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 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 varies 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 then 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 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 celts 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 problem 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. 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 on 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 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 the one hundred year and the reason they laugh along when they do it because for whatever reason love with them and they usually come.

during periodic preventative repair and maintenance to keep them in top condition. according to the bible people before the great florida 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 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 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 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 put it by these rats lived much longer than the control group would be a good thing to do so it's interesting. as well as the current research the scientists test their findings on themselves dr school at charles 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 blood in their school or church over his four sons hope that in four or five years time they will be able to counsel or at least slow down our body's natural aging process what is it steak is the scientifical for a day of an entire din a stick of microbiologists. this is before i was doing research in three mortality

a 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 off to birth our scientists on the right track and loose their research what could be done to make people stay young longer 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.

the latest news in the week's top stories on iran's oil ministry says iran is stopping. britain. over its nuclear program. the pressure on the syrian regime is. to break the stalemate because promises reforms will have live in. the streets once again as lawmakers clear more cuts to secure vital rescue cash in the wake of days of protests our top story this hour.

with a look back at the past seven days and the latest developments this is the weekly here. iran says it has stopped on exports to french and british companies the country's oil ministry says tehran has other customers to sell its crude to islamic republic aims to preempt an embargo that's up to come into force in july and. the ban was needed to force iran to resume talks over its atomic program europe in the us suspect iran is pursuing nuclear weapons to iran denies that and says it's ready to start negotiations that's his report suggest the country plans to boost the enrichment capacity of its underground site near the city. historian webster tarpley says that iran's imposing its embargo to show that it won't be. economic sanctions are

a game that two can play and turnabout is fair play in international affairs the european commission and the relevant powers have been making a big noise over the past couple of weeks about how they are going to embargo and boycott all iranian oil starting on july first well it's pretty obvious the iranians decided not to wait around until july first they decided to to impose their own embargo boycott on the offending powers and they're starting with the the two biggest imperialist bullies on the schoolyard the british and the french who are now so weak that they can only act together they were kind of imperialist bicycle built for two they haven't had time to carefully arrange the fallback options and the alternative sources of oil so this is a little bit of a surprise to that the iranians have been under sanctions for thirty years when i was in iran you see a lot of prosperity a lot of economic activity there had been

a shock in january as a result of the very stringent sort of secondary boycott sanctions that the u.s. had put in but the iranians will tell you they have lived under u.s. sanctions for thirty years they know how to to survive in such a situation i didn't see any evidence of hardships at all peoples that that certain key prices had gone up the bigger issue i think is the slide towards war and i think we have to take very seriously what we're seeing now with the reckless and irresponsible statements of the israeli leaders these feckless americans who are sort of chime in is a region sliding towards war and that would be then i think possibly a general war. u.n. general assembly has adopted a non binding resolution this week calling on syria's president to step down russia was among twelve states who voted against the draft fails to address the armed opposition while damascus is vying for major reforms reports of violence continue artie's more of a notion it is in syria. this is

a shot here in syria maine's 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 a straight 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 to 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 her stitches in other parts of the country reports from 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 story. he's. saying that this is the only way

out of the crisis. well for more on the situation in syria i can now talk to cole shero his middle east blogger joining us live from london nato states they don't have the appetite for military intervention in syria but u.s. defense officials have confirmed they are actually flying unmanned drones over syria what sort of message is washington sending with that sort of maneuver. well it's becoming really difficult to understand what drives western and specifically american policy in the middle east i think what we really need to be aware of is this highly erratic nature of western policy in particular u.s. policy towards all the countries in the region but particularly now towards syria so on the one hand there's a very high rhetoric but there's also commitment to not intervention but there is this persistent meddling as i have been describing it for several months now that

it's kind of becoming provocative but without actually. having a clear. target in mind you were just covering the iranian story as well and over there we don't see for example why would the west provoke iran all of a sudden with no change on the ground and kind of end up losing supplies of oil so a similar story and happening in syria where i think that kind of the approach of the west there needs to be a step back and understanding what the aims in the region what are they trying to achieve and try to pull back from this situation where almost all players appear to be losing control and if you kind of start to provoke such as flying drones who knows how that might and combine that with this situation with iran i would looking at the highly unstable situation in the middle east and i think the west really needs to step back and try to cool things down before the escalate out of control and should the west be stepping back and analyzing who it is supporting in terms of

the vocal support and what we've seen in the latest un resolutions for the so-called opposition we understand that opposition members are not started yet another political group aim to topple assad we've got what now three groups so it doesn't confuse a state as the opposition you do start negotiating with. exactly that's that's very precisely part of the problematic and if you didn't have the sense of urgency i mean i understand the difficulty of people dying and the bloodshed but nations have passed through periods like that before you know in a kind of transition to words for their maturity and democracy but in the absence of that clarity brought about by a genuine political democratic struggle within you don't know who the actors that would take control assume assad were to step down tomorrow who is actually the legitimately legitimity political opposition to take control and when the west talks about supporting or the gulf states this side of the outside who are actually

