ah ah ah, this is dw news coming to live from berlin. keith under attack, the city's mayor says several explosions of hit the city center and that emergency services have been dispatched. we'll get the latest from our corresponded in just a moment. also coming up. flash floods bring devastation to the congo. lee's capital, heavy rains trigger, land slides, and sink holes in kinshasa,

believing does instead, then many more missing. and at the world cup, argentina have beaten croatia, 3 nil in the semi finals. thanks to the attacking prowess of lena. messy and julian alvarez, they will face either france for more rock. go in the pine. ah . hello, i'm terry martin. good heavy with us. we began with some breaking news from ukraine, gives mer, says blasts have hit the city center. emergency services have been dispatched. the region around the capitol was reportedly under air raid sirens alerts for about 20 minutes before the blasts and cubes governor says air defense systems are at work a correspond maxed sand is in the craning capital. enjoy just now max boss or being

reported there this morning. what can you tell us? right, terry. so was a quite a rough awakening this morning at 555, an air raid sirens that went off and then shortly after, perhaps 2030 minutes later we could hear a couple of very loud bangs. now it's out really we don't, can't confirm yet. what exactly this was most likely was an air defense in the working. but what we know from authorities that 13 iranian made a show he drones were launched in the us of c region and made their way to the key of capital. i'm earlier this morning also we heard reports from the key mere that there had been exposed in the very district. we are right now in that emergency, 1st responders were on their way. but as to what, what exactly happened there as to the damages as to potential injuries or fatalities on? we're still waiting for the actual news. i'm so far, we know that 2 administrative buildings have been hit, be it 8 by the jones itself or by debris after being intercepted. also that is

still unclear. now, russia's attacks on ukraine's infrastructure are clearly aimed at weakening the resistance of ukrainians. you get it sense max, that the hard ship suffered by people. there is grinding down the resolve so the russians clearly are attacking this feeling infrastructure they're, they're pounding the energy system. they're pounding the central heating in order to bring the people to their knees. but what we're seeing here is that this is not very effective. we see quite the opposite. we see quite resilience, people here helping themselves there on businesses or equipping themself of generators. for example, people are dining and in candle lights. engineers are patching up the grid. patching of the centralized heating up people are suffering. that is, that is clear. it's really cold here and key of at the moment there are planned power outages here to take some relief off the grid, other cities in ukraine, or had even harder such as odessa for example. but despite that,

despite the people really suffering from these attacks, it seems that people are even more determined to, to stand through this and to eventually in the long run when this war bell, ukraine obviously needs a lot of support in order to deal with the problems it's facing, it's destroyed, infrastructure above all, donors have pledged more than a 1000000000 euros of this week in financial aid for ukraine. is that enough max to address the countries most urgent needs right now? it's a start for sure. in the long run, a lot world, a lot more will be needed to, to reconstruct this country. but that the moment the country needs to be at power, it, it needs to be fed and it needs to be a kept warm and right now, roughly a quarter of the population are without electricity. so this relief is necessary to on. yeah, re supply and help with a reconstruction of the grid,

sir. but apart from that, so what's also needed is military equipment heavy military equipment to continue fighting in the east and above all air defense, air defense systems are needed to, to help on it to help make the, the other relief perhaps necessary to close the skies and protect the grid and protect the people from these russian attacks. max, thank you very much. our corresponding match under their, in keith now to the democratic republic of congo, or at least 50 people have been killed by floods and landslides. heavy rains in the capital kinshasa have swept away homes. major roads, including a key supply route, are submerged. official say, much of the destruction effects properties built without permission. police warned that 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 its way. 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 was swung i many of those whose lives were spared in this disaster saw their possessions swept away in the raging water. i would say to your sources, if i watching this were congolese, 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 the clothes 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. so we can some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. peruse, armed forces are ramping up security of t infrastructure as nationwide. protests continue following the, our group, former president pedro castillo, has been denied bail as authority to build a rebellion case against him. it's feared the court decision could further inflame

violent protests. a snow storm has pounded the central united states with heavy snow and freezing rain in northern states and tornadoes in the south. thousands of flights were cancelled and hundreds delayed while many roads reclose forecasts predict the temperatures could drop to minus 29 degrees celsius. european parliament has better to remove one of his wife, presidents from kylie and 3 others have been arrested and charged with corruption linked to the allstate. a cutter tightly has denied the allegations the united states as an else to signal being at breakthrough in the quest to harness nuclear fusion. for the 1st time, fusion experiment has produced more energy than it needed to begin. scientists hope the process could one day create a limitless source of clean energy,

