adrienne brown, al jazeera, beijing. >> go to our website.ind not only the main stories there about syria and the beginning of the conflict there but background for our correspondent. adrienne brown, for example, his thoughts on what's happening in china. aljazeera.com. >> for more than a decade, the world has witnessed seemingly endless violence in afghanistan. many tell me the daily reports of the attacks, and the daily killings have ceased to hold much meaning. but for those living in this land, torn apart by war, there's no more important of a time than now. after years of trying to drive back the taliban, most of the

a a at the annual session of china's parliament in beijing, adrienne brown has more details. >> in thepulent setting of the golden hall of the great hall of the people another sober assessment of china's economy by the man who runs it. premier lee set a target of 7% growth, the lowest in a quarter of a century but now he says even meeting that will be difficult. we estimate a growth race of 7%. >> is much slower compared with the years before but, in fact it will be by no meansize. >> the prime minister also had another target in mind: the government's own by accurates n blunt language he said reforms to reduce the state's role in some of china's biggest industries will be painful. >> this is like taking a knife to one's own flesh. pain is only natural. however painful it might be we are determined to keep going until our job is done. >> the job of china's national people's con congress has been done for another year. at the finale of his tightly controlled gathering, the 3,000 hand-picked delegates approved the plans. >> it's rare for journalists to be given access to the inner sanktu

adrienne brown, al jazeera, shanghai. >> in hong kong, three people have been arrested at an anti-mainlandstration. >>> police used pepper spray to disperse crowds protesting against shoppers from mainland china. they say local residents are encouraging mainland's business to come and shop there. residents of the suburban district claim chinese buyers are distorting the local economy. for the third time in just over a week astronauts at the international space station carried out a space walk to en stall new docking ports. the tricky job involves more than 200 meters of cable and other equipment. the docking port is being flown up to the or bitting space lab later this year. now, affirmative can be comical, political andsells for thousands of dollars, the anonymous british artist known as banksy uses sentence ills and a can of spray paint. he turned attention to the streets and walls of gaza. a report. or or. >> the war left parts of gaza in ruins. much of it still needs rebuilding. both of these themes are explored by graffiti artists, banksy in his latest work in gaza. >> a young foreign