formation both false figures for everything you need about the 2022 i d, w ah, this is d w. news live from but then you breakable went for energy. research is in california, u. s. analogy is a breakthrough, a nuclear fusion. scientists say the development could paint the way to clean energy future. also on the program, european powered votes almost unanimously to strip one of its vice president of her

powers, bring socialist over kylie was arrested over and bribery and corruption scandal linked to world cup post guitar and excitement is building in doha for the 1st of all world cup semi final can argentina's passionate fans make a difference in the clash with croatia? ah, i'm fil gail. welcome to the program. united states as an answer, a significant breakthrough in the quest for nuclear fusion energy. after more than 60 years of research. the 1st time a fusion experiment has produced more energy than was used to start the process. it's hope that further development could one day create an inexhaustible source of clean energy. fusion involves the same process that gives the sun it's energy, but experts are warning that it will be many years before the technology is ready

for commercial use. on the breakthrough announced by the head of the u. s. energy department. jennifer granholm. ah, today we're here to talk about fusion combining 2 particles into one last week at the lawrence livermore national laboratory and california scientists at the national ignition facility achieved fusion ignition. and that is creating more energy from fusion reactions than the energy used to start the process. 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. let's look at this with dr. athena capital, who's a research scientist in his field at the max planck institute for plasma physics.

here in germany. welcome at to d, w. and you're excited about this announcement? oh, absolutely has of useless fusion scientist. one can only be excited about such nice news. why, what is it about vist that very so phenomenal. well, any progress infusion research is very important to all of us as oh, of course. and fusion we're trying to produce clean, abundant energy. we're trying to provide this to the world as an option. because we know we're all looking for a carbon free, clean, safe source of energy. and this is becoming more and more important as we're progressing in this century. and it will become even more important in the coming years. so we are trying very hard as you've heard before for many decades to do this. so any news of success, both like the one announced by, by the nymph lab and today, and also news that we've just kind of we announced than the magnetic confinement

fusion earlier this year, are actually very encouraging that we're getting closer and closer to this goal. i explained to ross, and if he can, in layman's terms what fusion is and how it produces all this abundant clean energy . exactly. so at fusion is the process in which we're trying to combine 2 very light nuclei into a heavier one. so by combining this 2 nuclei together, we have the release of energy as you heard before. this is the process that powers up our son. and the goal is to try to mimic this here on earth. this is not an easy task, as you can imagine. as in the sun, it's very hot to we need also very high temperatures, also here on earth. so to make this fusion reactions work, we have to reached embers of about a 150000000 degrees. this is non negligible and there are many approaches to do that. so one of them is what we said before, magnetic confinement fusion. so we're trying to contain our fusion fuel with magnetic fields. this is where, for example,

we're working on here in germany else in the jet facility in the u. k. but there's also the inertial confinement fusion approach, which is what these achievement today was announced. and was trying to very powerful lasers to compress the fuel to reach the conditions needed for this fusion reactions to happen to produce the heat which we can then in the next step, turn into electricity. up and taking notes, we're going to have a test later. does this technology have any downside in 200 years will be be going through a similar process of regret as we're going through now with carbon based feels no, none, none. and we can see in the sense that we're not only promising something of that is carbon free, but we're still missing something that is safe. we don't have any long lived radioactive waste. we know that this can, is we have a fuel that is abundant. we can get to both are determined, treat him, these are the light nuclei that we want to fuse together to get the energy out. this s is these, this are also available. so we do believe and we can show. ready that it's possible

to have this as a abundant source of energy that can cover the d months we are having and we'll have even more in the future. so once this is commercially scalable, is it likely to be the preserve of owning the richer countries? so as you said, very well, of these, it's the scalability and how to make it commercially available. that is the trick here, as you've heard, also from the scientists at nif. oh, you can hear is that this is a long term process. this is very demanding. we're working for years and i share the feeling of the scientists announcing the results of the perseverance required for this. our goal is to make the scalable to make it financially possible. but of course, it is at the end for the society and for the politics to receive this as an option . the idea is, of course, that by offering this option no matter where it takes place,

it does relieve the demand. it does make it better play, made a better solution for planning and for issues. so i want to believe that as scientists, our job is to provide this option for society to take over. okay, well, we should well in your endeavors. thank you so much for joining us. dr. athena copatrick from the max planck institute. thank you. thank you for having me. of europe in parliament has voted to remove one of its vice presidents from office over kylie is being held in jail on corruption charges linked to the gulf states of guitar. she has denied the allegations the scandal threatens to undermine investigations into several that european union member states, or she's lost or vice presidential post the greek socialist that remains a member of parliament. she's one of 6 people arrested by belgian police to have been released after questioning the nation. 70 years of the parliament. so president roberta let solar says the scandal could go even further,

