they must sit till they are given the all clear patrons are determined not to let this roy a much needed outing when the show finally begins. it promises to transport the audience within minutes though another side of the spell may temporarily be broken . but the spirit of defiance very much remains. ah, scientific breakthrough in the us that could transform our fight against climate change. ah, i've had them speaker this is al jazeera alive from da, also coming up devastation in the congolese capital, massive floods of destroyed roads, and killed nearly 200 people. the former head of crypto currency firm f, t. x is denied bail in the bahamas. as the u. s. falls

a long list of criminal charges against him. into the final, leonor massey inspires argentina, pos, croatia to put their place. cutter 2022 woke up one. ah. a scientist in the u. s. have announced a major breakthrough in the quest to harness energy, the powers, the sun and stars. for years, researches have been trying to figure out ways to make nuclear fusion. commercially viable advocates a if the technology is perfected, it could provide limitless clean energy. calling. baker explains how it works. nuclear fusion is joining adams together at high speeds. it's what happens in the sun, and it releases huge amounts of energy. scientists have wanted to replicate that process since the dawn of the nuclear age. unlike vision,

power fusion does not dump dangerous radioactive material into the environment, and it doesn't produce carbon emissions. it does need extreme conditions, very hot, very pressurized, and it's difficult to sustain. however, it cannot cause a chain reaction. if the process fails, it simply shuts down. as well as the u. s. france, china and the u. k. all have invested billions of dollars into this research, but they're still decades away from delivering a system that works. many experiments use a machine called a talk mac, which looks like a donor, and use as powerful magnets to contain the reaction. another uses a modified canon to smash 2 targets together. in california, scientists have fired a powerful laser. the size of a building at a ball of hydrogen isotopes, smaller than a p, the p implodes, fusing to make new elements. and the force that was holding them together is released as energy that can be captured and converted to electricity. we've been

hearing announcements about fusion for years, but this time scientists say they have generated more energy than they used in the process. which could be good news for the planet. on december, 5th, 2022 at $1.00 oh, $3.00 a. m. humans for the 1st time, created a star. it was a tiny one contained within a cylinder, smaller than a water bottle, in only burned for a 100 trillions of a 2nd. but the achievement by scientists at the u. s. government funded national ignition facility at the livermore laboratory in california was indeed astronomical . it's the 1st time it has ever been done in a laboratory anywhere in the world. simply put, this is one of the most impressive scientific feats of the 21st century. technically what the scientists did was achieve nuclear fusion ignition they

trained 192 of the world's biggest and most powerful lasers housed within a complex the size of 2 football fields at a pebble sized capsule of hydrogen fuel the fusion fuel stayed hot enough dense enough and round enough for long enough that it ignited, and it produced more energy than the lasers had deposited. this blip of a star made only enough energy to light up a 60 watt light bulb for about 7 hours. the scientists say this was proof of what's possible about one century ago is when humans figured out, fusion is what powers of the sun. then about 60 years ago, a group of very ambitious scientists said, hey, let's try to replicate that fusion within a lab. well, after many fits and starts, they were finally successful. and now the next ambitious goal endorsed by the u. s

. department of energy is to scale up from that one successful experiment into a technology that could power electric plant. there are a very significant hurdles, not just in the science, but in technology. this is one igniting capsule one time. and to realize commercial fusion energy, you have to do many things. you have to be able to produce many, many fusion ignition events per minute. and you have to have a robust system of drivers to enable that. it will take several decades to advance the laser technology to that level, but elsewhere but including in massachusetts and the u. k. separate efforts using magnetic fields to achieve nuclear ignition are closer to commercial development. president biden wants to see that happen within 10 years. without a doubt, it will be a monumental undertaking. however,

