office interior says quote creating different workspace environments within one office adds great flexibility having quiet areas collaboration areas and sometimes even game areas can really help employees to perform at their best as about having choice to work in a way that best suits the task on hand and order to enhance employee performance experts suggest employers should create a space for relaxation for quiet space for private work and best and better technology provide access to natural light and add artwork jenna berman marketing and communications specialist at nation's photo lab says quote it's proven that working in a space surrounded by art work leads to an increase in creativity not to mention if you're meeting with clients and makes your space feel more welcoming and professional the harvard business review finds people who are in co-working spaces drive better than those who aren't as they see their work as meaningful and feel like they are a part of a community and experts say this way of working could be the future of doing

business in washington actually banks are to. spend time now for a quick pause but stick here because when we return it is the debt burden for most of the old just too much to take discuss with just one garcia the president of the united states student association plus alex mahela bitch and i talk about drug maker profits the cost of drugs and the ongoing war on opioids and as we go to break there's been a big sell off today in markets a fifth straight down day for the dow we haven't seen five down days since last march a year ago mark and nasdaq is down for the fourth day in a row and your other numbers will be right back.

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welcome back the united kingdom is considering new legislation to require companies to publish what they pay chief executives and compare that pay to the median pay for the rest of the workforce the move is in reaction to recent studies about average wages at u.k. firms which kept secret the largest company salaries of that of chief executive officers the effort as part of an increased corporate responsibility move which spells out inappropriate business behavior in the continuing wake of the crisis financial. rice's corporate boards will also be required to provide proof that they have taken into consideration the pay of c.e.o.'s with that of the shareholders benefit. we have covered this story of a two billion dollar fraud at the point job national bank in india before the fraudster allegedly at the center of your deal is indian businessman no read modi no relation to indian prime minister narendra modi will now is an effort to foster

increase accountability for big business a new laws to set to confiscate the ask that of mr modi who remains on the run from authorities supposedly in hong kong under the new law an individual must appear in court within thirty days or be subject to having all of his or her properties confiscated and sold by the state. turning back to the americas let's catch up with mexico mexico and the european union have agreed to the terms of a deal on trade that eliminates nearly all paris between mexico and the e.u. mexico agreed to open government particular event to competition from companies and recognize two hundred forty geographical indications for products such as champagne that must be grown or made in certain places the e.u. in turn will grant greater access to mexican meats tuna orange juice and other products and in related news the mexican peso which wounded in recent days rallied modestly today on the news about the e.u.

trade deal as well as rumors that nafta renegotiation may be announced soon on monday the peso and fall into nearly twenty to the dollar and finally right hailing serve as a d.d. began operations in mexico on monday starting to win the city of toluca d.d. famously won the battle with hoover for the chinese market and the fight now moves to latin america. the big burden of student debt is a beast for many millennia old in a recent survey by the american student aid assistance program more than. fifty percent of younger workers say they are concerned quote all the time about paying off their loans the report also found that close to ninety percent of the respondents would consider committing to working with one employer for five years if they received some assistance in paying off their student loan debts and here to discuss the rough road for millennia all student loan debt and the potential dangers is just one garcia she's the president the united states student

association it's good for you to be here that's thank you so much i know last time i was in new york and you were down here you did a great job we appreciate you coming back so these numbers are like the blowby away the debts gone in two thousand and three two from like two hundred fifty three billion to one point three trillion what in the world is going on right and great to see again in part yeah i'm exactly like that i look at these numbers and like what happened and there are a lot of factors that are involved and those numbers tell us well one thing is to wish to wish it is increased at a rate of seven percent every year for the past decades seventy percent in ten years basically and that's not the only thing we also have other costs that are related to wash and that includes food that includes rent rent is going up and massive amounts and student homelessness is also a very real thing that is taking place we have other student related fees that

