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a chronic donor shortage. also in the program causing stones president says russian lead troops will withdraw completely from the former soviet republic within 10 days . following up out of violet unrest, he is blaming one. is little miss militants and 10, a star novak joked edge back on court after his legal victory to play in the australian open fans are delighted, but the threat of deportation is not on the table yet. ah hello em terry martin, thanks for joining us. in a medical 1st, us surgeons had successfully implanted a genetically modified pig heart into a human patient. the transplant took place last week. the 57 year old man was too ill to be eligible for human heart transplant. he said to be recovering well so far

. medical researchers hope such procedures could one day help ease the chronic shortage of human origin donations. this is the heart used to give dave bennett a new lease on life. in a 9 hour procedure surgeons transplanted the organ, taken from a one year old pig. it was gene edited bread and killed for this purpose. following friday surgery, the 57 year old patient is breathing on his own while still connected to a hot lung machine. he simply didn't want to die, doesn't want to die. and he felt that if he had no opportunity and he was pretty well convinced by multiple doctors who had told him he had a fatal disease. and he was unlikely to leave the hospital because of that as a background, as, as an alternative. he said to me, 2 very important things, i don't want to die. and he said if i do, maybe you'll learn something to help others. prior attempts at so called zeno

transplantation, largely failed because patients body's rapidly rejected the animal organ. most countries rely on an opt in system for donation requiring express prior consent to use the organs of dead people in the usa alone, around $6000.00 people die every year, waiting for kidneys, hearts, or lungs. a death, a game changer, because a, you know, now and not a v will have these organs are readily available if you have their technique of a genetically modifying. so if they're more cute tweaking, required for, for modifying the genes, we can re, every of the will be able to do that. and, you know, can, can, you know, customize basically the hard for, are the argon for the patient? the experimental procedure raises ethical and animal rights issues, and as far from being declared safe. but for now, dave bennett's new pig heart is still beating was bran peter chin hong. here

he's a medical educator who focuses on donor drives, infections and transplant recipients, some trans planning animal organs into humans was mostly failed so far. how do you rate this latest attempt? i read this attempt very in a very promising way, terry. the reason why it's very, very different from pierce errors, is that we can genetically alter this hearts specifically so that the human body doesn't reject it when it comes in or immune system is so vigorous that very miner participation side looks foreign, is rejected very up reciprocally by immune system. so to make the human, the pig hart looked very much like a human heart by a gene editing and cloning makes us have to use fewer rejection meds, anti rejection meds which allows the patient to have more of

a normal existence and be a less risk for inter are infectious diseases as well as malignancies. what's the biggest risks? the biggest challenge in doing this kind of transplant? well, i think the rick biggest risk is, is always bringing in, ah, ah, pig infections that are not seen by humans before or malignancies. because what happens when you suppress your immune system, because you're trying to not reject the foreign organ. i, you put yourselves at risk flaw. reactivation of viruses. in particular, other infections as well as malignancies that can come with a foreign invader, which is the organ in this case i think these other wrists on there, they have had to use a very different immunosuppression regimen. submissively devolved for this. so these are all things. so i guess at the end of the day, ah,

people are really holding their breath because that pig heart has a high chance of rejection, even though it was genetically modified. you well, genetically modified animals using them in order to you to use her organs, raises ethical questions. what's your position on the ethics of this? i think it's definitely something that is continued to be discussed and worked on. but at the end of the day, you have hundreds of people and thousands. when you think about the world wide population waiting on the organ lists and dying every day, i'll, we don't have enough human organs. as mentioned by the reporter. many countries don't have an opt out system. in other words, individuals have to say that they're going to donate their organs at the time before they die, and that's not so. and in many countries, including us, the o, ph. d opioid epidemic has unfortunately left left a legacy of more organs temporarily because so many people are passing away

unfortunately. but the legacy and the gift of life is something that kind of be under emphasize. so i think having and scaling up opportunities like this can not only help the u. s, but help the rest of the world when you don't have enough organs or capacity just briefly a, what do you think this patient who just received the 1st pig heart? what do you think the prognosis is there? what, what are the risks that he's facing at this point? while the presidio is tried in animals before our with this particular technique we're not human. so he's the 1st human to get this kind of heart that has been gene edited specifically. so the wrists are really frank, odd rejection. ah, you know, the body sees this large organ as not being its own. so just like they mean cells, we think a barbara vaccines t cells be cells, they come in and it's almost like a bomb that to nader. they seeing this far in organ and they're trying to attack it

