it saw thirty percent just last year some with four hundred to five hundred trees per circuit first second and one rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars ai industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one one business shows you can't afford to miss the one and only boom box. camera. roughly once the show and some will pay you for the. future uncool videos during the world cup and someone with the broccoli staring at . the downed more one string i don't really don't t.v. so i threw out. my own body by the. hour in law found in self in the public mind when he became this crowd and the spokesman

for handicapped children not. least. over the years alvin would make appearances on telephones across the country. not better than other people. because i'm not a handicapped person. but people get it wrong. they look at alvin law and thank god it's tremendous how you can do things with this. well i suppose if you look at your feet it's tremendous but these are my feet these are my hands too and i have been doing it forever these are not tremendous feet is the only thing that i've got so when i pick up a cup and i have a drink you know. oh wow what

a thrill what it is i do think. i thought that i was going to have to be a nine i didn't think that i was going to go on dates i didn't know what was going to happen and that that's not how it happened i had a great high school run i mean you know i had a lot of fun and i fancy i had too much fun and if you're like me and my friends you drive around and look for holes and you go skinny and that's both we did for entertainment. i have a problem with girls i could always get very nice girls beautiful girls intelligent girls but i couldn't get the stupid one. and i wanted the stupid. one night stand but that i'd never achieved she was wearing glasses i didn't notice

. but i found my know why when she was sixteen then. maybe you call it a lack of opportunity but i'm still with her. she was long and not stupid. for most of the miters getting behind the wheel of a car was the road to independence and freedom. the ways mason was determined to drive no matter how difficult it was for her just his sick leave to get behind the wheel and do our best. to. drive these trucks who never have a shot tonight to save. somebody. but the

tests which. was exciting same as everyone else there's no difference they came so natural was not be driving and we were transferred in most of my life and. college just because we were sharing. my parents they were the most practical people i think i've ever met in my entire life so when it came to learning how to drive. that was just practical that way you can get around on your own you want to have people to take care of you don't have to worry about. taking a bus are you counting it was really just about trying to figure it out. i just love driving my car a lot of different things but all to. most people don't consider the power of my mind. i my mind is a very powerful tool and it get into it interjects all kinds of things into my system so that my feet are literally. my hands so when it comes to driving. i

get really serious when i have high explain why can't i can drive with one foot on the wheel what is peoples excuse they've got both hands and their feet and yet they drive like this doesn't exist. in germany. knew from an early age he had to choose a future occupation that would not require the use of. his deformed arms was all too slim and trim for the sixers to meet on the phone number she's about to meet some of them for the summer i realized quite soon i'm never will be a conductor or a painter or a dancer i can't sing so i became a director because i don't you know i can't do anything else and i'm going to pursue his dream nico went to prestigious film schools and apprenticed under the legendary german director rayner vernon fast binder before making a number of successful feature films but there was one prize job he wanted badly

directing a big movie until it in mind and the head of german t.v. said no you can't have the job but you can make a documentary on. the to might and i said you know i you know i that was income and i shouted at him i use the f. word very loudly and very often because i said i apply for the job you know you pay well and not the documentary filmmaker who gets all pate you know and that's so typical you know you give the disabled guy the side job you know and then i went home and my wife said what's the matter and i told her they want me to do a film about the little light. and what do i know about the little might go. and she looked at me and said they go it's time to look the devil in these. i don't know what your lives are like sometimes life can really be rough on people

i understand that i get it i've been in real life alvin law is a motivational speaker who's influenced audiences in north america and australia with his message of hope is specially to more than two million youngsters who heard his top speaking is the best thing i could have ever cited where you're helping kids and they need to have somebody come in and tell them that it's going to be ok but i get such tremendous joy out of doing it there is nothing in my life that makes you happier than speaking to kids nothing and the next time you're ready to give up or quit or back again well if it helps even a little bit remember the goofy looking guy that played the drums with his feet but remember the words i live by every day there's no such word as can't. thanks. allen travels over one hundred thousand miles a year on his own but after thirty years on the road his body is starting to where it takes its toll career and that stuff around i mean you know my body may not last

