here orthodox believers have lost their their priests not just me but father nick charles trevino in manassas virginia and also the priest in the torrance italy and who knows how many others they lost the stability of their parish life that's how it's affected us here in america. it is that very dangerous because if let's just say a number of the autocephalous churches do not accept the ukrainian new church then we will have a schism a break and then there may be a serious break in communion and we have disunity in the church this is the most serious question we've faced and close to a thousand years. there are many levels to this decision some of them could be because of the traditional and historical rivalry between constantinople of moscow some of them could be because of western political influences there is no doubt that political players from both the european union and the united states are involved there are some of the top stories from the first week all this new year the weekly. at the top of the hour.

you know like the e.k.g. for countries is their ten year bond rating you look at that you see all the countries healthy exercise healthy well looks like the health of the chinese

economy based on that their interest rates are better than america. so i walked into. my own body. alan long found in self in the public limelight when he became this province a spokesman for handicapped children. over the years alvin would make appearances on telephones across the country. i think. a. lot better than other people. because

a lot of handicappers. the people get it wrong. they look at alvin loni 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 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 it is but i do think. 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 fancy i had too much fun and if you're like me and my friends

you drive around and look for course and you go skinny and that's both we did for entertainment not to have a problem with girls i could always get very nice girls beautiful girls intelligent girls but i couldn't get in the stupid. and i wanted the stupid. one night stand but that i'd never had the cheapest 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 whether. 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 equally to get behind the wheel and do our best. driving instructor to never have a shot tonight to save. somebody. 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. taking a bus or use your cam and it was really just about trying to figure it out. and i just love driving my car a lot of different things but to get. most people don't consider the power of my mind. 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 is all to see me true for the sick so to meet on the phone from bush is 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 become a director because i don't know i can't do anything else i'm going 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 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 that i 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 daughter 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. nico it's time to look the devil in the. hand 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 and my keys are you go

off thank you boss or in my toes thank you are no 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. i'm still traveling 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 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 on it in a windowless office somewhere in the middle of nowhere for a job that you 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 martyrs 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. 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 for us really big time we were fighting i think for me. also as a lender martyrs but also for the public some saying. the energy changed. the gulf on blood 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 heist i know that i spent time you can dodge bullets we are dealing. with the environs if you go to didn't meet and talk to. keep. us up. thank god 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 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 all the alters sound technician zoomed in right away found foot

one foot blew it out took a picture and wrote footlights that 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. close to your. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to get

a feel of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then . when i was told some seemed wrong. why don't we all just don't know all. the world to get to shape our disdain to come out ahead and in detroit because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. 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 or if it was a she or he it didn't matter. it was just the most tremendous feeling my son. throwing 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 him to throw you know i mean all those things that you want to have a carry of 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 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 lets what he brings and what he gives is much more so than anything i could bring you know he he gives great fatherly advice is a great role model isn't. person. that's all i can ask. louise mason had been a single mother for ten years when she received a christmas card from an old boyfriend of hers that louise haven't been very well and went to a christmas card and come down and had

a loan i think the spark reignited is the best way to describe it. kiss me goodbye and butterflies were. i was floating on on a cloud and he told his wife he was leaving. she helped impact our. and then he moved down in reading 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 what you don't about right now straight away what you pointed out you know did 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 six think you know it really is really fascinating we communicate what you're there without even talking. and i think we all think we were made for it to that we only.

remember thinking for twenty eight 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. 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 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. it 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. 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 you know me. i don't stop traffic. you know you bear us in our. highs. and lows just like anybody else. getting better and out of beijing it's 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 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 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. an

agreement hours at offense grounds how have this never given never admit a thing never considered fought to the bitter end distillers took 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 and cope with the incredible damage they grow into it but don't tell me 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 grown into refused to pay a cent of the multi-million dollar settlement but 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're only surely going 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. reach out to us all. they are they're never apologized for the suffering they're coaxed. and it 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 is the n.h. was the longest it was this size and testament i should also then. by wednesday took what f.e.m.a. couldn't have gone into something shocking 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. to me many of them won't go. 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 to rivera show they they kilt feist's thousand children yeah they made a lot of five thousand children slice miserable then 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 mind injured babies are still. tragically there seems to be no limits to the thalidomide disaster. yeah.

nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that in this spot place the phone. book and any interrogation out there 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 if i would. say i stayed there 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. what politicians do so. he put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want to. have to go right to be precise this is what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of our. u.s. veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. we're going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of

their own soldiers either they're already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circular defense off that says we're going to attack and destroy the government in seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars with them money on those with dives if we were. willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war surely we can risk some just come for more on easiness for peace.

or. i france is yellow vest movement shows no sign of letting up and twenty nine holding nationwide protests against the government just over the weekend. also in the news this week people in the russian city of much mito border school started the new year mourning the victims of a tower block collapse on january thirty first a suspected gas explosion ripped through the building killing thirty nine. germany's interior minister is demanding tougher laws on asylum seekers after a migrant gang brutally attacked local residents including children. and america's government shutdown enters its those.