but experts caution will be many years before fusion can power of 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. research is in the u. s. so they've now managed to produce and net energy gain doing a new key the 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 happens 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 laser, had deposited about 2 megajoules down 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. and you can, a fusion, could be critical. scientists believe the technology can be commercialized and scaled, but that thought 3 decades the way much work still to be done before we might see nuclear fusion powering the globe. the but he has horn back is from the u. s. national ignition facility which was behind that breakthrough speaking to us shortly after it was announced, he called the advance at break through moment 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 grails will you sciences for the last 50 years. we essentially know how this works for about a 100 years now. but when we weren't able to do this in the lab, and it's really the result that 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 hot and if you do it hard enough, then they end up sticking together. and so, but what happens is you create an atom, but the weight of the item is actually lighter than some of the parts. and so by einstein equation equals empty square that, that difference is released as energy in terms of actually very boss, particles neutral. so it gets hot. 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 happens to the sun. and that's what we accomplished for the 1st time in the lab where you get more energy out. ah, the world cup in qatar contina have convincingly beaten croatia,

3 nail on the 1st of these semi final clashes. argentina's when electrified supporters back home who had come out, followed the match at the fan zone. and when, as ours, experts and fans like we're expecting a tough match after procedures upset against brazil in the last round. but linelle mercy and his teammates proved too much for them to handle this semi final was bound to be the last shot at world cup glory, 3 and legendary player, either argentine, as we know, messy or co ace's 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 fowl with the whole world watching, but his keep her too nervous to look. leo massey 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 d. w, sports corresponded daniel barcelona, is at the stadium, was a statesman. cat are for that game. here's what she had to say about the atmosphere . the eyes, intent in world cup dream a better. he continued as hygiene out, but there blake and i know of the world they will either play against france or morocco. i didn't. tina easily be croatia, 3 now in front of a pat out lucille stadium, much to the jubilation of thousands of argentina ban. as you can see, the man i leaving the stadium tonight, the party will go late in the night. in doha. you're watching dw news from berlin,

just reminder the top story we're following for you this, our cubes mayor says several explosions have hit the city center and that emergency services have been dispatched. also at least 50 people have been killed by floods and land sides and the congo lease capital kinshasa reigns washed away homes and major roads have been damaged police warren, the death toll is likely to rise. thanks for watching. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

ah ah, ah, shoot dish today more than ever. it's cities that are defining the future. the united nations projects that by 2050, nearly 70 percent of the world's population will be city dwellers. as cities continue to grow, it has become increasingly vital to find better ways of managing these populations and the services they require. densely populated cities consume 2 thirds of the world's energy and produce a similar proportion of global carbon emissions. this put cities at the heart of the climate change discussion. the question is,

how can we develop an electrical infrastructure, some that's economical and maintains, of quality of life. and then how do we integrate more renewable energy sources into this infrastructure so that we can radically reduce all cities impact on the environment? yeah, it's a tough one. with cities growing, it's no surprise that smart city strife for resource optimization. and they're looking to redefine their energy distribution systems. so what needs to change? in the 20th century, the energy production landscape was traditionally dominated by gas and coal, and was distributed by a centralized grid. power float, a one direction from plant to end user. in recent years, the world has seen disastrous power outages. with hurricanes wildfires and storm surges calls from you modern power grids are getting louder and louder. so what if power was local?

in an intelligence power grit or smarter it energy produces storage and consumers are digitally linked supply and demand as coordinated through energy management systems and concent measurement of energy. ringback pub, this way, energy is produced, stuart and distributed more efficiently. bob micro grits are the smallest units of smart streets. they are local energy systems which can protect communities or critical infrastructure from wide outages. micro grid projects of a glimpse into how locally distributed energy can improve system resilience projects all over the world. and one is here in amsterdam

to be precise, if in both low to hum in the north of the dutch capital. welcome to thought zip. the sustainable floating community. so slip is a floating complex with currently about 50 households in 30 residential units. the team behind haunts live ames to create an urban ecosystem that addresses systematic causes of climate change with an intelligent energy system. today we're in this house, have community and what right now we're looking at the technical installations inside of the community center, which every single household as hans can pass. i similar set up. every household at san slip is equipped with a number of things like solar panels and heat pumps. and all of these systems are she connected here to the my power grid, energy management system. and that is in real time measuring what's happening within the household with its own solar production. but that's also communicating centrally with a cloud based system that is getting data from all of the houses. but the system

doesn't only stole the data umpteen. it takes the weather and solar information into account in order to optimize each household's energy production. and so using that data, this computer is constantly processing. ah, what should i do? should i charge the battery? should i discharge it? should i store energy as heat using the heat pump? and so it's connected with these various devices here in order to enable the operation of the smart grid. that box is sold, slips connection to the public grit, and it does meet that connection. during summer, the community could run self sufficiently for quite a stretch, but it's tougher in winter, less sun and more energy that is needed for heating to become more self sufficient, so scripts equal efficiency doesn't even stop at toilet waste. a municipal water

