haven't felt like this for a long time. when i take something and i can feel it in them again it is so weird because they don't have a real hand if you but the fact that i can feel it again it's indescribable meanwhile kevin warrick the volunteer cyborg has undertaken an even more ambitious task this time a symbiosis of living organisms and. the experiment was based on the neurons of a rabbit brain they were grown in a special incubate or the result was a mini brain consisting of a network of neurons fused together finally the miniature brain was connected to a robot now the robots brain is learning to solve simple tasks. as the robot moves around we can look at what's happening in the brain under the microscope so as the robot learns to avoid obstacles but sort of thing we can see her oh the brain changes the connections between the neurons strength or weaken

reactions to such experiments vary from country to country life styles have not changed in abkhazians regions traditionally inhabited by long livers the old men believe you can't live a long life unless you stick to the right lifestyle they view any attempts at immortality based on combining man with machine with open hostility. they seem to be set on compelling people to stop being human it's a dangerous idea because people will no longer have the capacity for love compassion or charity with which we're going they will lose the ability to love their neighbors this will be a dead end for the human race. the count of censure from in at the court of king louis the fifteenth is said to have helped mark used to look like a young be a differ as long as she lived old aristocrats claimed that the count didn't daja told during the half century that they knew him the counts died in seventeen eighty

four others say people saw him in venice in one nine hundred thirty eight nearly one hundred and fifty years later. in the soviet union they were secretly burra trees in the country's major cities their research focused on ways of enhancing people stamina for a global war effort it was primarily aimed at naval officers manning nuclear powered submarines. how much more potential does the human body have the answer is about forty percent protein synthesis can be increased precisely by forty percent to human life to can be extended by forty percent and that's what we are concerned with. however soviet gerontologists failed to find a solution to a crucial call them the average age of soviet leaders before perestroika was around eighty doctors could help keep their kidneys and liver as an order their old brains were incapable of generating fresh ideas. the bad thing about the

soviet union was that its ruling body the politburo consisted of people who had gone senile individually they were smart people in their younger days but when you have a group of eighty year olds getting together it's really not a productive thing. scientific fiction has already described cases of the brain living on after the bodies death another patient of professor doll's head a novel by the russian north or alexander. has been screened many times he wrote it in st petersburg city where the institute of the human brain was opened some time later scientists there have developed methods of restoring functions of part of the brain after accidents or serious disease but so far they're unable to get the brain of an aging person to generate the sort of ideas they produced at a younger age. mathematicians and physicists normally have

a field day before their thirty fifth birthday or or thereabouts i can't recall a single significant piece of research done by anyone older than that the only exception is newton he published his famous optics when he was seventeen years old but in fact he wrote it forty years beforehand and i just shelved it until them. however today there are very few thirty year olds among scientists championing the idea of life extension or bridge to gray one of the principal ideologists of the theory will soon be fifty years old some time ago he singled out seven key elements of the aging process and formulated methods of remedying them he maintains that human life could be significantly prolonged if so-called intracellular rubbish is removed from the body. half is all about fun linking this

process from this process going to a profession in which metabolism no longer causes pathology because every so often we go in and remove some of the damage as if not so much metabolism had happened and that is what we're all about. we think that this process much more straightforward. to graze confident that human life could be extended to one thousand years but step by step measures are necessary to prolong life with the help of restorative medicine. the best way to think about it by now if you with simple man made machine car airplane. we know that a car if belt typically only maybe ten or fifteen year but we often the cars that sometimes laugh a lot longer from time to one hundred years and the reason they lie for long when

they do it because for whatever reason fell in love with them and they did a really comprehensive job of maintaining doing periodic preventive repair and made to keep them in. according to the bible people before the great flawed normal lived for several hundred years adam the first minute the earth and the sunset survivor of the nine hundred years the man with the greatest lifespan was one of the forefathers of mankind. yes i have talked with theologians as part of my study of the subject you were some say it's a matter of chronology according to a different chronology it's ninety rather than one hundred years there are also other theories some physicists go so far as to claim that a better concentration of oxygen in the air before the great flood may have been responsible for longer lives which. tree of moscow state university is