the potential benefits are enormous. clean carbon free abundance. the liable energy capable of meeting the world's energy demands more immediately the fusion development will help the u. s. maintain it's nuclear weapons without testing explosions. according to government, scientists, the implications are many and cause for both concern and hope in what scientists call a potential milestone for humanity. heidi joe castro al jazeera washington, alessandro ne to people have been killed in flooding in kinshasa, the capital of the democratic republic of congo. there been land slides across the city of 15000000 destroying homes and roads. alex barrett has more. the backbone of the democratic republic of congo highway system, the in one cut into the heavy rains across the capital kinshasa have submerged entire neighborhoods. it's being described as some of the worst flooding to ever

hit the city. a landslide slammed into this home in the cities bins, a del vo, district, 9 members of the same family, were killed up at delicately to la mcguckie, very against the number like you. we went back to the house to sleep. since we were soaked and cold, we went back to bed and just after the war collapse and the children and the parents, then a neighbor who was passing by with an offender hard to bear. i have no strength to bury the dead bodies. poor regulation and reparative in isolation have made kinshasa increasingly vulnerable to flash floods, which have become more frequent due to climate change. many homes have been poorly built on flood prone slopes, and the city suffers from inadequate drainage and storage overlap by point level more. nathan, one on both. and i'm, i've been a widow since 2015, and now my house is gone with the rain and i can't find one of my children. i don't know where he is in. i'm a poor woman who is managing,

but i don't know where to go. i've lost almost everything, even my card, and i see that the prime minister and the provincial governor have been visiting fled, had areas around the city. they hope to reopen the key in one highway and next 4 days. but until it's repaired, the capital, the main supply route is cut off. nothing much. everyone passes in the trade and now we will suffer more entries of goods. so even the fuel will not be able to arrive and can shop. in 2019 dozens of people were killed and similar flooding across kinshasa and as heavy rains become more frequent, many in the city of 15000000 lives wondering when this will happen. once again, alex bid al jazeera a court in the bahamas has denied bail to the former f t. x chief executive sam bank, min freed, he'll be kept in detention until february after they declared him a flight risk. banquet fried was arrested on monday in the bahamas and faces

several fraud charges in the u. s. they include using company funds as his personal piggyback. gabriel is under reports for new york. easy will will. he was the face of crypto currency sam bank, min fried a 30 year old rising business star, who became so famous as he was known simply as s p f. viewing his start, him was f t x, the wealthy crypto trading firm he founded. but last month that firm came crashing down. and on tuesday was the federal court new york, when he charged bank, min fried with 8 counts, including fraud and money laundering. hours after more charges were filed from the securities and exchange commission. he prayed on his customers, the victims of this case, abusing the trust, placed not only in his company, but in himself as the lead of that company. on monday he was arrested in the bahamas where he'd been living,

he's expected to be extradited to the us. just weeks earlier, f t x filed for bankruptcy with millions of his customers, unable to access their money, 50 extra as a place where millions of people invested in crypto currency from bitcoin therion, which own going called f t t as speak just last year, f t x is worth more than $32000000000.00, making it the world's a 3rd largest crypto exchange. but bakeman freed also owned another company, alameda research, a trading hedge fund. it's alleged that he secretly funneled money from f t x to help prop up alameda and also support his lavish lifestyle. even in the notoriously volatile crypto currency industry experts say f t x. his fall is remarkable. one of the sheer size of it that we're talking about potentially upwards of $10000000000.00 worth of client assets that were lost. next is the brand

and reputation of f t x. because this is a company that had really gone out of its way to make an question among mainstream audiences, with things like celebrity endorsements and stadium naming rights. those celebrity endorsement even included in advertisement during the superbowl. a feature that actor comedian larry david. i don't think so. i'm turns out he was right to be skeptical. gabriel, who sancho jazz. eda new york, got a us president joe biden is trying to take on the growing chinese and russian influence in africa. he's invited dozens of african leaders to washington for 3 day summit. it's the biggest international gathering in the u. s. capital. since the start of the code, 900 pandemic of buttons also expected to use the event to announce american support for the african union becoming

a permanent member of the g 20 or i still ahead on the edge of the state of emergency declared on peruse highways over continued protest following the ousting pedro castillo. ah, anticipation is rising. and so was the atmosphere. you read the width of my cattle a ways. the station winter's coming really suddenly, really harshly the temperature's got 10 degrees below. no, for most of china by 5 degrees below in hong kong, whether cold winds accompanied by cloud and rain, the rain in the north, a taiwanese record breaking for the year. we might even beat the station record of it keeps reading like this, but those are the more obvious and particularly for japan, this is snow shall develop because the cold air comes over the open water hits the western slopes of all the mountains in homes you and hawkeye and keeps falling snow