as an invader infection. oh huh. a cell gone awry. like a malignant cell. so that's the most um, you know, imminent danger then of course you have infections and willingness sees as well. professor chin hong thank you very much for talking with us. that was peter chin hunk in san francisco. thanks much terry. caustics, does president cassim drama. tokai of has said, russian lead troops will leave the country within 10 days to cry of cold for foreign military support. last week after days of violet unrest. according to the interior ministry, almost 10000 people in cars, it's done, have been detained throughout the country, with dozens of deaths. government officials said that the chaos had been stabilizing and claimed the islamist militants were among the attackers of more on this, we're joined by journalist bruce pioneer, a central asia specialist with radio free europe, who's currently in prague. bruce,

the catholic president, says russian lead troops who were sent to help quell the unrest will leave the country in the coming days. has russia extended its influence in kazakhstan through this deployment? i don't think there's any doubt about that at all. you know, the fact that they responded by sending it security to the organization. first time in the organization's 30 year, history is actually sent troops to a member state is a strong sign of support for president to have it on one, at least in debt to the crumbling. so is this uprising over or any more protests expected? well, there are still some small peaceful pro does, which are sell this all started. but generally the unrest is, is pretty much and then snapped out and the situation is stabilized throughout the country at the moment. now the contacts per contact president has named

a new prime minister. what can we expect from him? well, alejandro. my, you know, of course was a finance minister and i was excited before. and it shows seems to show that there's going to be a focus on, on the economy cause on it's always been one of the priorities in congress on any way that by far the rich country and central asia. and just as a side note is on the economic cooperation council, that's the body that implements decisions from the economic the ration economic union of which is a russian lead organization. and so that would also seem to show up closer to moscow. now nearly 10000 people have been arrested in connection with revolt in cars, extend the country's president, is calling it a coup attempt. did he present any evidence to support that claim? no, he hasn't. and there's still

a lot of doubts about exactly what happened. i mean, he, for trade that as being of the ag admit there was people protest at the start. but he said that it turned into unrest due to the present, the foreign trained or foreign militant that extend the offer no of them at all for that. and in fact, that seems to be the result. more of intro, leaf, fighting in our struggle with the government. bruce, thank you very much. that was bruce pioneer, central asia specialist with radio free europe and radio liberty talking to us from proc sketch up on some other stories making headlines around the world today. why lateral talks between russia and the u. s. ended with no breakthrough in geneva on monday discussions focused on di escalating tensions over ukraine. western countries are calling on russia to pull its troops back from the ukrainian border. moscow once a guarantee from nato, the military alliance will not expand eastwards. the president of the european

parliament, david sali has died at the age of $65.00. as office said he passed away after a serious complication related to his immune system. the italian center, left politician had been in hospital since december 26 and staff working for a british prime minister boris johnson were invited to a downing street bring your own booze party during the you case 1st. nationwide, correct? virus lockdown in 2020. that's according to an email reported legally to the press . johnson is under fire over allegations that a number of parties were held in breach of cobra 19 rules. there's a couple of world number one tennis player, novak joke of which has returned to the court for training in australia after winning a legal battle to stay and play in the upcoming australian open. on monday, a judge in melbourne returned the cancellation of his visa, overgrown of iris rules releasing the young vaccinated player from immigration detention, jock of ich his family and his supporters of celebrated his decision. but this

isn't over yet. the government could still cancel his visa on different grounds and to port him. ah, they were so happy that their hero is free, for now they mobbed any car, even if they couldn't be 100 percent. sure, novak joke of ich was inside. outside his lawyers office, they celebrated into the night somewhere, pepper sprayed in the chaos outside court to joke of inches. supporters cheered the decision to overturn his visa being canceled. oh, go with you in the judge order joking, which is released from immigration detention. calling the australian government's decision unreasonable, he rolled that joke,

which hadn't been given enough time to respond to that decision. the serbian had arrived in australia, believing he had a medical exemption to rules requiring a corona, virus vaccine. this it emerged was due to a december 16th cove at 19 infection, but the australian government argued that exemption didn't apply to people entering the country from overseas. that contradicted what joke of which had been told by tennis australia the tournament organizers. i'm not gonna blame any one. the conflicting information and the contract information that you receive is because of the changing environment. we are in a very challenging vaughn for every one that's been involved in this process. ciocca bitch treated that he was pleased to am grateful with the decision after the court's ruling going on to say he's now focused on the tournament. but the saga is not over yet. the australian government can still cancel. joker bitches visa on the

grounds of public health. for now though joke adventures family is thrilled with the rather atypical victory and all for me, this is the biggest victory in his career. the bigger than all his grand slams. ever even winning on the court is 2nd nature to joke, a bitch winning in court. however, as proved a lot harder. you're watching the w news up. next we got a documentary film for you taking you back to the 14th century in the renaissance factor. i'm terry martin from me and all of us here in the w thanks for watching and what interest the global.