this is my son do yourselves have a kid like this and the people burst into tears and and children through my children's were. called to the day off right literally. in england was being sold under the brand name distal by the country's largest liquor manufacturer the distillers company as in germany distillers had received reports of deformed babies but had been assured by green and that the drug was completely safe. louise mason was one of five hundred thirty three little my babies born in england over a six and a half year period louise only learned about the circumstances of her birth by reading her father's bestselling autobiography i haven't got any arms. and my dad said it was like a little flower buds. in know from my arms and from my lips my dad had

a look at me. and. he said my god you're not going to let this baby live. and they say yes my mum was only twenty one and she was advised by doctors to put me away and concentrate on having another family. after eleven days in hospital her parents took louise to an institution for handicapped children where she would spend the next eighteen years of her life but louise was fortunate her father had not asked another doctor to end her life because unquestionable bad midwives and doctors were killing disabled children in the hospitals and the delivery room on a large scale. in britain in germany and if they're

probably everywhere else. in canada another armless baby was spared by a poor ukrainian family in a rural sysco. years later alvin law learned how horrified his natural parents were when he was born ultimately it was the perturb grandmother who didn't want to have anything to do with us she said you're not going to bring that devil baby home with you ease he's deformed because of a curse. the armless baby wasn't taken home after doctors warned he would never lead a normal life but after six weeks an elderly couple jack and hilda law who had already raised their own children volunteered as foster parents and got their first look at alan i took one look and i thought no wonder nobody wants. and the next i went to see him personally had a bath and dressed and hid and looked perfectly. well although in favor of taking

him oh boy we've raised our family but. it was a baby with nobody wanted i'm sure we're going to. turn out ok. my life story shifted the moment that sophie and peter my first father gave me up. that that that is a profound chapter shift in my life because i went to live with the laws my life became this life. back. in cincinnati ohio and deeply religious roman catholic coupled with six children were expecting another normal birth my mother's story is when i was born they were not at all prepared and the doctor said joy your baby doesn't have any legs.

so she says that she took the baby me and she said well eileen is my four leaf clover. i have a sibling who told me that my father cried and that when he came home he handed me to my siblings and everyone got very upset and they said take it away. someone ripped off the blankets instead that's not a baby or something to that effect that's not our sister. doubt was what i was taught. as a young child. people. eileen cronan was one of several flitter my babies born in cincinnati where an

american drug company richards and merrill had their headquarters like the german drug company merrill promoted the drug as completely safe even during pregnancy like green and merrill had no evidence to back this up. merrill applied to the federal drug administration in one nine hundred sixty for approval to brings the little mite onto the american market and was allowed to conduct clinical trials on patients across the country now it wasn't a clue clinical trial at all what it was was a marketing campaign trumped up to look like a clinical trial michael mann isn't it is an australian lawyer and former investigative reporter who spent years researching this a little my disaster what merrill wanted to do was to familiarize doctors with a drug so that once they got approval they would have doctors all ready to go through with the drug trade to prescribe it like crazy. during this time richardson merrill handed out two and a half million dollars to my pills to thousands of doctors in the united states and

canada. in germany going thousand advertising campaign is paying huge dividends the company's owner and executives were making fortunes overnight especially heinrich mukhtar going in thousand research director. during the war mokhtar served as a nasty doctor developing vaccines which were tested on jewish prisoners in the book and vowed concentration camps many of whom died after the war mokhtar joined grin and nine years later he invented still it in mind and received a bonus for every thought in my pills sold worldwide the drug was such a success for growing them. that they started making money hand over fist. it was all a percentage of profit. from modestly are. having so much money pouring in he could have bought himself a new messiah does every month one hundred sixty one really he's making twenty

times his salary in turnover percentage so he's getting this massive massive bonus he's become a ludicrously rich man on the back of the mod. what would a man want that with a history of wartime experimentation strong personality a massive income running on the cells of wood mud what would one expect that he would do when confronted with reports of nerve damage and other side effects but it is not surprising to me that there was not a rush of grandchild to investigate to get to the bottom of it to put warnings on the drug to withdraw to take all sorts of course since i did not know that they just focused on selling more the drugs and it really was some time till prescott hold of it. and they knew it was going to go public but they finally backed off and agreed. one else seemed wrong. but all in all just don't call. me.

yet to say proud disdain because as a kid and engagement equals betrayal. when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. hello my name's peter and i've been living in russia now for about seven years and this is a film about just some of the crazy things i've gotten through in the time. when you go there yet. let me go this is then there's the new deep baptist that got me in and i still did not see it but if it.

does. what i mean. i can make it was not.