. the avalanche risk is increasingly high resulting keeps going for another 2 days behind it. the sun is the main thing, but it's still, as already mentioned, sadie cold, we dropped south and find out where the ne monsoon tends to fade out. intense, generate big shouts here too, for singapore, while lumper and sumatra live particularly wet fast of the philippines also, particularly otherwise it's wet season anyway. and this rain is unusually finals. imagine us even good. you're right. what came in as a tropical cycle in shanna few days ago, we're look what's happening on the other side of it. the wind gap in the indian ocean, we might find the chopped co sign. it's not obvious, it will do that yet, but it is a little little odd and certainly our season to, with sponsored by categories ahh

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people have been killed by flooding in kinshasa capital of the democratic republic of congo. a main road collapsed during the heavy rains on tuesday images shad online showed in time neighborhoods flooded by muddy water and roads ripped upon argentina booked their place in the world cup final with a crushing victory overcoat. a ship. it was no match. raj and tina and the semi final sail stadium and copper on tuesday. using 3 new leonor messy opening the scoring from the penalties book. a voting is on the way in fiji, in an election contest between 2 former qu, leaders that's being seen as a test of the country. democracy. prime minister, frank bane, a mariama sees power and a 2006 qu, but has gone on to when to elections his rival city veiny rebushka is a prime minister who led to cooper in 1987. the district media blackout in

accordance with fiji and election was well, let's talk about this more will with william vodka tongue. he is a ph. d scholar and politics and international relations at the university of adelaide. he joins us now from adelaide. thanks so much for being with us. so 1st of what is it, stay here for fiji and as they go to the polls. so it is now the 3rd election cycle since 2013 constitution. and what is at stake is whether they still want ah, 4 more years of the previous 8 under our frank ben mariama. so the, well, what does take you here is whether they they, they want him to continue again, or they want something they want to change or what are the main issues facing air, the country on, on election day then up, there are several issues,

but i'll point out for one is definitely the storing cost of living. um there, the issue that was the war in the ukraine has had an impact. but before the, the, the, the, the war in the ukraine. fiji was already going through our economic difficulties and it hasn't hoped i haven't gone through the pandemic. another issue is dietary deteriorating infrastructure. i'm looking around are there's the aging infrastructure and, and the lack of service delivery or the government. i struggle with that. i also got a question, is the bungled a coven? 19 response. and also the issue with the university of south pacific, where there has been political interference and fiji always the university are $80000000.00 for fijian dollars. and this has an impact on the university as a,

as original tush education. and this is a country, and that has seen 4 coups in 35 years. and as we said at the top there, in fact, the 2 candidates are former cool leaders themselves. so is this also going to be a test of fiji is a democracy and the fear of a return to instability? well deemed a fiji has so as had a, you know, since the 2013 constitution which is relatively new. and there has been challenges in adjusting to this new constitution. and if we looked through features history, um having, you know, if he, if we consider the constitution as a supreme law of the land, we were constantly changing it. and so stability itself has been problematic because of the, of, of the constitution. so what's happening at the moment, is rum booker is? is it you can say in a way he is trying to correct um, you know,

the glow his or his past in terms of his, his being prime minister. ah, and on the other side, you have for my name, a rama who's saying that ron booker is still the same person who let the nationalists of 87. and he has used that as e. 88, a tactic armed up perhaps to motivate fear in the electorate arm. but i think this time round up, you'll see that more people are, are concerned with economics. and rather than that, she'll get to get your perspective on this sir william wong of aka tongue. a thanks for much of the was approved, defense minister has declared a state of emergency on highways. it is to stop blockade set up by protest as angry about the ousting of the former president. they want pedro castillo freed from jail . he's accused of an attempted coo and was arrested last week,

