the two nations work more closely in civil nuclear technology. the gunman from the radical islamist sect stormed the nigerian prison freeing one hundred nineteen inmates one guard was killed in the ensuing gunfight after the group lasted through the prison gates using explosives for his have recaptured around twenty five of the escaped prisoners a sect has been blamed for killing almost three hundred people this year alone as it fights to establish a real law in nigeria. leaders from pakistan iran and afghanistan are meeting in islamabad try and find a way to end a decade long war the taliban afghan president hamid karzai is seeking in pakistan is helping organizing talks with the group and the nato secretary general valid to continue putting the pressure on the taliban courage them to negotiate when nato and the u.s. are racing to train

a three hundred fifty thousand police and soldiers able to take over after american troops withdraw from afghanistan in twenty forty. greece has more or less accepted a demand from eurozone leaders who want to greater oversight of the nation's finances before they hand over the next one hundred thirty billion euros of bailout cash a threat that moments is pushing the government into ever deeper cuts into more public protests platens is trying to find a way to trim spending by three hundred million euros and it reports that some years it is doubtful that greece can meet its obligations it's a situation that's there some european countries the little glad that they decided to stay out of the single currency system barton pelter. days shit nearly fifty three year old team leader jimmy counts lorries keep rolling off the production lines here at sky news may work but why do swedish know there's

a crisis on. therefore you know we don't know because it's so much but i hard up in profit making health cars in fact scummy was hit by the eurozone crisis when economic trouble loomed many loreal orders were cancelled the black headlines came we have a crisis in the euro in the euro is maybe going down and so on and then our customers get very hesitant but the lorry maker like sweden of real recovered fast from the initial downturn and has so far managed to dogs much of the pain felt further south in two thousand and three swedes shocked other review members by voting against joining the euro it was just one factor which now sees the country with one of the world's lowest government debts and one of the healthiest looking economies in europe we have the most best patheticly changed our problems with the fiscal side so we don't have all those debt problems and budgetary problems that

many other countries have but big debates lie ahead the rest of the u.s. still by far sweden's largest trading partner here as elsewhere and everyone is watching the embattled euro as a guide to their vote in a possible future referendum some put it simply mike economist wolf england you campaigned against the euro back in two thousand and three i think the euro will collapse before sweden where your whereas around eighty percent of streets say they're glad they're not in the euro the figure is reversed for the politicians most europhiles argue this crisis isn't the euro's fault it's about debt if you compare sweden which has been outside the euro for just over ten years and fiddler which has been a member of the you for the same period we have identical you can always development. both politicians and people here seem to think that there will be

another referendum and join europe sooner or later what the choice will be assuming there's still a euro left choose is anyone's guess this is a swedish kronor coin it's become a symbol of that momentous no vote of swedish prosperity versus the chaos of the euro but sweden can't ignore that its economy and political fate is tied in extra to europe and also predicting the future of the krona well political point tom barton r.t. . still with money more billionaires live in moscow than any other city in the world it's no wonder then that the entertainment real estate and luxury goods market is good out from a just spend this in the russian capital this week moscow out to take a look at the lifestyle of a mega rich has a pretty. what

i can honestly say that this is the largest suite i've seen in my entire life but alone here in russia four hundred ninety square meters this monster of a room costs just under. the night before tax that's roughly around sixteen thousand dollars whether we're talking about world peace or simply by filthy rich i think any multi-millionaire would enjoy staying here. yes that's coming up next hour here in our table stop this is but i'm with katie. hello there welcome to the business program this hour officials are lisbon to check if portugal deserves the next fifteen billion euro transfer its bailout but bankers

at goldman sachs that needs up to fifty billion to sit through the next few years as a situation that deteriorates. looks at the problems facing the next years and states the firing line inspectors a royal for the seventy percent chance portugal will quit the single currency indicate the returns demanded by investors to lend to it unemployment is at record highs moody's downgraded the country's rating to junk status and its recession is getting worse g.d.p. slumped two point seven percent in the last three months of twenty eleven while businessmen outside the eurozone are frightened is fear of contagion chief says greece's default has already happened for investors and we should be worrying about the real elephant in the room portugal. you're paying gas consumers with russian fuel with a ten percent discount the country's gas monopoly gas problem says it's agreed to price cuts but force of course to increase the price component in its contracts the

