robin even recalled how it felt when he touched something. bigger put there now i can give orders for my bring to my body which i haven't done in years but when you can control your movements it's great for the i haven't felt like this for a long time or 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 that sort of thing we can see her of 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 and that 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 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 beauty for his long as she lived old aristocrats claimed that the count didn't daja told during the half century that they knew him the count's died in seventeen eighty four others say people saw him in venice in one nine hundred thirty eight nearly one hundred fifty years later. in the soviet union there were secret laboratories 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 is in order and 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 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 twenty one 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 a 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 on linking this process from this process going to a profession in which the tabel is i'm 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 profit 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 is here with simple man made machine car airplane that we know

that a car if belt typically only maybe ten or fifteen year but we often the cars like that sometimes laugh a lot longer sometimes one hundred years and the reason they laugh along when they do it because for whatever reason if i love with them and they. really comprehend. doing periodic preventative repair and may keep them in. according to the bible people before the great flood normally lived for several hundred years adam the first minute the earth and the sunsets survive for of a one 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 just because you were some say it's a matter of chronology according to a different chronology it's ninety eight 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 study 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 settled 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 rafts 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 report these rats lived much longer than the control group would be a good thing to do so it's interesting. as well as the current research the scientists test their findings on themselves talk to 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 bloody in their school or church over 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 day of an entire din a stick of microbiologists. this if i was doing research in three martel to singlehanded 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 the aging process right after birth are scientists on the right track and who's there is of what could be done to make people stay young longer will replenish the list of human illusions and dashed hopes there is an ongoing struggle to convince people of the possibility of a turn of life has its achievements and its failures. having

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international maneuvers the u.s. and its allies play hardball over syria russia and china push for a diplomatic solution all iran looks on nervously at its struggling allies. latvia holds a referendum on whether russian should be enough to show language in a state where a third of the population battles just to be accepted. european impartiality comes under scrutiny as a number of schools are accused of brainwashing evaluation to children in the name of diverse.

there's one comment coming to you live from moscow i'm karen taraji crisis locked syria finds itself caught between two very different diplomatic efforts as the u.s. and its allies pile pressure on the government russia and china are trying to mediate a negotiated solution one of beijing's top diplomats isn't damascus for talks calling on all sides to help the violence and work out a peace deal the chinese effort follows up on months of attempts by moscow to bring the warring sides together but the rebels refuse to negotiate unless assad gives up the power the violence is escalating almost daily now with dozens reportedly killed over the past twenty four hours political science professor joseph chang says u.s. dominance in the region is forcing some world powers to the defensive of the major factors you know wolf cools. off the idea of some kind of just mean.

throughout the world in the middle east and north africa obviously the conservatives countries in the region trust china they do not want to see. jesmyn. be joining the. big united has been exerting pressure on the middle east don't respect thing the interest of russia and china and that is beginnings the idea of multi-player larry and this is a method of a lack of respect for the interests of major powers russia and china china certainly ones to. you to a suit and the below is influence in the middle east region which is of strategic importance to china and china increasingly believes that the it is a global power it has grove all interests and these interests to be respected.

as damascus feels 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 and

all the roads in the middle east right now do seem to lead back to tehran experts are calling the last thing the boy band ok bring down throw it rainy and how sad and replacing it with the opposition figures we've already said they did talk to nancy terror on foreign policy we realize the nuclear iran is the most 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 weigh in all cornered iran could bite perhaps accelerating the nuclear program prospects are easing its. interference perceived interference in other countries in the region

press bahrain probs 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 grows more. 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 is almost a rising storm clouds are massing over the region reports of emerge that the qatari and saudis are already funding arming and covertly operating with the syrian opposition iran looks increasingly isolated with a hostile israel perilously close norris many of tea. were closely following developments in syria on our website as well log on to our to dot

com to get all the latest updates here's what else you'll find there are right now joining forces pakistan's pledges to support iran after the u.s. launches a military attack against the islamic republic you can get more information online . also the cyber war goes on the anonymous group assaults half a dozen u.s. federal government websites within the past week takes press their anger at an anti-piracy long. latvia is holding a national referendum saturday on whether russia 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 the place