and choose their court rejected. castillo appealed to end his detention. at least 7 people, including teenagers, had been killed in protest. new president deena by the water, has announced plans for elections 2 years early at the court hearing on tuesday, pedro castillo thanked his supporters and vowed to return to power me a base. i want to say that i am unjustly an arbitrarily detained. i am not a thief, a ripest corrupt or a slug. but i would also like to address the country to tell them that i am totally grateful for their trust and their effort and their struggle and their support. i will never give up, nor will i abandon this popular cause that has brought me here. a court in france has jailed 8 people for their roles in the attack in the southern

city of niece. in 201686 people were killed and hundreds injured. when a truck drove through crowds celebrating frances national holiday, the attack was later claimed by iso, the highest profile defendants receive sentences between 10 to 12 and 18 years for helping the man who drove the truck. he was shot dead by police at the scene. the odyssey have booked their spots in the fif well cup final lino messy, led his country to an inspiring 3. now semi final victory is ro patrick, in our cutter waterfront studio with more. we have our 1st catch 2022 finalists argentina, the south american side, east pass code ship to book vet tickets to the well comp show pace. will argentine awarded a penalty in the minutes when julian alvarez was brought down, little messy scoring from the spot or the cake got back to tough with

laura with 11. what was the man responsible for doubling for a minute later, the credit bureaus like a sorry skill and a bit of luck to get past almost single handedly in the middle of the 2nd half message. so his role in providing the 5th at the school again. bessie, the creator of tina made reno end. alright, you hope it is august, dina, who are through to the 6. well cut fido very will get that chance to redeem themselves for the fight. a lot in 2014, when i woke up to the matter, don't seem back in north united states, so delight for matthew and his teammates will be back at the stadium on sunday, before the box and simeon founds have been cheering on the team at this. well, come with them at the style stadium is our own audi. richardson. this stadium is

pretty much seen everything when it comes that all his pain or rather their adventure the well. aaron cats are here. i'm going to sail fighting where they thought it'd be leaving to get saudi arabian wrote me that about them recovering game against mexico. again, that's all up and running. they sneak through here in the quarter finals and apparently she's out against the netherlands, but really now comprehensive counseling criteria, whatever you want witness. tonight, i think rule the in the emotions surrounding the shoots of title around the children have been contributing massively as an individual eagle team going from the penalties and then really one of his young team i, judy and alvarez strike the 2nd goal. pretty incredible. think of all along the way through the creation defense series, unfortunate ricocheted and pub scale. that made it to nail and then met. he set him up for the goal in the 2nd half to just finish off the school or may not show up

until tonight's game. it really didn't seem going to lose much into the well company felt the final more years ago through a series a shootout. when an extra time victory, a similar process had been emerging and saw once that power was different coverage . just about my open notes tonight, little mentally actually. yes, and other record here it's recorded. welcome. calling the $25.00 matching step. i like to germinate on sunday back here the sale. he will break that record in the welcome final or let's go more on the semi follow with one of our gallon home. i guess i want everyone talking about the similarities with messy ad mero, donna, to tina losing that 1st batch in 1990 before going on to lose the final can messy go one better. absolutely. messy can. i mean if you want to start comparing the 199222 side to 22 sides. much stronger. messy is healthy. married on his ankle look

like get a golf ball sticking out of it in. and he still was able to play that world cup despite it a stronger loan coming about donna than den messy is now. yeah. but a lot more injured that, that, that, that, that is, that is another thing to, to point out. but this site looks stronger this site looks like it's in better form than that. argentina site that struggled, that had to go through to personally kick. not knowing really remember that that harvest heart stopping, shoot out against yugoslavia as well, or better done a mrs. append leak as well. so again, you start seeing similarities, but you also see a lot of differences in terms of form in terms of how these 2 teams got there. yeah, i show this was the best version of christ that we saw tonight. that was it, not really when the game started, you felt like, you know, it was pound for pound in boxes at times, but once they conceded the penalty, then we started to see a very timid crow us aside. and then the virus goal, just kind of, you know, sealed it for them. we thought they'll come back in the 2nd half and sort of maybe pull one back and then get back into the game. but i didn't know they were

