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they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to be preached. to the right to be press this is what before three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters about our. question. joining me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport this list i'm showbusiness i'll see that. you know world a big part of the movie is a lot of things and conspiracy it's time to wait to dig deeper to hit the stories that midstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bad and shouting past each other it's time for
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critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. so i walk into. my own body to have a good body. was found in south and the public line when he became this balance a spokesman for handicapped children. over the years alvin would make appearances on telephones across the country. not better than other people. because i'm not
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a handicapped person. but people get it wrong. they look at alvin loni thank god it's tremendous how you can do things with his feet well i suppose if you look at your feet it's tremendous but these are my these are my hands too and i have been doing it forever these are not tremendous faith is the only thing that i've got so when i pick up a cup and i have a drink you know. wow what a thrill that's what it is but i do think. i thought. i thought and 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 i had i did france i had too much fun and if you're like me and my
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friends you drive around and you look for holes and you go skinny and that's what 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 in the stupid. and i wanted the stupid wrong one for one night stand but that i never achieved she was wearing glasses i didn't notice. but i found my know why yes when she was sixteen and. 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
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drive no matter how difficult it was for her does is it please to get behind the wheel and do our best. to drive these trucks to narrow down your shot tonight disabled person. somebody. with the test suites. was exactly the same as everyone else there's no difference they came so naturally it's not be driving we were transferred to most of my life and. the college just because. 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
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around on your own you want to have people to take care of you don't have to worry about. taking a bus or use your cam and it was really just about trying to figure it out. anyway i just love driving when i get a lot of different things but to do. what people don't consider the power of my mind i my mind is a very powerful tool and it get into it interject all kinds of things into my system so that my feet are literally. my hands so when it comes to driving. i take it really seriously and i have high explain why can't i can drive with one foot on the wheel what is people's excuse they've got both hands and their feet and yet they drive like. this doesn't make any sense to me. in germany. knew from an early age he had to choose a future occupation that would not require the use of. is deformed arms because all too soon true for the sixers to meet on the phone from bitches about him and so much for to so much i realized quite soon i'm never will be a conductor or
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a painter or a dancer i can't sing so i became a director because i don't know i can't do anything else but to pursue his dream nikko 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 late 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 little might and i said you know i you know i think 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
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home and my wife said what's the matter and i told her they want me to do a film about the little mite. 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 especially to more than two million youngsters who heard his top speaking is the best thing i could have ever cited here 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
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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 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 all tells all on my own i i rent cars i might easily go off
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thank you boss or in my toes think you know why do i rent cars and it's just how i prefer to function i don't do cabs because strangely they don't stop when you go. still trotting around the airports checking into hotels bad food driving 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 job that you minutes. and then it goes away. in germany. had to overcome his lifetime aversion to others the limit is when he decided to make a documentary in which he and eleven other victims would pose nude for a calendar first i went to
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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 me. to make this film. i didn't want to look at myself. i'm going to come on nobody's perfect changed everything. that changed how i look at myself. it changed the movement of so that i might it's complete because the first lawyer is not someone else not doctors were 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 saying. the energy changed. the legal fund laws or how large of the you know nobody's perfect thanks.
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in two thousand and eight nicole received the german equivalent of an oscar for his documentary on that in. just a tiny for media and for 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 drawn to her innervation and intelligence
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and 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 the limit 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 body and so they did the ultrasound the alter sound technician zoom dan right away found foot
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one foot blew it up took a picture and wrote footlights and then other foot hands fingers and. i was crying and all the interred started laughing we knew that she would be ok. and i only your best friends it's not hard to understand why. took up to be a ballet dancer because that's something her mother wanted to be she was very. you're. to prepare the program i had to look at a lot of material listened to a lot of material and also read
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a lot of material but that was appalling. and not only that when you get these images into your head and of course the images that i was you know fall more graphic than anything i could include enough in a television. commercial it. looks good it is a serious. muscle. knows it. could. do a lot of cool was. a single even though it is really not.