designed to fight aging scientists experiment with a wide range of animals trying to boost their lifespan they studied the effects of new medications on both the organs and the entire organism one experiment aims to make the eyes of these rabbits remain healthy one of the most spectacular results. has been achieved by administering special drops to rats they have been named after the founder of the department of bioengineering dr school a trio of when the rats begin aging their condition is in stark contrast to that of rats of the same age. reporter the rats that were about to set out on the journey to the other world could no longer move they were in the final stage of aging at the summer but there were other rats of the same age who had been fed on our medication and drinking water usually they were still quite agile they had not lost interest in life if you but by these rats lived much longer than the control group

would be a good thing to do so it's interesting. as well as their current research the scientists test their findings on themselves dr school a child has even read himself of several deep seated ailments affecting his eyesight but over those are only the first steps in a budding area of science the crux of the problem is that scientists will have to find ways of cancelling the bodies process responsible for aging. like a physicist in france for example are not allowed to experiment with perpetual motion machines for the pharmacologists likewise are not supposed to look for a cure all of us away if we succeed in counseling the aging programs that we should be able to slow down all diseases resulting from me ging. scientists wanting to find a way of extending human life are often seen as quite glad to miss school or children his four sons hope that in four or five years time they will be able to counsel or at least slow down our body's natural aging process what is it steak is the

scientifical for a take over an entire din a stick of microbiologists. this is before i was doing research into martell to single handed i would be in a terrible rush but i'm happy to know that at least one of these four guys here will carry on the work and i'm happy. is it at all possible to come saw aging process right after birth are scientists on the right track and loose there is of what could be done to make people stay young longer replenish the list of humor lucian's and dashed hopes there was an ongoing struggle to convince people of the possibility of a turn of life has its achievements and its failures. having watched this documentary you are now twenty six minutes old.

it international went over as the u.s. and its allies play hardball over syria russia and china push for a diplomatic solution all while iran looks on nervously at its struggling ally. hold a referendum on whether russian should be an official language in a state where a third of the population battles just to be accepted. european impartiality comes on their scrutiny as a number of schools are accused of brainwashing the e.u. values into children in the name of diversity.

coming to life from moscow eleven am here on marina josh crisis last syria find itself caught between two very different diplomatic efforts as the u.s. and its allies piled pressure on the government russia and china are trying to mediate a negotiated solution one of beijing's top diplomats is in damascus meeting members of the ruling elite and as you opposition the chinese effort follows up on months of attempts by moscow to bring the warring sides together but the rebels refuse to talk unless president abbas and gives up power violence is escalating almost daily now with dozens reportedly killed over the past twenty four hours and political science professor joseph chang says u.s. dominance in the region is forcing some world powers onto the. major factor as you know wolf of course the. idea of some kind of just made.

throughout the arab world in the middle east and north africa obviously the conservative countries in the region trust china they do not want to see. jesmyn. beijing believes. big unite this base has been exerting pressure on the middle east don't respect thing the interest of russia and china and that is against the idea of multi-player larry and this is a left of a lack of respect for the interests of major powers night russia and china china certainly ones to. you to and the below is influence in the middle east region which is of strategic importance to china and china increasingly believes that the disapproval of how it has growth will interest and these

interests to be respected as the masses feel the squeeze from within syria and abroad its closest allies are also growing increasingly nervous experts warn that if the syrian regime falls iran will feel isolated and compelled to act artie's laura smith has a story. iran's military is put through its paces but how long will this carry on being a drill as the conflict in syria gets bloodier by the day western powers range against president assad ally iran the strategic position looks increasingly shaky which some suggest is no coincidence there is a proxy conflict between israel and its western allies and iran which basically only has one ally in the region which is the syrian republic so if you can get syria away from iran either through a diplomatic deal which they're trying for many years all through regime change which seems to be the direction of travel now that would definitely weaken iran at