concession comes off to negotiations with some of biggest customers including france's that g.d.s. us and gas of germany gas problems long term supply contracts index to the price of crude oil the influx of cheap spot gas prices has involved and it's customers to demand the companies switch from an oil based formula. we're going to have a look at the mall kits now we're going to start with current says the oil is trading at the dollar as the u.s. economic data out of fuel to a rally in the greenback while the ruble is makes against the main current says it's hard as the dollar just a lot against the year. and moving on to the oil. oil is actually trading near the highest level in six weeks because of the encouraging signs coming from the u.s. of course the biggest consumer of crude job has claims dropping to the lowest level

since two thousand and eight and in the european markets it was disappointing day yesterday but as you can see today is looking a pretty good night out with greece situation will be at the forefront of investors' minds if it's his health absent up on the dax point eight percent oppose it territory and the russian markets are high offering gains in the u.s. and asia as you can see v.l.t. as is point nine percent up in the my stakes is just a fraction they're pretty flat it's an impulse to territory and see what's happening with the individual chevy's on them i say the energy stocks are on the rise to pull to buy stronger crude with gazprom a third of a percent in the black financials also office point eight percent higher a rating by economist magazine schools as the world's second best. in terms of return on investment over the past decade and call my get asked about is also again it's up haul five percent this. french

comic around else has for the first time seen a profit from its investment in russia after a vast forty nine million euro to the european shareholder in twenty eleven that's compared to a twenty one million euro loss in the previous year when elma san owns twenty five percent enough to vasant expects eight percent growth in earnings this year russian business is being hit by western sanctions against iran over its nuclear program the gulf state take supports me fifty percent of russia's still exports try to cross the caspian sea is being severely impacted because of restrictions imposed by u.s. banks it's going to or a cove off from industry research group plas explains what's going wrong. any bank that is tied in with the u.s. banking system. cannot cannot take part in trade it cannot open letters of credit it cannot or no letters of credit theoretically it can be done for

russian or ukrainian banks in fact in the end of december the iranian and russian trade envoys have met there has been talks about facilitating an easing of the system for russian banks to accept iranian lots of credits the fact is it doesn't seem to be working at the moment traders producers are telling us that three hundred thousand tonnes on the normal month zero tolerance at the moment. i k the muscle finale back in about fifty five minutes stay with us headlines up next.

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the. market finally. find out what's really happening to the global economy for no holds barred look at the global financial headline used to cause a report on our. welcome back let's recap our top stories now russia says no to regime change in syria votes against a person on balance the u.n. resolution that fails to address the dangers posed by only the insurgents government forces are reportedly stepping up their assault on rebel fighters across syria. fueling anti iran rhetoric is red accuses islamic state of targeting its diplomats all picked by policemen computer reins to explosions in one park it

follows similar attacks in india and georgia area this week but iran fiercely denies any involvement. eurozone leaders are deciding the terms of the next bailout package from battle greece as the deadline for its debt repayments looms closer economic crisis has engulfed much of europe countries outside a single currency like sweden managing to avoid the worst of it. all next all special report on humanity's attempts to find the secret of eternal life. humans cyborgs. nothing but fantasy or potential reality. how long can a human being live for. the thousands of years people sought to find an elixir of eternal life to halt nature's ticking clock. the subject has returned to the stage

once more in the twenty first century this time scientific globe or a tree's a joining the hunt but instead of seeking a fountain of youth there focusing on the power of technology to achieve immortality. this is one of the formulas designed for the fight against aging the substance is called the school or church of i on it is named after its creator. of he heads the department of genetic engineering at moscow state university. if. you first suggested this age nineteen seventy two. but it was not going to tilt two thousand and five with that we put the whole formula of each fighting on paper where you really push them. according to dr