in the group so you will go to finance or give support to so while i'm firmly with the desire for change in syria for this kind of transition and for the emergence of a genuine political opposition with the authority unfortunately that hasn't happened so far and escalating the situation at the moment we're not maturity everybody will tend to act in a short term approach which would be really catastrophic you all school take control if assad were to step down nato states have actually confirmed al qaida rim on the rebels is it really a credible concern that perhaps that vacuum could be filled by extremists full. well it's very interesting they use the word vacuum because that's the analogy that i was using and i would say at the moment it's kind of more. of direct political control by the opposition over the military operations on the ground that's sort of

creating that void so whereas you have the so-called f.s.a. on the ground and then you have the s.n.c. and other organizations there doesn't seem to be any kind of direct links or control and the kind of they tend to seem more organized than actually so within the vacuum who would step in you would have people returning from iraq the kind of the weapons or the experience and but i would say at the moment it's still small kind of players individual players or groups that are more of an islamist or affiliation stepping in the contour to that is the opposition needs to really develop a clear political agenda and an idea for a change that will prevent it from sliding into whoever can fill that vacuum or void so i would kind of be very hesitant about fear mongering about either threat but at the same time we have seen very well in the past that the absence of a genuine political platform can easily leave them

a lot of space to do to come in for and maneuver very much indeed for your perspective on the developments in syria good to hear from the culture of joining us live in london. well coming up in the next few minutes here on the weekly pro-democracy anniversary and the war scarred country place gunshots in libya the days of celebrations but an end to the teeth militia isn't going anywhere costing a shadow on the country's path to stability. a story still to come but first frustrated greeks have been running in central athens once again to protest against ever more austerity being pushed upon them greece's cabinet has passed the final set of massive cuts creditors demand in return for a hundred thirty billion euro bailout which could now be cleared on monday but the rage of a beleaguered population is still at the forefront of greek society. system under siege m.p.'s drowned out the pleas of tens of thousands of demonstrators

amassed within a short passing another round of unpopular cuts. the results proved incendiary . that uganda protests turned violent as protesters including fringe and the kids clashed with police again leaving their mark on athens. the day all this is the remnants of public anger big losses and the only thing that's been broken as governments passed increasingly unpopular austerity cuts will be left asking who can make trusts serve their interests the measures are very very tough part of the poor people especially and this is the reason that we feel. we today i think more measures have been taken and they're it's not going to work in the end it will be another bill he clearly had bad and oh i hope for the best but i don't see

it coming. under pressure from brussels berlin and the international monetary fund the greek government has cut more jobs to slash funding for the nation's pensions a minimum wage but current policy appears to mainly expose those most vulnerable to crisis conditions is a mindset some feel is doomed to fail and they already have destroyed the whole generation of young people and their dreams they will destroy the structure of the sabian infrastructure of the whole country we know that did this impossible to reach a peace there that we have now signs that the easy legal or old use we cannot continue like that because the policy but the government is following actually increases the day yeah instead of finding the solution at the heart of activists claims is their solution that they've known austerity. he for the best part of five years now and

that time taxes have risen incomes have full but the country's deficit only seems to grow and in this austerity cycle is something sought by an increasing number despite the turmoil the government boards will follow but what this is about. is that wake up the exact date even more. as they are going to come the only way out of this point is the default default is good to be very tough for us but there's going to be a better solution than the slow down for now relative calm has returned to the streets of athens smashed buildings have been patched up the signs of damage swept away but the simmering discontent hasn't been a mass force medicine appears to bring nothing but pain many are continuing their call for target of treatment greece r.t. athens. the euro zone's austerity drive has also hit spain as tens of thousands of

people have marched out across the country protesters are angry at the government's labor reforms the largest rally is taking place in madrid the trade unions have organized gatherings in fifty seven cities across the country protesters say reforms are unfair to workers and would destroy jobs the changes make it easier to adjust employers shed jobs and wages and have staff fired last week similar rallies turned violent and demonstrators were blocked by police on the way to the parliament spain's unemployment has tripled since two thousand and seven and almost whole of people under twenty five are out of work. this week libyans have been celebrating the first anniversary of the uprising that led to the toppling of colonel gadhafi the united states congratulated the people while urging the libyan government to protect civil rights amnesty international has been reporting that gadhafi supporters have been subjected to abuse and torture this is concerns grow that libya's armed militia are still roaming the country unchecked. editor in chief

of the pan african social justice network told r.t. the situation now is much worse than it was during the colonel's regime. since the nature we of libya. has the. gross human rights violations it's not just torture there is. indiscriminate killings there are extra judicial killings there's summary execution of the code or gadhafi. members of this found some really executed nobody can pull to justice or the huge amount of arms that are being taught in france by europeans by the americans. this place is going to into. all civil war. you know in that sense is worse than it was under the the rule of colonel gadhafi. this is r.t.

coming to you live from the russian capital with twenty four hours a day as the middle east reels from revolutions and foreign regimes with a body in their analysis for you on our web site r t v dot com read expert opinion that says the west is struggling to keep a brave face as it proceeds with its predominance in the region also on life you right now. russian language science in latvia is the majority of voters in the baltic states reject a proposal to give official status to the language used by a third of its population. the chinese vice president of the received a warm welcome in washington during his tour of america however the u.s. media has been less positive promoting a menacing image of the communist country which holds more than a trillion dollars of american debt but for the white house business comes before public opinion as artie's got a chance now reports what a better way to celebrate valentine's day the.