half an hour's time with the very latest news headlines and an update of our top stories this. country gun the sleeping pill taken by their mothers before they were born and still haunts its victims today. whether it's the stories i get along with. what's

verdict there's been all sorts. they go. along i wondered as it existed in the moods and the members fifty five years after the medicine was taken off the market its victims are demanding new legal proceedings they want to prove that they were denied fair compensation. the survivors are placing their faith in the hands of this man. tobias was found archived documents that he hopes will shed new light on the contraband scandal. once again it stands for one of the greatest pharmaceutical catastrophes. up until the one nine hundred sixty s. the sleeping girl was a mass market product the active ingredient sold worldwide for many. factoring

company grown into based near the drug proves to be a success story however more than ten thousand children are born with deformities caused by the pill it's estimated that over eighty thousand embryos die in the womb in germany roughly two thousand eight hundred account again children are still alive today. back in the one nine hundred sixty s. class can now was a young pediatrician he began to notice an increased number of deformities in children whose mothers had all taken the same drug. is now eighty eighty years old . it all began with this data sheet from one nine hundred sixty one. pregnancy days or about malformations time records showing when country gun was taken. up and his colleagues video can plans become suspicious. one day they call the manufacturer a good intel does after loads this is the emissions in the day.

it's. this question in view and in fact that that's the fail belong the norm in gunstock front of. the of course. and it's medical this. scene or it's this. desk here in the me table and if and when this is all. on paul from here for over a month there are still a form and clicks. on. the home office think of him and the any of the amp they've ever had either stayed on this coming up or caught it there was that us i guess i was short as a few all swear that these industries this collapse. often does in the humid as well in that north rhine-westphalia state archives into as bug tobias aren't as was such a cunt. half of the country gun victims. he's searching the archives for evidence

and documents that have not been taken into account before today. as does this one i'm sent out soon enough. to demand wolf in that. you can view it as a here and soy. paul movie. there also voiture das sean four hundred forty four mark. borden fish. darted implants. fish. made a comment invited all the meat in park home and for nick fish one of. the four dots. and starts. when it does funny for want and need to heartwarming. today the company says that the

witness must be mistaken man that no warnings were ever issued concerning use during pregnancy or pregnant women never knew that the country can sleep in build was not suitable for them the same was true in great britain. two thousand come to go and children were born here. i was also want to recommence compensation proceedings. i think the germans find it difficult to face up to the history in play the might and they have to do it now and they will feel ashamed but at the same time being typically governments they feel powerless they don't know what to do. but sooner or later they're going to have to confront what happened. in june twenty sixth seen an event takes place in dusseldorf. the state government issued an invitation a study titled the role of the state of north rhine-westphalia income to go on and the consequent. this is presented to the victims of contra got. the study

could been commissioned two years earlier by health minister barbara stephens. it's a ph d. thesis from the faculty of history at the university of much stuff. the author nicholas and how much is already under pressure as the meeting begins. one of the reasons is that he used the term lifestyle drug to describe conjugal. doug it is. a god like i life style that they dig up the reasons that all the fish are victims to speak to humans what's a bit odd to you about me to be a doctor but that's also a little but it's gotta hit five just be the garbage at the coals a bit of that all for thought dust is what i'd leave as an actor does. it all of us the evidence he does it's this big gift within us is this all the miles over twenty thirty i'm i'm i'm sure it will gobble it up also when i'm with you for sure does

feel good you know i'm alive and important for by the addition more of us of one goodness but we want to move on as does the author might go on for three you know forty five could. the author of the thesis was commissioned by the health minister to examine the role of the state's governments joining the criminal trial against the manufacturer of the frogger opposite to flunk collected on this collective fire as his own attorneys mr urban for inviting us in can see the veterans progress my printer divided by four knobs it doesn't say three to five not but it does not missed by three to make it to be five not and. is argued inside kind he invites get this year i know unsolicited by of course the stuff ons begin. so there is no evidence that the state behaved improperly during the criminal trial against a pharmaceutical company go in and tell. a key player in the country going trial is north rhine-westphalia as justice minister. joseph nye but the trial began in may

