two votes in the house republicans killed there could have been a border wall for the last five years of working for the freedom caucus and some of the extremists in the republican party now supporting it so for the current wall what we need to see the c.b.l. score for was actually wall will say that's what i mean it's the it's a funding mechanism so we know exactly how exactly this is being paid for it would be a concrete and universal comprehensive plan all immigration reform not simply say we're going to stick still slates and in the desert that's going to probably need a real plan for this a lot of trunk space is willing to compromise we understand that these doc of these dreamers they did not come here they were brought here they did not come of their own volition we understand that there's a situation and i think that you would be really surprised if you were to talk a lot of time space they understand there has to be some legal status maybe even potentially a path to citizenship i think people are willing to negotiate but on the same time if there is not funding for a wall in return for a path to citizenship or legal status then we can have a serious conversation in this at some point we all know that politics is the art

of compromise we have to actually get to a point of compromise donald trump has said here is my non-negotiable nancy pelosi has to come up with something that says what will give you that in exchange for this and i think there is a path i got to tell you though they do not want to give donald trump any wins especially on one of his major major campaign promises. ok today join me for the latest analyse of. the worst drug disaster in history would spread through more than forty six countries and produce up to twenty thousand badly deformed babies worldwide. but historians today single out one birth in one nine hundred sixty one that

changed the course of history in hamburg germany linda shoulder fillin age twenty three gave birth to her first child her husband was with a at the time and it was quiet. and then lay back and was relaxed and some i mean somebody whispered into my ear is your husband not all right and i was here white awake and i said. what what's got what has happened to my baby is anything wrong you know she said just. let's say. without any emotion. you know he's just got short arms and i like a child would have asked possibly i said and aren't a calling any more and she scarred grow this will be like it is now. and then i felt like i was beaten to death. a doctor gave the first time mother

some friendly advice just get another child. like forget about him you know. i'm away to get a part shortly afterwards linda's husband arrived and gave her some bad news he'd been keeping from her six weeks earlier his sister had given birth to a baby. with similar deformities it looks alike like there must be something that is the same all region the same difficulty the same problem in the background and we'll find it and we'll search and we won't stop until we fall and. the epidemic of deformed babies began five and a half years earlier on christmas day nine hundred fifty six with the birth of the first victim. in the small town of germany a mother had taken

a new drug called falutin might being developed by a local drug company can be grown into her husband like other grown in tallinn ploys had taken home a sample which he gave to his pregnant wife the baby would be the first of six other than my babies possibly more born chagrin in thousand workers in the years ahead but the company ignored the early warning signals in their midst no that's good and saleswomen action didn't investigate didn't talk to the mom didn't go to the hospital didn't look the medical records didn't contact experts there were multiple opportunities for group told to cup holds us to short knowledge taken. nine months after the first deformed baby was born grown and launched the then abide on to the german market under the brand name contraband going thousand aggressive sales force whose motto was succeed at any cost continue to promote the drug cardigan they claimed was

a safe sedative especially for pregnant women suffering from morning sickness sales zoomed and a little my became the second best selling drug next to aspirin. but linda's shoulder helen and her husband carl hammond were determined to find out what caused their son's short arms months later they were no closer to finding an answer i know my husband had times when he said. we don't make it i think we have to get up and i said of giving up. her husband soon contacted a professor of obstetrics dr video kinda lens who had received a few reports of deformed babies my father and professor lance they travel to germany and their road folks bargain and they went from one small village to another and asked are there any children with short legs or shut down and those kids were hidden away at the time in the small villages and he asked in restaurants and bars and the local police office and everybody said no not in our town and then

he showed a picture of me and said this is my bari and can i please repeat my question and then they said well at the end of the road there has been a very sad incident and then he went there and drink the darn shot first thing he did was showing the picture of means that this is my son diaz who has had a kid like this and the people burst into tears and and children and in my children's were. called to the day our flight 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 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 i had an exe and my dad said it was like little bugs. 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 mom 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 on questionable bad midwives and doctors were killing disabled children in the hospitals and the delivery rooms 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 cisco. 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 wanted. and the next i went simple as they had a bath and dressed and hid and looked perfectly. well all over in favor of taking him oh boy. 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 birth 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 couple with six children were expecting another normal birth my mother's story is that when i was born they were not at all prepared 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 and said that's not a baby or something to that effect that's not our sister.

