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to heavy rain lance lines and sink holes. the left dozens dead in many more mrc plus the european parliament votes overwhelmingly to strip one of its vice president of her power. the greek lawmaker and socialist eva kylie was arrested over a bribery and corruption scandal. lea 2 world cup post cattle. ah, i'm regards to our viewers watching on p b. s in the united states into all of you around the world. welcome, the united states has announced a significant breakthrough in the quest for nuclear fusion energy for the 1st time ever. a fusion experiment has produced more energy than it needed to begin. the technological success was 6 decades in the making. scientists hope that the process

could one day create an inexhaustible source of clean energy, but they're also warning. it may be many years before fusion can be ready for the world's power grid. ah, it's been described as the holy grail of carbon free energy production. and until now, it's been the stuff of science fiction, but research is in the u. s. said they've now managed to produce and net energy gain, doing a nuclear fusion experiment. this promotional video giving a sense of how this groundbreaking moments might have looked using a 192 high powered laser beams, recreating the process that powers the sun until the stars. so no wonder, there was applause. as the u. s. energy sex tree announced the noose. 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. this milestone moves us one significant step closer to the possibility of 0 carbon abundant fusion energy powering our society. this major breakthrough that's been around 60 years in the making all happened here at the lawrence livermore national lab in california. and here is how they made it happen last week for the 1st time. they designed this experiment so that 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 about 2 megajoules, and about 3 megajoules out again of $1.00. the energy production took less time than it takes light to travel. one inch can fast as the

world looks to move away from fossil fuels like coal and oil. nuclear fusion could be critical. scientists believe the technology can be commercialized and scaled, but that still to be decades away. so much work still to be done before we might see nuclear fusion power in the glow. ah, my tears when burger is from the u. s. national ignition facility which was behind this breakthrough and i asked him whether this advance can be compared to the right brothers 1st flight back in 100003. 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. a science for this has been holy grails will sciences for

the last 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 behind that made all this possible today. so it's, it's an incredible accomplishment. mister andre very large. 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. ok, so in infusion, what happens if you take 2 like atoms and you smash them together? you know, very hard needs to be very hot. and if you do it hard enough, then they end up sticking together. and so, but what happens is you create a head the atom, but the weight of that item is actually lighter than the sum of parts. and so by

einstein equation equals into square. that net difference is released as energy in terms of actually very boss, particles neutral. so it gets caught. and so you can do this in the lab fairly easily. it's not complicated, but what is hard to do is to make this is self sustaining process where the energy released by this reaction if other reaction and so that, that's the kind of process that you want and that's what happened to the sun. and that's what we accomplish for the 1st time in the lab, we get more energy out. and 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 been able to do and putting it into the 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,

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, is it will be longer than that. but, you know, we, we, the 1st step is to demonstrate it. and i really think that this change overnight from being a science fiction and basically a science problem to now an optimization problem. we, we've done this with laser technology that essentially 330 years old. so, you know, they're much more advanced capabilities today. if you were to go 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 it started to see significant deals of also break even yet it wasn't ignition, but people got really interested in. so all right, this is really is 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 as 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 or not other news in the democratic republic of congo, at least 50 people have been killed by floods in land slides. heavy range, the capital kinshasa have swept away homes. major roads, including a keep supply route, are submerged tonight. officials say that much of the destruction effects

properties that were built without permission, police or warning that the death toll will probably rise. it happened before sunrise, according to residence here in a shanty town outside kinshasa, an unexpected flash flood, and then the ground gave way, bearing homes were causing them to cave in acquaint as the neighbors were fed on us while we were sleeping, the kids pulled me out quickly but the others died on the spot right next to us. by the morning, an entire segment of this major road had disappeared. several people were buried in the debris. in some cases, entire families were killed when their homes collapsed. not by. i find it hard to bear, will you would deny? what was he pulled by have no strength to bury the dead bodies. is up in a month, but perhaps the conga leaves,

