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 with the brain changes the connections between the neurons strength or weaken reactions to such experiments varied from country to country lifestyles 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 are still itty they don't

get that they seem to be set on compelling people to stop being human it's a dangerous idea these people will no longer have the capacity for love compassion or charity 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 all there is to gritz claim that the count didn't daja told during the half century that they knew him the countess died in seventeen eighty four others say 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 of human life to can be extended by forty percent and that's what we're 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 as in order and their old brains were incapable of generating fresh ideas. of. 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 body's death an adaptation 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. what a what 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 sheldon tell 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. repair it's about unlinking this process from birth profer. going to a profession in which the stubble is i'm no longer cause of it but. because every so often we go in and remove some of the damage there for not so much metabolism happen. 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 is belt typically only maybe ten or fifteen year but we often the cars like that sometimes laugh a lot longer from time especially if i'm one hundred and the reason they laugh along when they do it because for whatever reason i love with them and they usually comprehend. 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 the sunset

survivor of a one hundred years the man with the greatest lifespan was methuselah one of the forefathers of mankind. yeah 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 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 of choice of when the rats begin aging their condition is in stark contrast to 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 by 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 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 gene. scientists wanting to find a way of extending human life are often seen as quite blood 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 is before i was doing research into martel 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 so aging process right off to birth our scientists on the right track and loose their

ease 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 eternal life as its achievements and its failures. having watched this documentary you are now twenty six minutes old.

pressure on the syrian regime as the general assembly adopts a non-binding resolution but russia reiterate foreign interference is not the way to go. greece scrambles to meet ever mounting e.u. conditions to secure more bailout cash while some countries who kept their national currencies are proving to be far better off. and we will get why one of premier putin's harshest critics blogger alex in the valley is being showered with praise by foreign media despite some of his controversial views.

thanks for being with us at six o'clock here in moscow on charon terror the un general assembly house adopted a non-binding resolution that piles more pressure on syrian president assad to step down russia was among twelve states who voted against it saying the draft fails to address the armed opposition moscow maintains the conflict should be solved by the syrian people without foreign pressure artie's marina porte monnaie has more from new york. this is very much a symbolic kind of message on the part of the international stage because you have an overwhelming majority of the u.n. members in the general assembly supporting a resolution that essentially endorses the arab league plan which calls for syrian president bashar al assad to step down it also condemns syrian authorities for violating human rights fundamental right or freedoms and using force against

civilians it also calls for u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon to appoint an envoy to syria this text resolution condemns syrian authorities that the reason for all countries did not support this resolution is because they argue it's on balance most of those now would because you order to resolve the syrian crisis there's a need to uphold a principle which no one seems to object to the violence must be stopped by all sides and this series solutions can only be found through an inclusive political plan led by the syrians themselves today's arab league draft resolution on the situation in the syrian arab republic does not meet these criteria to a large extent it reflects the worrying trend that causes concern to attempt to isolate the syrian leadership reject contact with it and impose an external formula for a political settlement but. russia has in the past of course offered to facilitate

a dialogue between the syrian officials and representatives of the opposition groups it's a host those negotiations in moscow but now where you see the majority of the international community standing behind a plan that calls for president assad to step down the opposition groups will most likely not be running to a negotiation table. but reports of ongoing violence and cereal bowl sides of the conflict accuse each other of committing crimes activists so syrian troops are intensively shelling rebel held neighborhoods while the government insists it's fighting an armed insurgency archies marina financial reports from the syrian capital. damascus one day two funerals the men in both coffins were killed fallen victim to the ongoing crisis in syria but at the hands of different sides. might said dick thirty seven reportedly received

five bullets to his chest and his head has become the first religious leader slain in the capital process for announcements those who knew him say the mom had tried to stay in the middle of the present crisis but couldn't help condemning the armed and to government forces that he blamed for bloodshed in his country. but i would like to go back a few months ago we had people saying words like freedom and peaceful where is the freedom if they simply kill those against them is this the freedom they wanted. a brutal irony that shaikh said dick himself was gunned down by those whose filer's he put himself against. he was killed because he was calling for reform and the end of clashes those who did it nobody want chaos and no death is that is what you all this is the message to all islamic leaders the word of truth may cost your life would be the you tried to defend your country or stop the violence or stop

bloodshed you are not safe if you are saying the truth many people pay the price for truth he was one of them in. malta for some a traitor for others an internet page of the opposition news network sharm gives a chilling picture of the hatreds driving conflict in syria. he was killed and his soul was sent to hell this is what he deserves and then people don't have political issues and on any side it is really a very deep crisis very rare that even you will see me turn to a demonstration or a protest the that's exactly what happened at this funeral procession. the those who gathered to pay tribute to. show did you learn to government protest have not only brought flowers and grief but also political slogans and demands month in hardware afraid for our children and people and brothers and sisters.

witnesses say the bullet to cause the young boy at the threshold of the mosque and his body fell inside we have in islam. for respect shown wave for respect with holy mosques and we believe we have to avoid any kind of violence in mosques but unfortunately with this kind of crimes with this kind of dodgy the situation there is no hole in this for any god with violence causing even more violence syria seems to find itself in a vicious circle with little hope of finding their way out. very notion r.t. damascus syria. for more on the situation in syria we now talk to more what call for a member of the syrian social club a pro-government group supporting a reforms he joins us from london now moscow's against taking sides in the conflict

while the resolution adopted in the u.n. general assembly puts the blame solely on the regime how damaging is this difference of opinion. right well we're seen yesterday in the in the security council is the general assembly taking basically one side hearing one side of the conflict for the both sides of obviously it wasn't balance had the general assembly been made aware of a little atrocities that were taking place against those people who support president assad including civilians by the way probably people who all of the states would have voted different this has to different basically two different objectives aid to send a message to people on the ground in syria to keep on fighting that the international community will come to their help basically and i believe falsely providing them with hope or false hope and second to squeeze the international powers that actually do not want or do not believe that for intervention in syria