whether it is tightening of our rulers, whether it is inquiring further, whether it is looking at the influence of certain countries and we will not stop and need leave no stone unturned. i cannot predict where this will go, but what i can say, i fear, and this isn't a general point of view after our initial findings is that the story will not stop here. so it looks like this is just the start of an uncomfortable process for the european parliament. so i put that to our correspondence in strasburg. barbara basal definitely, so i mean this is just the beginning of the horrors that are yet to follow. you just have to imagine full that the voucher police had wire taps in place for a while on some of those suspects. and we don't really know yet what is going to emerge from news says some sort of for tasty details. have been in the belgian

press for instance, say the wife or one of the suspects talking about 200000 bureau holiday that they had last year. and this year they would have to be a bit more modest. now, those are the things that are really noxious. for the european parliament, because people citizens who are hard pressed in these times of inflation, they will look at this and say, what are they doing there? this is disgusting, their corrupt and then it's really something that sort of thing. so with the light on the whole parliament and not only on the people who are really actively engaged in that corruption. right, so ava, kylie has now lost her role, her job as a, as a vice president of the parliament. she clearly has questions to answer. but it does sound as though she's being punished before she says she has actually been found guilty had she's still in police detention. so that means that a belgian judge judge must, after checking out the facts and the evidence to be convinced of that day,

she is guilty enough to be further investigated and maybe go to court so that in a case, innovation is enough for the european parliament and there was so much anger here and frustration of parliamentarians that they was almost unanimously voted against her and to kick her out of her office today. because people just feel they don't want to be drawn into this. they want to distance themselves from her. and so the presumption of innocence has ended on the weekend, i'm afraid when the police took her in what will emerge on the, on the judicial side from this. of course, we don't know yet, but politically the socialist did the greek socialist, 2 still parliamentarian is absolutely finished. right. so lots of people are throwing their hands up in horror. i'm sorry, this is terrible, but we, we have the discovery of alleged corruption followed by arrest a promise of further investigations and reforms. you could look at this to say, well, this is not a disaster. this is proof that the system works. the system hasn't worked,

but because the system of the parliament hasn't worked to figure this out much earlier because this has been going on for months. i mean, this has been going on last year for as far as we know. so this is a longer standing scandal, this has just evolved over time. and i and a lot of money has been handed over. we're at a cool 1000000 at the moment. we don't know yet whether they're going to be secret bank accounts and other stuff to be found. so no, the system of parliament to prevent this has not worked at all. they didn't figure it out, even though there were suspicions against e for kylie, because she was so incredibly pro cutter, but nobody even thought that she would be taking money for her services. so what has worked is the, the belgium police and the belgian justice system. and that, but certainly for parliament cannot be good enough. thank you. about barbara barbara vessel in strasburg. i'm going to take

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the gathering ah argentina, me crazy and a few hours in the 1st of the football woke up semi finals, little massey's argentina came in to the tournament as one of the favorites. but croatia runners up in 2018 and have already knocked out title contenders, brazil. there'll be hoping to deal argentina. i'm major upset. oh, you do have to go far into hard to find cheering argentina fans. their vocal support is one of the reasons argentine are a favorites to reach this tournaments fine. oh but this man, croatia coats that co damage wants to use that to his country's advantage. but we're playing the great argentina. a terrific team lead by lino messy. they're highly motivated,

but they're under far more pressure than us at the moment. so let's go on to hold. cook pressure not least because this is shirley massey's final chance to get his hands on the world cup trophy at his 5th attempt. he is argentine a star man and has the hopes of a country on his shoulders. but and so does this and not be done in italy that day as he cannot employees are kept in our leader. he's always pushing us and motivating us all. he has that special advantage. and when we're on the pits, we know we have messy and that's a great source of motivation. it helps us and you always know you can do more. ah expects these fans to bring the noise again on tuesday night loud and passionate argentina, hoping not to be silenced by a croatia team. it is no stranger to spoiling the party. ah, is reminder of our top story at this hour. u. s. energy department has

a nice to break through that could one, they provide a new source of reliable, clean energy research in california, say they've achieved at net energy gain during nuclear fusion experiments for the 1st time in history. this is they w coming up next. the news asia look at what a new clash between chinese and indian troops will link for relations between the 2 countries. energy we'll have that story on more in just a moment and i'll be back at the top of the out with whoa, whoa, good news . you become a criminal pre kline. i already know who's with hackers and paralyzing the tire societies.