they call home artie's aleksey at a shared ski reports from lots. the lady from a lot of the russian minority says his country's government has gone too far having lived in lot of all his life it was only recently that he managed to exchange a temporary residence permit to a passport but now this father of three faces another hurdle for his family this time and that his children and their education. in the russian school schools sixty percent of the lessons must be taught. but excuse me chemistry biology and physics it's difficult to get even a new ruling which. does create a lot of problems for the students at the moment and of course it. is 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 as against our constitution which says life is a man a national state and always be it it splits our society which has to have one solid foundation but if you want to it to be like russia then line going to russia. would be. 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 hauled 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 whose parents and grandparents came here after nine hundred forty five they were denied citizenship after a lot of it 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 to have the human rights suspect of stateless children being born in love with. the clear norms of the convention on the rights of the child 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 alien brass boards and to grant citizenship to those who are living with them 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. and some world news in brief for you this hour riot police in senegal fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters after the country's opposition defined a government ban and held a demonstration calling for the president to step down street battles between police and demonstrators continued through the night in the capital do car leaving several people injured president abdoulaye wade is campaigning for a third term in office in next week's election. a man who thought he was carrying out a suicide bombing in washington has been arrested. the field was attempting to detonate a fake explosive vest given to him by undercover f.b.i. officers he allegedly believed the officers were members of al qaida the moroccan national had been under surveillance by the u.s. government for about a year. the funeral of pop icon whitney houston takes place in newark new jersey later on saturday the service will be held at the church where she sang in the

choir us child fans started to pay their respects on friday leaving flowers and balloons on the church steps now six time grammy award winner was found dead under water in a bath tub at beverly hills hotel last week. in bolivia thousands of people have been left homeless after overflowing rivers flooded more than half of the country's districts a red alert was issued an army deployed to help the evacuation the monsoon season which started in january has already claimed seven lives and calls a surge in infectious diseases i get it was used so i had for you this hour training the supermarket for the farm how health conscious the shoppers across russia are feeling their cupboards with organic food straight from the growers. any message once lead. to bird

ever. eternal fire is going to think i could possibly. do we all want to see this on forever. but. 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 that in a stress positions. you have this fear of the unknown and this stress sort of building and. i've seen interrogations go on ten twelve hours they chose songs i remember from marilyn manson and metallica slayer the two songs would be angel of death and raining blood to kill the enemy going to war coming up here into iraq i mean look into baghdad. johnny pulled the bodies to the floor which is the rock n roll band it was fitting for the job we were doing. thanks for being with us at thirteen past the hour with financial crisis immigration under attack and member nations at each other's throats there appears little to be to recommend to the you 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 evaluate very young artists arcelor reports on accusations of brainwashing. but what do you know about your country and the capital is there all not enough some literally. pizzelles by. the. spanish french and english i mean if you turn these youngsters are attending one of the fourteen european 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 we 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 paraphernalia that they claim promote a stormy i'd've vision of the e.u. a comment from a european commission representative at an education fair appears to support that point we will never see in the fall of zero zero zero zero you know early enough when young. people read this is. it worth it there is no push to export concepts from the european school model international curriculums up one out 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. the specific subjects on the background goals and functioning of the european union and its institutions which will help young people involved in the process of european

integration school curriculum 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 say european money wasted on pouring out. pouring out to you propaganda into our schools we see as part of our role to explain to citizens regardless of how this thing work why we have the european union why it's a good thing that the aim is more information not. propaganda sort of brainwashing that's not what we're told among the objectives of the european school are to encourage european and global perspective and to probe the emergence of a european identity from an early age but the question is what does it stop being education and start being a propaganda when the suggestion is being. a better europe is automatically more europe than i have a problem with as do angry m e 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 tesser cilia r.t. brussels. in libya fireworks were placed gunshots as the country marks a year since the start of the uprising that toppled moammar gadhafi but the anniversary comes at a time of continuing instability hundreds of armed militias are roaming the country and as the national transitional council appears unable to control them there is also evidence of the torture and abuse of the remaining gadhafi supporters and while libya's leaders say they are willing to integrate the militias into 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 by night during the summer months of point he said in those the almost.