Nations agree first ever treaty to protect world's oceans

After more than a decade of negotiations, the countries of the United Nations have agreed the first ever treaty to protect the world's oceans that lie outside national boundaries. Environmental groups say it will help reverse marine biodiversity losses and ensure sustainable development.

Also in the programme: we go to China where the annual National Congress Party is underway, setting the political agenda for the coming years.

And we hear from the Pacific nation of Vanuatu, where an earthquake and two cyclones have caused widespread damage and flooding across the country.

Krupa Padhy is joined in the studio by Yu Jie, senior research fellow on China at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, commonly known as Chatham House, and Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, an Iraqi journalist who reports on the Middle East for the Guardian newspaper.

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