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Weekend: High Seas Treaty agreement reached

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High Seas Treaty agreement reached

05/03/2023 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, High Seas Treaty agreement reached

Historic agreement to protect the world's oceans approved by UN member countries.

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. Delegates cheered and applauded as the High Seas Treaty (officially titled the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement) was finally signed in New York.

Also in the programme: Another deal - the UN and Tehran reach agreement on further inspections of Iran's nuclear programme.

And an American writer and journalist tells us why it’s important to claim back Sunday for relaxation not work. In fact, he’s resolved to do absolutely nothing that day. 

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: Marine protected areas could help endangered species like the whale shark - the largest living fish - recover. Credit: Getty Images)

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