johnny angela has moved from london. this announcement has come as a surprise to many, a commitment to increase defense spending to 2.5 percent of g. d. p. by 2027. that's the equivalent of $17000000000.00. the biggest sustained increase in defense spending since the end of the cold war and to pay for it a cost in for an age spending from point 5 to point 3 percent of g d p, which will take britain's development policy back to the 1990. so previous labor governments have always raised development to age, and the prime minister did look uncomfortable at times. but he did say and making this note, it's going to be the hard choices he's had to make. he says it's the country security comes fuss. russia is a menace, and britons hold a proof to defend spending must now change labor had committed to increasing defense spending in the manifesto. but it's the timing of this announcement that is key. the prime minister is due to meet president trump at the white house on thursday. and with this he might be hosting to a piece from