ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin tonight, like igniting of star inside a box researchers in the us announcer, breakthrough in nuclear fusion scientists california say that this is the right step towards a future with clean limitless energy. also coming up tonight, european parliament votes overwhelmingly to strip one of its vice president of her

powers. the greek socialist eva kylie was arrested over a bribery and corruption scandal that has links to world cup post country guitar and a 1000000000 euros for you crate. international donors of gathering in paris. they've pledged new aid to help the populations or via the winter in the face of russian attacks. ah, i bring up it's good to have you with us. the united states has announced a significant breakthrough in the quest for nuclear fusion energy. after more than 60 years of research for the 1st time, a fusion experiment has produced more energy than was used to start the reaction. it's hope that more development could one day create an in,

is ostable source of clean energy. fusion involves the same process that gives the sun it's energy. but experts more than it will be many years before the technology is ready for our power grids and for commercial use. this breakthrough was announced by the u. s. energy secretary jennifer granholm. ah, today we're here to talk about fusion combining to particles into one last week at the lawrence livermore national laboratory in 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.

but that's quite something to say, let's go now do dr. mathias owenberg. he is from the us national ignition facility, which was behind this fusion break through. it's good to have you on the program and i guess congratulations are in order to you and would it be right to say that what has been announced to day if we were comparing it to aviation? are we just before having a right brother's moment of 1st flight? thank you for hearing me. yes, i think this was it. to be honest. i think that's we're witnessing history that's. that's really how i feel about this. and you know, obviously i may be a little bit biased, having worked on this, but this was a breakthrough moment for science for this has been holy grail will, didn't sciences for the last, you know, 50 years. we've essentially known how this works for about a 100 years now, but weren't, we weren't able to do this in the lab. and it's really the result of,

you know, thousands of people working across the world on this you know, making advances and engineering laser technology and understanding the science by and that made all this possible today. so it's, it's an incredible accomplishment. mister andre very much. explain, explain to us, in layman's terms, exactly what, what, what happened. i mean, we were talking about fusion and how did you end up producing more energy there was needed to actually start the reaction. okay, so in infusion, what happens is you take to light atoms and you smash them together, you know, very hard to be very hard to do at. and if you do it hard enough, then they end up sticking together. and so, but what happens is that you create a heavier atom, but the weight of that atom is actually lighter than the sum of its parts. and so by einstein's equation equals m c square, that net difference is released as energy in terms of essentially very past

particles, neutrons. so it gets hot. and so you can do this in the lamp fairly easily. it's not complicated, but what is hard to do is to make this a self sustaining process where the energy released by this reaction then drives other reactions. and so that, that's the kind of process that you want and that's what happens to the sun. that's what we accomplish for the 1st time in the lab. when get more energy out, didn't put it in the in that's the next step, right? is, is taking what has been achieved now. and i guess sizing it for our economy and taking what you've, you've been able to do and putting it into a dimensions of what we would consider to be normal for a power grid and for power plant. how far away are we for being able to do that? i mean, how long is it going to take before we can turn on the lights using fusion? well, that is, that is a very difficult question. and i mean, you know, i think you'll hear different numbers and i'm not sure i'll probably be wrong with whatever number i say it won't be 3 years. it will be longer than that. but,

you know, we, we, the 1st step is to demonstrate it. and i really think that this changed overnight from being a science fiction and basically a science problem to now and optimization problem. we, we've done this with laser technology that is essentially 330 years old. so, you know, they're much more advanced capabilities today. if you were to build this kind of facility today, so i, i think it's, it's absolutely in the realm of possibility to see a viable prototype in the next 10 years. and am i right in assuming when i hear you say optimization, that makes me think of all types of startups who are going to be looking to see how they can cash in on this and accelerate the development or have we begun? we just entered rather the fast lane of development. i think that's, that's true. yes. we've seen tremendous interest by private industry already here. i think all of that really started last year when we, when we got, you know,

it started to see significant deals of also break even yet it wasn't a ignition, but people got really interested in. so all right, this is really actually happening. and i think that momentum is only going to increase and we need that, right? it's a, it's a grand challenge. and frankly, we need all the people working on this that we can get. and well, i think you're really going to have lots of support, the faster you succeed means the faster we all will succeed. dr. mathias or in the us national ignition facility. thank you very much and congratulations again. thank you very much. it's been a pleasure the least of 50 people have been killed by floods in landslides, in the democratic republic of congo. heavy rain to the capital, kinshasa and swept away homes. major roads, including a key supply, route, or submerged officials say much of the destruction effects properties built without permission lease or warning that the death toll is likely to rise.

