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 oh the brain changes the connections between the new your own 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 unless 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 which 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 celts died in seventeen eighty four others same people saw him in venice in one nine hundred

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 call them the average age of soviet leaders before perestroika was around eighty doctors could help keep their kidneys and liver as an order 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 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 shelved 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. half is all about fun linking this process from this process going to a profession in which metabolism 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 process 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 man made machine car airplane that we know that a car if belt typically only maybe ten or fifteen year but we often the car that sometimes laugh a lot longer from time to one hundred years and the reason they laugh along when they do it because for whatever reason if i love with them and they did

a really comprehensive job of maintaining doing periodic preventative repair and maybe to keep them in. according to the bible people before the great flawed normal lived for several hundred years adam the first minute the earth and the sunset survived for over nine hundred years the man with the greatest lifespan was one of the forefathers of mankind. yeah i have talked with theologians as part of my study of the subject there 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 studied 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 to that of rats of the same age. reporter the rats that were about to settled on the journey to the otherworld 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 they were still quite agile they had not lost interest in life if you were 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 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 body's 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 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 thora take over 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 saw the aging process right after birth are scientists on the right track and who says 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. and. having watched this documentary you are now twenty six minutes old.

news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day. do you hear that well it could get a lot quieter in the u.s. thanks to a proposed bill that would weaken the protection of informers we'll tell you who the whistleblower whistleblower improvement act is actually protecting. and while green might be the new black is it driving america into the red from the keystone pipeline debacle to the saloon drug fiasco how the eco friendly lobby driven american progress into the ground will explore. like a google will be a local. five or six cups a day. america has an addiction it comes in

a thirty two ounce cup of coffee or a sixteen ounce energy drink or even in a stick of gum will take you to the city that never sleeps and shows you show you what's keeping them up. good afternoon it's friday february seventeenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for you're watching our t.v. . while there's something going on here in washington you may be unaware of something that sort of snuck under the noses of a whole lot of people and if it continues on this path that something could make it much more difficult for the bad guys to get punished and the good guys to get praise in fact it will have the opposite effect so here's what's going on yesterday the house subcommittee on capital markets and government sponsored enterprises passed through a bill that severely weakens protections for whistleblowers and could now be

considered any time by the full house financial services committee and this has the backing and the lobbying dollars of the u.s. chamber of commerce which has often been pretty friendly to wall street interests and pretty powerful as well and here's what it would do if it passed it would require or cryer a whistleblower to first report information about misconduct to his or her employer before going to any regulatory agency that would require the agency most likely the f.c.c. to notify the entity or the employer before taking any enforcement action it would legalize retaliation by the company against the whistle blowing employee and it removes incentives for whistleblowers previously guaranteed by dodd frank since whistleblowers often lose their jobs after reporting the wrongdoing inside their companies. and it's funny with a lot of things here in washington the title of this bill is a little deceptive it's called the whistle blower improvement act so there's this and speaking of whistle blowers the accused wiki leaks whistleblower bradley manning begins his trial next week also as it turns out president obama has used

the espionage act to charge six people for alleged mishandling of classified information before obama there were only three cases ever charts on the espionage act so i want to talk about the changing face of whistle blowing in this country and i've got someone who knows a whole lot about it peter van buren peter is the author of we meant well how i helped lose the battle for the hearts of minds of the iraqi people and peter i know you have been reporting on this topic for quite some time and you write that there is now an unprecedented assault on government whistleblowers and leakers of every sort and i know that you charge that you know that the number of cases and what's going on here it suggests that there's actually an organized strategy against whistleblowers in america talk about what you mean by this without a doubt the obama administration as you pointed out has doubled the number of prosecutions against its own employees using the espionage for whistle blowing in addition the government has also gone out of between to use

a number of extra legal tools against whistleblowers whose cases don't rise to the level of the espionage act or in cases where there's not enough evidence or the government doesn't want to make a big deal out of it this is something that's what it's created a war in washington it's going on just below your noses but it is indeed a struggle and it is going on and it's definitely important to talk about this of course right now one of the most well known famous whistleblowers of our time is of course bradley manning he is the accused wiki leaks whistleblower let's talk about him about compare his situation in which he spent i believe at least nine months in solitary confinement before he was even charge that situation to daniel ellsberg daniel ellsberg of course did a lot of research and wrote a report that the. in the pentagon papers that was released you know in several newspapers back in the seventy's and in a lot of ways for a while at least maybe not by the government by of it by the general public daniel ellsberg was thought of as a inspiration as a hero what has changed what's changed is the attitude of the united states the