government will be able to provide me with help. one guy, many of those whose lives were spared in this disaster saw their possession swept away in the raging water a lot. but i would say to your story, if that watching that we're hungry, least we've lived here for a long time. and now the houses that washed away may, for example, i don't know where to go with the children. i've been a widow since 2015, and now my house is gone with the rain, but i can't find one of my children. i'm a poor woman and i don't know where to go. i've lost almost everything. i only have to close. i'm where it, when i boy control is one of africa's largest city, but it's growing rapidly. and many new residents live in shacks, built in flood prone areas with inadequate drainage their calls for the congo these government to invest in infrastructure to make these neighborhoods safer. as climate change makes disasters like this more frequent claiming ever more life

or corresponded alyssa tacoma is covering the story from lagossi nigeria. and i asked him about the scale of this disaster. well, i sat sir night so couple of hours after you know a lot. so for governors of a provincial places into kin, sasha, a capital of a gera conquer, they are still measuring this scale. that is the big problem because we're hearing about 50 people have died so far by that dead count that buddy count on fortunate. it might be rising as we speak or before early hours of thought. so morrow morning i is happen in the mounts and go follow era which is a quite a populated districts in the capital of diarra, congo. ah, loss of flash, but in, from heavy rain some last nights into capital or the 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 or in the capital. so the damages are 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? well, so far i authority 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 to see how much scale, because lots of the figures where gets in, come in from social media and people are posted about the kind of damage as been there. there's been little talk about how people can be rescued or, or help because less faces. these are muddy waters. these are landslide, this are flash, floods, destroyed homes and relevant 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 out. this is used to be a fishing, you know, fishing place closer to coasted areas of the country, idea, congo. you look at in the last couple of years, it's spiraled into a boat journey. and you know, 15000000 population city are the carpets so, so this is what you have nowadays. and you also have this kind of informal settlement allowing dung back the amounts and go follow era which is heavily affect . it is kind of a sloppy healey area. so that's how you see the muddy lance lights everywhere. so that is a problem because of the informal settlements we're having in all that areas into capital d, they'll be west africa, corresponded elisa chic woman joining us tonight with the latest. alyssa, thank you. of take a look now, some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world at south africa's parliament today voted against impeaching president serial ramification. the motion was rejected with the help of lawmakers from the president's ruley, a and c party. a report last month suggested that the president had legally hidden nearly $600000.00 at his private ranch. 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 for orchestrating the atrocity. e 6 people were killed, nearly 500 injured. the european union has agreed to grant bosnia and herzegovina candidate status to move paves the way for the balkan nation to join the e. u. european union leaders were formerly sign off on the decision at a summit in brussels. later this week the european parliament has voted to remove one of its vice presidents from office. the woman behind me here, a fact highly is being held in jail right now on corruption charges linked to the gulf state of could 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 position there with that kylie who is

a great for him from greece and is a member of the socialist party. she remains a member of the parliament nursery. she's one of 6 people who were arrested by belgian police this week to have been released to this. after questioning, i would say them the successful and never off of the european parliament president were better med solo says that this scandal could have some very long legs, whether it is tightening of our rulers. whether it is inquiring further, whether it is looking at the influence of set and that 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 the after our initial findings is that the story will not stop yet when he w's barbara. hazel is in strossberg covering this story for so

i asked her earlier whether removing kindly from office will be enough to deflect criticism of the european parliament. 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 taking in and do more digits are emerging. so the sum, the total sum that is in 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 of their circle. so there is a lot yet to know. and there's a palpable feeling of fear him in the european bobbin. 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 land 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 law makers 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 the best, one of the best developed gulf states and the country was on, on a 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 monday, and 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 just opening the floodgates and so we can look at this sir, for 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. it just, it's just gone. it can't be repaired very quickly if at all it does is going to take months of 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. the socialist 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 the decent opponent to kill manners within the house are being eroded and of course outside. because what, what, what does this look like? it just looks like a corrupt place. full stop and nobody looks at it that it's just a handful of people, maybe. so for the european parliament, this whole story is a disaster. it abused or believes over the last and i from strossberg as always proper. thank you. you're watching the w still to come avatar returning to the big screen this time with the way of water diving into one families quite to save themselves in the lush but dangerous paradise of him durham. we'll have