nine hundred sixty eight. these approaches that a third of foundations really have gotten to do but so i don't want to give you sad i said i'm going to present on an hour let's get down at them he's really got it's above in there for becoming justice minister acted as criminal defense lawyer for the main defendant. the archives contained files showing that he was a defense lawyer for herman ferrets a former director of good intel the company that manufactures come to go to bias aren't discovers a memorandum from the arkan prosecution service two days prior to becoming justice minister. still a lawyer wrote to the public prosecutor's in his opinion all questions concerning his client have been answered and that there is nothing to stop the case being dismissed. on your highness' never. really even president down there was a sworn view and they had an outside i was

a bit of the odds according to records or appeared in person the next day to meet the prosecution and to discuss dismissal of the case the judges in the county go on trial if a personal injury and involuntary manslaughter the defense demands that the case is dismissed a trial in which the parents of contraband children were only permitted to participate as spectators leading the prosecution now is justice minister nouri berger he is no longer allowed to interfere in the proceedings. however after two years in office go writes a letter to a defense lawyer who is also involved. the letter is addressed to eric schmidt life. then the defense lawyer for one of the growing until defendants dear colleague the justice minister writes while leafing through in the evening i found something about the submission of evidence.

was the minister of justice unlawfully interfering in a criminal trial and giving legal advice to a defense lawyer. we show it to the author of the thesis and ask how he of that he waits the letter in regard to the state's real jury in the trial. business and it is guns i don't want to fight get us that anything could i kind of answer to him not to decide to set us and him can talk on tough on so too and. until they could be building until he could do it and take his cassette in contact . via imaging bots a decent side point i need them for one stab in getting i'm not dead. until

they go to. the university of glasgow. history professor braced conducts research at the faculty of corporate history. professor stokes is an acknowledged expert on twentieth century german business history. he read the doctoral thesis on the federal state government's role he also knows about the lets a jury in his time as justice minister. do in this. game what if. she replied no. to this this previous to see the d. d. d. d. d. to teach five vetoes a and i'm your recent target in the next new book and on the site i know your contacts fissioning biden as a mission to preserve wished on an all. home. for been the winter fishing and buy.

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it. also has turned sixty and drugs to make a living. in your lives and most of the words in the real. name of the new. in london british victims of the active ingredient in county gun have teamed up and formed a group called solidify trust. to bias aren't presents his findings from the german archives. letters files of minutes outlining the role politics played during the criminal trial against the manufacturer grown into these documents shed new light

on what happened fifty five years ago. it isn't just british that it might survivors who are convinced they find allies in the old british political parties. in feb twenty fifth in an unusual debate takes place in the british parliament. which is the michael moore thank you mr speaker for over fifty years the little miters have been campaigning for justice particularly from the german manufacturers to. know that over one hundred fifty m.p.'s of signed an open letter to the german chancellor with the prime minister add this to his busy agenda today so that we might get a decent and fair settlement for all concerned. i have on behalf of a constituent as he raised this issue not only through the european parliament but also with german authorities now certainly reflect what the old gentleman says.

more than one hundred fifty british m.p.'s from all political parties have signed a letter to the german chancellor. unlike germany britain does have a tradition of rebellion when dealing with that in mind the active ingredient in going to gullane. the four hundred sixty six members of the through the my trust and not just fighting for compensation. they want those responsible for their disabilities to be held to account nick deal breaker is one of them the thinks they have almost succeeded who had which ties and to whom and with his chart to explain . and the connections to german politicians as well as representatives of the european parliament if they hadn't ended the trial as they did in the early seventy's then the evidence would have been available to the victims to use in their future actions against grim's on others and in particular the u.k. survivors action in the seventy's would have undoubtedly have been and it in a much more favorable fashion to to the claimants as it was they didn't have the

evidence they had to settle for a much bigger discount in the amount that they should have got than would have to bow to being the case if this evidence being available they would have got a proper settlement and that's what. they're after now. the british lawyer thinks evidence of that confidential meeting is crucial it took place in july nine hundred sixty nine but the ministry of health and bone. senior management can come to guns manufacturer were invited to discuss the settlement of the counter gun case according to a note from the ministry and. the goal of the meeting is to reach a legal agreement with the company as to how country gun victims can be compensated . when the parents association of the deformed children hears of the plans and hand asks to see details of the meeting the ministers say is under no circumstances will the association receive any details as address is explicit because art in document