really a local seagram it's a movie can you see as you know if you just by the fact. that you're in the form of a really. almost humorous game with the baby when it was in the mud almost nothing to do with many possibilities but i will. to chemo for us up to. nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that in this particular case the fall the conviction. had any interrogation 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 and don't accept their denials she said therefore which. sat on a statement that i would be home by that time 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 solving our crime. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten thousand dollars timestamping each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you loans to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need

to remember is one one business shows you can afford to miss the one and only. time he's gone into a nihilistic theme best. if i can figure out it hit the road and get out to traveling across america to find what makes america the charlatans the genius of this place especially american hero this is a weak point around which i'll admit has gotten so we always are on the bridge to sell this. culture. we're starting last with is going to headed east it's a just want to go into the belly of the beast i think i want to leave now doesn't

get any more ground on the net it may be completely different but the end of this year. i. am i want him. to go. on nov twenty eighth one thousand nine hundred sixty one a day after the solidified scandal made headlines in west germany. it was withdrawing the drug from the market even the first lightest the spring of nineteen sixty was. taking the drug off the market then they would have sped off the boat.

on glazunov disabilities weren't so severe but as a young child niko had trouble adjusting to his short arms. thanks to shoes can too few could find on because it is completely false if you know it as he's feeding the fire and then vanishes from the joint to somebody. joining them cops on four of the conneaut. one stiver who is a fearless arts to underpin dolphin bone to care don't let us have our. own. turf or manhunts to our voice for our you know least globish i actually furnished. the world. in england louise mason didn't see her

parents and three siblings for months at a time. i was that alone most of the time my parents had other children there's no way that they could leave them with my nan it was my crime i was old so they just stopped coming. i went home three weeks. for week by week in the summer making a christmas easter. every apology was like getting to know your brothers and sisters again. in new york kansas cacho and alvin law's parents decided the best way to get their arm the son to cope with life was to turn his tones into fingers for hours alvin was given manual task to perform with his feet.

grounded having no ours it is a rather simple disability it's very complicated disability. i'd be lying if i didn't say it was a lot of work a lot of work a lot of time spent by myself very long very. very frustrated but i think it was the character that was built by my parents especially by my hair. that allowed me to not really think that i was all that different. it's not an easy thing to get dressed but. again it goes back to the basic theory of my life and that is to i have someone look after me or do i look after myself. but more than anything i think it's a mindset you know that ok there is a lot of people in our world that have weighed bigger problems than i so that i have to spend a little extra effort putting my clothes on so what. the

moment i started using my tolls and my feet and my legs was the same moment i ceased to have a disability. in the united states there would have been thousands of a lot of my babies like ellen law except for the actions of one woman dr francis kelsey a canadian born doctor and pharmacologist had just joined the federal drug administration when she received an application to bring thalidomide onto the american market here was a drugs. it looked like it should be no problem but at the same time there was just a feeling. to something in the leader of the absence of. cause of concern the application came from richardson merrill one of america's oldest drug companies known years ago for its best selling product vick's cough drops merrill poured on the pressure they contacted the f.d.a. fifty times they went behind her back to those periods they complained of better

and rushing to threaten the proceedings they pushed and pushed and pushed and she was resolute she was unbelievably tough. but i know that we're always most indebted to dr kelsey the relationship in the hope that all of us have for our children in august one thousand nine hundred sixty two president john f. kennedy awarded the highest civilian honor an american can receive to dr francis kelsey so kill sea really if you know it's. true the mother but then. i come home from the playground one day my mom says honey good news you're going to get arms dear i mean you just remember a day like that right i thought we were going shopping you know arms or us i don't know. i was very confused they had hawks and they were made of metal and plastic and wood i mean i couldn't take off my shoes i wasn't allowed to use my feet can imagine a weird that was. so this became an interesting life half of my life was being

elven law the kid with no arms the other half of my life was this terrible victim of the little guy. i lost my sense of what was right stick these arms around me on my own body more all the more doesn't have any are artificial or not. and why why why would i leave them when there was no good reason not one good reason. to use them for years i tol away you are doing me any good. and i was like shut up. i was a blot of what. we know what we're doing you don't. most those are minors don't use artificial limbs today but eileen cronan is an exception she wears artificial legs every day to get around. i was born with both

legs from the knees down according to my mother i did it down to the legs pretty quickly. if you have. you know artificial legs a lot of things go wrong you've got to go around conducting your life and yet you know you've got a skin infection and you've got to put your leg on when he couldn't do me i put the leg on i guess that's not always the best thing to do but. that's what i do. in march nine hundred sixty seven the owner and eight executives of growth all the german drug company were charged with criminal negligence premeditated bodily harm and manslaughter. among the defendants was heinrich mokhtar the natty doctor who made a fortune inventing fellow to mind. another chop green and tell exactly that was amorous a nasty war criminal known as the devil's. chemist was convicted of war crimes he

