National People's Congress gets underway in China

We hear from NPR’s China Affairs reporter in Beijing who’s following the annual National Congress Party which started on Sunday. Many big decisions regarding party policy, economic and institutional reform will be announced over the coming week.

Also in the programme: a marine scientist and assistant professor in the US tells us about the newly-agreed UN treaty to protect the world’s oceans.

And a new romantic comedy about arranged marriages in Pakistan, by the campaigner and activist, Jemima Khan.

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.

(Picture: Mr Xi will be elected president of China and head of the armed forces. Credit: Reuters)