a sneak peak just a moment. adverse to the collapsed crypto trading platform, f t x. it's collapses sent, shock waves through the crypto currency community and beyond. and now the founder of f t. x is facing criminal charges. sam bakeman fried was arrested today in the bahamas on a string of charges. us prosecutors alleged that he deceived customers and investors to enrich himself as well as others. he was detained just hours before he was scheduled to testify before a us congressional committee about this disaster. but that did not happen. i want to bring in stephen eric now he is director of digital assets research at forbes. he joins me from new york, steven, it's good to have you with us. i want to make sure i've got this correct. you've interviewed bank been freed this week and he was reportedly prepared to testify before a u. s. congressional committee today before the arrest took place. is that correct?

yes that's. that's correct. and thanks for having me. i've interviewed mr. beckman feed multiple times and i did interview and yesterday morning, eastern time for about an hour in what i believe to be is his final interview as a free man, at least for quite some time. i mean, you've interviewed him and he wasn't sitting there with his attorneys now that he's been arrested, we can assume that his willingness to be so candid with people that, that, that's over what was the impression that you got from him. was he aware of the gravity of events that he was at the helm of that's an interesting question. it's. it's hard to tell me sometimes when you start hearing numbers like $32000000000.00, which was the company, the excess highest valuation based on its most recent fundraising round kind of gets abstract from, from reality, abstracted from reality in truth because the company had about a 1000000 customers,

it has a debt of about $8.00 to $10000000.00. and when he gets asked about his, his legal jeopardy. and i asked them about that at the very end of our interview yesterday. he, he keep saying that or he kept saying that it's about the customers. i'm not worried about my own fate. but at the same time that there are some indication that that he was aware of the jeopardy that he was in are, for instance, he hinted in a question that i asked them about why he resigned. he suggested that he was getting pressure from, from legal counsel, and it was indicated to him that if he resided might make things a little bit easier from a legal perspective. he was ready to testify as us previously he put together about 18 pages of testimony that he was going to submit before the house financial services committee. and he most recently recently switch legal counsel again because i think he understood the jeopardy the legal directory that he was in. but at the same time, he's always been a master at using the press to kind of build his image. and i think he felt that

for as long as he was free, he was going to try to do that as much as possible. you know, based on what you heard the interviews that you conducted. do you think that may be the authorities made a mistake in arresting him when they did today? maybe they should have led him testify 1st. that isn't another interesting question, because i know that maxine waters that the chair of the house financial services committee said yesterday, she was disappointed that they're not going to be able to hear back from the fridge testimony in front of it in front of the committee today. and it's just the current c, e o john ray there. so i mean, i think that there is some benefit to hearing him testify, but at the same time he is, he has been very public. he has given more than a dozen interviews. and frankly, in many cases he gets asked the same questions. where's the money? why were there such poor financial controls? where are the audi financial statements and, and he keeps giving the same answers. things like,

i don't have access to the data. i'm trying to, this is my answer from the best of my recollection. so, and so forth. holy, unsatisfying answers. so, well, yes, it's always great to have as much transparency as possible. it's hard to imagine that he was going to get any major revelations in front of the committee because of the legal jeopardy that i'm sure he knew he was a student. unfortunately, we're out of time. but please come back and talk with us again because i have a feeling that this investigation also this case is going to last a long time. stephen elisha forbes. thank you, steve. thank you. well, it has been more than a decade since the movie avatar smashed box office records and pushed filmmaking technology to new limits. now, the sequel is hitting the big screens avatar. the way of water is to follow up to james cameron's epic tale about an environmentally conscious species exploited by humans. it's nearly 15 years since full, marine jake sally became his avatar and joined the enough. the tribe wired to come

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