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the athletes are not quite like the other students. every year they bring in about one hundred four million dollars for the university. on the top of the podium american footballers and their indispensable cheerleaders. nineteen times university champion the kentucky team holds the most titles in the history of the united states and flexible agile here cheerleaders are reluctant. curie is twenty two years old she's one of the team captains. like tom no school fees are completely covered so this young woman likes to get things right. today it's official photo day these photos will grace the posters on the calendars for the upcoming season carrie therefore wants to look perfect so you're actually the image of the school we are we are us along with the wildcat so the mask on
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there's a lot of pressure oh of course it is but you get used to it you know like the first time i went out on that football field it was terrifying but the coolest thing ever . i wouldn't change it for the world. a little girl's dream becomes a reality but it's also a job under intense scrutiny so we have to really really watch given our coaches watch what we. like tweet and facebook and what we posted to worry not allowed to. look at all that they sell as if it's something that you wouldn't want your grandma to see then don't post it that's the best way that there is right now i know some people at some crazy grandmas but we know what it really means. and so this means that cheerleaders are representing that american campuses twenty four hours a day and they're not allowed to make mistakes i think the series. to.
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be always so you'd be surprised i. think if you're watching around and playing around or getting e-mail about it those guys reaction to it never fails. to not just to hear right here. gotcha but you always project the best image of yourself so as to not tarnish the university's reputation and that's even sure of the mascot they also receive a scholarship. to this young man refuses to be filmed though not through vanity but because his contract requires him to remain anonymous. like a disney character he's not allowed to talk his job is to keep people guessing. this is you just leave me dissolve his emotions. is all but always emotions are in the life they're all just out there in your face you understand what he's trying to express. it like i can't even talk to you you know the most the most recent you want to get out of assuming it was really here but that's about it this time his
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handler cheerleaders are you so that this combination of show and business is perfect. for the university athletes must obey very strict rules. in their official activities of cool split also outside the stadiums. when you don't. see the teachers try to get a court to do. what they need not through space. let alone killed said. claiming to know german did that a. few speak french. those were. all the same yes please. well sandalphon that's
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a new. is it the top scientists. looking at value surveys russians are so different from the european neighbors when it comes to individual rights and freedoms however they do have a very low tolerance for uncertainty in politics that translates into a strong electoral advantage for the incumbent making power transition to rare and precarious what would it take for russians to stop playing it safe politically. i. think. most lawyers know me but i'm. just using first thing in the room with them which is really none of the new
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questions a. little bit some of it is just almost a trial of. saddam play a process to gather some odd them all to this. theme. is for you it's eleven pm on a saturday night tom the french tennis player has gone out. with a few friends by going to a student night in a nearby house. two nights of the athlete has. swapped his official
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uniform for a rather provocative t. shirt. to show you. the price of fame and the system he and the athletes are celebrities tom invites people to take photos of. the sports stars have to be exemplary. while the other students let themselves use. and the go as well to be outdone. lives that were killed and. this was. one of them. within barely an hour these two students will have consumed almost two teachers a strong alcohol. i asked to tom he knows that he's closely monitored in front of our camera the
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frenchman accents of. the extremes of this america tom has learned to make the most of it. but for the students without scholarships getting into university is a luxury to out as three students have to borrow money. oh in april two thousand and twelve the amount of american student debt reach a significant high of one billion dollars in new york hundreds of students demonstrate to the media relate that the potential of the economically last generation and the average dad probably seen right now is over twenty five thousand dollars. for the same for the rights of. among the victims the president of the united states himself to show and we know about this person this is not something i read in a briefing book we only finished paying off our student. about eight years ago
