with animals global, 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 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 of environmental group say it will also help reverse biodiversity losses. also coming up. votes are being counted in the stone,

is general election to warn you. crane is a major topic, but so 2 are rampant inflation and surging energy costs. plus china's champagne, whoops. have 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. ah, ameria 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 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 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, this vast air, on average, or 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 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 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 jessica battle a senior expert at the world wildlife fund, and i asked her about the importance of the deal. yes, it's hugely thing this. again, this is as 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. that's really interesting by the high seas that if this is an area of the planet that is true global common, it belongs to everyone that is for everyone to 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 them. 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. who this traitor will look at by the us as a whole. the look at the fish though,

we eat the planet and in the water that gives us oxygen. the coil read. and the deep sea in terms of how to collaborate and how to monitor the activities under this treaty. they do, they do not get on the life in the ocean. it has to be through collaboration and will be treat. this is a place, a conference of the policies for all government members call to, to the treaty to meet every year to talk about what they do to see what the reason of fish and management organizations who deal with fisheries on the high seas. what they do in order to protect by their recipe and to discuss the 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 a 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 by the the protection is a huge deal. so the rest of the $3.00 to $7.00 out of 10 is a good deal. ok, 7 out of 10, definitely room for improvement. you mention nearly 20 years of, of this treat has been in the making. why did it take this long? it took a long time, 1st of all, cook 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 the negotiation for the treaty that happened about 5 years ago. the plan that make this delayed it

a bit more. and then because there's some different issues under the tree, including how to share money. how do you, 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 the tracy? it took a long time to get, get the concepts. is that common agreement that this is, this is needed and this, 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. vote counting is underway in the stone is parliamentary elections. the poll will decide whether prime minister kaya collis stays in office. nearly a 3rd of the voters, including call us cast their ballots online ahead of the election on sunday. it's been dominated by the war and ukraine. public support for key is overwhelming. bond estonians are also struggling with problems closer to home. the baltic state has

one of the highest inflation rates in the european union, dw, correspond, and jennifer palka is in these stood in capital tallen and she talked as through what the main contenders are offering voters in this election. i 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 the 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 governments 8 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 strengths. 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 russians, speaking population of estonia, was expected to stay away from participating in these elections. did that happen and why? if he 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

stands 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 eta 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 roches bombardment of the eastern ukrainian city of buck. mood. pressure is mounting on ukrainian troops holding out their intelligence. analysts say key, it may be considering

a controlled pullout of mood 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 ro hang a refugees who had fled persecution and neighboring me, and mar in 2016 police 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 in run con at his home in lahore. the tweeted that they were unable to find him, but were instead met by a hundreds of his supporters. con has been accused of failing to declare gifts received while in office. he denies his charges. clashes have broken out between police and protesters in athens, demonstrators through flares and other projectiles, while police fire tear gas thousands were on the streets of the greek capital

voicing their 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 outgoing premier at lee k chung 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 called, escalating threats from abroad, aging says as cranking a 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 and decades earlier, we spoke to the w correspondent, william young and ty pay, and we asked him if he thinks that china's 5 percent growth target was modest. yes, most economist described as, as somewhat of the conservative as a result and eco,

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 the chinese economic growth. and 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 and focusing too much on the actual number to litters florence now and reigning formula when champion max best op and cruise to victory in the 1st race of the season, the barring ground. pre. the red bull driver never lost the lead and crossed the finish line ahead of t made sergio perez and ashton martin's fernando alonso. this is his 1st ever victory in bahrain. ah max for stop in open the formula one season in paul position,

and he had no problem staying ahead of the pack. behind him, his red bullet, teammates said, go, pet is jostled with shout laclare, but soon the latter's ferrari broke down. oh whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. that set up a one to finish. 4 red bull with fish. stop in and pet is getting their campaign off to a great start. yeah, very lovely. that's really good results there via good re space for through it up to thank you guys as well as the 1st time for shopping as one in bob rain. it's also his 1st try. i'm been a formula one opener very, very good. first thing where i basically made my gap and from there once was all about just looking out for the highest because you never really know what's going to happen later on in the race. so we just wanted to make sure that we had the

right tires and a good condition as well. so yeah, was very happy to to find it here. so when here has already been going back to last season, 1st job and has won 5 out of 6 races and is now made a powerful statement as he starts his quest to defend his title. you're up to date on d, w. news. stay tuned for sports life on the st. lawrence olympics bopper. i'm a married evans team from me as the entire news team here in berlin. thanks for watching. a journey is full of surprises. we've gone all out. use them one day in the course of the race.