his mission for the days to motivate those who are choosing the new members and they begin by going over the classics. are a very very dark grey joyce. carol best of the met is best. is very aware. that there was a little boy preparing to get around and would chant this far and yet we all rushed in for diallo. yeah but it's welcome like well well you know our schools are out of all these much obituaries have only one objective tonight the brothers for life who i would question right. there was enough by five guys in my house even though i thought i would go forward to. aside from the camaraderie the fraternities also have another purpose to enable their members to

meet girls this is mary gearin she's about to make out with t. ball of. their favorite targets aren't waitresses but sorority students the female equivalent of fraternities on campus. nine pm in the delta is at a house the party is in full swing. among the thirty you so excited goes we see luciano delta six party guy. he's come on a scouting mission thanks. god that's how i do it. i. was. on campus fraternities and sororities form a single community one big dating club the students from good families where everything goes. i was there. what happens here

stays here. or is it. more. like normally it's the fraternity is that host the sorority so that these young ladies don't have to pay each fraternity member contributes two hundred dollars perturb it is all done to encourage making connections times with frat parties it's all very out how you guys told her it was like the only guys who really associates are hearing this are already pretty much only talk to her right really boy yeah yeah i'm. sure and you give dates your new male events with them and your friends are dating guys here and sort of eternity is a like that's just what you do but they were wheeling make fun of can we can make fun of like yeah people who are here and they have a name oh g.-d. i which is means i mean depending. on american campuses academic

success relies on integration into these elite societies to get in some students will do anything even the most barbaric afresh at initiations. about your sudden passing i've only just learnt you worry yourself in taking your last wrong turn. you're out but up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each day. but then my feeling started to change you talked about more like it was a game. still some are fond of you know those that didn't like to question our

archaea and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind gets consumed with death this one different person to speak to now because there are no other takers. to her claim that mainstream media has met its maker. when the whole make its manufacture consent to instant of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the financial clearing around lives only the one percent of. the time doing the whole middle of the room signal. to loop around the mean marine only in the real world.

i fight for many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. football isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the superman each of billionaire owners and spending two to twenty million fly a. book it's an experience like nothing else not to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy my great so we'll all chance for laughs. and thinks this morning. we had to have no phone the east coast of the united states. here we have to document one of the oldest american universities. upon leaving its graduates all among the. country's top six highest salaries. promotional

images of an elite campus without history where one out of every two students is a member of a fraternity. angelos was one of them just like his grandfather and brother before him. let's start. over here too so actually like every time every time i want to go to sleep it's like underneath. the former student isn't bitter however his initiation nearly killed him for they spared him nothing this was actually the night the night of rush everyone gets kidnapped and taken to this other spot where they don't know where they are. going to charge a lot of six cups of beer you know as fast as you can the first person here and they're dressed in blue suits and in the winter. in contrast to the principle of support among fraternities hazing or fresher initiation is

a time of and this humiliation about the violence a couple pledges vomit into a pan and one of the pleasures cracked you know eggs and cheese and big in the oven and the pledges. and juris no eggs he has inflicted upon others the very same tortures he denounces before daring to testify about them in one of america's biggest magazines rolling stone the actions of the frat boy among these confessions there is something that nobody has forgotten when i first saw the people it was like a shock people vomited and people. people are jocular. the year before someone defra kid the pleasures were swim around and that's your baptized. at dartmouth his confession exploded like a bomb but once the scandal was over the university tried to bury the matter i tried to get them to investigate and they never did. you know in

a real way if you really want to know what i think you know it is the money it's you know there were there were nine who give the most you know a lot of them are in for tourney's and a lot of them are on well some of them are on the board of trustees or were on the board of trustees and. you know millions of dollars changes hands. and you left out months before graduating. even though he survived the fraternity violence others weren't so lucky. ten am at the long island courthouse. jack omarion pâté meehan have chosen to break the law of silence. by pressing charges against their son's fraternity came to court to get my songs that will save. them and he died from alcohol poisoning. this civil trial marks the end of four years of relentless legal battle according to their lawyer this tragedy should serve as an example for going to gates and that

they're going to be. live on the plants for whatever damage that we can. get the cure is to work. for the loss of their son the parte millions are claiming damages against the paternity as president as well as two other frat boys who were present on the evening of the hazing. the university itself is not involved the tragedy took place off campus. a man was nineteen years old he was the only child from jacka merriam's remarriage . and this is just before he went to college and the long hair was an a student. he was very smart very capable. among wanted to be a doctor but on the twenty eighth of february two thousand and nine his dreams were crushed his hazing turned into

a tragedy after he was very very drunk. and that he was trying to stop drinking they kept pouring but about his stroke that's one. part of the span that they took my simple already had passed and they took him up to a house and. it isn't just the growth of the left in there. but i almost felt. the next morning the police discovered our mum's lifeless body the alcohol content in his body was seven times the legal limit. since the tragedy time has stood still at the parte means house but. this is. just full of stuff in here right now so i just can't bring myself to take them.