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think about the present the united states. an increasingly greedy society in the united states the cost of studies has tripled in thirty years. woodstock two hours' drive away from new york. this is where sky lives thirty one years old married and the mother of two children like many students to fund design school she had to borrow money. they said student loan debt is a good debt that you can carry and i was told that it was like paying off a car. at the time part of the sum was loaned by the state the other part by sallie mae the leading american student loan company but at the end of her study she had a nasty surprise skye couldn't find work her debt skyrocketed so i started at thirty two thousand nine hundred sixty four dollars and today oh one hundred twenty seven thousand eight hundred eighty dollars so it's thirty seven thousand dollars
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in interest alone and the rest of that is collection cost in fees. in eighteen years sky stet has tripled the accumulation continues to grow havea by one thousand dollars a month. erica husband has to cover the household costs on his own no bank will open a current account for his wife. for all her purchases sky has to use her husband's debit card. even worse due to her debt no employer wants to risk taking her on. hundreds of job applications them that the couple called out but i have been treated like a prince oh yes i. call the credit report they look at what's on that piece of paper and they decide we were based off of that sheet of paper. faced with this debt and sky has decided to fight this. wanning she is going to
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a solicitor to file a complaint against her old school who forced her to borrow. and this is not her first attempt at plunder these. the cases that a one word against the third party collection agency representing sallie mae. sky has sued them for harrison and they were calling me at my work they were calling me at my home they were telling me that this would impact my children's life and i reported those conversations. ever since sky has called them every day to try and renegotiate her debt but before that the bank demands a payment of twenty five thousand dollars i may suggest that one comes up with twenty five thousand dollars and one. of the solutions have been suggested to her they were quite surprising. you can
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either go into the military you can move to a different country or you can find somebody who's passed and use their cell security number. to avoid excessive debt more and more students are resorting to practices that are borderline prostitution. new york in the heart of the island of manhattan lies the n.y.u. campus one of the most prestigious private universities in the united states. it is also one of the most expensive in the country sixty thousand dollars per year. lease is a student in her fifth year of food processing studies to pay for her studies and live in new york this young woman lines up dates let's see i had class then i have lunch at noon with one guy and i'll probably go home and do some homework and then
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i have to immediately got to dinner with another guy. four hundred also dollars elissa companies single men to lunch or to dinner without any other obligations. but before meeting her next client she pops home to get ready i like to wear. a dress. because you know that's what they're here for they want to take out a hot attractive young woman so i try and play that part it's like a uniform it's very detached from emotion. who knows she doesn't i mean there is i don't know many. times something. as an average student at least has not been awarded a scholarship at twenty two years of age she's already accumulated two hundred thousand dollars of debt. so as to avoid awkward questions from her roommate she goes to
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a cafe to check out her new office she split for choice. i believe just once in a few hours ago and i really have something to offer so you can see one offered to take me out first take two hundred dollars one for one fifty six week except for if it was the offer was too low. i can counter them and i usually do far more to try and get more money in one week at least can earn up to one thousand five hundred dollars and that's not counting all the free meals and pretty hungry. but i don't have to eat any of my own food that i bought myself. it's one o'clock in the afternoon and she goes to a trendy hotel restaurant on seventh avenue tricks up inside a man in his forty's is waiting for her film their lunch with a hidden camera this is your first this is your first experience here i don't want any problems i have a girlfriend. should kill me if she knew i was seeing other girls sisters the man
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isn't single but really sees no downside she says i just wants the lunch is over she will never see him again. today he ended it. but sometimes you guys and over something like this. stop it inside. or one time i got a chocolate bar with it like taped inside a i think they're paranoid about it looking like a transaction. but to supplement having come a lease won't settle for just having lunch with lowly met. a few weeks ago she signed up to a dating site which takes it even further. the concept is simply match rich man with attractive young women who need money. some benefactors even go as far as paying for their studies in full. in the united states the site hit the
