a us treasury secretary, janet t. ellen. she confirmed that the ministers had agreed to some sort of a financial package, but she did not them from the $18400000000.00 figure this. he says that the g 7 ministers are behind ukraine and they are doing whatever it takes to, to ensure that it has the resources to go through this period of water. it's been devastating time for you korean and it needs money to just be the basic salaries and go go through on a daily basis. so this, the money that is being pledged would take care of the immediate needs of ukraine. i remember the number that was coming out before the meat was $15000000000.00, and that was the amount that ukraine had estimated. it would need for the next 3 months for being of salaries. and this is a little more than the that $15.00 mark. all right, ashtosh ponder on location near bon, where g 7 finance ministers are meeting. thank you very much. and let's go now to some of the other global business stories making headlines. protests are intensifying in sri lanka. the