so i walk into. my own body i have a good body. allen law found in self in the public limelight and he became this province a spokesman for handicapped children. over the years alvin would make appearances on telephones across the country. not better than other people. because a lot of handicappers. people get it wrong. they look at alvin law and thank god

it's tremendous how he 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 it is i do think. thank you 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 my friends i had too much fun and if you're like me and my friends you drive around and you 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 they 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 you 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 miners 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 sickly to get behind the wheel and do up her seat.

driving instructor to narrow down the shot tonight say. somebody. took the test which. was exactly the same as everyone else there's no difference they came so natural was not be driving. in most of my life and. 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 nine people to take care of you don't have to worry about people taking

a bus or use jam and it was really just about trying to figure it out. and i just love driving what i love different things but. 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 seriously and 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 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. his deformed arms was all took even true for the sixers to meet on the phone from bush's one hundred some odd fortissimo i realised 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 but 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 unfiltered 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 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 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 mite. and she looked at me and said. they go it's time to look in these. and 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 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 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 wear out 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 my keys are you go oh thank you boston my toes think you are now 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 . trotting 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 job that you to five minutes. and then it goes. in germany. had to overcome his lifetime aversion to others so they might use 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 me. to make this film. i 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 so that i might it's complete because the first lawyer is not someone else not doctors worth fighting so was really big time we were fight i think for me. also as a lender miters but also for the public some saying. the energy changed. the eco fund law is all a logical thing you know nobody's perfect thanks. in

two thousand and eight nico received the german equivalent of an oscar for his documentary on climate in. the east of china for media and for media heist i know that i sometimes. we are dealing. with the environs if you go to didn't meet and talk to. keep. us up. thank the us 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 or you know her very own 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 her live in mine 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 zoom dan 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 babin 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 she was very. close to your. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the law and they get accepted

or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to be. considered like to be for us this is what the four three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters of the hottest. first six. medical use downs good leaks laws leak out to deal. on what would you. call it doesn't that it would look at that is that it was more that the book called new to the but.

it's cool stuff is that it's about seem to me yet there's. just too little. of the old thing you know we need to go backwards and buy more foreign force out stuff supposition and that's also the position of the government that's the mission to the song goes in any case even if there is a number of contention so they've got to go back quite a bit to the good. country. 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. to hands and five little fingers on. i didn't care what brand he was at all care if it was a she or he it didn't matter. it was just the most tremendous feeling my son. i knew it again. we know. 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 call them teach them to play frisbee and teach them to throw or you know i mean all those things that you want to have a care if yours do. we 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. that surprised me. the tears i don't i'm not sad i'm just. he's 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 step in knowing you can't just judging by the way he looks but he brings in what he gives is much more so than anything i could bring you know he he gives great you know fatherly advice he's a great role model is a great person. and that's all he. asked. louise mason had been a single mother for ten years when she received

a christmas card from an old boyfriend of her that low it hadn't been very well and went to a christmas card and calm down and had a loan up at the park reignited is the best way to describe it he kissed me goodbye and butterflies were. i was floating on on a cloud and he told his wife he was leaving. she helped impact all. and then he moved danny raving to get a sense. little about it other than understanding with the two of them it's really weird you know that we cannot on their own and you guys wouldn't know what i'm talking about you don't about right now straight away what you're going to go with a lot of the head or a mannerism you pick up you know a little more i just pick up on it or that it's as though the six then you know it really is really fascinating we communicate here we go there without even talking.

and i think we all think we were made for it to that we are. and i remember thinking twenty years all divorced got a kid losing my hair gaining a gut no arm what a package and then i got to thinking you know i've got to change this that's how alan introduce him to out of a future wife. living in the audience one day that conference was the first time i heard him speak in actually believe tonight 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 make decisions for myself. i mean anybody that sees her for the first time missed that smile and just absolutely and i melt. 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 the 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 and he can't. he had lighted his 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. i don't stop traffic. you know you prepare us in our. highs. and lows just like anybody else who's getting better and. 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 really been what has supplied the fuel for what drives. in australia. with the british company that bought and still has 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 it

done in court have to move to germany for the next five years so we had. a grin tells a defendant's grins how 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 claim they settled with when good intel didn't post sent we had to get up and fight they'd die every day in court where the incredible damage they grow into adults didn't really know now that 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 it off really dramatically transform the rose law grin and refused to pay a cent of the multi-million dollar settlement a 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 your insurer to go this your 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 never apologized for the suffering they're coaxed. and they pay for that you know for their wrong it was no eclipse it. comes from the heart. their apology came from their lawyers it because the n.h. was a longish. size and testament i should also then. by wednesday took to f.m. they couldn't have gone into song and chalk 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 went oh. good intel is still a privately owned company the votes family owns it to die just as it did in one

hundred sixty it does not have show shareholders demanding returns the vets family's tosin a 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 to suppose i'd not only want the money i want the revanche . i want the rivera she you know they they kill feist's thousand children yeah they made a lot of five thousand children slice miserable they make the life of ten thousand parents also. they are responsible they should pay for. themselves no longer makes them in the 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 thalidomide drug is easy and cheap to manufacture and continues to be made and distributed by several drug companies and governments to treat lafferty unfortunately it is mostly used in countries that often do not enforce rigorous controls and regulation as a result the little babies are still. tragically there seems to be no limits to that's a little my disaster. yes

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and that to the money at that one the money we could. get it if it. didn't get the money and that is at the will it is how much of the island i think i got a long time not a lot about how the now rolling starting from that point on but it does a little. bit now down my so out of town a lot of people. that i would have. to really. have been asked that they do. things about the truth so yeah i'm after. all if you don't win the look.

at the. skies are. looking forward to your pension account. this is what happens to pensions in britain. watched as a report. no you don't accept the slow drivers will destroy the right to live it's a. nice piece. of television.

and i don't buy the stuff i love me. why doesn't somebody know how does know it's a mask you never know what's happening and what they're shooting with the birds here. and mistrust the tibetans are. going to. be just thinking of that interview but i'm going to consider. in the muslims all these clear when the.

leave me a little bit. of . the headline stunnel trump doubles down on his latest claims against china telling journalists that beijing is meddling in america's upcoming midterm elections. he ratchets up the pressure on the wrong going into a bitsa to rage against its leadership at the u.n. security council where the u.s. state a face significant pushback from allies.