i'm going to. lead a. lot better than either and that people. because i'm not a handicapped person. but people get it wrong when 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 what it is and i do think. thank you. 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 did 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. to have a problem with girls i could always get very nice girls beautiful girls intelligent girls but they couldn't get the stupid. and i wanted the stupid. one night stand but that i'd never achieved she was wearing grow also small i didn't notice. but i found my now why you see when she was sixteen and. maybe you call it a lack of opportunity but i'm still whether. 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 is equally to get behind the wheel and do our best. driving instructor to never have a shot tonight to save. somebody. the test. was exactly the same as everyone else there's no difference they came so natural it's not be driving. me 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 use your cam and it was really just about trying to figure it out. and i just love driving. a lot of different things but to do. what 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 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 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 to

see me true for the sixers to meet on the phone from bitches about him and so much for the summa 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 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 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 a documentary filmmaker who gets all pate you know and that's so typical you know you give the disabled dolly 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 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. alan 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 it's 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 there you go oh thank you boston micros think you are now 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 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 on it 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 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 a disability school and from that moment on i wanted to have nothing to do with the largess anymore and then because i made this film nobody's perfect i was kind of falls to me. to make this film. i didn't want to look at myself. money come on nobody's perfect changed as. 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 were fighting for us really big time we were fighting i think for me. also as

a lender miters but also for the public some seeing. the energy change. legal 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. this defining for media and for media heist i know that i sometimes. we don't deal. with the environs if you go to didn't meet and talk to. 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.

all of her. i already had a boyfriend you know i immediately was drugs are you nervous graciousness and intelligence. 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 back and so they did the ultrasound the alters

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 and she was very. very soon your.

you know world a big part of the new laws and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back 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 country has gone into a nihilistic fever that's why i think they got to hit the road and get out the traveling across america to find what makes america take them to charlotte sands the genius of this place especially american hero this is it we've come a point around which alan would have done something we always are on the margins

something. called the culture listening party. where starting last with is going to headed east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the beast and i think i want to leave now doesn't get any more gondo than that we may be completely different but the end of this journey. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime tamping each day. eighty five percent of global will you want to be rich eight point six percent . markets saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and that when rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is

building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial. but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need remember in one one business so you can afford to miss the one and only boom bust. that is your last years does. she doesn't it with the people most of congress are going up or what i mean. can make.

you know they are local she going from him he can use he has enough in this life. that you're in the form of the media. i'm with you more with the baby when i'm with and i'm what i'm old enough and given many balls up in the dome i was in the most i was at defense. 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. knowing back i worried a lot about how i was going to play ball with them i was going to maybe try teaching 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 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 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 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 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 louis being very well in the. do a christmas card and calm down a federal loan i think the spark 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 house impact. and then he moved danny raving together sent. to live out of other an understanding with the two of them it's really weird that we cannot it's one thing and you guys wouldn't know what i'm talking what you don't about but are 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 what it is though that if explained you know it really is really fascinating we communicate here we go there without even talking. with 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 arms 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. sitting in the audience one day that conference was the first time i heard him speak in it 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 whether and happy 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. 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 that 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. 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 don't really care us there really has. a lot of. lows just like anybody else because he's getting better and beijing is getting better. work 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 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 was a much more compassionate sensible way to approach which was once convinced of the strength of the claim they settled with when you couldn't tell didn't post sent we had to get up and fight they'd stay there 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 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 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 their apologized for some that can reach out to us all. they are they're

never apologized for the suffering they're coaxed. and they pay for that you know for their wrong it was no a clutch at all if he comes from the heart. their apology came from their lawyers it because he needs was a longish talk with a size of just him and us adults is in year six i was taught f.m. they couldn't have gone into some of the chalk we had to get up and fight aids day and day every day in court for the incredible damage they've grown to or don't do. to me now damn. 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 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 to suppose i 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. there are responsible they should pay for. going cell 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 regulation as a result a little my babies are still. tragically there seems to be no limits to that's a little my disaster. yeah. year

span different fantastic all. drill down into twenty nineteen predictions. ten years of the kaiser report. hello my name's peter and i've been living in bush for about seven years and this is a film about just some of the crazy things i've got to. get.

a let me just published or do. i start in the. u.s. veterans who come back from war. stories. were going out for the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers.

they're already several generations of them so i just got this memo. that says we're going to attack and destroy the government and seven countries in five years americans pay for the walls with them money those guys. if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war and surely we can risk some discomfort for an easy nose for. the. child. i'm.

not really. i'm. sure we're not see the death toll of a collapsed tower block in the russian city of course of the rises to thirty seven leaving devastated locals to mourn for their loved ones. friends police arrested he figure in the yellow vest movement and see government protests have been raging in france since mid november for some of the worst rioting there in a century of. taiwan accuses china of interfering after president xi warns he will use all the necessary means to ensure reunification. and survey last year's mainstream media coverage we look at why twenty eighteen and.