government has become more and more secretive and more and more concerned about its own employees sharing these secrets with the public when i see secrets a matter of air quotes really because it's not so much that these are instruments of national policy or things that need to be kept quiet to protect people's lives or the country in fact what they are are embarrassments to the government that they just wish to keep behind wraps lets it's not just the government i mean we're going through a period right now where you know the government either seems unwilling or unable to respond to some of the wall the wrongdoing on wall street so when we think about these huge wall street corporations we think about people at the top who made decisions that you know consciously or not and then of dragging this economy in the mud and hurt a whole lot of people we have of course seen a couple settlements here and there but no one still today in two thousand and twelve almost four years out of five after the financial collapse has really been held accountable so when we think about that and we think about people who could

actually bring evidence to the forefront those are people that in most cases would have been inside these big companies why would it be that anyone would want to make it so these people couldn't come forward well the whistleblower improvement act is kind of a creative name shows that there is still a sense of humor up on capitol hill because what it would actually do is say that whistleblowers had to report wrongdoing. to the same people who were doing the wrongdoing this is almost certain a bit of a through the looking glass but in fact what you see is representatives in congress beholden to the special interest groups that fund them the corporations that fund them who want to create a loop where whistle blowers instead of speaking out to the f.c.c. or to journalists who might be able to expose these things instead tell their mom and dad that their mom and dad have been bad and then sit quietly while nothing happens right and they can't even you know even if they did they did tell the f.c.c.

or another government regulator the that government regulator would have to then tell their company before any sort of action could be taken place i mean it seems to me that you know this sort of checks and balances system that there's an attitude in washington of course this bill has not been passed but it's moving along that there seems to be an attitude that checks and balances are needed and what we're finding is increasingly in the united states particularly in the government an organization that doesn't want checks and balances that wants to avoid those and if it has to put people in jail if it has to use the espionage act as the strongest hammer in the tool kit it's going to do those things bradley manning's release of the week he leaked documents or allegedly release a week he leaked documents got him put in jail for two years before his trial even began and as you pointed out that included nine months of solitary confinement which is essentially a form of torture this is the preponderant before they even get to the trial the same thing as happened to whistleblowers like morris davis at the library of

congress who lost his job thomas drake at the national security agency who lost his job and me perch posing some of the state department shortcomings in iraq i'm in the position now of very soon losing my job the government needs to learn that it's responsible for the people of the america that i grew up in said that the government is responsible to its people and shouldn't be afraid of sharing what it does with the people who support it i think there's a big difference here between. tattle tailing and bringing to light wrongdoings that are harming people whether it's people in iraq as you've done or people in the u.s. you mentioned morris davis and i want to talk a little bit more about him because we actually have a chance to interview him here on r t he is of course the former lead prosecutor for the mill of military tribunals out guantanamo bay and i want to just play a little bit about what he said and then talk about it and my policy had been we were not going to use any evidence obtained by waterboarding or any of the other enhanced interrogation techniques that most people call torture and i had support

above me for doing that then in the summer of two thousand and seven some new people came in and said wait a minute president bush said we don't torture so president bush says we don't torture who are you to say that we do and we've got all this information that was collected that you're not using you need to get in there and use it and that was when i felt the our commitment to full fair and open trials. diminished and i submitted my resignation. so here it one time a colonel davis submitted his record resignation but as you mentioned his later job as a researcher at the library of congress was taken from him after an op ed an editorial in the wall street journal expressing similar sentiments i mean do you think that this says that in this day and age it's just it's just not going to fly anymore it's a very chilling action and it's important to note that colonel davis resigned voluntarily over the guantanamo things but actually lost his job simply for writing an op ed in

the wall street journal for that he was fired from thomas jefferson's library an irony that i still can't get over what's going on is an attempt to tell people to be quiet and when they aren't quiet to punish them however the government finds available and the goal is not necessarily just to shut up colonel davis but to send a message to everyone else that this is what's going to happen to you if you speak out the easiest book to censor is the one that's never written just last question for you i guess i'm wondering peter i mean you felt the effects of this firsthand what do you think this does to the u.s. as a country to us as a society when these rules or are made more stringent rather than expanding on my point i'm embarrassed for my employer the department of state the department of state human rights around the world is constantly claiming territory for itself that bloggers in china and twitters in libya should all have the freedom to do that when at the same time it stomps on its own employees trying to exercise those very basic rights it sends a very ambiguous message and certainly when people don't feel comfortable enough to