company will harvest the so called black waste water and transported to a bio refinery to be fermented and converted into energy a little bit further in the canal. so fast the bridge. there will be a sanitation, a station in the water actually. where from this blackwater at the ent electricity will be made? it still darienne? so it's impossible to show. but all the households have these special toilets for ready for the system. with all this technical optimization, i can't help but wonder, what does it like to live like this and to share all your data for everyone to see . that's what i asked pill he has been living at school slip for around 2 years. was has debates. it, of course, do we really want to, to have this in this way, and do we really want to share these data? and we know how important these data are for a bigger system. and because we want to enroll this whole system and it's not only this is neighborhood, but all over the country and even the european wide,

et cetera, et cetera. so we, we realized that it's needed to have a set of open mind. so what's next, on the agenda phys phone slip and the next step with this project is to actually connect sounds cape together with other communities in the area, setting up an entire district level smart grid where all of the communities and different households and businesses a can connect to in order to on one hand exchange energy with each other, but also to be able to add yeah, monetize their sources of flexibility to help balance the national network. by the way, so skip works a lot with open source technology that way. other projects can use to technology and combine it with their own ideas. i think somewhere in the coming years in a we'll see much more and more of these projects. and you can also see, i mean, we started was at 10 years ago and more to technical staffing and were designed

like 4 or 5 years ago. and you can, i mean, innovation is going for irreparably. so i think the next project will have even more smart assistance than we do decentralizing energy production and making citizens play. an active part is crucial for the energy transition, but there's certainly more to it. today, we are already surrounded by smart energy elements, sometimes more visible. and sometimes less speeches. amsterdam is setting up smart lighting systems in different areas throughout the city. that means municipalities can control the intensity of streetlights depending on where they are located. movement sends us and sure that street lights reach their maximum intensity when people of eco's past them, they return to the lowest point when there's no one around. a lot of the streetlights and amsterdam are equipped with l. e v technology and are powered by solar panels and wind turbines. that way they stay independent from the general

power grid, which also saves money on wiring and infrastructure. smart police departments and traffic offices can also increase the maximum intensity of the streetlights in the event of an emergency. examples like these prove that redefining energy use can go hand in hand with enhancing or quality of life. ok, okay. one more thing. if we talk about smart energy, we obviously need to talk about cars. electric cars are an important part of the combination and air quality efforts, especially in cities. they're currently around $400000.00 electric vehicles in the netherlands and electric car sales. i expected to go up in the future by 2030, the number could increase tenfold. while that's good news, it also means that new problems will arise handling the extra demand generated by all these energy hungry cos will be one of the key challenges in cities of the

future. that's where smart charging comes into play. for smart charging is, is, is steering you're charging session, either delaying at it, at what time you turn session starts or reducing the power output of your charging session. and this has many benefits, but the 3 most looked for are a balancing the energy market. avoiding a local net congestion and thoroughly at reducing the cost of charge. yes. vehicles often plucked in for longer time than they actually need to be. with smart charging costs can be plucked in but charged when it's the most efficient. both cost wise and grid wise. this is regulated by a cloud based software, which analyzes information from the charging station in real time. if the grid works to capacity during the day, the software could decide to only charge the car during blow demand curious at night, ends. it's not charging allows for other features to such as a,

to wait power float, lighter, extra charge. it allows you to further improve the added value of smart charging. because now you cannot only delay the session was. you can also deliver back the energy at some point in time when friends, there is not enough energy available. and now you can deliver energy from there. i to battery fact in your car that way citizens are no longer just energy consumers, but also produce us for that to function properly. we need the right infrastructure . smart things don't necessarily have to look florida. this is an electric charging station there around $65000.00 of these all over the netherlands. and the dutch government aims to have about 1800000 in the country by 2030, quite a task. one of the people taking it on is peter lawyer stein, he's the project manager for emma, a, alexis, a non profit government on venture. he, it of this make sure that the charging infrastructure meets certain technological

standards to cope with the expected rise in e mobility that includes using only renewable energy, minimizing waste during production. and maintaining the charging stations are looking at the energy usage of a common household. everybody would be driving elect a car in at household. the energy demand of such an houses would double if it will, only double without a smart charging, wearing quite a lot of problems. if you do a smart charging we can used that's it. would it would a lot and we can deep as scaling up as the energy position and elect mobility. the energy transition requires fundamental structural changes in o existing energy systems. these have to happen on a local and global level. either way, digitalization would play a decisive role in all that the vision for the future energy sector as a fully digitized system, where all these kind of technologies are communicating with each other. using smart algorithms are being able to actually manage the grid networks and the balance of

supply and demand using millions of distributed devices that communicate with each other and enable a much more efficient. ah, yeah, and affordable energy transition for all. of course, there will be hurdles to overcome and they will differ from city to city, but innovative ideas emerging to make the technological side a success. and that would benefit everyone, including the environments ah, ah, and healing with the help of a eye. doctors who have reached their limits with conventional medicine use artificial intelligence to open up completely new perspective. thanks to visionary technology that's faster and more precise than

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