as long as normal bodies do because of what i'm putting it through i mean as much as i make this look easy i'm still put my body through a lot of stuff just the pain in my back from carrying my luggage and scar tissue in my shoulder from carrying a briefcase for thirty five years and you know there's not really a shoulder here so what i'm carrying it with i should be doing this i should have like a sherpa or something. how does a guy without arms function on the road all by himself i carry my own luggage with straps i check into hotels all on my own i i rent cars my keys are you go off thank you boss and my clothes think you know why do i rent cars and it's just how i prefer to function i don't do cabs or because strangely they don't stop when you go . i still travel around all the airports checking into hotels eat bad food drive in everywhere in the middle of nowhere getting involved in blizzards and swearing at my wife for putting me out yet in another life and death situation and not think about getting paid enough so i mean i can get on

a rant but at the end of the day she also says this line this is a wonderful line. i mean if you're tired of traveling i'm sure there's a cubicle with your name written out in a windowless office somewhere in the middle of nowhere for a mundane job that you minutes. and then it goes away. in germany. had to overcome his lifetime aversion to other children and mothers when he decided to make a documentary in which he and eleven other victims would pose nude for a calendar first i went to a disability school and from that moment on i wanted to have nothing to do with the martyrs anymore and then because i made this film nobody's perfect i was kind of forced to meet them. to make this film. i didn't want to look at myself. i'm going

to come on nobody's perfect change as if. it changed how i look at myself. it changed the movement of my that's complete because the first lawyer is not someone else not doctors worth fighting so was really big time we were fighting i think for me for also as a lender miters but also for the public some say. the energy changed. legal fund laws or how large of the you know nobody's perfect thanks. in two thousand and eight nico received the german equivalent of an oscar for his documentary on thundered in. the east china from media and from media heist this i know that i sometimes. we are dealing. with the environs if you go to didn't it. keep. us up.

thanks to get the money. in college eileen cronin fell in love with andy a graduate student in economics i was in love very definitely for sight. although i already had a boyfriend you know i immediately was drugged are you nervous and intelligence. her wit we moved in together. and we got pregnant very quickly. very quickly. i was wracked with worry all my life about having a child because i didn't know for sure that my mother had taken berlin and i i was

kind of panicked it started just settle in oh my god i'm going to have a baby i don't even know if i can have a baby i don't know if the baby's going to have legs or not have legs or something else but also literally i did not know how i was going to carry a baby in my back and so they did the ultrasound the alter sound technician zoomed in right away found foot one foot blew it up took a picture and wrote footlights and then other foot hands fingers and. i was crying and all the intern started laughing we knew that she would be ok. and i only best friends it's not hard to understand why i. took up to be

a ballet dancer because that's something her mother wanted to be and she was very. very soon you're. i think hiding this catastrophe of falling in britain for the past fifteen years or so was its connection to the e.u. and the ability to have the tower cars say and yet passport rights into the e.u. you take those away and you have essentially greece on steroids and all those banks and the e.u. and america are going to attack the u.k. of play and drive into bankruptcy. you know world of big partisan group lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we

need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the path and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. the new global economic war is unfolding in the realm of education the right to education has been supplanted by the right to access education loans higher education is becoming just another product that can be bought and sold so it is not just about education anymore it's also about running a business where you could know most of. the good the souls. in the fairly good image. which is the place of students in this business model before college i was born now i'm running stream or higher education the new global economic

wall. street's seemed wrong my old roles just don't hold. any new world that is yet to shape out these days. to come out to an end game because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. she says to look for common ground. when his first wife sandy became pregnant alvin law was terrified about what the future held when i saw him from out of there with two arms and. two hands and five little fingers on. i didn't care what brand he was at all care if it was a she or he and it didn't matter. it was just the most tremendous feeling my son. i knew it again.

going back i worried a lot about how i was going to play ball with i was going to maybe try teaching know what i'd call teach him to play frisbee impeachment to throw or you know i mean all those things that you want to have a care if yours do. you don't have to have arms to be a father. you don't need arms to love. you don't need arms to be there you don't mean arms to listen you don't need arms to be a father at all unfortunately too many fathers that have arms don't realize that. they were forget that that's true you just have to be there for him. and that surprised me. the tears i don't i'm not sad i'm just. this big he was little and. i miss that little boy sometimes but that's not how life works right now is a normal regular person he's got the same regular personalities nothing really

wrong about it and you just have to step in knowing you can't just judging by the way he looks but he brings and what he gives is much more so than anything i could bring you know he he gives great you know fatherly advice is a great role model is a great person. and that's all you can ask. louise mason had been a single mother for ten years. when she received a christmas card from an old boyfriend i've heard that louis haven't been very well and trying to a christmas card and calm down and said aloud i think the spark reignited even if the best way to describe it. he kissed me goodbye and butterflies were. i was sort of floating on on a cloud and he told his wife he was leaving. she how to