but. the first char saw the three students sentenced to a weekend in prison an injustice for nicole and sister and a sign of impunity of these fraternities weekends in jail going on very becoming and certainly didn't even make any sense you know but now they can organize and get married and have kids and already run. and have kids downstairs that have been longer there they don't know this is so the pâté immune spada civil lawsuit to get compensation. the culprits were finally sentenced to pay a fine of millions of dollars in damages. on american campuses alcohol has become a real problem. once a year students from across the whole country gather for a heavy drinking session. we are in south padre island texas the spring break template. sixty thousand students meet here every year it's three pm on the largest

beach of the island rowdy has been drinking heavily student discovers the joys of spring break for the first time we. were really killed it really is those are the. you know it's true. what's in store for them dance competitions and drinking again. american students forget the pressure of the upcoming exams in the meantime anything goes and her words are showing for a show there are agreed to give him a shot. from their families and what they used to these youngsters no longer know their limits due to drugs and alcohol many of them finished their afternoon in the medical tent set up a few metres from the beach there or be hydrated their grub and this modern life. accustomed to such depaul cheree the state of texas is not to mean with its

resources there two hundred first aid workers are hired so that the party does not turn into a tragedy in charge of the fire chief bernie the sad sad sad bring regular course like we have a disaster is controlled chaos. every day one hundred spring breakers are admitted to this field hospital. today about he has managed to get back to his hotel without any problems you. know but in the girls' room some haven't stomach the alcohol so well they got through drunk at the beach for their care in the year and they. got to keep going rowdy and out and have their own technique from abuse they came in here in stop drinking if they really can't drinking then they would have been and they were going to party and just like us. for these students spring break rewards the effort they've made throughout the year. so they party

day and night. a few hours later the girls get to secondly. emily and cherie are two students from dallas with a clear objective means we are here five days a week. again tonight the team gets going. headed to was one of the biggest nightclubs on the ice that's loose in the city spring breakers are the cause of many out to the sheriff mike is the tense this period of the year right now we just want to make sure that we're in the park and watch we're going to try to make sure that. never was your car or trying to break into the steel doors. since last year mike has been able to rely on a very special form of support to help them control the situation feels by his ability from up there to watch things that people don't think about. a control

tower several meters from the ground and downed with night vision cameras we have one camera co-created on top. of the other tower. in all straight about three hundred sixty degrees which i think you have your play station actually we can move that camera all the way around we can actually and you can still make pretty close. mike has just received a call from the tower an individual has been spotted dealing cannabis. user id rather for you right in the tower allows mike to arrest you don't sue infringe that will. take you in two thousand and thirteen the south padre island police makes three hundred and forty five arrests over eight days. we find rowdy in the queue for the nightclub tonight he's planning to dance and drink all night he's out for a night. the problem is he's only eighteen what he was one of. the

student has a fake id he's pretending to be the legal age for drinking alcohol. free entry. rowdy has managed to get past. barry unlike these under-age girls. it turns out that he an alj and have been planning this for a long time like this. on a sixty dollars zero. zero zero to have a great night out these two boys have saved up almost five hundred dollars the equivalent of two months of student job salary. still. a. lot of. they certainly. every year spring break

brings in around one billion dollars for the american economy. after several hours of partying roundy and elgin are a little hungry and just as well because outside a pancake stand awaits that and there are catholics from all over texas cooking at the stove. to learn to. play and to train everybody here. every evening these volunteers prepare more than six thousand pancakes to help the party goes to absorb some of the alcohol that binge drinking. in ten years spring break has become another miscible event on the schedules of american students tomorrow we get up early we go and we continue to just party you to. like cool spring break is rowdy and alden will be going back to campus to take their exams. but there have to knuckle down in the united states one out of every

two students leaves university without a degree. when washington's political elites chatter endlessly about memos the u.s. continues to deepen its role in the syrian proxy war of course there is no public debate about this and are the two koreas getting peace a chance. to show the same wrong. road just don't. let me close the deal yet to stamp out these days to come to advocate and engagement equals betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. that's in american interest to not see any russians die in terrorist attacks as it is in russian interest to prevent any terrorist attacks in the united states or elsewhere in the world so i don't think there's any dispute on that in congress and i think maybe some of the posturing is frankly political as opposed to substantive .

i am. seventy one people who died in sunday's plane crash near moscow the passenger airliner came down just minutes after takeoff leaving no. part of the forces trained in syria are fleeing to join the conflict against washington's only turkey. coming up in the program this. second medal of the winter olympics. taking silver in team figure skating but criticize the russians medal winning performance.

live from our international news center this is our team my names you know neil welcome to the program. russia is mourning seventy one people killed in a plane crash on sunday the regional passenger jet went down in minutes after taking off from sco there were no survivors it's now been over twenty four hours since the crash and we're learning more about the passengers on board the ill fated inflated well this was the harlingen reaction of one grieving mother who lost her only son in the tragedy.

