all your movements it's 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. 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 vary 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 hostility. 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 centuries men 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 countess died in seventeen eighty four others say people saw him in venice in one thousand thirty eight nearly one hundred and fifty years later. in the soviet union they were secretly burra trees and 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 is in order and their old

brains were incapable of generating fresh ideas. the bad thing about the soviet union was that its ruling body the politburo consisted of people who had gone senile individually they were smart people in their younger days but when you have a group of eighty year olds getting together it's really not a productive thing. scientific fiction has already described cases of the brain living on after the bodies death another patient of professor doll's head a novel by the russian north or alexander. has been screened many times he wrote it in st petersburg city where the institute of the human brain was opened some time later scientists there have developed methods of restoring functions of part of the brain after accidents or serious disease but so far they're unable to get the brain of an aging person to generate the sort of ideas they produced at

a younger age twenty one mathematicians and physicists normally have a field day before their thirty fifth birthday or or thereabouts i can't recall a single significant piece of research done by anyone older than that the only exception is newton he published his famous optics when he was seventeen years old but in fact he wrote it forty years beforehand and i just shelved it until 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. half is

all about only linking this process from this process going to a profession in which the tabel 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 if belt typically only maybe ten or fifteen year but we often the cars that sometimes after a lot longer sometimes one hundred and the reason they last for long when they do

it because for whatever reason it fell in love with them and they did a really comprehensive job. doing periodic preventative repair and made to keep them in. 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 that 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 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 a trio of when the rats begin aging their condition is in stark contrast to that of rats of the same age. reporter the rats that were about to settle it on the journey to the other world could no longer move they were in the final stage of aging at the summit but there were other rafts 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 report these rats lived much longer than the control group

would be a good thing to do so it's interesting. as well as their 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 around the first steps in a budding area of science the crux of the problem is that scientists will have to find ways of cancelling the bodies process responsible for aging. like a physicist in france for example are not allowed to experiment with perpetual motion machines for the pharmacologists likewise are not supposed to look for a cure all of us away if we succeed in counseling the aging programs that we should be able to slow down all diseases resulting from me ging. scientists wanting to find a way of extending human life are often seen as quite bloody a miss school or chosen 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 the 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 as its achievements and its failures. having watched this documentary you are now twenty six minutes old.

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or. at least. all roads lead to tehran as of the syria crisis deepens the end of the violence intensifies concerns that grow that if the assad regime falls it is a key ally iran will be left isolated and forced into a more aggressive position. deciding on the rights of minorities luvvie holds a referendum on the recognizing that russia as a see russian as a second official language of the countries of russian a community which makes up a third of the population says it wants to draw attention to decades of discrimination and open dialogue with the government. as euro zone nations struggle

to get a grip with their financial troubles and the idea of a united russia europe is losing ground but some schools in the bloc are accused of brainwashing people's into believing it but the union is still going strong. and broadcasting live direct from our studios in central moscow this is r.t. glad to have you with us with syria becoming further engulfed by conflict one of its key allies in the region iran is also feeling the strain and experts warn that the unrest could cross the borders and impact on the middle east as a whole analysts are concerned that the collapse of the assad regime would be a devastating blow to iran leaving it isolated and potentially forcing tehran to adopt a more aggressive policies artie's loss myth that score. iran's military is put

through its paces but how long will this carry on being a drill as the conflict in syria gets bloodier by the day western powers range against president assad ally iran the strategic position looks increasingly shaky which some suggest is no coincidence there is a proxy conflict between israel and its western allies and iran which basically only has one ally in the region which is the syrian republic so if you can get syria away from iran either through a diplomatic deal which they're trying for many years all through regime change which seems to be the direction of travel now that would definitely weaken iran at all roads in the middle east right now do seem to lead back to tehran experts are calling the last thing deployed and hope that bring down throw radian asked and replace it with opposition figures we've already said they did talk to nancy terror on foreign policy for life i think iran's most powerful ally since the iran

iraq war iran and syria have developed all sorts of ties cultural and economic included but crucially iran uses syria as a conduit for support for hezbollah in lebanon and how mass in the palestinian authority both declared foreign terrorist organizations by the u.s. state department take that away and iran's influence in the region could wait. cornered in iran could bite perhaps accelerating the nuclear program process some raising its. interference perceived interference in other countries in the region press bahrain probably lebanon perhaps palestinian territories. and that will be the way that iran will react so you can make a case for suggestion that the removal of assad will make iran even more protective or even more dangerous it's a knife edge situation and one which worries more. carious is events in syria worse

