great i haven't felt like this for a long time. 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 robot's brain is learning to solve simple tasks. but 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 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 with which they will lose the ability to love their neighbors this will be a dead end for the human race. the count of centuries minutely called 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's didn't daja told during the half century that they knew him the count 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 fail to find a solution to a crucial problem the average age of soviet leaders to fool perestroika was around eighty doctors could help keep their kidneys and liver as an 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 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 only linking this

process from this process. going to a position in which the saddle is i'm 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 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 over storage of medicine. the best way to think about it by now if it with 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 that sometimes laugh a lot longer sometimes the one hundred year and the reason they laugh along when

they do it because for whatever reason fell in love with them and they didn't really comprehend. and 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 the 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 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 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 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 dr school at 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 from former colleges 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 bloody miss 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 if i was doing research in three martel to singlehanded 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 aging process right after birth are scientists on the right track and who's 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. having watched this documentary you are now twenty six minutes old.

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but. how do we sit but then watch shine and you're a big build the best bridges and high speed rail roads and gleaming new airports if you build it they will come or in america's case if you need it built just call china will show you how america's road to recovery is being paved by china. and go ahead and whistle while you work just don't whistle blow on your employer because it could land you in trouble all of this thanks to a proposed bill that would severely weaken the protections for informers so who then would that bill protect. and it comes down to politics wrong politics that

is as the g.o.p. dark horse makes major strides in the presidential contest we'll show you why the media and republican field should take him seriously. a good evening it's friday february seventeenth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm christine you're watching our t.v. . well the vice president of china change and paying is wrapping up his u.s. tour today he is heading to the basketball game right now the mayor of los angeles antonio. is taking him to see the lakers but his visit of course is a lot more than just fun and games she has been talking some major business in california where leaders have asked china to invest in major infrastructure projects there and it turns out it's not just happening on the west coast as artie's ramon goal in those shows us to rebuild america and repair some of the

crumbling infrastructure there's a good chance we might have to call china to help. los angeles has rolled out the red carpet for the man who is likely the future leader of china but president xi jinping took a tour of the china shipping terminal where the company just completed a forty seven million dollar expansion at the port of los angeles more than one hundred twenty billion dollars of chinese goods pass through here just last year but trade isn't the only item on the agenda l.a. mayor antonio via rego's is also hoping that the chinese and best in the city's infrastructure including public transportation and ports we used to be number one in infrastructure spending and the quality of or our infrastructure and now we're down to number thirty two behind barbadoes behind span behind lots of different countries. really our infrastructure has been crumbling chinese investment may even

help ease some of this l.a. traffic the mayors certainly hopes that it helps to bring jobs to the city as we see federal dollars become more scarce for projects such as road improvement and bridge construction it's increasingly likely there will be some time to and other foreign investors fixing our infrastructure how do we sit back and watch china near a big build the best bridges and high speed rail roads and going nowhere ports the white house has said that infrastructure improvements are a top priority but the u.s. lags behind europe and china when it comes to infrastructure investment yet ministration has said that chinese firms will play a role in financing infrastructure throughout the u.s. i don't think it's an ideal situation and i would prefer that the money. go to american corporations but the jobs will go to americans on that sounds terrible boost the economy while some welcome the foreign investors some people in los angeles we spoke to aren't so sure we should be so eager for chinese money think

president reagan is probably rolling over in his grave somewhere. it's uncomfortable a lot of people figure america is the you know and all be all you know self to ask for money is bad it will create more jobs i mean potentially but. this country is in so much that so it's about. chinese firms are already working on huge bridge projects in california new york and alaska political leaders defended the contracts claiming chinese companies would be more efficient but there has been criticism over china's work conditions and the devaluing of their currency we can't compete with that not because they are better engineers or because we don't know how to manufacture but because it's not a level playing field we need to get a level playing field here in the u.s. some blame excessive environmental regulations and political bickering in d.c. for our inability to invest more in infrastructure.