all roads in the middle east right now do seem to lead back to tehran experts are calling them that they deployed and hope that bring down the row radiant how sad and replacing it with the opposition figures you've already said they did talk to and see tehran foreign policy for life thank you yeah iran is a very powerful ally since the iran iraq war iran and syria have developed all sorts of ties cultural and economic included but crucially iran uses syria as a conduit for support for hezbollah in lebanon and how mass in the palestinian authority both declared foreign terrorist organizations by the u.s. state department take that away and iran's influence in the region could wait. cornered iran could bite perhaps accelerating the nuclear program projects or easing its. interference perceived interference in other countries in the region

press bahrain perhaps lebanon perhaps palestinian territories. and that will be the way that iran will react so you can make a case for suggestion that the removal of assad will make iran even more protective or more dangerous it's a knife edge situation and one which worries malls. carious is events in syria worse than the us even says israel could attack iran in a matter of months the possibility of all a conflict between the major western powers that iran becoming a between the world's major powers all motorised storm clouds of massing over the region reports of emerge that the qatari and saudis are already funding to convert operating with the syrian opposition iran looks increasingly isolated with a hostile israel and the. north altie. while we are closely following developments in syria in our website as well so log on to

r.t. dot com to get all the latest updates and here's what else you'll find there right now joining forces pakistan pledges to support iran if the u.s. launches a military attack against the islamic republic to get more information online. also the cyber war goes on you know a lot of us group assaults half a dozen u.s. federal government websites within the past week to express their anger at anti-piracy law. lobby is holding a national referendum on saturday on whether russian should become a second official language but it's unlikely to succeed even though the russian minority which makes up a third of the population are feeling ever more discriminated against in

a place they call home. security ports from. valente from a lot of years russian minority says his country's government has gone too far having lived in lot of it all his life it was only recently that he managed to exchange a temporary residence permit to a full passport but now this father of three faces another hurdle for his family this time and that his children and their education was a pass through legislation that school schools sixty percent of the lessons must be taught in latvia language but excuse me chemistry biology and physics it's difficult to get it even in your own language and it does create a lot of problems for the students at the moment and of course it does lowers their results it was the threat that these schools where at least some lessons are taught in their native russian would be closed down for good that scared the russian minority which constitutes one third of the country's population they initiated

a referendum on making russian law to be a second state language something radical right wing parties call a threat to national integrity to fit into this world is against our constitution which says life is a man a national state and always be it explicit our society which has to have one solid foundation if you want to it to be like russia has been lying going to russia and leave us be them. at least three quarters of a million people must vote yes for a constitutional change to take place but with support predicted to be just that seems to be unlikely the outcome however could have been different if another three hundred twenty thousand residents were allowed to vote those are ethnic russians who spare and grandparents came here after nine hundred forty five they were denied citizenship off the laundry became independent and are still carrying allien passports the newly appointed council of europe's commissioner for human rights

believes the vote will not solve the discrimination problem and that its readers handling of the russian community that should be changed because the human rights suspect of stateless children being born in latvia. the clear norms in the convention on the rights of the child that every child has a right to citizenship from birth regular eating language use in the private sphere this also has human rights implications raise issues of proportionality here i think that something should be reviewed though it is widely accepted here that the russian language referendum will fail the russian minority hopes that the vote will bring their struggle out of the shadows and force the government to at least open a dialogue about these russians are contemplating another vote to introduce changes into the citizenship law that is to abolish the so-called alley and passports and grant citizenship to those who are living with it and many say in this case they have a good chance of succeeding as they would only need a little more than two hundred thousand positive votes let's. see reports.