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all for school it's only about the looking. forward to one of the ninety mile columns on the old. boy. come. up. i've been saying the numbers mean something they've matter us as a rich one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime stamping each dish. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to be culled from bridge eight point six percent market saw thirty percent minus minus to yours. some with the four hundred the five hundred three first record first shot and one rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a.r.u. industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember it was one of those you know forty two minutes in one and only.
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when his first wife sandy became pregnant alvin law was terrified about what the future held when i saw him come out of there with two arms and. two halves of the 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. you would know. throw it back i worried a lot about how i was going to play ball with them i was going to maybe try teaching you know what to call them teach them to play frisbee impeachment to throw or you know i mean all those things that you want to have a career is do. we don't have to have arms to be a father. you don't need arms to love. you don't you know arms to be there you
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don't mean arms to listen you don't need arms to be a father at all unfortunately too many fathers that have wives 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. as big he was a little that. 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. to step to knowing you can't just judging by the way he looks at what he brings and what he gives as much more so than anything or 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
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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 read aloud i think the spark reignited 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 danny. leaving to get a sense. polygamy out it up and understanding with each other it's really weird you know that we cannot it from there when you go i wouldn't know what i'm talking about what you don't about but are now straight away what you pointed out you know that a lot of the head or
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a mannerism you pick up you know the little mode if you could pick up on it whether it was i would fix things you know it's really really fascinating now where we would communicate he would go there without even talking about that we and i think we i think we were made for each other to be honest. dar member think i'm twenty eight years old divorced got 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 alan introduce himself to his future wife darlene who was sitting in the audience one day that conference was the first time i heard him speak in it actually believe it or not sounds corny but it was a life changing event for me i was in the process of. considering making a final decision about a rather unhappy marriage. i thought yeah right life is too short i have to
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make decisions for myself. i mean anybody that sees her for the first time missed that smile and just absolutely and i melted. i have friends who 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 on the finger and it's 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. write. 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 it there's no option you know me get it there i don't stop traffic. you know you know we. really have.
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a lot. and loads just like anybody else because he's getting better and pleasing if he. were 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 is where 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 agreement the company wanted the case in germany where it's never successfully been sued but the supreme victorian. court today dismissed that application this was an application by the company that
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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 friend's grandchild have this never given never admit a thing never considered fought to the bitter end the still has a much more compassionate sensible way to approach which was once convinced of the strength of the climb i settled with when i couldn't tell didn't post sent we had to get up and fight aids day every day in court where the incredible damage the grown toward didn't to me 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
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a cent of the multi-million dollar settlement but 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 to get through in front managed to mention. a dozen obviously have to fill 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 it was no a pledge it quality comes from the heart. their apology came from their lawyers it because he was a longish. size and testament acetone to the in. f.m. they couldn't have gone into something shocking we had to get up and fight aids day and every day in court with the incredible damage they've grown to or don't do but
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. to me many of them will go to great intel is still a privately owned 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 did not only want the money i want the rivera church. i want the revenge you know they they kill to feist's thousand children yeah they made a lot of five thousand children slights miserable they make the life of ten thousand parents all young they are responsible they should pay for.
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themselves no longer makes them in mind and continue to deny most little matters 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 thalidomide 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. tragically there seems to be no limits to that's a little my disaster i am. i
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independence means that you're not going to take instruction from any of the things and we know that in the situation of syria the states have agenda the mandate that was given to us is bold it's not targeting one i took a side to this conflict it is broad it is focusing on identifying investigating person and building five on sunday the most seriously. seventy four design submissions. seven cells pilings. to join judges. eight hundred sixteen nonstop days of. the russian w.b. a champion of the. underbrush
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president putin look to a second summits receive here after hailing the helsinki meeting a first set all this pushing the mainstream media into overdrive. despite american presidents it's just not possible that the president of the united states is inviting putin the president has apparently doubled. the french president faces allegations of a cover up after a top security aide is a respite for allegedly beating up a protester. and dozens of people are reportedly lynched in india after a fake news of kidnappers taking children fled to the country's national media.
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