more importantly robin even recalled how it felt when he touched something. bigger put them 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 i haven't felt like this for a long time so shows 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 varied 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 then you stick to the right lifestyle they view any attempts at immortality based on combining man with machine with open are still itty. 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 of a man 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's didn't daja told during the half century that they knew him the celts died in seventeen eighty four others same people saw him in venice in one thousand thirty eight nearly one hundred 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 problem 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 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 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 shelled 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. roopak it's all about only linking this process for this process. going to a position in which the stubble is a no longer cause if but. because every so often we go in and remove some of the damage as if not so much metabolism has happened. and that is what we're all about we think that this process is 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 that we know that

a car is belt typically to laugh only maybe ten or fifteen years but we all think the cars like that sometimes laugh a lot longer from time especially if i'm one hundred years and the reason they laugh along when they do it because for whatever reason i fell in love with them and they did a really comprehensive job of maintaining doing periodic preventative repair and maintenance to keep them in top condition. according to the bible people before the great flood normally lived for several hundred years adam the first man of the earth and he 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 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 been have. responsible for longer lives. the laboratory of moscow state university is designed to fight aging scientists experiment with a wide range of animals trying to boost their lifespan and 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 of choice of when the rats begin ageing their condition is in stark contrast that of rats of the same age. coupled to the rats that were about to set out on the journey to the otherworld could no longer move they were in the final stage of aging at the summit

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 put it but 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 around 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 gene. scientists wanting to

find a way of extending human life are often seen as quite blood in their school or children his four sons hope that in four. 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 florida of an entire denah state of microbiologists. this if i was doing research in three mortality a single handed i would mean 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 so aging process right off to birth our scientists on the right track and whose theories of what could be done to make people stay young longer will replenish the list of human illusions and dashed hopes there was an ongoing struggle to convince people of the possibility of a tone of life has its achievements and its failures. having

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well sending a message to syria the u.n. general assembly passed a symbolic resolution condemning the violence in the country but not everyone was on board with the measure will bring you the very latest from your. russia is killing our children after a veto of and while the un deliberates on what to do about russia american media outlets are already acting as judge and jury but are they really presenting all of the evidence. and be careful what you chat message post hope share or tweet

you never know who is following your every move it might just be big brother we'll speak to a lawyer who is going toe to toe with the department of homeland security. it's thursday february sixteenth eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz of all you're watching r t. a late this afternoon the u.n. general assembly passed a resolution that condemns the assad regime and syria the west and several arab countries are calling for the syrian leader to step down blaming him for the brutal crackdown and deaths of over five thousand people today's vote comes after china and russia russia voted vetoed a similar resolution in the u.n. security council a move which has infuriated other members earlier i spoke with our correspondent

laurie an important i about today's developments take a look. that's right there was an overwhelming majority of the general assembly that voted to support this draft resolution one hundred and thirty seven countries voted in support twelve against and seventeen abstained there were just about three countries that had problems with voting but overall those are the numbers that were immediately given that clearly signals that the majority of u.n. member states do support this resolution that has been adopted now what it does is it supports and fully puts its efforts behind the arab league plan a plan which calls for syrian president bashar al assad to step aside and hand over its power his powers this draft this is now it's a resolution the resolution also condemns syrian authorities for violating human rights fundamental freedoms and using force against civilians and even killing

protesters why some countries voted no against this resolution countries including china and russia is because they argue that this resolution is not balanced it does not condemn armed opposition for participating in the ongoing violence that is now dated back eleven months russian ambassador to the united nations vitaly churkin did address the general assembly saying that he believes this resolution is a move towards isolating the syrian government and could hinder any negotiations for peace russia has offered to mediate talks and dialogue between the syrian government and opposition groups to conduct those talks in moscow but with moves like this happening the international community is putting more pressure on the assad government and clearly the opposition groups are not going to be running to any negotiation table and this is more of

a symbolic vote so it is nonbinding so what do they really hope to achieve through it. well what could happen is now that the international community has shown the consensus of opinion that it's not a full consensus but majority they could either try to go back to the security council and speak with russia and china about supporting a new resolution that would essentially echo what this resolution says but that just took place twelve days ago in the security council we saw that russia and china vetoed saying that the u.n. should not be used as a tool for regime change in any country it could also allow possibly for humanitarian assistance in syria possibly for the u.n. to implement that there's also in this resolution a call for the secretary general ban ki-moon to appoint a special envoy to syria but all in all you know nobody knows what that will really