or you want to go now to the w. west africa correspondent elisa joining us from lagossi. so elisha talk us through this, what is the scale of this disaster? well, i sat through nights her cup of hours outside, you know a lot. so for governors of provincial places into kin, sasha, a capital of jericho. good. yeah. still measuring the scale that is the big problem because we're hearing about 50 people have died so far, but that, that count, that body count on forced it. it might be rising as we speak or before early hours of thought tomorrow morning i it's happen in the mounts and got value area which is a are quite a populated districts in the capital of diarra, congo. ah, loss of flash. but in from heavy rain, some last nights and a capital rains that calls the floods which are destroyed properties and homes, really damage. we've seen erosion of roads, landslides,

including sink holes on major roads in the capital. so the damage is not just humanitarian is also yeah, property costs to yeah, i mean you're talking about tremendous damage there to the infrastructure. that at least is what we're seeing with the pictures. how are authorities coping with this? ah, well, so far i authorities just like the, like i said that the, our prime minister has given a statement and also the provincial governors are also visiting the place and see how much scale because lots of the fridge is where gets in, come in from social media and people are posted about that the kind of damage has been there as we little talk about how people can be rescued or, or help because less faces. these are muddy waters. are these are landslide, this are flash floods, destroyed homes and rendering people basically homeless. so in terms of what can be done to, to, to, to curtail or perhaps because measures they pretty much, very little coming out of the capital right now. then kinshasa is one of africa's

fastest growing cities. does that make it even more vulnerable to extreme weather? ah, yes indeed thou, this has used to be a fishing, you know, fishing place, coasted accosted areas of the country. i dare conga, you look out to the last couple of years, it's spiraled into a boat journey, and you know, 15000000 population city, add a carpet so, so this is what you have nowadays. and you also have this kind of informal settlement allowing done that the amounts in ga follow era which is heavily affect it is kind of a sloppy healey area. so that's why you cd, the muddy lance lights everywhere. so that is a problem because of the informal settlements we're having in all that areas under capital d to be west africa correspondence, elisa chic woman joining us tonight with the latest. alyssa, thank you. his look now, some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world. this hour south africa's parliament has voted against impeaching presidency or m. folks of the motion was rejected with the help of lawmakers from the president's ruling

agency party. a report last month suggested that he to legally hit nearly $600000.00 at his ranch. new zealand parliament has voted to out while smoking for future generations. a change means that any one born after 2008 will not be allowed to buy cigarettes. it also reduces the amount of nicotine in tobacco products in the number of shops license to sell them, but it does not apply to vapor. a french court has convicted 8 people over the 2016 truck attack in the city of niece. they were jailed for up to 18 years forecast rating. the atrocity, 86 people were killed, nearly 500 were injured. the european parliament today voted to remove one of its vice presidents from office. the woman you see behind me here ava. kylie is being held in jail on corruption charges linked to the gulf state of to tar. she has denied allegations of corruption scandal threatens to undermine

investigations into several european union member countries. though she has lost her vice presidential post office is highly who is a greek socialist? she still remains a member of the european parliament. she is one of 6 people arrested by belgian police to have been released after the question of our parliament house. with the european parliament president, roberta medulla says that this 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. and after our initial findings is that the story will not stop yet. let's get out of our very on barbara angel. she is in strossberg,

france covering the story force. good evening to you barbara. i get the the feeling that just stripping kylie of her position as being vice president. that it could just be the tip of the iceberg. is that the censure getting as well? absolutely. brent, this is just the beginning and that was just a formal step because what else could they do? they needed to kick her eyes out as quickly as possible in order to distance themselves from her. but of course, the bathroom authorities are carrying on their investigations. more offices have been sealed to day more laptops and phones have been ad taking in and do more details are emerging. so the, some, the total sum that is and play here is now adding up to around to one and a half 1000000. and there is still a lot of stuff we don't know. for instance, there may be secret bank crowns that nobody knows about yet. and the details from