and investment many see as a key to economic recovery and keeping the us competitive and what it seems the chinese are willing to make in los angeles romanelli in the r t. it is of course a complex relationship between the two countries you often see you know on one hand politicians trying to score points blaming china for anything from taking u.s. jobs to trade practices to trying to keep their currency values too low when weighed against the dollar but on the other hand if you look at the last few years china has saved this country economically time and time again and is one of our best trading partners so this visit by the vice president is a lot more than just a symbolic gesture this is the reality of our time that the u.s. and china will be close friends or at least close business partners for generations

to come now earlier i spoke about this with joe weisenthal he's the deputy editor for the business insider and i asked him why american companies need china's help to fix its own infrastructure well i think there's a kind of a complex issue there are a lot of different sort of things to untangle here i mean first of august there is this idea that there are chinese companies that for various reasons can manufacture pieces of infrastructure faster than american companies. there's not really that surprising in this and china is out manufacturing the u.s. in a lot of areas so for a city or a state that's looking for the cheapest source of building something i guess is not surprising that there are often situations where china is more competitive where it's weirder and kind of hard to figure out is this idea that we need china to help invest in domestic infrastructure people or to say that the u.s. is not the case and there would really be nothing except for politics stopping d.c.

from investing a lot more in infrastructure in california and other parts of the country so the idea of going with cap in hand as china to invest in infrastructure in california is really bizarre and i think really expect is an indication mainly of d.c. dysfunction rather than some economic necessity and we should mention you know considering some of these projects in california a lot of you know the workers that will in fact be american workers but when you think about what going into some of these projects the people at the top the planners a lot of them the bigger people in these projects will be from china so it's pretty interesting let's talk about something else that's going on too not just in california. it's something interesting at least that i found it appears china which is the largest outside lender to the u.s. has reduced holdings of u.s. treasuries by about thirty billion dollars they say they instead want to devote more money to assist europe in addressing the debt crisis i don't really ever quote

michele bachmann but you know she posed the question you know is china our sugar daddy and maybe the question is is china now everyone sugar daddy. i mean first of all i would actually urge people not to read much into trying to reduce a good holdings of u.s. treasuries by thirty billion that's basically nothing and that most things are going to have percent yet and also they've if you look over the past years it kind of undulates and a year or so for example last spring it went down for a while then to pick back up so thinking about it in terms of oh the giving up of the u.s. so they're not going to lend to the u.s. anymore they're going to lend to europe is probably not the big problem and i actually think the it's actually kind of scandalous the idea of europe begging china for help again for kind of the same reason europe has its own currency you could print money it has plenty of wealth in germany and so on china for all the

hype it gets about how big it is remains a pretty poor country on a per capita basis the average chinese citizen is way poorer than the average european citizen so i actually think it's kind of an outrage that china is being asked to bear the burden for europe when europe's problems are mostly political and structural and not really about a lack of money per se so i don't think china should be thought of so much as a sugar daddy and that they're so rich and everyone has to beg for them i think the fact that countries are begging for them for help is really both in the u.s. and in europe and of their own dysfunction inability to get their own act together not really about a lack of money. and that was joe weisenthal deputy editor for the business insider . well it's been nearly two years since private first class bradley manning was arrested held as the main suspect in passing classified documents to the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks known as i said held and not charged manning wasn't

charged in till much later but that didn't stop authorities from keeping him in solitary confinement for nine months often in conditions many top authorities in this country would call torture now before transferring him to a medium security facility well it was about a year and a half before manning had his first day in court for his pretrial hearing now coming up this thursday february twenty third his actual trial is set to begin and after if convicted he faces life in prison in the courtroom we could expect to hear the prosecution talk about how manning did a bunch of things like communicating national defense information to an unauthorized source put this country in danger and how he aided the enemy but you probably won't hear is about the torturers conditions manning was held in or about how there's been a lack of any harm to national security from the release of these documents regardless it's pretty clear manning will be made an example of setting the precedent the government hopes will dissuade others from continuing similar crimes