in latvia. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world riot police in senegal fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters after the country's opposition to fire at a government ban and how the demonstration calling for the president to step down street battles between police and demonstrators continued through the night in the capital the car using several. presidents up to lie a white way is competing for a third term in office that's not so much. a man who thought he was carrying out a suicide bombing in washington has been arrested i mean al khalifa he was attempting to detonate a fake explosive vest given to him by the cover f.b.i. officers he allegedly believed the officers were members of al qaida a moroccan national have been under surveillance by the u.s. government for about a year. a trillion six trillion dollars worth of counterfeit u.s. bonds have been seized in italy and now it's carried the fall of nineteen thirty

four and were transported from hong kong to do work in two thousand and seven worthy were transferred to a swiss trust prosecutors say it appeared the suspect intended to sell them a people have been arrested and charged with making financial operations using fake bonds as a guarantee. and believe you thousands of people have been left homeless after overflowing rivers lot of more than half of the country's districts are red alert was issued the army deployed to help the evacuation monsoon season which started in january has already claimed seven wives and caused a surge in factious diseases. again i was and still have three of us out here on our team trading a supermarket for the farm how else can just it's across russia are filling their companies with organic food straight from the growers.

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it's all designed to keep you closed in your own small world as a prison. you know you leave somebody in there for a couple hours like in a stress positions. you have this fear of the unknown in this stress sort of building and. i've seen interrogations go on ten twelve hours they chose remember from marilyn manson the current slayer the two songs would be angel of death and raining blood to kill the enemy going through war coming up here into iraq coming into baghdad. johnny pull the bodies to the floor just a rock n roll band was fitting for the job we were doing. the watching r t financial crisis immigration under attack and member nations at each other's throats there doesn't appear a lot to recommend the e.u.

to the europeans of the future unless you can plant the seeds of support early and some schools are exposing their pupils to values very young artists are still your reports and accusations of brainwashing. but what do you know about your country and the capital is there all not only lived with. pizzelles but. the. spanish french and english and i would have to tell you these youngsters are attending one of the fourteen year period schools set up primarily to educate children of e.u. stuff we are the only system which is able to provide education in twenty three different languages you know the more europe is united in their city and that's what will leave every day in the european school but outside the classroom reality says otherwise for now differences seem to transcend unity

critics along accuse the e.u. of brainwashing children through education parra for amelia that they claim promote a stormy eyed vision of the e.u. a comment from a european commission representative at an education fair appears to support at that point we will never see the flow if you are members here you are not really enough when you are young. that the prejudice is. so well there's no push to export concepts from the european school model international curriculums apply now live in a two thousand and eleven report and later adopted by parliament. the european parliament repeats its request to the member states to promote the inclusion of the specific subject on the background goals and functioning of the european union and its institutions which will help young people feel more involved in the process of

european integration school curricula responsibility of individual member states to tailor to their own needs and their own classrooms you should not get involved in dictating what individual schools teach you know we don't want to see a european money wasted on pouring out it's pouring out to probably you. there into our schools we see as part of our role to explain to citizens regardless of age how this thing why we have the european union why it's a good thing but the aim is more information not. propaganda or you know sort of brainwashing exercise that's not what we're told among the objectives of the european school are to encourage european and global perspective and to promote the emergence of a european identity from an early age but the question is why does it stop being education and start being ganda as do angry any p's he say that targeting youngsters and their education with a potentially one sided political view may just be a little too said mr tess are cilia r.t.

brussels and libya fireworks replace gunshots as the country marks a year since the start of the uprising that toppled khadafi by the university comes at a time of continuing instability hundreds of armed militias are roaming the country and national transitional council appears unable to control them there's also evidence of torture and abuse of the remaining supporters and while libya's leaders say they are willing to integrate the militias into the security services jim brann from the stop the war coalition says for now these are just empty words. of the national transitional council that was the body that was particularly backed by night during the summer months of bombing point he said in. almost as a new message. he said that faced the prospect of violent suppression of the militias.