include textbooks transportation and so on so all of this is adding to the numbers of student loan debt that we see increasing since two thousand and three so what would be sort of the average loan that folks would take out how long would it take them to pay it probably quicker than i paid mine but how long would it take what would be like the payment of some of those data details yeah so the average loan that most that some students take is about thirty seven thousand dollars is what they cost the twenty six hundred. now that's two years ago so the grades have gone up higher and it takes about ten years to pay off that is what the studies have shown however and your studies are showing that it's actually taken about twenty to twenty five years to actually pay those loans and so when we think about when you're twenty five years basically and the thing is like this is a crisis these aren't just people who are going in there for their education these are people who have families these are people who are trying to create businesses

trying to purchase autos trying to purchase homes this isn't just a impacting them it's impacting our entire country and we're in a crisis and people really need to wake up and most importantly our decision makers our education is becoming privatized and there is a disinvestment both on the state and the federal level with our governments which is another reason why that number has gone up to one point three trillion not million not billion trillion dollars let me ask you we're going to privatization a minute but what is sort of the monthly costs what they have to pay we talked about thirty seven thousand dollars. as the. basic loan amount so that must be you know three four hundred dollars a month that they're paying what's the average salary because i know the average salary nationwide is like fifty seven k. or something for somebody just out of school any idea what the average salary is especially for younger adults their average salaries about thirty five thousand

dollars so the matter just doesn't work it doesn't and that doesn't say anything that about they should be saving for retirement as you say it's going to be you know fifteen to twenty five years before they pay off credit could be a big problem ok let's talk about privatization well actually before we get to that when you talk about private schools you also talk about not just the four year colleges you talk about the two year colleges i think not enough time to spend spend upon those the associate degrees the vocational technical assistance. or are there student loans available for those but some of that some of those schools are private schools what impact is that having right so we also within those private schools we have for profit schools and a huge portion of the student debt growth has to do with students who are taken out loans for for for for private institutions and the issue with for profit institutions is that more than often we are seeing that a lot of these institutions they are extremely expensive however their degrees

don't amount to the amount of students are paying for i was a student ago shooter was a department of education where we had to debate a lot of these issues with for profit representatives and the reality is that i worked with a lot of students who are fine fellows in a position where they can't make those student loan payments and unfortunately it's not because they don't want to their credit scores are going to the plummet but there is they're in a position where they're set up to fail and that is an unfortunate reality that our country is in and again education is a right we spoke about this last time education should be simple and this country is making it nearly impossible for a lot of our folks to be able to access that right to make it even worse so you're in that dire circumstance and then you're given a free quote unquote credit card and people run up all these additional debt because they don't really have many choices you say it is even increasing number of homeless folks let me ask you to weigh the last question is that what it does pay

more if you do get the degree you do get higher wages so you're pretty much stuck you have to do it right right we're in a time where you absolutely need a college degree to get employed i least in employment where you actually will benefit and strive in and the problem is that because of the reality we're in this is also impacting the most marginalized education is supposed to be the quote unquote great equalizer it's supposed to be of. part of this american dream but black and brown stands students from low income students are first generation just like myself there are multiple obstacles but we need to be uplifting them and centering them because they're the ones who are facing the entire burden in this country well we want to count on you and others to keep up that fight and thank you are we doing it thank you thank you jocelyn joseph garcia of the u.s. students association appreciate you being here thank you.

and drug makers have reported their first quarter earnings and their new news related there's new news related to the prices alex mahela that joins us from toronto with more alex hey before we get to drugs there was a terrible tragedy in your town in toronto yesterday were many people were killed and others injured when a van plowed into a crowd of pedestrians on the sidewalk a bring us up to date on that unfortunate circumstance. yes we are the suspect now in question has been named as alec mini's and he's a twenty five year old computer software development student. seneca college here in toronto he's been charged with ten counts of first degree murder and thirteen counts of attempted murder so obviously a very serious charges and we've all seen the scene it was absolutely devastating this happened in north toronto neighborhood lot of condos there and the population there there's a lot of south koreans as well as persians that live in that neighborhood two of