than the us even says israel could attack iran in a matter of months the possibility of a conflict between major western powers and iran becoming a conflict between the world's major powers is on the horizon storm clouds are massing over the region reports of emerge that the qatari and saudis are already funding arming and covertly operating with the syrian opposition iran looks increasingly isolated with a hostile israel perilously close norris may r.t. london. well jason did editor of antiwar dot com says it's likely that if the assad regime wore to fall it would not be a pro-democracy government that would take over in damascus. a lot of nations particularly the g.c.c. member nations saudi arabia qatar united arab emirates have been looking for an excuse to cut assad out of the picture in the arab league and particularly now are

also hoping that they can leave use this as an opportunity to possibly replace him with a more friendly regime and much much as we saw in libya foreign intervention is not a cure all if if anything is complicates matters and creates new power bases where there were none before we saw in libya of course the national transitional council and some of the militias that nato was backing ended up going on extremely bloody retaliatory rampages in the wake of the fall of the gadhafi regime large numbers of people killed and so in some cases entire towns depopulated. nominally because they were seen as pro get off all these other nations are trying to secure the opposition to their interests and certainly al qaeda could be expected to do the exact same thing and. we don't really know who's going to come out on top in

this sort of fight for the control of the opposition but it seems pretty clear that the pro-democracy forces in syria the original protestors probably will not be a major part of the picture in a future government if assad does fall. around a two thirds of registered voters in a lot of via have taken part in a referendum aimed at deciding whether or not to make russian the country's second official language with ethnic russians making up almost a third of life is two million population rigo remains reluctant to grant the language equal constitutional status artie's oleksiak chefs to report. the lady from a lot of the russian minority says his country's government has gone too far having lived in law to be all his life it was only recently that he managed to exchange a temporary residence permit to a passport but now this father of three faces another hurdle for his family this

time and that his children and their education was a pass through legislation school schools sixty percent of the lessons must be taught in language but excuse me chemistry biology and physics it's difficult to get it even in your own language and it does create a lot of problems for the students at the moment and of course it lowers their results it was the threat that these schools where at least some lessons are taught in their native russian would be closed down for good that scared the russian minority which constitutes one third of the country's population they initiated a referendum on making a second state language something radical right wing parties call a threat to national integrity to fit into this vote is against our constitution which says life is a man a national state and always be it it splits our society which has to have one solid

foundation if you are not to it to be like russia then lion not going to russia and leave us be. at least three quarters of a million people must vote yes for a constitutional change to take place but with support predicted to be just half that seems to be unlikely the outcome however could have been different if another three hundred twenty thousand residents were allowed to vote those are ethnic russians who spare and grandparents came here after nine hundred forty five they were denied citizenship after a lot of it became independent and are still carrying allien passports people will do for regaining independence because. and huge bulk of people right now illinois also voted for. and afterwards. and it's a fraud it's a problem. it's a problem mutual trust it's a problem of relations between the state and the minorities the newly appointed

council of europe's commissioner for human rights believes the vote will not solve the discrimination problem and that its readers handling of the russian community that should be changed to give the human rights suspect of stateless children being born in latvia. clear norms in the convention on the rights of the child every child has a right to citizenship from birth regulating language use in the private sphere this also has human rights implications raise issues of proportionality here i think that things should be reviewed though it is widely accepted here that the russian language referendum will fail the russian minority hopes that the vote will bring their struggle out of the shadows and force the government to at least open a dialogue a lot of russians are contemplating another vote to introduce changes into the citizenship law that is to abolish the so-called allien passports and grant citizenship to those who are living without it and many say in this case they have a good chance of succeeding as they would only need a little more than two hundred thousand positive votes let's. see reporting from

riga in latvia. where you are with r t coming up in the next few minutes. driving force with horns blaring thousands of motorists encircled central moscow in support for blood in the presidential big. fear keeps you in control if you. are to be manipulated by somebody telling you to do something rather than questioning what they say as russia and china take on larger roles in the international arena we ask people in new york if there is a good reason to fear these two countries. with some states on the brink of bankruptcy and the future of the single currency uncertain more and more people are starting to question the eurozone and even the european project itself but the idea of a united europe is now being pushed through to a new audience children in the classroom or two stars are silly reports but what