scholar two of oxygen is of all things one of the most dangerous substances in the human body he say's that when cells become oversaturated with active forms of oxygen they become oxidized and this leads to an early death. mirror but as over here the body produces poisons one of the most malicious poisons is generated at the heart of each cell in the middle condra i'm on the one hand they supply the body with energy on the other they gradually kill us the older we are the more poison we have in our bodies in the form of free radicals. some time ago maxim's father came to the conclusion that there is a mechanism which makes cells a he theorizes that a new biological process is set in motion immediately after a mother gives birth this process makes the body destroy itself with the program given that aging is programmed it can be stopped like any other program in that

case ailments characteristic of old age will be nipped in the bud and we won't age . this unique footage taken by a digital microscope reveals the nature of human mortality in the second minute of the video sudden flush marks out a dying cell setting off a chain reaction that kills off nearby cells. with a death signal is received by neighboring cells in this experiment and they realize that the cell died only a moment ago and its death was not accidental rather it was the result of a process the signal went right across this tiny island of cells it's really quite an unusual sight. dying of old age was uncommon in ancient times people would usually full victim to wild beasts or their enemies but later people came to believe that immortality could be found in faraway lands the arab scientist ibn battuta learned about the fountain of youth in china alexander the great

believe that it was in india one theory claims that the real reason he wanted to kiss famous campaign in the indian subcontinent was salut for the waters of life. abkhazia is a republican the southeastern coast of the black sea in soviet times many people head live to a hundred or more more than two hundred seventy centenarians lived here in the mid twentieth century there was even a quiet composed soley out of the very elderly in the republic only those between seventy to one hundred years of age were allowed to join the choir mostly sang old a cousin songs to the accompaniment of traditional instruments now the choir members a younger than the previous generation. honored. there

was an interview with i'm eighty one years old and he says that my singing career spanned sixty five years sometimes i even sing when i'm at home if you are my wife schools me she says why on earth are you singing stop that mumbling good night for i see a tune is racing through my head see i need to sing all the time i say that. in the one nine hundred seventy s. or the president of abkhazia. kill became the main character in a documentary about centenarians home mark t. told the filmmakers t. pulled icy water from mountain streams over himself several times a day throughout his life he was certain the water cleansed people of everything with it the. are really over a hundred years old a hundred and nine now would you like to share this secret over your longevity

people must know how to take care of themselves healthy habits help them. to demonstrate that a one hundred nine year old abkhazian is just as capable as the youngsters. kill mounted a. unassisted as the camera crew looked on his destination was the neighboring village of dilip where one of his great grandsons was celebrating his wedding interestingly almost forty years on people in that village still remember. i remember a taco very well. i even recall the good time we had during his great grandsons wedding my grandsons with their to. live the is ninety three years old now he has spent most of his life here into the blood him it worked on a collective farm before his long absence from the village during world war two he retired many years ago but he still works in his orchard every day he crafts

sprouts of new varieties on to old trees these apple trees are going to get a new lease of life soon. i think i would say it's about time for me to die and lie in the earth peace. but no. life still gives me the strength to be on the move sure when i see anything new after i die well i don't think so but officially the main body of lawmakers in abkhazia is an assembly made up of elders all of the country's historic decisions have been made in this matter in the verge of law from the abolition of serfdom to the recent decision to declare abkhazia as independence. people gathering here. to make a decision on any important issue. their rulings became law for the

entire people. during the years of soviet government several international groups of scientists came to a cause yet to find out what made people here live so long their conclusions were intriguingly simple here old people last longer simply because they are always aware of the fact they have a role to play in society. sending centenarians to an old people's home is a disgrace for idea they should be allowed to live in the homes where they were born they should be cared for and loved that's what they need they should be made happy and they will live a long life. counters elizabeth but tory of hungary in the blood of six hundred fifty young serf women every day the fifteenth century french marshals does numbered more than eight hundred peasant children at a libertarian news council to avoid aging. as it turns out the

