al in law found in self in the public limelight then he became his problem to a spokesman for the handicapped children. over the years alvin would make appearances on telephones across the country. going a. little. a . lot better than other people. because a lot of handicappers. of people get it wrong when they look at all the law they thank god it's tremendous how you can do things with as. 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 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 i do thank. thank. 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 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 both 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 the stupid. and i wanted the stupid.

one night stand but that i never achieved she was wearing glasses i didn't notice. but i found my now wife 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 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 equate to get behind the wheel and do up her seat. driving instructor to never have

a shot tonight to save. somebody's life but the test. was exactly the same as everyone else there's no difference they came so natural it's 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're going 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. anyway i just love driving when i got a lot of different things not all to do. 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 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 was all troops leaving true for the sick so to meet on the phone from bitches about him and some other fortissimo 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 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 about 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 not paid 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 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. 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 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 there you go oh thank you boss and 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. i still travel around going to airports checking into hotels bad 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. in germany. i 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 a 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 didn't want to look at myself. funny come on nobody's perfect change 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 so was really big time we were fighting i think for me. also as a lender miters but also for the public some say. the energy changed. eco 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 climate in. this defining for media and for media heist i know that i spent a million dollars for us. media dealing. with the environs if you go to didn't meet and talk to. keep. us up. thank you 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 graciousness 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 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 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.

humorous your. nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that prevalent in the sport the way shape or form for which if you look at 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 them uncomfortable make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said or forward cooperate santa statement there i would be home by that the next day there's a culture of an accountability and police officers know that they can engage in

misconduct that has nothing to do with all their crime. doing their span different fantastic all the episodes drilled down into twenty nineteen predictions. game will be soldering ten years other guys report. will be in. the.

can make it was not. i. really do you look so good and sometimes you can see us from the feet of ice. if you're in the form of the view. few more games with their baby bottles in motion he will not be possible for this film i will. or will start to feel yes. i. i i i.

i. 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 halves of the five little fingers on the. matter. it was just the most tremendous feeling my son . we know. going back i worried a lot about how i was going to play ball with i was going to maybe try teaching you know what to call them teach them to play frisbee impeachment to throw all 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 you know arms to be there you

don't mean arms to listen you don't need arms to be a for. there are at all unfortunately too many fathers that have arms to realize that. they were forget that that's true you just have to be there for him. and that surprised me. the tears and i'm not sad i'm just. as big he was a little and. i miss that little boy sometimes but that's not how life works right is a normal regular person he's got the same regular personalities nothing really wrong about it and just after the step to knowing you can't just judging by the way he looks what he brings could bring you know 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 and kind to a christmas card and calm down and said alone i think the spark reignited even if the best way i could describe it. he kissed me goodbye and busted flies. i was sort of floating on a cloud and. and he told his wife he was leaving. she house impact all. and then he moved down in reading together sent. to live out of other and understanding with the two of them it's really weird the way you cannot at something and you go i wouldn't know what i'm talking about you don't about right now straightaway what's the point in that you know that a lot of the head or a mannerism you pick up you know a little more if you just pick up on it or that it's as though the fix then you

know it really is really fascinating where we communicate here we go there without even talking. and i think we all think we were made for it to that we are. 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 you should use intel to the 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 found 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. just melted away in five minutes. you still right. he had light of leather 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 no me. there i don't stop traffic. you know you don't bear us there down the highs. and lows just like anybody else. getting better and out of beijing 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' purse 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 next row 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 victorian supreme court today dismissed that application this was an application by. why the company that might lead them 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 dying 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 of the still has a much more compassionate sensible way to assent we had to get up and fight aids day every day in court where the incredible damage the growing toward 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 us 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 that i know it's because you only surety this your first chance to get a longish two victory in from managed to managed. to doesn't obviously just to sell out their apologized for some. reach out to us all. they are they never

apologized for the suffering their coast. and they did pay for that you know for their wrong it was no eclipse it. comes from the heart. their apology came from that lawyers it is the n.h. was a longish walk with a size and just a message on to the end of year six by wednesday 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 with the incredible damage they've grown to or don't do. too many men have them no. 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. i do 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 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 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 the little mind injured babies are still. tragically there seems to be no limits to the thalidomide disaster. yeah.

what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. most somewhat want to. have to go right to be cross was like before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of our. friendship. hello my name's peter and i've been living in bush now for about seven years and

this is a film about just some of the crazy things i've got in the time. i mean because it just published or. i still did not see if. i was. just manufactured sentenced to public wealth. when the ruling classes

protect themselves. in the final merry go round me the woman. so the. nine week old middle of the room stick. around the real news is really. the country has gone into a nihilistic fever just want to thank god it hit the road and get out to traveling across america to find what makes america the showed the genius of this place especially american hero this is it we've come to a point from which ultimate is done so we always are on the margins something like this whole culture is moving forty characters oh. we're starting west with this is what we're going to headed east into the swamp

we're going into the belly of the beast i think i want to leave no governor any more of them it may be completely different but the end of this journey. my. germany is divided as ministers to months deportation and tough asylum in the us after a shocking attack by migrants. should be honored to be able to be here and to commit a crime and if they do so they have to go back they they deserve a second chance really we have our laws we don't have to change the laws of. the search and rescue operation comes to a man's following that's how productive was recovered in the tragedy which killed thirteen are and. tough looking back at last year's mainstream media coverage we

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