the wire tap that has been in place for a while, because the belgians say they had their eyes on this whole affair for quite a while. so they're both following it for several weeks. and maybe even months, details have not yet emerged about the conversations between the accused and other people off their circle. so there is a lot yet to know. and there's a palpable feeling of fear here in the european parliament. what else might be emerging? who else might be pulled into this? and just some parliamentarians here in the corridors, we're talking about the leaders of the political groups, the big groups being relatively careful at the moment and so subdued. because everybody is afraid that a bomb might blend in their own field in the next days, or are there indications that that bomb could go off on any time soon? are we talking about other names of lawmakers possibly being implicated here

other lawmakers might be implicated. so that is still up in the air because who else was connected to this whole group? i mean, it was not only the people the already know who were sort of phrasing a katara is fantastic trekker, a record on labor law. for instance, the vice president of the european commission she knows was asked today because he was so incredibly pro cutter, why he was really thrown himself into the breach. and, and saying that this was one of the most to that, that one of the best developed gulf states and the country was an on of fantastic way forward, et cetera, et cetera. and he said, no, no, of course at this is my o'toole total conviction. and so on, but everybody here and this is of course, it time where miss trusts between the lawmakers begins everybody. now, it looks at the old statements of others and says, you know, why did he or she said that, why did they praise affordances?

cutter or for instance, a former member of the european parliament now brought morocco into the into play and said, and i've always had suspicions that they were paying money for it. and paddling influence a here in the european problems. so this is it just opening the floodgates and so we can look at this so 4 weeks and maybe months to come more names and more details will emerge. and i'm just reading today. it's being called by more and more people that the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the european parliament, perhaps maybe in the history, the european union. i mean, whatever comes out of it's the optics are certainly bad. how much damage is being done to the credibility of the you the damage is horrible, really. and as one law make a here each day said, you know, trust comes slowly and it's sort of rides out on a galloping horse and you know, it just, it's just gone. it can't be repaired very quickly. if at all it does is going to

take months if not years, and also the infighting between column and terence it begins because of course, from the far right, the voice is now come and accusing. and the socialists accusing the the conservatives and so on saying, you know, why did you all the sort of take the moral high ground? how dare you. now you're implicated in this city corruption a scandal and you show your true colors and we're not going to listen to you anymore. so trust with in the house is eroded and, and the decent, the opponent to kill manners within the house are being eroded and of course outside air. because what, what does this look like? it just looks like a corrupt place. full stop it. nobody looks at it that it's just a handful of people, maybe ed. so for the european parliament, this whole story is a disaster. it a b as barbara. these are with lawyers tonight from strossberg, as always. barbara, thank you. in a national donors have pledged

a 1000000000 euros it aid to help ukraine get through this winter. ukraine's prime minister is representing this country at this donor summit, which is taking place in paris. the money will go towards helping the civilian population feed itself and keep war good. as russian missile attacks continue to leave millions without power or heating, she did abuse ukraine corresponding to connelly. he takes a look now at the support the ukraine has been promised. and what's actually been delivered if you will clean a vine will continue support ukraine for as long as it takes since the very beginning of the wall. we work very hard together to help the brain to resist and to be resilient. and we, the european union stand here by them in these very difficult times, as long as it takes had generous european governments. we been 9 months into this war in its doorstep. and europe that only just caught up with the united states,

the kill institute for the world economy to the you and your pink governments have now together pledged 52000000000 euros. barry, 48000000000 in the u. s. that might sound like a lot, but it's less than a 10th of what they use spending when its own post coverage recovery program. and then there's the question of timing. experts criticize that it can take months for promises and outs from the t v. cameras and keep to actually materialize. and now at least you can government can to afford to patch up basic infrastructure after each new russian attack. but many here in ukraine where they're countries in such bad shape, they might soon need to put a whole different level just to carry on. and that's even before anyone starts counting, the cost of eventually rebuilding europeans will be asked to make good on that promise to help her as long as it takes and that could be decades. it is like, no, it's more stories making headlines around the world this hour. at least 7 people

have been killed in protests against the arrest of peruse else did leftist leader pedro castillo demonstrators blocked roads and an airport runway. the new president deena, leon tay, is promising to bring elections. full european union has agreed to grant bosnia and herzegovina candidate status move paved the way for the balkan nation to join the new european union. leaders will formerly sign off on the decision at a summit in brussels next week, or this week read the founder of the bankrupt f t x crypto currency exchange sam bakeman fried has been arrested in the bahamas after being charged by u. s. prosecutors. the 30 year old former billionaire is under investigation by us and bohemian authorities following the collapse of f t x. last month. us an african leaders of gathered for a summit in washington and china is the big elephant in the room. the by the