come forward imagine how many wrongdoings will not get reported and will continue to go on benefiting only a few people and continuing to harm quite a few more peter van buren author thank you so much for being here today thank you for having me. also ahead here on r t as the violence spreads in syria some u.s. politicians are openly calling for arming the rebels fighting the assad government is this a wise move well look into it. r t is the state run english speaking russian channel it's kind of like. russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us.

at first very much is burning drives right right i mean it's like a derivative of actual pepper it's a food product essentially. much stronger than anything you'd be buying a lot of. thousands of times stronger than any kind of debris you ever put you know . let's move to the situation in syria now where violence continues between anti assad government fighters and the government itself now the white house is criticizing the syrian government's promise to hold a referendum deeming the idea waffle and accusing the regime of making a mockery of the unrest that's amid a swelling chorus within this country calling on washington to supply anti assad

fighters with weapons but as our correspondent diana chicana reports that could make peace impossible. hawks in washington calling for the arming of insurgents in syria we should start killing all options including arming the opposition i give them training i give them communications equipment and then ultimately i give them weapons. experts say arming the fighting groups among the opposition is a sure way to drag the country into a protracted civil war it will also further marginalize those in the opposition who have advocated nonviolence or would be asked political strategies that the more. plied to the to the factions of the syrian opposition the more that happens the less likely it is that they'll be a negotiated solution leading to a ceasefire in a peaceful settlement there encouraged i think very much by the united states the civil war in lebanon went on for fifteen years absolutely appalling bloodshed and

you could easily see that that could happen in syria like the u.s. all qaida has indorse the rebels fighting in syria under president assad syria has been a secular state some analysts argue that one of the reasons why al qaeda supports the violent uprising in syria is that in the last secular more islam is the environment it's easier to recruit new terrorists if the government folds you'll be looking forward to just a very long period to complete disintegration and they will be able to attract more and more fanatical recruits look at the civil war in iraq in two thousand and six and seven it was absolutely appalling the calls to arm fighting groups in syria sound even more alarming given the u.s. history of arming radicals afghanistan one example that it was a placing itself in alliance with the mujahideen including osama bin laden and these people who now of course it is lately been deploring as fanatical fanatical

enemies that the united states said these these. alliance's a totally cynical and totally opportunistic there's not a shred of grins. but despite the hocks outcry the obama administration is taking a more cautious stance with regards to syria we don't think more arms into syria is the right answer some analysts say arming the very much fractured syrian opposition would contribute to its further radicalization and would make a political solution virtually impossible a number say washington might support arm supplies indirectly through its arab allies as of now the administration denies having such plans but will that position hold i'm going to shut down reporting from washington are today. a little lighter note it's the end of the week and for a lot of us the one thing that gets us through these long weeks helps us say standing on two feet is caffeine did you know that americans consume four hundred million cups of coffee per day that number means the united states is now believing

consumer of coffee in the world this might be great news for starbucks but is there a chance just a chance that this love is a little dangerous as our to correspondent marine important i reports that your health may be threatened by something that now seems normal and that is in large part the result of food corporations stopping at nothing to get you and millions of others addicted to their products. in the city that never sleeps or perpetual craving for energy never eases i nearly every man has street you'll find two things a coffee shop and customers cupping their fix a liquefied legal stimulant that most can't envision quitting i feel like you know i get it wrong. so i just have to are both of these real. and i don't know if i could give a little we i love. it five or six cups

a day but i'm not good to much of anything good. you're still going to drink three cups that definitely. americans consume four hundred million cups of coffee per day making the us believe in consumer of coffee in the world according to medical experts daily intake of caffeine should stay below three hundred milligrams or fifteen ounces of coffee one large cup of starbucks contains more power than the daily naps of a recommendation however in recent years the country's addiction to caffeine has grown both in portion size and means of consumption consumers no longer have to down twenty ounces of starbucks or sixty four ounces of soda to get an energy high . unconventional products such as five hour energy drinks and stimulant least gum have made caffeine america's most marketable legal drug because of the work imperative.