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Recovery crews continue to comb through the charred ruins and hundreds of people remain unaccounted for. There is growing anger on maui over both the lack of warning about the wildfires the worst to hit a state in america in over a century and the response by officials to the thousands left without homes and in some cases adequate food and water as sophie long reports from the island. This is what remains of lahaina. Cars abandoned as people ran and jumped into the sea to escape the flames. Homes and businesses reduced to charred remains. President biden promised immediate help and said every ...

I could come up with a date predicting when you would die. Well, thanks, but maybe the way that the years play out isnt inevitable. So, how about the idea of being able to increase our health span live the better years of our lives for longer, feel like were a0 at 60 . There is 15 17 years of healthy life that is up for grabs for all of us. We head to california to meet the scientists and founders who want to make it a reality. Ageing by itself is the largest risk factor for every single disease, Chronic Disease of ageing. So by targeting it, you target all disease together. But how do we sepa...

stephen cave, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it's a great pleasure. you believe that our human awareness of our own mortality is absolutely central to the human story. why? well, all creatures strive to live on, to keep going. they would not be around us any more if they did not. they wouldn't be around us any more if they didn't. the mouse that didn't care about surviving wouldn't pass on its genes. so we come for from a long line of creatures that are determined to keep going, but we have these big brains — that's part of our survival mechanism, if you like — tha...

which is straight after this programme. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. one of the key drivers of human thought and behaviour throughout history has been knowledge of our own mortality. from childhood each of us knows we will die. religion, philosophy and science all wrestle with that fact and have in different ways embraced the quest for immortality. my guess today, stephen cave, director of the cambridge institute for technology and humanity is at the centre of a growing debate about the merits of extending human longevity. is it wise to seek to live forever? stephen cave,...

stephen cave, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it's a great pleasure. you believe that our human awareness of our own mortality is absolutely central to the human story. why? well, all creatures strive to live on, to keep going. they wouldn't be around us any more if they didn't. the mouse that didn't care about surviving wouldn't pass on its genes. so we come from a long line of creatures that are determined to keep going. but we have these big brains, that's part of our survival mechanism, if you like, that allow us to see the future, to generalise. and we're conscious...