already reallocated parts of their defense budgets to fight the pandemic the stockholm international peace research institute says just 5 countries accounted for 62 percent of all global military spending last year they are the united states china india russia and the united kingdom the u.s. is the biggest spender at $778000000000.00 that's nearly 40 percent of the. total global budget china came in 2nd with 252000000000 beijing has been increasing its spending for 26 years now while russia's military budget rose last year it spent less than it had originally planned also 12 nato member states of hit their target are spending at least 2 percent of their respective g.d.p.'s on defense but that's more to do with being nagged into it by the former u.s. president donald trump. ok let's get going let's bring in our guests today in stockholm we have now antione senior researcher with the sipri arms and military expenditure program and one of today's report's authors in singapore we have graham on the web an adjunct research fellow at the rajaratnam school of international studies and in washington d.c. we're joine

and fact global arms sales are at a record high according to a new report the stockholm international peace research institute annual study has found military spending worldwide rose to almost 2 trillion dollars last year that's the highest amount the institute has recorded and more than 30 years as in previous years the biggest spenders globally are the united states china india and russia last year the united kingdom joined them and the top 5 spending on arms rose in europe 2 with germany moving into 7th place worldwide ahead of france. germany's covert 19 vaccination campaign has been a widely criticized for being off to a sluggish start but it's slowly picking up pace until recently the rollout focused on vaccination centers across the country but now family doctors can also administer the shots more than a 5th of germans have received at least one dose and the number of daily inoculations is on the rise but behind the scenes problems remain we visited 2 doctors to get a closer look. one shot after another under 10 minutes per patient dozens of people are now getting that covered vaccine every week here a

in fact according to a new report global arms sales are at a record high the stockholm international peace research institute annual study has found military spending worldwide rose to almost 2 trillion dollars last year that's the highest amount institute has recorded in more than 30 years as in previous years the biggest spenders are united states china india and russia last year the united kingdom joined them in the top 5 spending on arms rose in europe 2 with germany moving into 7th place worldwide just ahead of from its. bring in their diego lopez the silver he's a researcher on arms a military expenditure at the stockholm international peace research institute sipri there is a clear trend on spending is increasing has the pandemic had any impact on that at all. well it's possible to conclude with some certainty that the 1000 did not have a significant impact on global nuclear spending and 2020 hour this conclusions need some cabinets 1st some countries have explicitly allocated part of the plan moved towards spending to the pandemic response such as chile and south korea south korea for instance has re

and fact global arms sales are at a record high according to a new report the stockholm international peace research institutes annual study has found military spending worldwide rose to almost 2 trillion dollars last year that's the highest amount the institute has recorded in more than 30 years as in previous years the biggest spenders globally are the united states china india and russia last year the united kingdom joined them and the top 5 spending on arms rose in europe to with germany moving into 7th place worldwide ahead of france. germany's covered 19 vaccination campaign has been widely criticized for being off to a sluggish start but it's slowly picking up pace until recently the rollout focused on vaccination centers across the country but now family doctors can also administer the shots more than a 5th of germans have received at least one dose and the number of daily inoculations is on the rise but behind the scenes problems remain we visited 2 doctors to get a closer look. one shot after another and that 10 minutes per patient dozens of people are now getting that covered vaccine every week here

reached nearly 2 trillion dollars last year that's according to a report from the stockholm international peace research institute it's an increase of 2.6 percent from 2019 the researches of caution the trend might not be maintained for the 2nd year of the pandemic they say countries will likely take some time to adapt to the impact of this ongoing health emergency but some nations like chile and south korea have already reallocated parts of their defense budgets to fight the pandemic the stockham international peace research institute says just 5 countries accounted for 62 percent of all global military spending last year they are the united states china india russia and the united kingdom the u.s. is the biggest spender at $778000000000.00 that's nearly 40 percent. the total global budget china came in 2nd with $252000000000.00 beijing has been increasing its spending for 26 years now while russia's military budget rose last year it spent less than it had originally planned also 12 nato member states of hit their target are spending at least 2 percent of their respective g.d.p.'s on defense but that's more to d

in fact global arms sales are at a record high according to a new report the stockholm international peace research institutes and you'll study has found military spending worldwide rose to almost 2 trillion dollars last year that's the highest amount the institute has recorded in more than 30 years as in previous years the biggest spenders globally are the united states china india and russia last year the united kingdom joined them and the top 5 spending on arms rose in europe 2 with germany moving into 7th place worldwide ahead of france. now hollywood finally got to roll out the red carpet for the film industry's biggest night of the year and in stark contrast to previous years the 93rd academy awards saw a very diverse lineup of nominees and winners one performer jokingly called it the blackest oscars ever 2 of the top prizes went to chinese born chloe jousts she made history as the 1st woman of color to take home the best director trophy her poetic road movie nomad land struck a chord with the academy who turned her into the evening's bakeware less years best director junho announcing this year's who is