the individuals that were killed are actually south korean citizens so you know this is something that has touched the whole city as you can imagine toronto is in shock this is not something we see very often or expect in toronto or this country at all and the way things have worked out i mean the tragedy the way it happened itself the people are pouring to the streets there's been vigils as well as the fact that we've heard from our government leaders in and people across the board from just outpouring from around the world but as it stands right now the motive behind the crime is unknown and police are trying to get to the bottom of that horrible circumstance and from everybody here and i'm sure from all the boom busters our thoughts and where appropriate prayers are with everybody and your your colleagues and companions up there ok back to drugs now maybe need some drugs after that alex tell us about what's been going on so far you know all the big drug makers have not reported their q one yet but how are they doing so far. well we

really have to look at last year's numbers to get sort of a taste of what's happening this year if you look at last year that actually the profits rose to about four hundred fifty three billion dollars but there was a one point seven percent drop if you look at it in the sense of how the direction it headed towards the end of the year now there is that the makers of farm a big pharma companies are playing a blame game with the middlemen and the pharmacies basically saying what this is where is this money going who's making what and why are these a core these simple the savings that are supposed to be happening getting to the consumers and that all falls into one big snowball that when consumers see they not getting savings this just adds to what's already happening to the pharma industry and that's a lot of bad press with bad press of course people step back from farm as much as they possibly can so people are looking at alternative medicines and we know that there's a big player that came into the market it's happening massively here in canada which is cannabis so when you look at cannabis

a lot of people are turning to camp cannabis now instead of what used to be produced by pharma companies be it for an antidepressant be a pain relief be it for hunger management or to actually increase hunger in people like cancer patients so this is all playing again a part of this game here and of course in the states one big factor has been the opioid crisis which has left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths in our country and your country absolutely well we're going to have you back to talk more about that about the price of drugs too as we go forward thank you very much arctic correspondent alex mahela bitch. and thank you all for watching be sure to catch boom bust on youtube youtube dot com slash boom bust r t we'll see you again. thank you.

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saudi arabia's top diplomat. regime faces collapse unless it starts backing u.s. operations in syria. between pleasing europe and donald trump. during his address to the u.s. congress. this agreement. may not address all concerns but we should not abandon it with something substantial and more substantial. for extremists. have been claiming benefits in germany for more than two decades. russia's defense ministry displays fragments of. the syrian government intercepted

during the recent western strikes us previously. that target. international saudi arabia's foreign minister is warning. that it faces a rapid collapse of its regime if it doesn't support the united states military in syria. kids are should finance the u.s. military's presence in syria and send its own military forces there before the u.s. president lifts american protection for qatar if the u.s. is to withdraw its protection represented by its military base in qatar then the regime there will fall within less than a week. this comes as we've heard different words from trump basically giving the impression he's still making up his mind about whether or not to withdraw u.s.

forces from syria he's been talking about it for him in terms of very soon relatively soon it's not exactly clear now we did hear trump say that if saudi arabia wants the usa to maintain a military presence in syria they should help pay for it they will be making a decision very quickly in coup warden issue with others in the area as to what we'll do saudi arabia. is very interested no decision and i said well who do you want to say maybe you can have to pay so now we hear the foreign minister of saudi arabia saying that there are regional rival we could talk our must share the burden of the fighting in syria or else there could be some rather harsh consequences it's interesting to note yesterday tuesday donald trump was at the white house a speaking with the french president mccraw on and he seemed to indicate that there were other countries that had been approached by the united states about increasing their role in syria financially as well as merit militarily there is talk of the

prospects of an arab coalition in the works for syria now this is certainly not the first point of disagreement between qatar and saudi arabia folks who recall over a year ago there was a falling out between the two countries and that resulted in a number of countries cutting off diplomatic relations with qatar saudi arabia and during that spat we heard that donald trump unprecedentedly accusing qatar of funding terrorism. said that they absolutely are not funding terrorism and that statement from trump was simply inaccurate so now we've heard these very very dramatic words from saudi arabia's foreign minister are waiting to see what comes next security analyst and former british army officer bridge told me last hour that any gulf state sending troops into syria would rank in the more. well a lot depends on the difference of course between what is being stated quite grandly by various politicians and leaders and what actually may actually turn out

to happen on the ground let's not forget that this would be an occupation force because syria of course is a sovereign entity certainly the recognized government of syria has not invited these other countries from the g.c.c. the gulf cooperation council states to come and join in any action or any military operations inside syria itself let's not forget. president assad and his forces are winning the war in syria and almost certainly at some stage those that then replace american troops may well end up in combat against syrian forces and possibly also russian forces and those countries will be keen to avoid that i suspect. over the past few hours the french president has been addressing the u.s. congress where he was warmly received by lawmakers. the president of the french republic.

