M1: Good evening, thank you for joining us. The headlines tonight: Five thousand homes without power after powerful winds hit parts of the country. Government figures suggest that unemployment has decreased. And new medical research indicates that the ageing process could be reversed. First this evening, strong winds have knocked out power cables for many people across the country, leaving an estimated five thousand homes without power. Emergency services are working to restore electricity, but there is no indication of when power will be restored. Families that have now been without power for the last ten hours are trying to make the best of a difficult situation. The government has set up local aid centers for families with small children and people with injuries. We have updates on this story as the emergency services continue to work to bring back power to those people affected. Figures released by the government today suggest that unemployment has decreased. The government treasury has announced that the number of people without work has fallen in the last three months, due to new projects designed to find work for the unemployed. The government has declared that this is great news for the country, and shows that their economic policies are working. Opposition politicians have said that the new statistics do not reflect the real state of unemployment in the country, and that much more needs to be done to help the unemployed. The figures released today come from a private study carried out by the treasury ministry. Finally, there’s good news as a new piece of medical research indicates that the ageing process could possibly be reversed. Researchers in Harvard Medical School have published a report about research where they injected mice with a chemical called NAD. They say that NAD had an effect similar to transforming a 60-year-old person’s muscles to those of a 20-year-old. The research has been described as an exciting discovery that could change how we think about getting older and perhaps even make it possible to stop this process. The research published states however that this is still preliminary research, and that NAD only appears to affect muscles. There are many groups of scientists working in this area around the world who will continue to investigate the possibility of stopping the ageing process.s