do at the end of the day you knew you need to reach a consensus within the security council for there to be any binding legal action on an international level and now that this vote has been passed you mentioned just twelve days ago in the security council it was rejected by both china and russia now that this vote has been passed is there now more pressure on the two countries to to agree to this resolution. russia and china may feel more pressure absolutely because this is this is in many ways playing out in the media and many mainstream media outlets in the u.s. and in western countries are casting russia and china as the villain in this process they have one position where they want to come to a peaceful they believe that there could be a police peaceful solution agreed upon where you get both sides to come to the

negotiation table whereas you have the u.s. western countries and our countries believing that the time has come for syrian president bashar al assad to go. so here you have a divided opinion russia and china may be feeling more heat but i think in the aftermath of what took place in libya those two countries are not going to be quick to cave under pressure because we saw what happened in libya following an intervention that the international community promised would bring more peace to that country that has not come to fruition and russia and china believe that if they open the door for the international community to have free reign in apt in syria there could be a repeat of what happened in libya so we can bet that this will continue to dominate discussions at the united nations but whether russia and china will change positions on syria i wouldn't put my money on the marina thank you so much for keeping us updated on this story that is changing by the moment that was our

correspondent marina parr and i have from our new york studio well as you can see in the u.s. it's the west versus russia and china when it comes to how to handle syria and it seems to be the same story in the u.s. media today amid the name calling and finger pointing are some of the facts being overlooked are these honest explains. well it's getting serious in syria i mean very serious the syrian crisis at a peak diplomatic tensions flying high the united states is disgusted that a couple members of this council continue to prevent us from fulfilling our sole purpose here as american officials switch on the traditional approach of dealing with regimes they just don't like assad is crazy he's a brutal dictator reese killing his own people this is the same narrative we heard about gadhafi the media is right there to echo whatever spin is presented by those in power well how disgusted are you. disgusted richard they had then

a fight with people in power they echo what those people say secondly they don't look too closely at the facts and information war kick started as russia and china refused to stand behind america's position many of chanting russia is killing our children after a veto of the russians and the chinese stand in the way of the un but it was vetoed by russia and china secretary of state clinton reacted differently the russian and chinese veto over the same change resolution reacted to with confrontation by politicians clinton suggested russia and china will eventually have to answer to the syrian people work along their pain and news headlines attacking the two countries without detail or context so they present a serious newspaper don't get it it was please not my own my answer to your question don't be ridiculous the media not showing the will to explain what led to the veto it's a crack in the wall of was basically were ripping the tissue of lies is being

presented by the media here if you look. closely or even at all at what russia was saying that there was violence taking place on both sides you don't understand what was happening was there was an armed insurgency backed by people from the outside but this is an inconvenient truth the media have long dubbed the armed groups a popular democratic uprising and oppressors and the oppressed desperate new please come out of the country and growing cause for the world to stop the killing with all the yelling and screaming there is no time to think about who the opposition might really be and what a toppled regime could lead to it's not enough to just say assad rebels good who are these people it's always possible to replace a bay mediocre or a terrible regime with something that's worse journalist matt lee has been covering the you went for years and knows all too well how the media likes to approach what happens i cover the security council closely enough that i'll say like this sort of

the the common sense the knee jerk answered almost everything that happens that russia and china are wrong in the west is right if you're going to cover the security council you might as well actually like try to cover what actually happens rather than if you come in to each day just knowing in advance you know who's good who's bad and what's going to happen i think that you can miss a lot especially when the coverage narrative varies depending on where on the map the conflict stems from the statement that you hear that any leader who kills his own people has lost all legitimacy if that really were the standard i think of you know a not insubstantial percentage of the world's leaders would have lost their legitimacy as the mainstream media sticks with journalism by press release americans who don't dig deeper themselves and up getting just one side of the story with some facts amplified and others unexplained are simply left out the media has gone from informing to misinforming the people and. r.t. new york earlier i spoke to wrest baker investigative journalist for who what why dot com and author of the book family of secrets he explained has risen in the

