on the ground and reporting from across the continent, all the friends a u. d w is africa every friday on d w. ah, ah ah, this is d w news line from berlin. a major breakthrough in the quest for clean energy researchers in the u. s. a. breakthrough in nuclear fusion scientists, they're said they are a step closer to a future with clean limitless energy. also coming up, flash frogs bring devastation to the congolese capital residence in kinshasa wake

up to heavy rain and land slides and sink holes that have little dozens dead. and many more missing and at the will come argentina had beaten felicia, 3 mill, the semi finals. thanks to the attacking prowess of lena messy and julian alvarez, they will face either france or morocco in the final. ah, i'm here until new berlin. thanks for joining us. the united states has announced a significant breakthrough in the quest to harness nuclear fusion. for the 1st time actually fusion rather for the 1st time 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 will one day create an inexhaustible source of clean energy. but experts caution

that it will be many years before fusion can power the world. 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, 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 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. and you can fusion, could be critical. scientists believe the technology can be commercialized and scaled, but that store 3 decades. the way that much work still to be done before we might see nuclear fusion powering the globe. the document is worn back from the u. s. national ignition facility, which was behind the breakthrough, speaking to us shortly after it was announced, he called the advance a breakthrough moment witnessing history that's, that's really how i feel about this. and you know, obviously i'm maybe a little bit biased, having worked on this, but this was a breakthrough moment for science for this has been holy grails. we'll use the sciences for the last 50 years. we've essentially known how this works for about 100 years. now, but when 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 infusion. what happens if you

take to like atoms and you smash them together? you know, very hard needs to be very fun to do. and if you do it hard enough, then they end up sticking together. and so but what happens is that you create an atom. but the weight of that to me is actually lighter than some of the parts. and so by einstein equation equals into square. that net difference is released as energy in terms of actually very boss particles, foss 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 then drives other reactions. 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. let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines around the world. what's the, the european parliament has voted to remove one of its vice president from office.

if a yearly $1.00 and $3.00 others have been arrested in charge with corruption, links to the gulf states guitar, lee has denied the allegations. international donors meeting in paris have pledged a 1000000000 euros to help you crane through the winter. the money will go mainly towards keeping the civilian population fed and warm. russian missile attacks have left millions without power or heating, cranes, president will be the lensky. as address the gathering, a french court is convicted 8 people over the 2016 truck attack in the city of niece. they were jailed for up to 18 years for orchestrating the terror attack. the 6 people were killed at nearly 500 injured. the european union has agreed to grant bosnia and herzegovina. a candidate status move paid the way for the balkan nation to join the block. you leaders will formally sign off on the decision at a summit in brussels. this week,

at least 50 people have been killed by floods and landslides, in the democratic republic of congo, heavy rains in the capital kinshasa. that's what way homes there. major roads, including a key supply route, are also submerged. officials say that much of the destruction affects property is built without permission, police war and the death toll is likely to 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 and as the neighbors 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, i have no strength to bury the dead bodies up in america. perhaps the congress 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 wouldn't say to your sources if they're 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 some 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 w corresponded to alyssa tacoma, spoke to us a little earlier from where he's covering the story in lago niger area. that that count, that body count on forced it. it might be rising as we speak or before hours of thought. so morrow morning. nice happened in the mounts and got value area which is quite a populated districts in the capital of g. r. a congo loss of flash, but in from heavy rain, some last lights in the capitol, the rains that calls the floods which are destroy 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 property costs suit

ah, at the world cup and guitar argentina have convincingly beaten felicia, 3 mill and the 1st of the semi final clashes croatia had upset brazil in the last round where and we're hoping to continue their improbable run, but lena, messy and his teammates were too much for them. this semi final was bound to be the last shot at world, cut glory, 3, a legendary player, either argentina's, we in a messy or co h as luca mudrinich. despite croatia, controlling much of the ball early on argentina were the 1st to break through with william alvarez's bullish run, forwarded by a clear foul with the whole world watching. but his keeper, too nervous to look. leo messy stepped up and ripped home the penalty. one mill argentina with 34 minutes play and just 5 minutes later alvarez was again crashing through a sea of legs. this time no one dared to take him down to nil. late in the 2nd half,

it was messy lighting up the pitch, dancing through crashes defense to lay the ball off to alvarez, and finish things off at 3 mill. messy has again carried his country to a world cup final, this time against either france or morocco. meanwhile, muddrick knows, he'll never lift the cup. of course, our dw sports team is following all the action and guitar. this is what our corresponded to say about the atmosphere in the stadium. the eisen penny in world cup game, a basically continued as gina, but they're blake and i know of the world. they will either play against france or morocco. i didn't deny aisley beaker waited 3 now in front of a pan out lucille stadium, much the jubilation of thousands of argentina band. as you can see, the man i leaving the stadium tonight, the party will go late in the night. in doha and our correspond max merrill is also

in guitar, following the game from a stadium set up for many of the migrant workers. well built guitars, world cup stadiums, yet very different away from the glitz and glamour of doha city center. i was in the audit, i am at the industrial fans zone, which is set up specifically for migrant workers at a cricket stadium behind me, 60000 fans or more than 60000 fans fits into this stadium. and most of them, indians and pakistan, he's cheering on messy and argentina who's got a massive following in the asian sub consonants. and here it was a raucous atmosphere every time he was shown on screen, every time he touched the bowl and his side argentina now through to a final once more and another shot for messy at that world cup title. all right, so what exactly was the key to argentina? success against a tough correlation side. yet against netherlands, they actually looked a little bit shaky. it's even though at the beginning of the match,

they sort of cruise to a to nil lead. again, at the beginning of this match, i thought croatia got into their game quite well. but argentina, tweaked, their system went to a back for from their usual back 3 and had an added midfield in leandro perez, who was there to sort of disrupt this midfield dominance. that croatia have been able to create during this tournament at the their midfield 3. really arguably the best in the tournament surrounding the aging star, luca mudrinich, who has as also now played his final world cup game. it looks like for croatia and croatia, then we just disrupted they didn't and managed to get into the game properly. argentine exploited their weaknesses. i think we got a little bit lucky getting that penalty awarded to them. but then after that the pressure was off them and then they could play their game. and we've seen them stuttering li stop to this tournament. and they're just about hitting top form at the right time just before a woke up final. so argentine is through tell us what else is coming up next and

woke up action yeah. will the next semi final morocco, the underdogs? the story of this talk facing off against france, the world cup holders. now morocco have shown against belgium, croatia, spain, and portugal that they can beat heavy hitters that they are not to be underestimated. however, in that last game against portugal, a couple of key players were injured. a couple of them struggling now to get matched fit ready for the game at. i'll bite stadium. so i think this may well be the end of the road. full morocco, even though they've had such fantastic supports, here on the ground from morocco, fans, and also from algerians, egyptians, saudis, and categories who've been cheering them on. but i think that under dog story may well, and even though france haven't looked at their impressive best in this tournament, so there is a chance to morocco, but it's going to be a real struggle for them. no, right, that was d, w 's own max maryland guitar. thanks for your reporting and thank you for tuning in

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