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headlines of your piece to. june two thousand and twelve on the dr phil show one of the most watched programs across the atlantic charter school bill plante even purchased a new car with cash on a d.v.d. the female students who use the site face up to the criticism. and in way the site's founder defends himself as providing a very valuable service that people need you are a prostitute and you are a mighty educated pimp. despite the scandal the site has never been condemned by the north. today more than a million female students have signed up to it it's a case far less twenty three years old. anthony has a date with a female student he is single and has no qualms about using this site to go one day . at forty
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eight anthony is a successful businessman. he owns six hundred thousand dollars a year for around thirty thousand pounds a month. he's made a lifestyle out of the speak straight day. yeah i'm going to get at it for three years well during their years in the. house and so i get to date around their. different beautiful weather and we get to know each other what is she looking for in the world and i look at what is expected in my expectation that what eles is looking for is a new benefactor this young woman has just started of course in a setting she says with. the first four years of study have been fully paid by men like anthony who of course sugar daddies here there's enough money problems going on in life that financial data says you first school that was supposed to better you it's not it's not helping the mcalister a little. are you worth
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a dollar while with. a woman to get through college one of the lenses there is neither of them feels as though it's prostitution even in disguise. that i feel like other things like your getting pizza have stags but a lot of times it's not just by. it is deadly a double leg. sex is indeed part of the contract not an obvious clues to a few. times a child. sent out there. have always been like it to me. but out so your buddy undermined her in several places. your mind is not. riding. that. her best friend trish is one of the only people she's told it does sound like. tommy coming out of the. great great chain that without some finances
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or contract. full house studies l.s.s. paid a high price but this obsession with success is not just a matter of money. so i have all this news and as i look back this is the oppressive measures being deployed against the palestinian people have to do with the said letter colonialism the theft of our land and the many many can open to the stating things than the ideas of the and of course the gun cool. and. that.
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certain i want to do things or show me face to be truly be very clear. the way to go the. commandments. and they don't they they are what they have and they have done you. being. a skinny guy the field is very. soft yeah and then what do you how much of a home on a sofa look good what do you look local just out of the one then the one just my mum come on if this was actually my helmet i mean that with a measuring stick with a constant negative pressure. join me every thursday on the alex island chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics school business i'm show business i'll see you then.
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this week saw one of the worst school massacres in u.s. history when a. shooting rampage in florida killing seventeen. about the danger posed by the gunman years before the. world powers highlight the threat of returning islamic fighters but struggle to find a solution to deal with. foreign countries need to repatriate their own and deal with them using the rule of law should not come back here simply because they committed the crimes of. the us. connection with alleged meddling in the twenty six thousand election. actually had no impact on the outcome.
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headlines of the day the main stories of the week welcome to the weekly on r.t. international. wednesday saw one of the deadliest school shootings in u.s. history a former student of marjorie stoneman douglas high school in parkland florida went on a gun rampage killing seventeen and injuring a dozen more. you saw my dead body there on the floor and blood on the floor how many people thanks live on the third floor. took a look like students it was one teaching for students. so they do pull the fire drill you want to sign. gunshot i dozed firecrackers but there was a lot like oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh. oh oh oh my
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god. i. don't like coming in being like i'm going to shoot at school you like start taking your family i love you you never know a biggish are killed by these no word that can describe how you feel because at that moment you're wondering what if my kid easy yorkies he'd say i was. during the shooting many of the students were holed up inside classrooms posting distressing messages online i wanted to speak to police an ally nick a student who was in the school at the time. or.