emanuel mccrone spoken through as he asked to play of the special bond between the two countries and a lengthy speech full of historical references. friends as participated in the story of this great nation from the very beginning. let us for a moment transport ourselves to the past french philosopher evolve. and benjamin franklin george washington son of america and france that's a good son of the united states burn the income simone de beauvoir martin luther king president through the results from thomas jefferson to hemingway's novel to focus novels this is this very special relationship this is this. thank you. and more about means now live to washington correspondents american hi

there so america ok take us through what mr mccraw had to say to congress. now along with all of those historical references there was some policy discussed most importantly the iran deal now the media has portrayed a trump and micron's relationship as a bromance sort of speak and comparing it to the infamous bush blair bromance of the early two thousand but that definitely could be a mischaracterization considering that mccrone took some positions that were totally out of line with trump's policies including expressing support for the paris climate agreement using the phrase make the planet great again which is in stark contrast to trump's make america great again slogan but mccrone. that didn't seem to be across position he was a bit more ambiguous regarding the c.p.o. way earlier but this time he did call for a mork. comprehensive deal while reiterating that france wouldn't be abandoning the agreement but that wasn't is

a position on tuesday when he met with trump. the peepers on more than a barnacle for a number of months had been saying that it was not a sufficient deal but it will enable us at least until twenty twenty five to have some control over their nuclear activities we therefore wish to work on a new deal with iran. we signed it. the initiative of the united states. we signed both the united states and france. that is why we cannot say we should get rid of it like that france will not leave the g.c. theory because we signed it. again mccrone did clarify that the necessity of the agreement outweighs washington's concerns and he urged other signatories to stick with the deal until there's a better one but first some context trump issued an ultimatum ultimatum back in january that the u.s. would be unilaterally leave the deal if the other signatories didn't agree to

something more comprehensive including regulations that would specifically target iran's ballistic missiles now in his speech called for a monitoring iran's ballistic activity which is technically not part of the j.c.t. away however it's important to note that a the international atomic energy agency has verified that iran is in full compliance with the agreement as recently as march and be iran's bill istic missiles aren't capable of carrying nuclear warheads according to its foreign mr minister now trump argues the opposite but mccrone and trump reaching consensus came as somewhat of a surprise to the other signatories especially considering that five hundred of french british and german m.p.'s wrote a letter to u.s. congress asking them to support the deal saying that the concerns should be addressed separately and not within the context of the j c p a way this is crucial because it's in direct conflict with mccollum's view so check out what the e.u. and russia have to say about it. and what can happen in the future will seen the

future but there is one deal existing it's working it needs to be preserved we are against the revision of these agreements and believe it's very counterproductive to de ro the longstanding international efforts will make sure that these agreements and shrines in the u.n. security council resolution. weren't be violated trump has until may twelfth to decide what he's going to do but now that there seems to be some division amongst the members of the e.u. it's impossible to predict what exactly will happen. ok samir khan in washington thanks very much for detailing that for us. now as for all this how it all looks in tehran anyway political analyst saeed moustapha cause chesham told me that although from sin america might be aligning on the iran deal the rest of europe does not want to shift the real nations in europe especially friends even more than germany and britain is trying to get closer to donald trump aspirations and demands

especially with regard to iran is not we are you sure but the worst of europe is a standing against any intensification of problems and tensions with iran they just reject the demand by trio of european nations with regard to imposing further sanctions on iran for its missile and regional activities so this shows that europe is not much willing to work with donald trump. it's emerged that a man who was once allegedly asama bin laden's body guard has been living in germany on welfare for more than twenty years with the details his police. even know some of the lot and was killed in two thousand and eleven by u.s. special forces operation he was just the figurehead of the group and some of its members are still out there one of them it turns out has been living in germany for over two.