committed at auschwitz for which he served four years in prison but after the war the chemist found no shortage of employers including dow chemical j. peter grace and the u.s. army's chemical corps before he became chairman of green and sells board of directors in one nine hundred seventy one so in the nineteen seventies quinto had as the chair of a man convicted of mesmo slavery was. a man who hired nancy war criminals like amber. was owner. verts was a member of the local nattie party in his hometown before the second world war a service for which he was handsomely rewarded by. it was the personal lawyer for a good one thousand or herrmann verts but in december nine hundred sixty six berger resigned suddenly became justice minister in the province where the trial was being held. defense lawyer. ended up with

a government responsibility overseeing the conduct of the trial. away from the trial a secret deal was worked out between grown in thousand herrmann verts and the provincial government the secret deal was only revealed when the trial was dramatically stopped after two and a half years. in return for having all the serious criminal charges against its owner and executives dropped the company agreed to pay the victims lifetime pensions ranging from thirty to one hundred forty dollars a month as well as a small one time payments but in order to collect the money the little mite has had to agree not to launch any further suits against her and so taken as a whole the trial was. the trial of until. well canada loudly celebrated its one. hundred birthday and nine hundred sixty

seven police and maybe my family's suffered inside that's a little my children were now school age but the question that plagued medical and educational authorities was what type of school should they enter some experts recommended schools for the handicapped while others advise the regular education system. in new york since the scatman alvin law's parents had run into opposition from the local grade school when they tried to enroll him school says wait he's got no arms you can't go to school you don't have such a thing as integration and our going what's integration is a kid needs to go to go to school he needs to learn and it's to be educated he can write he can read what else do you need this school finally agreed to take out but soon afterwards he ran into a reaction his teachers expected and fear i came home and i was very upset because somebody had called me. i had never heard that word before it was never used in this house. it was never used in this neighborhood but i go to school there was no kids called me so i had to run home and i was

a little freaked out mom called me down and that's when our first remember hearing those words that some people are born with black hair and some people are born with blond hair and you we're born. in england one hundred ninety seven families of the little my children are suing distillers the british company which had distributed the drug distillers made a ridiculously low offer of compensation and warned that the money would be paid out only if all parents agreed to the lifetime the five families refused the offer they were led by david mason a wealthy london art dealer and father of louise now i came under tremendous pressure i received threats on my life i had a police guard for a period of time i had anonymous phone calls i had anonymous letter. you know threats from parents her father as well publicised opposition to the compensation created problems for louise and her care institution up until then i was not one of

the crowd but after. i was picked on. louise escape the hostility of our classmates when her father took her out to participate in publicized events for his campaign i was used as a as opposed to go. david mason's campaign succeeded in increasing by six times. mind the drug companies original offer to their parents i did pay a heavy pot. shots. if i hadn't paid that price philip in my dues wouldn't have got the compensation when they got the compensation so i think it was well. unlike louise mason who rarely saw her mother during childhood yeah i'm sure to hell and formed a close bond with his mother from birth and her unwavering support and encouragement were critical in his career decision she never lost hope she'll she said cure everything you want to achieve in your life you're going to achieve it i have absolutely no doubt and when i when i turned up with their with the idea that

. that i wanted to be a doctor everybody told me you should not it's not a very good idea you cannot do that you will have severe problems she said son do your own thing if that's what you want to do you're gonna match yon is now an emergency room doctor in switzerland i don't consider my condition as a major issue i mean i'm not a for little martin for a spot on the first but i'm a man i'm trying to be a good doctor and trying to be a good husband and i'm a father and a lover and i have short arms and that's it and if people have problems it's accepting me. i have problems to interact with me because i have short arms it's their program it's not mine.

hello my name's peter and i've been living in russia now for about seven years and this is a film about just some of the crazy things i've gotten through in the time. but . that's. only because interest on their store do it because. i started in the.

us veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. were going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either there already is several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circulating branches off that says we're going to attack and destroy the government and seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them money on those with lives 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 an easiness four.

year span difference fantastic all the drill down into twenty nineteen predictions. saying we'll be celebrating ten years of the kaiser report. they put themselves on the line they did accept it or reject it. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to. have to go right to the press with the bible before three of them or ten people are. interested always in the water. pressure.

germany is a divided as ministers demand deportation and tough for asylum rules after a shocking attack by migrants. be honored to be able to be here and to commit a crime and it's a do so they have to go back they deserve a second chance we have. to have to say the laws of. the search and rescue operation comes to an end following the collapse of the russian city of the three girls after the body of the final victims were covered in the tragedy which killed thirty nine. plus looking back at last year's mainstream media coverage we look at why twenty might be considered the year of truck.