do you know about your country and the capital is their own not just some lived with. the. spanish french and english and everybody told these youngsters are attending one of the fourteen european schools set up primarily to educate children of e.u. stuff we are the only system which is able to provide education in twenty three different languages you know the more europe is united in their city and that's what we leave every day in the european school but outside the classroom reality says otherwise for now differences seem to transcend unity critics along accuse the e.u. of brainwashing children through education paraphernalia that they claim promote a stormy eyed vision of the e.u. a comment from a european commission representative at an education fair appears to support that

point we will never see convince people of both the value of the member here and you if you do not know we are young. people prejudices are missing a look at it there is no push to export concepts from the european school model international curriculums a plan outlined in a two thousand and eleven report and later adopted by parliament. the european parliament repeats its request to the member states to promote the inclusion of the specific subject on the background goals and functioning of the european union and its institutions which will help young people feel more involved in the process of european integration school curricula responsibility of individual member states to tailor to their own needs and their own classrooms and the e.u. should not get involved in dictating what individual schools teach you know we don't want the european money wasted on pouring out it's pouring out to you

propaganda into our schools we see as part of our role to explain to citizens regardless of age how this thing work why we have the european union why it's a good thing that the aim is more information not not. propaganda or you know sort of brainwashing exercise that's not what we're told among the objectives of the european school are to encourage the european and global perspective and approach the emergence of a european identity from an early age but the question is what does it stop being education and start being a propaganda when the suggestion is being. a better europe is automatically more europe than i have a problem with that as do angry m e p's he say that targeting youngsters and their education with a potentially one sided political view may just be a little too said mr tests are cilia r.t. brussels later our finance guru max kaiser brings you his assessment on the health

of the global economy the kaiser report asks what google is trying to achieve by offering you five dollars in exchange for your search history. so you see forty acres and a mule you know they give you five bucks to spy on you and i would be surprised if you have people from overseas rushing to america to get five dollars from google people in greece for people in greece five dollars twenty five dollars that's a whole six months of pay and it shows you the whole neo feudal system ok now these economies these the rich people the rich communities are those who are doing the spying who get paid to spy on you google is one of the biggest corporations in the world because they spy on you you are poor because you take whatever dregs whatever bread and circuses they trickle down to you you'll take whatever you get you'll accept this being spied on they think the average person says they're getting free twenty five dollars oh it's a free twenty five dollars never for

a moment considering that the apparatus that allows them to get that twenty five dollars has disenfranchised them so horribly that the u.s. competitiveness is crashing and the standard of living is crashing and there's no health care there but you got your free twenty five dollars. more for max kaiser and stacy herbert in their take on the latest financial headlines that's coming up in just about fifteen minutes here on our team now tens of thousands of people have been rallying across russia to back prime minister putin's bid for the presidency next month in the capital thousands of supporters took to their cars and encircled the city's garden ring chanting slogans and brandishing russian flags and banners while in the premier's native st petersburg some sixty thousand people gathered in the city center along with a number of prominent citizens who addressed the crowds want to see good peace going off as more. the last few months we've seen

a real jump in public activity with various types up around these markers and drive taking place across the entire country for example like this drive where the car owners and drivers gathering in central moscow on saturday many cars are decorated a lot of flags sometimes music and it will be nice and. really turning into so want to go on the road sometimes and resembles perhaps celebrations always successful again by the national hockey team but in fact this is the drive has been organized in support of prime minister and presidential candidates like going to put in a head of the upcoming presidential vote on march the poor this isn't really a new format for such events in fact a similar drive was organized recently by the so-called white ribbon movement that was a to support fear alexion this particular drive is taking place on the scene roots

pretty much around the garden ring which is one of the biggest in mean transport audrie's off the city and is good and up near the kremlin it's fair to say that this jump of all public activity really began after the parliamentary vote early in december. various times of the rallies have been taking place including some of your largest ones with really tens of thousands of people gathering. the largest one since russia's seen since the early ninety's and with the presidential election now just around the corner this activity is increasing in fact the next such event which is actually being organized by the white ribbon movement is going to be in support of both very well actually that drive is going to make waves as soon as on sunday. as r.t. if you go to peace cannot reporting there from central moscow. now there is more arable land in russia than in any other country in the.