impact our. and then he moved down in. the been together since. polygamy out it up and understanding with the two of them it's really weird you know that we cannot act on then and you go i wouldn't know. what you don't about brownout right away what you pointed out you know that are not of the head or a mannerism you pick up you know but the little mode if you do pick up on it or that it was i was sick then you know it really really fascinating i where we communicate he would go there without even talking. and i think we i think we were made for it to the to be on. guard member thinking twenty years old divorced god a kid losing my hair gaining a gut no arms what a package and then i got to thinking you know i've got to change this that's how allen introduced himself to his future wife darlene who was sitting in the audience

one day that conference was the first time i heard him speak and it actually believe you know it sounds corny but it was a life changing event for me i was in the process. considering making a final decision about a rather unhappy marriage. i thought yeah right life is too short i have to make decisions for myself. i mean anybody that sees or for the first time missed that smile and just absolutely and i melted. their friends to tell me that i smiled more the day of my wedding than they've ever seen me smile in my entire life and it was permanently glued there for days that was the beginning of the joy that ended in that ring going on in the still there today. you can't even describe it it's like all these years of anxious and frustration just melted away in five minutes. you still. right.

here life is letter she's passed her best before date so she's got no choice you've got to stick with me about there's no option you know me get it there i don't stop traffic. you know you don't really care us are down. the. lows just like anybody else because he's getting better and. it's getting better. we're there's a lot of credit that i get for doing this but i didn't just do this you know i had my parents first i had my teacher second and then i had her and those three elements of my life they've really been what has supplied the fuel for what drives . me in australia.

with the british company that bought and still those were co-defendants in a multi-million dollar class action suit centered on the next row case melbourne woman lynette rowe is suing the drugs manufacturer grin and tell the company wanted the. in germany where it's never successfully been so that the victorian supreme court today dismissed that application this was an application by the company that might lead him on the worst drug in the history of medicine to have an armless legless woman who has no money and doesn't speak german if she wishes to have a day in court have to move to germany for the next five years so we had. an agreement hours at a friends grant how have this never given never admit a thing never considered fought to the bitter end distillers took a much more compassionate sensible way to approach which was once convinced of the strength of the climb they settled with when good intel didn't post sent we had to

get up and fight aids day every day and cope with the incredible damage they grow into adults didn't really none of them the settlement amount was a multi-billion dollar some it was a sum sufficient to provide lynn with first class care for the rest of off it really has dramatically transform the rose law grin and refused to pay a cent of the multi-million dollar settlement the two months later held a press conference so it could apologize to its victims for the first time in fifty years the other way no it's because women surely go this is first chance to get a longish two victory in front managed to mention. that doesn't obviously have to sell out their apologized for some. reach out to us all. they are they're never apologized for the suffering they're coaxed. and they did pay for that you know for their wrong there was no acknowledge it quality comes from

the heart. their apology came from their lawyers it because he was a longish. assize and just him and i should also them. by wednesday f.m. they couldn't have gone into something shocking we had to get up and fight aids day and every day in court where the incredible damage they grew into or don't do. to me many of them won't go to good intel is still a private company the votes family owns it today just as it did in one hundred sixty it does not have show shareholders demanding returns the first family's personal fortune has been variously estimated at between two and three billion euros it would not drive that family into. penury or bankruptcy or poverty to loosen the purse strings and behave in

a more generous fashion toward suppose i'd not only want the money i want the road vachss. i want the rivera she you know they they kilt feist's thousand children yeah they made a lot of five thousand children slice miserable then make the life of ten thousand parents. yeah they are responsible for the pace. going sell no longer makes them then mind and continue to deny most the little mite is outside germany any compensation no survivors feel they have received an acceptable apology. going into our refuse to be interviewed for this film. the original so that in my drug is easy and cheap to manufacture and continues to be made and distributed by several drug companies and governments to treat leprosy unfortunately it is mostly used in countries that often do not enforce rigorous

controls and regulations as a result the little mind injured babies are still being. tragically there seems to be no limits to the thalidomide disaster. i am am. meaning

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a day of top level in diplomacy vladimir putin and donald trump wrap up their historic summit claiming great progress has been made. our relationship. has never been worse. than it is now however that changed. as of about four hours ago. despite both leaders agreeing on a number of key issues the us media is up in arms over the results. are i don't know where side is the bride and which side of that is the groom anderson but it's we're sort of feels like we're in a wedding you have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president today's press conference in helsinki was one of the most disgraceful performances by an american.