king's college london many thanks for joining us here on r.t. well the missing is between four major players in the region but the coalition forces often blamed for the deterioration situation in the afghanistan and pakistan well they're not present why are they then. i'm not sure to be honest clearly this is a russian diplomatic effort in my view the most interesting aspect of it is not the discussion of the drugs trade from afghanistan because frankly there's not a great deal that anybody can do about that given the weakness of the afghan state given the fact the leading players in the afghan state of profiting enormously from the drugs trade it's not just the taliban it's the west's allies as well the russians former allies but perhaps the most interesting aspect of it is the development of a regional diplomacy which does not depend on the united states and in particular this very new aspect of the development of new links between russia and pakistan which historically have been almost completely absent because i think it's time that we began

researchers from king's college, london, say this will make diagnoses quicker and more straightforward. some experts are saying more research is needed before this technique can be widely used. >> this is a technique scientists hope will revolutionize the process of diagnosing autism. it took years for joe to get a conventional diagnoses, but researchers here believe of brain scan could have made it possible to detect immediately. the images are fed into a computer which makes minute, detailed measurements. a close-up of his brain looks pretty much like anybody else's, but those measurements should reveal 10 differences. the colors are key. the changes in shape and thickness associated with autism. >> on the left -- >> joe's scans put him at the forefront of the spectrum. they detect adult autism with more than 90% accuracy. they say this could transform diagnosis. >> we need an expert team. at there are not many of those around. it would take an expert team many years to research this. in only a few minutes, this computer program can interpret the brain scan. >> i need to physically s

afghanistan to pakistan together with russia agreed upon at a summit in sochi told me even from king's college london thinks it's significant that the central asian countries discuss the stability without the region's main player the us. but perhaps the most interesting aspect of it is the development of a regional diplomacy which does not depend on the united states i think it's time that we began to look forward to a day when the united states will not in fact be present on the ground in afghanistan and countries in the region will have to make their own arrangements to deal with whatever comes after the american presence three other countries are absolutely essential namely china india of course and iran and the problem is that the deep distrust between pakistan and india and to a lesser extent between india and china makes regional a great arrangements over afghanistan extremely difficult in the past and to a degree even today these countries have often played proxy wars against each other including in afghanistan over the past thirty years or so there has been only one force only one force in af

he's a over of neuroscience at university college london. scott small, he uses brain imaging techniques to study how the brain changes in old age. he is suching for behaviors, foods and drugs that might prolong our mental acuity. he is an associate professor at columbia university. and once again, my cohost is dr. eric kandel. he is a noble laureate, a professor at columbia university, a howard hughes medical investigator and the man who is the inspiration, the guide, the spirit of this series and it's always good to have him right here in this studio. >> pleasure to share this with you charlie. >> charlie: what's important to understand about the aging brain. >> there is good news about the aging brain. we are living longer as you indicated and we're living better. because of public health measures, improved diet, increased exercise that people do, increase social involvement. people live better lives. one thing that interferes a number of instances with people to live productive mature lives as they age is interference with memory. memory

date is correct, on 9 november, you gave a speech at queen mary college, london, in which you, in a slightly more round-about way, more or less made the same point about iraq. you said specifically that the interpretation by british moslems of uk foreign policy as anti-muslim in particular related to the uk's involvement in iraq and afghanistan. the foreign affairs committee of the house of commons in 2004 concluded that war in iraq had possibly made terrorist attacks against british nationals and british interests more likely in the short-term. now, how significant in your view a factor was iraq compared with other situations that were used by extremists, terrorists, to justify their actions? >> i think it is highly significant and the jic assessments that i have reminded myself of say that. by 2003/2004 we were receiving an increasing number of leads to terrorist activity from within the uk and the -- our involvement in iraq radicalized, for want of a better word, a whole generation of young people, some british citizens -- not a whol generation, a f among a generation -- who were -- saw o

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there is no college in the world expect london. one. not any in the u.s. to learn you have to go through the paces and survive. nobody thinks they will be a cabdriver the rest of their life. they do it to make a living and find out it is not that bad. then it gets worse and worse and worse. you get tired of it after a while. to say that it is free is a ridiculous under statement. we worked years to get these medallions. i don't agree. i think you are ruining the service. we have it good here. we do. and drivers are helpless to do anything about anything around here. >> is there any other member of the public winner to address the board on this matter?

there is no college in the world expect london. one. not any in the u.s. to learn you have to go through the paces and survive. nobody thinks they will be a cabdriver the rest of their life. they do it to make a living and find out it is not that bad. then it gets worse and worse and worse. you get tired of it after a while. to say that it is free is

it 2006, at that time, it this date is correct on november 19, you gave a speech a queen mary college london. in which you, in a slightly more roundabout way more or less made the same point about iraq. you said specifically that the interpretation by british muslims of u.k. foreign policy as anti-muslim, in particular, related to the u.k.'s involvement in iraq and afghanistan. the committee of the house of commons in 2004 concluded that a war in iraq and possibly made terrorist attacks against british nationals and british interests more likely in the short term. how significant, in your view, was iraq compared with other situations that were used by extremists, terrorists, to justify their actions? >> i think it is highly significant. and the jic assessment, which i have reminded myself of, say that. we were receiving an increasing number of leads to terrorist activity from within the u.k., and our involvement in iraq radicalized, for want of a better word, a whole generation of young people. not a whole generation but a few among a generation. who saw our involvement in iraq on top of our

physics and a consultant for the new scientist also in london we have jordan nash he's the head of the high energy physics research group at imperial college and in stuttgart we cross to auto rustler he's a professor of theoretical biochemistry at the university of tuning in and another member of our crosstalk team yell on the hunger all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want first of all jordan i'd like to go to you i didn't do very well and high school physics ok and when i'm told the project the great collider can reproduce the nano second after the big bang how can you explain that to me why is that important and what it what does it mean and how can it change our life. well the first few nanoseconds after the big bang whole universe was in the very place it was very hot it was composed of many different things some of which we don't know.

physics and a consultant for the new scientist also in london we have jordan nash he's the head of the high energy physics research group at imperial college and in stuttgart we cross the auto rustler he's a professor of theoretical biochemistry at the university of tuning in and another member of our crosstalk team yell on the hunger all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want first of all jordan i'd like to go to you i didn't do very well and high school.