will end the problem but actually. inflame it more like russia and. china in order to squeeze them more into a sort of immoral position so that they would find it harder in the future to take a more balanced positions but i basically think that this won't have much. of an influence because i think what pressure and china are trying to do is to try to be more constructive with regards to this problem everybody knows that if the international community sticks their nose especially militarily into one country then the number of bets with double or even quarter will. ten times more than the original figure would have been so perhaps russia and china are trying to avoid lead libya lesson the most recent lesson trying to be more constructive and try to bring in the opposition with the with the syrian government on to

a table and i think that's exactly what the international community needs to do to incubate the a position a little bit rather than to falsely. provide hope to the. position but the studio is going to be overthrown as soon as possible top u.s. intelligence official has an mid al qaeda is working alongside syria's armed opposition could this mean that washington and terrorist groups are actually fighting on the same side. this is a very interesting development actually i never thought that the americans would want to publicly admit that is actually operating in syria what we know for sure is that. involvement had started with or clear involvement had started with a videotape by amazon. the head of al qaeda back in july calling for jihad in syria everybody kept shut their mouths shut about the international media didn't really or at least in the west didn't really handle it very much. but now

a more recent video does speak more of what is happening and the moral climate involvement and nobody actually took notice that when the first suicide bombings in damascus took place they were less than twenty four hours before that huge explosions. in iraq and they carried the same fingerprint now the american position is very interesting it just says that her hang on a minute this is a an enemy that we want to fight and suddenly they're operating in the same theater that we're trying to overthrow this government and i'm not you know i don't know what is the significance but perhaps it may signify that the americans are trying to understand once and for all that lost if i may say the syrian the syrian president had said previously that there might be tens of landslides in the in the region if they keep pressuring the syrian government and pressuring the syrian regime might come true and just very briefly while french and u.k.

leaders have urged more pressure on the syrian regime vowing to help the opposition do you think that that could actually be arming the rebels meaning nato is also providing al qaeda with weapons. well arming the opposition in syria is just the respect it has been happening all the time albeit i think via regional powers rather than via the united states or nato themselves upgrading the armament of the rebels is going to lead to ten more times the number of people killed what people what these people need to realize that there is a large proportion in syria of syrians basically who do not want the central government to collapse some of them even may disagree with the policies of the current government but the key point here is that rational syrians do not want the central government to collapse because they know that would lead to a lot of chaos and in the extreme case it may lead also to civil war so if the nato goes on to provide weapons or even you know no fly zones and.

whatever a humanitarian corridors to those people under the guise of human humanitarian corridors but then that may lead to multiple numbers of death i would say let the syrians sort this thing ourselves and do not interfere with us the more you interfere with us the longer this drags on and the more bloodshed you see america from the syrian social club talking to us from london thanking. thank you very much . while international pressure on syria grows in force it's over for libya as the country marks a year since the revolt against the gadhafi regime celebrations are tainted by ongoing gunfire on the streets and claims of torture. also harsh rhetoric from the israeli government towards iran fails to convince many in israel that isn't the main front. greece is edging closer to its second bailout despite euro

zone leaders demanding greater supervision of athens as finance has great officials have already signed off on the creditors earlier conditions which include major budget and job cuts the move solve violent protests on the streets of athens but some at the top in europe doubt the drastic measures can be implemented if greece doesn't get the one hundred thirty billion euro rescue package it will go bust in march when its next debt payments are due looking at greece's downward spiral some e.u. countries are glad they have decided to stay away from the euro as artie's tom barton reports. the day's shift nearly fifty three year old team leader jimmy carlson lorries keep rolling off the production lines here at sky news main works but one swedes know there's a crisis on. the market but. in fact scummy was hit by the eurozone crisis when economic trouble many lower orders

would come so the black headlines came we have a crisis. maybe going. to get there has but the lorry maker like sweden and really 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 swede's shocked other members by voting again. 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 most with pathetically 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 us still by far sweden's largest trading partner here as elsewhere 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 who campaigned against the euro back in two thousand and three i think the euro will collapse before sweden will join the whereas around eighty percent of swedes say they're glad they're not in the euro the figure is reversed for their politicians most europhiles argue this crisis isn't the euros 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 for the same period we have wall most identical you can already developments both politicians and people here seem to think that there will be another referendum on joining the euro sooner or later but what their 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 economic and political fate is tied inextricably to europe and as for predicting the future of the krona well political in tom barton r.t. . as the russian presidential election draws closer and the media hype around it only grows louder opposition blogger leaks in the harsh critic of ludhiana putin has emerged as the darling of foreign broadcasters and is praised for his anti-corruption campaign but it's his radical views and nationalist comments that chemical all stover abroad as artie's and he said now reports. he's the anti corruption crusader making waves in and outside of russia he's pushed for transparency and exposing multi-billion dollar homes in state projects to

a political phenomenon local and opposition dolling alexei devalued the often gets glossy coverage and is rarely asked tough questions by international media whether comparing navarre you need to julian assange or calling him one of the most influential new political figures he's hardly challenge to prominently praised and very present. a slope and corruption of the very basis of the political system which would involve go he's not just point when speaking at rallies which has been after their biggest numbers in decades because it's got. him. you know these are the good guys through this they're going to put if you don't have a serious candidate bill you don't because it's just memoir news popularity in major cities and on the web source in comparison with the rest of russia is good when you've got your foreign media coverage.