then he became this province a spokesman for the handicapped children. over the years alvin would make appearances on telephones across the country. one thing going. not better than other people. because a lot of handicappers. people get it wrong. they look at all the law and they 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 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. wow what

a thrill that's not what it is but i do think. thanks. 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 paraglider friends i had too much fun and if you're like me and my friends you drive around in that for holes and you go skinny and that's what we did for entertaining. the problem with girls i could always get very nice girls. intelligent girls but i couldn't get the stupid. and i wanted the stupid. one night stand but that i never achieved

she was wearing glasses maybe notice. i found my now 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 still pretty. for most getting behind the wheel of a car was the road to independence and freedom. louise mason was determined to drive no matter how difficult it was for her just physically to get behind the wheel and do up her seat. in the. driving instructor now tonight disabled. somebody

else but the test. was exciting the same as everyone else there's no difference they came so not to be driving and that we were transferring the 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 know it depend on people to take care of you don't have to worry about. taking a bus or using your cam and it was really just about trying to figure it out. and i just love driving when i got a lot of different things to do. most people don't consider the power of my mind. and i my mind is 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 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 because all . the meat on the farm. for to samoa i realised quite. or a painter or a. i can't sing so i became a director because i'm you 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. so the two might and i said you know i you know i 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 your pate you know and that's all 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 the devil 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 la 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 chalk 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 i might is there you go oh thank you boston micros 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 . past all traffic around the airports checking into hotels eat 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 give it up 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 to five minutes. and then it goes. in germany. had to overcome his lifetime aversion to other children in my shoes when he decided to make a documentary in which he and eleven other victims would pose nude for a calendar first i went to disability school and from that moment on i wanted to have nothing to do with the marcus 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.

money 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 fighting i think for me for also as a lender miters but also for the public some say. the energy change. legal fund law is all a logical thing nobody's perfect thanks. in two thousand and eight nico received the german equivalent of an oscar for his documentary on thunderdome. is defining for me and for me to host this i know that i sometimes. we are dealing. with the environs if you go to didn't meet and talk to him. 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 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 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 back and so they did the ultrasound and the all just sound technician zoomed in right away found foot one foot blew it up took a picture and wrote flights and then other foot hands fingers and. i was crying and all the intern started babbling we knew that she would be ok. and i only are 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. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world the politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime stamped each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to be ultra rich eight point

six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trade per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar ai industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need remember of one one this will show you can't afford to miss the one and only boom boom. times has gone into a nihilistic fever that's why i think i got hit the road and get out the traveling across america to find what makes america take the charlatans the geniuses this is the quintessential american hero this is it we've come to a point around which hollywood has done something we always are on the margins something. called the culture as a parting. shot. we're starting last with is

going to headed east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the bee i think i want to leave now doesn't get any more gondo than this maybe completely different but the end of this john. hello my name is peter and i've been living in russia for about seven years and this is a film about just some of the crazy things i've. done there. because.

nobody could see coming that confessions would be in the spot foolish but paul. had any interest geisha out there what you'll see is threat promise threat promise threat lie a lie a lie the process of interrogation is designed to put people in just that frame of mind make the most comfortable make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said before we. sat on the statement that i would be home by the next day there's a culture on accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with all the crime.

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 or if it was a she or he and it didn't matter. it was just the most tremendous feeling my son. wrote back i worried a lot about how i was going to play ball with i was going to maybe try teaching know how to call them teach them to play frisbee impeachment or 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 don't need 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. he's big he was a little there 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 what 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 he's 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 being very well and kind to a christmas card and come down to it alone i think the spark reignited you the best way i could describe it he kissed me goodbye and busted flies. i was floating on on a cloud. and he told his wife he was leaving. she how to impact. and then he moved down in. the been together since. politico did up an understanding with each other it's really weird you know that we cannot act on there you go i wouldn't know. what you don't about but i now try to weigh what you pointed out you know that are not of the head or a mannerism you pick up you know the little mode if you could pick up on it or that

it was all we got to fix things you know it really really fascinating where we would communicate he would go there without even talking. and i think we i think we were made for it to the to be on. our 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 of. considering making a found this isn't 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 melted. 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 the ring on that finger and it's still there today. you can't even describe it it's like all these years of frustration just melted away in five minutes. you still. write. he had lighted his letter she 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 don't really care us there really has. a lot of. lows just like anybody else. 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's 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 . in australia. with the british company that bought and still is co-defendants in a multi-million dollar class action suit centered on the road case melbourne woman lynette rowe is suing the drugs manufacturer grin and the company wanted the case who in germany where it's never successfully been sued but the supreme victorian. frame 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 climb i settled with when good intel didn't post sent we had to get up and fight aids day 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 off really dramatically transform the rose law grown into 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 that i know it's because you only surety this your first chance to get a longish two victory in front managed to mention. so it doesn't obviously have to sell out there apologized for some to reach out to us all. they are then never apologized for the suffering their coast. and they pay for that you know for their wrong it was no a pledge 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. i was taught f.m. they couldn't have gone into song and chalk we had to get up and fight aids day and day every day in court where the incredible damage they grew into or don't do. to me and them have them all. 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 postal 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 suppose i did not only want the money i want the revanche. i want the rivera show they they kill two thousand children yeah they made another 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 of 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 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. yeah.

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troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going foundation let it be an arms race based on often spearing dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. new year span different fantastic all the episodes drill down into twenty nineteen predictions. ten years of the kaiser report. their prison for a single purpose. they have

a super committee. they start training very young. they months of intensive school. reps. and they save lives. u.s. veterans who come back from war often to the list seems. or is. were going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either there are already several generations of them so i just got this memo. that says we're going to destroy the governments and countries in five years americans pay for the wars with their money others with. if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for

a war surely we can risk some discomfort for easiness for. the death toll from the collapse how block in the russian city of magnitogorsk rises to thirty three with eight others still missing also. taiwan accuses china of interfering after president xi warns he will use all necessary means to ensure reunification. complaints over dirty parks and failure to collect rubbish grow as the u.s. government's partial shutdown enters a twelve day the shutdown was spock's when democrats stalled over a key donald trump campaign pledge to build the wall on the border with mexico.

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