research institute trax military expenditures and we've been hearing from its senior researcher lucy barbosa to drop the european countries had been already increasing their meter expenditure for the past few years. picture since 2014 in russia's annexation of crimea, but destroyed is actually accelerating. so there were increases that had been announced, but now their increase on top of increases, so to speak. so companies that say france like sweden or prudent were already saying they were going to increase the richer expenditure, but obviously they're gonna increase even more. so we're going to see europe as one of the read the key regions driving which is spending for the coming years. well, let's take a look at some of the other business stories making news around the world. these g d p won't grow by 4 percent. this year previously predicted, according to the european commission, but while russia's invasion of ukraine may weigh on the blocks economy, the resulting higher energy and raw material prices aren't expected to completely de rail. it's recovery from the content. ellen musk says