reasoning on my he thinks the media's coverage of the syria crisis has been one sided take a look. it's even worse i think than the coverage of libya if that's possible and why do you say that well you know. we've been studying these things very very closely and we find a complete absence of journalistic due diligence essentially just to give you an example i'm looking at a piece from the new york times from today and they could extensively from an opposition group talking about how many people have been killed atrocities a military massacre of fifteen detainees cetera et cetera et cetera and then at the end it says these accounts could not be independently verified and that you have to ask the question well what is that worse certainly if the syrian government makes

a claim i think those are treated with a real skepticism and really at all ought to be treated with skepticism also i would fly a bit of logic to it and ask why the syrian government would be doing the kinds of things are saying they're doing which really only served to alienate the people on a large scale but that's that's what they said about gadhafi you'll remember where they claimed that he was giving his troops diag right encouraging them to commit mass rape me to put that out and of course that you're out of the completely untrue press i do want to point out right now we have a new development there that resolution condemning syria was just passed and as was expected we all knew that pretty much everyone was on board with this really the only opponents were china and russia i want to ask you how you would contrast how the west how and why the west condemns the syrian regime but kind of turns a blind eye to bahrain and saudi arabia what is behind that. oh well i mean i

think that's geopolitics a is a goal all those countries do that russia does china does the united states france britain they all do that i mean it's very important to remember that governments make decisions based on so-called national interest often it's not even that at all it's the influence of powerful corporate interests that fund the campaign so we could keep pulling the camera further and further back to try to see what's really going on in this little tiny stage play we're being presented but the reality is that that it's not about atrocities atrocities has never been the standard it's about the fact that bashar assad represents a particular faction you might say in the arab world that the west would like to see depart but rest it is issue we should point out you know there as the death toll rises in syria and reports of these violent atrocities do continue to come out that they're being committed there is it getting harder to justify letting it go.

well you see again the problem is that we don't know who's committing these things because they're you know by now if in fact it was the military committing a large scale atrocities it shouldn't be that hard to establish a lot of what we're talking about involves say for example sniper fire from buildings where we don't know who's doing the shooting i think to some extent this reminds me of what i saw in romania in one thousand nine hundred ninety when i covered the overthrow there of the dictator ceausescu where there was tremendous chaos and there were all these different factions of professional snipers firing on civilians but not all necessarily from ceausescu's very very hard to figure out who was behind that and i think my my point here is that we've got to be deeply deeply wary even those numbers we're being told even the numbers that ban ki moon asserts he says that one of his people gives him those numbers well where did she get them

whenever i've looked at those things and try to really understand it turned out that they came from very very questionable sources originally and oftentimes there are two sides to a story why do you think that why why is it that the media doesn't really dig deeper into reporting the full picture of what is going on there and that some of these details are being left out. again i think it's a matter of self-interest and you know that in general i mean the reason i started who was why is because i just didn't feel that the media in the united states were really very good that the people were taking the kind of risks and showing the kind of courage and independence that needs to be shown in these situations but the reality is that atrocities are horrible the reality is that people everywhere ought to have democracy i mean the biggest advocate of the syrian people having whatever kind of government they want to have the concern here is are we getting accurate information or is this whole thing being played i mean assad and his government have been there for a long time they've been brutal for

a long time as you mentioned the saudis the bahraini s. and other governments have been brutal for a long time china certainly commits atrocities on a daily basis in tibet and we don't see the west doing anything about that so i really do think there's a double standard and that's the way the press ought to play it and quickly last i just want to ask you how this kind of coverage in the u.s. media is affecting public perception of what is going on and syria. well you know ordinary people were very busy we don't have time we don't have the historical background the perspective to understand what all of these things mean to understand that syria is run by a minority. shiite faction in a predominately sunni country that they're aligned with iran against saudi arabia that saudi arabia faces its own poorly covered revolt by in a shiite or oil raising really region these are the big questions and these are

really the things that the public doesn't hear about and they need to hear about it because otherwise what we're experiencing is a tremendous kind of mass migration from one viewpoint to another purely based on these very deliberate and calculated propaganda campaign press thanks for coming on the show that was ross baker founder and and editor. who what why dot com. also had an r t want to buy land too if by sea but america's greatest star it might not be a by either of the is coming up we'll show you why america's internet insecurity has politicians worried and contractors counting the dollars. that just brings your eyes right right i mean it's like a derivative of actual paper it's a food product essentially. it's much stronger than anything you'd be by a lot. of times and stronger than any.