and living conditions in their country and inspiring with their ideas. valley africa, watching a documentary 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 patients agreed to a treaty safeguarding marine nature environmental groups say it will also help reverse biodiversity losses. also coming up votes are being counted in estonia,

general election. the warranty crane is a major topic, but so 2 are ramping inflation and surging energy cost plus china. she, she think moves to tightened his grip on power at the communist party congress. beijing says it was peaceful relations with taiwan to bunk beds. 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 is seen as crucial to bringing 30 percent of the world's land and sea under protection. by the end of a 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, this vast air, 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. earlier i voted jessica battle a senior expert of the world wildlife fund. and i asked her about the importance of steel. so this traitor will look and buy the rest of it as a whole. look at the fish though,

we eat the planted can in the water that gives us oxygen. the coil read. and the deep sea in terms of, of how to collaborate and how to monitor the activities under the treaty that they do not impact negativity on the life in the ocean. it has to be through collaboration and will be treat. this is the place a conference of the causes for all government members to, to the treaty, to meet every year, to talk about what they do to see what the reason efficient management organization could deal with fisheries on the high seas. what they do in order to protect by the city and to discuss the more needed if they haven't done in the counting is underway in estonia, parliamentary election. the poll will decide whether prime minister kind of call it stays in office. nearly a 3rd of the voters including college cast, their ballots online ahead of the election on sunday. it's been dominated by the war and ukraine. public support for key of is overwhelming,

but if don't answer also struggling with problems closer to home. the baltic fate has one of the highest inflation rates in the european union. was bring ended up w, correspond to jennifer paula, who joins us now from the estonian capital tollen. hello to you, jennifer. so do we know at this stage, who is most likely to become is tony is next prime minister this year's voters turn out is the highest in estonia, election history. almost sixty's, 33 percent have cast their vote. and so far the far right party echo is leading the elections with almost 27 percent followed by kaya cal as liberal reform party. and in 3rd place as the central conservative traditional party of estonia. but so far, only around 30 percent of all votes have been counted, and most of them have been paper votes. paper votes in estonia, tend to normally go to the more conservative parties. later tonight,

the votes will be counted, and e votes in estonia will go to more liberal parties or that's expected. they are expected to go to more liberal parties. and political analysts still predict that chi, a callous and her reform party will win in these elections. interesting, so a few different factors and still seems early a too early to really call the vote. now jennifer, we know that there is a significant russian speaking minority in estonia. what impact are they expected to have on the outcome of the vote? well, they're about 25 percent of russian speakers in estonia. and normally there are 2 parties that they would work for in elections. there is a russian party in estonia, but they didn't even reach the 5 percent mark and will not make it into parliament . but what is interesting this year is that the center party, as i said before, is in 3rd place. and the russian speaking minority tends to vote for the center

party as well. and this has impacted the election by putting them into 3rd place. that was it dw correspondent jennifer polco, reporting from the student capital tollen. jennifer, thank you so much for that update. all right, let's turn our attention now to some of the other stories making news around the world. newly released drone footage shows a damage from russia's bombardment of the eastern ukrainian city abutment. pressure has been mounting on the ukrainian troops who are still holding out their intelligence. analysts say key of may be considering a controlled pullout, but mood is seen as a key staging ground for further russian advances. you as president joe biden has arrived in alabama to mark the anniversary of bloody sunday. the day in

1965, when white police attacked black protesters marching for voting rights. the protest in the town of selma led to the passage of landmark legislation, biden. we'll later join thousands of people paying tribute to the protesters. police in pakistan and say they've tried to arrest former prime minister in ron con at his home. in the horror they tweeted that they were unable to find him, but were instead meant by hundreds of his supporters. con has been accused of failing to declare gifts received a while in office. he has denied those charges. clashes have broken out between police and protesters in athens, demonstrators through flares and other projectiles, while police fire tear gas. thousands of people were on the streets of the great capital voicing their anger over last week's train disaster, which killed 57 people. well,

china's rubber stamp parliament, the national people's congress, has begun its annual meeting in beijing outgoing premier lee k chan, who is 2nd in command after leader. she sham ping says that china's armed forces should be more prepared for combat in the face of what he called, escalating threats from abroad. beijing says it's 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, china's leadership has set a 5 percent economic growth target one of the lowest in decades. well, earlier we spoke to dw 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 this as somewhat of a conservative as a result and eco, 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 in oh, so they are urged to try to boost and find different ways to really trigger and push the chinese economic growth and rider 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. a fire has left at least 12000 people homeless at a refugee camp in the bangladesh border district of cox's bazaar. it host members of the ro hang on minority who had fled persecution and neighboring meehan mar. back in 2016 police say the blaze destroyed at least 2000 shelters. for 3 hours, a massive fire burned through a section of crew took along the world's largest refugee settlement by the time

firefighters and volunteers were able to put it out. the blaze to destroyed around 2000 shelters, as well as dozens of mosques and schools. the camps here are home to most of the nearly 1000000 rowena refugees and bangladesh. with shelters made of canvas and bamboo, crowded next to each other. the settlement has suffered hundreds of fires in recent years. i was talking over to you. i had taken my mother to see the doctor. when i came back, everything was on file. we couldn't save any of our belongings. yeah, now i have 7 children. when the fire broke out, i couldn't find them when i went to search for them, but i couldn't find them all here. i thought i might look up when i returned home. all my things were burned to my load and i have nothing left. i'm with

the rowena are mostly muslim minority who fled a brutal crack down in myanmar that began in 2016 attempts to send them back. have failed. after meeting fierce resistance un agencies have called man mars persecution of the rowena genocide and ethnic cleansing. while staying in the refugee camps may be safer than returning to myanmar, it's still full of risks. and not just from fires. days ago, a funding shortfall forced the world food program to reduce aid to the romania refugees who were already at risk of malnutrition. a devastating blow, especially for the estimated 12000 people who lost their homes in the fire. right, a change of pace now and 2 motor sports reigning formula, one champion, max 1st stop in cruise to victory in the 1st race of the season. the barring bronze

pre, the red bill driver never lost the lead and crossed the finish line ahead of his teammates, sergio perez and ashton martin's fernando alonso. this is his 1st ever victory lorraine. 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 bull teammates sat go, pet is jostled with charlotte, claire, but soon the latter's ferrari broke down. oh whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, no power that set up a one to finish 4 red bull with fish stop and an pet is getting their campaign off to a great start. yeah, very lovely, that's really good results. they have a great space for through it up to thank you guys as well as the 1st time for shopping as wanting bob rain. it's also his 1st try. i'm in

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 tires because you never really know what's gonna 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, are happy to, to find any also when here in the, in bahrain 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 watching the w news coming to you from berlin. before we go, a quick reminder of the top stories were falling for you. 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 lands and sea under protection. by the end of

the decade. china's rubber stand parliament, the national people's congress has begun its annual meeting invasion, outgoing premier lay katiano, who is 2nd in command after leadership. team ping says china has armed forces should be more prepared for combat in the face of escalating threats from abroad. and here up to date on the w news, a marion, i haven't seen for me and the entire news team in berlin. thanks for the company. at these places in europe are smashing the records into a bold adventure. the treasure map for modern globetrotters discover some of you will record breaking sites.