starting this evening a whistleblower conference at the university of california berkeley called the occupy the truth conference will begin and in just a few hours there will be a bradley manning panel featuring pentagon papers author daniel ellsberg as well as and right and ray mcgovern and one of those people in attendance will be activist cindy sheehan she joined me earlier from berkeley california and gave me a preview of the conference. live there an interesting format her one thing it's very. organic and so i think we're going to have a lot of interesting things come out of the conference but there is a panel of specifically about. bradley manning today like you said was ray. ellsberg and bradley manning that his case was so tragic because a i think people who have been paying attention to what's going on over in iraq and afghanistan and all these years nothing he nothing that he allegedly. leaked was

a surprise to anybody but as you said daniel ellsberg has lived a long full life and he did something very heroic and helped and the vietnam war are and he's been outside of prison brat bradley. and him up in prison for the rest of his life which is just really to me and it's heartbreaking and heart wrenching to think that he did something so heroic and he might have to pay and also this is a whistleblower occupy the truth conference and barack obama told us he was going to have the most transparent administration in american history has actually been a disaster for civil liberties and his administration is persecuting not prosecuting but persecuting bradley manning and under his administration and there has also there have also been actually six people prosecuted under the espionage

act which is really interesting as you talk about this transparency and this you know world war one piece of legislation has been used to charge people who have leaked government secrets at six people may not sound like a lot but before president obama there was only three in the entire u.s. history so i think that's pretty interesting what do you think that says about what's going on here. well i you know i have been searching the truth every since my son was killed and when i think it is the suppression of the truth we don't see it we see this on russia today r.t. we're very happy for the station that does tell the truth but you don't see stuff about bradley manning on corporate media you don't see stuff about in and out or. antiwar palestinian activists who are being persecuted by the obama administration in the justice department so. i think it's the truth they want to suppress the

truth they they don't want the average american to find out what's really going on in in the words of aggression and with our own civil liberties here at home and something else that we haven't been seeing on you know the big three networks i guess you could call them is a bill that's floating around here in washington that's actually called the whistleblowers improvement act although the only people who would improve things for would be those committing the wrongdoing of this bill it's requires employees who see some wrongdoing in their companies to first report those wrongdoing to their employer before they take any regulatory agencies it would also take away incentives for these whistleblowers among other things so far this bill has only made it its way through the house subcommittee on capital markets and government sponsored enterprises but it did make its way out and it could be considered any time by the house financial services committee so i mean just the fact that there are people in this government that are fighting to make conditions more stringent

fighting to make it so i think another provision in that bill would make it so even if the employer does tell a regulatory agency like the f.c.c. the f.c.c. would have to notify that corporation or government entity before taking any action i mean the fat what do you think it says andy that there are people elected officials who seem to be not serving the interests of the people. well it's the same thing that we have been seeing with the occupy movement and since barack obama has also become the president the united states. and this is actually decades and generations the corporations the one percent using the government to protect its interests and protect its money and the government our government and. the businesses are so intricately linked is hard to tell them apart at this point and i don't think the federal government does keep the interests of the people that hurt

look at in the military if a woman is sexually assaulted or abused or even raped she's supposed to go through the chain of command which will actually harm her and stead of helping her and so it's just a tragic situation where the one percent in our country the legislation is for them the last protect them and protect their wealth and protect their position and that's what the occupy movement is just the end and i'm glad we're calling this conference occupy truth. that was activist cindy sheehan. let's switch over to the race to the white house and the four republican candidates running to try to replace president obama it has been a fun filled week with talk about birth control and negative attack ads by super pacs and of course candidates dropping out of debates now last saturday you may remember was the republican caucuses in maine and mitt romney was said to be the winner with ron paul coming in second well now the may republican party is now

going to recant his counties and recount the vote totals and one county washington county was actually closed last weekend due to weather they'll hold their caucuses tomorrow so there may be a new result in this but the bottom line is this system this process of choosing a presidential nominee is not working so well these days we already had iowa in which mitt romney was announced the winner when it turned out rick santorum won and now this earlier i talked with ron paul supporter charlie mcgrath who's also the founder of wide awake news dot com about the view of ron paul and the system in general take a listen. well you know it's hard to say what's going on i mean we knew going into it that that the vote count wouldn't be necessarily be able to be reported last week as being factual that it's going to take some time to for it to work out and hopefully he ends up with a win in his column by.