but some actually said that they would prefer the government to turn to internal struggles like the very high inflation rate. and this is exactly the issue that the far right, a position party acura, used to gather much support in the country and much strength. so she, it became the 2nd strongest party right now. an exit stand on estonia on on ukraine is actually that they don't want to send any weapons to ukraine and also kept the

number of ukrainian migrants and refugees here in estonia. all right, so very different position among the opposition far right party. now jennifer, we know that polls have already closed, but we did hear reports that the russian speaking population of estonia was expected to stay away from participating in these elections. did that happen and why? if you did exactly that is what was supposed to happen. and we don't, we're not really sure if it happened, but about a quarter of estonia, us population, our russian speakers and i had of the election, 35 percent of them weren't really sure. if they would vote in these elections or not. and there are a couple of reasons for that. the 1st of reason was that many of the russian speakers here in estonia had very strong ties to russia still, and also to russian culture. and the current estonian government's response and

stance towards russia. pains them very much. the 2nd reason is that recently soviet era, monuments where we moved here in estonia and that heard a lot of russian speaking people and also sparked fear that they would lose their identity here in estonia. but the last reason would be that almost all parties here in estonia, except for the far right opposition party editor support. the government stands on russia and then would leave the russian speaking minority with almost no other possibility than not to vote at all. jennifer, thank you. for that, that was due to lee correspond, and jennifer palka in tallen. we appreciate it. let's get a check now of some of the other stories making news around the world. newly released drone footage shows the damage from rush has been barb mint of the eastern ukrainian city of buck. mood pressure is mounting on ukrainian troops holding out their intelligence. analysts say key if may be considering

a controlled pullout bus route as seen as a key staging ground for further russian advances. a fire has left at least 12000 people homeless at a refugee camp in the bangladesh border district of cox's bazaar. it host, ringo refugees, had fled persecution and neighboring me in march. back in 2016. please say the blaze which is now under control, destroyed 2000 shelters. but no casualties have been reported so far. police and pakistan say they've tried to arrest former prime minister him run con at his home in lahore. 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 for his part he denies the charges. clashes have broken out between police and protesters in athens, demonstrators through flares and other projectiles, while police fired tear gas. thousands were on the streets of the greek capital

voicing anger over last week's train disaster which killed 57 people, china's rubber stamp parliament, the national people's congress has begun its annual meeting in beijing on going premier lee cates sean, who is 2nd in command after leadership ping says that china's armed forces should be more prepared for combat in the face of what he described as escalating threats from abroad. beijing says it's cranking of 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, china's 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 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 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 d. w a correspondent william young in taipei and we asked him if he thinks that china's 5 percent growth target was modest. yes, most economist described this as somewhat of a conservative as a result and a go that the chinese government has laid out. but most of them also 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 you're up to date on d. w. news. stay tuned for a documentary on israel's massage intelligence agency. i'm mary and i haven't seen from the and the entire news team in berlin. thanks for watching. jeremy has had 1111 north single woman, the gender gap in space exploration. germany's 1st female astronaut has been waiting for years to get her turn. the private initiative is pushing to make it happen.