that was what i was taught. as a young child. people. eileen cronan was one of several follow the my babies born in cincinnati where an american drug company richardson 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 bring sullivan might onto the american market and was allowed to conduct clinical trials on patients across the country now it wasn't a clinical trial at all what it was was a marketing campaign trumped up to look like a clinical trial michael magazine it is an australian lawyer and former investigative reporter who spent years researching these

a lot of 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 a drug raid 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 in canada. in germany grown in thousand advertising campaign was paying huge dividends a company's owner and executives were making fortunes over night especially heinrich mukhtar going in thousand research director. during the war mokhtar served as a natty 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 thalidomide and received a bonus for every thought in my pills sold worldwide the drug was such a success for growing and. that stop they. making money hand over fist and heinrich

who was on a percentage of profits moved from being modest. to having so much money pouring in he could have bought himself and you must say this every month one hundred sixty one really he's making twenty times his salary in terms of a 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 selves of with him on 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 at gruntal to investigate to get to the bottom of it to put warnings on the tribe to withdraw to take all sorts of course and i did know that they just focused on selling more the drugs and it really was some time tell the press caught hold of it. and they knew it was going to go public but they finally backed off and agreed

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world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see of. u.s. 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 they're already several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circulated 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 their money others with their lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war then surely we can risk some discomfort or an easy mess for us. pretty.

much. only. on nov twenty eighth one thousand nine hundred sixty one a day after the thalidomide scandal many headlines in west germany. it was withdrawing the drug from the market even if first latest the spring of nineteen sixty one. they had taken the drug off the market then they would have spared half the boat with. nico van glazzard was disability weren't so severe but as a young child nico had trouble adjusting to his short arms. and his fine to skin too few could find on it as completely also as you know it as he's feeling a fine and in venice from joining some of the most at some point so own foot off the connote. one survivor who is

a fearless eyes down. are turned off and on to care to notice how far far. down from. you know least globish i actually flourished. 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 a year. for week by week in the summer christmas easter.

every quality. getting to know your brothers and sisters again. in new york chances catch you 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 basics 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 the little 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 with 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 so you know it starts. with

a mother because. 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 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 who i was right stick these arms around me i'm not all the body more all the models and how many 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 tall or may start doing me any good. and i was like shut

off. i was a block that was you know we know what we're doing you don't. most the other miners don't use artificial limbs today but eileen cronin 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. and if you have. you know artificial legs a lot of things go wrong you've got to go around conducting your life and yeah you know you've got a skin infection and you've got to play 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 margin 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 grown and executive it was amorous anatomy war criminal known as the devil's. chemist ambrose 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 grown and board of directors in one thousand nine hundred nineteen seventies granito had as the chair of a man convicted of mesmo slavery.

a man who hired nancy war criminals like ambrose and 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. use of it was the personal lawyer for a good one thousand or herrmann verts but in december nine hundred sixty six burger 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 as secret deal was worked out between going in thousand owner herrmann birds 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 payment but in order to collect the money the little mite has had to agree not to launch any further suit against her and so taken as a whole the trial was. the trial of until. well canada loudly celebrated its one. hundredth birthday and nine hundred sixty seven lisa miller my family's suffered in silence a few parents had committed suicide others became alcoholics and some were having severe psychiatric. 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 scattergun 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 he can't go to school they don't have such a thing as integration and out of all what's integration he's a kid needs to brought 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 alvin but soon afterwards he ran into a reaction his teachers expected and feared i came home and i was very upset because somebody had called the. i've 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 thalidomide children were 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 and 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 often. i was picked on. louise escaped 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 the drug company's original offer to the parents i did pay

a heavy pot. shots. if i hadn't paid that price with a little 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 young shelter hill 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 sure she said you 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 it 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 going to 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 are i have problems to interact with me because i have short arms it's their problem it's not mine. you know you see. haters you know that in the thirty. years.

yellow vests movement shows no sign of letting up in twenty nineteen holding more nationwide protests against the government. and used to shape the week funerals for victims of the apartment block collapse in the russian city of miami to thirty nine lives. now the news the u.s. government shutdown enters a third week as the route of a funding border war drags. this is the scene.