administration is rolling out the $55000000000.00 program aimed at winning more influence on the continent. the u. s. wants to counter inroads made by you guessed it. china and russia. 49 african heads of state will touch ground in d. c. for the u. s. africa leaders summit, this meeting which will include a gallon dinner at the white house, is only the 2nd ever. the 1st was 8 years ago. since then, african leaders have forged many new, controversial partnerships by the, by an administration may not like that. they've said that they won't be telling african has a state what to do. i want to be clear. the united states doesn't want to limit your partnerships with other countries. we want to make your partnerships with us even stronger. we don't want to make you choose. we want to give you choice. with blinking by other countries is china. who built in finance king his 1st railway in more than a century and did the same with africa's longest oil pipeline from the chair to

been inca added. ok has spoken to many people involved in this year's summit. he says that china is significant, investment in african countries may provoke a new american approach. the chinese change the game. i mean, for so many years, the united states roll on the continent was purely about aiden and support. we americans can really change things substantially to trade by working with african countries. i think it could be generationally important to be, we focus on this. but africa is not just waiting for others more than 40 countries that just linked up to create the african continental free trade area, a market for itself and a larger trading partner for the u. s. so trade is also what leaders from africa watch from the us. absolutely, this is, this is what they will be pushing for. in this week,

the stage is set with trade on everybody's minds. africa's population is booming, so they'll need to buy more of everything. this is big business, something everyone wants a piece of in order to get it placed, the u. s. knows, but it will have to listen to african voices more than ever before. or let's get out to washington or corresponding mckellar carpenter. she is at the summit. that's taking place in the u. s. capital. because it talk to me then about the role that china is playing in this meeting that we're talking about. oh, bessie is the an elephant in the room head. china has spent those past 8 years between the 1st us africa summit and now heavily investing in relationships, purely transactional relationships with many african countries that have seen many countries also locked into debt towards china. and during, the trompe is,

and donald trump at best, completely ignored africa, so there was really no progress. and as the recognition here in the u. s, that the u. s. is very much behind risking missing the boat, both entre, but also when it comes to security and stability, against the backdrop of an increase. the use of russian mercenaries in the sa hell region, for instance, in, in stable regions of africa. so there's great concern here to not just re establish relationships, but put this on a new footing with the recognition that africa with one in 5 people being african in 2030 will have a huge role in the future of this geopolitical sift. we're seeing. yeah, and we know what china has promised. we reported here many times. we're talking about roads, railways, sports across the continent. what is the united states are promising or offering to deliver well, very briefly,

if right now it's 55000000000 and extra investment. they're hoping to leverage that they want more long term trade relationships rather than just aid. and that is what is already being promised, announcing the play of lincoln at also more than hinted at what to bind. let everybody know is that the u. s. president will support the african union having a seat, a permanent seat at the table when it comes to the d. 20 nations meeting. and also looking at reform in the un, which fucking, nobody expects to happen soon, but a stronger african voice. and we also saw antony blink in the u. s. secretary of state repeat almost what to would. but was in that report that at which is that the u. s. doesn't want to make african countries choose. it wants to offer new partnerships that they won't have to choose between china and the u. s. and because we know that i'm security in our for good counterterrorism, also on the agenda these talks. what are the, the main worries at the moment?

well that's really interesting because i've just come from a security panel where i seem lincoln was sitting with several african real leaders from mozambique, from new zia, who have huge oppressors there. but also a with lloyd austin as the is secretary defense here in the united states. and he is much more outspoken when it comes to russia and china, but the really burning concern in african countries like me there for instance, is that climate change? is it creating the kind of poverty that in itself, helps terrorist destabilize entire regions. so it's not just about the us beefing up military presence in the region there being new missions, but it's the over arching, concerned that climate change will increasingly d stabilize african regions. and it basically the global power structure. and that is what everybody's up against. and here the united states will have to flesh out

how they don't just want to spend as $55.00, billions, but what kind of pot they will be in the future? you'd always be go. griffin believes deny from washington mcgill, as always. thank you. and here's a quick reminder, the top story we're following this our, the united states announcing a breakthrough that could one day provide a new source of reliable, clean energy research in california, say they've achieved the net energy game during nuclear fusion experiments for the 1st time in history, you're watching a d w news. i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news followed by the day i hope to see you then. ah, with

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