twentieth century dictator joseph stalin was also anxious about his mortality he had five cottages built on our cars here in the vicinity of the locality and habited by generations of old ages. the legend has it that during a stroll in his dutch or stalin met a one hundred twenty year old local man he asked him whether it was true that the magic rivers a cause here could prevent aging. yes the old men said there were no magic reverse but there was a want a full weave human powers. that brunt of stalin to visit the waterfall each morning he washed their and drank some water. among them causing methods of fighting old age had been handed down from generation to generation this is one of the oldest pagan rituals during festivities people boil the hearts of wild beasts and big tubs placed outdoors in the hearts of put on

a boiling rock it is believed that he has tasted the heart of a wild beast strengthens his own during a festive meal elders get the biggest chunks this custom is thought to give them strength and a long life. she who takes skilled in words lives as long as killed itself in terms one recipe of an elixir of eternal life from the middle ages. another is a ground up mixture of a one thousand year old toad in the ten thousand year old bat tried up in the shade teles philosopher john doling lived to one hundred twenty two years as a result of taking such mysterious potions. cultures that so much are given to their huge music to share the power of finding the mark with syria in the spiral of violence why does the west refuse to describe events being played out in syria as a civil war why is there such weak. a

true to life in mortal human being will walk the earth in two thousand and forty five this bold claim comes from the russia two thousand and forty five movement in december two thousand and eleven its representatives demonstrated their first accomplishment on the hard road to immortality this electronic om is only the start of a process that hopes to finish with a fully functioning human saw

a bold. assignment finances this year we will meet again in five years time with my double will be here but i'll be in another room or at home yet you will still feel that you are talking to me and not my double. dmitri it's cold does not put his hopes in such dreams instead as a successful businessman he has gathered many scientists doctors and inventors their chief goal is to create the perfect body to give it soul and consciousness of a human being. but him but it and we hope that at some point we just have to perform a painless transfer of the mind of the person falls asleep and wakes up in another body where he feels just as comfortable. dimitri is called was inspired by the hollywood film surrogates it shows the possibility of creating a human double a surrogate cyborg controlled by the force of thought and imagination would be done

without leaving one's home. computers and computer intelligence exceeds human intelligence and then what happens in that sort of perhaps more of the terminator scenario you know what happens when the machines become self-aware enough to realize hey we don't need these people and in fact these people are kind of screwed up the planet. surrogates begins with a lib or a trick creating a replica of a human controlled. by the human mind the surrogates of the future cannot be distinguished from the human counterparts but it's obvious that the first surrogates are a combination of man and she kevin warrick has volunteered to be a human cyborg. first imply that i had. here we go this is show you what it looked like so this was the first implant.

that's right e.o. frequency identification device and that was implanted in my left arm just up here so pushed in that point and what we use this for was simply as i moved around my building here in reading in england and the computer knew where i was at particular points so i would open doors for me and switched on lights and said hello and having studied the experiences of those who use cybernetic limbs work agreed to more surgery this time a more sophisticated chip would be implanted into his arms nervous to shoot operations like a. little bit nervous but i think much more a lot more exciting than anything else i really feel off with doing now he will be taking. it's actually doing some soil where i actually got

a choice of the way i think. the operation lasted for several hours oric was worried about whether the new device would be rejected by his body but the surgery was successful as a result the scientist could subject himself to more experimentation. one of the experiments i did was to drive a wilcher around just from my neural signals so it's the sort of thing that a paralyzed person could they could drive themselves in a car just by thinking about moving if you like. robyn f. ecan stone a swede lost his right arm a few years ago it was he who was the first patient to test an experimental device called the smart hand scientists connected more than forty senses from this artificial device to his arm then able him to move his bio nick hand and feel the touch of objects. that precious even can be transposed to

a specific area the skin of the remaining head and if you find the right spots to stable day we know that also the areas of brain court case with activity that. it took robin only one day of training to learn to control the artificial limb as he would his own arm to start with he made the device stimulate the movements of his other hand later he learned how to get it to perform operations on its own. more importantly 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 not when you can control your movements it's great for the i haven't felt like this for a long time so when i take something and i can feel it in them again it is so weird because i don't have a real hand if you but the fact that i can feel it again it's.