this woman and her daughter were also on board now the the youngest victim was just five years old he also caught the flight it was his thirty third birthday he was on his way home to celebrate with family here's how some of those affected her coming to terms with the tragedy. she will cut the deficit. it's because this was the deal convention it's got a new issue here which will be good but where. does he believe nobody thinks that.

the troops maybe. even in the normal. people. in korean in your country will really question. the flight's final seconds were captured by a security camera thought to be installed on a nearby house the crash is visible at the top of the picture followed by a powerful explosion you can also see black smoke rising investigators have confirmed that the plane exploded on impact not in the year. but a large scale recovery operation was launched on sunday immediately in the aftermath

involving hundreds of emergency service workers and vehicles but it's been extremely difficult to locate debris due to the weather conditions rock as the of it is on the ground for us at the site of the wreckage. the search and recovery operation is continuing it is even nearing its conclusion according to the latest statement we've heard from the emergency services they've searched twenty five of the thirty square heck this where the plane and it stay bre believe had been thrown about over but as you see one of the biggest problems here is the weather and the snow it's getting colder and colder and they've had to bring in a lot of specialized equipment especially stuff to melt the snow heat cannons as they call them here in russia there are also hundreds and hundreds of rescuers here they're working in shifts so the some can rest while others sift through the snow

in the wreckage and day breed but both black boxes have now been found and investigators should have everything they need to rebuild point by point that stake off the short flight and to find out whatever it was exactly that koos this fatal tragedy. radar stations record of erratic flight path of the plane it reached an altitude of nearly two thousand meters before suddenly plunging to fifteen hundred meters after regaining height here eighteen hundred at a partly plummeted once again and disappeared completely from radars the last time it was seen on screen was that nine hundred meters the plane was an intern off one for eight owned by serato for airlines it had been in operation for less than eight years the airline is now being investigated by the authorities but the company claims that all necessary technical maintenance however this particular plane was

previously involved in several safety incidents including engine problems with the investigation underway we talked to aviation experts about the possible causes of the crash. bleich to extend my thoughts and prayers to all the families of the passengers and crew and the airline staff in the wake of this tragedy the weather is probably the primary factor that depends a lot on the rate of the snowfall or precipitation and how long the airplane had been sitting on the ground collecting all that material the fact that the airplane became airborne and climb to six thousand feet tells me that probably the airplane was in pretty good shape at the time of the takeoff we're dealing with a great great tragedy there are common protocol for an investigation the structural integrity of the aircraft if you use a lot of the engines and so on then you look at various energies to us it's whether

we're talking a lecture systems power for the engine i think that that. is going to really. external to in the aircraft and then wound up looking at human tissue. to another of this hour's headlines stories washington has admitted that some of the kurdish forces had trained in syria are shifting to fight against one of america's own allies turkey is currently on the offensive in northern syria against groups it deans are terrorists are open as more on the tensions currently playing out in syria u.s. secretary of defense james mattis has confirmed that u.s. armed kurdish forces in the ass d.f. have been relocating to the northern parts of syria to protect territory from turkey. the destruction of was going on up enough and right now which is drawing

off some of the syrian democratic forces the see the snuff and under attack so the schools and the police there are tensions to shift. now the kurds and turkey are both key u.s. allies in the region however there's been tension between all three of them in recent months now we've heard of how the usa has been arming the kurdish forces and providing them with weapons now and carra has been quite upset by this action they consider this to be the arming of terrorists now at this point we do have a statement from james mattis confirming that he believes there are legitimate security concerns on turkey's part about these kurdish forces that have been armed by the united states. to work with and there is of disagreements which is how do we take them on as he was rapidly as possible they have a legitimate security concern and we do not dismiss one bits of them now there has been escalating tension between the united states and turkey especially in the

aftermath of an announcement from the united states that it intended to create a thirty thousand strong border force to protect syria's border with turkey now u.s. leaders backtracked from those comments but that hasn't stopped turkey from being quite upset by these remarks now we've recently seen the beginning of operation olive branch and this is turkish forces moving into syria to fight against the kurds two allies of the united states clashing with each other in syria as the tensions escalate we're even hearing calls to rename the street on which the u.s. embassy in turkey's capital is located there are calls to rename the street olive branch after operation olive branch the turkish operation to go into syria and fight against the kurdish forces armed by the united states there seems to be quite a bit of contradiction in the words and statements of u.s. leaders and there seems. to be rising tension between all three parties the usa

turkey and the kurdish forces. ok so to get a little bit deeper into this i'm happy to say that our. middle east expert joins us live on the program and you very welcome to the program how do you see this playing out as our correspondent just described the u.s. is stuck it seems to be in a rock and a hard place but is it one of their own making. well the united states and turkey do have a very contradicting relations across the past two terms of the presidency of the united states starting with barack obama who used to say that turkey is the indispensable ally in the middle east but if you look at the policies on the ground you would understand that there is a kind of more divergence of interest on the ground especially when it comes to syria and the middle east in general so the nine.