he touched something. bigger put there now i can give orders for my bring to my body which i haven't done in years but when you can control 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 but sort of thing we can see her oh the brain changes the connections between the neurons 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 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 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 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 as 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 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 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 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 shelled 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 on linking this process from this process going to a position 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 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 one hundred years and the reason they laugh along when they do it because for whatever reason i love with them and they did a really comprehensive job. 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 he 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 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 aging their condition is in stark contrast that of rats of the same age. coupled to the rats that were about to settle it 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 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 put it but 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 talk to school that 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 gene. scientists wanting to

find a way of extending human life are often seen as quite x. d.m. is 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 dentist 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 slowly aging process right after birth are scientists on the right track and who's their research 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 a tunnel life has its achievements and its failures. having

watched this documentary you are now twenty six minutes old. world to the true science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered.

latest news in the week's top stories on our t.v. the syrian government feels the squeeze internationally and from within as it struggles to crush what it calls all foreign funded insurgency while promising to usher and i'm a product reform. fueling anti around rhetoric israel accuses the islamic state of targeting its diplomats in palm attacks across the globe and demands more sanctions against iran over its nuclear program. appeasing the e.u. greek m.p.'s pass new austerity measures causing more protests or non-fans from angry workers worried about further cuts to wages and pensions. and candidates use

live t.v. debates on controversial ads to move voters just two weeks before russia goes to the polls to pick a new president. thanks for being with us the two o'clock here in moscow and karen tara the majority of the u.n. general assembly adopted a resolution this week calling on syria's president and the opposition to crack down and give up power russia and china are against the move and want the rebels to also lay down weapons and join talks it's a year since the uprising started and damascus is vowing to reform even as the killing continues maria finn the isn't syria for our. this is racially in syria means volatile with tensions between security forces and the armed opposition groups continue in claiming lives of both mildred and civilians almost every day on

thursday we attended the funerals of a young boy who was gunned down early here in damascus during the n.t. government protest and the procession itself eventually turned into a hostile to mr ation in the clashes that followed and that continued the next day five people were killed and many others injured one violence one day causes even more violence next and so on and so on we also can see political murders as well this week shake of one of the most of damascus was assisted native apparently because of his pronouncements the shake came out with strong condemnation of the terror groups of the armed groups he blamed for the bloodshed calling for to stop the violence to stop the bloodshed we're also hearing about hostilities in other parts of the country reports from the opposition activists that in the city of homs many people die every day in the city of hama they've been several explosions all

pipeline in the midst of violence these tensions all across syria syria reforms. to go in this week the date for the national referendum on the country's new constitution was announced the vote is expected to take place next sunday as far as the ministry of internal affairs of syria has said around fifteen million people in syria today have the right to vote this new constitution was drafted. and the monopoly of the ruling party the bath party here in syria had been in power for the last fifty years but people on the ground are actually fearing that this referendum and this new constitution it's too little and too late this week the chinese delegation visited syria both russia and china are calling for the dialogue to be restored between the syrian opposition and the authorities. saying that this is the only way out of this crisis. let's now get some opinion and insight from beirut

based political analyst kamel was me. as we've just heard from our reporter in syria beijing has joined moscow's efforts to mediate talks between damascus and the opposition what's china's interest in all of this well i think the chinese as a russian they want to respect the work order and they don't want what they want to raise a policy of dialogue for finding a resolution for syria we cannot resort to war and violence and instigate a civil war in country if the west decided that they don't like a regime to see here in this situation you look american who are today siding was. that the one they invaded the war because of it but now they're in bed with al qaeda in syria actually arming and telling them to continue arming and smuggling weapons and stopping and meaningful dialogue between the syrian syrian

government and the opposition i think today the point that we have to make a logical policy change now the emphasis should be on encouraging dialogue and stop this policy of inciting because this is going to be counterproductive for syria and for the world to hold the american should know better because they've got nine eleven and now they go in and associate themselves. again well president assad has promised to hold a referendum on the constitution in a week's time how is that really likely to go you think anything will change for the syrian people. i think i think the president of syria he's trying to make a real initiative to reform the country. constitution referendum and a very speedy way now i think of opposition not listening because you've got the

country in the persian gulf they get instructions from the american and they want they don't want anything but that a move all of. that's why we got the general assembly i think somebody is a planning and continue to plan to have civil war in syria and not to have a peaceful resolution that to protect syria and put that very reason i think the policy of russia and china and some other country they should continue to embrace the dialogue instead of war war is a destructive way to solve a problem never solved anything that americans should know. they still drop in pakistan they still entrapped and now the funny thing is that the americans are held. in syria and the american admitted that explosion happened and how. they they have their hands tied so with washington confirming that al qaeda is

likely operating in syria of course that follows that. does that mean really that the u.s. and its allies are siding with terrorists some us. well this is not new for the american because heller clinton said very very much just a few months ago when she said we fund that those terrorist organization when they fought the soviet union they created and they funded them and now they actually evolve in these organization when it serves their interests to utilize them and use them to these countries and that's a shameful act on the united states and on the west because they talk about democracy and reform but on the other hand when it comes to their interests they will go to know and to get their way even if they have to go in bad was al qaeda and that's what's really happening right now in syria what about the fact that some u.s. lawmakers are calling on washington to arm the syrian opposition and how hard would

it be to do that covertly without really sparking some sort of a scandal well isn't that what reagan said when he arm. dean and afghanistan at one time and they turned to be terrorist organization and they are the american are repeating the situation the mistake they have done in the past today and the logic there is no logic to it and the world have to stop this madness because you have to remember that american propaganda and the west propaganda sometimes it's superior to other media outlets about american wake up finding that the middle east is actually with these terrorist organizations and to that and not these congressmen or senators there where they are short sighted in policy they will actually rectify the situation in syria or in the middle east why from a route that was political analyst kamel thank you you. thank. on the way

