"The Reuters news agency has withdrawn a video showing an exchange between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping on the subject of organ transplants and living to 150 years, after Chinese state media withdrew legal permission to use the footage and demanded its removal. A written request from China Central Television's (CCTV) legal team said Reuters exceeded the usage terms of its agreement and criticised the editorial treatment applied to this material, prompting the news agency to remove the footage from its website on Friday."
"Biotechnology is continuously developing. Human organs can be continuously transplanted. The longer you live, the younger you become, and [you can] even achieve immortality, Putin's interpreter said in Chinese as the Russian leader and Xi approached Tiananmen Square's rostrum. Xi responded: Some predict that in this century humans may live to 150 years old."
"Putin and Xi were heard, in an exchange that was picked up live by a microphone on Wednesday, discussing organ transplants and the possibility of humans living to 150 years as they walked together in Beijing alongside North Korea's Kim Jong Un. The three leaders were leading a delegation of more than two dozen foreign officials to a massive military parade in the Chinese capital marking 80 years since the end of World War II."
Reuters withdrew a CCTV-filmed video of an exchange between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping after China Central Television revoked legal permission and demanded removal. CCTV's legal team said Reuters exceeded usage terms and criticised its editorial treatment, prompting removal from Reuters' website. The recorded exchange, picked up live by a microphone, included comments about biotechnology, continuous organ transplantation, achieving immortality and the possibility humans may live to 150 years. The footage was edited into a four-minute video distributed to over 1,000 global media clients and was widely shared by broadcasters and on social media.
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