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like about to leave school. years before the supposed. ladder and started so it's. like the school. and high. it's not as if i drew it goes right and it's like everybody still thought it's going to feel like. they do in the schools but then we just here are the. people starting talking about life there is it should be in the next. star already got and this is serious. as it all those go be on the floor like so nobody can see us all that's like not to be on our lawns and. it's mostly when we realized it's. like we're waiting at some point they came in and they told us like thirty minutes
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later this all goes well everything is clear around but like we're not going to let you out like right now. you know everybody was just trying to reach out of their friends and their family. and must harm i just like feel various kinds of lost it's like i don't know what they were like oh it's weird to like those because like it's just never have been so me and i just don't think that going to school is going to feel like the same up there with fun because i feel like knowledgeable. of the shooting was in a police identified the suspect as a nicholas crusade nineteen year old former student of the school who was expelled for disciplinary reasons police said he was armed with a semi automatic rifle and had multiple magazines cruz has told police that he was the one who carried out the shooting while he has been charged with seventeen
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counts of premeditated murder now students at the school described the suspect as a troubled it's been reported teachers were warned about him some time ago given his enthusiasm for firearms in his free time and significantly the f.b.i. and the police have admitted that they had received tip offs about the gunman years before the attack but somehow failed to investigate. we have covered at the broward sheriff's office that we've had approximately twenty calls for service over the last two years regarding the killer the f.b.i. has a term and their protocol was not followed. the information was not provided by build office. and no further investigation was conducted that. we've seen time and time again over the last few years our intelligence agencies across the west dropping the ball in terms of getting tips being aware of potential threats and not
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following up on those threats and you taking out fences measures it seems lessons not being learned they need to have a proper view about you know what exactly are the threats what are they trying to do how can they best protect the people if they can try to protect against these threats and that doesn't seem to be done. in france intelligence sources say that of almost two thousand citizens known to have traveled to join us live mixtape in the middle east sixty seven came from one particular suburb and paris artie shaw to do penske went. a short trade ride from paris is trapped on the surface there's nothing much to set it aside from the thousands of other towns in the country but you don't have to scratch very deep to see that trend is very different so you won't see any non how i butcher shops there are i think at the moment over fifteen hundred prayer rooms and five mosques if you look at people on the street you won't
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see couples holding hands you'll see the women are dressed in strict islamic dress . there's a lot of home schooling so you couldn't really consider trap. typical french town anymore it's a little bit like a state within the state for decades it's been considered a magnet for muslim fundamentalists hardline salafism and one hobby is a widely practiced and trap has become synonymous with jihadism. dozens of people. islamic state i was have carried out attacks. have been linked. in two thousand and fifty. with her right appears to. think that. there is some plain white pride remaining bad but your heart is only a matter of time before we have another attack the basic problem is that the
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ideology that's driving this and this goes much deeper than terrorist cells planning and executing attacks that ideology is so ingrained that last year a poll of french high school students revealed thirty two percent of muslim students believed islamic doctrine was superior to scientific fact another in two thousand and sixteen showed that sixty eight percent believed islamic law was superior to french law there's also concern that in an area like this that was once run. by the authorities. that syria is becoming the law it's. the full veil covering has been burned to the eighty's yet the police are often reluctant to intervene off the riots in two thousand and thirteen when officers try to i.d. a woman who is fully covered with a very very fragile situation which the government doesn't want to provoke urban
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riots which would quickly spread like wildfire all over france. president mccord says he wants to reorganize islam in a bid to fight fundamentalism but some experts say that's a pipe dream radicalization in places like this they say he's already far too deep rooted to take out charlotte r.t. trap the u.s. is joining in the chorus of growing concern coming out of europe over foreign i saw fighters returning to their countries of residence washington has over its allies particularly britain to pay more attention to citizens who fled europe to join the terrorist organisation earlier the u.k. defense secretary said they should not be allowed to return i don't think they should ever set foot in this country again they turned their back on britain our values and everything we stand for they are the worst of the worst we're working
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with the coalition on foreign fighter detainees and generally expect these detainees to return to their country of origin for disposition for now i saw terrorists of u.k. origin who come back and do face prison sentences or other european countries have tried to reintegrate former i saw militants back into society in denmark x. jihadists if you've received apartments and jobs to promote reintegration earlier we heard opposing views from our guests on how to deal with returning jihadists. initially britain said we going to make them stateless remove their passports not going to allow them reentry other countries then said let's take a more light approach some of the nordic nations said let's try to treat them counter radicalization programs which in part i've actually been quite successful in some areas at the same time then the u.s. is now taking the lead and the u.s. defense said foreign country.
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