here in r t embracing the bogey man. the chinese aren't going to get. the economy is. going to. get. this comfortably in bed with beijing despite a rising wave of china phobia across the u.s. . and it was deja vu for protesters in bahrain as the anniversary of the country's uprising was met with a brutal crackdown by police. iran is stepping up its nuclear program at an underground site near the city of home by installing thousands of new generation center fujis according to reports and israel is stepping up its anti around rhetoric and urging the international community to increase sanctions against iran israel accuses iran of being behind bomb attacks targeting its diplomats in india

georgia and thailand earlier this week already under enormous international pressure over its nuclear program tonight and the involvement of the islamic state insists its nuclear work is peaceful and accuses israel of waging a psychological war that some fear is paving the way for military action political analyst chris bambery explains what he thinks israel is up to. i think what they're reading and israelis are trying to do is trying to up the ante and so the americans will do something they aren't capable of taking out around nuclear program they don't have the means to do it best they could memorize a hit and run and run a time but i think actually behind the rhetoric about nuclear weapons the reality is what they are worried about is being increased of the increase of influence in the region who really is of constantly said that they're not going to me nuclear weapons international it's all the inspectors have just been to iraq and they can't leave came by saying it's a good visit they're going back to iran they're getting cooperation you wouldn't

know this from reports in the western media so i think there is a rush to go but my opinion is the ratcheting up is not by the iranians it is by the israelis and by the americans and i think there is a lot of hypocrisy about iran's nuclear program. we're closely following the situation in iran long gone to our web site r.t. dot com for the latest developments. two iranian warships have sailed through the suez canal into the mediterranean learn where they are headed on our website also. party talks to people in town for their perspective on the country's controversial nuclear program and get some insight from iranian students who volunteered to carry out nuclear research. eleven minutes past the hour activists in bahrain were targeted with tear gas as

they marked the first anniversary of a shia led uprising on tuesday despite promises of police reform last year just as before officers responded with force although this time many of the tactics and weapons came not from bahrain but from the u.k. bennett reports. tear gas and stun grenades supposedly the work of a reformed police force but one year on since the first anti-government protests were crushed in bahrain it seems not much has changed the only difference now the crackdown has been planned by one of britain's former top cops john the eights used to be assistant commissioner of london's metropolitan police he now works for bahrain's monarchy which says he's there to oversee police reforms the police have borrowed or behaving despicably the trick used to throw cancer tear gas into the homes of people they don't like shut the doors and people have died choking to death to just sort of use out of doors and i think for the british police officer

mr yates those retards to be associated in any way with its role resign from scotland yard last year and early victim of the phone hacking scandal he popped up in by. rain in december as part of the regime's p.r. campaign to clean up its image a campaign pushed hard it seems by yeats himself he recently told the daily telegraph his new charges had a well rehearsed plan for the anniversary of the uprising adding the concept of reasonable reaction to provocation has been reinforced. as for the uprising itself he said this isn't organized protests it's just vandalism rioting on the streets claims hotly disputed by london's bahraini community i mean you look at those in the thousands of people protesting demanding their rights. vandalism if you seem to forget that there are sixty or sixty five people actually died from police

brutality activists in bahrain insists their protest was peaceful their aim to reach the iconic pole roundabout in the capital manama they say they were met by tanks toxic gas and rubber bullets what we witnessed on the ground as not. the front or from. previously but it's been extended through the. use of poisoning. mr john is contributing we should see a positive things at the ground what we are seeing today is nothing acceptable it may not just be british tactics bahrain's using but weapons to government figures show the u.k. sold over one million pounds worth of rifles and artillery equipment to bahrain from july to september last year long after blood was spilled that's despite insisting all licenses had been revoked as for yates his contract runs until april

by which time he hopes to put in place concrete reforms on this evidence that seems a long way off either bennett r.t. london. and still have three this hour cutbacks and chaos down trodden greece new spending cuts which they say will only make their debt wells last long into the future. the chinese vice president spent touring america this weekend hailing ties between the two countries the us media isn't quite as positive often vilifying the communist country which holds more than a trillion dollars of american debt in its coffers but for the white house business comes before public opinion as r.t. is going education reports from washington. what a better way to celebrate valentine's day than with a partner who lends you money nonstop provides you with cheap labor and host of thousands of your factory to the remarkable development of china u.s.

relations america's love for china would be boundless if not for the growing fear of it these guys around for us and the end of it and and and looking for ways to have. to work to harm us i want to be china i want to go to war with china and make america the most attractive place in the world to do business menacing and vilifying china are typical for political campaigns in america these days like these that i'm going to get warm and go after death to our floor to do it and that is how our great power grows again. it's not too late to stop this nightmare it's on r.g.p. even children story made in china in short that it's a get a kidney no sweetie the chinese are going to get. there's two billion of them in their economy is getting there with their does it take now to do they're going to be good and they make it. with china being the biggest foreign creditor for the

us the economic interdependency between the two is raising red flags in the minds of many americans that china can very easily just bankrupt america overnight what we've got to do is just dump dollars and trade stories switch to euros radio the current that's him of america except experts agree china would never do that because beijing is just as interested in preserving the value of their u.s. treasury holdings as well as the rich market for their manufactured goods but this it could all make interdependency becomes a headache for washington when china demonstrates policies independent from america's will and the white house has to stifle this content behind full on smiles china blocking the u.s. backed resolution on syria is one example russia came under fire from washington for opposing forceful regime change in syria while the us.