the months of the cases dismissed a trial in which the parents of consequence children who only committed to participate as spectators leading the prosecution know as justice minister. 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 was addressed to eric schmidt lush and then the defense lawyer for one of the growing until defendants did calling 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 have any way to the letter in regard to the state's role jaring the trial.

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london british victims of the active ingredient in counter gun have teamed up and formed a group called solidify trust. to bias aren't presenting his findings from the german archives. letters files of minutes outlining the role politics played during the criminal trial against the manufacture of good intel 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 all british political parties. in feb twenty fifth in an unusual debate takes place in the british parliament. for

which mr michael moore thank you mr speaker for over fifty years the little miters have been campaigning for justice particularly from the german manufacturers. know that over one hundred fifty m.p.'s of signed an open letter to the german chancellor would 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 and i'll 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 of going together. the four hundred sixty six members of the little 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 he thinks they have almost succeeded who had which ties and to whom and with his chart to explain the connections to german politicians as well as representatives in 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 and 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 in the amount that they should have got than would have the bad to be in that case it's evidence being available that it got a proper settlement and that's what threw them out as they're after now. the british lawyer thinks evidence of that confidential meeting is crucial it took

place in july nine hundred sixty nine at the ministry of health and bone. senior management from country guns manufacturer were invited to discuss the settlement of the counter gun case according to a note from the ministry. the goal of the meeting is to reach a legal agreement with the company as to how cunt again victims can be compensated . when the parents association of the deformed children hands 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. no one. signs all those of you how kind of all are. doing for. the dish to fill 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 and. and 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. because really i think two hobs the first half i thought was very positive so clearly 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 come 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 third 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 but those had been manufactured in germany. this is knowledge to still it might victims receive decades too late since the one nine hundred seventy s. people affected both a little might have been able to file compensation applications with the german government anyone who does file an application must renounce all claims against the manufacture of. many european victims say they have received little or no

compensation at all. the federal ministry of family affairs declined to be interviewed. norm wouldn't comment on the meeting with british counter gun victims at the german embassy in london. it stated only that the counter gun trust fund grants financial support when claims are grounded. christiane or tell also applied for support. yeah it's my new clown from college don't have one as it is kind of one as. i and box spring back. i was going to taba. madsen in england yeah and it's good bye to how it's one of one armored motion to get in on and off my macbook. air and dozens of the east does baskets bookish ones and if you shop at

the office on the album you get this book. that he has but i think i'll put a third of our lives in our beds our beds are important for it to be turned down 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 the responsibility. the. side. want to get all sean. in because with onion clarke. the name isn't hard to get you double tough and they are fun to put up for tiger seeded

border. of i know him from life and just its. supporters not played by grown until but the federal government. one of many who has applications to the german counter gun foundation were denied this lorraine mercer sometimes i. don't because. if you my back on point. when i moved in. some of the late complications are only now becoming apparent most of the need supplementary oxygen just to be able to breeze there is a fund in germany connected to the court 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 could 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 they have said no and that you've applied to all the charities only applied to local government to see if you can get assistance when you've been rejected by everybody you can then ask green atar if they would like to contribute some money towards your. financial assistance but you're not really aware that because green it hasn't made it public to thalidomide is outside of germany in fact the company established a private foundation. however goonan told does not want to talk about it nor do they want to discuss how decisions are made they say they don't want to provoke envy. we believe joe government should be responsible for paying for this i'm at health is that we or have only female me get that money remains 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 this little 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 such. 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

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loop. when the leader of north korea played host to russia's foreign minister this week he was the only international channel allowed to accompany the delegation to kim jong un's palace if only someone told me where exactly we are right now this is how suddenly you get treated to. kim jong il who most residents hello i can barely remember being given such access at other locations around the world i'm absolutely shocked. the politics continue to play out donald trump says a summit with a north korean leader is back on the american president received what he called a very nice letter from kim jong. il. in the wake were complicit in the torture of two al qaeda terror suspects while hosting secret cia

detention centers he says the european court of human rights. has trading partners to retaliate against hefty tariffs on metal imports now that have been imposed by the trump administration. hello live from r.t.e. studio h.q. or moscow this early sunday morning it's kevin now in review for our weekly roundup of the big stories of the last seven days thanks for joining us first then a u. turn from donald trump over north korea he says he's ready to meet with kim jong un after all in singapore later this month previously that being so many mixed messages coming from the white house about it but well ahead of those talks russia's foreign ministers already met with a north korean leader imposed in pyongyang with a message that moscow supports nuclear deescalation efforts on the peninsula but also adding that it should be all handled gradually a correspondent traveled with

a russian delegation and was granted indeed access to one of the north korean leaders residences. we were told to leave most of our belongings and all our mobile devices behind now they're taking us somewhere. so we're here in this van just to cower him and one photographer and myself following a lot of shade in. this area is completely deserted and it looks like we're in circling something that appears to be the palace. if only someone told me where exactly we are right now but we are being told to fall this man. who.