absolutely incredible. they out played croatia tonight and they'll be, you know, celebrating that victory for at least the next 24 hours would be guaranteed a great celebration, a great sort of saving not stayed on sunday with the continuum fact cuz i've been great at this tournament and just to have yeah, absolutely. i mean when you look at how they, you know, help the team and just get them going. they keep doing this hadn't just which way yet to establish whatever mens but yeah, i mean it's incredible to just see them enjoy themselves and distort them and, and give you know, i didn't tina so much energy that they actually needed most spats of the game. i could go thank you very much as ever a great stuff. so who will face out and tina in the final will that will be decided on wednesday when morocco meet france, the moroccans already beaten some big teams here in cat. are they knocked out spain and that is taught to call, as well as beating belgium in the group stages, morocco's progress to the semi finals, making them the 1st african side to reach the last 4 at

a fee for well cut france of course, looking to retain their well title, the writing champions have been well let's be honest. pretty impressive. so far they be england in the quarter finals. yep. address, ha ha. as from the rule, they have no luck at this level. if a team can be belgian and eliminate spain and portugal, it means they have a lot of quality of, certainly off the pitch in terms the cohesion and team spirit. they will be formidable opponent. and me as a, as a little boy, i could have never, ever dreamt of something like this. and i know every single player wants to play every does not want. what we're playing well doesn't want to play football. and of course, sit in on the bench is not nice for him. but if you see what we have created as a team, you can see that no one really cares. as long as long as the job is done at the end of the day. or the morocco stars has been de goalkeeper yes. in bo, newer and he's inspiring young players to follow. in his footsteps,

nicholas hoc went to meet some of them in his hometown of casablanca. ah, in casablanca, as old medina, 17 year old, sad b to dine is unstoppable. why and ready to step into yassin. bluenose boots, you know, the goalkeeper is the heart of the gym. when you have this mentality of winning, when you dont cheer the, the opponent, then you will play euro. your best football. you know, football is not the morocco goalkeeper has notched up a record number of saves and conceded only one golden cutter, nicknamed spider man, bonnet, seems to have woven in unpalatable web between the posts. he grew up in a popular neighbourhood of casablanca. i'm me lucky. voltaire's racing of it's a miracle we used to play he on the streets and now he's playing against macy ronald. are all these plays. we could only dream of playing with and video games.

vic. wow. the atlas lines have beaten some of the best teams in the world to make it to the semi findings. millions of people around the world celebrated the success of this arab team from africa, playing in a world cup stage for the 1st time in the middle east. the difference between nations are now getting, you know, small and smaller. let's take that case of morocco, the place i'm planning, the biggest team in the word. so yes, the shark is morocco under pleasant. a huge background. and they have made me more that emanation than the other because they want to push their country in the, in the top and to, to write history. go know they chance this is what the moroccan coach has as supporters to do. they know i want to become strikers or forwards. they want to become goal capers. this is what

morocco's strength is. it's defense and they hope that the goalkeeper, yes, in bono of the national team will be able to stop frans on its tracks and push morocco forward in this world cup. the goal keeper is no longer the unsung hero of the team. he is the one who saves the game. the last man standing too often overlooked for thanks to bono, not any more nicholas hunk, al jazeera, casablanca sar, camerac our cause one more upset and made argentina in the farther. we'll find out later on wednesday. and our team will have it all covered right here on our 0. ah. all right, let's get a round up now of our top stories here on edge 0. scientists in the u. s. have announced a major breakthrough in the quest to harness energy, the powers,

the sun and stars. the 1st time researches produced.