the. or. the one. percent. signs all of that you know how kind of all are. doing for. the district or half a century later in the summer of twenty fifteen a meeting between british that it might victims and representatives of the german government took place at germany's embassy in london i think they heard the concerns we had they obviously refute the fact that they interfered in the criminal trial but they've never actually answered individually the documents that we put to them. the british m.p. simon hall was also present at the german embassy meeting. those really i think two hobs the first half i thought was very positive so clear the mood music coming out from officials on the on the german side of the table as it were it was very encouraging that they wanted to have a dialogue they wanted to see this brought to

a conclusion we had to leave as we had to go back to the commons to vote and then the notes following that seem to suggest that they slightly dried up like clapham and it was very much we're not going to get involved this is the only meeting we're going to have to discuss this effectively that's the end of the news i think if there was anything which came out of the meeting which we had at the embassy in july of last year is that there had been a long debate point as to whether the drug which had been taken by british mothers had been manufactured in germany or had been manufactured under license in the u.k. and it is now very clear that the german officials taking tided the point that the thirty five trust in the u.k. has been making for many along that there was no. manufactured in the u.k. and that which was taken by british mothers or expectant mothers have been very attractive in germany. this is knowledge to solidify victims receive decades too

late since the one nine hundred seventy s. people affected both a little might have only been able to file compensation applications with the german government anyone who does file an application must renounce all claims against the manufacturer. many european victims say they have received little or no compensation at all. the federal ministry of family affairs declined to be interviewed. nor would it comment on the meeting with british counter can victims of the german embassy in london. it stated only that the country gun trust fund grants financial support when planes are grounded. christi and paul tell also applied for support. and a clerical glitch don't have one as an instance of one in a skate. and box spring bet. i was going to

tarboro one minor corner madsen in english to become yeah and it's good bye to charlotte's web of one armored wish to get in of my macbook and clear and dozens of each task baskets bookish ones and if you shop at the office on of them you get this work don't. that he is but about how can we spend a third of our lives in our beds our beds are important and for it to be turned on that basis is utterly ridiculous and so it's abundantly clear to me that applying to the call to go isn't going to be a solution for us at all and so therefore for us to be subjected to a ridiculous system bureaucratic system at this point in our lives it's not going to meet our needs all we need is money that we can use in the ways that we know that will suit us best. the formosa little manufacturer no longer considers claims

from the victims of the drug to be that responsibility. the tougher. side. and. of course with. an english isn't hard to get you double tough no fun to put look for tiger cd to order. of i know from life until own just its. supporters not paid by grown until but the federal government. one of many who is applications to the german county gun foundation were denied this lorraine mercer sometimes i think. because. you know back. when i move in. it's getting moans. some of the late complications are only now becoming apparent

mercer need supplementary oxygen just to be able to breeze there is a fund in germany connected to their cause against gift which allows the later might is to apply to it for financial assistance there's also a fund that's been set up by agreement to apply to that but you can apply to them saying you wanted some more money but you have to. prove first of all you've applied to a little more trust to get some money and that they have said no and they've applied to all the charities only applied to local government get assistance when you've been rejected by everybody you can then green atar they would like to contribute some money towards your. financial assistance but you're not really aware that because green atop hasn't made it public to the little writers outside of germany in fact the company established a private foundation. however does not want to talk about it nor do they want to discuss how application decisions are made they say they don't want to provoke and

. we believe the german government should be responsible for paying for those i met health is that we all have a new flame only get that money remains need to be met. in great britain so robert nelson is a well known judge he's written to the german federal ministry of family affairs. the purpose of the letter was to bring home to the german government the problems that the flu the midas face and the shortfall in finances that we felt they had in the amount they got and the amount that they would in fact need i wrote it to the relevant minister and there was no reply as. for decades parents never knew what was going on behind their backs during the criminal trial they were only allowed to be spectators.

the thalidomide manufacturers defense strategy was to convince the prosecution to agree to dismiss the case. they knew that they didn't just have the regional government justice minister on their side but the federal government too however the dismissal of a criminal. case requires strict conditions least according to the prosecution service would not matter. what's going on now is only producing. illusion oafish it doesn't have any meaning unless it leads to real kiss which can be. no guaranteed only by also christine

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