i don't really know what exactly this place this but it looks to be the area where he came john will be greeting certainly loughborough of and the reason why i think so is because just. through this door i saw kim john sr and she was having some sort of conversation with the guards but nobody speaks english here hello. and as far as i understand this is circular. i believe this is a bit of a historic moment we still don't know whether the attempt from meeting is going to happen but at least sergey lavrov is here having direct talks with the supreme leader of north korea.

sergey lavrov and kim john thune are talking behind a small we were asked to wait in this room so let's just have a walk around and take a look at what they have to offer a. dark north korean chocolate i can tell you that it will taste just like any other dark chocolate anywhere around the world some lemonade. so this is how suddenly you get treated to cranberry juice at kim john looms residence. and i can barely remember being given such access at other v.i.p. locations around the world we were just allowed to see the president which is just outside the doors. of those who seem to be. working with you and given the

fact that we're inside the residence of the north korean leader kim jong the moon again i'm just going to say it i'm absolutely shocked. and it is really disappointing that we were. be able to find out exactly what's being said behind these stories but just a few hours before mr kim and mr lavrov met the russian foreign minister said in making the korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons is a very delicate issue maintains that the interests of all sides must be respected. so that said it all ended with inviting to russia see whether the north korean leader will accept the invitation for now we're heading back to the airport in the russian foreign minister's motorcade. go right.

as a north korean delegation was in the u.s. meeting with trump administration they also post a private letter from kim jong un to president trumpet described as very nice however it isn't actually clear will read the letter. the letter was given to me by him you know and that letter was this earnest letter or would you like to see what was in that letter you know you might with how much how much how much it was a very interesting letter and i haven't seen the letter you know i purposely didn't know for eleven. i haven't opened it i didn't open it in front of the director louis big envelope it seems the letter to trump it was passed by a former north korean intelligence chief who was part of pyongyang delegation in the u.s. the upcoming summit was earlier called off course by trouble because what he called open hostility. while the talks seem to be back on track the meantime pentagon chief james mattis underlined that pyongyang will only get sanctions relief when it

takes irreversible steps to end its nuclear program but the experts we spoke to agree that that kind of language of ultimatums is unlikely to solve the situation on the korean peninsula but speer where there are a lot of people here in washington who do not want this summit to take place and they certainly do not want any kind of accord between north korea and the united states idea that this could be a gradual process is a realistic one but i think here people here would like to present the north koreans with an ultimatum which of course will will will not solve the problem doesn't understand anything beyond the fact that this could be a good photo op and possibly a boon for his ratings the u.s. has never taken north korea very seriously i mean the idea of the greatest military power in the world sitting down with a country that they've already always considered impoverished and backward i think is and that's to many people in washington the message that kim jong un is sending

you know he's meeting with lavrov he's meeting with xi jinping. signals to trump you know i have friends in the region and you're the one that is isolating yourself by pulling out these international agreements and so you know i'll be fine. with or without you. big case you're wondering what you're seeing on the in your screen is there now live pictures from where above our heads international space station where three members are preparing to come back to earth sure the next couple of hours carrying with them. that official football for the world cup opening in that stadium moscow on june the what was the date again tell me i forgot fourteenth isn't it june fourteenth as the one so much anticipation for this on board there we've got russian cosmonaut player off he's the chief there at the moment you become but under worth over the coming hours you're also former commander of the cess expedition innes's flight engineer scott tingle and the japanese aerospace

exploration agency guy there dr nourishing you can i forty one your first flight for him always well always fingers crossed for those a little bit of tension when it's things happening that are going to be opening the door to the dock in the coming hours will try to get across if the live pictures happening at that time and then coming back down to earth in a pod with a parachute and again we'll be covering that we think it's about three four hours time when that will be happening we never quite know where these things but crucially that football coming back down to earth as well after its trip into a war that will cover it for you. all the news of the week now the european court of human rights says listen romania violated human rights by hosting secret cia detention centers it also says the countries breached the prohibition on torture by helping the agency with the interrogation of two al qaeda suspects they've been ordered to pay the men one hundred thousand euros each in compensation one of the suspects according to the cia was a key al qaeda figure but no charges were brought against him during his

interrogation he was water boarded eighty three times the cia says the other man led operations in the gulf for al qaeda peter all over has more on how the suspects have been treated. their applications have been housed in these facilities and the domestic authorities have been aware that the cia would subject them to treatment contrary to the convention now what we have heard is a little bit about the conditions in which they were kept in lithuanian site we've gotten a little bit of a glimpse into what was going on there and how prisoners were held up this this hearing now is prisoners were kept in blindfolded all time they were put in solitary confinement and they were forced to wear leg shackles at all times as a beta gave an account of what was done to him while he was in detention must warn viewers that this clip comes a company with some of his own sketches that have been released as part of a freedom of information request some viewers may find them disturbed.