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up 2 heavy rate plants lives in cinco that have leapt dozens dead and many more mis . ah, i'm break. av is good to have you with us. 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. 6 decades in the making, scientists hoped that the process could one day create an inexhaustible source of clean energy. but they are also warning it will be many years before fusion can power our energy grits. 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. 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, and the stars. so no wonder, there was applause. as the u. s. energy sex tree announced the news. 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 stay it 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 mega jewel, then about 3 mega jewels out again of $1.00. the energy production took less time than it takes like 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 that still to be decades away. so much work still to be done before we

might see nuclear fusion power in the glow. ah, that is the hope mathias owenberg is from the us national ignition facility which was behind this breakthrough. i asked him whether this advance can be compared to the right brothers and their 1st flight back in 1903. i thank you for having 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 school. this has been holy grails. well, you sciences for the last, you know, 50 years, we 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 in engineering laser technology and understanding the science behind it that made all this possible today. it's an incredible accomplishment,

mister andre very much. explain, explained to us in layman's terms, exactly what, what, what happened. i mean, when we're talking about fusion, 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 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 that you create a had the atom, but the weight of that item is actually lighter than some of the parts. and so by einstein equation equals m c 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 a self sustaining process where the energy released by this reaction 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 accomplished for the 1st time in the lab. we get more energy out that. 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've been able to do and putting it into 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 assigned section and basically assigned a problem to now and optimization problem. we, we've done this with laser technology that essentially 330 is old. so, you know, they're much more advanced capabilities today. if you were to build this kind of facility today, so i think it's,

it's absolutely in the realm of possibility to see a viable prototype in the next 10 years. am i right in assuming when i hear you say optimization that makes me think of or 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. i think all of that really started last year when we, when we got it started to see significant yields of also breakeven yet it wasn't a 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 definitely going to have lots of support the faster you succeed means the faster we all will succeed. dr. mathias on the with the us national ignition facility. thank

you very much and congratulations again. thank you very much. it's been a pleasure far. let's take a look now, some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world. the european parliament has voted to remove one of its vice president from office a for kylie and 3 others have been arrested and charged with corruption linked to the gulf state of could tar kiley has denied right. the allegations a french court has convicted 8 people over the 2016 truck attack in the city of niece. they were sentenced to jail for 18 years for orchestrating the atrocity. 86 people were killed. nearly 500 were injured. south africans parliament has voted against impeaching a president. several remo folks of ocean was rejected with the help of law makers. from the president's ruling, a in c party, a report last month suggested that he had legally hit nearly $600000.00. and his private ranch. you're a secretary of state anthony, blinking has opened

a summit with african leaders in washington. the u. s. government is rolling out a $55000000000.00 program aimed at winning more influence across the continent. the u. s. wants to counter inroads in africa made by china and russia staying with africa, at least 50 people have been killed by floods and lands lines in the democratic republic of congo heavy range and the capital kinshasa have swept away homes. major roads, including a key supply route, are submerged. officials say, much of the destruction effects properties that were built without permission, police or warning that the death toll will probably rise. it happens for sunrise, according to residence here in a shanty town outside contrasts or an unexpected flash flood. and then the ground gave way, bearing homes were causing them to cave that way. and as the neighbors will fell 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, i find it hard to bear. well, you know, with people i have no strength to bury the dead bodies. is up in a month. 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 possessions swept away in the raging water a lot. but i would say to your sources if that watching that we're hungry please. we've lived here for a long time and now our 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 wearing when i got your voice control is one of africa's largest city. 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 w corresponding to lisa to whom i is covering the story from lago nigeria. i asked him about the scale of this disaster. well, i sat sir knight, sir. cup of ours up sir. you know, lots of governors of provincial places in the consortia, a capital of a gera, congo, diaz til measuring the scale. that is the big problem because we're here in about 50 people have died so far,

but that dead count that buddy count unfortunately might be rising as we speak or before early hours of thought. tomorrow morning i is happen in the mountain garofalo area, which is a are quite a populated districts in the capital of g. r. o, congo. ah, laza flash. but in from heavy rain, some last nights and a capital, the rains that calls the floods which are destroy properties and homes, really damage. we've seen erosion of roads are 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 if you're talking about tremendous damage there to the infrastructure, the lease 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 and see how much scale because lots of the fidget where gets in,

come in from social media and people are posted about the kind of damage has been there. there's been little talk about how people can be rescued or, or helped because let's face it. these are muddy waters. are. these are landslide is a flash flood, destroying homes, and rather than people basically homeless. so we're in terms of what kind of be done to, to, to, to curtail or perhaps because measures. they're 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. though this is used to be a fishing, you know, fishing place, coasted accosted 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 a carpet so, so this is what you have nowadays. and you also have this kind of informal settlement along that the amounts in godfather era which is heavily affect it is kind of a sloppy healey area. so that's how you see the,

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, w, west africa correspondence, lisa, chic, woman joining us tonight with the latest to listen. thank you. at the work up in katara, argentina have beaten croatia, 3 nil in the 1st of the semi final clashes lino mess he got the party started when he converted the penalty with just over half an hour gone and then young go get her julian alvarez fired in 2 more goals to round out the score line, argentina one al fees either france or morocco. in the final, on sunday, brazil soccer superstar new martin has been cleared of fraud and corruption charges surrounding his 2013, transferred to barcelona. the mar and the management of the brazilian club, sontols and the spanish side. barcelona, were accused of artificially deflating the value of his transfer to avoid having to fully pay out his representative. they were all acquitted in

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