on building the biggest thing in the world is this spirit of an architect motions. this kid starts december 25th on d w. ah, this is d w. new life from berlin. you rica moment for energy research is in california. the u. s. and answer is a breakthrough in nuclear fusion. scientists say the development could pave the way to a clean energy future. also on the program, the european parliament votes almost unanimously to strip one of its vice president of power. pretty closely for eva, kayla was arrested over

a bribe bring corruption scandal linked to world cup post and excitement bills in doha for the 1st football world cup. semi final con, argentina is passionate fans make a difference in the clash with croatia. ah i'm fil gail. welcome to the program. the united states has announced a significant breakthrough in the quest for nuclear fusion energy. after more than 16 years of research, the 1st time i fusion experiments has produced more energy and 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 its energy, but experts are warning that it will be many years before this technology is ready

for commercial use. of the breakthrough was announced by the u. s. energy secretary 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 achieve diffusion 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 doctor filica, pa, to is a research scientist at the max planck institute for plasma physics. here in germany, i asked her, she was excited by this news. oh,

absolutely has of useless fusion scientist, one can only be excited about such nice news. why what is it about vist that that is so phenomenal? well, any progress in diffusion 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 does 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 you 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 get imagine, as in the sun, it's very hot. 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 a 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 popping, taking notes, we're going to have a test later. does this technology have any downside in 200 years will be be going to have a similar process of regresses 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 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 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 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 a plan and, 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're sure, 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. the european 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 katara. she is denied the allegations. the scandal threatens to undermine investigations into several european union member states, or she's lost her vice presidential post. the greek socialist remains a member of parliament. she's one of 6 people arrested by belgium, police to have been released a following questioning. second 17th. and the parliament's president, roberta met so the said, 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 that countries and we will not stop and leave 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 was like the european parliament is at the start of an uncomfortable process. i put that to our correspondent to barbara fazel in strasburg. 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 that she has actually been found guilty, but 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, caesar 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 and saying this is terrible. but we, we have the discovery of alleged corruption followed by arrest the promise of further investigations and reforms. you could look at this and 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 katara. but nobody even thought that she would be taking money for her services. so what has worked is the belgium police and the belgian justice system. and that certainly for parliament cannot be good enough for about barbara barbara vessel in strasburg. to take a look at some more stores making headlines around the world. floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains of killed at least 100 people in the congo least. capitol

kinshasa police say the devil is likely to rise. major votes including the keats supply route, have been submerged. south africa parliament has voted against impeaching president ram. a poser motion was rejected with the help of lawmakers from the president's ruling amc party report last month suggested that he'd illegally hidden the $600000.00 at his ranch, your secretary of state and to the bank and has opened a summers with african leaders in washington, a government, the american government is rolling out to $55000000.00 program aimed at winning more influence on the continent. the u. s. wants to counter inroads being made by china and russia before this. international donors meeting in paris, the pledge to 1000000000 euros to help them claim through the winter money will go mainly towards keeping the civilian population fed and war. russian missile attacks of like millions without power or heating grains president long means the landscape

has addressed a gather sports argentina meet krasier in a few hours in the 1st of the football world cup semi finals. they will message argentina came into the tournament as one of the favorites, but croatia runners up in 2018 and have already knocked out title content as brazil will be hoping to deal argentina. and major upset. oh, you do has to go far into hard to find cheering, argentina fans. their vocal support is one of the reasons argentine or 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. you got to, we're playing the great argentina, a terrific team, lead by lina messy. they're highly motivated, but they're under far more pressure than us at the moment. so let's go on to north

go. pressure not least because this is shirley massey's final chance to get his hands on the world cup trophy that his 5th attempt. he is argentina's star man and has the hopes of a country on his shoulders. but also, dresses and matter can be done at a later day. as he cannot impulse, captain alida, he's always pushing us and motivating us all. he has that special advantage. and when we're on the pitch, 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, and brazilian footballs a superstar forward naima has been cleared of fraud and corruption charges

surrounding his 2013 transfer to barcelona name on the management of the brazilian club santos and the spanish side. barcelona, have been accused of artificially deflating the value of his transfer in order to avoid them fully paying out his representatives. they were all acquitted in a spanish caught my name up till about hunter junior. red gulf. we'll have more well news of the of the hour of next. so on d w a documentary, looking at how you can protect your private information online with power games on the melting ice. a reporter tracks down the arctics. major players with you see something that looked like james bond, it has to do with.